By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The news comes on the heels of her being censured by the U.S. House of Representatives for inciting violence against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Participant are also 85% more likely to be attached to Israel, an analysis of Pew Center data finds.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Aside from government-funding issues, the purpose behind the list is to issue a “public condemnation” of the anti-Israel movement.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The percentage of assimilation among Polish Jews is 70%, in Hungary, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden it is 50% and in France 31%.
They discussed the need to increase and expand initiatives focused on Jewish education and identity in the Diaspora.
The final tally, which was conducted by a secret ballot, was 35 votes in favor, 14 against and 14 abstentions. The BDS measure was backed by 51 campus groups and 34 faculty members.
By JNi.Media
The Falash Mura are members of the Beta Israel community in Ethiopia and Eritrea who converted to Christianity over the past two centuries.
By JNi.Media
Everybody in the place was careful not to mention Israel or Jews.
By JNi.Media
In case the Temple is rebuilt, consider this [Tisha B’Av] document null and void.
By JNi.Media
Altogether, 2.2 billion Christians suffered harassment in 144 countries in 2016. 1.6 billion Muslims were harassed in 142 countries. 15 million Jews were harassed in 87 countries.
We can't wait to read your comments on this one...
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About one week after his rejection of the Trump declaration, Rick Jacobs had a change of heart, perhaps because of the raging attack on him by his biggest ally in the war over the Kotel real estate, Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky.
In the long-term, Israel shouldn't over-invest in those communities, as it is impossible to stop their descent into assimilation.
By JNi.Media
The Indonesian museum’s manager stated: 'We don’t want to attract outrage.'
By JNi.Media
'This case is about the illegal, hostile takeover of a non-profit, academic association by leaders of an anti-Israel group.'
By JNi.Media
First empirical evidence to explain how faculty promotion of an academic boycott of Israel is unlike other advocacy on campus, poses threat to Jewish students.
By JNi.Media
What's probably most stunning about the clergy's letter is that they demand that the Prime Minister defy the will of his elected coalition partners and impose rules to benefit some US tourists – and all of it in the name of democracy. One wonders if they understand the meaning of Democracy.
By JNi.Media
This was the first time the Rabbinical Court in Israel was required to deal with the halakhic status—for the purpose of being eligible for a rabbinical marriage—of Jews who believe in Jesus.
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Myers wrote: 'There was no holocaust, (or Holocaust, as my computer software insists) and six million Jews were not murdered by the Third Reich.'
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'Most of the Jews in the United States, even those who come to Temple once in fifty years, or those that don’t come at all, are not Reform, and the Reform movement does not represent them.'
By JNi.Media
'What can the Diaspora give us?' Rabbi Riskin asked, and answered: 'First and foremost, the idea of pluralism, that these, and these, too, are the words of the living God.'
By JNi.Media
Alas, this dispute is not over a connection to God but over political turf, both regarding the Kotel and the conversions.
By JNi.Media
Deri was furious at Netanyahu's request, and told the PM, while walking out of the room: "I know what you're doing to me and I will not let you do it."
By JNi.Media
Both of Netanyahu's decisions caused a storm and created a rift with Diaspora Jews, most emphatically in the US.
By JNi.Media
Senior Jewish Agency officials are saying Sharansky is livid over the government's decision to cancel the Kotel plan.
Israel's Cabinet Secretary call on those exploiting the government's Western Wall decision to be precise with the facts.
By JNi.Media
'For four years in a row now, members of Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Zionist groups have been permitted to intentionally and successfully disrupt a student-organized, pro-Israel event.'
By JNi.Media
The film explores the Jew hatred in Europe today, showing the relationship between anti-Semitism and Israel bashing in the media.
By JNi.Media
He told the court he intended "to disrupt my ex-romantic partner's life and cause her great distress" after she had ended their relationship.
By JNi.Media
'The absence of children – particularly children being raised in the Jewish religion – represents yet one more missing incentive to Jewish communal engagement.'
By JNi.Media
Meanwhile, the proportion of students attending ultra-Orthodox schools has increased by about 300% since 1992.
