Middle East – The Jewish Federation Community News (formerly Jewish Sound)

March 11, 20150

Middle Eastern women use International Women’s Day to call for more rights

By Hanna Rais, The Media Line In Afghanistan, dozens of men marched through the streets wearing head-to-toe sky-blue burkas to show their identific

January 8, 20150

Op-Ed: HarperCollins must not contribute to delegitimization of Israel

By Daniel S. Mariaschin, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Before the HarperCollins Middle East atlas story is deleted from email inboxes,

September 3, 20140

Steven Sotloff sounded the unanswered alarm about ISIS

By Felice Friedson, The Media Line “As the international media is fixated on the struggle between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood, few repo

August 14, 20140

Local prof tackles the shifting sands of the Middle East

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Interested in knowing more about why there’s a war against Hamas in Gaza? Where ISIS came from and how

June 25, 20140

Netanyahu addresses Presbyterian church divestment

Last Friday, June 22, the Presbyterian church announced its intentions to divest from companies that do business with Israel in the West Bank. Several

February 12, 20140

A safe space for difficult discussions

Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Considering some of the most recent and nasty publicity surrounding the boycott, divestment and sanctions effort