Category: Opinion

By Keith Dvorchik , Special to JTNews I read with dismay the opinion piece "Why Birthright Israel is hafuch" by Rabbi Aaron Meyer, published Thu

By Abraham H. Foxman , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—Nelson Mandela will always be remembered as a symbol of courageous resistan

By Steven M. Cohen and Kerry Olitzky , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—Right now, there is just one way for someone who is not Jew

By Harold Berman , JTA World News Service EFRAT, West Bank (JTA)—The reputable car dealer's advertisement in the local paper screams &am

By Edwin Black , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — As the current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks flounder and seek to regain mo

By Donniel Hartman , The Shalom Hartman Institute Facts rarely shape or change our opinions. We prefer to select the facts that mirror and justif

By Abby J. Leibman , Special to JTNews On Sept. 19, the House of Representatives passed a bill that slashes nearly $40 billion from the Supplement

By Ron Kampeas , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — The good news for Israel in President Obama's speech at the United Nations was his ins

By Knate Stahl , Special to JTNews I live in a senior-housing complex in Seattle. Many of the residents are Jewish. Each Saturday my wife and I co

By Jacob Kamaras , JNS.org On June 1, 2010, the day after the Gaza flotilla incident in which nine Turkish militants were killed after attacking I

By Steven Blum , Special to JTNews When I found out David Irving, noted anti-Semite, Holocaust denier, and widely discredited "historian" was co

By Marvin Stern , Special to JTNews My father Klaus Stern died on May 12. Sitting in the hospital with him those last 12 days I was constantly fo

By Donniel Hartman , Shalom Hartman Institute Dear President Abbas: The new administration in Washington has brought to our neighborhood a Secre

By Marc Schneier , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is correct to describe a new proposal by the Arab L

By Edith Shaked , Special to JTNews The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), should amend the "Proclamation of the Days of Remembranc

By Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews This past July, a bomb went off in Burgas, Bulgaria, murdering five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus dr

By Ben Cohen , JNS.org WASHINGTON, DC—The razzmatazz at this year's AIPAC policy conference couldn't quite mute the background murmurs about the o

By Hen Mazzig , Special to JTNews I had been in Seattle and the U.S. only a few days when I heard that Palestinian Iyad Burnat, brother of the fil

By Eitan Isaacson and Wendy Elisheva Somerson , Special to JTNews On Sun., Jan. 13, the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, with Students U

By Abraham H. Foxman , Special to JTNews It is fitting that the United Nations, as part of the international commemoration of the Holocaust on Ja