Politics | Op-Ed

Dems and Jewish Groups Pick Wrong Side on Omar-Tlaib

Should the Netanyahu government have barred “Squad” members and BDS advocates Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country? Chattering classes in both countries quickly took sides.

The Jewish groups who defended them range from “Jewish” groups to legitimate Jewish groups. All of them are doing serious harm to the Jewish community by giving credibility to the two most open Jew haters to be members of Congress in decades.

Politics | Opinion

Judaism should not be used an ideological prop | JNS

Protesters using Tisha B’Av to call for the elimination of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are doing more than using a misleading analogy.

Agreed.

Politics | Media Bias

Elder Of Ziyon - The Forward fudging the numbers to pretend most US Jews support aims of IfNotNow

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

News | News

Palestinian factions praise cold blooded murder, calling it "natural" for them

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

This MUST end. Jews should not be dying in the Jewish state. Israel’s government need to do a better job of protecting the people. That won’t happen until they start caring more about Jewish life than what world opinion of Israel is.

News | Antisemitism

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Stop Anti-Israel Hate in California Public Schools

The State of California is currently reviewing a model Ethnic Studies curriculum, which openly promotes hateful boycotts against Israel and omits antisemitism as a form of bigotry.

Politics | Opinion

Israel is in the Middle East: Nobody hijacked it. It's just not what its pioneers thought they'd created.

It’s not European. And it doesn’t divide into right and left, religious and secular. Matti Friedman, author of a new book about Mizrahi spies, on why Israel baffles and infuriates

I agree with the general idea of this article. I guess I’ve always been more “Middle Eastern” even as an American Ashkenazi Jew because I’ve always understood how important the religion was to Israel and why it could never be European. I would also vote for Netanyahu. The idea that the author would “never vote for him” is bizarre given his insight into why Israel’s left is now irrelevant.

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

French Jews Vow to Appeal Paris Court's Ruling That Antisemitic Murderer of Sarah Halimi Is 'Unfit' For Criminal Trial

Murdered French Jewish pensioner Sarah Halimi. Photo: Halimi family. Lawyers acting for the family of a French Jewish widow murdered …

News | Jewish Community

Kippah-Wearing Athlete Dedicates $25,000 ‘Million Dollar Mile’ Win to 'the Jewish People'

Michael Neuman (right) on “Million Dollar Mile” with the show’s host, Tim Tebow. Photo: Screenshot. An Orthodox Jew from Florida …

News | Antisemitism

Prager U’s Tyler Goldstein Legitimizes Antisemite Owen Benjamin | Israellycool

As Jew-hating 'comedian' Owen Benjamin continues to spread his hatred of the Jewish people unabated on Instagram and YouTube, a Jewish guest by the name of Tyler Goldstein has inexplicably agreed to appear on Benjamin's latest video.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Western New York High School Teacher Avoids Disciplinary Action After Remarks Praising Hitler

A customer holds a Polish copy of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ at a bookstore in Wroclaw, Feb. 23, 2005. Photo: …

Incredible.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The Long Legacy of the Shoah in Scandinavia – Tablet Magazine

Within the Northern European countries that make up Scandinavia there has been a revival of active scholarship and popular interest into the treatment of Jews during World War II. The subject is very much alive in these countries and much more so than in

This is fascinating, although I am disappointed that the story of the Danish King confronting the Nazis is basically not true. The bottom line is that if other occupied countries had acted differently: millions more of us would have survived. The stories of Denmark and Sweden, but not Norway, name that clear.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The real Birthright: Inheriting our Jewish story | The Jerusalem post

These sleights of hands and oversights rest on a bigger distortion – the barrage of claims that young American Jews are abandoning Israel.

News | Antisemitism

University of Sydney Says No Current Threat After Convicted Terrorist Said He Planned to Kill Jewish Students With Machete

University of Sydney Photo: Jason Tong. The University of Sydney in Australia expressed support for its Jewish community this week …

Politics | Resources

Birthright Israel: Why the Controversy? The real story. | HonestReporting

In recent years, controversy about Birthright-Israel has been making headlines. What is Birthright, why the controversy, and is it accomplishing its goals?

Leftists want to change Birthright because it works. It connects young Jews to Israel, the authentic Israel, and they hate that it destroys their attempts to vilify Israel in these young kids’ minds.

“Birthright participants are more likely to feel a connection to Israel, have a Jewish spouse, raise children Jewish and be engaged in Jewish life, even a decade or more after the trip.

In contrast to reports of “distancing” from Israel among young American Jews, Birthright’s effect on connection to Israel persists and is significant. Most JFP panelists feel at least “somewhat” connected to Israel, and participants report higher levels of connection than their nonparticipant peers.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Why Neo-Nazis Love The BDS Movement So Much

'Stop Zionism!' 'Israel is our misfortune!' Who said it: 'progressive' supporters of the boycott Israel movement – or U.S. white supremacists and German neo-Nazis?

News | Antisemitism Watch

Linda Sarsour’s Telling Reaction to New Congressional Black-Jewish Caucus | Israellycool

The Gaslighter-in-Chief has launched into a tweet and retweet storm following the announcement

She is a snake and anyone associated with her is suspect.

“I should point out there is not one tweet applauding the idea behind the caucus, even if she hates Lee Zeldin. That is because she detests this new initiative, which threatens to derail all the hard work she has put into further fracturing Black-Jewish relations.”

News | Standing With Israel

The Hebrew-Speaking, Lover of Israel and Bibi Netanyahu…From Saudi Arabia | Israellycool

Remember the Saudi man who loves Israel so much, he uploaded a video of himself singing an Israeli song? Well, there's another Saudi lover of Israel in town.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Palestinian Uber driver in L.A. kicks 2 Jewish women out of his car | The Jerusalem post

The driver, named Mustafa, asked the women where they were coming from after they sat in the back seat.

Antisemitism is getting worse everywhere. That’s what happens when lies about us, mainstreamed as “anti-Zionism” becomes socially acceptable.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

UCLA Student Gov’t Passes Resolution Defending SJP From Antisemitism Claims | Jewish & Israel News

The entrance of UCLA. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Student government representatives at the University of California, Los Angeles, passed a resolution …

SJP is a racist organization funded in part by terrorists. It’s allowed to remain because antisemitism isn’t an issue for intersectional leftists. It would be exactly like if the KKK has chapters on campuses all over the country and people claimed that just by virtue of calling them “racist,” you yourself are the racist. It is 100% absurd.

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 | Politics

Rashida Tlaib and the Trojan horse of antisemitic tropes

While we all should be condemning antisemitic stereotypes, we need to not lose focus on what’s the main cause of systematic left-wing antisemitism.

News | News

Israel Using Holocaust to 'Blackmail' Germany, Palestinians Claim in Response to Bundestag Condemnation of BDS

The German parliament building in Berlin. Photo: Reuters / Hannibal Hanschke. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has issued a furious rebuke …

The relentless exploitation of the Holocaust by Palestinian antisemites, and all antisemites, is the most reprehensible of a long list of incredibly dishonest lies that seem to be the oxygen on which they exist.

News | Jewish Community

In Poway, a Shabbat of Healing, Inspiration and Joy - Led by Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, congregants experience an ‘unforgettable’ Shabbat

The previous Shabbat, they ran from the synagogue, fleeing a gunman’s bullets. This week, they filled it to capacity as Chabad of Poway, Calif., hosted a Shabbat that was at once solemn and joyous.

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Prager: What have Jews learned from the Holocaust? Not much - Jerusalem Post

The fact is the most important task for any society is to devise ways to make people good.

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Here Is What You Need To Know About The AR-15-Toting ‘Tactical Rabbi,’ Raziel Cohen | Daily Wire

Who can forget the infamous opening line to Hunter S. Thompson's semi-autobiographical novel, "Fear and Loathing Las Vegas"?

Politics | Antisemitism

NYT Ripped For Anti-Semitic Cartoon, Non-Apology. Israeli Cartoonist Destroys Them. | Daily Wire

The New York Times came under intense fire over the weekend after the newspaper's international edition published a vile anti-Semitic cartoon that was widely condemned across the political spectrum.

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 | Opinion

FLEISHER: Explaining The Clash Of American Liberal Jewry And Israeli Nationalism

The recent landslide election of Benjamin Netanyahu and the ascendancy of the Israeli Right has deepened the rift between Israeli and American Jews — the latter of whom disproportionately identify with the political Left.

News | Israel/Jewish Community

HAMMER: Jews Simply Must Arm Themselves. Now.

According to a 2005 American Jewish Committee (AJC) study, American Jews are among the least likely of all American demographic groups to arm themselves: "Only 13 percent of Jewi

Agreed. 100%. Without any question.

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Aggressive Response to Shooter Prevented Further Casualties at California Synagogue: Reports

A San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy secures the scene of a shooting incident at the Congregation Chabad synagogue in Poway, …

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Off Duty Border Patrol Agent Shot At Synagogue Shooter, Prevented 'Much Worse Tragedy' | Daily Wire

An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent reportedly opened fire on a suspect who attacked a synagogue in California on Saturday and prevented a "much worse tragedy."

Yet Ilhan Omar, a thoroughly execrable person, tweeted about “less guns” in reaction to the shooting, and has called for the dissolution of the border patrol.

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Conservative, Reform & Progressive Jewish Leaders Are Creating the Divide Between American Jewry and Israel NOT Netanyahu

Many leaders of US Conservative, Reform & progressive Jewry have turned the two-state solution into a religion, dismissing concerns of the Israeli public.

All Jews are fully Jewish no matter their affiliation, or lack of affiliation. But members of liberal denominations have been severely misled by their leaders who, falsely, teach that Judaism and leftism are identical (they are often mutually exclusive), and stand with the left’s narrative far too often when they should be standing with the rest of the Jewish community (Then hide behind the idea that if most Jews support the left, supporting the left must be Jewish. It isn’t). The leaders of these denominations are destroying Jewish unity at a time when we need unity as much as ever.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Israel Apartheid Week flyer at Columbia U. depicts Jewish soldier with horns

Students Supporting Israel discovered the flyer and shared it on its Facebook page

The level of bigotry directed at Jews on almost every college campus would never be tolerated if it was targeting any other group. Universities are overwhelmingly progressive and antisemitism is now a key component of progressivism.

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Antisemitic Desecration of Massachusetts Jewish Cemetery Worse Than Originally Thought, Cops Say

Headstone vandalized at Jewish cemetery in Fall River, Massachusetts. Photo: Fall River Police Department. Police in Fall River, Massachusetts, said …

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Terra Incognita: Growing anti-Jewsh retoric in the U.S.

This is quite convenient: to take a tiny minority group like Jews and accuse them constantly and systematically of being white supremacists.

“This is quite convenient: to take a tiny minority group like Jews and accuse them constantly and systematically of being white supremacists.“

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

'I Am Not Afraid,' Argentina's Chief Rabbi Says, as He Recovers in Hospital After Brutal Beating

Argentina’s Chief Rabbi Gabriel Davidovich was visited in hospital by the Israeli ambassador in Buenos Aires, Ilan Sztulman (c). Photo: …

This is a very brave man.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Antisemitic Mural Defaced (Meaning: Improved) In Downtown LA — Jewish Journal

UPDATE: 3:54 p.m. on Feb. 26: Jeff Norman, a representative of the Vortex, where a mural featuring Stars of David has caused consternation in the Jewish

It’s amazing how often these cowards defend their bigotry as “freedom of expression.” This thing wouldn’t have lasted five seconds if it’s hatred was aimed at any other targeted group. But the hypocrites in LA are more than ok when those targeted are Jewish.

News | News

Sarsour Calls for a Boycott of The Forward

Women’s March, Inc. co-president Linda Sarsour called for a boycott of The Forward on Feb. 13, tweeting that they weren’t progressive enough.

When will liberal Jews undetand that NO one who opposes Israel is our friend because they hate Israel because they hate Jews. All the rest of it is excuses for the hatred.

News | The News

Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre Survivor and Wounded Police Officer Among Honored Guests at Trump’s State of the Union Address

Judah Samet survived the shooting massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. Photo: White House. A Holocaust survivor who emerged …

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 …

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Insisting it’s not anti-Semitic, NJ group launches anti-ultra-Orthodox campaign | The Times of Israel

Video that echoes holocaust poem urges residents of the towns surrounding Lakewood not to sell to haredi Jews, warning they are taking over the area and harming 'quality of life'

America is regressing. During my grandparents' time, there were entire neighborhoods where Jews weren't allowed to live. And the fact that they are drawing a comparison between Orthodox Jews and Nazis is appalling (but an increasingly common occurrence). It also demonstrates the absolute absurdity of claiming that Jewish people have "white privilege."

Politics | Opinion

Termites, Bigots and GOATs: Rationalizing Complicity with Anti-Semitism

Consider the front page story in the New York Times Sunday Review, which singled out the Palestinian issue as "one of the great moral challenges of our time" -- ignoring Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Tibet, Cyprus and many far greater

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 | 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 | Antisemitism Watch

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 | Antisemitism Watch

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.