Leonard Fein


Poverty in America: A Crisis Ignored

By Leonard Fein

Poverty in America: A Crisis Ignored
Mitt Romney isn’t alone in not caring much about the poor. Despite the growing shame of poverty in America, few leaders on either side of the aisle talk about it.Read More


Echoes of U.S. Racism in Israel

By Leonard Fein

Echoes of U.S. Racism in Israel
Ethiopians in Israel are often barred from buying apartments by restrictive covenants. Such tactics were once used against Jews and blacks in the U.S., Leonard Fein writes.Read More


Ready for Separation of Synagogue, State

By Leonard Fein

In an earlier phase of the argument between Israel’s Orthodox sector and the rest of society, the issues that were most heatedly debated involved the status of Reform and Conservative Judaism and of their rabbis.Read More


Why Romney Tags Obama as 'European'

By Leonard Fein

Why Romney Tags Obama as 'European'
Mitt Romney often brands President Obama as ‘European.’ The GOP frontrunner (who speaks fluent French) is trying to plant seeds of doubt about his nationality.Read More


Prisoners of Both Memory and Hope

By Leonard Fein

We need a Judaism that is fully engaged with modernity, that does not cower before it, that does not shrink from it in fear for its own survival, writes Leonard Fein.Read More