Posts Tagged: Jewish leaders
Presbyterian Anti-Israel Crusade: Is That All You Can Say, Gradye?
Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA), could be regarded as a master of public relations - if you would call someone who...
Document Sheds New Light on Jewish Vote in 1944 Race
The conventional assumption about the 1944 presidential election is that since American Jewry was firmly in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's pocket, the Jewish vote was...
The Rabbi and the Rhodes Scholar: How An Accidental Meeting Between Cory Booker and Me Led to Jewish Renewal
Twenty years ago this Monday, corresponding to the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah, a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into a Chabad Jewish student center in...
Moshe Ya’alon: Strategic Thinker and Leader
A recent interview by journalist Ari Shavit with former IDF Chief of Staff, now Vice Premier, Moshe Ya'alon, provides a fascinating insight into...
An Arab-Jewish Conflict — On New York’s Airwaves
A municipal radio station used for attacks on Zionism. Angry Jewish protests. Politicians jumping into the controversy. Jewish leaders and activists divided over how to...
What G-d Says About Truly Great Leaders
It was the emotional low of Moses' life. After the drama at Sinai, the revelation, the golden calf, the forgiveness, the building of the...
Iran and Israel, It’s Purim All Over Again
Some 2,000 years ago, the Jewish people, Exiled in the vast empire of Persia faced a plot engineered by the king's chief minister to annihilate...
Serious Tone Dominates 2012 JCRC-NY Congressional Breakfast
The annual Jewish Community Relations Council Congressional Breakfast is an opportunity for members of the New York Congressional Delegation to break bread...
Senator “Dr. Gillibrand” Celebrates Yeshiva University’s 87th Convocation
Leaders of the Jewish and secular worlds of academia, business, and technology gathered at New York's Waldorf Astoria for the "treasured tradition" of...
On Distinguishing Between Good and Evil
Good deeds and the spurning of evil preoccupied us throughout the Days of Awe and the festival period, climaxing with the redemption of Gilad Schalit. We...
What Are We Fighting For?
For Jews, the holy day of Yom Kippur being celebrated this weekend is recognized as a time for introspection and reckoning. Both individually and collectively, it...
Glenn Beck and the Jewish Leadership Vacuum
The Sunday before last Glenn Beck appeared as a guest speaker at the Hamptons Synagogue in New York. This was the second in person Glenn...
Prosor to US Jews: Prepare for UN Vote
Israel's new ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor urged Jewish American leaders on Monday to form a clear and operational plan ahead of the...
The Erosion of European Jewry
Even if the flag of Islam flies over Europe and most Jews assimilate or emigrate, enclaves of ultra-Orthodox Jews are likely to continue, especially in...
