Photographer Joan Roth focuses her lens on women living and working in the former Soviet Union whose lives have been touched by Project Kesher, an organization that helps women in the region participate in Jewish life while providing them with skills to be leaders in Jewish community building and social activism. Roth’s new body of…
Howard Marblestone, Charles Elliot professor of Greek and Latin at Lafayette College, has written me often over the years, generally to correct — always gently and kindly — some Greek or Latin gaffe of mine. Now, in the course of commenting on my February 9 column, “Biblical Discontinuity,” he chides me for referring to the…
The president of the World Jewish Congress, beverage heir Edgar Bronfman, announced Wednesday that the organization was severing all ties with his most trusted adviser during the last two decades. During a meeting of the WJC steering committee, Bronfman announced that he had decided to end the organization’s relationship with Rabbi Israel Singer, the organization’s…
Former North Carolina senator and current presidential contender John Edwards wasn’t on hand a Aipac’s policy conference in Washington earlier this week, but he will be appearing before a Jewish audience very soon. Edwards will appear at a meeting organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations next Thursday afternoon, March 22,…
From the Associated Press: For years, horseradish has enjoyed a place of privilege at the seder, the carb- and symbolism-heavy meal that celebrates Passover. Along with its counterparts on the Passover plate, horseradish helps tell the story of the Jews’ liberation from Egyptian slavery and exodus into the desert: Unleavened, cracker-like matzoh recalls the bread…
David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, tells YNET that Hillary is the presumptive frontrunner for Jewish votes in the Democratic primaries, but that he’s starting to hear buzz about Obama. On the Republican side, Harris cited Rudy, McCain and Newt as GOPers with widespread support in the Jewish community. (Go to this…
The story at last year’s Aipac conference was the thunderous applause for two hardliners, Vice President Cheney and former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Cheney’s approval rating had dipped into the teens, but at Aipac he was a star: His speech drew more than 40 rounds of applause, including eight standing ovations, as he warned…
Here’s two thoughts on Senator Lieberman’s speech at the Aipac conference: 1) The White House sent out the transcript. 2) Lieberman urged delegates to “find the voice of Churchill inside yourself, and let it be heard this week on Capitol Hill and throughout the nation in the days and years ahead.” And what if that…
My 2006 trip to visit Ireland’s Jewish community was a bittersweet reunion. On my first visit to the Emerald Isle in 1987, I discovered that “Irish” and “Jewish” were not contradictory terms, in this country that is more than 98% Catholic. In 1987, there was palpable pride and excitement in the Jewish population, which numbers…
Some pro-Israel critics of the war, and plenty of voices in Israel, have complained that America’s troubles in Iraq will make it much harder to move against Iran. Today, in his speech to Aipac activists, Vice President Cheney made a similar link, but turned it inside out… “If Iran’s allies prevailed, the regime and Teheran’s…
The vice president’s opening line in his speech today to Aipac delegates: “Thank you very much. Karl Rove finds out about this, he won’t let me out again.”
