Embattled Jewish Agency To Promote Identity Over Aliyah
By Gal Beckerman
The financially strapped Jewish Agency for Israel is shifting its focus away from Israel and toward strengthening the secular identity of Diaspora Jews.Read More
Only Path to Peace Is an Armistice Now
By Ehud Yaari
“Israel must offer Palestinian statehood for less than peace before the Palestinians and their leaders abandon the two-state model altogether,” Middle East commentator Ehud Yaari writes.Read More
Rage Abounds at 'Jewish Tea Party'
By Gal Beckerman
The Forward’s Gal Beckerman visits the ‘founding convention’ of Rabbi Mordechai Yitchok Friedman’s Jewish Tea Party group. The event drew only a handful of people, but hate speech was in abundance.Read More
From 'Friends' to Family History
By Curt Schleier
In a new TV series, celebrities uncover their family histories. Former “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow spoke to the Forward about her recent travels to Belarus to learn about family members murdered during the Holocaust.Read More
Anglo-Israeli Ties Will Survive Dubai
By Miriam Shaviv
The controversial operation that killed a Hamas commander in Dubai “actually shows just how sympathetic the current Labour government is to the Jewish state,” Miriam Shaviv writes.Read More
Special Section: Spring Books
Mark Oppenheimer on Judith Shulevitz’s “Sabbath World,” Joshua Cohen on Seymour Krim, a murder mystery in Brooklyn’s “Little Palestine,” and the story of long-deceased rabbi’s unfinished novel are among the offerings in our Spring Books special section.Read More
The Agency’s New Agenda
The Jewish Agency for Israel is embarking on a bold and necessary attempt to create a new mission for itself, downplaying its historic role in promoting immigration to Israel and emphasizing instead an intriguing but still amorphous notion of Jewish “peoplehood.”Read More