By JNi.Media
'Six million Jews, two-thirds of the Jews in Europe, murdered by the Nazi genocide. They were murdered by an evil that words cannot describe, and that the human heart cannot bear.'
By JNi.Media
AMCHA Initiative’s 2016 report indicates two main sources are responsible for anti-Semitism on campus.
By JNi.Media
The self-image of American Jews, along with their self-perceptions, cosmopolitan approach, and value systems all developed before the birth of Israel.
Defense Minister Liberman warns French Jews in particular that if they want to remain Jewish, now is the time to leave.
By JNi.Media
At the same time, there is a creeping acceptance of intermarriages within the Conservative movement.
By JNi.Media
From 1880 to 1924, one third of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe left shtetls and cities for the United States, fleeing persecution and seeking economic opportunity.
By JNi.Media
"Superman and Captain America can be seen as Jewish creators imagining how they'd be awesome and powerful if they were white."
By JNi.Media
It is impossible to paint lipstick on either of these pigs, but in the competition between Halloween and Christmas over which of the two holidays is more dangerous Halloween wins out, hands down.
By JNi.Media
Using the great, eye opening Pew study of 2013, Cohen points out that the signs of Jewish life in intermarried Jewish families are fast diminishing.
By JNi.Media
The fact that the first two of these organizations is completely Orthodox, while the third varies from one campus to another has irked many, in Israel and abroad.
By JNi.Media
Written by Hasia Diner and Marjorie N. Feld, the article included blatantly hostile statements, reminiscent of drivel issued by Neturei Karta and any of the varieties of "American Rabbis for Peace" groups out there.
By JNi.Media
She denounced “the 6-million lie” and recommended the writings of Ernst Zündel, a German Holocaust denier who had been deported from Canada in 2005.
By JNi.Media
The Bennett solution resolves the conflict in a peaceful way, which is not something the Reform and Conservative movements want.
By JNi.Media
The signatories at the bottom of a letter titled "An important Message to the Community" include Rabbis David and Reuven Feinstein, the sons and spiritual heirs of the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.
By JNi.Media
Each time MK Neguise, or foreign governments, or righteous lobbyists ask for another quota of Ethiopian immigrants who are Christian, not Jewish, they promise this is the last time.
Both US Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry will speak Monday for J Street.
By JNi.Media
Members of the British Humanist Association, on the other hand, were beside themselves with their biased attack.
By JNi.Media
MK Meir Porush stated that if "Women of the Wall” would refrain from eating non-Kosher food, he would apologize to them.
By JNi.Media
What appears to be a bill driven by the urgent need to block Reform expansion in Israel may really be a land grab on the part of the Haredim.
By JNi.Media
The chief rabbis concluded that a new outline altogether was needed for the Kotel, one which would not recognize the reform at all.
By JNi.Media
Levin, for his part, said it's annoying to be boycotted just when you're done explaining the boycotting is inappropriate.
A large majority of Israelis are willing to support an increase in benefits to help new immigrants succeed.
By JNi.Media
Moving testimonies were read aloud, telling the stories of Sicilian Bnei Anousim who were imprisoned for continuing to practice Judaism in secret.
By JNi.Media
It should be noted that Minister Bennett does not possess the executive power to actually ban a book from being sold, he can only influence curricular decisions.
The Minister of Education told Jewish legislators from around the world and visiting in Jerusalem that assimilation "keeps me up at night."
The Israeli President let Obama use him as a prop to promote a pluralistic agenda that turned Hanukkah into an excuse for Obama's agenda.
By JNi.Media
26.1% have a German citizenship; 54% live with a spouse who is a German national; and 54.4% have parents or grandparents who are Holocaust survivors.
Her husband is Jewish and she converted before they were married in June, while she was pregnant.
By JNi.Media
Sad - Watching Jewish-American assimilation in action.
Postal officials refuse mailmen's request to be relieved of the job to deliver Baptist cult material that may be illegal.
By Rachel Levy
In Berlin 2015, a major Jewish monthly magazine is now delivered in plain wrapping paper -- to minimize the chance of attack.
The former president doesn’t see the connection between living in Israel and remaining Jewish.
