"Jew Make The Call"
(December 1997)
"Exactly what had just happened? I saw and heard an uninterrupted lineage of nonsense, passed down from previous generations and now delivered to another culture, another land. Had anyone taught these kids that it is not cool to impose your delusions on someone? Shouldn't Jews be more keenly aware of that, more than any other group, since Jewish communities stretched from Vilna to Addis Ababa and every point in between? Maybe not. I guess they cut that class and did Jive home-study."

The Politics Of Religion In Israel: 1974
(December 1997)
"Although the present crisis has been resolved, in the future the failure of any single party to gain a parliamentary majority will result in a situation where a religious minority has disproportionate power and the possibility of imposing the precepts of orthodoxy on all Jewish Israelis."

The Politics Of Religion In Israel: 1997
(December 1997)
" While the notion of a halachic state may appeal to many religious Jews, I would humbly suggest that realization of such a flawed idea would threaten both the state, and-much more significantly-Judaism itself."

Herzl's Congress Turns 100
Young Jewish leaders find few spots on ballot (September 1997)
"For the first time, elections are open to anyone 18 or older who registered to vote earlier in the summer. The new voting age not only means that college students can vote, but they can also vote for their peers."

Rosa Parks Redux?
Israeli bus segregation is just the beginning (September 1997)
"When the New York Jewish Week asked feminist activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin what she thought of the new policy, she exclaimed that it evoked 'echoes of blacks sitting in the back of the bus . . .' For an American Jewish leadership who came of age during the Civil Rights movement, it will be difficult to understand the new policy any other way."

You Say You Want A Revolution?
(September 1997)
"Shouldn't the American Jewish establishment pressure all Jewish leaders, including Israeli politicians, to consistently condemn these violent antisemitic acts just as they pressure black leaders to condemn Farrakhan because of his antisemitic rhetoric?"

Lectures, Midterms, and Intifada
A Look Inside the West Bank's Birzeit University (January 1997)
"It often takes a Palestinian five, six, even seven years to finish. And it's not because he's stupid. It is because we sit in jails and when we are free our school is closed."

Herzl Redivivus
(January 1997)
"Netanyahu, in his first address as Prime Minister to the largest gathering of American Jewish leaders, is appealing to American Jews' pocketbooks, not their ideology."

Profile: Ishmail Khalidi
A Modern Bedouin (March 1997)
Since graduating from Tel Aviv University Ishmail has dedicated his life to sharing the rich culture and tradition of the Bedouin with the rest of the world. He wants to share his love for Israel, which he calls "the best country in the world," and would like people to understand that "the Israeli People are all people who live in Israel," not only Jews.

The Helicopter Disaster
(April 1997)
"Small windows into the lives of each of the young men who died were shared with the nation by their families in the form of home video clips."

A Woman at the Wall
(April 1997)
"Swallowing back tears, I steadied my voice and began to sing louder, more defiantly. Something flew into the crowd of praying women and bounced off my friend's back."