Kathleen Peratis
National News
- Jewish Women Lag Behind Men in Promotion and Pay
- Fiscal Challenges Face Federations
- On Campus, a Divide Over ‘Pro-Israel’
Community News
- In Mayoral Race, N.Y. Jews Back Bloomberg
- Lévi-Strauss: He Changed How We See Culture, but Ignored His Own
- For Pets, a Temporary Shelter From the Storm
International News
- U.S. Eases Pressure on Israel, Leans On Palestinians
- HIAS Still Aids Immigrants, but Most Don’t Resemble Sergey Brin
- Human Rights Watch Debates Its Mission With a Founding Critic
Israel News
- Palestinian Workers Plan To Sue Settlement, Seek To Fall Under Israeli Law
- Losing Support and Suffering Defections, Labor Party Is in a ‘Struggle for Life’
- British Christians Push Repentance for Nation’s Conduct During Mandate
Arts & Culture
- Talmud vs. Anna Akhmatova
- Transforming the Y
- Against Israeli Anti-Mizrahism
- EnviroJews Avant La Lettre
- Squeezing the Cultural and Historical Juice Out of Love in ‘Jaffa’
- Brutally Frank
Fast Forward
- Schmutz Sandwich Anyone?
- The Doctor Who Had the Chutzpah To Write Music
- Nine Faiths, One Vegan Lunch at Windsor Castle
- High School Reunion
- Creating an Arab-Israeli Dialogue, One Note at a Time
- Saving Pastrami on Rye
The Shmooze
- First Israeli NBA Player Scores Big
- Jon & Shmuley Plus Another Media Circus
- The Pitselech Are Reviving Yiddish
- Is Your Recipe Worth $25,000?
- Hummus Wars
- The L.A. Times: ‘Jewish Guys Heart Shiksas’
Forward Forum
- The Goldstone Standard
- The World That Jewish Veterans Built
- What a Dollar Gets You on Capitol Hill, and What It Doesn’t
- Is Birthright Israel an Intermarriage Panacea?
- Calming the Temple Mount
- A Terrorist Who Was Not Alone
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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