News | ISRAEL NEWS

How Americans can save Israeli democracy

Israeli elites have mobilized to attempt to essentially overturn last November’s Knesset election results. Foreign friends who help them shouldn’t pretend it’s about democracy.

Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: The Secret Jewish History of "Gilligan's Island"

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

Good for Sherwood Schwartz for being a proud Jew. I knew about most of the rest of us. Ginger and Lovey, both Jews. So take that antisemites.

News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - New AJC survey: 11% of young Americans think Jews caused the Holocaust; US Jews are hiding their Jewishness (video)

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Politics | American Politics

Jewish Dems defend Ilhan Omar following removal from House committee

Jewish Democrats jump to protest Ilhan Omar's removal from her House of Representatives committee assignment despite her history of repeatedly giving voice to antisemitic tropes.

American Jews need to stop supporting organizations like the JDCA. IF YOU CARE ABOUT ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE, stop supporting these dangerous fools. They are siding with a woman who spews Nazi style ideology to push their agenda. At some point you have to say “enough.” Start making your political choices based on facts, not some leftist fantasy created out of nothing by your leftist overseers. These people HATE you. Stop doing their bidding.

Politics | American Politics

The Ilhan Omar vote is a turning point for American Jews

Partisan split on booting the congresswoman from committees is more than a symptom of political civil war. It illustrates the normalization of anti-Zionism.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Anti-Semitism worst among blacks and young adults in poll released ahead of MLK Day

The two groups were far more likely than Republicans or conservatives to believe negative stereotypes about Jews.

Black antisemitism is a serious problem, and has been for decades. Antisemitism is prevalent among younger people because they haven’t been taught history and their leftist overlords hate Jews and use hatred of Israel as cover. Neither will get better, until the left is neutralized.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

82% of Israelis believe diaspora Jews should make aliyah

Israelis perceive antisemitism as a worse threat, as 82% believe that the safest place for Jews is Israel in today’s climate.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Number of Americans believing antisemitic stereotypes nearly doubled since 2019

Poll finds that 85% of people in US agree with at least one racist trope about Jews, while 20% believe at last six; 20% think Jews have 'too much power'

I have no respect, AT ALL, for the ADL - but the data is the data. I also don't believe that the "number" of Americans who believe antisemitic stereotypes has drastically risen, I think that most of these people already believed in the stereotypes, but feel much more comfortable publicly admitting it, which is, in some ways, far worse. The reason that being a Jew hater is so much more acceptable is that the left is race obsessed (even thought they laughably deny it), but consider Jews "white." So when it was good to be white, we weren't white (ask the Nazis), but now that being white is "bad," they deem us white, and apply every (imaginary) egregious facet of "whiteness" to Jews (and often greatly magnify those negative qualities).

Either way, there is ZERO doubt that antisemitism in America is drastically more common than anyone believed before.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Podcast: 'Antisemitism is now a form of entertainment - and that's new'

Kanye West and Dave Chappelle are not isolated incidents of 'performative' Jew-hatred, says Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld, head of IU's Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism

News | Antisemitism Watch

US Jews battle 'mainstreaming' and normalization of antisemitism | The Times of Israel

After Kanye West voices 'love' for Nazis and ex-president Trump dines with white supremacist, Biden says 'silence is complicity'

News | Antisemitism Watch

Antisemitism should test America’s conscience

Antisemites appear to be “testing the waters” to see what they can get away with before upping the ante of hostilities in. America. Op-ed.

News | Jewish Community

How not to fight Antisemitism | Israel National News

Jewish organizations want to fight antisemitism but have they isolated themselves from the people they claim to represent. Op-ed.

Politics | Opinion

Dragons and dragon-slayers in Israel and America: Most Israeli Jews know which is which, most American Jews do not

Most Israeli Jews know which is which, most American Jews do not.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Alarming rise in US Jewish children’s complaints of antisemitism

Most of the Israeli-American community sends their children to public schools and this is exactly where the hate is coming from.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Why I think the Golden Age for Jews in America is coming to its end

The decline in the favorability of mainstream American views toward Israel has coincided with a rise in antisemitic violence, particularly in large metropolises, promoted by Islamo-Leftist groups.

