Internationally acclaimed jazz musician and author Gilad Atzmon returns to Geneva, NY on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, for an evening presentation with special guest Rich Siegel to help raise funds for the Deir Yassin Remembered Scholarship program. The goal of the scholarship is to provide financial aid to the young people of Palestine and Israel [...]

The Third Rail Prior to 2005, the group Jewish Voice for Peace – Chicago called itself “Not in My Name”. The group continues to maintain a 12-year-old weekly vigil, upon which JWPF patterned itself — sign holding, some banners, respectful, silent and peaceful. Every week this report gets sent to their email list for distribution [...]

Detroit Billboard Project GPS and Google-map geeks may refer to the following coordinates to locate what we believe is the only billboard in the entire Midwest (we could be wrong, please send photos) critical of US funding of Israel. 42.378498,-83.196512 The rest of us can simply drive westbound from Detroit on Interstate 96 and observe [...]

The article below is re-posted from the Arab American News; hyperlinks do not appear in the original article. Detroit billboard responds to Bay City ad, protests U.S. aid to Israel DETROIT — The latest episode in the Israel/Palestine public advertisement feud has unfolded in Michigan, but this time around, the pro-Palestinian side has had a [...]

Poll: Israelis Remember the Holocaust as ‘Guiding Principle ‘ Israeli journalist Merav Michaeli has written an op-ed highlighting a survey among Israelis which indicates a “total consensus among Israeli Jews – regardless of religious, ethnic or political differences – that the ‘guiding principle’ for the country and for Judaism itself is ‘to remember the Holocaust.’ [...]