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 | Leftists & Antisemitism

Bari Weiss: Jews shut out by new totalitarian 'liberalism'

'Jews who refuse to erase what makes us different will increasingly be defined as racists, often with the help of other Jews desperate to be accepted by the cool kids,' Weiss warns.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

‘These Ultra-Orthodox Communities Are Very Powerful Politically’: New York Governor Cuomo Angers Orthodox Jews With Latest Coronavirus Comments

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Photo: Reuters / Mike Segar / File. Orthodox Jews in New York have reacted angrily …

Andrew Cuomo is an antisemite. He is an old fashioned, typical, we’ve seen it a million times before, Jew hater. I have MANY friends in the Chasidic community in Brooklyn. They take coronavirus VERY seriously. They, like all New Yorkers, were hit hard by Cuomo’s inept, deadly and totally failed policies at the beginning of the pandemic.

This sums it up perfectly:

“Orthodox Jews also don’t want to be living in a ghetto again, where different rules are tailored for their community. You just need to listen to Cuomo & De Blasio, to hear how their color-coded neighborhoods are all about the Jews. Never again is never again.”

Politics | Opinion

Joe Biden is not a friend of Israel - Israel National News

Biden implemented Obama's foreign policy because he agreed with it. His presidency would be a third Obama term. Opinion.

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Petition Against Rehiring of Holocaust-Denying High School Principal in Florida Passes 20,000 Signatures

William Latson, the Florida High School principal who told a parent, “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.” Photo: Screenshot. More …

Politics | Campus Watch

CUNY’s Systemic Jew-Hatred

No university would tolerate a white supremacist student group for the kind of behavior SJP gets away with.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Anti-Semitic Democrats Blame Orthodox Jews for the Coronavirus

Cuomo and De Blasio blame the Jews to distract from their failures and crimes.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Florida High School Principal Fired for Saying 'Not Everyone Believes The Holocaust Happened' Could Be Rehired

William Latson. Photo: Screenshot of WPTV News segment. A Florida high school principal who was fired last November for telling …

So many schools have this double standard. USC, where my undergrad degree is from, recently did absolutely nothing as a professor openly promoted Holocaust denial, and Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences, my former high school, both brazenly tolerate antisemitism from students, alumni and faculty. All while pretending to loose racism.

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Rabbis praise White House for working with Italy to get Sukkot citrons amid pandemic

Jewish community leaders have praised the Trump administration for its international efforts to help those observing Sukkot, while anger grows against city and state officials in New York for imposing restrictions on neighborhoods that include Orthodox co

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Ocasio-Cortez keeping New York Jewish leaders at arm's length

Ocasio-Cortez has ignored requests to meet from leaders of the Jewish Community Relations Council and the New York Board of Rabbis.

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Brutal Antisemitic Assault Outside Hamburg Synagogue Was ‘Terrorist Act,’ Says German Jewish Leader

The staircase where a Jewish man was attacked is marked with barricade tape, in front of a synagogue, Hamburg, Germany, …

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Baltimore Private School Alums Outraged Over School's Condemnation of Anti-Semitism

A group of self-described “white alums” from a historically Jewish private school in Baltimore excoriated the institution’s leadership this week after they condemned anti-Semitism from black students, alums, and parents who demanded the school implement a

The string inclination toward antisemitism on the left is obvious, and not new, how do more Jews not see it?

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Joe Biden is Not a Nice Man and He Hasn't Been Nice to Israel (Judean Rose)

Joe Biden looks like a kindly, twinkly-eyed grandfather. But the truth is, he's not a nice person.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Antisemitism’s 'Long March Through the Institutions'

A mock Israeli checkpoint set up during a past ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ at the University of California at Los Angeles …

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Furor in California School District Over High School Students' 'Nazi-Style' List of Jews

Redwood High School in Marin County, California. Nearly 6,000 people have signed a petition urging school authorities in Marin County, …

Miscellaneous | Judaism

14 Tips for an Amazing Yom Kippur at Home

Many of us will be celebrating Yom Kippur alone for the very first time. Here are our pro tips to making your at-home Yom Kippur meaningful and memorable

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Blowing the Shofar on Shabbat for Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Truly Bad Idea (Judean Rose) UPDATE

Was blowing the shofar for RBG, a good thing?

