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‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process

‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process

Suspicion surrounds rabbinical courts convening remotely, conversions to Judaism based on long-distance Jewish learning rather than in-person rabbinic counseling   JTA — The morning of… Read More ›

US House passes motion repudiating UN resolution on Israel

US House passes motion repudiating UN resolution on Israel

Passed with vote of 342-80, House Resolution 11 calls Security Council’s anti-settlements measure a ‘one-sided’ obstacle to peace   WASHINGTON — The US House of… Read More ›

Comment: Israel and the Trump administration

Comment: Israel and the Trump administration

Trump’s attitude toward Israel still remains an issue of considerable conjecture.   In just two weeks, a new US administration will enter the White House.… Read More ›

Campaign rhetoric, post-election hate crimes draw Jewish historians into fray

Campaign rhetoric, post-election hate crimes draw Jewish historians into fray

Since Election Day, scholars and curators of Jewish history have consistently issued one message: Watch out   NEW YORK — In the two months since… Read More ›

World Jewish students to Knesset: Stop saying no future for Jews in Europe

World Jewish students to Knesset: Stop saying no future for Jews in Europe

“They talk about peace, we talk about the war against BDS.”   European students from the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) called on Israeli officials… Read More ›

A Jew and an Indian make a film — about the African American experience

A Jew and an Indian make a film — about the African American experience

In ‘Barry,’ Adam Mansbach and Vikram Gandhi take a crack at portraying future president Barack Obama’s campus isolation during his Columbia years   SAN FRANCISCO… Read More ›

Jewish groups speak out against Paris peace conference following UN vote

Jewish groups speak out against Paris peace conference following UN vote

Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected the conference proposal.   NEW YORK – In the aftermath of the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, American Jewish… Read More ›

Annex, Bibi, annex

Annex, Bibi, annex

Op-ed: If Netanyahu and Bennett really want to continue the occupation and are unwilling to give up a single inch of land, they should go… Read More ›

‘Community’ project seeks to open Israeli eyes to Diaspora

‘Community’ project seeks to open Israeli eyes to Diaspora

Journalists, opinion makers meet students, leaders in Los Angeles.   A group of  Israeli journalistts and public opinion makers have had their eyes opened to… Read More ›

In strong attack on Israel, German foreign minister says settlements jeopardize peace

In strong attack on Israel, German foreign minister says settlements jeopardize peace

In a statement issued to Germany’s largest circulation daily, Bild, after the UN resolution, the Foreign Ministry claimed that “a democratic Israel is only achievable… Read More ›

Who’s afraid of the right-wing US ambassador?

Who’s afraid of the right-wing US ambassador?

Op-ed: This is the first time Israel can deal with fundamental questions about its future and vision without any pressure from Washington. This is the… Read More ›

White House: Obama will veto any other UN resolution critical of Israel

White House: Obama will veto any other UN resolution critical of Israel

Administration has made ‘clear over and over’ it will not allow further UN action, Ben Rhodes says, as Netanyahu tells administration to stop playing games… Read More ›

Washington – Analysis: Kerry Leaves Stage Locked Into Failed Assumptions

Washington – Analysis: Kerry Leaves Stage Locked Into Failed Assumptions

  Washington – Long. That is likely how many will remember US Secretary of State John Kerry’s more than hour-long speech on the Middle East… Read More ›

Trump won’t be able to change the UNSC resolution

Trump won’t be able to change the UNSC resolution

Opinion: By failing to veto the UN Security Council resolution against the settlements, Obama was sending a message to Israel: Enough is enough, no more… Read More ›

All alone in the world: The crisis of leaving Haredi life

All alone in the world: The crisis of leaving Haredi life

With no money, no education and no family, young adults who have left religion are becoming cultural immigrants in the secular world. Hillel, an organization… Read More ›

The perils of partisanship: J Street’s uphill battle against David Friedman

The perils of partisanship: J Street’s uphill battle against David Friedman

J Street’s alignment with progressive Democrats likely dooms its fight against appointment of David Friedman as ambassador to Israel.   When Donald Trump’s Israel adviser first… Read More ›

Analysis: Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem: The good, the bad and the unpredictable

Analysis: Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem: The good, the bad and the unpredictable

The move, promised by Trump and urged by Israel, could turn out well – or backfire badly and hurt the burgeoning regional ties with Arab… Read More ›

If it wanted to, Israel could have stopped the massacre in Syria

If it wanted to, Israel could have stopped the massacre in Syria

Op-ed: Israel is the strongest power in the region and could have easily saved the lives of tens of thousands of Syrians and spared the… Read More ›

Through the looking glass: FSU immigrants fret about ‘survival’ of US Jewry

Through the looking glass: FSU immigrants fret about ‘survival’ of US Jewry

Addressing Russian-speaking Jews, Israeli leaders born behind the Iron Curtain say American Jewry is in more ‘danger’ than Jews in France, Iran, or Ukraine  … Read More ›

Dershowitz blasts Netanyahu witch-hunts, BDS, and wants a Kotel ‘for all Jews’

Dershowitz blasts Netanyahu witch-hunts, BDS, and wants a Kotel ‘for all Jews’

The emeritus Harvard law school professor speaks to The Jerusalem Post about a number of hot-button issues.   The numerous of quasi-legal scandals raised against… Read More ›