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Skip the Ads, Watch Torah at Halftime
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow thrust religion into the consciousness of football fans everywhere this year by famously taking a knee and bowing his head in prayer on the field. And while his prayers caused their fair share of controversy, not everyone thinks mixing football and religion is such a bad thing. Ahead of Super…
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March of the Living Reception Hosted by Israel Ambassador
“We do it every year, like Exodus,” said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Council of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at the January 17 March of the Living reception. The reception was hosted by Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Hoenlein states that instead of focusing on the past, we…
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Rubbing Elbows With Famous in Davos
When the initial toasts at a dinner are for world leaders, global business luminaries and Nobel laureates sitting a few feet away, you know you’re in the right place. Davos Shabbat, held every year at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, is one of the hottest invites at the annual gathering. It always draws the…
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Obama Muslim Fears Gone But Israel Anxieties Remain
In 2008, comedian Sarah Silverman recorded a Web video urging young Jews to go to Florida and persuade their grandparents to vote for Obama. If Obama lost, Silverman warned, she would “blame the Jews.” Silverman was joking, sort of. But she was also responding to rumors, then rampant among older Florida Jews, that Obama was…
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Finding Voice, Romney Pounds Gingrich
Picking up the largest prize to date in the Republican presidential race, Mitt Romney pounded Newt Gingrich to win the Florida primary by a impressive 15% margin and restored himself as the frontrunner in the up-and-down race for the nomination. Romney, who had been considered too passive, found a new and much more aggressive voice…
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Who Will Light Up Jewish Kids Lit?
Back in my dating days, there was always a moment of panic when I brought a guy home to my apartment for the first time. I dreaded that (seemingly endless) minute of lingering about, of analyzing and judging — my bookshelf. I thought about those uncomfortable moments the other day, as I was unpacking my…
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No Paean to Palestinian Terror
When a government probe into allegations of treason caused the charismatic Arab politician Azmi Bishara to resign his Knesset seat and flee Israel in 2007, Dr. Ahmad Tibi, a former aide to PLO leader Yasir Arafat, leaped easily to the fore as his community’s most prominent national advocate. Like Bishara, he gained notice, too, as…
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Little Focus on Jews as Florida Votes
Republican voters prepared to go to the polls Tuesday in the Florida primary after a campaign in which the candidates paid scant attention to the Sunshine State’s 500,000-strong Jewish community. The two leading candidates, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich spent much of their time in central and northern Florida and all but ignored the heavily…
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Panetta: Iran Could Produce Bomb Next Year
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Sunday that Iran is only one year away from producing a nuclear weapon. In an interview on the CBS show “60 Minutes,” Panetta said that “the consensus is that, if they decided to do it, it would probably take them about a year to be able to produce…
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The Allure of the Burka
Why do fundamentalists always end up wrapping women in shmattes? I ask because, as we’ve seen in Israel’s Beit Shemesh recently, ultra-uber-Orthodox men have been spitting on less-ultra-but-still-Orthodox girls as young as age 8 for wearing clothes that aren’t “modest” enough. The fact that the girls’ outfits seem very modest to most of us just…
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Syrian Exiles Push For U.S. Action
They may be disunited and unskilled in the ways of Washington, but as carnage continues in Syria, exiled Syrian dissidents in the United States are urging the Obama administration to actively support opposition forces struggling to bring down the regime of Bashar al-Assad. A loose network of activists — some newly arrived, but most part…
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