Scholars Debate ‘Israel Lobby’ Article

FORWARD — October 6, 2006
John Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago professor who co-authored a controversial article last winter about the power of the “The Israel Lobby,” met his critics head-on last week for a debate before a rowdy audience on the stage of New York’s historic Cooper Union. It was a vigorous exchange, replete with [...]

50 Years Later a World of Holocaust Memories is Exposed

JERUSALEM POST — April 14, 2006
For most Holocaust survivors coping with life after the war meant forgetting the past placing the memories of lost people and places in a metaphorical box and leaving it shut.
This was what Sala Garncarz did. After five years in seven different labor camps and losing her parents and much of [...]

Leftist US Jews: Election Results Vindicate Mitzna

JERUSALEM POST — April 2, 2006
Hope might be too strong a word to describe the sentiment Tuesday evening at the New York headquarters of the New Israel Fund an organization that supports social justice and coexistence programs in Israel.
However for the few dozen supporters of the Israeli left who gathered to watch the election [...]

Jewish Senator Bids For US Presidency

JERUSALEM POST — March 21, 2006
Russell Feingold the Democratic senator from Wisconsin immediately raised his public profile here this past week when he stood up in Congress demanding that President George W. Bush be censured over his domestic eavesdropping program which Feingold considers illegal.
His proposal – a congressional action that has only been used once [...]

Meretz the Winner…At Queens College, TA University

JERUSALEM POST — March 21, 2006
Meretz may not win more than a few seats in the March 28 elections but at Queens College last week the social democratic party’s campaign to gain new first-time voters had an entire room of American Jewish college students giggling.
The mailer which asks, “Are you ready for your first time?” [...]

Jewish Theological Seminary Students Struggle With Movement’s Delay On Gay Rabbis Marriage

JERUSALEM POST — March 12, 2006
The flyer with Jay Michaelson’s young, serious face underneath the word “MISSING” lay on a table at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the premier rabbinical school for the Conservative Judaism movement in America.
Michaelson, as the leaflet explained, is a graduate student in religious studies at the Hebrew University, a writer [...]

Hillary Clinton Tells Supporters of Bar-Ilan that Hamas Must Be Isolated

JERUSALEM POST — March 7, 2006
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton dressed in cap and gown and saying her mother always wanted a doctor accepted an honorary degree from Bar-Ilan University Sunday night.
The ceremony was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan.Some 300 people attended the black-tie evening marking the university’s 50th anniversary.

The Personal Allure of Religion

JERUSALEM POST — March 3, 2006
What would make someone like Allan Leicht – a successful Emmy-award winning television producer of the sitcom Kate and Allie and a typically non-religious American Jew – suddenly decide in the middle of his life to start keeping kosher praying three times a day studying Torah and resting on Shabbat?
Was [...]

Anti-Semitism Suspected In Brooklyn Murder

JERUSALEM POST –  March 1, 2006
A member of the Lubavitch community of Crown Heights Brooklyn was shot to death in his car Monday night.
It is unclear whether the incident was anti-Semitic in nature. The local Jewish Community Council has offered a reward of $ 10 0 for any information that leads to the arrest and [...]

The Bukharans Are Coming

JERUSALEM POST — February 24, 2006
A giant map of Israel covered the wall behind Rabbi Michael Borochov as he sat last week in his office at Beit Gavriel a Bukharan-Jewish community center in Forest Hills Queens. A thick blanket of snow covered the ground outside but it was Israel that was on his mind both [...]