Posts Tagged: American Jews and Israel
Rebuilding the Jewish Brand in America
JNS.org - What is the central vibe in the Jewish world today? In a word, anxiety. Justified anxiety, I might add. It seems everywhere we turn, there...
Why Golda Still Matters
JNS.org - In a dramatic scene from the new film Golda, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir meets with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Kissinger...
US Hysteria Over Israel’s Elections Shows More Chutzpah Than Wisdom
JNS.org - Americans—especially American Jews—have expressed dismay at the results of last week’s Israeli elections. They seem to believe that Israel has been transformed suddenly...
Israel and America: Vive la Différence
JNS.org - It’s a strange experience to walk around a town and notice that virtually everyone is Jewish. It’s as if all of Los Angeles...
Are American Jewish Organizations Supporting Israel Strongly Enough?
While American Jews were being beaten on the streets of New York -- and the State of Israel’s good name was being shredded all across...
The Lost Message of Purim: Jewish Unity
Purim is a holiday of Jewish unity. It could never have been made possible without the incredible display of both unity and organization. The Purim story...
Bonds Building Bonds — Honoring Generations of Sound Investment
JNS.org - If anyone in your family celebrated a bar or bat mitzvah, a wedding, or the birth of a baby after September 3, 1950,...
Why the US Diaspora Misunderstands Israel
JNS.org - Israel is meant to be the nation-state of the Jewish people. But for some time now, we have been hearing that the US...
Some Things Are More Important Than International Good Will
JNS.org - The recent spate of terrorist attacks against Israelis for which Hamas claimed credit launched a debate about what the Israeli government, led by...
A Call to GA Participants
First, permit me to open this column by expressing my distress that for the first time, the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) are holding...
Poll: Half of Israeli Voters Believe Netanyahu Isn’t Doing Enough to Strengthen Connection With American Jews
Almost half of Israeli voters believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to strengthen the connection between Israeli and American Jews, a new...
70 Years of Miracles
JNS.org – Like some of the past celebrations of Israel’s Independence Day, the fuss being made about Israel’s 70th birthday this year hasn’t penetrated too far...
The American Public and Israel: A Record of Support, But Clouds on the Horizon
Gallup has conducted polls of American public opinion towards Israel since the 1947 UN Partition Resolution. Since 1977, Gallup has conducted such surveys annually and, during...
Fourteen Flaws in Tom Friedman’s ‘Israel to American Jews’ New York Times Column
The New York Times devotes three columns on the top half of its op-ed page to an article by Thomas Friedman that appears under the...