Great article. Having grown up right in the middle of this “golden age,” it is obvious, and alarming, that we’re facing the first real era of widespread, active (meaning not hidden, but out in the open), antisemitism in my lifetime. Personally, I will NEVER shrink from being outwardly Jewish. I actually wear my Magen David (Star of David) even more (and just as obviously as I Walt’s have). I don’t think there is any way of reversing this. Americans are unprecedentedly ignorant of history, and the left has made the calculation that the demographics are in its favor of it ignores, or outright expresses hatred for, Jews. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are exhibits A and B. The right has also made it clear that it will accept Jew haters as long as they agree with them ideologically. Lastly, the Jewish community, with the critical exception of Chabad, as totally failed to educate the last three generations, and has replaced genuine Jewish knowledge with its version of liberalism (which is actually leftism, and almost always at odds with actual Judaism). We also need more articles like this one, and Jewish organizations with some actual courage.

Politics | Opinion

The urgent need for Jewish leadership - Melanie Phillips

It's time Jews told their diaspora leaders to wake up

Politics | Opinion

History Lessons: America’s New Antisemitism Begins with Cultural Erasure of American Jews

As a Muslim woman committed to combating radical Islam, also known as Islamism, I research contemporary antisemitism, particularly Islamist antisemitism.

Written by an Arab, Muslim, woman. It’s also extremely accurate.

Politics | Opinion

Being Jewish in an Unraveling America - Common Sense

The bad guy was killed. The good guys were saved. But the reaction to the hostage-taking in Colleyville, Texas, should alarm American Jews.

Great column except that it’s not a rabbi in the beginning, but a “rabbi.” And not because she’s a woman, but because 1. Conservative/Reform “rabbis” do NOT receive traditional ordination and 2. The liberal wings of Judaism promote the same ideology, leftism, that has allowed antisemitism to reach heights unseen throughout US history. We need to stop pretending that the leaders of such congregations aren’t part of the problem.

News | News

Daniel Gordis – American Jews and Israel: Shifting Sands, Again?

Daniel Gordis – American Jews and Israel: Shifting Sands, Again? For years, the story has been about what American Jews were saying about Israel. Now, Israelis are talking about American Jews. And what they are saying may surprise you. Visit Daniel

News | Antisemitism Watch

How to - and how not to - fight antisemitism

This week there were two news stories that do not bode well for the American Jewish community.

Politics | Opinion

Ilhan Omar is a wakeup call for American Jews

A new generation is upon us; people who know and care nothing about Judeo/Christian values. They keep coming and are getting elected.Op-ed

Politics | Opinion

Faced with a tsunami of anti-Semitism, Diaspora Jews still cling to their bubble

A neo-pogrom is being facilitated by Western elites who, if they aren’t taking part in this war against the Jewish people either on the streets or in the media, are piously wringing their hands but not taking the necessary action to stop it. Op-ed.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - The Poisoning of American Jewry is Complete (Judean Rose)

An encounter with the author's relative underscores the schism between American and Israeli Jews.

Having grown up, and still living in, the world of secular American Jewry: I can tell you this article is typical. American Jews have been taught next to nothing about our religion or history, but have also been taught that feelings are as important as facts. So they mistake how they feel for what is.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Rise in antisemitism dispels the myth of American Jewish exceptionalism

What has transpired so many times throughout history – pogroms and officially condoned attacks on Jews – never came about overnight.

The author wasn’t the least surprised person in the world that the recent spat of antisemitism happened in America: I was. I’ve been warning about this for decades. Even more interesting was the, literally, total lack of response to the letter her friend sent to fake Jewish “leaders.” I have had that EXACT experience time and time again. The American Jewish community needs new, effective, brave, leadership. We DO NOT need, at all, more “statements,” “condemnations,” and “dialogues.” Most tellingly is that so many Americans stood silently as their fellow Americans were being attacked. This too I’ve experienced first hand.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Throwing Israel Under The Bus Will Not Save American Jews

Israel and her people support every Diaspora Jewish community always, no questions asked.

