Middle East

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — My column in the Toronto Star last Monday suggested that Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proof that you don’t have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. His speech at the special session of the Knesset later that day illustrated it. The probably pre-planned heckling and subsequently staged

NEW YORK (Press Release)… Saying the Economist “cannot repair the damage of publishing an anti-Semitic image with only half-measures,” the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called on the editors to issue a full-throated apology for an editorial cartoon depicting President Obama as hindered in his efforts to reach an agreement with Iran by the machinations of

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Warning: The following isn’t nice. The liberal moaning and wailing has begun.  The circumstances of the referendum on Egypt’s new constitution, the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, and what appears to be the impending crackdown on Hamas have produced calls for “inclusion” and “democratic norms,” and the denunciation of the

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The indiscreet and disparaging comments about John Kerry’s endeavor to bring peace to Palestinians and Israelis, and about Kerry as a person, by Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s minister of defense, did a lot of damage to US-Israel relations. It was tellingly reflected in the angry reactions from the White House and from

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israelis’ wrestling with the issue of illegal immigrants is no less complicated, and maybe a bit more so than in other developed countries. As the one developed country with a land border with Africa, Israel is bound to have a problem. No matter how difficult life may be here, there

By J.Zel Lurie    DELRAY BEACH, Florida —This is my first column in my second century. It will be devoted to my daughter Susan, who  made aliyah over 40 years ago.  She had earned a Ph.D. in Botany at New York University.  She spent many decades as a research scientist at the Israeli Agricultural Center.