Among all the things Jewish students have missed out on in the age of COVID-19 is the Birthright trip. Since last spring, tens of thousands of young Jews haven’t been able to have that transformational moment, that “Aha” experience, that intense feeling of connectedness, that …
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Take It From a Refusenik: Jews Win When They Are United
By: Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy A few years after I, Natan Sharansky, arrived in Israel, a neighbor who moved to Jerusalem from New York saw me playing with my children in the backyard. Looking wistful, she said, “You know, Natan, it was such a …
Zionist Texts for the Coronasederette
Welcome Zionist Thinkers to your Coronasederette! These texts from The Zionist Ideas bridge between our ancient fight for freedom and the challenges of today – including the Corona quarantine- for more ideas of how to frame it.
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 …
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 …
DEAR LOUIS FARRAKHAN (YOU DON’T DESERVE ‘MINISTER’ TITLE)
This may be the first thank-you letter you’ve ever received in The Jerusalem Post, but you’ve performed an important public service. You’ve given a gift to the often-quarreling Jewish people. You’ve outed Progressive hypocrites and Jewish apologists. You’ve imposed moral clarity on an issue that …
THE TWO MEN WHO EMBODIED THE JEWISH FUTURE
Coincidentally, Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat, the spiritual leader of Montreal’s Congregation Shaar Hashomayim from 1946 to 1993, and Amos Oz, Israel’s great novelist, died within hours of each other in late December. Looking at both their lives illuminates the Jewish people’s two great responses to the …
A ZIONIST AGENDA FOR ISRAEL’S 2019 ELECTIONS
Israel’s election campaign just began and we’re already exhausted. The issues are thorny; the candidates, prickly and silly. But while grumbling, nitpicking, arguing, handicapping and, ultimately voting – it’s worth dreaming too. What do we as Zionists want from the Zionist parties? Yes, democracy is …
POISONED FRUIT: SETTLER YOUTHS’ UNPATRIOTIC, ANTI-ZIONIST VIOLENCE IS EVIL
While our politicians’ Bibi-Bennett-Ayelet, Goodbye Gabbay and Tzipi, Hello Gantz and Glick childish antics are demoralizing, the settler youths’ unpatriotic, anti-Zionist violence is evil. We cannot denounce terrorism committed against us but not by some of us. It doesn’t matter where you stand regarding the …
I CALLED OUT ALICE WALKER’S JEW-HATRED AGAIN, AND SHE CONFIRMED IT – AGAIN
Last week, the Alice Walker antisemitism controversy shifted from the New York Times to the History News Network (HNN). This time, legendary novelist Walker and a historian stooge proved downright Trumpian in doubling-down on offensive insults and displaying a stunning inability to see how others …