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U.S. Eases Pressure on Israel, Leans On Palestinians

By Nathan Guttman

Relations between Washington and Jerusalem are warming, as months-long tensions over West Bank settlements and other issues have gradually eased.Read More

HIAS Still Aids Immigrants, but Most Don’t Resemble Sergey Brin

By Gal Beckerman

When Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google and now the 26th richest man in the world, left the Soviet Union as a 6-year-old Jewish refugee in 1979, it was the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society that secured American visas for him and for his family and settled everyone into a new home.Read More

Human Rights Watch Debates Its Mission With a Founding Critic

By Gal Beckerman

When Human Rights Watch’s founder took to the op-ed page of The New York Times to denounce his own organization’s record on Israel, he provided powerful validation to critics who have been stepping up their attacks on the human rights group over the past year. “I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics,” wrote the former chairman and acknowledged father of HRW, Robert Bernstein.Read More

Arms Smugglers Into Gaza Face a New Foe: Egypt

By Nathan Jeffay

As a consequence of the military action in Gaza and to please a new administration in Washington, Egypt has recently stepped up efforts to crack down on smugglers who use a network of tunnels to transport weapons to Hamas.Read More

Wexler Leaving Congress For Middle East Job

By Nathan Guttman

A prominent Jewish lawmaker representing one of the nation’s most highly populated Jewish districts surprised his constituents and his colleagues by announcing that he is leaving Congress to head a think tank that focuses on promoting Middle East peace.Read More

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