From ‘holiday’ to ‘Chanukah,’ a busy week in D.C.   By Ron Kampeas · December 21, 2009 WASHINGTON (JTA) — The incumbent president called it a “holiday,” until he called it “Chanukah,” and a few Jews wondered if their fellows weren’t being oversensitive about it. A former president asked for “Al […]

    by Rachel Saperstein 01/01/10 Winter break can be a time for helping others. Even complicated logistics can work if people care. A story about a US businessman, a group of college students on tour and some very happy children from families who were expelled from the Katif Bloc. The Jewish college students arrived […]

    States of Denial   December 31, 2009        On a hot day in Vienna in August 1925, Arthur Ruppin ascended the podium at the Fourteenth Zionist Congress and declared, “Palestine will be a state of two nations. Gentlemen, this is a fact.”Earlier that year, Ruppin, Martin Buber, and other Zionist leaders […]

    Letters December 30, 2009   To the Editor: Alan J. Kuperman is correct to argue that airstrikes have become the only plausible avenue to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. It is widely appreciated that a nuclear-armed Iranian regime poses an existential threat to Israel, but it is also a huge risk for […]

       The Year in Verse   …The change in Washington gave the nod: A new job for David Axelrod, Another for Rahm Emmanuel, Susan Sher, for First Lady Michelle. Howard Berman was hot on Iran, Drawing heat on health: Joe Lieberman. Al and Barney, that’s Franken and Frank, Covered the Democrats’ leftward flank. […]

  At the 1993 Oslo signing ceremony in Washington, President Bill Clinton called the Oslo accords a “brave gamble.” Actually, Oslo turned out to be a tragic gamble that cost Israel almost 2,000 lives, with thousands more maimed. The reason: a concessionary policy that ignored continuing Palestinian rejection of Israel‘s existence as a Jewish state […]

  U.S. Must Make Certain Iran Doesn’t Get Bomb Your editorial in the paper of Nov. 25, titled “Time to Enforce Deadline,” rightly describes the danger posed to Israel by the looming Iranian nuclear threat and the need for the United States to take action. One important addition to your argument would be the often […]

  Washington, DC – Four Jewish groups have filed an amicus curiae (”friend of the court”) brief with the United States Supreme Court asking the Justices to overturn the ruling of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that, the amici claim, could inhibit officials of the State of Israel from lecturing or meeting with others […]

    Sir, – In your editorial, you spoke correctly of the “risks” of “further kidnappings and killings” that arise if Israel frees hundreds of terrorists to obtain the freedom of Gilad Schalit (“Schalit: The details matter,” December 3). The Israeli public must bear in mind that freed terrorists have already murdered large numbers of […]

    The editorial in the Nov. 13 Chronicle concerning Sen. Brownback was inappropriate and frankly, misguided. It would not have been surprising for an anti-Israel newspaper to criticize this pro-Israel action by one of the most pro-Israel senators, but for a Jewish newspaper to do so is shameful. Sen. Brownback’s S. 2737, to require the U.S. Embassy to be moved […]