Posts Tagged: American Jewry
Choose Your Side: The New York Times or Judaism
"How long halt ye between two opinions?" - 1 Kings 18:21 American Jewry is often said to be divided between those who judge Judaism by...
Biden to Address AIPAC Conference Next Week
JTA - Vice President Joe Biden will address next week's AIPAC policy conference. Biden will speak to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference on the...
Modern Orthodox Rabbi Seeks to Change Israeli Rabbinate
Amid the surprising Israeli election results that empowered political parties calling for a change to the ultra-Orthodox's grip on Jewish life, a reform-minded modern Orthodox...
Netanyahu to American Jewish Leaders: Iran Getting Closer to Crossing Nuclear Line
The Iranians are getting ever closer to developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jewish American leaders on Monday in Jerusalem. "I drew a line...
American Jewry’s Dirty Little Secret
In nearly every American Jewish home, a tzedekah (charity) box is thought of as a given, an absolute certainty. With a lot of fanfare, world...
Ed Koch: The Death of a Liberal Israel Lover
The passing of Ed Koch marks the beginning of the end of an important era in American Jewish life. Koch represented a time when support...
B’nai B’rith Raising Awareness on Persecution of Middle East Christians
B'nai B'rith International, the world's oldest Jewish service organization, is teaming up with experts to promote knowledge about the roughly 200 million...
The Scattered Tribe: Discovering Remote Jewish Communities
Author Ben G. Frank takes the old fortune cookie prediction "you will be on the soil of many countries" very seriously, especially as he embarks...
Israeli Ambassador Oren at GA: Israel Should be Viewed as a ‘Real Country,’ Not as an ‘Issue’
BALTIMORE—Despite being in the midst of a "golden age," global Jewry is tasked with overcoming divisiveness stemming from Israel being seen "as an issue, as...
New Presidential Campaign Ad Featuring Netanyahu Released in Florida (VIDEO)
The non-partisan group SecureAmericanow.org , which claims on its site to have created an organization "that allows the American people to influence American security and foreign...
Double Review: ‘Millions of Jews to Rescue’ and ‘Herbert Hoover and the Jews’ (REVIEW)
Herbert Hoover and the Jews: The Origins of the "Jewish Vote" and Bipartisan Support for Israel, by Sonja Schoepf Wentling and Rafael Medoff (Washington:...
Study: 25% of New York City Jews Live in Poverty
1.1 million. That's the number of Jewish individuals currently living in New York City, representing an increase in the population size since 2002 , according to...
The Jewish Problem in America
Previously in America, educated, passionate American Jews may have said that their biggest problems were external - anti-Semites, the survival of Israel or other pressing...
Will Peter Beinart Debate Me on Israel and School Choice?
Having experienced ferocious criticism for publishing Kosher Jesus from people who confessed to having never read my book, I don't want to make the same mistake...
