http://www.jewpi.com Jewish Press International Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:50:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jewpi.com/josh-fleet-parshat-yitro-the-weekly-torah-portion-explained-1328850612/ http://www.jewpi.com/josh-fleet-parshat-yitro-the-weekly-torah-portion-explained-1328850612/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:10:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/josh-fleet-parshat-yitro-the-weekly-torah-portion-explained-1328850612/ Editor’s note: The HuffTorah is an overview of the Torah reading of the week and includes links to additional resources for study and discussion. Read the full text of Parshat Yitro with interlinear Hebrew/English . Enter Jethro, the high priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/michael-zimmerman-ph-d-evolution-weekend-protecting-both-religion-and-science-1328834165/ http://www.jewpi.com/michael-zimmerman-ph-d-evolution-weekend-protecting-both-religion-and-science-1328834165/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:36:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/michael-zimmerman-ph-d-evolution-weekend-protecting-both-religion-and-science-1328834165/ This coming weekend hundreds of religious congregations from all corners of the globe will take steps to re-focus the political discussion about religion. Their goals are actually as simple as they are important. Their three most important imperatives are: 1. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ira-chernus-why-would-israel-attack-iran-really-1328833445/ http://www.jewpi.com/ira-chernus-why-would-israel-attack-iran-really-1328833445/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:24:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ira-chernus-why-would-israel-attack-iran-really-1328833445/ Just days after the New York Times Magazine ‘s lurid cover story, “Israel vs. Iran ,” the Washington Post struck back with a two-fisted effort to win the “most dire prediction” contest. The Post’s foreign policy pundit David Ignatius wrote a widely-circulated column claiming inside information: U.S. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/debbie-hines-a-teachable-moment-for-cnns-roland-martin-and-glaad-1328828645/ http://www.jewpi.com/debbie-hines-a-teachable-moment-for-cnns-roland-martin-and-glaad-1328828645/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:04:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/debbie-hines-a-teachable-moment-for-cnns-roland-martin-and-glaad-1328828645/ CNN’s suspension of Roland Martin following GLAAD’s demand that he be fired for his Super Bowl offensive rants on Twitter shows two wrongs don’t make a right. If this were a football game, Roland Martin and GLAAD deserve a penalty for the way each handled the matter. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/renee-parsons-george-washington-and-the-2012-presidential-campaign-1328828044/ http://www.jewpi.com/renee-parsons-george-washington-and-the-2012-presidential-campaign-1328828044/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:54:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/renee-parsons-george-washington-and-the-2012-presidential-campaign-1328828044/ As the 2012 presidential election campaign kicks into high gear with a slate of mediocre candidates, it is ironic that 200 years after a population of 3 million produced a collection of Founding Fathers (including at least two polymaths; Benjamin Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/annette-insdorf-oscar-nominee-in-darkness-illuminates-history-and-heroism-1328827455/ http://www.jewpi.com/annette-insdorf-oscar-nominee-in-darkness-illuminates-history-and-heroism-1328827455/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:44:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/annette-insdorf-oscar-nominee-in-darkness-illuminates-history-and-heroism-1328827455/ When In Darkness was announced as one of the five Oscar nominees in the Foreign-Language Film category, many Polish people expressed effusive pride and hope, both in Poland and the U.S. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/alon-ben-meir-the-psychological-dimension-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-1328825767/ http://www.jewpi.com/alon-ben-meir-the-psychological-dimension-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-1328825767/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:16:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/alon-ben-meir-the-psychological-dimension-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-1328825767/ This is the first of 10 articles that will address how the psychological dimension of Israeli-Palestinian conflict has and continues to impact every conflicting issue between the two sides and what can be done to mitigate these psychological impediments to reach an agreement based on a two state solution. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/leon-t-hadar-what-happens-after-an-iran-israel-war-1328825167/ http://www.jewpi.com/leon-t-hadar-what-happens-after-an-iran-israel-war-1328825167/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:06:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/leon-t-hadar-what-happens-after-an-iran-israel-war-1328825167/ Notwithstanding the never-ending stream of all those based-on-reliable-intelligence-sources analyses, it is doubtful whether these same analysts would be willing to bet whatever is left of their 401K retirement accounts on their predictions that Israel will — or will not — attack Iranian nuclear sites this year. