Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

I’ve been following Adalah’s energetic, months-long campaign against Russo-Israeli diamond baron Lev Leviev with great interest. Not so much because I agree with Adalah’s politics regarding the I-P conflict, but because I find Leviev’s political, commercial and religious interests to be so odious. Through an imaginative, tenacious campaign they have nipped at Leviev’s [...]

Abe Foxman put his foot in it during his interview with the Jewish Forward discussing the Armenian genocide. His tortured defense of his actions continue to ring false. First he claims he didn’t make a mistake when everybody and their bubbe knows he did. In this explanation, he makes it appear that [...]

Slavish loyalty to Israel can do strange things to one’s internal moral compass. And in the ADL’s case it involved weird contortions that prevented it from acknowledging that the Armenians suffered genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Turks. Abe Foxman’s calculations are that Turkey is perhaps the largest Muslim country to [...]