admin | August 18, 2017
by Martin J. Raffel Special to NJJN August 16, 2017 Some six years ago, while in Jerusalem, I found myself discussing with colleagues whether we should drop the term Zionism from our lexicon because it had become so toxic, especially on university campuses.
simmons | August 18, 2017
TEL AVIV (JTA) White nationalist leader Richard Spencer told Israelis during an evening TV interview that they should respect him because he is essentially a white Zionist. Spencer made the comment Wednesday on Channel 2 in response to a question about how he should feel about the anti-Semitism on display over the weekend at the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
richards | August 18, 2017
For a long time, liberalism and Zionism have gotten along fine in America just look at the Democratic Party and its love for Israel. But Charlottesville represents a crisis for liberal Zionists.
admin | August 18, 2017
Newsweekpublished this story under the headline of Again, Anti-Semitism on February 16, 1981. In light of the recent neo-Nazi, white power and alt-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Newsweekis republishing the story. Charles Benjamin, a leader of the Jewish community in his quiet, suburban New Jersey town, came home to find bright red swastikas painted on his back door
simmons | August 18, 2017
This is the first installment in a new biweekly series, in which the First Things junior fellows share mini-essays on their current reading endeavors.
richards | August 18, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of Mel Waldorf A window of Temple Israel of Alameda was boarded up after a vandal threw rocks at it Wednesday night. A window of Temple Israel of Alameda was boarded up after a vandal threw rocks at it Wednesday night.
simmons | August 18, 2017
Police blocking off the street after a car rammed into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 12, 2017. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (JTA) Local officials said police provided protection to a synagogue during a far-right rally last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia refuting a claim by a Jewish community leader that they had refused to do so
admin | August 18, 2017
Volunteers, students and archaeologists excavate two recently uncovered mikves once belonging to the Great Synagogue of Vilna.. (photo credit:DR. JOHNATHAN SELIGMAN) In 2015, a radar survey discovered ruins near a school in Vilnius, Lithuania
richards | August 18, 2017
On Monday morning Aug. 21, 14-year-old Natasha Waldorf, who is Jewish, will start her sophomore year at Alameda High School.
admin | August 18, 2017
Asa Winstanley Activism and BDS Beat 17 August 2017 Jewish members of the Labour Party have founded a new group. Jewish Voice for Labour will launch at the UK main opposition partys conference in Brighton next month. The new initiative presents a challenge to an existing Israel lobby group that positions itself as the representative of Jewish members of Labour
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