By Ben Cohen JointMedia News Service Here’s a term that rarely crops up in discussions of American policy toward northeast Asia: the Korea Lobby. And as for the pejorative term “Korea Firsters,” that isn’t one I’ve come across. It’s not as if a cluster of organizations working to enhance our relationship with South Korea, or [ Read More...]

Dear Editor, AJC applauds introduction in the U.S. Senate of new bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform legislation (S.744). Eleven million prospective new Americans can strengthen America’s economy and democratic pluralism. At last we can permanently fix America’s broken immigration system by creating a much-needed path to earned citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the U.S., while offering [ Read More...]

By Dexter Van Zile JointMedia News Service Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News, has a problem. Either he doesn’t know what he’s talking about or he’s lying about the security fence that Israel built to protect its citizens from suicide bombers coming from the West Bank during the Second Intifada. I came to this troubling [ Read More...]

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to your review of Marx’s Hot Bagels in last week’s issue. I was saddened to read a review that devoted so much space to bemoaning how annoying it is to keep kosher instead of promoting Marx’s business. I understand Mr. Marx’s frustration. He has to spend extra money [ Read More...]

By N. Richard Greenfield JointMedia News Service The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC), the world’s largest organization of political and public affairs specialists, recently announced its Hall of Fame inductees for 2013. The award that the industry has dubbed the “Pollies” is the highest honor that members of the political consultant profession can bestow [ Read More...]

By Dexter Van Zile JointMedia News Service The publishing house owned by the Presbyterian Church (USA), Westminster John Knox Press, is at it again. In 2006, WJK, produced Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11 by David Ray Griffin. In this book, Griffin asserted that the Bush Administration was complicit in the attacks on September [ Read More...]

By Adam Friedman Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK – As a child of Holocaust survivors, I have always managed to avoid visiting Germany. Part of my parents’ legacy was never to visit the country, with its dark past – not even to own any products in our home that were made in Germany. Despite my [ Read More...]

Dear Editor, When the Gibson Greeting Card company left Amberley Village, a stream of income from taxes derived from their employees was lost. This loss has presented an economic challenge to Amberley. How to maintain the high quality of services to residents with less income? It costs the village 25% more to provide these services [ Read More...]

By Eric R. Mandel JointMedia News Service There is a narrative that has been gaining adherents in America, that it is within Israel’s control to make peace with the Palestinians. If only it were so. The story says that the issue is territorial, and the “occupation” and/or settlements are the root cause of the conflict. [ Read More...]

By Ben Cohen JointMedia News Service As we mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on April 8 for the 60th consecutive year – this somber day was first placed onto the Jewish calendar in 1953, at the instigation of Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion – we again ask ourselves a deceptively simple question: [ Read More...]