Holding Their Tongues?
by Steve Lipman Staff Writer For Jewish comics, Dom Imus is no joke. In the wake of the shock jock’s unflattering comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team and his shockingly swift...
View ArticleMuseum Mess
by Eric J. Greenberg and James D. Besser Eric J. Greenberg is a staff writer. James D. Besser is the Washington correspondent. Washington — Since its opening in 1993, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial...
View ArticleBucking The Palestinian Conference
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Several Ohio Jewish organizations joined together this week to launch a pro-Israel campaign at Ohio State University a week before the start of a three-day national...
View ArticleMore Free-Speech Furor In N.J.
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer When New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey didn't like what state Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka had to say about Israelis in a poem about 9-11, he took action. McGreevey, with...
View ArticleRutgers Nixes Palestine Conference
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer The Palestine solidarity student conference is off. Off campus, that is. Rutgers University canceled the controversial three-day conference slated for the campus Oct....
View ArticleThe Thoroughly Modern Shtetl
by Julia Goldman Staff Writer Theodore Bikel says he identifies so closely with his stage role as Tevye the Milkman that he sometimes lapses into character. And, Bikel told an audience in New York...
View ArticleDid The Hebrew Bible Give Birth To Democracy?
Eric Herschthal Staff Writer Scholars beginning to challenge view that the rise of democratic values belongs solely to Western secular thought.When the Texas Board of Education voted last month in...
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