Tag: American Jews
When America Scorned Jewish Immigrants
I have shelved, yet again, a perfectly serviceable column — about ideological divides in the Jewish community — because something else is stuck in my craw.
In my computer, its replacement is titled “Shithole.”
No asterisks...
Poll: Muslims to overtake Jews as 2nd largest religion in U.S. by 2040
A new poll released on January 3rd by the Pew Research Center found that Muslims will soon overtake Jews as the second-largest religious group in the United States, after Christians.
Pew estimated that there are...
5 times Israel was blamed for insulting American Jewry this year
It’s been a rocky year for Israel’s relationship with Diaspora Jewry, and particularly with its No. 1 supporter, US Jewry. Israel’s relationship with the latter hit major bumps in the road in 2017 over...
Four ways Israeli and American Jews grew apart in 2017
This hasn’t been a good year for Israel and American Jews.
The two poles of world Jewry, each boasting about half of the globe’s total Jews, have never quite seen eye to eye on everything...
The Cooking Classes that Americanized Jewish Immigrants
With every new wave of immigration, there are those who ask how the newcomers can ever become truly American. At the end of the nineteenth century, a Wisconsin woman named Elizabeth “Lizzie” Black Kander...
How Christmas Transformed Hanukkah in America
Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, celebrates the victory, in 164 BCE of armed Jewish rebels led by Judah the Maccabee over the army of the Syrian despot Antiochus IV. Against all odds, the courageous, resourceful,...
To be Jewish in America
Our country recently saw violent anti-Semitism on display in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nazi flags, Nazi salutes, shouts of “Sieg Heil” and a banner with the words, “Jews are Satan’s children” have frightened Jews across the...
Truth About American Jewish Military Service
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely claimed on Israeli English-language news over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that American Jews are a “people that never send their children to fight for their country. Most of the Jews...
Netanyahu denies saying Reform Judaism will disappear by assimilation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied that he said in closed talks that Reform Judaism in the United States would disappear within two generations due to assimilation.
Netanyahu’s bureau said the reports, which appeared Friday in...
Voices from the Vietnam War are still relevant
We American Jews have been busy: a new school year; plenty of politics to follow; and, of course, the Holy Days. Hurricane-stricken communities are contending with much more. But for those with sufficient time...