Kathleen Peratis
National News
- G.A.’s Savior Is the Russian Oligarch ‘Who Got Away’
- Yuri Foreman: Future Rabbi, Present World Champion
- Visa Issues Lead to a Shortage of Religious Staffers
Community News
- Hasidic Village’s Neighbors Have Slaughterhouse Blues
- Former Agriprocessors CEO Rubashkin Sent to Prison
- Sy Syms, Retail Magnate and Y.U. Benefactor, Dies at 83
International News
- Funding for Overseas Jews In Disarray as Agencies Duel
- Perfect Storm: Wide Gaps, Weak Leaders, Elusive Peace
- The Life, Death and Judaica of a Russian Oligarch
Israel News
- Ethiopian Jews Celebrate a Festival, Gain Israeli Attention for Their Traditions
- Were Israelis Banned From Komen’s Egyptian Cancer Meeting?
- Amid Growing Crisis, U.S. Asks Israel for Action To Boost Abbas
Arts & Culture
- Darwin and Gods — for Kids
- Pannonica
- Magen Tzedek: Model of the Jewish Future or Show Without an Audience?
- Mahmoud Darwish: If He Were Another
- Internet: The Hatred Super-Highway
- How, Why, Who Hates Us
Fast Forward
- Building Identity Through Art
- An Honest Marriage of Vermont and Judaism
- Where ‘Love’ First Appears
- Dirty Sayings Never Get Old
- Two-Way Giving
- Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
The Shmooze
- A New Yad for the Bar-Mitzvah Set
- Vienna Event Misplaces the ‘Hatikvah’
- Costco Gets Into the Torah Business
- Sir Ian Knows What It’s Like
- Prestigious Award for Israeli Choreographer
- MacFarlane’s Not-So-Funny Jew Joke
Forward Forum
- An American Yom Tov
- Trying Terrorists
- The Wages of Liberal Guilt
- A Time for Counting
- Freezing Progess, Not Settlements
- Missing the Abu Mazen Opportunity
Editorial
After Durban II, Egg on Our Faces
By Kathleen Peratis
By any conventional standard the declaration issued at the conclusion of the Durban II global conference on racism, held in Geneva in late April, was a signal — and a very, very positive — achievement. It is forward-looking in its commitment to protect victims of racism, includes significant new protections for migrants, omits the pernicious idea pushed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference that religions should be protected from “defamation” and does not single out Israel for anything.Read More
Georgia Is on Our Minds, But Abuses Are Ignored
By Kathleen Peratis
Georgia has been America’s darling in the Caucasus since its charismatic and telegenic young president, Mikheil Saakashvili, took over from the nasty old Russian-style despot Eduard Shevardnadze in the fall of 2003, in what came to be called the Rose Revolution (because Saakashvili carried a rose, and not an AK-47, as he and the throngs breached the doors of the country’s parliament building). All the world (well, most of it) had high hopes for Saakashvili’s reformist, democratic, anticorruption platform.Read More
Get Used to More Davids Becoming Dianes
By Kathleen Peratis
You have to hand it to Rep. Barney Frank, the man knows how to empathize. In the first-ever congressional hearing on workplace discrimination against transgender people, held by the House in late June in an Education and Labor subcommittee, Frank said he understands what it means to be trapped in the wrong body — because that is what happens when his legislation gets bogged down over in the Senate.Read More
Even the Scary and the Weird Have Rights
By Kathleen Peratis
To Have an Impact, a Ban on Cluster Bombs Must Be Absolute
By Kathleen Peratis
A kind of miracle will take place May 19: The representatives of more than 100 countries will gather in Dublin to finish their negotiation of a treaty banning — banning! — the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster bombs.Read More
- A Defense of Marriage Divorced From Reality
- Discrimination By Any Other Name
- Bring Civil Rights Enforcement Out of the Shadows
- Tell Colombia Free Trade Comes at a Price
- Can We Still Say That a Fetus Does Not Suffer?
- Back Bill To Ban Cluster Bombs
- And the Award Goes to... Queer Yiddishkeit
- In Defense of Condi’s Right To Choose
- In a Land Where Women Are Invisible
- Lives Lost Amid the Slogans of a Time Long Ago
- Turn to Sharia To Promote Human Rights in Muslim Countries
- Anti-sex Campaign Abstains Only From Scientific Truths
- Let Darfurian Refugees in Israel Go
- The U.N. Reforms, Despite Bolton’s Best Efforts
- For Gay Palestinians, Tel Aviv Is Mecca
- ‘Honor’ Killings: Our Silence Dishonors Us
- ‘Honor’ Killings: Our Silence Dishonors Us
- A Cut Above?
- Serving Justice By Not Publicly Serving Justices
- When Kabul Came to Canada, and the Rabbis Fought To Make Shariah the Law of the Land
- Prostituting the Constitution
- Judging Women By Their Merits
- The Price of Multi-payer Health Care
- Looking for Sparks of Justice
- We Reap What They Sew
- An Island of Empowerment
- Silence in the Face of Torture
- Our Kids and the Workplace
- The Blindness to Household Labor Rights
- A Lesson From the ACLU On How To Admit Mistakes
- Badgering Honor
- Why Do We Still Blame Victims Of Date Rape?
- No Ifs, Ands Or Butts
- America Is Not Above the Law In Bringing Saddam to Justice
- Equal Right... To Fight Hate
- The Dumb of All Fears
- Rule of Law, or the Law of the Jungle?
- Back to the Middle Ages?
- France Loses Its Head Over Headscarves
- Imprisoned for Her Own Protection
- Fight for Your Rights: One Man’s Story
- Wrapping Justice in the American Flag
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