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By Vita Fellig
Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS that the survey data is a crucial tool in combating Jew-hatred.
The goal of BDS is to silence American Jews as a political force, and American Jews refuse to see what is happening to them while it is happening.
Rivlin told the New York UJA Federation," We are all one family" and made it a point to refer to a Consrvative leader as a rabbi.
Arab MK Ayman Odeh on Thursday refused to enter a meeting with Jews in New York because the same office building also houses Zionist organizations.
Israel's left-wing newspaper explains that "progressives" are powerless in Israel and need Americans to help get rid of Netanyahu.
The tragic events of 2015 are not a new phenomenon; the tragedies of 1929 bear a chilling similarity
Bibi covered all the bases - Obama, the right-wing American Enterprise, the Federations and a liberal group.
Less than two-thirds of Americans are "absolutely certain" that God exists. Millennials point to a godless future.
One of the new immigrants is 83 years old, and five are volunteering to serve in the IDF.
New immigrants came to Israel from 97 countries.
Obama knows how to capitalize on the bulk of American Jews, who want Israel to be a nice Jewish boy that doesn’t make them feel uncomfortable President Barack Obama declared that American Jews' concerns are like those of Afro-Americans and other Americans, indicating that Israel is not one of those worries. He unsurprisingly chose the left-wing […]
The woman who once kissed Suha Arafat has a different attitude when it comes to funding her campaign for president.
The one reason to make Aliyah outweighs all the arguments not to move to Israel.
Support for Obama from religious Jews is only 34 percent. Next year in New Hampshire?
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.
If US Jews were to make Aliyah at the rate the Jewish Agency expects from France, Israel would have 1 million more Jews.
By JTA
“It was crucial to my survival knowing that I was not forgotten.“
Abbas and most of Israel know the idea is dead and buried, but too many US Jews still believe it.
Liberal Jews are for tolerance until they also have to be tolerant.
A video speech to the Federations GA focuses on Iran and Palestinian Authority incitement.
Slowly but surely, the truth wins, which is why Obama is losing.
By JTA
Reform and Conservative day school enrollment is down sharply.
Indyk is the epitome of the US view that Israel should be America’s Jewish image.
American Jewish students are providing anti-Semites with their best weapon – fear.
By Kosher Today
If you don’t live in Israel, at least ‘Buy Israel.”
The good news is that 338 more American Jews are moving to Israel. The and news is that 5 million are not.
The only thing disproportionate is the world’s hatred of Israel.
By Rachel Levy
Arab media are salivating over Jewish squabbles about internal Israeli divisions on policy reported by wire services.
By JTA
Likud MK Danon tries outflanking Netanyahu by telling US Jews he will quit as minister if more terrorists are freed.
Official statistics on aliyah to Israel from the United States have been corrected to show that there was only a tiny change for the worse in the past year from the number of new immigrants in 2012. The Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption and the Jewish Agency issued a report in late December that […]
It is not an easy fact to swallow, but the real demographic problem for Jews is in the Diaspora and not in Israel.
An Israel Knesset Member got a whack on his tongue for angering the Diaspora.
Orthodoxy have consistently been the largest group.
On certain public policy issues, Orthodox opinion stands in sharp contrast to the views of most American Jews.
Young Jews desperately need to experience both the serious and lighter sides of Judaism.
Pew survey: U.S. Jewish intermarriage rate rises to 58 percent
By Ben Cohen
Rather than the “Lobby” running the administration, it is the administration that runs the “Lobby.”
By JTA
For American athletes, the Maccabiah sports even proves the games are about more than sports. Several of the American Jewish athletes were inspired to become Bar Mitzvah.
The mikveh barely existed in 19th century American, where Jewish immigrants turned against religion. But one has been found in Connecticut, and it is more similar those in Israel than in the US.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
What a brew! A Scottish brew master, his Tunisian wife and two Yanks operate a boutique brewery. They produce several hundred bottles a month and plan more.
By JTA
In a letter timed for Passover, a broad array of Jewish groups urged President Obama and Congress to facilitate a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. "American Jews know too well the impact of restrictive immigration policies, and we have seen how the immigration issue can become a flashpoint for xenophobia," said the letter sent […]
By Moshe Herman
Yishai gives a riveting talk about the need for American Jews to look past their fear when involving Israel and also discusses having international journalist Christiane Amanpour visit his home on the Mount of Olives.
