Conflicted On The Quad
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor When Natan Sharansky, the ex-Soviet refusenik turned hard-line Israeli cabinet minister, visited several local universities here last month, he brought a pointed...
View ArticleDual Loyalty And The New Republic
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor Eric Alterman, the media analyst, has always been sensitive, touchy even, on the question of “dual loyalty,” the belief that somewhere an anti-Semite is keeping tabs on...
View ArticleWhat Will The World Say? Don’t Ask
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor It’s all up in flames—-our reconciliation with the world, with the church, with the Palestinians. Yossi Klein Halevi writes in The Los Angeles Times (April 8) that all...
View ArticlePotiphar’s Wife & The Spiritual
Friday, July 11th, 2008History is written by the winners, and so is the Torah. Korach is depicted as a bad guy, when an honest reading of the last three-and-a-half books of the Torah suggest that Moses...
View ArticleMKs Out For Blood Over Prof’s ‘Libel’ Book
by Michele Chabin Israel Correspondent JERUSALEM — Ariel Toaff may have backed off his explosive claim in a just-published book that European Jews killed Christians to use their blood — adding...
View Article‘A Biography Of The Israeli Dream’
by Joshua Mitnick Israel Correspondent Jerusalem — The summer of 1967 in Israel is recalled universally as a time of euphoria and romance for a country in the afterglow of a stunning military...
View ArticleEnemies Of The State
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor Israelis fear ‘Obama’s intifada,’ return of the bad days.Death is closing in. Jerusalem is ready to blow. A genocidal bomb is being built in Iran, and an intifada is...
View ArticleJerusalem, The Mundane City
Martin Raffel Special To The Jewish Week Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu received a standing ovation at the recent AIPAC conference when he declared, “Jerusalem is not a settlement. It’s our...
View ArticleMedia Roundup: After The Flotilla, Cracks On The Right?
Jonathan Mark Associate Editor Some chilling words, even from Israel’s friends. There was a time when Jews trusted “the world’s” good sense. Former Israel Chief Rabbi Meir Lau, a child in the...
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