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Study of American Jews making its way into Israeli schools

If an Israeli Education Ministry pilot program to teach about American Jewry takes root, Israeli schoolchildren will learn about the Diaspora's largest Jewish community for the first time. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Sixty-two years after Israel's founding, its school system still largely sticks to the Zionist trope that all Jews should live in Israel and those who do not at the very least should be actively engaged in helping support the Jewish state. In turn, there is scant study of contemporary Jewish life in America. But there is some change afoot. Read more »

Aaron David Miller loses 'peace process' religion

Depending on your view of the Middle East and the Obama administration, longtime peace functionary Aaron David Miller's renunciation of the "religion" of the peace process makes him either a hero or a turncoat. Read more »

Jewish groups welcome sanctions but want more

U.S. Jewish groups welcomed the announcement of a unified front by major world powers on Iran sanctions, but they want to know the details and they still want unilateral sanctions by the U.S. Congress. Read more »

Editors' Picks

Lebanon, revisited (Haaretz) Ten years since Israel's unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon, the terrorist group Hezbollah is still calling the shots in the country.

Fighting over Israel on campus (U.K. Guardian) The campus wars over Israel-related freedom of speech continues.

A rabbi's take on Sarah Silverman (Haaretz) Susan Silverman, a Reform rabbi who lives in Jerusalem with her husband and five kids, thinks her younger sister, comedian Sarah Silverman, is a biblical prophet for "calling out the ills" of society.

Jewish in Iran (Kansas City Star) For the Jews of Iran, keeping the faith requires something of a double life.

Mining the Golan (Jerusalem Post) Twenty-five years after Jerry White lost a leg to an unexploded mine in the Golan Heights, he's back in Israel to try to clear the area of its minefields. Breaking News A Lithuanian court has ruled that a swastika is a part of the country's historic legacy and not a Nazi symbol. Moishe Rosen, the founder of the Jews for Jesus movement, died Wednesday at 78 from prostate cancer. The "Jew Producer" character and other characters on Comedy Central's Web site "play into and encourage offensive anti-Semitic and anti-Israel stereotypes," the Anti-Defamation League complained. The Jewish Federations of North America and its two overseas partners have agreed to continue working together to try to raise more money for overseas needs and to find a better way to split what they raise. An immigration judge ordered deported a Pennsylvania man who worked as a Nazi concentration camp guard. Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in Gaza allegedly trying to infiltrate into Israel with the aim of perpetrating terrorist attacks. Dozens of presidents of university student bodies invited the Israeli ambassador to speak in the wake of his controversial appearances on two campuses. B'nai B'rith International called on the United Nations' Secretary General to rebuke the Libyan envoy, who currently leads the General Assembly, for likening Israel to Nazis. The Reform community of Hameln, Germany has begun building what it says will be Germany's first postwar Reform synagogue. Washington's Jewish theater company has canceled its first play of the season because Elie Wiesel objected to his being a character in it. The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved President Obama's request for an additional $205 million in assistance to Israel for a short-range missile defense system. The trial of accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was postponed for the third day due to his ill health. Germany awarded its highest civilian honor to a Holocaust scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A new community center built with a $1.4 million donation from the United States was opened in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus.

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