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...
16
Jan
Morsi’s Anti-Semitic Slurs: What They Really Mean
The White House went on the offensive and condemned Egypt after videos of president Mohamed Morsi’s anti-Semitic slurs went public.
In the videos, Morsi described Israelis...
16
Jan
The Jewish Book Council Announces 2012 Winners
The Jewish Book Council announced its selections for the 2012 National Jewish Book Award winners.
City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York...
16
Jan
Anxiety and the Jews: Woody Allen on Hypochondria
Woody Allen, who made a career out of the anxiety-ridden Jew from New York, takes to the pages of the New York Times this week...