JVOICES

Recently, a rare thing happened. When someone from Campus Watch tries to publish a comment at my blog, Tikun Olam, it’s always because Daniel Pipes or one of his minions is taking another pot shot at me. But a recent comment posted by someone affiliated with the group linked to a post by [...]

Too bad this wasn’t part of the Ohio debate! Hmm….

The JTA Election Blog has an interesting quote today from J.J. Goldberg, Editor of The Forward on the paper’s clarification of an editorial they wrote on the Obama “smear” campaign. Many readers considered the editorial as lending credence to the “smear” campaign.
What’s sad is that one of Goldberg’s main points wasn’t getting through, which was [...]

“Let’s Talk” is a new campaign from Brit Tzedek v’Shalom that urges the Bush Administration, in its final two years, to urgently promote and facilitate talks between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as Israel and Syria, and Israel and Lebanon.
Along with 140 other people, I attended a Brit Tzedek panel discussion held in Providence [...]

The arrangement reached with the police and the ultra-orthodox is not a compromise but a surrender. There is no difference between ‘don’t march’ and ‘do what you want, but in your houses behind closed shutters’. In both cases we are banished from the streets into a space that is fenced-in, policed and worst of all [...]

We are not doing enough in our own communities to counter xenophobia and anti-Muslim hatred that is perpetuated, particularly through our media, when I see reports like this, and I hope more Jewish groups join in denouncing these acts of violence:
Five Jewish teenagers, Yitzi Horowitz, 15, David Brach, 15, Yossi Friedman, 17, Shulomi Bitton, 16, [...]