29
Jan
Cartoon Caption Contest
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Click to submit a caption for the March/April cartoon and vote for your favorite caption from last issue!
29
Jan
Lawsuits Challenge Obama’s Birth Control Provision
The New York Times today reported about a spike in the number of lawsuits that are challenging a provision in President Obama's new health care...
28
Jan
Can Eric Cantor Save the GOP?
The new minority whip is the highest ranking Jewish Republican in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Not long ago, Eric Cantor wouldn’t have...
25
Jan
Happy Birthday to the Egyptian Revolution
Egyptians today marked two years since the start of the revolution that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak. But is the country better off now...
25
Jan
Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day: Guest Blogger on the Irony of Time
By Yehuda Rothstein
I grew up in an Ultra-Orthodox or haredi community in upstate New York. This community could be considered a refugee colony because it...
23
Jan
Election Results Are In: How Will the Next Government Bridge Israel’s Religious-Secular Divide?
Yesh Atid, the newly formed political party headed by veteran journalist Yair Lapid was the surprise winner in yesterday’s elections in Israel. A centrist party...
18
Jan
Guest Blogger on Morsi, Jews, Pigs and Apes
By Aylin Kocaman
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s new head of state., called the Jews in 2010 “sons of apes and pigs”
Morsi addresses Jews in this way in...
18
Jan
The Man Who Stopped the Freeze
Dani Dayan, head of Israel’s settler lobby, Yesha, has successfully kept another settlement freeze—and peace talks—off the table. But can this mild-mannered former software tycoon...
18
Jan
Can Israel’s Electoral System Be Fixed?
Try as he might, David Ben-Gurion could not reform Israel’s electoral system, which gives extraordinary power to small parties. Today, a new generation of reformers...
18
Jan
New Poll Explains Why Obama Won the Jewish Vote
The majority of American Jewish voters believes that government regulation of business is necessary to protect the public interest and expressed a desire to reduce...
17
Jan
Gilad Shalit to Lone Soldiers: “I Admire Your Courage.”
Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was abducted by Hamas and returned in a 2011 prisoner exchange, met with lone soldiers in Jerusalem today, calling...
16
Jan
Noble Books
Nine Nobel laureates reflect on their favorite classic and contemporary Jewish books
“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought...