News | Israel/Jewish Community

Ocasio-Cortez Embraces Anti-Semitic Women's March After DNC, Top Dems Cut Ties

On Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) embraced the anti-Semitic Women's March, just days after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and other left-wing organizations cut ties with the movement over blatant anti-Semitism.

Hey Ocasio-Cortez: the last thing the Jewish community needs is you protecting it. Sorry, but you can’t exploit us the same way that you exploit gays, blacks and women.

Politics | Indoctrination On Campus

Is The Iranian Regime Promoting Campus Anti-Semitism?

As American Jews grapple with rising anti-Semitism on college campuses and in other arenas, they would be well-served remembering the root cause of much of the world’s Jew-hatred: the Islamic Republic of Iran, the

Politics | POLITICS

I'm Jewish, and I Think the Biggest Increase in Anti-Semitism Is From the Left

The biggest increase in anti-Semitism in the last 10 or so years has come from the left. Just ask young Jews who wear yarmulkes or are vocally pro-Israel on most American college campuses.

I agree with every word of this.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Media Say Anti-Semitic Incidents Are Up 57%. Here's The Real Story.

This week, major media outlets (The Washington Post,

Politics | Politics

Left's Response To The Mass Shooting Of Jews Is An Act Of Bad Faith

If you think calling out George Soros is de facto anti-Semitism, your main concern is liberalism, not Jews or anti-Semitism.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Outrage as Pence brings out Messianic ‘rabbi’ to pray for synagogue victims

Loren Jacobs invokes 'Jesus the Messiah' in his prayer; Pence says he did not know the cleric, who was invited to event by Jewish GOP candidate Lena Epstein

And today’s “spade a spade” moment: this. This was a huge screwup and endemic of the huge blind spot of many in the Christian community. Our enmemies are our enemies because they want to destroy us. That is true whether they choose violence, actively attempting to convert the naive, or assimilation. Shame on Pence and his staff for being this tone deaf (at best) or hypocritical (at worst).

News | Anti-Israel=Anti-Semitism

LEVY: Toxic Jew hatred on the rise globally

The tragic mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue during Shabbat morning services hit far too close to home.The alleged shooter Robert Bowers — who has a Twitter feed full of virulently anti…

Yes we’ll continue to hear that hating Israel and hating Jews are two separate things. They are unequivocally not, they are one and the same.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre Victims Identified, Include 97-Year-Old, Pair of Brothers

The 11 Jews massacred on Saturday by a white supremacist gunman at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh have...

Baruch dayan ha’emet. May their memories be a blessing.

Anyone who politicizes this, as so many have, should rot in hell. I mean that with every ounce of sincerity I have. Millions have exploited an abhorrent tragedy to push a political agenda and they each have some of the victims’ Blood on their hands and the blood of any future victims who perish because far too many Americans can’t seem to take antisemtism seriousky. Jewish blood is cheap way too many of you.

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Under neo-Nazi and jihadist bullying, Swedish Jewish communities are shuttering

In addition to violent harassment from two Jew-hating populations, Swedish Jews also must live under government-enforced strict secularism

It’s apalling that they have to deal with secular radicalism in addition to the usual threats from neo-Nazis and Muslims. This would be the same Scandinavia that American liberals hale as a model of secular utopian success.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Starbucks' flavored drinks lose Kosher certification - CBS News

A top Kosher certification company has dropped Starbucks drinks with syrups, sauces, toppings and powders

Politics | POLITICS

Why Postmodern Intersectionality Imperils Israel and Jews

The vogue theory of intersectionality has managed to de-emphasize prejudice against Jews, demonstrating that it is just another vehicle for anti-Semitism.

News | Anti-Israel=Anti-Semitism

Jews Get to Define Anti-Semitism, Not Shaun King – Tablet Magazine

Why Shaun King is an example of a very public failure to live up to anti-oppression values in the social justice movement.

As someone who has been called a "heeb," a "kike," and a "f'ing Zioinist Jew," along with several other incidents, I always find it bizarre when the purveyors of identity politics claim that I posses "white privilege" and have no idea what bigotry was like. I grew up around Holocaust survivors, some of my family members experienced serious antisemitism here in the United States, and the Nazis put millions of my people into overs just a generation before I was born. Sorry, but unless you are Jewish: you absolutely do NOT get to tell is what we experience as Jews. I find identity politics to be pretty abhorrent. But I am more horrified by the left's enthusiastic embrace of all things anti-Jewish.

