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January 27, 2010

Solving Two Crises

Jewish Journal January 27, 2010

Throughout my nearly three decades in Congress, and now as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I have been preoccupied with issues involving Israel’s security and Middle East peace. I made my first trip to Israel as a congressman in 1983. It was then that I first began to discern the primary problem Israel would have to face if it maintained its hold on the West Bank and Gaza: Either it would eventually have to rule over a disenfranchised Palestinian majority, or — if it enfranchised the Palestinians — Israel would eventually cease to be Jewish. Call it the “democracy/demography” problem. I knew I wanted Israel, as a Jewish homeland, to be a democracy.

Q&A With Robert Wistrich

Jonathan Kirsch January 27, 2010

Robert S. Wistrich, author of “A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism From Antiquity to the Global Jihad” (Random House: $40.00), has been called “the dean of historians of anti-Semitism.” Born the son of Jewish refugees from Poland in Soviet Central Asia on the day President Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, Wistrich was raised in Cracow, Paris and London and studied at Cambridge and University College in London.

Israeli Team Preparing to Leave Haiti

Jewish Journal January 27, 2010

The Israeli medical and rescue team in Haiti will finish operations on the devastated island nation in the next few days, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

Parashat Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16)

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater January 27, 2010

As someone who is uncomfortable with war as a way of solving problems, I always search deep inside myself during the week of Parashat Beshalach, in which we are finally freed from Egypt and leave in a whirlwind of death, destruction and God’s awesome power. According to the Slonimer Rebbe, a wonderful 20th century commentator known for the Netivot Shalom, God needed the plagues and the strong show of force to rouse the people from their slave mentality. Why should the Israelites choose to leave the relative comfort of the status quo — although it is slavery, what’s known is often seen as safer — to follow an unknown, unproven God? God needed a show of force to free our ancestors.

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