Some 894,000 Israelis go for an entire day without food or eat smaller meals because they cannot afford to buy food, according to a government report. The State Comptroller’s Nutritional Insecurity report issued Monday found that 306,000 of those who go hungry are children. In addition, nearly 50 percent of the Israeli-Arab population cannot meet…
How can Jewish charities afford to spend so much money on Israel? It doesn’t hurt that federal, state and local governments in the United States spend billions subsidizing many of the other things the charities do. Israel-related not-for-profit organizations get more contributions than any other type of Jewish agency, as the Forward reported last week….
The British government is warning the business community to steer clear of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. New recommendations noting there are “clear risks” and the United Kingdom does “not offer support to such activity” were published last week on the U.K. Trade and Investment website in the section titled Overseas Business Risk–Israel. The…
The dismaying events of the last month in Washington prove that government itself is on trial in America. This cannot be dismissed by those of us who would like to believe that the dysfunction in the nation’s capital is caused only by crazy Tea Partiers or inept web designers. The inexcusable shutdown of the federal…
Russia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community has a new and powerful champion in the organized Jewish world. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, has called on the American Jewish community and on the government of the United States to pressure Russia on gay and lesbian rights. Some Democratic politicians welcomed Foxman’s idea….
Each year, when Frank Halper is faced with the state tax bill for his accounting business in Providence, R.I., he has a choice. He can write a check for the amount owed by his company or, as part of a state tax credit program, he can send a check to a foundation that provides tuition…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Shimon Peres to request an extension in forming a government. Their meeting was scheduled for Saturday night at the end of Shabbat, which is the deadline for forming a government. Under law, Netanyahu can request an up to two-week extension, which Peres already has said he…
When Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann and a group of colleagues called for a probe into “security concerns” over the employment of several Muslims in top government positions, Democrats and Republicans joined in condemning the call and in accusing those behind it of Islamophobia. Yet, shining the spotlight on the issue of Muslim Americans in…
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