admin | March 21, 2024
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, recently threatened a mass exodus of the ultra-Orthodox community if any of its members were conscripted. For those who dont know the inner workings of the Israeli Defense Forces, it mandates two to three years of army service for all 18-year-olds. This has been the reality almost since the birth of the country.
admin | March 21, 2024
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks described Judaism as the religion of hope. Israel is the country of hope after all, our National Anthem is called Hatikva The Hope. But right now, as I write these words with the tears in my eyes obscuring the keyboard, it doesnt feel like there is any hope
admin | March 21, 2024
TikTok supporters online are claiming that "pro-Israel lobbying groups" and Jews are responsible for pressuring Congress into fast-tracking bills that would ban the Chinese social media app, which the U.S. intelligence community deems a national security threat. Online activists across X, Reddit, and other popular internet forums are spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories claiming that prominent Jewish-American leaders oppose TikTok because it has emerged as a central repository for anti-Israel criticism related to the war against Hamas
admin | March 13, 2024
At the 96th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night, British-Jewish director Jonathan Glazer, whose film, The Zone of Interest, had just won the Oscar for Best International Feature, made a somewhat garbled statement critical of the Israeli governments policy, conflating the Occupation with the Holocaust. Many Israeli officials and Jewish leaders criticized the statement, but some Jews in Hollywood actually cheered it. Thats because he did what so few who have criticized Israels decision to respond militarily to Hamass October 7 attack on Israel in which about 1,200 Israelis were murdered (and raped, burned, dismembered, and tortured) and 240 were taken hostage have done: He mentioned the victims of October 7 in Israel.
admin | March 13, 2024
From biblical times to the present, Jewish women have given hope, meaning and strength to the Jewish community. These twelve remarkable Jewish women have shown extraordinary leadership, changed the course of Jewish practice, offered comfort and hope, and injected creativity into the Jewish world.
admin | March 13, 2024
The UK Health Secretary Victoria Atkins announced intentions to "urgently" investigate Dr. Dimitrios Psaroudakis, a London-based gynecologist who claimed his local borough of Hammersmith would be better "Jew free," according to multiple media reports from Saturday
admin | March 13, 2024
Ive always loathed Russia: its regime, its remnants of enduring Stalin-worship, its rulers century of malign influence on the world. The cold-blooded autocrat Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Ukraine is all too redolent of the USSR, is succeeding in his aim of shattering the security and stability of Europe
admin | March 13, 2024
(JTA) The Anne Frank House in the heart of Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands most-visited tourist destinations. Outside of the city a memorial commemorates the Westerbork transit camp, where the Franks were sent on their way to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
admin | March 5, 2024
(March 4, 2024 / JNS) An unknown assailant assaulted an unnamed 62-year-old man wearing a kippah as he left a synagogue on the eastern side of Paris. Frances Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on March 2 of the incident that took place the day before that there was a new antisemitic attack that occurred in Paris and that everything is being done to apprehend the perpetrator of this unspeakable act
admin | March 5, 2024
Amid backlash over his friendly interview with Jackson Hinkle, NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo defended hosting the far-right conspiracy theorist and denied giving any deference to any kind of anti-semitism.
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