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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, but made clear it had no intention of reversing the order that has cast a shadow over the latest U.S. push for Mideast peace. Read More »
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MJ Rosenberg: AIPAC Goes On Iran War Path Bigtime
AIPAC comes to town next week for its massive pro-Israel rally and it is already letting Congress know what it main demand will be. This is from today’s JTA, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Read More »
Mya Guarnieri: On the eve of Passover, Israel has forgotten it is a Jewish state
Pesach is right around the corner. And while Israel will go through the motions of the holiday, it won’t reach the spirit of Passover. Why? Israel has lost its moral compass. I’m not talking about Gaza, the Occupation, or 1948, although the expulsion of the Palestinians is where Israel’s steps first foundered. Read More »
Michael Mukasey Slams Liz Cheney’s ‘Shoddy And Dangerous’ Logic In WSJ Op-Ed
Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday attacking Liz Cheney’s “Al-Qaida 7 ” logic as “shoddy and dangerous. Read More »
Amy Goodman: Rachel Corrie’s (posthumous) Day in Court
An unusual trial begins in Israel this week that people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer. Read More »
Leon T. Hadar: Victory in Iraq at Last (Not!)
Many neoconservatives and the politicians and pundits who love them have abandoned the we’ve-turned-the-corner-in-Iraq story plot – or the-next-six-months-will-prove-critical-in-Iraq expectation game – a long time ago. Read More »
MJ Rosenberg: Netanyahu Disses Biden Who Praises Him As Peacemaker
What a surprise. Vice President Biden is in Israel and, right in front of him, the Israeli government announces 1,600 new settler housing units. Biden is in Israel to kick off indirect negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. Of course, as the Washington Post pointed out in an editorial today , this could be seen as “a step backward… Read More »
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Moral Cowardice and the Third Reich: The Legacy of Pius XII
Of late it’s been a tough time for those working to prevent genocide. Darfur has been off the world’s radar screen for months. Then there’s the poor Armenians. It wasn’t enough that 1.5 million were murdered in a genocide perpetrated by the Ottomon Turks during the First World War. Read More »
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination: The New York City Connection
The New York Observer : On Tuesday, Feb. 23, a sturdy and completely bald Israeli named Yuval Tal was in Las Vegas’ Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, where the nightly entertainment includes the Chippendales and Penn & Teller. Mr. Read More »
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: There Was Only One Holocaust: Why the Misuse of Political Language Matters
California Attorney General, Jerry Brown, who is seeking to return to the Governor’s office in Sacramento, has shown he can take care of himself in the rough and tumble of the political arena, dating back to the days when some critics dubbed him, “Governor Moonbeam” in the 1970s. Read More »
David Shasha: Moses Maimonides: Arab Jew, Religious Humanist
In informal discussions with people, I often shock them when I relate the simple fact that Jewish rabbis spoke Arabic and lived in the Arab-Muslim world. Read More »
James McGrath Morris: Pulitzer: A Lost World Where Words Mattered
In this world of Twittering and blogging, I have been dashing across the country telling stories about a lost world of journalism where the word reigned supreme and the medium was not the message; the message was. The receptive audience I have found may be a healthy sign that not all is so bleak. Read More »
Mia Kirshner: Women: The Oil That Turns the Wheels for ‘I Live Here’
This post was written with contributions from Erica Solomon and Judy Battaglia, both directors for the I Live Here foundation. Mia Kirshner: The oil that turns the wheels of I Live Here Projects are women who volunteer for I Live Here . The projects are a series of book anthologies about human rights abuses all over the world. Read More »
Chris Weigant: Fred Phelps’ Hatemongering And The First Amendment
Fred Phelps is a hatemonger. On this, there is no question. It’s actually about the most polite way to describe what Phelps’ perceived mission in life drives him to do and say. Read More »
Arianna Huffington: Is Undercover Boss the Most Subversive Show on Television?
