The Politics of Hate Crimes

Nov 30, 2016 by

We are now in the third stage of this post-election trauma: the weeping and the violence have given way to hysteria.

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Mavi Marmara: Another Media Assault on Israel’s Legitimacy...

Nov 23, 2016 by

In 2010, seven years after he was first elected prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, an ardent supporter of the Palestinian Arabs, including the terrorist Hamas faction, engineered a crisis with Israel which was encouraged by the pro-Palestinian media throughout the Western world. Israel is still paying for it.

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It Doesn’t Matter Who Does the Dying...

Nov 17, 2016 by

The reason the press ignores the deaths in Aleppo, Syria, is that no one in the media cares who does the dying, only who does the killing.

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Do Women’s Rights Matter to J Street?...

Nov 9, 2016 by

J Street’s controversial response to the sexual harassment of one of its staff members raises questions as to whether its attitude toward women’s rights is compromised by its political goals.

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Judaism Director Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner responds to Donald Trump...

Nov 7, 2016 by

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, made the following statement in regard to presidential candidate Donald J. Trump’s recently released campaign ad…

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Choosing Political Access over Jewish values...

Nov 5, 2016 by

A number of years ago I pushed my colleague in Englewood, NJ, Rabbi Menachem Genack, who is national head of the Orthodox Union’s Kosher Division…

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