Category: Opinion

By Rabbi Anson Laytner , Special to JTNews On one side of the road were three young demonstrators holding signs saying "Pro-Israel, pro-Palestine

By Ron Kampeas , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — For some relief from the misery of Israel's south and Gaza, here's a joke from the seco

By Dr. Rafael Medoff , Special to JTNews The recent Time magazine cover depicting Barack Obama as a Franklin D. Roosevelt lookalike dramatically

By Noah S. Friedland, Ph.D. , Special to JTNews Since the dust settled after the Six Day War, the main tenet of the Arab-Israeli peace process ha

By Amy Hirshberg Lederman , Special to JTNews I was in the fourth grade, hiding in the girl's bathroom with Fran Schneider, when the loudspeaker

By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews I'm often asked this question by other Jews: "You seem to be a nice guy and reasonably intelligent — how can

By Deborah E. Lipstadt , JTA World News Service ATLANTA (JTA) — I am one of those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling. I was a Hillary support

By Murray Meld , Special to JTNews Both presidential aspirants agree: Let's get out of the Iraq debacle. But they differ as to how and when — and

By David Benkof , Special to JTNews Jews often complain that prayer is boring. Young people resist going to synagogue — and older people drift aw

By David Rosen , JTA News & Features MADRID (JTA) — When King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced his intention some three months ago to reach

By Sen. Adam Kline , Special to JTNews One of the biggest warning signs surrounding Initiative 97, the "Divest from War and Occupation" measure,

By Richard Silverstein , Special to JTNews The debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about to heat up considerably here in Seattle. Pea

By David Shayne , Special to JTNews The last JTNews featured an article about Norman Finkelstein's participation in local "Naqba" observances. Wh

By Raffi Wineburg , Special to JTNews What is education? To some, to many, to me, it used to mean no more than a desk and a textbook. Education di

By Rabbi Moshe Kletenik , JTA News & Features SEATTLE (JTA) — We are all too familiar with the stories. Someone who for his entire life consid

By Rabbi Marc Angel and Rabbi Avraham Weiss , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — The Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Rabbinical Council o

By Ami Eden , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Barack Obama has spent months fending off successive waves of highly misleading and outrigh

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews That members of the West Seattle Torah Learning Center sent Judge George Holifield 100 letters in support of Ra

By Rabbi Richard Toban , Seattle Kollel In this past week's Torah portion, the Talmud (Megillah 10b) tells us that during the miracles at the Spli

By Dov Burt Levy , Special to JTNews Jewish angles in the presidential primaries? Here's my take, so far. First, what a difference four years make