Israel’s Critics Strike an Unsettling Note on the Pompeo Declaration
The reaction was both peremptory and predictable: Critics of Israeli and U.S. policies firmly snapped back against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration that the U.S. no...
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December 10, 2019
France’s Long and Troubled Road to Defining Anti-Semitism
In April 2017, Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman, was beaten and thrown out the window of her building in Paris in a shocking anti-Semitic murder. The suspect claimed insanity and was...
November 26, 2019
Pizza and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Who reading this blog has ever ordered a pizza online? It’s a simple task, right? You go onto the pizza place’s website, you put in your order and the delivery person shows up at your...
November 4, 2019
Human Rights Council: Dictatorships Feel Comfortable
More than 100 countries are celebrating that the U.N. General Assembly voted for dictatorships to become members of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in the next two years. Democracies have...
October 30, 2019
An Unusual, and Important, U.N. Look at Anti-Semitism
This month, something positive and unusual happened at the United Nations, a body that was a source of hope for many Jews after the Holocaust and helped give rise to the revival of the Jewish...
October 29, 2019
Argentina’s Recent Presidential Elections
On Sunday, Mauricio Macri failed to win re-election in Argentina’s presidential elections. Opposition leader Alberto Fernández, who was joined by former president Cristina...
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October 18, 2019
A New Year, A New European Union
The European Commission – the European Union’s powerful executive body, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding E.U. treaties and managing the...
October 8, 2019
Democratic Presidential Primary –Who’s Going to Win? Let’s Look at the Statistics!
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that the first primary/caucus for the Democratic nomination for president is still five months away. Politicos around the country have watched the candidates at...
October 3, 2019
UNGA General Debate Wrap Up
Another U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) General Debate session is in the books, and—as we have in years past—B’nai B’rith has been actively engaged throughout the week,...