Opinion

• Opinion

  Look to Damascus and Turtle Bay

  With revolutionary unrest sweeping the Arab Middle East, the focus is on democracy, not peace. Israel’s neighbors in Amman and Damascus are currently more worried about anti-regime unrest than they are about the failed peace process. The revelations about Israeli-Palestinian negotiating stances, revealed in detail by the Al Jazeera leaks a few weeks ago, have…

  By Yossi Alpher

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• Opinion

  A Cairo Mob Yells ‘Jew! Jew!’ and Other Bad News

  Hints of clouds behind the silver linings: The Cairo mob that attacked CBS News correspondent Lara Logan last Friday was yelling “Jew! Jew!” the New York Post reports, citing CBS sources. ”60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, “Jew! Jew!” as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni…

  By J.J. Goldberg Feb 16, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  An Israeli Progressive Wonders at the Silence of American Jewish Liberals

  If you’re not familiar with Coteret.com, you should be. It’s a must-read group blog by young Israeli progressives. Most of what they do is translating important news and analysis from the Hebrew press that doesn’t appear anywhere else in English. The blog also posts original musings. This one is a month old, but worth the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Feb 16, 2011 | 2 min read

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• Nora Berman The left is turning on AOC over Israel — and imperiling its own agenda

  

• Dan Perry Actually, Trump made things between Israel and Iran way worse

  

• Emily Tamkin Is starvation in Gaza really Israel’s fault? The facts are clear

  

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  Fun Facts: 2-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Self in Texas

  This is from today’s Houston Chronicle: 2-year-old accidentally shoots himself in Tyler Associated Press Feb. 15, 2011, 10:37AM TYLER – A 2-year-old boy is in critical condition after using a stool to get a gun and accidentally shooting himself in the chest in an East Texas home. Authorities said the incident happened Saturday night when…

  By J.J. Goldberg Feb 15, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  On Family, Walk the Talk

  Before Jerry Silverman became president and CEO of Jewish Federations of North America, before he worked for another national Jewish nonprofit, he was a leader in the business world. At Levi Strauss & Co. and the Stride Rite Corp., he saw the private-sector experiment with ways to recruit and retain employees concerned about balancing work…

  Feb 10, 2011 | 2 min read
• Opinion

  Our Fallen

  Read ‘Profiles of Our Fallen’ and Watch a Related Video. America is entering its 10th year of war, but outside certain neighborhoods and communities, it is hard to tell. Afghanistan and Iraq are worlds away, the missions there cloudy and complicated, and the absence of military conscription means the sacrifice is inequitably distributed. We all…

  Feb 10, 2011 | 2 min read
• Letters

  A Misleading Picture

  Homebound while recovering from surgery, I was able to watch many hours of footage from the Egyptian uprising online. I have seen exactly one overtly anti-Jewish sign, poster or banner from the protests: the one you chose to put on the front page of your February 11 issue. Your editorial “Egyptian Choices” states: “this isn’t…

  Feb 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Give Joe Credit

  Six writers contributed to your forum on the legacy of Senator Joseph Lieberman, but not one of them referred to his role in securing passage of the bill that ended our armed forces’ “Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell” policy (“Exit Joe,” February 4). The fact that America has joined those nations — Israel among them — that allow open…

  Feb 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Letters

  Mainstream Censors

  Your February 11 news article “Three Years Old, J Street Still Struggles For Acceptance” struck a personal chord with me, in particular its description of how Birthright Israel has refused to allow J Street U to sponsor a trip to Israel, while justifying its partnership with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee because the latter…

  Feb 9, 2011 | 2 min read
• Letters

  More to Leadership Than Being Scorned

  Regarding Benyamin Korn’s January 28 opinion article “Breaking Begin, but Not Palin,” I would hope that most of us judge the strengths of a particular leader or political figure, not on what journalists say about that person, but on what the leader actually achieves in office or what words he or she actually speaks. Just…

  Feb 9, 2011 | < 1 min read
• Opinion

  For Corporations, Jobs Go Out of Fashion

  There’s something unsettling about seeing the president — this president, specifically — go before a big-business audience to make nice, as Barack Obama did at the U.S Chamber of Commerce February 7. Normally a president can walk into an event like this and feel instantly at home, swathed in chummy bonhomie as he and the…

  By J.J. Goldberg Feb 9, 2011 | 4 min read