25
Feb
Breaking the Silence
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Three thin little black books have been creating a firestorm of controversy in Israel recently. No, they have nothing to do sex scandals. ...
04
Feb
Paris Hilton says "shalom" to the shekel
By Michelle Albert and Talia Ran
In a bizarre twist that defies all sense, shiksa goddess Paris Hilton is mugging for an ad for the Israeli...
06
Jan
Now even Jewish grandmothers hate the Israeli Rabbinate
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Sarah Breger
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...
22
Dec
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...
04
Dec
Women to Israeli government: no to back of the bus
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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)...
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...
10
Jul
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...
19
Jun
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...
10
Jun
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...
26
May
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...
20
Apr
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...
12
Mar
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...