Editorial & Opinion | Opinion

Is Mideast Peace Possible?

03/11/2013 | Kenneth J. Bialkin | Special To The Jewish Week | Opinion

The announcement of President Obama's forthcoming visit to Israel and the Palestine Authority in March presents an opportunity to review the status of the Peace Process between Israel and the P.A. Right now the peace process is in a state of repose. Both sides say they seek renewal of negotiations, but only Israel has offered to negotiate face to face on all issues without preconditions.

David Hartman’s Legacy To Jewish Life, Religious Thought

03/05/2013 | Yitz Greenberg | Special To The Jewish Week | Opinion

Says the Talmud: the righteous (tzadikim) loom even larger after death than in their lifetimes. This must prove that David Hartman was a tzaddik (he would scoff at any attempt to apply this label to him).

BDS Threat Is To Israel’s Legitimacy, Not Free Speech

03/05/2013 | Francine Klagsbrun | Special To The Jewish Week | Opinion

When I was a student at Brooklyn College, eons ago, the subjects of free speech and academic freedom were tied into the country’s mortal fear of Communism. One of the most heated issues on campus centered on the firing of Harry Slochower, a well-known professor of German and comparative literature.

We Are All The Other

02/26/2013 | Shuli Dichter | Special To The Jewish Week | Opinion

Last month, children were attacked while riding the public bus home from school in Jerusalem. They were 6^th graders, students of the Max Ryne Hand in Hand bilingual school for Jewish and Arab students. Some of the bus riders were disturbed that these children were speaking Arabic among themselves.

‘Every Child Has Something To Offer’

02/26/2013 | Susan Wiener | Special To The Jewish Week | Opinion

“My name is Jacob Wiener. I am from Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y. I am almost 15 years old. I have PDD-NOS and bipolar syndrome. The American Disabilities Act allows me to go to school…”

Israel Doesn’t Want Me

02/26/2013 | Rabbi Heidi Hoover | Special To The Jewish Week | Opinion

I read with concern and sadness about some American Jews who want to make aliyah, and whose Orthodox conversions, performed years ago in the U.S., are now being questioned by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate and its Ministry of Interior (“New Convert Snub By Israel Fuels Fresh Anger Here,” Feb. 8).