Posts Tagged: Jewish Identity
Jewish Settlers and The New York Times
Dani Dayan's New York Times op-ed (July 26), "Israel's Settlers Are Here to Stay," was an eyebrow raiser. The return of Jewish settlers to Judea...
The State of the Jews (REVIEW)
The State of the Jews A Critical Appraisal by Edward Alexander Transaction Publishers, 2012. $35 pp. 264 The worrisome state of the Jewish people these days has little...
Pondering the Limits of Conversation
The Jewish Agency's third Global Jewish Forum is just a stone's throw away on the calendar. I use that expression intentionally. Occurring three times each...
Anti-Israel Norman Finkelstein on BBC’s Hardtalk Claims American Jews are Deserting Israel (VIDEO)
Norman Finkelstein continued his ongoing criticism of Israel in a recent appearance on the BBC's Hardtalk program. He started off by saying that surveys show...
A Warrior-Scholar Falls in Israel: The Death of Benzion Netanyahu
I had already twice hosted Benjamin Netanyahu - at the time Israel's deputy Foreign Minister - at the University of Oxford before I extended my...
Miami, a Vending Machine, and My First YZL Conference
I had never been to a Jewish-related conference before YZL (Young Zionist Leadership); actually I had never been to any sort of conference . I...
Rumsfeld ‘Amazed’ by Washington Treatment of Israel, Vice Premier Highlights ‘Conceptual Failure’ (PHOTOS)
Stressing that attributing current problems in the Middle East to the Israel- Palestinian conflict is a "continuous conceptual failure," Vice Prime Minister Moshe...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg Presides Over Naming of Ed Koch Center (PHOTOS)
Oh what a night! Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented (former) Mayor Edward I. Koch to an admiring crowd gathered in New York City January 25...
Jewish Art: From Venice with Soul
This past summer I had the pleasure of meeting David Ariel De Guglielmi in his charming gallery in the Jewish ghetto in Venice, Italy. Batsheva...
As Britain Seeks a New Chief Rabbi, Extremists Rise
Two forms of religious extremism confronted me last week as lectured in the United Kingdom and launched my book Kosher Jesus at a press conference...
‘Punk Jews,’ Why we made it?
People often ask me about an issue that is both the easiest and hardest to explain. Jewish identity in the 21st century, the subject in question...
Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America
Why has the position of Jews at American universities deteriorated in the past decade and what can be done about it? Understanding the history of this...