By Barry Rubin
Liberals would than blame Israel than examine the faulty assumptions that comprise their worldview.
Many Washington officials have long spun the story that convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard did immense harm to this country’s national security by stealing vital American military and intelligence secrets. Thus, the U.S. intelligence community has always opposed Mr. Pollard’s release.
At the last minute, the Secretary of Defense presented a memo to the court accusing Pollard of doing massive damage to the U.S.
I can’t believe, if the government actually has information to justify the sentence, that it could not be provided in a manner that would be convincing without revealing damaging secrets.
By Tzvi Fishman
Diaspora Jewry should examine their role in Israel's failures to combat Palestinian moves at the UN.
Somewhere between 68 and 70% of American Jewish voters went for Obama, depending on whose exit poll you believe. Israelis that I talk to are mystified. “Are they crazy? What were they thinking?” they ask. It’s not really mystifying. Here are some general facts about non-Orthodox and secular (the large majority) American Jews.
By Tzvi Fishman
Years have passed since Rabbi Kahane penned this essay, but it still rings sadly true today. Rabbi Kahane was known for saying uncomfortable things that comfortable Jews didn’t want to hear. In honor of his yahrtzeit, here’s another one of his brilliant and illuminating writings, which was published almost 25 years ago in The Jewish Press.
By Ilana Levinson, Israel Campus Beat
As college students prepare to hit the polls on November 6 - many for the first time - they will be considering a broad array of policy issues and party platforms. What drives young people to vote? How do they consider various issues? Does Israel play a role in the choices they make on election day? Israel Campus Beat interviewed pro-Israel students on campuses across the country to gauge the impact their support for Israel has on how they are preparing for Election Day.
By JTA
Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic Presidential candidate, greeted American Jews today on the occasion of the High Holy Days. "Mrs. McGovern joins me in wishing our Jewish friends and Jews around the world a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year," the South Dakotan said.
By Alex Abel
Yishai Fleisher, managing editor of JewishPress.com, appeared on L’Chaim, a show that has been running on ShalomTV for years. “Fear is everywhere,” he told the interviewer, Rabbi Mark Golub. “People go silent when I talk about fear because they realize how much fear they live with…we need to be proud.”
By Fern Sidman
In Unbroken Spirit: A Heroic Story of Faith, Courage and Survival (Gefen Publishing), the newly released English translation of his memoir, internationally renowned former Soviet refusenik Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich tells a compelling story of struggle and victory. He spoke to The Jewish Press during his recent U.S. book tour.
By Tzvi Fishman
Shimon Peres had the decency to ask Mr. Obama to finally free Jonathan Pollard. The White House refused. But now that Shimon Peres, the symbol of Jewish Recognition and Acceptance, has been so accepted and embraced by the President of America, you would think that the Jews of America would finally raise their long silent voices and scream out for his release.
By JTA
President Obama celebrated the values of communities petitioning government at a White House reception honoring Jewish American Heritage Month. "We don’t just celebrate all that American Jews have done for our country; we also look toward the future," he said. "And as we do, I know that those of you in this room, but folks […]
By Z Street
Got that? The goal of J Street is not to represent American Jews on the left, but is instead "to move American Jews" to the left and to the Administration's/friends on the Hill's point of view, and to "provide them with cover."
A new AJC survey of American Jews shows President Obama would win a majority of the Jewish vote in a contest against Gov. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee. Obama would gain 61 percent and Romney 28 percent, with 11 percent undecided.
Nearly all fans of baseball history have heard of Hank Greenberg. Most have heard of Al Rosen. But fewer have heard of Cal Abrams, and hardly any, it’s safe to say, have heard of Lou Limmer. All four are members of a compelling team – American Jews who played Major League Baseball.
By Rafi Harkham
Noted Israeli author and Israel Prize Laureate A.B. Yehoshua said that living outside Israel "is a very deep failure of the Jewish people," and lamented that immigration numbers from the United States are "minimal" and "embarrassing." He was equally acerbic regarding the large Israeli ex-patriot community.
The National Jewish Democratic Council website blasted Gingrich last week for opposition "to the values of the vast majority of American Jews,” when in fact Gingrich's position are highly consistent with "Jewish values".
Recent poll found that almost 90% of Israeli Jews believe that the American Jewish community is crucial to Israel's security and continued existence.
Israel Bonds raised $1.1 billion in all of 2011.
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