Posts Tagged: American Jews
US Jewish Groups Issue Communal Call for ‘Kindness and Solidarity’ Amid Worsening Coronavirus Crisis
Nearly 200 US Jewish groups and institutions issued a joint statement of solidarity on Wednesday, amid the worsening coronavirus pandemic. “We join today as representatives of...
National Anxieties and Doomsday Scenarios in HBO’s ‘Plot Against America’
JNS.org - Improbable as it may seem during a global pandemic, HBO is airing a miniseries that could very well take your mind off of...
Dreyfus’ Long Shadow for American Jews
The post-World War I period -- including 1919’s Red Scare, passage of racist immigration restriction acts, mass KKK marches on the nation’s capital, and Henry...
Is Israel’s Intolerance of Non-Orthodox Sects Alienating American Jewry?
A recent survey conducted by the Ruderman Family Foundation found that 80% of American Jews define themselves as pro-Israel. The same survey indicated that 67%...
Making Excuses for Antisemitism, Then and Now
"Synagogues in Washington Heights were smeared with antisemitic epithets, vandalized, and set afire"; "Mobs of hoodlums have been harassing Jews"; "Jewish cemeteries in Brooklyn, Queens, and...
The Jewish Community as a Political Football
As a result of the recent violence by members of the African-American community and others against Jews in the United States, many have ramped up...
Memo to All Jews: It’s Time to Kiss and Make Up
JNS.org - Left, right and sideways, Jews in America are facing a major dilemma: Whose side should we take? Do we take the conservative point of...
The Hanukkah Challenge for Young Jews
JNS.org - Hanukkah’s popularity with American Jews was largely the result of a futile if determined effort to compete with Christmas. While enjoying freedom, prosperity,...
The Implications of the British Election for Jews and Israel
JNS.org - For Britain’s Jews, the Labour Party’s antisemitism crisis was a paramount issue. The crisis, which began with BDS in Labour groups on university...
Know Your Worth as a Jew
I was born in Israel to Jewish parents, Rachel and Mordecai Paldiel, and never knew my maternal grandfather, because he was killed in Israel’s 1948...
Antisemitism Is Real — We Must Fight It Loud and Proud
Jews are under assault in the United States. White nationalists are marking the landscape with a trail of blood and swastikas, desecrating Jewish tombstones, and...
Fear Itself Isn’t the Only Thing American Jews Have to Fear
JNS.org - With impeccable timing, a new American Jewish Committee survey came out only days before the one-year anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. The...
Yom Kippur and the Lamb Chop
JNS.org - I knew the Kol Nidre crowd at the Beverly Hills Hotel was probably expecting me to talk about big issues. Since I deal...
America’s Jewish Population is Growing, But Getting Older
JNS.org - The American Jewish population has grown 10 percent in the last seven years and is mostly liberal, 65 or older and white, according...
