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Jul 8, 2018, 12:02 PM

Jewish journalists have Israel’s back and wish Israel had theirs

The authors surveyed journalists for Jewish media in more than 20 countries across eastern and western Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia. This is the second of three articles, reviewing the study's findings. The full study, A World...

Jul 6, 2018, 5:58 PM

Ride for the Future

Unlike all the other days of our vacation, as we woke up early last Thursday morning, dark clouds filled the sky. Over 200 of us met at the JCC in Krakow, Poland and boarded buses to bring us to...

Jun 30, 2018, 2:33 PM

An Open Letter to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Dear Ms. Ocasio-Cortez: Congratulations on your primary win. As a New Yorker (resident of Astoria, just outside your district) and a progressive, I’m inspired by your victory. As a Jew, I’m terrified, for what your recent comments about Israel portend for...

Dana Janine Diamond

Jun 28, 2018, 4:03 PM

America’s Farewell to Judeo

I conducted research on this since the election. A lot of people voted for Trump because they wanted Gorsuch, because their Christian religion values embryos equally or even over actual human life. This is not true in the Jewish...

Jun 26, 2018, 10:01 PM

Why Artists Must Oppose the Boycott Israel Movement

One hundred artists, filmmakers, writers, and other cultural workers have called for a boycott of an artist-run gallery in Glendale, California — a town less than five miles from Hollywood. Why? Because an exhibit there, which is a nod to...

Andy Blumenthal

Jun 26, 2018, 9:40 AM

Never forget, despite the pain of remembering

Recently, I watched the award-winning movie, The Devil's Arithmetic. It ís about a modern-day American girl, Hannah, who is apathetic to her Jewish roots and especially to her family's survival from the Holocaust. Repeatedly, Hannah brushes off her relatives who want...

Jun 25, 2018, 8:39 PM

My Late Father: The Greatest Generation Up Close

Twenty years ago this week, my father passed away. In his declining years, he had few friends and only a tiny family, and since he was almost obsessively modest about himself, little was known about him outside a small circle....

Jun 25, 2018, 6:26 PM

My Love Letter to Hannah Senesh

I majored in history as an undergraduate at Youngstown State University, and was privileged to take several classes with noted Jewish scholar and author Dr. Saul Friedman. When I took his course on the Holocaust as a nineteen-year-old, he asked...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 25, 2018, 12:16 AM

Stop the anti-Semitic attack likely instigated by the US Administration on Trump darling Stephen Miller

There is a massive assault on Stephen Miller in progress: here, here, here, here, for example - the list is almost endless. He's blamed as the architect and driving force (and a really nasty person) behind Trump's outrageous heartless racist...

Philip Lefkowitz

Jun 25, 2018, 12:14 AM

Is The ACLU Reconsidering Its Role?

The disclosure of an internal memo at The American Civil Liberties Union has questioned whether the ACLU, long the standard bearer for the protection of free speech at all costs, the First Amendment, is considering modifying their position. "Our defense...

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