Monthly Archives: June 2017

A poll in Israel about President Donald Trump suggested his popularity among Jews there has declined since he first took office. In the poll of 500 Jewish-Israeli adults conducted this week for The Jerusalem Post,...

There are many different ways to complete the sentence “I cannot be antisemitic because… ”. All of them are dodgy. For the liberal left, the standard answer is “because I am a committed anti-racist”....

Jewish groups joined Israeli environmentalists in slamming President Trump’s announcement on Thursday that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change. Soon after the decision was made, Director of the Religious...

WILMETTE, IL — More than three quarters of a century ago, Nazis robbed a 12-year-old Harold Katz from a chance to have a normal bar mitzvah, the Jewish coming of age ceremony. This Memorial Day,...

The Sydney Film Festival gets under way on June 7 and will feature 288 films from 59 countries over 12 days. Don Perlgut looks at some of the films and documentaries with Jewish connections. THIS...

The European Parliament on Thursday voted in favor of a resolution endorsing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, drawing praise from Jewish groups. The resolution calls on EU Member States and...

This is a story about the shared fate of two quite different Jews. They were separated from each other by continents and oceans. His native tongue was Spanish and hers was French. He lived in...

The American Jewish Joint Distribution is providing emergency aid to victims of the devastating flooding and mudslides that killed hundreds of people and displacing hundreds of thousands more in Sri Lanka this week. This is...

The following was tweeted from the Al Jizz English Twitter account – before being summarily deleted after the ensuing uproar. .@AJEnglish appears to have taken down a heinously anti-Semitic tweet about climate change denial. Cuz deleting...

Key points in this article: Former Israeli ambassador to Japan wants Japan to oversee peace in the Middle East The Founding Father of Israel awakened to Zionism while in Japan The Japanese and Jews...