Sharon Deserves a Chance
Yuval Rotem
February 8, 2001
The people of Israel have once again affirmed their democratic birthright by voting for their preferred political leadership in open and competitive elections.
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The Convention Comes to Town
Tom Tugend
August 3, 2000
The story goes that a young man gets an entry-level job with the Democratic National Committee in the nation\’s capital and for his first assignment is told by his boss to buy Christmas decorations for the upcoming office party.\”I\’m not sure whether I\’m the right person,\” protests the young man. \”You see, I\’m Jewish.\”
Widening the Wall
Eric Silver
May 25, 2000
Campaigners for religious pluralism drove two gaping breaches this week through Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox control of the Western Wall.
Post-Zionist Headache
Jonathan S. Tobin
May 11, 2000
Changing the way a nation and a people think about themselves is not an easy job. But Yoram Hazony and his Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.-based Shalem Center is attempting to do just that for Israel and the Jews.
Ivry to Jews: Don’t Lecture Us
James D
February 24, 2000
David Ivry isn\’t the slickest or most media-savvy envoy in recent years, but he knows what he wants, and has the right credentials to get it.
Crisis of Confidence
Jewish Journal
February 3, 2000
If Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak looks nervous these days, it\’s because his famous luck seems to be running out.
What To Do About Kosovo?
Gil Sedan
April 8, 1999
Israelis are divided over NATO\’s military campaign against Serbia — and opinions and policy are being informed as much by history and the Holocaust as by current political realities.
‘I Am a Coalition of One’
Larry Derfner
May 21, 1998
Regarding the domestic political pressures thatBinyamin Netanyahu faces in his decision-making on the peace process,the prime minister himself probably summed it up best in the \”Israelat 50\” interview he gave to Newsweek: \”I am a coalition ofone.\”
Yeasty Mix at UJA Conference
James D
March 26, 1998
It was a moment that almost perfectly defined thisweek\’s United Jewish Appeal young leadership conference inWashington. In one section of the vast Washington Hilton ballroom,hundreds of young Jews were intently listening as special U.S. peaceenvoy Dennis Ross and Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Ben-Elissar gavesharply differing views of the current Israeli-Palestinianstalemate.
Editorial
Jewish Journal
March 12, 1998
Last weekend, I was at a gathering of maybe 80 people, brought together to listen to a prominent Israeli intellectual who proceeded to dazzle us with his accounts of political, military and religious life in the Mideast. Actually, it was more than dazzling. He was informative; he was insightful; he was witty.
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