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Would Opportunity Scholarship Act Hurt Public Schools? Local Pols Square Off On Controversial Issue
February 11, 2011
The Opportunity Scholarship Act, a bill that would provide tax credits to companies that help struggling families to send their children to private or parochial schools in New Jersey, passed an Assembly committee vote last Thursday after six...
Inside the Beltway
February 11, 2011
New Jersey’s senators last week teamed up with fellow lawmakers in sending out letters supportive of Israel to parties ranging from the German government to Republican members of Congress.
Eleven senators, led by Frank Lautenberg...
Rutgers Students Rise Up To Protest Anti-Zionist Program
February 5, 2011
Hundreds of students and community members assembled on Saturday at Rutgers University to protest an event sponsored by two non-campus groups that invoked the memory of the Holocaust to criticize Israeli policy towards...
World Wide Wrap Welcomes Worshippers
February 5, 2011
Fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers won’t be the only ones praying on Superbowl Sunday.
Across New Jersey, the United States, and the world, men, women, and children will gather to participate in a morning minyan, or...
Ex-Iraqi MP urges U.S. to Form Moderate Arab-Israeli Alliance
October 27, 2010
Partnership based on economic interest could give US greater leverage against Iran, says Mithal al-Alusi, whose sons were murdered after he came to Israel in ’04.
Oil and water don’t usually mix. But one native son of the Middle East has...
A Waterway Alliance to Protect the Strait of Hormuz is President Obama’s Key to Mideast Peace
October 21, 2010
Oil and water don’t usually mix, but a native son of the Middle East has a suggestion for President Obama on how to combine these elements to promote peace in the region.
Mithal al-Alusi, a former Iraqi Parliamentarian, believes a key to...
Sarah Palin Is a Feminist
January 14, 2010
Who is a feminist?
We’ve been asking that question since reading “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin’s autobiography, and after reading columns by prominent feminists deriding the idea that the former Governor of Alaska...
Journalist Pushes On In Bangladesh Despite Harassment; His US Supporters Keep Faith With Him
June 20, 2009
Journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, who was physically attacked and beaten in February by thugs he believes were members of the Bangladeshi government’s ruling party, has recovered from his injuries.
But this independent...
Dissident Watch: Mithal al-Alusi
May 30, 2009
Spring 2009
Amid growing conservatism and ethnic and sectarian populism in Iraq, parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, a Sunni Arab, has become the country’s chief advocate for liberal values including a free market, free press, religious...
Don Quixote Comes to Israel
July 25, 2008
It is fitting Daniel Lubetzky would grow up to be an entrepreneur who tries to bring peace to the Middle East. He recalls how, one summer when he was 12 and working for a textile wholesaler in Mexico City, he overheard people on the...