I have a childhood memory of my grandmother in her small Brooklyn apartment crying while holding a faded picture of her huge, beautiful, Hungarian-Jewish family, who, with the exception of one other sibling, perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. One of my aunts, who had the sensitivity of a sledge hammer, yelled at...
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It’s always a few people in each generation that help to keep the spark of our people alive.  Last Thursday night, I was incredibly gratified to be able to participate in a very well organized rally at the National Mall, organized under the excellent mentorship of Rabbi Ari Israel of the University of Maryland...
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Note:  Below is a letter from Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, regarding the proposed $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. November XX, 2010 The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street,...
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EMET has just received word directly from Mosab that the Government has officially dismissed its deportation case against Mosab Hassan Yousef at a federal detention center in San Diego. Mosab has told us that it was thanks to the efforts of EMET that the government decided to dismiss its case and grant him political...
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(Cross-posted at EMET with Emmanuel’s Permission) By. Emmanuel Navon René Descartes’ Discours de la Méthode opens with one of the most nonsensical sentences ever written: « Common sense is the most evenly shared thing in the world. »  Then there is Immanuel Kant, who wrote in his Zum ewigen Frieden that republics are less...
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by: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler Earlier this month we watched as the high seas had become the theater for staging yet another hate-infested anti-Israel drama, costumed in heart-rendering, humanitarian language.  This premeditated performance had been cynically calculated to pirate the international sympathy for the people who in open and democratic elections, freely elected...
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It appears that the United States foreign policy community has now successfully moved through all five-stages of grief, when it comes to the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nuclear weapons ambitions. First was Denial, of which the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was the best example, proclaiming that Iran “halted its nuclear weapons...
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By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler One of the many promises made by President Obama was the desire to “repair” America’s relations with the Middle East and Muslim world. Hence speeches aimed at the Muslim world in Turkey, and Cairo, a reversal of long-time, American policy on Israeli settlements , numerous attempts to reconcile...
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By Sarah Stern & Kyle Shideler In the past two and a half weeks, the Obama administration has ramped up its efforts to engage with Syria’s Dictator Bashar Assad, announcing its intentions to appoint an ambassador to Syria 5 years after the Bush Administration severed ties in the aftermath of the Rafik Hariri assassination,...
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We recently received this message from Washington Institute Scholar Mehdi Khalaji regarding the arrest of his father today. It is reproduced below: On Tuesday (Janurary 12) afternoon four agents of intelligence ministry went to our home in Qom and arrested my father Mohammad Taqi Khalaji. They searched the home and collected hundreds of his...
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