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	Editorial/Letters » Editorials» Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Editorials 1350 Archived Articles Found in Editorials Next 20 Articles > 21) Posted Aug 31 2011 What's Mine Is Mine And What's Yours Is Mine Some comments in the past few days from PA President Mahmoud Abbas should be required reading for those diplomats and heads of state inclined to go along with the Palestinian UN statehood initiative. They should also serve to alert the U.S. to what the Palestinians are really up to and prompt even greater resolve to thwart the Palestinian effort. No one can now say the Palestinians are going to the UN as part of a sincere plan for the peaceful resolution of differences. Read Article 22) Posted Aug 31 2011 Magen David Adom: No Time To Blink By Editorial Board It seems incredible, but reports are now circulating that Israel's national ambulance service, its version of the American Red Cross, is in the process of removing the Magen David - Jewish star - from its vehicles as a sop to the International Red Cross which is averse to the display of the Jewish symbol. Read Article 23) Posted Aug 31 2011 Turkey And Egypt Demand Apologies By Editorial Board Israel will, of course, have to decide for itself whether it will agree to apologize to Turkey over the Turkish deaths in last year's deadly flotilla confrontation and to Egypt over the deaths of several of its security personnel last week when Israel fired on terrorists in the Sinai after the attack in Eilat. Read Article 24) Posted Aug 24 2011 The Schneier/Sharpton Show By Editorial Board The controversy over Rabbi Marc Schneier's inviting the Rev. Al Sharpton to participate in a panel discussion at The Hampton Synagogue on the state of black-Jewish relations 20 years after the Crown Heights riots has not ended with the cancellation of the event. Read Article 25) Posted Aug 17 2011 The New Settlements By Editorial Board Predictably, the recent Israeli announcements about new construction in Har Homa in Jerusalem and the West Bank drew sharp criticism from the Palestinians and the Obama administration. Read Article 26) Posted Aug 17 2011 Following The Law By Editorial Board Last week The Jewish Press published the text of part of attorney Nathan Lewin's compelling brief to the United States Supreme Court arguing that the State Department should be required to permit American citizens born in Jerusalem to record their place of birth on their passports as "Israel." Read Article 27) Posted Aug 10 2011 Mourning Our Losses By Editorial Board We join all Americans in mourning the deaths of those who perished in the crash in Afghanistan of a military Chinook helicopter on Sunday. The deaths of these young men are a vivid reminder that even in these times of great self-interest and self- indulgence, there are those who selflessly and unhesitatingly put their lives on the line to defend the nation. Read Article 28) Posted Aug 10 2011 Financial Crisis Debate: What Are The Democrats Afraid Of? By Editorial Board If Republicans in high elective office had urged the media not to report on the ideas of Democrats on contentious issues because such reporting would tend to legitimatize really absurd notions, the protests would be deafening, especially from the likes of The New York Times. Likewise if Republicans had taken to referring to Democratic legislators who outmaneuvered them in a losing political battle as "terrorists." Read Article 29) Posted Aug 03 2011 Did Netanyahu Blink? By Editorial Board An Associated Press report on Sunday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to negotiate the borders of a Palestinian state based on the 1948 Armistice lines understandably created quite a stir. Mr. Netanyahu's public confrontation with President Obama over this very issue remains vivid in everyone's memory, as does the enthusiastic and virtually unanimous bipartisan support for Mr. Netanyahu's position expressed by Congress. Read Article 30) Posted Aug 03 2011 The New York Times And Shariah Law By Editorial Board The Jewish Press has regularly noted the efforts of the politically correct crowd to place concerns about Muslim fundamentalism beyond the reach of normal discourse. Thus we had something to say about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's claim that any questioning of the efforts to build a mosque at ground zero was ipso facto bigoted and violated the sponsors' right to free speech. Read Article 31) Posted Jul 27 2011 The Koch Doctrine By Editorial Board Ed Koch has always impressed us as being savvy and smart, if sometimes cantankerously erratic. He has also been a fixture in American politics for a very long time. So his take on political issues should not be dismissed out of hand, however much one may differ at first blush. Read Article 32) Posted Jul 27 2011 Massacre In Norway By Editorial Board The Jewish community is, given our history, more sensitive than most others to the horrors of the massacre in Norway. So despite the horrific nature of the murders and our special empathy with the families of the victims, we do not blanch at telling it as it is. Read Article 33) Posted Jul 20 2011 Leiby Kletzky, A"H By Editorial Board In our world we ordinarily mark a public person's passing with accounts of greatness and distinction and tributes to accomplishments and life choices. How different with the tragic death of young Leiby Kletzky, who only in death was thrust into our collective consciousness and concerning whom we can only shake our heads in disbelief as we try to fathom how something like this could happen. Read Article 34) Posted Jul 20 2011 The Israeli Boycott Legislation By Editorial Board Given the non-stop efforts by Arab governments to stifle their own citizens' dissent by any means possible, including mass arrest and murder, the obsession many seem to have with Israel's new anti-boycott law - which targets Israeli citizens and organizations actively supporting boycotts of Israel - seems a bit much. The law happens to be consistent with many such anti-boycott measures around the world. But the issue continues to escalate, just the latest example of Israel being judged by a pernicious double standard. Read Article 35) Posted Jul 13 2011 Apples And Oranges By Editorial Board There are some who will try to draw conclusions about Israeli and American support for the UN embrace of the newly declared independent state of South Sudan and the indictment by a UN-backed tribunal of several Hizbullah officials in the 2005 murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Read Article 36) Posted Jul 13 2011 Fire Richard Falk By Editorial Board The contretemps this past week over the public dissembling of Richard Falk, the UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, concerning his decision to publish an outrageously anti-Semitic cartoon on his blog, is not only about Mr. Falk but about the UN and the standards it maintains. Read Article 37) Posted Jul 07 2011 Rav Chaim Stein, ZT"L By Editorial Board The Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the death of Rav Chaim Stein, longtime rosh yeshiva of Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland. He was one of the last remaining students of the famed Lithuanian Read Article 38) Posted Jul 07 2011 Protecting Shechita By Editorial Board In recent months the Jewish community has witnessed attacks on two of its fundamental religious practices. Two California municipalities, San Francisco and Santa Monica, scheduled local referenda on whether to ban circumcision. And the Netherlands has taken steps that will lead to outlawing the slaughter of animals that have not been previously stunned, which would include shechita. Read Article 39) Posted Jul 07 2011 The PA, The UN And The Gaza Flotilla By Editorial Board Just as it seemed that Israel's fortunes around the world were in freefall, some change for the better seems to have emerged. Not too long ago it was widely thought that Israel was going to be swamped in the UN in September by overwhelming international support for the recognition of a unilaterally declared Palestinian state. To be sure, with some defections, Third World countries are continuing to indicate their support for the Palestinian initiative. But to a growing extent, major and not so major Western countries are now expressing doubt as to whether the UN route is the right way to arrive at a peaceful resolution of the Middle East conflict. Read Article 40) Posted Jun 29 2011 Rav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, ZT"L By Editorial Board The Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the passing, at age 97, of Rav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, revered as one of the significant Torah personalities of the past 50 years. He was the longtime rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ponevezh L'Tzeirim and a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah. Read Article 1350 Archived Articles Found in Editorials Next 20 Articles >
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