Comical Posturing on Israel
Keep talking, Mr. Cantor. You're just helping to keep Jews pulling the lever for Democrats.
Keep talking, Mr. Cantor. You're just helping to keep Jews pulling the lever for Democrats.
No one can credibly claim that Obama and his administration are not talking with Israel. The fact is that the Obama administration is not only talking with Israelis, they are intensely collaborating.
Open, visible identification with any group whose rules and/or opinions are stated or implicitly assumed is a responsibility, or, conversely, a burden.
Israel's policies towards the holy city will guarantee that the desired peace process continues to elude Palestinians and Israelis.
There are more than a few in our Jewish community who are happy to be spoon fed distortions so they can twist reality to fit their own vision of how the world should be.
In the historically Democratic demographic of the Jewish community, there is now only one Republican congressman -- Eric Cantor (R-VA). And he is doing his part to think narrowly and exclusively.
You don't have to call Jewish people "Jewish people." It turns out they don't mind being called plain old "Jews." LOL.
As an American-Jewish leader, I am gratified to know that this president, and his team, are working diligently to find the path back toward peace.
If anyone hasn't gotten the message loud and clear from this administration -- essentially "no nuclear Iran, not on our watch" -- then they're not listening.
Beyond domestic policies and beyond complex U.S.-Israel issues, detractors of this president keep asking: does he really "get" American Jews and their concerns?
Government authorities have a responsibility to vigorously respond to these shameful and serious crimes.
For ordinary Palestinians as well as negotiators the demand that Israel completely freeze all settlement construction has become the real test of whether Israel is serious about peace.
In the past several weeks, I've opened my front door to well-dressed people -- men and women, Black and white -- whose sole purpose seemed to be to talk to me about Jesus.
As our hero describes his first foray into Internet dating, his escapades on Beef4Beef.com dissolved me. An intrepid sexual Livingstone, he exposes the underbelly of cyber-hook-ups.
How does taking a 25 hour break have anything to do with saving the world? Well for me, it is not only physical and spiritual recharging; it's also emotional and intellectual.
Gertrude Berg created the radio series The Goldbergs, which morphed into the first family sitcom on TV, about a Jewish family living in the Bronx.
It's up to a Jewish state to recognize when a policy of collective punishment is self-defeating as well as immoral, and to call a halt. It's up to this Jewish state to redefine patriotism.
We know our decision won't get us too many friends in Israel, even among progressives. But we have to do what seems right to us, and hope the message gets through.
Massad once called Israel a "Jewish and a racist state," and a student alleged that he demanded of an Israeli student, "How many Palestinians did you kill?"
How many more years in prison did Bernie Madoff get for being Jewish? We might as well get the question out there. It's surfaced since the Madoff arr...
A recurring theme in many of the cleric's answers is his very strong belief that "foreign" Western powers, particularly England, are behind the current unrest in Tehran