General News

CNN Host Asks if Hillary Clinton Should Apologize for Telling the Truth About Israel's Occupation of the Palestinians

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Monday on CNN’s “Crossfire,” cohost S.E. Cupp prepared the viewing audience to brace themselves for a “doosy” of a statement embedded deep in Hillary Clinton’s new book, Hard Choices.
Curious to know what this controversial statement might be? It’s a sentence from her recollections of a trip taken with Bill Clinton to the Palestinian city of Jericho in 1981. Of that trip, Clinton writes:
“In the West Bank, I got my first glimpse of life under occupation for Palestinians, who were denied the dignity and self-determination that Americans take for granted.”

Environment

Running Nature's Numbers

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Arlene Goldbard looks at the potential ‘blindspots’ in The Nature Conservancy’s recent attempts to use business logic and number-based arguments to change the face of the ‘science of conservation’.

Education

President Obama's Strategic Goal: Amazing Peace

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In the aftermath of Maya Angelou’s passing and President Obama’s Commencement speech at West Point, Valerie Elverton-Dixon reflects on humanity’s moral evolution, and the courage required in attaining the “amazing peace” Maya Angelou so often spoke of.

art

An Open Letter from 'The Shondes'

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On March 28 Brooklyn rock band The Shondes were disinvited from the Washington Jewish Music Festival due to band members’ views on Israel and Palestine. Founding members, singer Louisa Rachel Solomon and violinist Elijah Oberman, have written this open letter in response.

Judaism

Shavuot's Revelation of Self

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Shavuot provides an opportunity to peer deeply into the open self, a process embodied in the receiving of Torah at Sinai. The question is: will you choose to go up?

General News

John Legend, Anthony Bourdain & Shifting Use of the 'P' Word in America

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Growing up, I rarely heard the ‘P’ word uttered in my suburban Atlanta community, and not once did I hear it spoken in my Hebrew school at our family’s conservative synagogue, where teachers spoke of “them” in quick, hushed tones. And whenever the ‘P’ word was mentioned, whether on CNN or ABC News, it was always accompanied by images of bloodied streets, of people who looked like me grieving, of extremists pointing guns toward the heavens. The message growing up in America, and in the American Jewish community, was clear: Palestinians were a people so evil as to not be named, unless appropriately malevolent images befitting such a people could be simultaneously conjured. Palestinians were not human, their existence inhumane. This is what I was taught.