Posts Tagged: Donald Trump
Why Is This ‘Jewish’ Humanitarian Group Challenging Trump’s Immigration Ban?
JNS.org - Imagine you are an impoverished religious Jew living in Paris. You can no longer wear religious garb out of fear of being attacked by North African immigrants....
What Maimonides Teaches Us About Trump
JNS.org - If anyone can be said to have discovered the formula for a world without evil, that accolade belongs to the great medieval Jewish philosopher...
The Constitution, Shabbat and the Purpose of Limitations
Just three weeks into the new administration in Washington, calls to impeach President Donald Trump have already begun. James C. Nelson, a retired Montana Supreme...
Prominent Anti-Trump Rabbi: It Would Be ‘Anti-Jewish’ to Deny President’s Pick for Israel Ambassador a Chance to Be Heard
It would be “anti-Jewish” to deny President Donald Trump’s controversial pick for Israel ambassador the opportunity to speak, a prominent member of the American-Jewish clergy...
How Moving the US Embassy to West Jerusalem, While Denying Israel’s Sovereignty Over East Jerusalem, Could Inject New Life Into the Peace Process
If President Trump fulfills his campaign promise to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, there will be major regional and international repercussions. The Trump administration...
Trump’s Refugee Ban Echoes Past US Wartime Paranoia and Outright Bigotry
JNS.org -- There are many axioms reminding us that if we fail to learn from the tragedies of the past, we are doomed to relive them in...
Why Jews Should Oppose Trump’s Immigration Policies
In 1939, the United States turned back a ship carrying more than 900 mostly German-Jewish passengers -- 254 of whom were later killed in the Holocaust. We Jews need to...
Are Trump and Israel on the Same Page?
The first two weeks of President Donald Trump’s administration have been the most active of any in recent memory. The unprecedented executive orders, not to...
To Understand Trump, Read His 2012 Book
Maybe I missed it, but in all the millions of words being written about Donald Trump over the past year, I never saw anyone in the...
Trump’s Travel Ban Was Clumsily Launched but Legally Justified
JNS.org - To say that the implementation of President Donald Trump’s travel ban was clumsy would be an understatement. To say, however, that the principles involved were...
Stanford Freshman Criticizes Administrators for Providing Solace, Resources to Students Lamenting Trump’s Election, While ‘Largely Ignoring’ Antisemitic Incidents on Campus
A freshman at Stanford University criticized school administrators for offering aid and solace to students who were upset by the election of Donald Trump to the US...
Trump’s Iran Sanctions Realign US Mideast Policy Towards Sunnis and Israel
JNS.org - President Donald Trump’s administration issued new sanctions against Iran’s ballistic missile program on Friday, marking a major step toward realigning US policy in the Middle...
Trump Must Move the Embassy to Jerusalem Now
With Donald Trump in the White House, speculation is mounting: Does he intend to act on his pre-election promise, dating back to January 2016, and reaffirmed...
‘When the Jews Are Away, the Goys Will Play,’ Says Trump Impersonator Alec Baldwin in First ‘Saturday Night Live’ Lampoon Since Presidential Inauguration
For the first time since Donald Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States on January 20, actor Alec Baldwin returned this weekend to the...