Is reality TV finally living up to its name? Most of what we are served up under that rubric is actually the farthest thing from reality. The exploits of Snooki, Jake the Bachelor, and all those Real Housewives hardly reflect life as most of America knows it and lives it. Read More »
Qanta Ahmed, MD: In Search of the Moderate Muslim: It Takes an Ummah
Recently, I attended the burial of an important friend. My friend was a Rabbi. Rabbi Avner Bergman was an extraordinary guide and, even though I am Muslim, I considered him to be my very own Rabbi. Read More »
Ruth Messinger: Empowering Women: Taking the Fight Global
March is Women’s History Month in the United States – a time when Americans take a long look at our often uncomfortable history, acknowledge the significant progress we’ve made, honor the women and men who helped push women’s issues to the forefront. Read More »
Joshua Stanton: Seminaries Shack Up: The Trend Towards Multi-Faith
Even before the financial crisis, many seminaries were in trouble. Donations were down, tuitions were up, and the news they most often made was not positive. When the crisis hit, rumors abounded that they might be down for the count. Some might well be. But others have responded in an ingenious way: institutional intermarriage. Read More »
Michael Hughes: Who Made U.S. Judge and Jury of Armenian Genocide?
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, brazenly displaying a combination of meretricious arrogance, political expediency and historical amnesia, voted to recognize Ottoman Turkey’s 1915 ruthless massacre of over one million ethnic Armenians as “genocide”. Read More »
US: Israel, Palestinians Agree To Indirect Talks
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Monday that Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to indirect peace talks brokered by U.S. special Mideast envoy George Mitchell. Read More »
Ziad J. Asali, M.D.: My Testimony at Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
TESTIMONY OF DR. ZIAD J. ASALI President, American Task Force on Palestine U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) March 4, 2010 Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank you and the Committee’s esteemed members for the privilege of testifying before you. Read More »
Gail Straub: The Interior of Empowerment: Reason to Feel Proud as We Celebrate the Centennial of …
Today we mark the centennial anniversary of International Women’s Day, although we still have a long way to go, there is cause for celebration. Read More »
Daoud Kuttab: The People of Gaza and a Reporter: Victims of the NY Times’ Stubbornness
The people of Gaza appear to have been the recent victims of the arrogance (or what some believe to be the bias) of the NY Times . The stubbornness of Bill Keller, the executive editor of the NY Times , in refusing to relocate his Jerusalem reporter has caused a considerable drop in the paper’s coverage of Gaza. Read More »
Berlotte Israel: Building Back Better: A New Future for Haiti’s Women
Hundreds of thousands of Haitian families are sleeping on the streets of Port-au-Prince. Each night, women rock their babies to sleep, hush their children, and try to rest. Many nights, worries keep these women awake: the children are hungry; the rains are coming; the baby is sick. In this broken city, women also fear violence. Read More »
Ronan Tynan, Yankees Tenor Accused Of Anti-Semitism, Moving To Boston
NEW YORK — Irish tenor Ronan Tynan says he’s leaving New York for Boston because he hasn’t been able to find work in the months since a woman accused him of making an anti-Semitic remark. Read More »
Chris Matthews In Middle East To Interview Joe Biden
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is traveling to the Middle East to interview Vice President Joe Biden this week. The interview will take place in Jerusalem on Tuesday, when Matthews plans to discuss Biden’s trip to the region and the administration’s domestic agenda with the Vice President. Read More »
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Lessons from the IDF in Haiti: Opportunities in Global Health Diplomacy for the …
The Talmud describes Jews as rachmanim b’nei rachmanim : a compassionate people who are sensitive to human suffering. They are unable to sit by and ignore the terrible drama of human misery. Instead, they get up and do something about it. Read More »
Oscar Winners 2010: See Who Took Home The Oscars
LOS ANGELES — Christoph Waltz won the supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for his role as a sociable fiend of a Nazi in “Inglourious Basterds,” while the blockbuster “Up” was named best animated feature. Read More »
Ami Kaufman: Netanyahu’s Right Is My Wrong
One of the most common slogans used by Israeli left-wingers is “the occupation corrupts”. Meaning, it corrupts Israeli society – and even more importantly, it corrupts Israeli democracy. Read More »
David Harris: How Not to Advance Arab-Israeli Peace
Throughout his life, one of Yasser Arafat’s favorite themes was that there was no historical Jewish connection to Israel. He would assert that there never was a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, that the Western Wall has no Jewish significance, and even that Abraham himself wasn’t a Jew. Read More »