Barack Obama\’s Jewish backers argue that he will boost effortss to pressure Iran and advance Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Detractors, on the other hand, have predicted that Obama could end up pressuring Israel and backing away from confrontation with Iran.
The test of her leadership rests on her ability to move Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to an equitable and durable conclusion
With her decisive win in the Kadima party primary, Tzipi Livni now must assemble a coalition government so she can become prime minister. Then all she\’ll have to do is deal with all of Israel\’s regional threats.
Rhoda Weisman, executive director of the Professional Leaders Project, which is designed to engender and support a new generation of leaders in the Jewish community, talks about why the Jewish establishment needs to change, why young leaders are just as crucial as big donors and what it\’s like to be a woman at the top.
Even for the complex Middle East it was a moment of exceptional irony. Some 180 Fatah loyalists fleeing a series of shootouts and summary executions by Hamas\non the streets of Gaza ran for the border — banking on the mercies of the enemy they usually target
Woody Allen is fitted for a new suit by robot Jewish tailors. Ginsberg & Cohen, Computerized Fittings, Since 2073. From \’Sleeper\’
The UCLA professor glides easily across the centuries by way of a construct he labels alternately as digital archaeology, information navigation, hypermedia and time-space documentation.
Young Iranian American Jewish professionals discuss their involvement with a new mentoring program for teenagers in the community.
\”Passages Between the Past and Future: Photography by Bedouin Children of Abu Kaf, Israel,\” at the Venice Arts Gallery.
The Jewish Journal spoke to Cohen about the recent reversal in the local housing market.
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