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Israel Must Not Reject Natural Allies
June 2, 2008
A must read for all members of the pro-America, pro-Israel, pro-human rights, anti-terror community, this excellent article in this week’s Jerusalem Post magazine highlights the Israeli government’s disordered...
Selective Praise, Selective Outrage
May 28, 2008
The front page of today’s New York Times carries a photograph of an American soldier smoking a cigarette. A caption beneath the photo reads, “A Pause Before Beating Back the Taliban” and the caption goes on to explain...
A Strange Dichotomy
May 27, 2008
Having recently returned from the middle east, where I went to Ramallah and met Palestinians on their turf, I’ve been thinking about the risk I took, and also about the strange dichotomy that exists in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
In...
It’s Not Only Me. There are Thousands of Liberian Children Who Have Been Through War
May 21, 2008
“My mother told me, ‘My heart is broken to be separated from you, but you will find family in America,'” says Morris Sheriff. “That never left my mind.”
Nattily dressed in a tan suit and a red and...
I Spent Yesterday Afternoon in Ramallah – and Lived to Tell!
May 21, 2008
Seriously, I’m no Brooke Goldstein (no interviews of terrorists!) But yesterday I did travel to Ramallah with Daniel Lubetzky, founder of Peaceworks, a business that brings together individuals from opposing sides of world conflicts,...
It’s a Beautiful Life, or at Least it Can Be
May 17, 2008
In this age of peace talks and big ideas, there is something to be said for making a virtue of necessity. I’m writing a piece now about Danny Lubetzky, founder of Peaceworks, an international business specializing in bringing people...
Why Secret?
May 15, 2008
Last week, the Times of London reported that Robert Malley, one of Barack Obama’s mideast policy advisors, was holding secret meetings with Hamas. This week, al Jazeera released shocking footage of Palestinians in Gaza doing phone banking...
Barack Obama: In Search of a Savior?
May 7, 2008
In all the discussion of Barack Obama as the potential savior of our nation, there’s been relatively little attention to the idea that, rather than behaving like a person of strong leadership, Barack Obama seems to have been acting like a real...
Friendship Between Jewish and Muslim Pharmacists Fuels Giving
May 2, 2008
In the early 1980s, Mohammed Saleh got a break that changed his life. He was working as a pharmacist, raising a family in New York City and struggling to get ahead.
A Muslim originally from Bangladesh, Saleh heard about a Jewish pharmacist in...
Looks Like Penny from Pennsylvania Didn’t Show – and Can You Really Blame Her?
April 24, 2008
Today the networks are echoing what I heard from Pennsylvania Democrats last week: a discernible number who voted Hillary were swayed by Obama’s “cling to guns and religion” comments, and why shouldn’t they have...