Tag: American Jewish community
Jews needed to show pride by marching. Now can they show smarts?
After a year in which there was a surge of violent anti-Semitic attacks on ultra-Orthodox Jews in the greater New York area, the rest of the Jewish community, which had often ignored assaults on...
Is it anti-Semitic to urge Jews to support Israel and oppose a wealth tax?
How could a speech that centered on advocating support for Israel and opposition to anti-Semitism, and in particular, the BDS movement, be considered anti-Semitic incitement?
It can if the person who delivered was President Donald...
On pre-holiday call, Trump highlights exiting Iran deal, backing Holocaust education, battling anti-Semitism
In the annual call on Friday ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday between Jewish communal leaders and the president of the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump recalled a friend telling him that neither...
Justice demands the death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter
The reaction to the decision of the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue the death penalty for Robert Bowers from the Jewish community was entirely predictable. The man who stands accused of perpetrating the...
Jewish community raises more than $2 million in five days for drug to treat...
The Jewish community in and outside South Florida raised more than $2 million for a young couple in Aventura, Fla., to be able to afford the world’s most expensive treatment—a $2.1 million drug called...
Magen David Adom conducts counter-terror and emergency-response training in Milwaukee
Following recent armed attacks against religious and public institutions in the United States, including attacks at synagogues, churches, schools and colleges, Magen David Adom, Israel’s national EMS service, conducted three days of terrorism- and...
Orthodox Union opens applications for second cohort of impact accelerator
The Orthodox Union has launched the application process for the second cohort of its Impact Accelerator project to rapidly identify and invest in ventures addressing current and future Jewish communal interests.
The program runs more than 12...
Is support for open borders really in tune with Jewish values?
American Jews have a long and understandable tradition of advocacy for immigrants. That’s due in part to the fact that most Jews were the children and grandchildren of immigrants as the community first began...
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Lessons from Israel’s first US ambassador
After the slanderous assaults on American Jews and on Israel by U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), there was a slew of condemnations from many sectors of the American political establishment...
Israel needs American Jewry, now more than ever
The Jewish diaspora in the United States is becoming increasingly estranged from Israel. American Jewish youth are being pushed away from affiliation with the Jewish state, and some Jewish students are even forced to hide...