Proceeding with the U.S. Peace Plan Can Breathe New Life into the Two-State Solution while Respecting the Will of the Israeli People
The mother of all democratic verdicts.
May 8, 2020
Jewish Organizations Shouldn’t Be Fighting against Religious Liberty
Why Jews should side with the nuns.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard the case of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a convent that wishes for the state of Pennsylvania to exempt it from providing employees with health-insurance plans that cover abortifacients, sterilizations, and contraceptives. (The nuns had proposed a workaround that would ensure employees had access to such treatments if so desired.) Among the signatories to an amicus brief filed in favor of Pennsylvania were several Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Union of Reform Judaism, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Howard Slugh and Mitchell Rocklin write:
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For the BBC, Anti-Semitism Is Just Another Political Opinion
The case of John Ashton.
China’s Policies of Repression May Be Fueling Jihadism
Pushing Uighurs into the arms of al-Qaeda.
Jewish Organizations Shouldn’t Be Fighting against Religious Liberty
Why Jews should side with the nuns.
If “Unorthodox” Gets Something Right, It’s That the Exotic Jew Is Always a Hot Commodity
The queasy transaction of the ex-Orthodox narrative.