Daily Archives: April 11, 2025
Renewing ‘tikkun olam’ in modern times
Moses stood up to the Egyptian slavemaster and then to Pharaoh for the freedom of his people, and with specific guidance from God, brought them through the desert to the Promised Land—today’s land of...
Passover: Long division and a short memory
It’s become fashionable—almost ritualistic—to lament the “unprecedented” disunity among Israelis today. Members of the public wring their hands over the loss of social cohesion that they insist used to characterize the country.
But let’s face...
Against racism, for antisemitism: The message of a march in Paris
Thousands of people marched through Paris at the end of March in what was billed as a protest against racism. It was another display of the long-standing alliance between the far left and Islamist...
Who will speak when the last survivors are gone?
As Holocaust survivors pass away, so, too, fades our most powerful defense against hatred: their stories. In a time when antisemitism is rising and historical distortion runs rampant, we must ask ourselves: Who will...
Trump admin seeking judicial consent decree at Columbia over Jew-hatred
The Trump administration is seeking to put Columbia University’s agreement to combat antisemitism under the oversight of a federal judge, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Lawyers in the Department of Justice’s antisemitism taskforce are reportedly seeking...
IHRA definition of Jew-hatred used to probe social media of visa applicants
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced this week that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has begun scouring social-media posts by visa applicants for Jew-hatred. A senior spokesperson for the department told JNS that USCIS will...
State Dept won’t endorse French call to recognize Palestinian state
The Trump administration declined to join France in calling for recognition of a Palestinian state, saying instead that it will pursue a “serious solution” in the Gaza Strip.
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said on Wednesday that...
Israeli educators warn Jewish studies gutted in state schools
Pedagogues, politicians and policy experts gathered for a conference at Jerusalem’s Mamilla Hotel recently to counter an Israeli education crisis, in which Jewish studies have vanished from the curriculum, leaving millions of students ignorant...
Trump nominates Yehuda Kaploun as US envoy to combat Jew-hatred
U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Yehuda Kaploun, an Orthodox Jewish businessman, to be U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, an ambassador-level position.
"Yehuda is a successful businessman and staunch advocate for the Jewish...
Di Fir Kashes – The four questions
פֿאַרוואָס איז די נאַכט פֿון פּסח אנדערש פֿון אַלע נעכט פֿון אַ גאַנץ יאָר?
Farvos iz di nakht fun peysekh andersh fun ale nekht fun a gants yor?
אַלע נעכט פֿון אַ גאַנץ יאָר עסן מיר...