A Christmas Crusade: Scapegoating the Jews
Anyone connected to reality would be perplexed by church leaders’ campaign to blame Israeli Jews for driving Christians out of Israel, as the country’s Christian population actually increased last year.
Warm Love and Hot Soup for Israeli Soldiers
Of course, it’s unspeakable that we should have to live with the threat of terrorists stabbing and shooting at civilians, or ramming their cars into Israelis on the side of the road.
Europe’s Jewish Students Face Anti-Semitic Onslaught
That young people across Europe continue to have either insufficient or inadequate understanding of the Holocaust and little real knowledge of the Israel-Palestinian conflict
Hanukkah Guide for the Perplexed 2021
The “Festival of Lights” highlights the centrality of the Land of Israel in the formation of Jewish history, religion and culture.
The Dollar’s Crashing Sends Waves Throughout Israel
Two seemingly parallel and completely unrelated things happened this week with an astonishing response.
Jews and Christians Can Now Pray on the Temple Mount
Wait, what? Jews and Christians can pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Why is that news?
“Jewish Nose” Jokes aren’t Funny. In Fact, they’re Dangerous
A political candidate in Virginia, a television game show host, and a Washington, D.C. historian seem to think that jokes about “Jewish noses” are funny.
Accosted by a Hater: What Would you Do?
We are bound to engage in soul-searching about how we might balance the duty to our own safety and the safety of those in our care with the impulse to defend our integrity from those who want to humiliate us.
Why the Crown Heights Pogrom Still Matters
Thirty years ago, anti-Jewish violence was prompted by the idea that Jews were privileged. The rise of critical race theory makes the tragedy an important lesson in enabling anti-Semitism.
They Love Us, They Love Us Not
I have been uplifted by a relationship with a young Polish man from the town where my grandmother was born, and from which, thankfully, she fled.
