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It Wasn’t an Accident — It was part of the plan to make Israel nervous
By Shoshana Bryen Recently, it was revealed that that the current U.S. (“I’ve got Israel’s back”) administration leaked to the media the specifications for the heretofore secret US-Israel installation… Read more
The Israeli Man’s Burden
By Daniel Greenfield New York Times bureau chiefs in Jerusalem are expected to set new standards for malicious bias and during his time there Ethan Bronner was no exception. A bureau… Read more
LETTER — JNF is spending donations foolishly
I am outraged to read in the Ledger (“Briefs,” Jewish Ledger, June 7, 2013), that former President Bill Clinton will be paid $500,000.00 to speak in Israel and that… Read more
Israel: The Modern Canary
By Rebecca Pritzker In the early ages of mining, coal miners brought canaries with them into the depths of the cavernous mines. As they mined, the brightly colored birds sang,… Read more
Tikkun Olam: Ethical mitzvot are mitzvot
By Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg/JNS.org With the beginning of summer comes a time of reflection. School’s out and summer break is starting, so now is a time when we… Read more
Storming the Bastille of Israel’s religious bureaucracy
By Michael Freund This past Sunday, a press conference was held in Jerusalem which may yet come to signify the start of a revolutionary change in the provision of religious… Read more
The U.S. Government Compiles a Bibliography
By Daniel Pipes At this moment of sequester and belt-tightening, the U.S. government has delivered a reading list on Islam. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has joined with… Read more
FDR used IRS against Jewish activists
By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org The news that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) unfairly targeted conservative groups has brought renewed spotlight on a 2010 lawsuit filed by the pro-Israel group Z Street,… Read more
Israel on Campus
Once fairly comfortable with their views on Israel, college students often return home after their first year on campus with ideas that are less charitable towards the Jewish state. After a… Read more
The U.S. Holocaust museum at 20
By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org When President Bill Clinton stepped to the podium at the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., 20 years ago, most of the… Read more
