Posts Tagged: jonathan tobin israel
A Gag About Israel and Vaccines Is More Than a Bad Joke
JNS.org - A comedian telling a bad joke that hurts someone’s feelings isn’t news. Or at least it didn’t use to be. But when the...
Don’t Let Bernie Sanders Get Away with Redefining ‘Pro-Israel’
JNS.org - Linda Sarsour did it again. The Palestinian-American BDS activist/anti-Trump “resistance” activist spoke at a conference of American Muslims for Palestine and let loose...
Justice Demands Death Penalty for Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter
JNS.org - The reaction to the decision of the US Department of Justice to pursue the death penalty for Robert Bowers from the Jewish community...
While a Consensus Rules in Israel, US Politics Become More Divisive
JNS.org - It used to be that Israel and the United States represented two very different political paradigms. The two major American political parties may have...
The Problem in Germany Is About More Than a ‘Kipah’
JNS.org - Who could really be surprised by the story that grabbed the attention of the Jewish world this past weekend? When Felix Klein, Germany’s...
Treading the Line Between Humor and Antisemitism
JNS.org - Demographic surveys show that many American Jews consider humor key to their identity. The long history of famous Jewish jokesters and a style...
Do Jews Really Need Their Own Nobel Prize?
JNS.org - If the Genesis Prize was hoping for more media attention for its annual awards ceremony this year, it is certainly going to get...
Is Jared Kushner Right? Can Middle East Peace Be Bought?
JNS.org - The senior adviser to president Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, is on fundraising tour this week, but it’s not to raise money for his...
Can a New Group Save the Democratic Party for Israel?
JNS.org - There are already too many Jewish organizations. But if there was ever a need for at least one more, then the Democratic Majority...
Why Intersectional Ideology Undermines the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
JNS.org - The alliance between African-Americans and Jews during the struggle for civil rights has often been invoked when tensions between the two communities have...
Amos Oz and the Centrality of Hebrew in Jewish Life
JNS.org - For those who only know Israel as a field of political combat, Amos Oz was just a writer with a point of view...
Agenda for 2019: Defend Jewish Interests, Not Partisanship
JNS.org - 2018 will go down as a year in which hyper-partisanship reached new heights in the United States. Those on one side of the...
Hamas Rockets and the Idea of Two States
JNS.org - Does it really matter what started the shooting at the border between Israel and Hamas-run Gaza? To outward appearances, it looks like it was...
The Right to Criticize Israel Is Beside the Point
JNS.org - In an election season in which we are awash in polls, we’ve now been given one more telling us something that everybody already...
