Rage At Brandeis Over Invite To Israel’s Oren
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor Lookstein calls protests ‘nothing less than evil.’Israel’s Ambassador Michael Oren, though no longer in the Israel Defense Forces, might feel like he deserves combat pay...
View ArticleHow Green Is My Landfill
Sharon Udasin Staff Writer Just southeast of Tel Aviv, a huge mountain peak looms over the highway below, harboring swarms of flies and wafting scents of decaying garbage down its sprouting hills. The...
View ArticleDiscrimination Within Orthodoxy?
Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Special to the Jewish Week Last week, thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews came out for mass protests across Israel. What was the contested issue: defense for Israel? Support of...
View ArticleIsrael’s Black Panthers Remembered
Eric Herschthal Staff Writer BAM film documents Mizrahi civil rights movement of the ‘70s, though inequities still resonate for Jews from Arab countries.Shortly after Israel’s victory in the War of...
View ArticleIs Kagan’s Jewishness Being Used Against Her?
James D. Besser Washington Correspondent Her background surfaces even as Jewish groups mostly silent on wider nomination battle. A Jewish community divided over key constitutional questions is...
View ArticleDisturbing Decision On Guns
Wed, 06/30/2010 Editorial Firearms are not the inherent evil that some gun control advocates claim, but as New Yorkers we have a common-sense understanding that the easy availability of everything from...
View ArticleGet Smart: A Reader Correctly Corrects Me
What follows is a letter sent by Alan Septimus that better illuminates the situation originally discussed in the Media column regarding the flotilla (June 9) (The next three paragraphs are what Mr....
View ArticleElena Kagan, Eye Candy Mentality & Jewish Wisdom
Mark Pearlman JInsider The news surrounding Elena Kagan’s nomination has focused on more than her legal qualifications — her looks have caused a lot of buzz, too. Michael Savage, talk show...
View ArticleFBI Expands Probe Of Fraud At Holocaust Claims Conference
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Pension fund for survivors bilked for more than $7 million, on top of Hardship Fund scheme. The thieves were good — very good.So good, in fact, that they were able to change...
View ArticleThe ADL, Arizona and anti-immigrant craziness
Some of the nastiest email I get is on the issue of immigration reform. To read these missives, you'd never know that Jewish groups have been at the forefront of the effort to overhaul a badly broken...
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