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/dovid-efune-the-peril-of-precedent-israel-and-the-peace-talks-1328819047/ http://www.jewpi.com/dovid-efune-the-peril-of-precedent-israel-and-the-peace-talks-1328819047/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:24:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/dovid-efune-the-peril-of-precedent-israel-and-the-peace-talks-1328819047/ A day after low level ‘peace talks’ – with even lower expectations – collapsed; Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu engaged the Arab world through his official Facebook page. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ahmad-tibi-gingrich-sets-aside-common-sense-when-it-comes-to-palestine-1328818452/ http://www.jewpi.com/ahmad-tibi-gingrich-sets-aside-common-sense-when-it-comes-to-palestine-1328818452/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:14:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ahmad-tibi-gingrich-sets-aside-common-sense-when-it-comes-to-palestine-1328818452/ Newt Gingrich has said not once, but twice that I’m an “invented” person. In his world, Palestinians are a recent creation and not a people that pre-date modern Israel. Gingrich did not distinguish himself when in a recent Republican debate he said that Palestinians are “technically an invention of the late 1970s. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/mj-rosenberg-iran-war-what-is-aipac-planning-1328818134/ http://www.jewpi.com/mj-rosenberg-iran-war-what-is-aipac-planning-1328818134/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:08:54 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/mj-rosenberg-iran-war-what-is-aipac-planning-1328818134/ These are strange times for those of us who follow the debate about a possible war with Iran. It is clear that the Israeli government and its neoconservative camp followers here in the United States are increasing pressure on President Obama to either attack Iran or let Israel do it (in which case, we would [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/yousif-nur-us-foreign-policy-israel-and-the-sorcerers-apprentice-1328815829/ http://www.jewpi.com/yousif-nur-us-foreign-policy-israel-and-the-sorcerers-apprentice-1328815829/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:30:29 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/yousif-nur-us-foreign-policy-israel-and-the-sorcerers-apprentice-1328815829/ In November 2002, the former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon demanded that the Bush administration should turn its full attention on Iran “the day after” the Iraq invasion was over. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/holocaust-torah-scrolls-scam-demanding-accountability-1328805023/ http://www.jewpi.com/holocaust-torah-scrolls-scam-demanding-accountability-1328805023/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:30:23 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/holocaust-torah-scrolls-scam-demanding-accountability-1328805023/ Zitelman is co-founder and president of Save a Torah, Inc., the purportedly charitable foundation through which the now disgraced Wheaton, Md., bookstore owner Menachem Youlus peddled what Youlus represented as Holocaust -era Torah scrolls he claimed to … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/david-kersh-mohammad-and-kundera-on-the-power-of-humor-and-the-troubles-of-translation-1328803817/ http://www.jewpi.com/david-kersh-mohammad-and-kundera-on-the-power-of-humor-and-the-troubles-of-translation-1328803817/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:10:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/david-kersh-mohammad-and-kundera-on-the-power-of-humor-and-the-troubles-of-translation-1328803817/ A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by Firoozeh Dumas, the author of Funny in Farsi , beautifully and chillingly depicts her interactions with Mohammad, her Farsi translator, and his imprisonment four weeks ago by the Iranian government for doing nothing other than translating her funny book. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/eli-beer-an-interfaith-davos-moment-1328801774/ http://www.jewpi.com/eli-beer-an-interfaith-davos-moment-1328801774/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:36:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/eli-beer-an-interfaith-davos-moment-1328801774/ Very few people in the world will ever have the chance to experience an “interfaith moment” quite like mine. There I stood in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum with three smiling new friends from the four corners of the earth. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/george-heymont-when-professional-worlds-collide-1328799982/ http://www.jewpi.com/george-heymont-when-professional-worlds-collide-1328799982/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:22 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/george-heymont-when-professional-worlds-collide-1328799982/ Many people hate their jobs. They spend most of their time working at something that gives them little or no personal satisfand then take out their frustrations on the people they love. For creative types, the opposite is true. Many of us are in love with our work and derive a deep sense of fulfillment [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/randy-taran-valentines-day-really-1328796380/ http://www.jewpi.com/randy-taran-valentines-day-really-1328796380/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:06:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/randy-taran-valentines-day-really-1328796380/ Valentine’s Day: What does it represent to you? Is it a reminder of the passions of new romance or the love that you are longing for in your life? Is it a commercial orchestration fabricated by the greeting card, flower and chocolate industries to Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/robert-scheer-elections-are-for-suckers-1328783164/ http://www.jewpi.com/robert-scheer-elections-are-for-suckers-1328783164/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:26:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/robert-scheer-elections-are-for-suckers-1328783164/ Let’s just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos now that voting has the same significance for us as it had for those Iraqis who got conned into thinking they were participating in some grand democratic experiment. Our own elections, the ones our government has modeled for the world, are a hoax. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/daoud-kuttab-mahmoud-abbass-multiple-titles-will-not-last-1328753775/ http://www.jewpi.com/daoud-kuttab-mahmoud-abbass-multiple-titles-will-not-last-1328753775/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:16:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/daoud-kuttab-mahmoud-abbass-multiple-titles-will-not-last-1328753775/ Unlike his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, the current Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is not known for hoarding power or being authoritarian. Abbas will most likely end his revolutionary/professional career in retirement and not in a direct struggle with his enemies. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/gadi-baltiansky-the-lost-voice-of-american-jews-1328750766/ http://www.jewpi.com/gadi-baltiansky-the-lost-voice-of-american-jews-1328750766/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:26:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/gadi-baltiansky-the-lost-voice-of-american-jews-1328750766/ American Jews need to get involved in domestic Israeli politics. The days of discussions behind closed doors have passed, and so have the years of consensus. Too much is on the line now for those who care about Israel to demonstrate apathy. Some American Jews are already involved. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jay-michaelson-its-schadenfreude-time-santorum-messes-up-the-republican-party-1328748394/ http://www.jewpi.com/jay-michaelson-its-schadenfreude-time-santorum-messes-up-the-republican-party-1328748394/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:46:34 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jay-michaelson-its-schadenfreude-time-santorum-messes-up-the-republican-party-1328748394/ Schadenfreude (“shaad-en-froid-uh”) is one of those great German words. It’s the feeling of pleasure in someone else’s unhappiness, and, as fans of the musical Avenue Q know, it’s among life’s guilty pleasures. It’s not noble, but hey, we all do it. For liberals, especially LGBT folks, watching the Republican primary is prime Schadenfreude time. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/brian-rooney-radicalized-by-saul-alinsky-1328747768/ http://www.jewpi.com/brian-rooney-radicalized-by-saul-alinsky-1328747768/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:36:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/brian-rooney-radicalized-by-saul-alinsky-1328747768/ When I hear former House Speaker Newt Gingrich rail against the “radical” Saul Alinsky, I just smile. Gingrich has reached into the past to find an enemy for the present, but I know something about Saul Alinsky. In the late 1960s I was a student at The Loomis School, a prep school just north of [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jonathan-meiburg-what-if-iran-gets-the-bomb-1328747170/ http://www.jewpi.com/jonathan-meiburg-what-if-iran-gets-the-bomb-1328747170/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:26:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jonathan-meiburg-what-if-iran-gets-the-bomb-1328747170/ I’m very aware that my byline automatically makes my headline comical — and if you’re like me, your eyes head for the ceiling anytime you see an artist, actor, musician, etc. weighing in on one of the issues of the day. I’m just writing this because I haven’t yet seen anyone else do it, and [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jayshree-bajoria-syrias-deepening-crisis-1328744658/ http://www.jewpi.com/jayshree-bajoria-syrias-deepening-crisis-1328744658/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:44:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jayshree-bajoria-syrias-deepening-crisis-1328744658/ Amid ongoing violence in Syria against anti-government protestors and opposition fighters, the United States closed down its embassy (AP) in Damascus Monday and pulled all U.S. diplomats out of the country. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/barbara-becker-the-swastika-in-our-neighborhood-1328739968/ http://www.jewpi.com/barbara-becker-the-swastika-in-our-neighborhood-1328739968/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:26:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/barbara-becker-the-swastika-in-our-neighborhood-1328739968/ Across the nation, anti-Semitic bias cases have been capturing news headlines. Last month, two men from Farmington, New Mexico were sentenced to time in federal prison for branding a swastika on the arm of a Navajo man who suffers from mental disabilities. