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Europe / The Knesset / Assimilation

Knesset Contends with Alarming Rate of Assimilation Among Jews in Europe

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%.

Diaspora / Assimilation

‘Israel Needs to do More’ for Diaspora, Netanyahu Tells OU Leaders

By Arye Green / TPS

They discussed the need to increase and expand initiatives focused on Jewish education and identity in the Diaspora.

Government / News Briefs / Diaspora / Aliyah / Geulah

Liberman: Israel Should Aim for 3.5M New Olim Next Decade

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Liberman estimated it would take approximately $365 million annually to facilitate such a mass aliyah over the next 10 years. “Bringing in those numbers will upgrade Israel to another level, with a prowess we never imagined.”

Beyond the Matrix

Civil War, Assimilation and Miracles - Beyond the Matrix

By Israel News Talk Radio

Rod Bryant and Rabbi Federow breaks down the details of Chanukah from it's history to lessons for the post modern Jewish community.

Israel / News Briefs / Assimilation

Bennett Worried about Jews - the Ones in the Diaspora

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Minister of Education told Jewish legislators from around the world and visiting in Jerusalem that assimilation "keeps me up at night."

US / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Judaism

Chief Rabbi Lau Condemns Minister Bennett’s Visit to US Conservative School

By JNi.Media

"The visit constitutes a recognition of congregations that are dangerous to the future of the Jewish nation.”

News Briefs / Germany / Assimilation

Comprehensive Survey of Israelis in Germany Finds They Are Secular, Educated Leftists

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.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Interfaith Relations

Survey: 95 Conservative Rabbis Say They Would Conduct Intermarriage Weddings

By JNi.Media

A whopping 86% of Conservative Rabbi don’t want to admit intermarried couples in their congregations.

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs / Religion

Obama Cashes in on Separating Israel from American Jews' Concerns

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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 […]

News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Assimilation

Religious Mailmen Complain They Have to Deliver Missionary Propaganda

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Postal officials refuse mailmen's request to be relieved of the job to deliver Baptist cult material that may be illegal.

News Briefs / Religion / Florida / Judaism / Assimilation

Wasserman-Schultz Puts Stamp of Approval on Intermarriage

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

What hope is there for Jews in America with an attitude that says intermarriage is a "problem" but does not oppose it?

US / News Briefs / Assimilation

Chelsea Clinton Gives Birth to (Non-Jewish) Baby Girl

By Jewish Press News Desk

Chelsea Clinton gave birth on Friday night to a baby girl.

Guest Blog / Shalom Pollack Tours

Mahmud loves Moral

By Shalom Pollack

The media dumped on the "Lehava" people as extremist - racist and should mind their own business.

Rebbetzin's Viewpoint

A Nation Destined To Dwell Alone (Part One)

By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis

Once again we find ourselves alone – a little lamb among wolves.

Rebbetzin's Viewpoint

Dust Off The Windows (Part Three)

By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis

The tendency to rely on human beings rather than G-d has been our curse throughout the centuries.

US / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Assimilation

Avigdor Lieberman Warns US Jews ‘You Are Facing a Catastrophe’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

It is not an easy fact to swallow, but the real demographic problem for Jews is in the Diaspora and not in Israel.

News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Assimilation

Netanyahu Says His Son and Non-Jewish Girl only ‘Study Together’

By Jewish Press News Desk

The difference between Yair Netanyahu and Anthony Weiner and Hillary Clinton is that Israel is a Jewish state.

Moshe Feiglin

What Are We Negotiating About?

By Moshe Feiglin

Peace cannot be defined as the goal of a state.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Jewish Federations Chiefs Call for Free Jewish Preschool

By JTA

The leaders of the Jewish Federations of North America are calling for free Jewish preschool for every Jewish family in America. Jewish Federations CEO Jerry Silverman and board chairman Michael Siegal said free Jewish preschool would “dramatically widen the pipeline of families entering Jewish life through this critical early gateway.” The idea was one of […]

Israel / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Israeli ‘Start-Up’ Magnet for American Non-Jews

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel’s reputation as an incubator for Start-Ups has attracted non-Jewish Americans who have settled into successful careers, The Christian Science Monitor reported. The new immigrants have a downside because some of the non-Jewish entrepreneurs have married Israeli girls. Although their children are Jewish according to Jewish law, the chances of their growing up in a […]

Emes Ve-Emunah

Keeping Jews Jewish

By Harry Maryles

Virtually all the Gedolim of previous generations, including Rav Soloveitchik, forbade any religious collaboration with heterodox rabbis for fear of giving them tacit recognition.

