By Stuart Appelbaum (This article first appeared in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal and is posted here with permission of the author.) The Triangle Shirtwaist
My mother recently celebrated her 89th birthday in a most unusual place for a party — the Tayasir Checkpoint, situated in the northeastern West Bank,
(Delivered on a panel at the J Street Conference on February 29, 2011) On National Public Radio there was a project called “in this I
Good afternoon. You’ve heard the other panelists discuss the merits of BDS and whether it’s effective. I recognize that BDS seeks to address serious human
By Andrew Silow-Carroll This column originally appeared in New Jersey Jewish News. There are few things more satisfying than finding out that something you’ve been
Natalie Portman’s award winning performance in Black Swan has renewed interest in the ballet Swan Lake. The ballet itself has the hopeless feel of a
By Dyonna Ginsburg 1. Your mission statement speaks of “empowering the next generation of young Israelis to engage their Jewish identity and become powerful agents
By Haggai Alon This column first appeared in Hebrew in the newspaper “HaKibbutz,” the national paper for the Kibbutz movement, and distributed with the weekend
By J.J. Goldberg (This article first appeared in the Forward newspaper) A few summers back, I took my kids up to the Kinneret to see
“It’s complicated”. If the six day Ameinu mission to Israel (December 30th 2010 to January 5th) had a mantra, that was it. As the 24
