10
Mar
Visual Moment // Persian Jewish Art
Illuminating the History of Iranian Jews
By Diane M. Bolz
Jews have lived in Persia, now Iran, for nearly three millennia. The first Jewish community dates back...
31
Dec
Opinion // Will Israel and the U.S. Break Up over Iran?
By Robert Satloff
Differing approaches to Iran's nuclear program do not bode well for Israel in 2014.
Israel begins 2014 facing a truly Dickensian moment—enjoying the best...
28
Jul
Clifford D. May: Khamenei’s Sacred Word: Destroy Israel
There’s nothing wrong with negotiating with your enemies. There is something wrong if you don’t know that those sitting across the table from you are...
28
Jul
Naomi Ragen: Has Israel Lost Control Over the Iranian Situation?
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Naomi Ragen
On the sleepy afternoon of March 21, 2012, alarm sirens went off all over Jerusalem, sending me and my racing heart lunging toward our air...
30
Mar
An Iranian-Israeli Love-In?
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Sala Levin
by Kelley Kidd
Recently, Facebook has been bombarding me. Not with its usual memes and Spotify updates, but with a slew of politically oriented statuses and...
27
Mar
The AIPAC/J Street Color War
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by Charles Kopel
A new spring ritual has taken form for American Jews concerned with Israel activism. The AIPAC Policy Conference, a mainstay in the American...
08
Mar
Twenty (Jewish) Questions
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by Kelley Kidd
Monday night, I sat in traffic in a taxi outside the Washington Convention Center as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) gala...
02
Feb
Journalists Lynn Sweet and Ron Kampeas on the Jewish Vote
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Moment
By Alexis McNamee
For more on the Jewish vote in the 2012 presidential election, yesterday we listened in to “The Jewish Federations of North America Teleconference...
06
Dec
The Iranian Question: Nuclear Power or Nuclear Warheads?
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By Leigh Nusbaum
Watching what’s happening from the Middle East to the Midwest over the past few weeks, it seems that everyone has an opinion about...
19
Jul
118 Days in Iran’s Evin Prison
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Iranian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari was always fascinated by Jewish history and culture. His torturers made him pay for it.
25
Jan
China Hedges Its Bets in the Middle East
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elisniv
By Gabriel Weinstein
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States was only the beginning of a busy week of diplomacy. Last Tuesday 10 Chinese...
07
Aug
This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
A new children's book tells the story of how Max Yasgur, a Jewish dairy farmer in Bethel, NY, allowed half a million people...