By Anwaar Hussain
Way up on the shadowy ladder in the dark world of spooks comes the name of Mossad.
Responsible mainly for intelligence collection and covert operations, including paramilitary activities, it is one of the three institutions in the Israeli Intelligence Community. The other two are known as Aman and Shin Bet  tasked for military intelligence [...]

By Rowan Wolf
I come from a varied background which has taken me on a winding a somewhat tortuous trail throughout my life. There are a series of threads that tie me to Judaism and hence Israel, and to the Palestinians.
I come from what is sometimes referred to as “humble” beginnings. In my case I was [...]

By Daniel Luban
The U.S. State Department fiercely denied claims made by Ehud Olmert about his influence over President George W. Bush, in an incident that has stirred up old debates about the role of the Israeli government and the so-called “Israel lobby” in formulating Middle East policy in Washington.
On Monday, Olmert claimed that he [...]

The Hippasus Blog
The Gaza Strip  sits inside a tiny box some 25 miles long and, for the most part, less than five miles wide. At its widest it is well under eight miles wide.
It is bounded to the west by the Mediterranean’s most miserable beaches. To the south-west is a seven-mile border with Egypt’s Sinai [...]

Chicago circle nurtured him all the way to the top
By Tom Hundley

 
Writer Toni Morrison famously dubbed Bill Clinton “the first black president”-a title he fervently embraced.
Abner Mikva, the Chicago Democratic Party stalwart and former Clinton White House counsel, offers a variation on that theme. “If Clinton was our first black president, then Barack Obama [...]

By Irfan Husain
Among the many changes in attitudes that took place in the West in the wake of 9/11, one was in the way people viewed religion. For the evangelical Christians, the attacks on America by people thought to be Muslims were seen as a new offensive in a centuries-old conflict. But for many atheists [...]

By Haham (Rabbi) Haim Ovadia*
*Haim Ovadia is the Haham of Kahal Joseph (Mizrahi, real Jewish) Congregation in Los Angeles, California.
This article will be published in next week’s ‘Jewish’ Journal of Los Angeles.
I am a Jew of Islam.

Picture: Haham Albert J. Amateau (1890-1996) of Turkey and later California, US. As a real Jew, [...]