Posts Tagged: American Jews
Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation’s History through the Lives of Its Foremost Leaders (REVIEW)
Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation's History through the Lives of Its Foremost Leaders, by Jack L. Schwartzwald. (Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland...
American Jewish Organizations Must Support Government Funding For Jewish Schools
Government provides aid to Jewish schools in Australia, Britain and Canada - and it is high time that the Jewish community in America demands the...
A Democratic Chorus of ‘No’ Rejects Mention of Jerusalem in Platform
The shocking video of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa trying to push through Jerusalem as Israel's capital in the Democratic platform highlights the strong reservations that many...
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:...
Guardian’s Chris McGreal Suggests IDF ‘Killing’ of Corrie no Different than Hamas Suicide Bombing
While Chris McGreal may be the Guardian's Washington correspondent, he is certainly not a "reporter". His shrill, tendentious activist journalism - which arguably makes Harriet Sherwood...
Saving and Educating Jews are Acts of Holiness
In the book 'Defiance' (which was later made into a Hollywood film staring Liev Schreiber), the wife of a partisan says following World War II:...
University of California Urged to Examine Anti-Israel Bias
The pro-Israel education and advocacy organization StandWithUs has garnered more than 1,500 signatures on a petition urging the University of California (UC) system's President's Advisory...
The “Crisis” of Jewry (Not Zionism)
Jews Without a Meaningful Connection to Their Own Religion, Heritage, and History Think Little of Disavowing Them. The recently highlighted "crisis of Zionism" is in...
Opinion: A Response to Senator Lautenberg’s Attack on the Republican Position on Israel
I consider Senator Frank Lautenberg a personal friend and a distinguished Jewish leader. My criticism, therefore, of his furious attack on Republican attitudes toward Obama...
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Republicans?
It's a love affair that's defied time, common sense and the occasional betrayal: US Jews and the Democratic Party. Why are America's Red...
Israel Welcomes 350 North American Immigrants
Some 350 immigrants from North America arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning on a Nefesh B'Nefesh charter flight, and were greeted at Ben-Gurion...
“StandWithUs” Launching New Israel Advocacy For Teenagers
The pro-Israel education and advocacy group StandWithUs is launching a new program to help train 48 teenagers from around the U.S. as proactive...
Self-Hating Israeli: Avraham Burg
Self-hating Jews have long been conspicuous in the Jewish world, fearfully and self-righteously distancing themselves from their people and even aligning with its enemies. For...
Playing Politics with Jews
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), in his best Captain Renault form - which includes being entirely insincere and unconvincing - is shocked, shocked to...
