“Tiny organization fights to make Sderot’s voice heard”

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135894.html Just under three years ago, on a warm Friday night in Sderot, Noam Bedein was forced to flee his synagogue in the middle of a shabbat service when the dreaded "tzevah adom" (color...

CANADA CAN JUMP START THE PEACE PROCESS: CAN ASSERT ITS LEADERSHIP IN THE REFUGEE...

http://tinyurl.com/yz55vqc Most recently, Israeli President Shimon Peres remarked to the European Union’s Middle East Envoy Miguel Moratinos, that the time has come to revive the dormant Refugee Working Group, comprised of 38 nations, chaired by...

U.S. Presidential Envoy Makes Pledge To Combat Anti-Semitism

Jerusalem - Hannah Rosenthal, appointed last week as the United States State Department’s official envoy to combat anti-Semitism, delivered an address on Wednesday to more than 500 people who participated in the Jerusalem-based Global...

The People Who Helped Kill My Mother

Debate is raging in the United States on creating a medical system modeled such efficient socialized systems as Israel’s. The long and the short of it is “Don’t Do It” unless you plan to emblazon...

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?...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Darwish Engagement Canceled At Princeton

Jerusalem - For more than a generation, people who follow the Arab-Israeli War wonder if articulate Arab spokespeople will emerge to express genuine recognition of Israel, with a clear and unambiguous desire for peace. Seven...