For anyone who read this: I am not now, have never been, and NEVER WILL BE one of gnoses Jews. When Israel is in peril, as are ALL in peril. End of story. The biggest failing of the American Jewish community was in educating our children. Groups like the ADL, and the Jewish Federation are disaster that never put the actual needs of the Jewish community first. Their first thought is always what’s best for themselves as institutions and then what’s best for the Democratic Party. Thank G-d for Chabad reconnecting millions of us to our Judaism.

“IT TAKES A SPECIAL KIND OF BLINDNESS TO DISMISS THE FACT THAT HAMAS IS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION CALLING FOR THE GENOCIDE OF ALL JEWS, NOT JUST ISRAELIS. IT TAKES CLOSING ONE’S EYES NOT TO NOTICE THAT HAMAS IS PERFORMING A DOUBLE WAR CRIME BY FIRING OVER 3,500 ROCKETS FROM WITHIN ITS OWN CIVILIAN POPULATION ONTO ISRAEL’S CIVILIAN POPULATION.”

Politics | Opinion

American Jews Voted for This: The Story of a Nation, Amcha (Judean Rose)

A one-woman mantra campaign that aims to drive home the import of the Jewish vote for Biden.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Democrats and Republicans circle the wagons around their own antisemites. Jews are on our own.

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It’s very sad to me that this is true. I think that both sides are proving that the days of America being a safe refuse for Jews are over. That’s why we must support Israel. Unconditionally.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

American Jewry's fateful hour

Almost all the polls say that US President Donald Trump is heading towards defeat at the hands of his Democrat

Politics | Opinion

American Jews should reject Joe Biden - The Jerusalem Post

Biden does not get to tell us what a Biden administration would look like; we have already seen it.

“To paint a clear picture of how Biden sees Israel, he once gave a speech on how Israel was damaging peace negotiations in the region hours after a terrorist killed 21 people in a Jerusalem bus bombing.”

Politics | Politics

Jews who hate Trump and do not know why - Opeds

Some Jews in an act of colossal memory loss sponsor Antifa and BLM. Their ancestors financed the Bolsheviks, then faced firing squads.Op-ed.

I opposed him, very vocally, in 2016. I was wrong. He has been great for America, great for Israel, and great for American Jews. It’s tragic that so many Jews have been brainwashed into believing that progressivism is equatable with Jewish identity when it is so often the opposite. Today’s democrat party is as antisemitic as of their far left forebears.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Wake Up America, and Smell the Anti-Semitism

Americans of all races and political outlooks revile and attack Jews with unprecedented glee, while American Jews would rather talk about anything else

I RARELY post articles from Tablet, and I wish this one had dealt more honestly with democrats embrace of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, the BDS movement, and the role of intersectionalism in antisemitism.

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

Elder Of Ziyon - The shtetl mentality is alive and well with liberal American Jews

European Jews were conditioned over generations to not make waves because of fears of deadly antisemitic responses to the slightest perceived provocations. This is the shtetl mentality, and it is one that Zionism worked hard to eradicate in Israel.

This fake “rabbi” teaches fake Judaism, literally progressivism as a replacement for Judaism, is anyone surprised that none of these people have the courage to stand up to antisemitic thugs?

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Too many American Jews are turning a blind eye to Antisemitism

No Jewish organization in the USA (exceot the ZOA) has the fortitude to publicly confront egregious acts of antisemitism. Opinion.

I agree with every word of this. I have worked for, and been involved with, many of these organizations. They are weak, useless, naive and often cowardly. ZOA is the exception. We need more Jewish organizations with teeth.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

You Know The Talk Black Parents Have With Their Sons; You Never Heard Of The One Jews Have

Jew In The City makes engaging and meaningful Orthodox Judaism known and accessible to Jewish people, reversing negative associations about religious Jews.

Yes, yes and yes. This is exactly correct. As antisemitism has risen, I’ve been told more frequently than ever before that I “don’t understand” what minorities go through, because of my “white (or male) privilege.” That’s absolutely crazy, and I mean that literally, when the person you are talking to is Jewish.

