There was great joy and tremendous relief in the East Room of the White House last week when President Barack Obama signed into law the "Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act” (HCPA). Enactment was long overdue – wrongly ...
NEW YORK (JTA) -- America’s Catholic bishops recently approved two new documents that strike at the very heart of a trusting relationship between Catholics and Jews. The first paper reintroduces the idea that Catholics can use interfaith dialogue as a ...
For years the Palestinians and leaders in the Arab world have complained that, when it comes to the Arab - Israeli conflict, the United States has acted like Israel's lawyer. While some may actually believe this is so and every American administration ...
NEW YORK (JTA) -- When his plane touched down at Ben Gurion International Airport, Pope Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to officially visit the State of Israel. Israeli, Jewish and Vatican leaders ...
As an organization committed first to combat anti-Semitism but also to work against all forms of prejudice, the Anti-Defamation League often talks against a "hierarchy of hate," a competition for victimhood among minorities. Our philosophy is that the ...
For too long, the number of hate crimes on college campuses has been substantially underreported, leaving students and parents with an incomplete picture of campus safety. Though Congress required colleges and universities to collect and report hate ...
In this celebratory season of the birth of Israel, there is another, much less traditional observance playing out. Palestinians and the Arab world are commemorating it as a nakba, or catastrophe. With this single word, Palestinian-Arab leadership has ...
It is almost as if the world is begging Israel to go into Gaza with a full-scale invasion. How else can one interpret the international silence and inaction in the face of the escalating rocket assault on Sderot and Ashkelon, Hamas's production of ...
Israel?s case before the world in its military conflict against Hezbollah is as strong as the nation has ever had: Not occupying territory whence came the aggression, facing a foe recognized by the international community as terrorist and ...
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