admin | March 23, 2017
Over the past two years, the Anti-Defamation League, a national nonprofit dedicated to combating anti-Semitism, has been incredibly busy, particularly in Missouri, responding to: Desecration at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, where 154 headstones were toppled.
simmons | March 21, 2017
A necessary and productive debate has been going on in US feminist circles following the International Womens Strike on March 8, with its openly anti-colonial, pro-Palestine platform. In an Op-Ed, writer Emily Shire questioned whether there was room for Zionists in the feminist movement, to which Linda Sarsour responded, in another OpEd, with a well-argued and highly-persuasive No.
admin | March 21, 2017
I am a card-carrying Zionist and a proud feminist, beliefs some critics apparently deem incompatible. Zionism is defined as a movement for the re-establishment and the development of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. When Theodor Herzl started discussing Zionism in the 1880s, it was revolutionary.
admin | March 21, 2017
As the holiday of Pesach approaches, our last few essays have dealt with the vast difference between Jewish life in the exile and Jewish life in the Land of Israel, as the Jewish People rise from the dry bones of Galut to mega-powered nationhood in the Promised Land. The ideas we have presented are indeed very deep, requiring a penetrating understanding of Torah, which the great Sages of Israel have illuminated for us throughout history, reminding us that the Torah is far broader than the four cubits of halacha which exist in the exile
admin | March 21, 2017
Jon Ossoff is one of three Jewish candidates in a field of 18 vying for a congressional seat in Georgia. (Courtesy of the Ossoff campaign) WASHINGTON (JTA) One candidate has the endorsement of a civil rights giant. Another boasts that he changes his oil in his pickup truck
admin | March 19, 2017
Women who identify with Zionism are free to participate in the feminist protest movement.
admin | March 19, 2017
Linda Sarsour. (Photo: Ford Foundation) It used to be that PEP was a safe place: Progressive Except Palestine. But since Trumps election and the wave of activism to create a coalition of liberals, lefties, progressives, radicals, Zionism is having a rougher time in leftwing spaces
simmons | March 19, 2017
byDavid Sarna Galdi Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week told a delegation led by Reform Movement head Rabbi Rick Jacobs what it wanted to hear that he was attuned to their concerns. But Netanyahus shocking silence during the recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States was far louder than his words.
admin | March 19, 2017
When Marc Levine and Richard Bloom were sworn into office on Dec. 3, 2012, they became the only Jewish members of the state Assembly.
admin | March 19, 2017
On the weekend before his January 9 swearing in ceremony, Eric Greitens, soon to become governor of Missouri, called up United Hebrew Congregation, a Reform synagogue in St. Louis.
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