We are the minority of minorities. We have been a minority everywhere we’ve been for millennia. Only since 1948 do we have a home. And we suffer everywhere we go. No matter how good a place is, how comfortable, how much we can thrive, each place always turns into a place of suffering for us. That isn’t melodrama: it’s history. So yes. We do have a talk too. Our talk is to remind our children that we are strangers and to live as Jews, means always being different. Personally, I am 100% ok with that. Like all Jews though, I’ve experienced what that means. Especially lately. I saw this originally on Facebook. The author calls herself “Jew in the City” and I highly recommend following her. I would love to have her on Moptu. However, the comments on this article were heartbreaking. Jews all over the United States are removing mezuzahs from their homes, they are scared to wear a Magen David (Star of David), take their kippahs off in public. The kind of stuff that everyone in the late 20th century was sure had been related to the last. But history teaches us that, when you’re Jewish, NOTHING is related to the past.

“I realized recently, with the uptick in antisemitic attacks and anti-Jewish content being shared online, and the tepid response the world has to it (despite being outraged when any other minority is mistreated), that many gentiles don’t understand the Jewish experience well enough. And perhaps it’s because we haven’t properly explained what it’s like to be a Jew.

“The confusion seems to be how Jews could be considered a minority and protected from hate speech when we seem to be doing pretty well. I recently touched on this issue when I wrote about the DeSean Jackson antisemitism scandal. I explained to a Black man I was speaking with that the lack of privilege that Jews have today is not in our skin color or our education or socioeconomic status – it’s in our security – or lack there of.


People may not realize this, but as Jews, we live with the constant anxiety and fear that we or one our loved ones could be subjected to a random antisemitic attack at any time, as well as the notion that while the U.S. has been a safe and gracious home for us for hundreds of years, one day, yet again, the tides will turn and we’ll have to flee.”

News | News

Victor Rosenthal - The 800-Pound Gorilla of American Judaism

Victor Rosenthal – The 800-Pound Gorilla of American Judaism I won’t write about Peter Beinart’s latest obscene appropriation of Jewish concepts in the service of putting an end to the third Jewish commonwealth and returning the Jewish people to

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Rather than drifting away, over two-thirds of US Jews feel tie to Israel -- poll | The Times of Israel

8 out of 10 survey respondents say they are pro-Israel; Netanyahu's support of Trump tops list of reasons Jewish Americans are critical of Israeli policies

That number should still be higher, but it proves that the Jews on the far left who claim that American Jewish support for Israel had faded are lying. Which isn’t a surprise.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Anti-Semitic stereotypes persist in America, ADL survey shows

Amid the worst outbreak of anti-Semitic violence in decades, a new survey released today from the Anti-Defamation League found more

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Should American Jews Speak Hebrew? – Tablet Magazine

Before 1948, David Ben-Gurion used to joke about Zionism’s future: How will we know when we have become a real country like the rest of the world? When Jewish thieves and Jewish prostitutes conduct their business in Hebrew—and Hebrew-speaking policeme

For me the answer is absolutely "yes." Yet I don't speak fluent Hebrew. I've tried to learn many times. The reality, at least for me, and I imagine many others. is that it's very difficult to learn a language unless you're immersed in it, or have a special aptitude for languages. I wasn't blessed with that ability. But should we all learn it? Yes.

Entertainment | Television/Film/Books

Herman Wouk’s Calling Card | Jewish Week

What ‘This Is My God’ meant to traditional Jews in mid-century America.

I wanted to post this earlier but wasn’t happy about posting about the loss of my favorite novelist and author. I ended up choosing this article because its focus had a huge influence on my life. “This Is My G-d,” which my mom have me when I was 15, it was an original copy that she had owned, was my first real glimpse of traditional Judaism. It ended up being the first step in my education about my own religion and culture and had a huge impact on my life. Then I read the “Caine Mutiny” and most of his other books. I wanted to meet him but never had the chance. Amazingly, he released his most recent book not that long ago. I was reading about it recently, and was happily surprised to find out about it. He will be missed.

Politics | Opinion

Where Are America’s Jewish Leaders?

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Photo: Screenshot. Israel is once again facing major new international military and political challenges. Yet despite …