Posts Tagged: attacks on Jews
Honoring the Two-Year Anniversary of the Tree of Life Shooting by Strengthening Communal Bridges
JNS.org - Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, the religious leader of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha synagogue, and several other survivors of the mass shooting that cut...
An Action Plan for a New Jewish Leadership
The chickens have come home to roost. Years of neglect and misguided policies by mainstream Jewish leaders have helped enable a shocking surge of Jew-hatred...
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...
Antisemitism on the College Campus Is Evolving
JNS.org - True to its chameleonic nature, antisemitism on campus is constantly changing colors. Some of the earliest documented campus antisemitism occurred during the early to...
Why State Legislatures Must Support Israel and Fight Antisemitism
JNS.org - My first visit to Israel was incredible. It was a privilege to visit America’s closest ally in the Middle East as part of...
A Truly Diverse and Free Society Is Our Only Hope
I thought that after 2,000 years of discrimination, pogroms, and expulsions ending in the Holocaust, antisemitism would finally be consigned to the dustbin of history. I...
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...
Anti-BDS Effort Buoyed by New Executive Order
The most important BDS-related development last month was an announcement by the Trump administration of an Executive Order expanding protections to Jewish and other students...
It’s Not ‘Antisemitism,’ It’s Jew-Hatred
Ascribing the three murders at Jersey City’s kosher supermarket, the stabbing attack that wounded five -- one grievously -- at a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey,...
Never Again, Circa 2020
What does the phrase “Never Again” mean to you? And what should it mean to Jews living in the United States in 2020? In light of...
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...
Jewish Predicaments: 1939 and 2019
The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, not noted as a political thinker, nevertheless knew something about political paradoxes. Fitzgerald wrote: “The test of a first-rate...
The Only Answer to Hatred of Jews Is Jewish Pride
JNS.org - This week on Twitter, a Jewish writer in Los Angeles decided to dispense some advice to her followers. Ariel Sobel had become aware...
Ten Jewish Groups Unite to Undermine Israel
JNS.org - For years, the pundits have been telling us that Israeli democracy is in danger because of the Arab birthrate, or because of the...