History | Judaism

Committed to the future of Jewish life

One thing that struck me about the recent Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly was how many people are dedicated to ensure the future of Jewish life. About 3,000 people atte…

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Chabad’s Massive Growth Is Pragmatic, Yet ‘Defies Logic’ | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

JNS.org – How do you go about feeding a crowd of 5,600 hungry rabbis and other guests, many of whom have...

Chabad has, arguably, saved the American Jewish community by itself. No single organization has done more.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

New York Times Avoids Calling a Jew a Jew | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

When is a Jew not a Jew? When The New York Times is writing about him or her and is...

"In a conversation, when someone dances around a topic or avoids it the way the Times is treating Judaism in these articles, it’s sometimes because of a concern that raising it might be somehow embarrassing, or even insulting. If that’s how Times journalists feel about Judaism, it’s too bad."

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Company selling swastika apparel as progressive symbol of peace

Before being used by Hitler’s Nazi regime, swastikas were commonly known as an ancient sign used by Hindus and Buddhists carrying positive associations such as auspiciousness and good fortune.

The far left these days is doing all it can to diminish the horror of the Holocaust. Part of the reason for that is that they, wrongly, believe that diminishing the Holocaust diminishes Israel's legitimacy. I

s anyone else sick and tired of re inherent arrogance of doing something THIS offensive by claiming that it is "pushing boundaries"? This is a boundary that people have no right to push. How wonderful that some egotistical hipster can virtue project this symbol of horror. They are so completely consumed with their egos they don't even care what kind of an effect this would have on a survivor.

News | The News

Vandals destroy over 100 Jewish headstones amongst dozens of bomb threats to Jewish centers – TheBlaze

St. Louis’s Fox2 has reported that over 100 headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City Missouri have been vandalized, and knocked over.

"This vandalism comes on the heels of dozens of bomb threats made earlier today on Jewish community centers around the United States. 11 of these were evacuated, and searched."

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Will American Jews wake up after 28 bomb threats?

All may come and go. It’s the Jewish tradition of “welcome the stranger.” But this practice, this ageold, honored Jewish value may now very well change in Jewish facilities throughout the United States.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Some thoughts on being Jewish in contemporary polite society

A famous screenwriter/director and I were having lunch, doing our interview, and I asked him this one thing, and he answered this other thing, but that other thing didn’t make sense, and I followed up, and he once again said the other thing. And again,

I don't agree with all of this. I do agree that the idea of "Jewish privilege" is absurd. The argument that we are able to "blend in," and therefore don't experience genuine bigotry is not only illogical, it defies history. Plus, WHY should we have to "blend in"?

"It is my Jewish privilege to have very few blood relatives because the rest of them were murdered in the Holocaust. It’s my privilege to have to keep my mouth shut at casually racist remarks, because “you know what I mean, like a JAP, everyone says it.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

A Response to Yesterday’s Anti-Semitic Hate Crime from a “Whiny Brat Jew”

By now you’ve probably already heard that on Tuesday night students discovered swastikas graffitied in McCabe. I’m not sure what’s

Antisemitism is never going to fully go away. We all know that. But it must be recognized, acknowledged and confronted. That means confronting it both on the right and on the left. The left has been getting a free pass for many years. It shouldn't (and obviously neither should it on the right).

"The apathy and, at times, antipathy of many on the left when it comes to anti-Semitism is a deep betrayal of the Jewish people. We see it when Stanford students argue that propagating the Nazi conspiracy theory of “Jews controlling the media, economy, government, and other societal institutions” is not anti-Semitic. We see it when the Vice-President of the UC Santa Cruz Jewish Student Union, a member of student government, is asked to abstain on a vote relating to Israel because of his “Jewish agenda.” And we see it most virulently on anonymous forums, when students on our own campus’s Yik-Yak assert that Jews should view their ethnic heritage as akin to being “descended from a Confederate officer” and that anti-Semitism itself is a conspiracy invented by the Rothschild banking family to let Jews oppress people of color."

News | Jewish Community

Paris police tell Chabad not to light Hanukkah candles in public spaces - The Times of Israel

Miri Michaeli, Europe correspondent for Israel’s Channel 10 news, tweets a troubling report from Paris. The tweet reads, in Hebrew: “Chabad: Paris police order [us] to cancel most of our public [Hanukkah] candlelighting in the city, in light of the terror attack and the fear of additional attacks..."

This is very sad news and is especially sad in terms of what Hanukkah represents: freedom from fear and freedom of proudly observing Judaism.