A few weeks ago, El Salvador announced that it was following Costa Rica’s example and moving its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. While this is disappointing news,… Read more »

It wasn’t long ago that the words “Jewish vote” meant something different than they do today. Jews in their small numbers were regular voters and concentrated in areas that were… Read more »

In case you’ve been away or haven’t been reading your Ledger lately, there is a primary election for Democrats in Connecticut coming up in a few days. You need to… Read more »

This week when there is so much going on in the world, the Ledger has also written about the Young Emissary program, a program of the Southern New England Consortium… Read more »

June 9, 2006–The media is now fully engaged with the alleged massacre in the Iraqi town of Haditha last March. With each retelling, the implication of U.S. culpability grows. Right… Read more »

In April, an article in Ha’aretz quoted a source from Mossad saying that Israelis had been able to intercept 88 suicide missions since the beginning of the year. In New… Read more »

By now, we’ve all become used to hearing about the rancorous debate on our campuses over the existence of Israel. But it still shocks us when a variation on the… Read more »

Last January, we warned about an idea that was circulating that we thought was a bad one. Now that idea has come to pass, and Jewish Heritage Month is in… Read more »

U.S. taxpayer money to support terror? (Abridged Version) “One of the amazing things about the Middle East is how ideas about the region persist despite being repeatedly proven wrong.” –Barry… Read more »

March 24, 2006 *Because we have a Tuesday morning deadline, these were written before the Israeli election results were in. Another election: One more time We are glad we didn’t… Read more »