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June 26, 2015
War Crimes in Gaza: Filmmaker Takes Cameras Deep into Hamas Territory
Just as another "Freedom Flotilla" is sailing to Gaza, veteran filmmaker Pierre Rehov's latest film War Crimes in Gaza will be shown next week to the European Parliament under the auspices of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Pierre Rehov's film should also
June 22, 2015
A beacon of religious, non-violent and feminist struggle
Dr. Bonna Devora Haberman was our Devora: a fiery leader ("aishet lapidot"), a beacon in the religious, non-violent and feminist struggle for Jewish women's right to pray collectively, fully at Judaism's holy site. In our anthology Women of the
June 18, 2015
Not to Act Against Evil is to Act
Christians, Kurds, and Yazidis are being ethnically cleansedmassacred, exterminated--in Iraq and Syria and neither President Obama nor any stable, allegedly moderate Muslim regime (is there one?) has done anything to stop it. ISIS and Boko Haram have
June 16, 2015
The Truth-Teller's Gulag
One always pays a price for telling the truthespecially about anti-Semitism, Israel, and radical Islam. Our allies in Muslim countries have been jailed, tortured, and executed. Such truth-tellers who live in the West, often write under pseudonyms,
June 15, 2015
Israel Needs a Global "Iron Dome" - Against Defamation
Today, Israel, the Jews, and the West are up against dangerous demagogues who flourish on campuses and in the media. Would we allow a professor to teach that the earth is flat and reward him for teaching Junk Science? Imagine that this professor had a
As Spain Grants Exiled Jews Citizenship, Some Muslims Demand Return to 'Al-Andalus'
The Spanish government is offering citizenship to the descendants of formerly exiled Spanish Jews. No longer will such Jews actually have to travel to Spain; they need only "hire a Spanish notary and pass tests on the Spanish language and history." With
June 7, 2015
As ISIS brutalizes women, a pathetic feminist silence
Oh, how the feminist movement has lost its way. And the deafening silence over ISIS's latest brutal crimes makes that all too clear. Fifty years ago, American women launched a liberation campaign for freedom and equality. We achieved a revolution in the
June 5, 2015
Injustice as Usual: Malala Assassins Secretly Acquitted in Pakistan
The Pakistani courtroom proceedings were secret. Despite what reporters were previously told this past April (that ten men had been convicted), Pakistani authorities secretly acquitted eight of the men charged with conspiracy and attempted murder in the
June 2, 2015
Hijab on the Job and America's Legal Rejection of Neutrality in Religious Matters
On June 1st, the Supreme Court "reversed and remanded" Samantha Elauf's high profile lawsuit concerning her right to wear a hijab at work back to the Tenth Circuit's appeals court for further proceedings. Elauf, represented by the Equal Employment
May 28, 2015
Yazidi Victims of Mass Rape Threatened with Death Upon Release from ISIS Captivity
According to Kurdish media network Rudaw, seventeen-year-old "Suzan," a Kurdish Yezidi girl was kidnapped, gang-raped, enslaved, and impregnated by ISIS warriors. Incredibly, she managed to escape and has told her story to Delal Sindy, a Swedish-Kurdish
