Gary Rosenblatt, editor and publisher of the Jewish Week, talks about two very different events that continue to impact 'Black-Jewish' relations today. He comments on the twentieth anniversary of the riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn as well as the rescue of Ethiopian Jews in the early '90s.
A second-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary says her year-in-Israel experience, as part of her academic training, has been "enriching and incredibly painful" in terms of what she sees of Israel's relationship with the Palestinians. more>
It may be small comfort to know that Jewish life is reported on with the same bias as other religious communities, but at least the press is, overall, equal opportunity offenders. more>
Rosenblatt assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the current presidential candidates and asks whether any of them have what it takes to become the next president. more>
How—and how much—the Jewish community chooses to engage in dialogue with moderate Muslim leaders says more about the Jewish community than anything else. more>