Ambassador Oren vs. Hamas At UCI

Vote for the Shuk!

Netanyahu’s Surprisingly Brilliant Speech at the Herzliya Conference

Tech Note: Retweet Code Revamp

So. Carolina GOP Converging with Tea Partiers

Pamela Geller Shrieks on Joy Behar

The Point

Charles Taylor: Pat Robertson Was My Man in Washington

Only Challenging Islamic Supremacism can Reform Islam

There Is No "Reset Button" for History

The Obama vs Netanyahu Opening Match

Social Media Manifesto, Wordled

Weird Science Brings Surgery-Free Facelift to L.A. Writer

'The Future Begins Today': JFedLA CEO Opens Online Dialogue with Community

Run for the hills (or the Towers) Posted by Lucca

The toxic context of 'the Israel debate' Posted by Gil Troy

Insistence on experienced leaders is un-American Posted by Ira Sharkansky

China's ascendancy and what it means for the US Posted by Ed Koch

Rosner for Hebrew readers: Another one on NIF

Should NYT Jerusalem correspondent leave his post?

The meaning of "good news", the meaning of "blow"

Israel's tri-dimensional strategy Posted by Emmanuel Navon

Palestinian (welfare) statehood Posted by Ira Sharkansky

Hope in Gaza?

Sundown: New Human Rights Watch Head

• James Hoge, the broadly respected editor of Foreign Affairs, will become the new head of Human Rights Watch. The group has been accused in the past of an anti-Israel bias. [Laura Rozen] • Elie Wiesel says he “would not shed a tear” if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad died. [Haaretz] • A dispatch describes the fledgling Jewish community of [...]

Knicks Match Casspi and Heritage Night

New York magazine’s sports blog catches some canny advertising on the part of the New York Knicks: their Jewish Heritage Night just so happens to coincide with the night the Sacramento Kings—the team of Omri Casspi, the first Israeli player in the NBA—come to Madison Square Garden. (That would be tonight.) It gets better: you can [...]

Egypt’s Soccer Coach Won’t Coach Israel

“It would be more honorable to me and my family if I die of hunger rather than consider coaching the Israeli team,” said Hassan Shehata, who coach’s Egypt’s national squad, explaining that he wouldn’t coach Israel “even if it was the only team that requests my services.” (Um, quick question: did it request his services?) [...]

Toyota Crashes Into Synagogue

A man named Gerald Silver accidentally crashed his car into a Queens synagogue Monday. (Silver and wife suffered no serious injuries, fortunately.) Here’s the twist: the car was a Toyota Camry. Yes, Toyota, as in the legendary Japanese car manufacturer that recently recalled a whole bunch of Priuses (Prii?) due to braking problems. In fact, [...]

Israeli Minister, Historian Welcomed in Britain

Yesterday, at the Oxford Union (at the eponymous British university), Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon—an especially controversial figure, most recently for his deliberate humiliation of Turkey’s ambassador—was the target of shouts of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Itbah Al-Yahud,” which means, “Slaughter the Jews.” On the other hand, at [...]