Posts Tagged: Jewish people
Do the Jewish People Know That Our People Never Actually Left the Land of Israel?
Yossi Klein Halevi, senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, describes how anti-Zionists in academia have systematically challenged the moral basis of the Jewish/Zionist story....
Algemeiner Unveils 11th Annual ‘J100’ List at Gala Featuring Douglas Murray, Matisyahu
The Algemeiner unveiled its 11th annual "J100" list of the top 100 people "positively influencing Jewish life" on Tuesday night at a gala in New...
What Makes Israel and Jews Different: The Light in Our Hearts
This fall, my son joined the Me’ever Youth program at the Safra Center in New York City. Me’ever is focused on building teen leadership skills. In...
85 Years After Infamous Nazi Pogrom, Holocaust Survivors Say They Once Again Feel ‘Terrified’
To mark the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the infamous Nazi assault on the German Jewish community on Nov. 9-10, 1938 — the International March...
Alan Dershowitz: The Rabbi Steinsaltz I Knew
The late Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz was a remarkable man—a genius who made the Talmud accessible to so many. TIME magazine called him a “once in...
The People of the Journey
JNS.org - “To be a Jew is to be on a journey,” writes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in his commentary on the upcoming weekly Torah portion...
Club Z Combats Silence in the Face of Antisemitism
JNS.org – At Carlmont High School in Belmont, Calif., students were asked to write positive messages in chalk on the pavement, but someone drew a...
Alan Dershowitz: Valerie Plame Knew Exactly What She Was Tweeting
Valerie Plame had to know what she was tweeting. Plame re-tweeted a virulently antisemitic article by a well-known bigot, which she characterized as “thoughtful.” Now...
A People That Dwells Alone
One of the most profound and influential comments ever made about Jewish destiny was made by the pagan prophet Bilaam in this week’s parsha: As I...
Celebrating Yom Haatzmaut in a World of Turmoil
Israel Independence Day symbolizes the empowerment of all Jews in the wake of the most successful renaissance of a nation after two thousand years of...
Bernard-Henri Lévy: An Address to the Kurdish Nation
The following speech by famed French humanitarian and philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy was delivered on March 7, 2017, in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, on the occasion of the...
Goodbye, President Obama: Parting Words From an Israeli Settler
Dear President Obama, I wanted to say goodbye and show you the respect due to a tenacious adversary. Many US Jews, and even a few here...
Instilling Jewish Pride, Building Courage and Fostering Brotherhood
Hanukkah, our Festival of Lights, is fast approaching. In recounting the heroic story of the Maccabees, the Jewish rebel group that lived in the land...
‘Berning’ the Jews: Sanders and the Democratic Platform Committee
"Antisemitism is no longer a problem, fortunately. It’s raised because privileged people want to make sure they have total control, not just 98% control. That’s...
