The White House bridled yesterday at Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the U.S. is violating “American values” in opposing Israeli expansion into East Jerusalem. Press secretary Josh Earnest lectured the Prime Minister on American support and singled out the new Jewish settlements in Silwan and Givat Hamatos
Marc Ellis on his latest book “Burning Children: A Jewish View of the War in Gaza.”
Jews Say NO! and Jewish Voice for Peace/NY write a letter to New York Senators Charles Schumer
and Kirsten Gillibrand asking them to to enforce provisions of federal law that require the termination of aid to any unit of a foreign military for which there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.
Melissa Clark is a foodwriting star. She’s at the New York Times and has authored…
Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke made the mistake of voting against emergency funding to Israel at the height of the Gaza massacres this summer. His own donors have expressed anger with him in El Paso, and O’Rourke has reached out to local Jewish leaders and the Israel lobby group AIPAC. And after the “healing process,” he’s going to Israel.
This is now six days old, but we failed to pick it up: Steven Salaita…
The last 24 hours have been a glorious moment for liberal Zionists. They have taken…
Dan Fischer explains why he removed an insert titled “Prayer for the Soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces” from his synagogue’s Yom Kippur service last year.
Devastation as far as the eye can see is our Yom Kippur geography. If a closing prayer is a must, chant the Amidah. The Shema. Anything that comes to mind. With a caveat. Stop the prayers if they don’t make sense in the Gaza rubble. If a prayer doesn’t make sense when the names of the murdered are read, call up another prayer. This goes for any comments that are made as well. If they make sense in the presence of the Gazan dead. Otherwise be silent.