Go behind the scenes into the conflict between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and progressive Jews from the Diaspora. What will the fate of egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall be? Hear more with Gil Hoffman on today's episode of Inside Israel Today.
People are meeting at the big AIPAC convention, spouting their solutions to strengthening Israel and bringing peace. But what is THE REAL ANSWER?
Jewish communities from around the world have stepped up to support children from southern Israel who have lived their entire lives under the threat of missile attacks from Hamas freedom fighters in Gaza. (To quote the late comedian George Carlin: If firefighters fight fire, and crime fighters fight crime… what do freedom fighters fight? But […]
Glossy new report worries that Israel losing support from Diaspora Jews; suggests abandoning Land of Israel to terrorists
It is not an easy fact to swallow, but the real demographic problem for Jews is in the Diaspora and not in Israel.
By Moshe Herman
On the eve of Malkah's return to Israel, she and Yishai bring us up to date on their tour in the US, Yishai talks about his music choices, and they discuss the differences between products and packaging in the US and Israel.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah, continuing their road trip from Florida to New Jersey, discuss looking at Israeli politics through American eyes and keeping family connected across thousands of miles.
By Tzvi Fishman
If we can’t forcibly draft Diaspora Jews, then it’s up to them to enlist on their own.
By Tzvi Fishman
Did you have trouble reading the Hebrew? That’s exactly my point. Some readers say that I’m a crazy fanatic when I say that Diaspora Jews suffer from schizophrenia when it comes to their Jewish identity. For example, even though they are Jewish, many don’t know more than a few simple words in Hebrew. After all, Hebrew is the language of the Jewish People, not English, or German, or Russian, or Yiddish.
By Tzvi Fishman
If the recent Sukkot overdose of Shabbat, followed by two days of Yom Tov, and another Shabbat followed by two more days of Yom Tov, isn’t enough to get Diaspora Jews to move to Israel, with its force-feeding of gefilta fish day-after-day, until gefilta fish jelly drips out of people’s noses and horseradish pours out of their ears, I don’t know what it’s going to take until Diaspora Jews are fed up with practicing Judaism in a jar.
By Tzvi Fishman
I found some essays penned by Diaspora Jews who succumbed to the Sin of the Spies in their negative reports of the Holy Land. Oy.
The 2012 B'nai B'rith World Center Survey on Contemporary Israeli Attitudes Toward Diaspora Jewry also found that an overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews disagree with calls on American Jewry to "boycott the settlements," while thirteen percent support such a boycott. And 51 percent of respondents said that “encouraging Aliya” is the best government response to anti-Semitism.