Dispatch from J Street
J Street must decide what it wants to be -- a wide tent that allows all Jewish opinions on Israel or an orthodoxy that pushes only conventional platitudes -- but the Palestinians don't have time to wait.
J Street must decide what it wants to be -- a wide tent that allows all Jewish opinions on Israel or an orthodoxy that pushes only conventional platitudes -- but the Palestinians don't have time to wait.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The left-wing Israeli lobby J Street's cheap tactics of creating its name by attacking Aipac, the ADL, and the ZOA is shameful. There's room in the Jewish community for many voices without creating a civil war.
New York Times | JAMES TRAUB | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
In July, President Obama met for 45 minutes with leaders of American Jewish organizations. All presidents meet with Israel's advocates. Obama, however...
Dan Fleshler | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Obama must decide if he is willing to press both Israelis and Palestinians to stop taking steps that will preclude the possibility of peace.
The American Prospect | Ezra Klein | Posted 05.01.2009 | World
James Besser asks why the major Jewish groups have responded to J Street with so much more fury and fear than, say, the formation of Americans for Pea...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
Last week Chas Freeman, who was nominated to be the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, was forced to withdraw from consideration because o...
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
The Washington Post finds itself in a state of paradox on a single issue, if you compare the words of its reporter to the words of its editor.
Eric Margolis | Posted 02.09.2009 | World
Unless Israel can make five to seven million Palestinians disappear, it must find some way to co-exist with them. Israeli leaders on the center and right continue to avoid facing this fact.
Eric Margolis | Posted 01.30.2009 | World
The proud towers of Wall Street have fallen, disgorging packs of thieves and fraudsters. The mighty US suddenly exposed as the proverbial king without clothes. Uncle Sam is bankrupt.
Jeff Gates | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
Known in DC as a pro-Israel hardliner, he joins Pelosi in bringing to the Middle East peace process a record of support for Tel Aviv's targeted assassinations of Palestinian political leaders.
Eric Margolis | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Obama's honeymoon will be brief. He faces the extraordinary challenge of dealing with a nation that has plunged into bankruptcy and exported financial crises around the globe.
Sam Sedaei | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations... decided to adopt a series of dishonest and sleazy tactics to promote their event.
James Sanders | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home
Notably, the cartoons pay almost no attention to the issues the U.S. candidates are debating with one another. The U.S. economy, McCain's age and Obama's experience never factor in to the discussion.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
While Palin intended her jab to belittle Obama's experience, it in fact helped galvanize those of us who know just how critical, challenging and imperative a role community organizers play.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics
In the past two months, the anti-war movement has taken on one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States in an important fight. And so far, it's winning.
Robert Naiman | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
When you say "Israel Lobby," people tend to think "AIPAC." Many people don't realize that a key component of the "Israel Lobby" consists of people who call themselves Christian.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
As a direct result of his AIPAC speech, Obama's stock is collapsing not only in the Middle East, but also around the globe.
The Nation | Eric Alterman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Today's topic is the paradox--or one of them, anyway--of American Jewish political behavior. No, it's not that hoary old cliché that they "earn like ...
Antony Loewenstein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics