Prophets, protectors, and the pro-Israel divide
February 8, 2012
The discourse about Israel — that conducted by those who see themselves as Israel’s friends — seems to come in either of two varieties. Read More
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When a free press shackles reasonable debate
February 8, 2012
Israel’s media operate technologically in the 21st century, but their content sometimes resembles a weekly local paper in pre-television, small-town America. Read More
Israel’s alarm over Iran: alarmist or prescient?
February 1, 2012
The Strait of Hormuz is the latest hotspot related to Iran’s drive to obtain nuclear weapons. The strait is the major maritime link between the oil-rich Persian Gulf region and the rest of the world. Read More
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Bigotry under the umbrella of a great university
February 1, 2012
The University of Pennsylvania is a great school and I loved it there. I studied with superb professors, learned from excellent classmates, and grew from the many outstanding opportunities presented to me at Penn. But now, instead of standing up to hatred and bigotry, the university risks sacrificing its intellectual honesty and academic integrity. Read More
Newt and Bibi: Two peas at a podium?
January 25, 2012
Hard as it may be to believe, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have a lot in common as political actors. Unfortunately for both of them, that may not be very flattering. Read More
Islamist movements cast shadow over Egypt
January 25, 2012
The Muslim Brotherhood did not initiate the current upheavals in the Middle East, but the Islamist parties in Egypt, as in Tunisia and Libya, have been the chief beneficiaries of the collapse of longstanding authoritarian repressive regimes across North Africa. Read More
Dire straits: America’s addiction to foreign oil
January 24, 2012
The United States is confronting a looming crisis in the Persian Gulf. Iran, its economy hurting from international sanctions aimed at thwarting its nuclear ambitions, threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz should the West place a full embargo on Iranian oil. Read More
Standing up for Zionism and the rule of law
January 17, 2012
Those of us alive in the 1950s will never forget the scene in which a little black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, was escorted into her newly desegregated school while a large crowd of whites shouted profanities and hurled missiles in her direction. Read More
Rethinking gun control in out-of-control times
January 17, 2012
The news from northern New Jersey this week was not good. Several Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices were thrown at Congregation Beth El in Rutherford early on the morning of Jan. 11, igniting a fire in the second-floor bedroom of the rabbi’s residence above the synagogue. Read More
Waking up to Iran’s assaults on human rights
January 12, 2012
UN member states put Iranian human rights abuses front and center by endorsing two new reports — one by Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, the other by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Read More
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