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December 2013

RUTHIE BLUM: BAD BLOOD LIBEL

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6649 On Wednesday, the Magen David Adom rescue organization set up a blood-donation station at the Knesset. Among other members of Israel’s parliament to volunteer to perform their civic duty was Yesh Atid MK Pnina Tamano-Shata, a lawyer and journalist by profession whose family immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia in 1984. But before Tamano-Shata, the […]

D. J. Jaffe:How Should We Help the Seriously Mentally Ill?

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/366222/printTwo mental-health bills. Two different parties. This week, President Barack Obama and Representative Tim Murphy (R., Pa.) used the anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook to unveil two very different views of how to serve the mental-health needs of Americans. President Obama announced $100 million in incremental spending in the usual way: more mental-health […]

CAROLINE GLICK: POLLARD AND AN AMERICAN JEWISH RENAISSANCE

Pollard and an American Jewish renaissance The expressions of shock and indignation that accompanied Edward Snowden’s revelations that the United States uses signal intelligence assets to spy on its allies were more than a little disingenuous. Everybody knows that everybody spies on everybody. If Germany’s spy agencies can, they are most certainly listening to the […]