Culture

Both the Forward and the Jewish Week followed up on the news, reported here last week, that the new chief of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism, Rabbi Steven Wernick, was moving ahead with plans for layoffs and a reorganization of the body that some see as emblematic of the movement’s decline. Perhaps it was […]

Two New York Post columnists, Amir Taheri and Benny Avni, are criticizing President Obama’s decision to take up Iran’s recent offer of new talks. Taheri: If the proposed round — the first since last fall — occurs, Ahmadinejad could claim a diplomatic victory, for three reasons…. 1) For the first time since the nuclear dispute started […]