Posts Tagged: American Jews
Rubio’s Proud Restating of the Obvious
On Thursday, two days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's landslide re-election, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) delivered a 15-minute tribute to the Jewish state and...
Israeli Woman Sues Kuwait Airways for Barring Her Boarding on Flight From Kennedy Airport
JNS.org - An Israeli citizen who has lived in the United States for 15 years was barred from boarding a Kuwait Airways flight to London,...
What Type of Zionism is Acceptable?
Among the most pernicious consequences of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) movement has been the wedge driven between Israel and liberal Americans, including...
Hannukah Greetings From The New York Times
The New York Times, owned by Jews named Sulzberger ever since Adolph Ochs purchased the floundering newspaper in 1896, might have passed along Hanukkah...
New Play Explores the ‘Arrogance’ of American Jews Critical of Israel, Playwright Says
In his new play Mr. Goldberg Goes to Tel Aviv, playwright Oren Safdie tackles an issue that is a cause of great concern to him: the...
The Familiar Face of Terror, and Resolve
Living in the Har Nof section of Jerusalem more than 20 years ago, I knew what terror was like. In those days, it was the Scud...
Responding to Terrorism With Flawed Analogies
The horrific slaughter last week of four rabbis at prayer in their Jerusalem synagogue sparked a wide range of responses. Shock and mourning aside, there...
Why Rejecting America’s Dictates is Crucial for Israel’s Security
In a telling follow-up to his now famous report on an Obama Administration official referring to Israel's Prime Minister as a 'chickenshit,' The Altantic's Jeffrey...
Betrayal: FDR and the Jews
Like everyone else I knew in the Forest Hills of my boyhood, my parents were the American-born children of immigrants from Eastern Europe. But my...
U.S. Jewish Leaders’ Deafening Silence
Over the past few months, the Jewish state has been increasingly castigated by U.S. President Barack Obama and his spokesmen as part of botched efforts...
Israel and the Jewish People Don’t Need the World’s Permission to Survive
It is easy for me, as someone who does not live in Israel, to tell the Israeli military what to do. But as someone who was educated in the Jabotinsky...
The Klinghoffer Opera and the State of American Jewry
The debate over the New York Metropolitan Opera's performance of "The Death of "ŽKlinghoffer" raises serious questions about the functioning of American Jewish leadership."Ž Over the...
Does Anti-Semitism Threaten American Jews?
JNS.org - In a recent issue of Time magazine, Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, former president of the Union for Reform Judaism, writes that anti-Semitism is...
The Jews Behind ‘Game of Thrones’
JNS.org - It was only a matter of time before someone was going to write about Jews involved in Game of Thrones. After...
