Events marking the soon-to-be-completed commemoration of 350 years of American Jewish life have been designed to celebrate America itself as much as the Jewish contributions to it.
With “reform” the watchword as the United Nations prepares to mark its 60th anniversary, Israel supporters wonder how such changes might affect the Jewish state, long a pariah in the international body.
As they mark the 30th anniversary of an infamous resolution denigrating Zionism as racism, U.N. insiders and observers say Israel remains a second-class citizen at the world body.