Thursday, January 8, 2009
Red Cross: Israel breaking int'l law, letting children starve in Gaza   SHARE Relief workers said they found four starving children sitting next to their dead mothers and other corpses in a house in a part of Gaza City bombed by Israeli forces, the Red Cross said on Thursday. How long can the world pretend that Israel is a civilized nation?

(6 comments)        Sunday, January 4, 2009
Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy?   SHARE Avrum Burg is the scion of one of Israel's founding families - he argues that an obsession with an exaggerated sense of threats to Jewish survival cultivated by Israel and its most fervent backers actually impedes the realization of Judaism's higher goals.

       Sunday, January 4, 2009
How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right   SHARE Twenty-nine percent of Americans who voted in the 2008 election are independents. In the election those voters said some things - not just about a new direction for our country, but about themselves. If you listen to what they said, you discover that independent voting is changing, taking on a more organized and progressive dimension.

       Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Israel's 'victories' in Gaza come at a steep price   SHARE Israel's victories are pyrrhic and reveal the limits of Israeli power and our own limitations as a people: our inability to live a life without barriers. Are these the boundaries of our rebirth after the Holocaust?

(2 comments)        Monday, May 14, 2007
United Arab Emirates University Team wins Microsoft Imagine Cup   SHARE Look at the picture. Four completely covered women are the winners of the highest software award and competing globally. The picture challenges the stereotype that covered women are suppressed and uneducated, who need our help to liberate them. Do I want my daughter to dress this way? The answer is no, but I believe it is her call not mine. Let us wake up, all people are the same covered or not! It can be personal choice!

(3 comments)        Friday, January 5, 2007
Choose Generosity, Not Exclusion   SHARE By newly-elected House Member Keith Ellison, "My constituents in Minnesota elected me to fight for a new politics in which a loving nation guarantees health care for all of its people; a new politics in which executive pay may not skyrocket while workers do not have enough to care for their families. I was elected to articulate a new politics in which no one is cut out of the American dream."

(3 comments)        Sunday, December 31, 2006
While You Were at War   SHARE As the president contemplates sending even more U.S. forces into the Iraqi sinkhole, he should consider not only the thousands of fatalities, the tens of thousands of casualties and the hundreds of billions of dollars already lost. He must also weigh the opportunity cost

(3 comments)        Thursday, December 28, 2006
The Other Israel Lobby   SHARE A former Israeli speechwriter outlines the divide between Israel's needs and AIPAC's current direction. The article also uncovers some early stage planning for an AIPAC alternative.

(3 comments)        Sunday, December 3, 2006
In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep   SHARE When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly. People didn't know he was pulling a "Borat."

(3 comments)        Monday, November 27, 2006
Iraq's Exodus   SHARE According to the UN, 1.6 million have fled since the start of the war.