JTA Blog: JTA publishes a variety of opinion pieces from across the spectrum of Jewish thought. http://www.jta.org/ en-us Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:53:04 -0500 (c) JTA. Reproduction of material without written permission is strictly prohibited. http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/10865.html In one of those biting and perhaps ironic alignments of Torah and public Jewish life, we read Parashat Korach as three contemporary rebellions came to a climax this week in contested Jewish leadership... Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:53:04 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/10865.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/10858.html As we recall the Six-Day War 40 years ago, the role of Abba Eban -- Israel's foreign minister and eloquent spokesman -- deserves special attention. Eban's unforgettable speech to the United Nations... Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:36:54 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/10858.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/9922.html For many younger American Jews, American Jewry looks like this:... Tue, 15 May 2007 18:33:34 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/9922.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/9869.html Why is the Jewish Council for Public Affairs making a nuclear-armed Iran its principal concern in the year to come?... Tue, 08 May 2007 16:00:29 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/9869.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/8503.html Time to fight abortion decision by Phyllis Snyder... Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:23:51 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/8503.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/4403.html Opportunity comes infrequently, often disguised, but when it comes, you had better recognize it and do something about it because it may be a long time before it comes again.... Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:32:40 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/4403.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/1502.html Around the time of my ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1985, many people skeptical of the ordination of women asked, "What's next? The ordination of gays and lesbians"?... Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:00:46 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/1502.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/1501.html The recent immigration raids in New Bedford, Mass., where nearly 200 children were left stranded when their parents, who otherwise were lawful workers, were arrested and shipped off to detention cente... Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:36:46 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/1501.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/501.html On the eve of the United Nations Human Rights Council's latest session, which opened March 12, the United States announced it would not seek election in May for membership in the council.... Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:51:30 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/501.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/362.html PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — What to do about the Iraq war has made for the sharpest and most important disconnect between the political behavior of large Jewish organizations and the opinions of the flesh-an... Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:22:13 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/362.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/352.html We’re at it again, defining the lines of who’s in and who’s out as the debate on Jewish continuity in America rages on.... Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:13:49 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/352.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/288.html When American Jewish leaders hear I’m consulting in Canada, they often comment that Canadian Jewry is years behind American Jewry.... Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:11:43 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/288.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/286.html NOTRE DAME, Ind. (JTA) — March 4 marks the 20th anniversary of the unprecedented life sentence meted out to Jonathan Pollard. The date is a most appropriate moment to take stock of the response of the... Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:36:42 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/286.html http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/posting/268.html In mid-January, seizing on the spirit of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory, Imam Omar Abu-Namous of the New York Mosque hosted Rabbi Marc Schneier of the New York Synagogue in a dialogue entitl... Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:02:00 -0500 http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/blogs/268.html