96 Judaism’s Liquidoxy rejects extremes, right and left View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 19/02/2020 Judaism’s Liquidoxy rejects extremes, right and left Did I get this right? Iranian mullahs threaten to nuke us. Palestinian terrorists threaten to bomb us. The UN and international courts threaten to delegitimize us. And various […]
Has The New York Times Lost Faith in America?
96 Has The New York Times Lost Faith in America? View this email in your browser The Jew ish Journal 12/02/2020 Has The New York Times Lost Faith in America? Elie Wiesel always carried his U.S. passport. Justice Hugo Black kept a copy of the Constitution in his pocket. And at the 2016 […]
The Promise of the Trump Peace Plan
96 The Promise of the Trump Peace Plan View this email in your browser The W all Street Journal 11/02/2020 The Promise of the Trump Peace Plan It would bypass corrupt and dictatorial Palestinian leaders who have stalled the process since 1993. By Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy To complete his “deal of the century,” […]
Are Rabbinical Schools becoming anti-Israel Bullying Pulpits?
In 2011, when Rabbi Daniel Gordis highlighted “how lonely it can be for an unapologetically pro-Israel student at some of today’s rabbinical schools,” his Conservative and Reform colleagues excoriated him for exaggerating. Today, his criticisms seem mild; things are far worse. Every year, I hear from non-Orthodox rabbinical students that, in their programs, the once-marginal […]
Max Singer z”l: Happy Conservative, Optimistic Jew, Fulfilled Zionist
96 Max Singer z”l: Happy Conservative, Optimistic Jew, Fulfilled Zionist View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 29/01/2020 Max Singer z”l: Happy Conservative, Optimistic Jew, Fulfilled Zionist Last Thursday, one of Southern Jerusalem’s leading lights, Max Singer, died. This exuberant futurist who flirted with doomsday scenarios in Cold War America […]
Troy: Get a say in Israel’s elections with targeted donations
“The single most effective educational intervention in the world of Jewish identity in the 21st century is also the single most effective bridge-builder between Israel and the Diaspora: Birthright Israel.” The post Troy: Get a say in Israel’s elections with targeted donations appeared first on The Canadian Jewish News . Click here to read the […]
75 Years After WWII, Jews Deserve Freedom from Fear Too
Seventy-five years ago, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the ghoulish mass-murder-factory that killed as many as 15,000 Jews daily. “We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies, and chocolate,” the late Eva Mozes Kor would recall for the BBC/KCET documentary “Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State.” “Being so alone, a hug meant more […]
All-American Decency Is the Antidote to Anti-Semitism
It took two killers shooting up a Jersey City kosher-mart and one machete-wielding maniac invading a rabbi’s house in Monseyto reteach the old lesson that Jew-hatred is the most plastic hatred—adaptable, durable, artificial, and frequently toxic. Until then, even most American Jews kept folding the fight against anti-Semitism into the partisan war over Donald Trump. Yet reducing Jew-hatred […]
Tzohar Rabbis: Happy, Halachic, and in love with the Jewish People
Sephardi chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s branding of Russian immigrants as “religion-hating gentiles” has fueled cries for a rabbinate filled with peoplehood-loving Jews. So many of us are desperate for change. Change comes from the bottom-up or from top-down. People love sitting around, doing nothing but grumbling about the leadership failures empowering the chief rabbinate to […]
Center Field: Leaders’ credibility chasms
With each week, the global hypocrisy epidemic grows. People keep cultivating their blind spots, consciously narrowing their vision, not broadening it.We see it in too many leaders ready to say anything to stay in power. We see it in their followers reduced to enablers. And we see it in their opponents, who forget how slavishly […]