Features

Newsfeatures and service pieces exploring topics ranging from life on the West Bank to finding the perfect afternoon tea in Manhattan’s swankiest salons.

Sarah Palin Is a Feminist

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From Mom Logic
by HEATHER ROBINSON & JENNIFER GINSBERG

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Who is a feminist?

We’ve been asking that question since reading “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin’s autobiography, and after reading columns by prominent feminists deriding the idea that the former Governor of Alaska is a feminist.

Many of these columnists …

Journalist Pushes On In Bangladesh Despite Harassment; His US Supporters Keep Faith With Him

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From Center for Security Policy
by HEATHER ROBINSON

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Journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, who was physically attacked and beaten in February by thugs he believes were members of the Bangladeshi government’s ruling party, has recovered from his injuries.

But this independent Bangladeshi journalist, whose groundbreaking reporting exposed the Islamist radicalization of …

Dissident Watch: Mithal al-Alusi

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From the Middle East Quarterly
By HEATHER ROBINSON

Spring 2009

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Amid growing conservatism and ethnic and sectarian populism in Iraq, parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, a Sunni Arab, has become the country’s chief advocate for liberal values including a free market, free press, religious pluralism, cooperation among democracies in fighting terror, …

Don Quixote Comes to Israel

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From The Jerusalem Post Magazine
By HEATHER ROBINSON

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It is fitting Daniel Lubetzky would grow up to be an entrepreneur who tries to bring peace to the Middle East. He recalls how, one summer when he was 12 and working for a textile wholesaler in Mexico City, he …

1-800-Mattress.com Founder Thinks Outside the Box Spring

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From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON

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Napoleón Barragán, the founder, owner and CEO of 1-800-Mattress.com, believes in thinking outside the box. In the late 1980s, Barragán approached radio talk show host Howard Stern about advertising on his radio program.

On a recent afternoon at …

City Lawyers Set To Rally for Their Pakistani Counterparts

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From The New York Sun

By HEATHER ROBINSON
November 13, 2007

Lawyers from firms across the city will stop billing clients for half an hour today to rally in support of the lawyers and judges of Pakistan.

The rally, planned for 1 p.m. in front of the New York County Courthouse at 60 …

U.S. Attorneys Rally in Support of Pakistani Brethren

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From The Jewish World Review

By HEATHER ROBINSON
November 14, 2007

The steps of the New York County Courthouse in downtown Manhattan were a sea of black and white Tuesday as hundreds of New York City attorneys gathered in support of their counterparts in Pakistan, thousands of whom have been arrested in …

Walter Monheit: The Oldest Club Kid

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From The New York Sun
BY HEATHER ROBINSON

July 23-25, 2004

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On the New York City nightclub scene, Walter Monheit is a fixture, an icon even.

Since the days of ballroom dancing clubs in the 1950’s, this now-78-year-old man has been clubbing two to three nights per week from …

Double Standard Seen Among Terror Critics

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From The New York Sun

By HEATHER ROBINSON
Special to the Sun
June 15, 2007

A lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government claims there is a double standard by which Muslim clerics are criticized for not condemning Islamist terrorism when “rabbis are not condemning the violent settlers’ movement.”

Jessica Stern’s …

Recruited To Die

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From The New York Sun

By HEATHER ROBINSON
June 1, 2007

In 2004, 24-year-old Brooke Goldstein spent her summer in the West Bank filming more than five hours of in-person interviews with terrorists — all of which she conducted without a bodyguard and without a weapon. A Cardozo Law student with a …