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is JTA's news editor. In his seven years with JTA, he has reported from more than 15 countries. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, New York magazine, among other publications.

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  • Rami Feinstein to tour in United States in April

    March 19, 2013 8:06pm

    Israeli singer Rami Feinstein singing in a the music video for his song “Something Amazing,” about his mall-working experience. (YouTube) Last month, JTA published an article about Israeli kiosk workers at American shopping malls. The article, which noted that the U.S. Embassy in Israel is trying to crack down on the practice, implied that Rami…

  • Falling to peaces

    March 13, 2013 2:39pm

    In the run-up to President Obama’s trip to Israel next week — the least-anticipated Israel trip by an American president that Thomas Friedman can remember (!) — there’s been much hand-wringing (again) over whether we are witnessing the death throes of Israeli-Palestinian peace. This is a perennial exercise, its last iteration appearing as recently as…

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    The Dude turns 15

    March 6, 2013 7:25pm

    To a certain subclass of young American males, today is an anniversary on par with 4/20, 15 years since the debut of the cult classic that gave us such gloriously quotable lines as, “Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you’re goddamn right I’m living in the past!” It’s tempting to…

  • Jon Stewart’s CodePink email is a fake

    March 1, 2013 4:11pm

    When the email first arrived, something immediately felt a little off: Jon Stewart, writing off behalf of the liberal agitators CodePink, was urging the U.S. Senate to release classified memos justifying the use of pilotless drones in taking out terrorists. Stewart had recently done a segment on drones on "The Daily Show," so it didn’t…

  • AIPAC conference in 90 seconds

    February 28, 2013 4:23pm

    Give us 90 seconds, Ron Kampeas gives you everything you need to know about next week’s AIPAC policy conference. 

  • Republicans block Hagel vote

    February 14, 2013 10:50pm

    Senate Republicans blocked a vote to confirm Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense.

  • Koch eulogized by N.Y. elite as friend of Israel, Jewish people

    February 5, 2013 3:34pm

    Ed Koch was remembered as a friend of Israel and the Jewish people by a cast of political luminaries at the former New York City mayor’s funeral.

  • U.S. judge dismisses Long Island eruv lawsuit

    February 5, 2013 3:21pm

    One of three federal lawsuits filed in connection with a proposed eruv enclosure in a suburban New York beach community was dismissed.

  • New York City to name subway station after Koch

    February 4, 2013 4:15pm

    New York City will rename a subway station in memory of Edward Koch, the three-term mayor who died last week.

  • Can Israel live with a nuclear Iran?

    January 17, 2013 10:30pm

    That was the proposition put to a debate in New York last night at an event hosted by Intelligence Squared. The debates are Oxford style and feature a pre-debate and post-debate poll of the audience.  Judging from those numbers, the argument that Israel can NOT live with a nuclear Iran was the more persuasive one….