Now even Jewish grandmothers hate the Israeli Rabbinate
By Sarah Breger
Grandma is fighting back. The Center for Women’s Justice, the Israeli non-profit organization dedicated to upholding a woman’s right to just treatment in...
A Declaration of War
Well, the mystery is solved…sort of. The infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign stolen from Auschwitz on December 18 has been recovered on the other side...
Women to Israeli government: no to back of the bus
By Sarah Breger
Last week's news of Nofrat Frenkel's arrest for wearing a Taalit at the Western Wall caused outrage among those concerned (and frustrated by)...
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...
This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
A new game show puts a rabbi, a priest, a Muslim imam and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists. Let...
This Week's Links
By Michelle Albert
Woody Allen speaks to NPR about his newest movie, the difference between life and fiction, and what he's like off camera.
While religious...
Iran's Velvet Revolution?
By Jeremy Gillick
What will change if Mirhossein Mousavi, a former Iranian Prime Minister, a "moderate," and the primary challenger to reigning Iranian president and rabble-rouser...
Could Israeli Settlers become Palestinians?
By Jeremy Gillick
In an interview published today in Ha'aretz, the 72-year-old former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei suggested to journalist Akiva Eldad that Israelis living...
UN Racism Conference Starts Today–Ahmadinejad Accuses Israel of Genocide
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
Well, it's not as if the United Nations Durban II conference against racism was ever going to avoid controversy. The primary storyline going into...
Rosen's Revenge
By Jeremy Gillick
In August of 2005 the United States made an unlikely indictment: following an FBI raid on AIPAC's offices, it accused Steve Rosen, one...
Moment Columnists Frum and Gorenberg Duke it Out
Gershom Gorenberg and David Frum recently spoke on bloggingheads about Israel's future and the importance, or lack thereof, of its settlements in the West Bank.
Should Israel Recognize Kosovo's Independence?
By Jeremy Gillick
In February of 2008, the Republic of Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia. Now, as the country of two million--almost all of whom...