Mass murder at the shul in Squirrel Hill
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER When asked to review Mark Oppenheimer’s book about the killings at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, ...
Tag: American Jews
Study: One in six Jews are new to Judaism
The Pew Research Center has released its 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study; here are 10 interesting findings from those who ...
Do Jews deserve a nation at all?
Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict, by John B. Judis, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 432 ...
Local Jewish community reacts to 1967 Six-Day War
The front page of the June 9, 1967 edition of the American Jewish World focused on support for Israel during ...
Saving Israel from itself
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER J Street supporters probably will like Peter Beinart’s The Crisis of Zionism a lot. The rest ...
Oren decries Tom Friedman reference to 'Israel lobby'
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel's U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren said New York Times columnist Tom Friedman "strengthened a dangerous myth" when ...
Young cartoonist reflects on a Birthright Israel trip
Some critics have sarcastically referred to Birthright Israel, the free Jewish youth trip to Israel, as “Brainwash Israel.” That typifies ...
How goes it with the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks?
By RONKAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — For Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Jewish leaders, their second date featured a little more substance ...
Kagan sworn in as Supreme Court justice
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administers the constitutional oath to Elena Kagan in the justices' conference room as Jeffrey ...
Republican National Committee chairman blasts Obama administration's relations with Israel
Think Progress posted a video of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele addressing a "right-wing pro-Israeli settler" rally on May ...
