Tag: Diaspora
Birthright Israel celebrates 18 years of changing young lives
The numbers speak for themselves.
Gathered at the 18th-year mega-event held at Sultan’s Pool in Jerusalem on June 27 were approximately 6,000 participants from countries all over the word, in addition to 1,500 soldiers from...
It’s time to look past the Holocaust
A recent poll found that 41 per cent of millennials in the United States believe that no more than two million Jews perished in the Holocaust, while 22 per cent aren’t sure what the...
An inside look at Mexico’s Jewish Arab citizens and their dual identities
Jewish communities across the Diaspora are often incredibly diverse from one another, speaking different languages, eating different food, and practicing different traditions. However, there are a few unifying characteristics shared by all. In most...
More than just bad optics on immigration?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had a lot of bad days recently. But the humiliating spectacle of his April 2 flip-flop on a deal cut by the Israeli government with the United Nations...
For once, Jews are short on alarmism
One of the oldest Jewish jokes speaks of the stereotypical Jewish telegram. It reads: “Start worrying. Details to follow.”
Like all good jokes, it pokes fun at something that is rooted in reality. Jews are...
Searching for meaning behind an empty metaphor
For those who worry about the future of American Jewry, Passover brings some comfort. According to a survey published in 2014 by the Pew Research Center, 70 percent of Americans who identify as Jewish attend...
How (and why) Israel must bridge its gap with American Jewry
Israeli society takes pride in high-achieving Jews, whether they live in Israel or in the Diaspora. We are even proud of émigrés who have success abroad. Nevertheless, it is difficult for us to give up Zionist...
When diaspora Jews speak, do Israelis listen?
Many friends and colleagues complain to me that Israel too often makes decisions without appropriately taking into consideration the impact those decisions will have on American Jews and on our relationship with the Jewish...
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...