The Foreign Minister of Slovakia, Miroslav Lajcak, has told the Jerusalem Post that several European countries changed their votes on the Goldstone Report in the United Nations General Assembly on Friday because they believe that Israel is responsible... 

I just read Rabbi Arik Ascherman’s recent post , which describes the scene on the ground in Sheikh Jarakh. My first response, sadness and anger. After that, I’m just left thinking of the insanity of a settlement movement that is not just... 

Two weeks ago, a group of 13 rabbinical students, rabbis, Jewish educators and lay-leaders who spent time in Hebron invited their communities to examine the conflict there by delivering divrei Torah on Parshat Chayei Sarah. Their audiences included... 

In a deal that has been in the works since the spring, the Canadian Embassy in Venezuela is now handling Israeli consular affairs as well. The history: “Venezuela expelled the Israeli ambassador and embassy staff, and severed relations with the... 

Isaac Zablocki is the director of The Israel Film Center at the JCC in Manhattan and Executive Director of The Other Israel Film Festival .  When we at the Other Israel Film Festival announced the screening of Mohammed Bakri’s latest documentary Zahara... 

Rabbi Danny Gordis’ column from last week’s Jerusalem Post says that if you struggle with your relationship to the State of Israel, it’s probably because you’re individualistic and self-centered. Many of us disagreed. Shalom Rav... 

Eastern European Jewry up to the great migration, with Professor Natan M. Meir, will be discussed at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State, on Monday, November 9. Doors open at 7pm and the program begins at 7.30pm at the Stroum Jewish Community... 

I have a dear friend in another part of Jerusalem, who is a few years younger than I am, who tells me that despite all the years that have passed since our youth, every time he says Havdalah – the service that officially ends the Sabbath and begins... 

‘Moderate’ ‘Palestinian’ President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen told US Secretary of State Clinton and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell in Abu Dhabi on Saturday that the ‘Palestinians’ will not resume ‘negotiations’... 

Florida International University is now publishing a new Journal for the Study of Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry ; the call for papers is out for the Winter 2009 edition. It is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project which draws upon the expertise of leading...