Vilification Has No Place In Debates On Israel
Rabbi Andy Bachman Special To the Jewish Week When our Brooklyn synagogue recently hosted two former State Department veterans, Elliot Abrams and Robert Malley, a few congregants and even a local...
View ArticleNew Outposts Built In West Bank
JTA Settlements First To Have Municipal Approval Since 2005 Two new settler outposts have been erected in the West Bank, with the approval of municipal authorities, Peace Now says. The two outposts...
View ArticleTim Boxer At Yossi Klein Halevi Speech
Tim Boxer Jewish Week Online Columnist Yossi Klein Halevi made aliyah from the U.S. at the start of the Lebanon war in August 1982. That was a time when the country was defined by a right-wing...
View ArticlePeace Now: Israel Advanced About 14,000 West Bank Apartments During Talks
JTA JERUSALEM — Israel promoted plans and tenders for nearly 14,000 housing units in the West Bank during the nine months of peace talks, the activist group Peace Now said.read more
View ArticleA Bold Voice For Social Justice
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Remembering Leonard Fein, co-founder of Moment magazine and a ‘true progressive visionary.’ At a seminar hosted about two decades ago by the American Jewish Committee for...
View ArticleIsrael Announces Re-Issuing Of Settlement Housing Tenders
JTA Israel’s Housing Ministry reissued tenders for the construction of 450 housing units in the West Bank.read more
View ArticleAfter Iran Deal Battle, Unity Declared By 53 Jewish Groups
JTA Washington — More than 50 Jewish groups signed a statement saying that despite differences over the Iran nuclear deal, the community was united about the dangers Iran poses.read more
View ArticleJewish Groups Split In Reaction To EU Labeling Guidelines
JTA Jerusalem — Jewish organizations praised and condemned the European Union’s decision to approve the labeling of products from West Bank settlements.read more
View ArticleState Department Raps Israel For West Bank Land ‘Expropriation’
JTA Jerusalem — The State Department criticized Israel for the “expropriation” of West Bank land around Jericho and near the Dead Sea.read more
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