Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
-
News New Charges Dim Pollard’s Pardon Bid
The arrest this week of an elderly American Jew on charges of spying for Israel appears to have put a serious dent in recent efforts to win a pardon for another American Jew in jail on similar charges. There has recently been a surge in activity surrounding the case of Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S….
-
News Ban Ki-Moon’s Rise at U.N. Eases Tensions With Jerusalem
United Nations – Silence can speak volumes, as the secretary general of the United Nations apparently understands. Since his election to the post more than a year ago, Ban Ki-moon has not heard much noise from a notoriously talkative corner when it comes to the United Nations: Israel and its supporters. Unlike most of his…
-
News Carter Trip Exposes Debate on Engaging Hamas
In the United States, the uniform response to Jimmy Carter’s decision to meet with a Hamas leader in Syria suggested that this is not an issue up for debate. All the presidential candidates blasted Carter, as did pro-Israel advocates. In Israel, though, the talk of Carter’s meeting with Khaled Meshal has fed into a long-running…
-
News Study Estimates Assets of Arab Lands’ Jews
In the first effort to methodically calculate the amount lost by Jews who fled Arab countries after the creation of Israel, a Holocaust restitution expert estimated that the losses amounted to $6 billion. The study, performed by Sidney Zabludoff and published this month in a journal published by the conservative Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,…
-
News Two Radio Stations Bump Israel Ads
For the legions of commentators and bloggers who try to discern the Middle Eastern bias of the New York Times, this week offered two contradictory pieces of evidence. On the Gray Lady’s front page April 5, there was a story describing the plight of the residents of Sderot, the Israel town under fire from Gaza….
-
News Belarus Nabs Lawyer to the Oligarchs in Cloak-and-Dagger Affair
The Cold War may be over, but its cloak-and-dagger intrigues are alive and kicking in the former Soviet Union. On March 12, Emanuel Zeltser, a self-styled expert on white-collar crime who immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and has been a counsel to a series of controversial Soviet-born moguls,…
-
News U.N. Taps American Jewish Critic of Israel as Rights Expert
As if relations between Israel and the United Nations had not deteriorated enough, a new cause for strain arose this week when a prominent American Jewish law professor, who accuses Israel of genocidal policies in the Palestinian territories, was named by the world body’s top human rights entity to monitor the situation in the Palestinian…
-
News Race on To Fill Top U.N. Human Rights Post
In a race that is being closely watched by Israel and its allies, a stealth campaign has been launched to influence the selection of the top United Nations human rights official. The current U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, recently announced that she would step down in June and not seek a second…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Film & TV Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?
- 2
News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
- 3
News What Mike Huckabee’s ‘Kids Guide to Israel’ says about his views
- 4
Culture At 95, Shaindel Schreiber is still dispensing babka and advice on the Lower East Side
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Netanyahu was right to end the war in Lebanon — now Gaza must follow
-
Culture 10 wicked ways to avoid talking about Gaza and Trump this Thanksgiving
-
Fast Forward Israeli security cabinet approves ceasefire with Hezbollah, paving way for end of yearlong conflict in Israel’s north
-
Culture Who are the most (and least) Jewish Peanuts characters?
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
