Why Jewish and Muslim communities in the U.S. need each other
By MAHDI WARSAMA The Dec. 14 mass shooting in Australia by hateful individuals targeting a Jewish Hanuka celebration at Bondi ...
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Editorial: Perhaps January will be better
To paraphrase a Judith Viorst book title, December was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month. Where to start? ...
9/11-style response needed to fight white supremacists, Jewish security officials say
By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — After a white supremacist gunman murdered 22 people in El Paso, Tex., Jewish groups ...
Judaism and the Western Wall
Local Jewish federations issue a misguided call to protest Muslim efforts to change the status of the Western Wall By ...
Jews and cartoonists
Killing Jews does not provoke the same surprise as killing cartoonists in the heart of Paris By BRUNO CHAOUAT In ...
Editorial: Je suis Charlie?
Jews in France did not have a good year, in 2014. And 2015 is shaping up to be much worse. ...
German lawmakers propose ban on infant circumcision
BERLIN (JTA) — Some 50 lawmakers in Germany have signed on to a proposal that would bar ritual circumcision for ...
German court mulls charges against rabbi for performing circumcisions
In May, a German court found that non-medical circumcision of a minor is a criminal act BERLIN (JTA) — A ...
Editorial: Shades of ‘Tail-Gunner Joe’
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines “McCarthyism” as a “mid-20th century political attitude characterized chiefly by opposition to elements held to ...
Which post-9/11 world do you want to live in?
The 'post-9/11 world' is really two worlds of attitude and action By AMY EILBERG Amidst the din of political speech ...
