Save The Temple Mount’s Antiquities The Jewish Week By Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel   Largely unnoticed and unreported, destruction and irreversible damage to priceless Jewish antiquities beneath Judaism’s holiest site, Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, has been proceeding unhindered for some time now. How can this be? Because the Temple Mount and the two mosques built […]

Misleading the public Washington Jewish Week Online September 6, 2007 By Morton A. Klein          Douglas M. Bloomfield contends that “most Israelis back withdrawal” from Judea and Samaria (“The enemy within,” WJW, Sept. 16). That’s not true — sever­al recent polls show the very opposite.   A poll published last month by the Israeli daily, […]

Fatah’s Record The Jewish Week (08/31/2007)By Morton A. Klein   You write that “many Israelis who favored the dis­engagement now believe that it was a mistake to have made the move unilaterally, without any involvement of or support from the Palestinian Authority” (Editorial, “One And Two Years Later,” July 27) That may be so, but […]

CBC NEWSANALYSIS & VIEWPOINT Political lessons – Iranian leader’s speech sparks hot debate at Columbia Sept. 25, 2007 By Omar Soliman Students gather at Columbia university to hear Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Omar Soliman) Student politics have not been this animated since 1968. Thousands of demonstrators and activists assembled in and around the heavily guarded […]

  Jewish Journal of Greater Los AngelesLetters to the EditorOctober 1, 2007   UC Irvine   In your article about the UC Irvine fiasco (“Chemerinsky Affair Reflects UCI-Jewish Conflicts,” Sept. 21), you noted the ZOA’s federal civil rights complaint on behalf of Jewish students there, which alleges the university’s unlawful failure to respond to anti-Semitic […]

Propaganda Show at Columbia University Intellectual ConservativeSeptember 26, 2007 By Fern Sidman   The hallowed halls of New York City’s premiere Ivy League institution of higher learning, Columbia University, will never be the same for this week the world’s leading despot graced its presence.   The hallowed halls of New York City’s premiere Ivy League […]

Mistake to Give Ahmadinejad Platform to Spew Hatred, Israel Says September 25, 2007 Crosswalk.comBy Julie StahlJerusalem Bureau Chief Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – Giving Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a platform to espouse his hatred and racism is a “mistake” and he should not be given any legitimacy, an Israeli official said on Monday. Ahmadinejad was invited to […]

Iranian President stirs protests, counter-moves at Columbia September 25, 2007 Haaretz.comBy Sandra Cariglio Last update – 15:13 24/09/2007 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY – Over the past week, the Columbia University campus has been living in a state of marked restlessness in preparation for Monday’s highly controversial scheduled speaking appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Last year, Columbia […]

Protests Straddle the Gates September 25, 2007 Published in the Columbia Spectator (http://www.columbiaspectator.com) By Maria Insalaco, Tom Faure Despite initial complaints from student leaders that they were not given enough time to plan a response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia, the campus quickly mobilized, and many students have united for a large […]

Chemerinsky and Irvine: What Happened? September 25, 2007 InsideHigherEd.comBy Jon Wiener The biggest academic freedom fight of the year was also the shortest — and the hardest to understand. Duke Law School professor Erwin Chemerinsky accepted an offer on Sept. 4 to serve as founding dean of the new law school at UC Irvine; UCI […]