Maintaining Security Cooperation with the PA Shouldn’t Require Ignoring Its Support for Terror
Mahmoud Abbas’s fake financial crisis.
May 23, 2019
Al Sharpton’s Appearance at a Major Jewish Event Doesn’t Make Up for His Past Incitements
Reform Jews weren’t beaten or murdered in the Crown Heights riots.
On Monday, Al Sharpton gave a speech at a conference held by the Religious Action Center, the advocacy and activism branch of organized Reform Judaism in the U.S. Sharpton instigated the 1991 Crown Heights riots, in which Yankel Rosenbaum was murdered, as well as the 1995 attack on Freddie’s Fashion Mart—a Jewish-owned business in Harlem—in which eight others were killed. In his speech, Sharpton offered some weak expressions of remorse over his past “excesses” and use of “cheap” rhetoric, and condemned anti-Semitism in general terms. Jonathan Tobin comments:
May 23, 2019
Al Sharpton’s Appearance at a Major Jewish Event Doesn’t Make Up for His Past Incitements
Reform Jews weren’t beaten or murdered in the Crown Heights riots.
An Upcoming Summit in Bahrain May Not Be a Harbinger of Peace but Is Nonetheless a Welcome Sign
The Arab world might be more inclined to normalize ties with Israel than some think.
In the Face of Hatred, Jews Must Reject Despair and Cling Tightly to the Keys of the Past
Kaddish amidst the bones of Brisk.
A New Translation Allows Readers to Follow Avraham Sutzkever’s Poetic Journey from Siberia to Tel Aviv
A great Yiddish poet’s past and future.