Posts Tagged: American Jews
New Survey: Israeli and US Jews Differ Dramatically on What They See as Biggest Problem Facing Jewish State
Jews in Israel and the US differ dramatically on what they see as the most important problem facing the Jewish state, a Pew Research Center...
Mother of Israeli Teenage Terror Victim: Our Grief Has Only Gotten Stronger With Time, But We Will Continue to Live Here
The mother of a 13-year-old Israeli girl who was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist earlier this summer told The Algemeiner on Thursday that her grief over her...
Israel and American Liberal Jewry: The Real Reasons for the Rift
Israel’s accomplishments have been remarkable. Israel has created a thriving economy, and has been a refuge for hundreds of thousands of the displaced and the...
What is the Meaning of America? Ask My Family
To truly understand the meaning of America, ask someone who wasn’t born here. In my case, that’s easy. My mother was born in the Soviet Union...
In Visit to New York, IDF Soldier Who Survived Terror Attack Moved by Support of American Jews for Israel
An IDF soldier recovering from a Palestinian terror attack told The Algemeiner about the positive experiences she and fellow victims had while on a sponsored trip to the United States. “The love...
‘Berning’ the Jews: Sanders and the Democratic Platform Committee
"Antisemitism is no longer a problem, fortunately. It’s raised because privileged people want to make sure they have total control, not just 98% control. That’s...
Netanyahu: ‘Difficult to Overstate’ American Jewry’s Importance to Israel
JNS.org - It is “difficult to overstate the importance of the American Jewish people to the State of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday at...
Zionism as Americanism?
A curious coincidence: with Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court on indefinite hold in the Senate pending the November election results comes a...
A Promise That Should Be Kept
The leader of the Reform movement of Judaism just opened the door to a machloket l’shem shamayim – an argument for the sake of heaven – that,...
Bigotry and Antisemitism Fight Back
Given what we know about the ultimate results of hate-filled stereotypes, you’d think that we would have abandoned them by now. At the very least, you’d have thought that by...
Conservative Jews Deserve More Than PR
JNS.org - Responding to a dramatic decline in membership, the Conservative Jewish movement’s congregational arm has hired the Good Omen PR agency to survey hundreds of...
How Would Living in the United States Change My Daughters?
Yogi Berra once said that when you come to a fork in the road, take it. On a recent family vacation to the United States, I did...
Modern Orthodox Education Caught Between…Modern and Orthodox
JNS.org - When the Pew Research Center published its much-discussed survey of American Jews in 2013, the findings seemed auspicious for the Orthodox denomination. Orthodox Jews...
Conservative Judaism’s Rebranding Effort Could Signal a Sea Change
JNS.org - Conservative Judaism has always had something akin to middle-child syndrome: squeezed on both sides by the Orthodox and Reform movements. But lately, its identity...
