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Ninety-Five Years Since the Balfour Declaration
By Daniel Mandel A mere 68 words helped alter the course of history. Ninety-five years ago (as of Nov. 2), the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James, Lord Balfour, sent the… Read more
MISGUIDED MARKINGS
By Rabbi Avi Shafran In slow but clear Hebrew and with an endearingly wry smile, the elderly Jewish lady recalls a trip to America one summer with her sister. At… Read more
LETTER: Linda McMahon not the right choice
Mark Fishman’s letter (Ledger, Oct. 26) suggesting voters choose Linda McMahon as a balance to a probable second Obama presidency is wrong-headed. In fact, it perpetuates the problem we faced… Read more
Young American Jews & Israel
By Eric R. Mandel/JNS.org When a recent Cohen and Kelman poll reported that 50 percent of young American Jews would not consider the destruction of Israel a personal tragedy, it… Read more
Welcome ISGAP: Institute for the study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
It’s been more than a year since Yale University and the Yale Institute for Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YISSA) parted ways. In the process YISSA was closed down with neither… Read more
MALALA’S LESSONS FOR PAKISTAN — AND FOR US
By Chris Powell Horrifying as the Taliban’s shooting of Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old girls education activist, and her two classmates in Pakistan was, nothing less horrifying could have shaken her… Read more
LETTERS
It is unfortunate that Connecticut’s Senatorial election has been steeped in petty squabbling and personal attacks. The consequences of the election are actually far larger than either Chris Murphy or… Read more
Freedom from Islam
By Daniel Greenfield In 1941, FDR proposed his famous Four Freedoms. Some seventy years later it may be time to add a fifth freedom to that list. Freedom from Islam…. Read more
Where’s the tough love for Obama
Apparently, not all self-criticism is created equal By David Suissa When it comes to criticizing Israel, liberal supporters of Israel routinely quote the Jewish value of self-criticism. Try telling… Read more
Obama administration sends Anti-American, Anti-Israel Islamist Marayati to speak overseas on human rights
By Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel It was, unfortunately, no surprise when the Obama administration selected Salam Al-Marayati to join the U.S. delegation at a human rights conference being… Read more
