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Middle East Eye
April 26, 2018
Fourteen American Jews were arrested by the New York Police Department after blocking the entrance to US Senator Chuck Schumer's New York office on ... There have been several indicators, including these latest sit-ins at politicians' offices, of a growing split in the American Jewish community overÃâà...
Haaretz
April 26, 2018
The vast majority of American Jews believe in God, but not in the God of the Bible, according to a new study. A survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted last December and released Wednesday, showed that 89 percent of American Jews believe in God, compared to 99 percent of Christians,Ãâà...
Al-Monitor
April 25, 2018
Found in: conservative judaism, reform judaism, western wall, american jews, ultra-orthodox, rabbinate, us jews. Danny Zaken is a journalist who works for the Israeli public radio station Kol Israel. Zaken has covered military and security affairs, West Bank settlers and Palestinian topics. He was a KnightÃâà...
Jewish Community Voice
April 25, 2018
Today, nearly all American Jewish institutions are vocally, even passionately pro-Israel. But even in the years after the Jewish state won its independence 70 years ago, that feeling was not yet universal. Before the Holocaust, Zionism itself was polarizing among American Jews. Many, especially in theÃâà...
+972 Magazine
April 16, 2018
IfNotNow was established in the summer of 2014 during Israel's war in Gaza by young American Jews. Angered by the overwhelming support of American Jewish institutions for the war, they began organizing actions calling for an end to the war, an end to the occupation, and freedom and dignity for all.
Haaretz
April 16, 2018
Israelis need to experience the diversity and richness and pluralism of American Jewish life. Liberal American Jews need to face the challenge of applying their values to situations of conflict and danger, and have opportunities to share their American know-how to help equalize opportunity in IsraeliÃâà...
New Haven Register
April 14, 2018
Sanders represents a classical tradition in the American Jewish community. Before World War II, the dominant cause among American Jews was not Zionism or Reform. It was Socialism and Unionism. The goal was not to make society better for Jews, but for all people, particularly the working classes.
Forward
April 3, 2018
“After the mid-1930s, the majority of American Jews had come to be positive one way or another about the idea of a Jewish homeland,” said Hasia Diner, director of the Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University. “While 1948 on the one hand was very exciting and [had] lotsÃâà...
Coconuts
March 30, 2018
These Jews include the folks at the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), who have produced a handout titled An exodus in our time: A reflection on the Rohingya crisis for the Passover table. The handout asks readers to spend the night telling stories not only of Jewish suffering and liberation, but also ofÃâà...
Cleveland Jewish News
March 30, 2018
NEW YORK (JTA) — American Jewish organizations paused to remember Mireille Knoll, the French Holocaust survivor found murdered in her Paris apartment. The American Jewish Committee held a ceremony at its New York office Thursday attended by French Consul General Anne-Claire Legendre,Ãâà...
Forward
March 30, 2018
These can be trying times for American Jews. The ADL recently released data showing a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents since 2016 — and not just from white supremacists, either. Louis Farrakhan, head of Nation of Islam, continues to spew anti-Semitic remarks every chance he gets. This hasÃâà...
Haaretz
March 28, 2018
All of the fifty-odd Jewish groups that belong to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations are subject to the rules, which now ban “insults, ad hominem attacks, and name calling” against the Presidents Conference or its member organizations, and statements that are “false,Ãâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 28, 2018
In this, Weisman resembles many contemporary American Jews, who have been able to comfortably coast to social acceptance and professional accomplishment by wearing their ... He resorts to broad criticism and unsupported assertions about American Jewish life that sidestep a more complex reality.
Mondoweiss
March 27, 2018
Nearly fifty years ago Lyndon Johnson sent the army into Washington to quell unrest in the days after the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. and– seeing the soldiers with guns on his street as the Pharaoh's army, Arthur Waskow wrote the Freedom Seder, which venerated Eldridge Cleaver and Allen GinsbergÃâà...
World Religion News
March 23, 2018
The results of a pioneer study conducted by Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) shows that gaps between Muslim Americans and Jewish Americans are much smaller than previously anticipated. It varies from one person to another at a granular level and the more devout a person, the closer thatÃâà...
Haaretz
March 22, 2018
Israel's current leaders are dismissive of American Jews, and as Chemi Shalev notes, Benjamin Netanyahu has actively discouraged Israelis from caring about Diaspora issues. Netanyahu's cancellation of the Kotel agreement was proof positive of his contempt for American Jewish concerns. Women of theÃâà...
Forward
March 21, 2018
Both American Muslims and Jews acknowledge that there is anti-Muslim sentiment in the American Jewish community, with 55 percent of Jewish respondents surveyed saying that there is some and 9 percent saying there is a lot of anti-Muslim sentiment among Jews, and 44 percent of Muslims saying thereÃâà...
