Daniel Lubetzky

At the end of my interview with President Obama the morning of Friday, August 28, after he had defended with lawyerly precision the pending multinational nuclear agreement with Iran and voiced a determined optimism that the toxic relations between his administration and Israel will be repaired, I asked him a more personal question. He had [...]

The summer has been an ugly one for the American Jewish community. What should have been a policy debate over the Iran nuclear deal devolved into something much more pernicious and overwhelming. The Iran deal, as important as it is, has become so divisive that the damage it is doing to American Jewry, and even [...]

We often cover anti-Semitic outbursts, but attacks on Jews are just one link in the chain. The United States has been dealing in recent years with white hate criminals who murder black people and with Muslim hate criminals who murder soldiers. Europe is dealing with Muslims who murder Jews and Christians and with Christians who [...]

Four articles to read regarding the Iran deal: Theguardian.com: We should not let euphoria about the Iran nuclear deal cloud our judgment, Michael Herzog New York Times: A Good Deal for Israel, Chuck Freilich Ynet News: Before we Storm Capitol Hill, Efraim Halevy The New York Times: Backing Up Our Wager With Iran, Thomas L. Friedman Ottomans [...]

By Dennis Ross July 14 Dennis Ross, a counselor and fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was a special assistant to President Obama from 2009 to 2011. The deal with Iran is finally done. Given the stakes, it should be scrutinized. It makes sense to reserve judgment and see how the administration [...]

According to the U.S. State Department’s definition, to delegitimize, demonize, or apply a double standard to Israel all are modern manifestations of the most ancient hatred. These criteria are based on a working definition of Israel-related anti-Semitism that was adopted by the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia in 2005, and subsequently dropped. The [...]

To feed his habit, Mr. Anderson, 35, keeps bees in the backyard of his home in Broken Head, a village on Australia’s east coast near Byron Bay in New South Wales. He comes from a family of hobbyist beekeepers. Ten years ago, he grew impatient with the traditional, labor-intensive methods of extracting honey. In a [...]

I hope this is not a portent of what is to come because of climate change. The scene described could fit in a book or film and would be considered by viewers as over the top Hollywood exaggeration except, yet again, fact is stranger than fiction. Georgian leaders asked residents to stay inside as they [...]

This is a really beautiful story of kindness. Hessed is the Hebrew  word for compassion and loving-kindness, and according to Ethics of Our Fathers, is one of three pillars that support the world. For me, Hessed is the essence of Judaism as well as its foundation, and it is what I love the most about [...]

I always thought the portrayal of big tobacco as immoral or heartless and downright evil was a convenient exaggeration but their actions,as unveiled by John Oliver, really are beyond appalling!