Meet Hannah Risheq, America’s First Jewish-Muslim Politician
Hannah Risheq won’t be the first Jewish American in politics, nor is she the first Muslim American running for office. But the 25-year-old Virginian now seeking a seat on the State House Of Delegates...
Netanyahu Slams Abbas for Lying to Trump
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, at a joint press conference Wednesday with US President Donald Trump in Washington, claimed that children raised in the PA-administered areas of Judea and Samaria are taught values...
The Sad — But True — Facts About Campus Antisemitism
Those of us who care deeply about the safety and well-being of Jewish students on college campuses would like nothing more than for Mitchell Bard to be correct. For several years, and as recently as last...
New Jewish political realities
So what’s with us Jews?
We are unique in world history, for one thing; there has been no people like us. For that reason, we have a unique obligation to understand the world around us,...
Letter to My Son Going to Israel
My dear son,
You are going to Israel for the first time. Well, it’s not really the first time; you were there with me as a baby, but that was before your toddler memory hit...
Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology, by Will Herberg
The very title of this book arouses suspicion. The author, who claims to be writing a treatise on sociology, is far from being a professional sociologist. On top of this, he is an enthusiastic...
Historical Nostra Aetate Declaration Translated In to Hebrew for First Time
A Vatican document which revolutionized Catholic attitudes towards the Jewish religion 50 years ago has been translated into Hebrew for the first time, bringing renewed hopes that the message will spread and influence Jewish-Christian...
Israel Commemorates 23,544 Fallen IDF Soldiers, 3,117 Terror Victims
Israel came to a standstill on Sunday night to mark Yom Hazikaron, national Memorial Day, and to commemorate the 23,544 fallen IDF soldiers and 3,117 victims of terrorist attacks who have died over the...
Vast majority of Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are proud to be Israeli
Ahead of Israel’s 69th Independence Day, the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) and Tel Aviv University Peace Index offered a statistical snapshot of how Israelis feel about life in Israel, concluding that in general, Israelis...
In New England, Number Of Jews Applying For German Citizenship Quadruples
The number of Jewish descendants of Holocaust survivors who have applied for German citizenship has nearly quadrupled this year in the part of the United States served by Germany’s Boston consulate, radio station WBUR...