The Obama administration has rejected the comparison between an Israeli bill requiring registration of foreign-funded NGOs and U.S. laws registering foreign interest lobbyists.
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the site of a deadly attack in Tel Aviv on Jan. 2, the night after the shooting in a city that only minimally experienced Israel’s recent violence, his words were perceived by some as more offensive than comforting.
Reading Torah at face value is fraught with danger and difficulty.
It’s so comfortable to be right that we rarely ask ourselves whether we’re wrong.
In a letter emblazoned with the insignia of the U.S. House of Representatives, 29 members of Congress reprimanded the German state of Bavaria for neglecting its historical responsibility to victims of the Nazis.
Efforts in Israel to bring Jewish ceremonies into the public sphere; to prepare Ethiopian Israelis for careers in technology; and to offer job training to young people who leave ultra-Orthodox communities are set to get a significant funding boost.
Herman Wouk is one of our living masters, the author of “Marjorie Morningstar,” “The Caine Mutiny,” “This Is My God” and other novels, plays and works of nonfiction.
In this time of terrorism and turmoil, the alliance between the United States and Israel is more important than ever. To meet the many challenges we face, we have to take our relationship to the next level.
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