The Island Now (blog)
March 20, 2018
Going places near and far: National Museum of American Jewish History is unexpected revelation in Philadelphia .... The US Constitution made American Jews citizens in 1790, but some states had laws lasting well into the 19th century barring Jews from holding public office (despite the Bill of Rights' firstÃâà...
The Register-Guard
March 17, 2018
Regarding the election of Donald Trump, Catherine Rampell (“Hey, Putin: Don't try to pin this election on the Jews,” March 14) wrote: “If Jews had rigged the election, it would have had a way different outcome … . (He) has since remained low in our esteem, with just a 26 percent approval rating amongÃâà...
CBS Philly
March 15, 2018
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — One of the first conductors born and educated in the U.S. to receive worldwide acclaim is the focus of an exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History, highlighting his life, identity and social activism. “Leonard Bernstein, The Power of Music” features artifacts andÃâà...
Mondoweiss
March 14, 2018
There is an important Zionist argument that Israel has made Jews around the world safer, by giving Jews a national identity, and esteem as agents not victims, which we did not have before. So that makes Israel vital to Jewish existence, and admirable too. Here are three recent statements of this argument.
Cleveland Jewish News
March 5, 2018
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended policies that sometimes drew dissent from American Jews, saying Israel's national ... “I have the greatest respect for the American Jewish community,” he said, noting he was scheduled to address the American Israel Public AffairsÃâà...
Forward
March 1, 2018
As such, it is important for teens as a whole, American, Jewish, philanthropic or not, to be aware of their past, and to openly discuss their history. Sometimes this may involve challenging previously held historical facts and dialogues, it may mean accusing a government of injustice or corruption, or it may beÃâà...
Forward
March 1, 2018
I don't have the room to debate the variables that create a ruthless killer. But I do have the room to briefly point out the benefits of a society that appreciates marksmanship. Understandably, there are those who have a visceral reaction to the destructive potential of firearms. As an experienced schoolÃâà...
GetReligion (blog)
February 28, 2018
It also casts light on how a diaspora population – in this case American Jews – can be moved by media opinion originating in a nation, despite its distance, with which they ... Within a news cycle or two after the Haaretz columns appeared, similar pieces started to appear in liberal American Jewish media.
ABC News
February 21, 2018
The Ruderman Family Foundation released a statement saying that "after a hugely successful campaign that went viral internationally and among American Jews and Israelis who have signed the petition - the Foundation was contacted by the Polish Jewish community and because of their concerns forÃâà...
Forward
February 21, 2018
While highlighting some important developments that make clear the urgent need for justice in Israel/Palestine and a change of course in the American Jewish establishment's approach to Israel advocacy, the article relies on some foundational assumptions about what young Jews want and what they needÃâà...
Forward
February 14, 2018
Ungar-Sargon writes, “If moneyed American Jews want to strengthen Jewish continuity, they should stop spending money trying to convince American Jews that they aren't seeing what they say they are seeing when they look at Israel, and start convincing Israeli leaders to pursue policies that AmericanÃâà...
Tablet Magazine
February 13, 2018
Muzin and Kleinfeld's work tells a dissonant story about Qatar's view of the U.S. Jewish community: Does Doha see American Jews as an obstacle or an opportunity? Does the Qatari regime want to squeeze the Jewish community or embrace it? Both? Whatever its actual objectives in Washington, what'sÃâà...
Forward
February 1, 2018
... American Jews to oppose our own leadership— as was the case when Prime Minister Netanyahu asked us to contest the Iran deal negotiated by the Obama administration — will increase resentment among Americans and American Jews in particular. The traditional Israeli respect for US Jews' concernsÃâà...
Forward
December 31, 1999
On every page of “Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu,” out May 1, one feels Pfeffer's encyclopedic knowledge of his subject and his profound fairness in assessing Israel's leader. For American Jews especially, the book pulls back the curtain on a man held in high esteem who holdsÃâà...
Jweekly.com
December 31, 1999
Today, nearly all American Jewish institutions are vocally, even passionately pro-Israel. But even in the early years after the Jewish state won its independence, that feeling was not yet universal. Before the Holocaust, Zionism itself was polarizing among American Jews. Many, especially in the ReformÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Yet American Jewish leaders — the heads of influential, established organizations like the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federations of North America — have been remarkably quiet, focused instead, as they have been for decades, on Israel, not the brewing storm in our own country.
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
As the head of the not-for-profit Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Hoenlein has represented American Jews in meetings with the top levels of Israeli, Arab and U.S. political leadership for decades. In those high-level meetings, Hoenlein speaks for more than 50 JewishÃâà...
Washington Examiner
December 31, 1999
031018 AJC Putin comments photo On Saturday, the American Jewish Committee denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments after he suggested those behind the efforts to interfere in the 2016 election might have been "Ukrainians, Tatars, Jews, just with Russian citizenship." (AlexeiÃâà...
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