Daily Archives: December 4, 2009

Rabbi David Saperstein Gives Keynote Address at Global Interreligious Conference

MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 3, 2009 - Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, was invited to give one of the keynote addresses at last night’s opening plenary at the...

AN INTERVIEW WITH HAMAS

In October of 2009, I had the opportunity to sit down with Talal Nasser, a senior Hamas official in the Hamas office in Damascus, Syria. Hamas is designated by the West as a terrorist...

What I Saw At the J Street Convention

In a small minority of right-thinking observers and journalists who came to see what this new J Street phenomenon was all about, I was eager to see how it related not just to other...

PALESTINIANS UNCOMPROMISING ON RIGHT OF RETURN

Rhonda Spivak, attorney, writer, and member of Canadian & Israel Bar Associations. BETHLEHEM- Although many Palestinians in the West Bank say they are interested in "peace," the vast majority of those encountered on a recent...

The “Pay Czar”, Obama’s Private Meetings With Jewish Leaders and Netanyahu: Special Report from...

Rhonda Spivak, an attorney and a writer, is a member of the Canadian and Israel Bar Associations. How did the General Assembly of United Jewish Federations originally land President Barack Obama as a speaker?...