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/greg-palast-queen-of-angels-condoms-1328739247/ http://www.jewpi.com/greg-palast-queen-of-angels-condoms-1328739247/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:14:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/greg-palast-queen-of-angels-condoms-1328739247/ I arrived into this world at the Queen of Angels hospital in Los Angeles into the hands of Dr. Sidney Kolodny. Queen of Angels, judging by the number of nun-nurses running about, is a Catholic hospital. Dr. Kolodny was Jewish. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/haggai-carmon-its-saudi-arabia-stupid-1328737585/ http://www.jewpi.com/haggai-carmon-its-saudi-arabia-stupid-1328737585/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:46:25 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/haggai-carmon-its-saudi-arabia-stupid-1328737585/ With the winds of Israel-Iran war looming, albeit thus far primarily in the media, many observers speculate whether Israel will launch an attack on Iranian nuclear installations. With the Holocaust as a fresh memory, Israelis do not take lightly the Iranian leadership’s repeated threats to wipe Israel off the map. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/michael-sharnoff-reflections-on-a-new-hamas-strategy-1328736108/ http://www.jewpi.com/michael-sharnoff-reflections-on-a-new-hamas-strategy-1328736108/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:21:48 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/michael-sharnoff-reflections-on-a-new-hamas-strategy-1328736108/ As I previously noted , a multilateral approach advocated by the Arab Peace Initiative could have the potential to prevent Palestinian unilateralism, which offer no security guarantees to Israel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/dr-charles-g-cogan-syria-three-level-chess-game-1328733260/ http://www.jewpi.com/dr-charles-g-cogan-syria-three-level-chess-game-1328733260/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:34:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/dr-charles-g-cogan-syria-three-level-chess-game-1328733260/ Upwards of 85 percent of the world’s Muslim population are Sunni, and this helps explain the firm stand of the Arab League against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/agnieszka-holland-revisits-the-holocaust-in-darkness-1328729171/ http://www.jewpi.com/agnieszka-holland-revisits-the-holocaust-in-darkness-1328729171/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:26:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/agnieszka-holland-revisits-the-holocaust-in-darkness-1328729171/ Literally dark, In Darkness, to open this week in New York, takes place under ground in the sewers of Lvov, Poland in Holocaust era Europe. Based on Robert Marshall’s book, In the Sewers of Lvov, about the story of Jews hiding in the wet, stinky sludge … Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/regina-weinreich-agnieszka-holland-revisits-the-holocaust-in-darkness-1328728226/ http://www.jewpi.com/regina-weinreich-agnieszka-holland-revisits-the-holocaust-in-darkness-1328728226/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:10:26 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/regina-weinreich-agnieszka-holland-revisits-the-holocaust-in-darkness-1328728226/ “It’s harsh,” said Polish director Agnieszka Holland introducing her new movie, In Darkness at a special screening at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens last month. Literally dark, In Darkness , to open this week in New York, takes place under ground in the sewers of Lvov, Poland in Holocaust era Europe. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/dave-astor-life-spans-of-literary-giants-1328727642/ http://www.jewpi.com/dave-astor-life-spans-of-literary-giants-1328727642/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:42 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/dave-astor-life-spans-of-literary-giants-1328727642/ Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday on Feb. 7 and Edith Wharton’s 150th birthday on Jan. 24 got me thinking about how old famous novelists were when they died. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/michael-perman-cosmic-chabad-cable-car-1328721847/ http://www.jewpi.com/michael-perman-cosmic-chabad-cable-car-1328721847/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:24:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/michael-perman-cosmic-chabad-cable-car-1328721847/ You are cordially invited to add some emptiness to your over-scheduled life. Leave some space for serendipity, novelty and cool things happening that you could not possibly imagine. I tried this last week and had amazing results. Last Thursday was a spectacular day in San Francisco. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/robert-p-jones-ph-d-retiring-old-assumptions-about-religious-people-and-same-sex-marriage-1328721250/ http://www.jewpi.com/robert-p-jones-ph-d-retiring-old-assumptions-about-religious-people-and-same-sex-marriage-1328721250/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:14:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/robert-p-jones-ph-d-retiring-old-assumptions-about-religious-people-and-same-sex-marriage-1328721250/ Recently, Democratic Washington State Senator Mary Margaret Haugen offered evidence that the same-sex marriage debate has moved past the old battle lines between secular proponents and religious foes. Sen. