CEO Op-ed in JNS: Put Iran Out of the Nuclear-Weapons Business for Good
(February 3, 2021 / JNS) The question now is not if the United States will return to negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, but when. Notwithstanding...
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For the Poets Among Us
Poetry is all the rage these days. It made the news when the National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recited her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at the inauguration of […]
Are Human Rights Really Protected?
On Dec. 2, 2020, the Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro and OAS Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect Jared Genser released a report that reaffirms...
Israel’s Oil Spill: More to It Than Just Sticky Beaches
On Feb. 18, Israelis woke up to the first reports of a new source for concern: 1,000 tons of crude oil had washed up on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, polluting nearly […]
Reflections this Yom HaZikaron: Pain Through Generations
Memorial for soldiers killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War on Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights. We have just closed another week of powerful, somber Holocaust remembrance ceremonies and […]
To Pray in Verdun in a War-Torn World (UPDATE)
The story of the events in Verdun had originally been published as a first-hand account by Army officer, surgeon and B’nai B’rith member Col. Joseph Haas in a 1945 issue of B’nai B’rith’s American...
Op-ed in JNS: An Open Letter to ‘The Onion’: Prejudice is No Joke
The following is a letter I’ve sent to Chad Nackers, editor of “The Onion.” Although directed to that satirical newspaper, its core message applies to many outlets now catering to...
Memory, Anti-Semitism and the Great Iasi Pogrom
“Even if there were no gas chambers at Iasi, still everything else was there: thousands of Jews perished in countless manners. Everything happened: the terror, the threats, the sealed boxcars,...
Former Israeli Ambassador to Vatican: Joint World Center-Ecumenical Fraternity body “spearhead in Jewish-Christian relations in Israel”
The B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem and the Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Israel convened on September 4th the seventh meeting of their joint “Liaison...