Tag: Jewish Identity
The question of the Jewish nation
In 1789, in the wake of the French Revolution, Stanislas Marie Adelaide, Comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, said, “We must refuse everything to the Jews as a nation and accord everything to Jews as individuals.”
A century...
Recognizing antisemitism
The following remarks were delivered by Alyza D. Lewin, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, to the Knesset Committee on Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs on July 25,...
After beer incident goes viral, comedian uses Jimmy Kimmel performance to joke about growing...
Jewish comedian Ariel Elias, the star of a recent viral video clip in which a beer is thrown at her on stage before she calmly chugs some of it, continued her newfound time in...
Survey shows Jewish young adults crave Shabbat dinner as chance to connect
Planning a Shabbat dinner? Invite some young adults, they’re likely to say yes.
That’s one of the takeaways in a survey conducted on behalf of OneTable, a nonprofit founded to support people in their 20s and...
Jews have bigger problems than a fake nose on an actor’s face
In contemporary popular culture dominated by social media, it doesn’t take much to start a controversy that can trend on Twitter. In this case, all it took was the release of production photos from “Maestro,” a...
Elan Carr: Jewish American Heritage Month passes without enough fanfare
May is over. Did you know it was Jewish American Heritage Month?
If your answer is “no,” you’re far from alone. It was easy to miss. However, the State Department’s former anti-Semitism envoy is on...
Indiana University Hillel distributes free mezuzah cases to students, faculty
Hillel at Indiana University launched a project to distribute free mezuzah cases on campus as a show of solidarity with the Jewish community against anti-Semitism.
The red mezuzahs, which have a sticker on them that says “I stand...
JDC European leaders survey: Anti-Semitism, communal sustainability top concerns
Key findings of a new survey were released on Thursday by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s International Center for Community Development (JDC-ICCD).
The Fifth Survey of European Jewish Community Leaders and Professionals was conducted between April and...
American Jewish identity, three years after the Tree of Life shooting
Three years ago today, we awoke to a world of our ancestors. In the breadth of Jewish history, the names Odessa, Warsaw, Kishinev, Kiev and Hebron represent the unspeakable barbarism many thought to have...
Is Mayim Bialik too Jewish for ‘Jeopardy’?
It may turn out that a lot of Americans are devoting as much thought to the question of who will ultimately succeed the late Alex Trebek as the host of “Jeopardy!” than they do...