Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Daily Briefing

Monday, August 22, 2011

EDITORS' PICKS

Covering the Crown Heights riots

On JTA's Archive Blog, Adam Soclof looks back 20 years at how JTA covered the Crown Heights riots.

From Sharpton, regrets and explanations

After bowing out of a synagogue's much-criticized panel discussion marking the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots, the Rev. Al Sharpton writes an Op-Ed in the New York Daily News acknowledging he made mistakes during the riots.


The threat from the Sinai

In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks along Israel's border with Egypt, historian Benny Morris write in The National Interest that Israel's "secure southern border is fast becoming a thing of the past."