By David M. Weinberg The pious spiritual claptrap that characterizes J Street’s conference in Washington this week is both a conceit and a new form of Jewish apostasy. Conference speakers earnestly broadcast their “profound” Jewish and “spiritual” identities in order to besmirch the mainstream Jewish community and engender a distancing in US-Israel relations. This certainly […]

by Jamie Weinstein While covering J-Street’s first annual national conference over the last three days, I think I recognized one of 1,000-plus attendees from television. Proudly wearing a Code Pink t-shirt, the woman was handing out cards advertising a December 31 march to “break the illegal Gaza siege.” If I am right in my recollection, […]

The ‘post-partisan’ president makes an enemies list By Charles Krauthammer Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he’s put a horse’s head in Roger Ailes’s bed. Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn’t scare easily. The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director […]

By: Cheryl Halpern Recent Palestinian riots in Jerusalem’s Old City, combined with Palestinian claims that Israel is trying to “Judaize” Jerusalem, are part of a coordinated effort to deny Israel its long-held claim to the city as its eternal and undivided capital. Sadly, American foreign policy encourages the Palestinians to continue with their revisionist fantasies. […]

by David Lev (Israelnationalnews.com) Jews have a right to worship freely on the Temple Mount, says Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, head of the Yeshivat Hesder in Petach Tikvah. But they have more than a right to worship there, he says: They have a need to do so, because the Temple Mount – where the Holy Temple […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), following Egypt’s barring of Israeli cancer researchers from attending a program and workshops in Alexandria (reversed by Egypt at the eleventh hour after protest), has pointed to this being but the latest in a long series of Egyptian anti-peace, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish acts. Israeli researchers had been barred from […]

Clear & Present Danger to the West Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #228 Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” Oct. 23, 2009 http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/newspaper.asp 1. Jihad (Holy War) has been a cardinal feature of Islam since the 7th century. It constitutes a clear & present danger to Western democracies, irrespective of the Arab-Israeli conflict, independent of the Palestinian […]

by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe October 14, 2009 http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6418/peace-vs-the-peace-process NOTE: This column is available through the New York Times Syndicate. For permission to reprint it, please contact pearsmh@nytimes.com or call 800-535-4425. “WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY,” the late Irving Kristol once observed, “they first tempt to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.” Maybe “destroy” was putting […]

By ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support […]

by Yoram Ettinger Special To The Jewish Week The all-time record of daily Jewish births at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, set on Sept. 21, reflects the substantial rise in Israel’s Jewish fertility. Delivery rooms are functioning at 100 percent capacity. Anyone claiming that Jews are doomed to become a minority between the Jordan River and […]