Jewish / News Briefs / Europe / Aliyah / Geulah

Sharansky Opens Agency in Munich, Fears Assimilation

By Jewish Press News Desk

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky opened a new Jewish campus in Munich this week and declared, “The Jewish community in Germany is indeed unique” but faces the challenge of assimilation. The campus will house the Jewish Agency’s Munich office and the European Janusz Korczak Academy, a Jewish Agency-supported school that integrates traditional Jewish learning with […]

Rubin Reports

The Book of Esther: A Political Analysis

By Barry Rubin

Especially remarkable is the behavior of Esther. Warned of Haman’s plan, Esther wants to do nothing lest she place herself at risk.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Inspiring Our Youth and the Search for Meaning

By Harry Maryles

Among the many things Judaism can do for you is to give meaning to your life.

Emes Ve-Emunah

The Future of Judaism

By Harry Maryles

Modern Orthodox Jews will join the ranks of Moderate Charedim as a socially cohesive group.

Emes Ve-Emunah

An Existential Analysis

By Harry Maryles

If we are going to survive as a Jewish people, we must revise the system.

Emes Ve-Emunah

What Is the Biggest Problem Facing Judaism?

By Harry Maryles

My own view of things is that there is a tremendous amount of disillusionment in the Orthodox world.

Lessons In Emunah

Our Gains, The Enemies’ Losses

By Mindy Aber Barad

Some 30 years ago a certain well-known rabbi in Manhattan came to Israel and brought much of his congregation with him, to a barren ridge where our forefathers and foremothers traveled to and from Jerusalem and Hebron. The rabbi and his followers left the ravages of assimilation and headed to the unknown. The rabbi swiftly gathered in Jews from all over the world and all over Israel to the cozy town of Efrat.

Felafel on Rye

The Cult of America

By Tzvi Fishman

In my family alone, except for my brother, all of my cousins and second cousins married out of the faith – all of them. Finished. Kaput. The end of the line. After 5000 years of clinging to being Jewish, generation after generation, through times of harsh and often murderous oppression, the candle was snuffed out in the love boat of America.

News Briefs

Citing 'Love your Neighbor,' JFNA Attacks Chief Rabbi

By JTA

The Jewish Federations of North America slammed Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar's criticism of the Israeli government's decision to pay the salaries of some non-Orthodox rabbis. "It is a fundamental Jewish virtue to ‘love your fellow as yourself.’ We condemn comments that disparage fellow Jews and, in particular, well-established branches of Judaism that represent 80 […]

Felafel on Rye

Beyond Words – Rabbi Meir Kahane at His Very Best

By Tzvi Fishman

Why be a Jew!!! It is an agonizing cry from the souls of tens of thousands of young Jews who assimilate, integrate and disappear into the outer space beyond Judaism. It is THE cry, THE question. It is asked by young men and women who have seen the emptiness and the vapidness of the Judaism they grew up with.

Analysis

The One Jewish State Solution

By Jack Berger

The arrogant peace mongers, the ignorant purveyors of perversity, those that refused to acknowledge they were wrong refused to see that this was a war not peace – they, the disgusting peace pimps – shrouded in shame refused to admit they were wrong.

Felafel on Rye

Why Help Build America When We Can Help Build the Land of the Jews?

By Tzvi Fishman

It is no secret that American Jewry is being decimated by assimilation. The longer the Jewish community remains in America the more the assimilation will grow. So I ask – what’s the point in working to strengthen something that is destined to dwindle out and end? The exile is a curse which is not supposed to continue forever.

Book Reviews

Change and Renewal: The Essence of the Jewish Holidays, Festivals & Days of Remembrance

By Yocheved Golani

Breathe deeply. You’ll need maximum physical and spiritual power to absorb the uplifting lessons in this book. Page 249 explains why some Jews are praised as “fish on dry land,” a phrase that describes Moshe Rabeinu. Am Yisrael began to appreciate his depth of character at kriat Yam Suf, realizing that “he lived in the revealed world as though he were in the concealed world.”

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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