Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The liveliest session, delegates said, was when Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and president of The Israel Project, faced off against author Peter Beinart, who argued in a controversial essay last year that reflective defense of Israel in the public ...

That has led to a dynamic of Washington pressing for greater liberties throughout the region while gently reminding the parties that the United States will continue to preserve its interests, said Steve Clemons, an influential foreign policy analyst ...

Peter Beinart, whose book "The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris" is being published this week, said the differences are not simply circumstantial but stem from fundamentally different outlooks....

Peter Beinart attends an Orthodox synagogue, once edited The New Republic (the closest thing to a smicha ...

The notion of favoritism "doesn't apply to this government, he's not the leader of anything," said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the New America and Century Foundations who advised Barak when he was prime minister. "He's not a politically heavyweight person, but he's serious" as Netanyahu's partner in shaping policy. "If the politics are absent, it allows you to do that. He's liberated by not having a political future." ...

Surely there is no efficacious way to presage any innovator's eventual success, given that as Lucy Bernholz at Philanthropy 2173 astutely notes, ...