Once again, we at EMET wish that we had been proven wrong. As soon as the demonstrators took to the streets in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt last winter, we had been alone on Capitol Hill arguing that  the United States should immediately halt, or at least temporarily suspend, all U.S. military aid and...
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“Age and health aside, the likelihood of Khomeini taking and holding power for any prolonged period of time are (sic) just about nil. For one thing, the army, the most important organized force in the country could not unite behind him and his concept of instituting a sever religious state opposed to modernization and...
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This past winter, the Arab and Muslim worlds have been rocked by a confluence of events, by what some people have dubbed “The Arab Spring”, but which I prefer to refer to as “The Arab Hurricane”. What began as a routine harassment by a government bureaucrat to a Tunisian vegetable vendor (and ended in...
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By Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler At the recent AIPAC Policy Conference, at a packed luncheon forum for higher givers, Chairwoman of the important House Foreign Affairs Committee Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-FL), was interviewed by an AIPAC official.  When she mentioned that she is in favor of cutting off the military aid to Egypt, the...
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A Victory for Moral Clarity By Sarah N. Stern Today is a great day to be an American. The news of the capture and the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the man who was responsible for the largest terror attack in history on American soil — the very icon of evil — was killed...
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(ed. note:  The following is written by Donna Clarke, a member of the EMET board, and a Jewish Educator): Recently, I had the profound privilege of accompanying EMET founder and president Sarah Stern, as she met with a myriad of assorted notables on the Hill. I watched with awe as she expressed her concerns...
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“Get your facts first…then you can distort them as you please”- Mark Twain I left Israel, this week, with a heavy heart, wondering how the tables have been turned around so dramatically and in so remarkably short a time, against the Jewish state. It is with  incredible deft, that a physical war to eradicate...
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It is with a heart full of gladness that I wish a happy birthday to the America that I love. I had been worried for a while there, that the America that my  father  and maternal grandmother had both come to, fleeing Cossacks and Nazis, as so many other millions of other immigrants had...
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In what is arguably one of the most lame-brain decisions coming out of a government agency, in our  time, The Wall Street Journal Saturday warns that the Homeland Security Department is now attempting to deport Mosab Hassan Yousef, author of ‘Son of Hamas’ the best-selling autobiography about Yousef’s time working alongside Israeli intelligence to...
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(This is a speech that Sarah Stern delivered to Beth Jacob Congregations in Los Angeles) We recently celebrated the 62nd anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel. The scratchy video tape of that momentous vote in the United Nations will be forever etched on the collective memories our generation. And as you...
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