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To say the implementation of President Donald Trump’s travel ban was clumsy would be an understatement. To say, however, that the principles involved were totally without constitutional …
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Commentary by Abraham Miller
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2/8/17
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There are all kinds of sayings reminding us that if we fail to learn from the tragedies of the past, we are doomed to relive them in the future. We appear to have failed to heed that …
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Commentary by Albert L. Kramer
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2/8/17
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Camp HASC was feted during a Shabbaton last weekend in West Hempstead, with events held at the community’s four shuls — the Young Israel of West Hempstead, Chabad of West Hempstead, Eitz …
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By Celia Weintrob
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2/8/17
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Despite the rainy weather and the fact that 17-year-old Peri Finkelstein is on life support and generally confined to a wheelchair, she went the distance last week, walking the last mile of the Chai …
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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2/8/17
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In the midst of the upheaval regarding President Trump’s travel pause, there was one Trump action that received little news coverage and what it did get was unfairly negative …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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2/8/17
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AMONA — In a dramatic clash with residents of this hilltop outpost, the state seemed to have won.
Over two sometimes violent days, security forces evacuated the residents, along with …
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By Andrew Tobin, JTA
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2/8/17
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Each year the American Israel Public Affairs Committee partners with select Jewish day schools, synagogues, national youth groups and teen leadership organizations to bring 400 student leaders from …
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DRS
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2/8/17
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Late last month, on the eve of Black History Month, a delegation of African-American journalists landed in Ghana to cover international development projects …
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By Shimon Mercer-Wood, Spokesperson and consul for media affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York
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2/8/17
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JERUSALEM — The United States refused to comment on Israel’s passage of a bill that retroactively legalizes settler homes built on private Palestinian land, saying the Trump …
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JTA
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2/8/17
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t. Col. (Res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Israeli scholar of Arabic culture, lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and a research associate of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, was the featured …
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2/8/17
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