November 12, 2007

Palestinian 'cultural exchange' backfires in Connecticut

Bob Fishman, executive director of the Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut (JFACT) in Hartford, sent an email to me and others late Friday with an invitation to watch an interview on ABC local news affiliate WNTH TV 8 in New Haven. The email...

July 9, 2007

The Real Tzipi Livni

The Sunday New York Times Magazine on July 8th published a cover piece on Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni "Her Jewish State" by International Herald Tribune and New York Times writer Roger Cohen. Colleagues urged me to read it.  ...

May 10, 2007

The War on Terror Comes to Cherry Hill

Cherry Hill, New Jersey is an upper middle class Philadelphia suburb across the Delaware River bridges in Camden County.  Camden itself is ranked  the ‘most dangerous city' in the U.S.  But Cherry Hill is ranked 47th by Money Mag...

June 16, 2006

Divest Hate

On June 14th a doughty band of Israel divestment protesters organized by StandWithUs and the American Jewish Congress stood outside the Northern Trust building in Chicago, rebutting another group of Israel divestment advocates at the annual sharehold...

June 29, 2005

Gaza Disengagement: Balagan

Balagan is a slangy Hebrew word, derived from Russian, used by the Israel Defense Forces to describe what is happening with Sharon's Gaza disengagement strategy: 'chaos; a screw up!' It is less than 60 days before the 8000 residents of more than 20 v...