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/abraham-h-foxman-turkeys-dangerous-diplomacy-1328657168/ http://www.jewpi.com/abraham-h-foxman-turkeys-dangerous-diplomacy-1328657168/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:26:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/abraham-h-foxman-turkeys-dangerous-diplomacy-1328657168/ For a number of decades, I have been deeply engaged in promoting close relationships between the United States and Turkey and between Israel and Turkey. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/nataly-kelly-helping-the-world-one-translation-at-a-time-1328651173/ http://www.jewpi.com/nataly-kelly-helping-the-world-one-translation-at-a-time-1328651173/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:46:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/nataly-kelly-helping-the-world-one-translation-at-a-time-1328651173/ It’s that time of year again — time to focus on the good deeds and charitable giving initiatives of the language services industry. How did translation and interpreting companies give back and pay it forward over the past twelve months? Let us count the ways: Helping disseminate linguistic and cultural knowledge. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/charles-karel-bouley-a-win-for-equality-an-embarrassment-to-the-nation-1328648407/ http://www.jewpi.com/charles-karel-bouley-a-win-for-equality-an-embarrassment-to-the-nation-1328648407/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/charles-karel-bouley-a-win-for-equality-an-embarrassment-to-the-nation-1328648407/ Today should be a marvelous day for me as a member of LGBT community living in Long Beach, Calif. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional, in effect ending marriage discrimination in the state. It’s a victory. It’s a triumph. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/julie-a-carlson-review-of-pure-and-interview-with-julianna-baggott-1328647842/ http://www.jewpi.com/julie-a-carlson-review-of-pure-and-interview-with-julianna-baggott-1328647842/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:42 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/julie-a-carlson-review-of-pure-and-interview-with-julianna-baggott-1328647842/ The big trend in fiction, particularly, the young adult market is in dystopian and post-apocalyptic stories. Just look at the popularity of The Hunger Games and its upcoming movie release. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ilene-angel-funny-and-fabulous-a-book-review-of-ali-in-wonderland-1328646648/ http://www.jewpi.com/ilene-angel-funny-and-fabulous-a-book-review-of-ali-in-wonderland-1328646648/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:30:48 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ilene-angel-funny-and-fabulous-a-book-review-of-ali-in-wonderland-1328646648/ It’s odd how things work out. While Ali Wentworth was getting engaged to a Jewish comedy writer in a castle in Ireland, I was trying to meet her then-still-single future husband, George Stephanopoulos. So it was with a tinge of trepidation that I picked up her new memoir, Ali in Wonderland and Other Tall Tales [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/mj-rosenberg-obama-says-u-s-and-israel-march-as-one-1328643969/ http://www.jewpi.com/mj-rosenberg-obama-says-u-s-and-israel-march-as-one-1328643969/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:46:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/mj-rosenberg-obama-says-u-s-and-israel-march-as-one-1328643969/ In his pre-Super Bowl interview on Sunday night, President Obama went farther than ever before in stating his view that U.S. and Israeli interests are identical. Obama even topped Vice President Joe Biden who has repeatedly said that there must be “no daylight, no daylight” between U.S. and Israeli policies. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/govindini-murty-as-egypt-fights-for-democracy-new-documentary-12-revolution-goes-to-the-front-1328641002/ http://www.jewpi.com/govindini-murty-as-egypt-fights-for-democracy-new-documentary-12-revolution-goes-to-the-front-1328641002/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:56:42 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/govindini-murty-as-egypt-fights-for-democracy-new-documentary-12-revolution-goes-to-the-front-1328641002/ As the Egyptian military government prepares to put 19 American employees of pro-democracy NGOs on trial, and thousands of Egyptians continue to demonstrate over the stalling of democratic reforms, the new documentary 1/2 Revolution offers a striking look back at the Egyptian revolution of one year ago. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/michael-s-lofgren-iran-war-drums-beating-1328635814/ http://www.jewpi.com/michael-s-lofgren-iran-war-drums-beating-1328635814/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:30:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/michael-s-lofgren-iran-war-drums-beating-1328635814/ For most of my three-decade career handling national security budgets in Congress, Iran was two or three years away from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/william-bradley-newtonian-motion-the-big-nevada-bust-the-road-ahead-and-the-rise-of-rick-1328633045/ http://www.jewpi.com/william-bradley-newtonian-motion-the-big-nevada-bust-the-road-ahead-and-the-rise-of-rick-1328633045/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:44:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/william-bradley-newtonian-motion-the-big-nevada-bust-the-road-ahead-and-the-rise-of-rick-1328633045/ The bust that was the Nevada Republican presidential caucuses revealed much about brewing Republican swing state problems and the decided limitations of both Mitt Romney’s candidacy and that of his most persistent pursuer, Newt Gingrich. Which in the latest twist may redound to the benefit of the unsung winner of Iowa, Rick Santorum. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/martin-varsavsky-on-managing-my-time-1328632574/ http://www.jewpi.com/martin-varsavsky-on-managing-my-time-1328632574/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:36:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/martin-varsavsky-on-managing-my-time-1328632574/ One of the most frequent questions I get from journalists during interviews is “how do you have time to do everything you do? You run Fon , you are an active angel investor in so many companies, you teach at IE, speak at conferences, run your foundation, and on top of that you have a [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ned-brody-returning-the-favor-learning-to-love-our-parents-unconditionally-1328625965/ http://www.jewpi.com/ned-brody-returning-the-favor-learning-to-love-our-parents-unconditionally-1328625965/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:46:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ned-brody-returning-the-favor-learning-to-love-our-parents-unconditionally-1328625965/ Today is my mother’s birthday. I have just recently begun to end phone calls by telling her that I love her. I’m sure I did it when I was five. It’s the intervening 43 years that were a little quiet. Here’s why I’ve changed: A few months ago I attended the funeral of a good [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/barry-lando-iran-israel-obamas-blindspot-1328575220/ http://www.jewpi.com/barry-lando-iran-israel-obamas-blindspot-1328575220/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:40:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/barry-lando-iran-israel-obamas-blindspot-1328575220/ In the brief interview he gave ABC before the Super Bowl, President Obama declared “I’ve been very clear that we’re going to do everything we can to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and creating an arms race, a nuclear arms race, in a volatile region.” Sounds like a very laudable goal, right. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jenna-weissman-joselit-what-is-jewish-culture-1328574505/ http://www.jewpi.com/jenna-weissman-joselit-what-is-jewish-culture-1328574505/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:28:25 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jenna-weissman-joselit-what-is-jewish-culture-1328574505/ George Gershwin called it Americana. Virgil Thomson called it “gefilte variations,” a snide allusion to gefilte fish, a traditional Jewish foodstuff. Both men were referring to “Porgy and Bess,” which, once again, is enjoying a successful run on Broadway. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bradley-burston-the-only-israel-boycott-thats-actually-working-1328570894/ http://www.jewpi.com/bradley-burston-the-only-israel-boycott-thats-actually-working-1328570894/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:28:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bradley-burston-the-only-israel-boycott-thats-actually-working-1328570894/ History, to take license with John Lennon, is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. Somewhere inside, beneath the air of cheesy royalty, behind the wall of yes men and the armored SUVs of his motorcades, when Benjamin Netanyahu mulls his place in history, he knows what he has to show for [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/mary-j-loftus-advocates-of-sharia-can-learn-from-catholics-and-jews-1328564291/ http://www.jewpi.com/mary-j-loftus-advocates-of-sharia-can-learn-from-catholics-and-jews-1328564291/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:38:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/mary-j-loftus-advocates-of-sharia-can-learn-from-catholics-and-jews-1328564291/ Last week Emory University law professor John Witte, Jr. laid out a bold but reasoned approach on how to accommodate sharia (Islamic law) in the United States and other Western nations — one that protects religious freedom and human rights. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/mohamed-a-el-erian-learning-from-tomorrows-leaders-1328563587/ http://www.jewpi.com/mohamed-a-el-erian-learning-from-tomorrows-leaders-1328563587/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:26:27 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/mohamed-a-el-erian-learning-from-tomorrows-leaders-1328563587/ Have you tried speaking to a group of bright high school students wondering about what the current state of the world means for them and what they should do about it? I am grateful to have done so last week: I ended up gaining insights into how some of tomorrow’s leaders are thinking about the [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/noah-fitzgerel-is-virginia-gods-state-1328538364/ http://www.jewpi.com/noah-fitzgerel-is-virginia-gods-state-1328538364/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:26:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/noah-fitzgerel-is-virginia-gods-state-1328538364/ The following post first appeared as an article in The A-Blast , Annandale High School’s award-winning student newspaper. The Virginia Code is a document of violations. Among them is a violation of students’ religious freedom. At public schools across Virginia, students walk by this violation every morning. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/huffpost-radio-both-sides-now-speaker-moonbeam-vs-gov-gekko-contd-1328498166/ http://www.jewpi.com/huffpost-radio-both-sides-now-speaker-moonbeam-vs-gov-gekko-contd-1328498166/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:16:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/huffpost-radio-both-sides-now-speaker-moonbeam-vs-gov-gekko-contd-1328498166/ By Mark Green The top two Republican presidential competitors continue their bitter Fisher-Spassky contest. Romney wins big in Florida but then adds to his patrician flub reel; Gingrich gives a non-concession speech and shares the date of his moon-colony, to be given statehood ahead of D.C. and Puerto Rico. *On Gingrich’s Viability. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/james-zogby-dealing-with-iran-1328385965/ http://www.jewpi.com/james-zogby-dealing-with-iran-1328385965/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:06:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/james-zogby-dealing-with-iran-1328385965/ If we are to believe what we are hearing and reading from a variety of confirmed and unconfirmed sources, in Israel and the U.S., some day in the next few months we may wake up to the news that Israel has bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities. Or maybe not. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/james-zogby-dealing-with-iran-1328384764/ http://www.jewpi.com/james-zogby-dealing-with-iran-1328384764/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:46:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/james-zogby-dealing-with-iran-1328384764/ If we are to believe what we are hearing and reading from a variety of confirmed and unconfirmed sources, in Israel and the U.S., some day in the next few months we may wake up to the news that Israel has bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities. Or maybe not. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ruth-eglash-should-israel-make-paying-for-sex-a-criminal-offense-1328384294/ http://www.jewpi.com/ruth-eglash-should-israel-make-paying-for-sex-a-criminal-offense-1328384294/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:38:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ruth-eglash-should-israel-make-paying-for-sex-a-criminal-offense-1328384294/ In just over a week, Israeli lawmakers will be faced with a tough decision: Whether to approve legislation that will make paying for sex or utilizing any other type of sexual service a criminal offense. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/rochelle-jewel-shapiro-rock-on-madonna-1328383689/ http://www.jewpi.com/rochelle-jewel-shapiro-rock-on-madonna-1328383689/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:28:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/rochelle-jewel-shapiro-rock-on-madonna-1328383689/ In 1990, I had no idea who Madonna was. I was 43 years-old and the last time I had taken an interest in pop music was when I used to watch Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and learn the latest songs such as “Earth Angel” and dance crazes like the Slop and the Frug from the [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/christopher-p-scheitle-a-road-trip-across-americas-religious-landscape-photos-1328367014/ http://www.jewpi.com/christopher-p-scheitle-a-road-trip-across-americas-religious-landscape-photos-1328367014/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:50:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/christopher-p-scheitle-a-road-trip-across-americas-religious-landscape-photos-1328367014/ People have long lamented the homogenization of American culture, and some might be tempted to extend this narrative to American religion. After all, like chain stores, the ubiquitous signs of Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and other “typical” churches found in almost all American towns give an illusion of homogeneity. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/chris-weigant-friday-talking-points-poor-mitt-1328324534/ http://www.jewpi.com/chris-weigant-friday-talking-points-poor-mitt-1328324534/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:02:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/chris-weigant-friday-talking-points-poor-mitt-1328324534/ Well, that was a pretty good week, at least seen from the Democratic perspective. Mitt Romney, frontrunner for the Republican nomination, announced he wasn’t too worried about poor people. Maybe it would be fun to see Romney debate Joe Biden, just because nobody would know what to expect from either of them. Heh. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/elisha-goldstein-ph-d-how-to-break-free-from-the-addictive-fix-1328315772/ http://www.jewpi.com/elisha-goldstein-ph-d-how-to-break-free-from-the-addictive-fix-1328315772/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:36:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/elisha-goldstein-ph-d-how-to-break-free-from-the-addictive-fix-1328315772/ Addictive behaviors are universal. According to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, abuse of alcohol and illicit drugs costs the United States upwards of $400 billion annually. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/dan-gottlieb-ph-d-after-trauma-why-me-1328315044/ http://www.jewpi.com/dan-gottlieb-ph-d-after-trauma-why-me-1328315044/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/dan-gottlieb-ph-d-after-trauma-why-me-1328315044/ I recently received an email from a mother of a disabled child. And like almost anyone who experiences trauma, she continually asks: “Why me?” But somehow she knew this question only made her feel worse, she wanted to know when I stopped asking myself that question. Read More »]]> 0