By Rachel Levy
Leftist Jewish American group "J Street" is trying to help the anti-Netanyahu campaign with an ad geared head off Bibi's US supporters.
Israeli ministers were warned on Sunday to prepare for large-scale immigration as figures on anti-Semitism continue to rise abroad.
What hope is there for Jews in America with an attitude that says intermarriage is a "problem" but does not oppose it?
If US Jews were to make Aliyah at the rate the Jewish Agency expects from France, Israel would have 1 million more Jews.
Iran, for the time being, has gotten away with 85 murders in the AMAI bombing in 1994.
The wrong people stood in the solidarity rally.
By JTA
More than 20 cars and buildings in a Jewish community in north London were vandalized with swastikas. The Nazi symbol was drawn on approximately 27 cars in the Osbaldeston Road area of Stoke Newington on Sunday night, The Daily Mail reported. An unnamed 32-year-old man was arrested in connection with the vandalism Tuesday. The neighborhood […]
United Synagogue Youth teen board members are told ban is lifted on dating non-Jews, but "important" to date within the faith.
Four arrested in crackdown on anti-assimilation group Lehava.
By Rachel Levy
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lost no time this year in publicly offering warm Chanukah greetings to the nation's Jewish community, even ahead of US Pres. Obama.
Chelsea Clinton gave birth on Friday night to a baby girl.
Only 30 % of European Jews will attend high holiday services; 1/4 fear wearing Jewish symbols.
By JTA
If you are worried about your child marrying a non-Jew, and you should be, then move to Israel.
By JTA
How about a picture of Donald Duck choking anti-Semitism?
By Rachel Levy
Arab media are salivating over Jewish squabbles about internal Israeli divisions on policy reported by wire services.
Initial sum of NIS 570 million to be invested in joint initiatives to connect young Jews to their Jewish identity and to Israel.
By Shalom Bear
As Rabbi Stav said, "You’re free to think what you want. But do you want me to recognize Chelsea Clinton’s child as a Jew?"
It is not an easy fact to swallow, but the real demographic problem for Jews is in the Diaspora and not in Israel.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised Indonesia for its religious tolerance on Monday, six months after the last synagogue in the country was destroyed. “Yesterday, I had the privilege of going to the Istiqlal mosque,” Kerry said at a press conference during his visit. “And it’s my pleasure to not only say good morning […]
The difference between Yair Netanyahu and Anthony Weiner and Hillary Clinton is that Israel is a Jewish state.
The Lehava Organization for the Prevention of Assimilation in the Holy Land appealed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday to break up his son Yair’s relationship with a Norwegian non-Jew. Yair Netanyahu is dating Sandra Leikange a fellow student, Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, The Jewish Press reported here earlier today. Citing the Prime Minister’s late […]
By JTA
Amid an investigation into his finances and bans on his shows because of anti-Semitic content, the French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala said he was abandoning his nationwide tour. Dieudonne made the announcement Saturday at a news conference in which he appeared dressed in traditional West African garb — his mother was born in Cameroon. “Today, […]
German-American non-Jewish attorney Peter Sonnenthal and his family, which has Jewish roots (his grandmother was Jewish and perished in Auschwitz) have been fighting for more than two decades to reclaim lucrative properties stolen from them under the Nazi regime, Spiegel reported, adding that Sonnenthal continues to face legal hurdles in trying to restore this legacy. […]
Mike Huckabee doesn’t understand why Jews support Obama as “pro-Israel” because he doesn’t understand the psyche of a liberal American Jewish Democrat.
The expected birth of a boy to Jewess Lauren Silverman and her Roman Catholic boyfriend and X-Factor Judge Simon Cowell has prompted him to plan a trip to Israel and think about becoming Jewish, the London Mirror reported. He told the newspaper he wants to make a “more informed decision” before he commits to the […]
By JTA
A group that seeks to convert Jews to Christianity removed from its website references to a scheduled fundraiser appearance by George W. Bush, though a Bush spokesman said the former president still plans to attend (GW Bush Fundraising for Proselytizers of Jews in America and Israel). Bush was scheduled to headline a Nov. 14 fundraiser […]