Poll: Majority of Denmark citizens want circumcision banned
Jewish Journal
October 22, 2014
A new poll indicates that 74 percent of Denmark’s citizens believe circumcision should be fully or partially banned.
Category
islam
Gaza cease-fire holding on second day, talks under way
Jewish Journal
August 6, 2014
A Gaza cease-fire was holding on Wednesday as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israeli and Palestinian representatives on an enduring end to a war that has devastated the Islamist Hamas-dominated enclave.
Israel debates efficacy of military ground operation
Jewish Journal
July 15, 2014
Standing in a well-furnished bomb-shelter in the southern town of Sderot, former deputy Israeli army chief-of-staff Uzi Dayan says that a large-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip is the only way to ensure that Israel completes its mission of ending rocket fire once and for all while striking a heavy blow to the Islamist Hamas movement.
Obama does not rule out air strikes against Iraq insurgents
Jewish Journal
June 12, 2014
The United States is not ruling out air strikes to assist the Iraqi government fight a growing radical Islamist insurgency, President Barack Obama said on Thursday, raising the possibility of the first American military intervention in Iraq since the end of the U.S.-led war.
Obama warns of U.S. action as jihadists push on Baghdad, Iraq
Jewish Journal
June 12, 2014
President Barack Obama threatened U.S. military strikes in Iraq on Thursday against Sunni Islamist militants who have surged out of the north to menace Baghdad and want to establish their own state in Iraq and Syria.
Israeli strike injures bystanders after missing Islamic Jihad operative
Jewish Journal
April 23, 2014
An Israeli airstrike missed its target — an Islamic Jihad operative in the Gaza Strip — and injured bystanders.
Moving and Shaking: 12th annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, Rabbi David Baron honored
Ryan Torok
February 26, 2014
The 12th annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, honoring the life and legacy of the Wall Street Journal reporter murdered by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in 2002…
Report: Indonesia’s last synagogue destroyed
Jewish Journal
October 4, 2013
Indonesia’s last synagogue has been destroyed, a Dutch news site reported last week.
New Articles
Cease-Stupid, Not Ceasefire
Thane Rosenbaum
June 2, 2024
The Failure of American Jewish Education
Zion Ozeri
June 2, 2024
Shaping the “Contours of Otherness”
Monica Osborne
June 2, 2024
Facing Pressure From All Sides, Netanyahu Is Trapped By His Promises
David Suissa
June 1, 2024
Orthodox High School Acknowledges “Inappropriate Relationship” Between Students, Teacher
Ryan Torok
May 31, 2024
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.