This is just embarrassing. These people couldn’t care less about anything authentically Jewish.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Rabbi to Blow Rosh Hashanah Shofar in Two Countries at the Same Time

Observing the holiday on an island split by the coronavirus pandemic

First, Chabad is everywhere. Thank G-d. Second, this is one of the most Chabad things I have ever heard.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

5780 in Review: A Year of Pain and Loss—and of Kindness and Community - The stories that helped define the year

As nearly every aspect of the world around us was changing in this year of global pandemic, Chabad.org/News worked to provide unique perspectives on the unfolding tragedy and unfathomable loss of life, while at the same time reporting on the outpourings of kindness and humanity from every part of the globe. With the Jewish year 5780 coming to a close, here is a look at some of the stories that defined it, as featured on Chabad.org/News.

Shanah tovah! May we all have a healthy and happy 5781! I am sure that we’re walk slightly relieved that the last year is over.

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

Study: More than one in 10 Americans under 40 thinks Jews caused the Holocaust

Holocaust knowledge particularly low in New York, despite state having the largest population of Jews in the US

This is just pathetic. In New York it’s nearly 1 in 5. Our education system is terrible, but this happened because teaching Jewish history, WWII, and European history doesn’t happen at all in American schools. Antisemitism hit record levels in recent years. The total lack of recognition of “Jewish” as a separate ethnic identity (as opposed to the ridiculous and dishonest ideas of “white Jews” or “Jews of color”) is part of the reason why both are happening. Bigoted Jewish stereotypes are becoming normalized (again) because there is very little being taught that is authentically Jewish. The result is ignorance.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

162 House Dems Vote Against Measure to Combat Anti-Semitism

More than 160 House Democrats voted on Wednesday against a measure to combat anti-Semitism.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Say their names: The forgotten American victims of Palestinian terror

Where are the memorial rallies and candle-lit vigils? Where are the demands to bring the killers to justice? Where are the letter-writing campaigns to press the Trump administration to act?

Miscellaneous | Judaism

How I Will Celebrate Rosh Hashanah Alone? - High Holidays

I’m an older woman, living
alone. I'll be observing the holidays at home, by myself.

Politics | Politics

80 Jewish Groups Call for Newsom to Veto High School Ethnic Studies Bill

They argued that the most recent draft of the curriculum has "an anti-Jewish bias."

Miscellaneous | Chabad

High Holiday Services Directory - Find Outdoor Shofar Blowings, Services and More at a Synagogue or Park Near You

Celebrate the High Holidays among friends and connect with your inner self. From Alabama to Wisconsin, Abidjan to Zurich, join us and find your local High Holiday home.

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

Don’t Get Too Comfy in the Diaspora (Ki Tavo 2020)

Baruch Gordon quotes a commentary on the First Fruits offering which delivers a powerful message to Diaspora Jews today...

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.

Advice & Self-Help | Jewish Wisdom

Are Body Piercings Kosher? - Questions & Answers

We often associate
piercings with tattoos, and we may wonder if they are equally forbidden.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

NYPD Rabbi Mugged on the Upper West Side

The attacker took the cash but dropped the wallet fast when he saw the rabbi's police shield.

Politics | BLM

The dumb Jewish supporters of BLM - Israel National News

Leaders of the German Jewish community back in 1932 also had faith in Adolph Hitler and ignored the obvious signs of his hatred. Op-ed.

We’ve been through this. How can so many of us be this stupid? BLM, and the left in general, hates us. How do they not see that? How can ANYONE support an ideology that embraces, elevates, and normalizes hatred of Jews, and of Israel. They are putting all of us at risk.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Why they scrawl ‘Free Palestine’ on synagogues

Despite supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, Jews are targeted amid the riots because of anti-Semitic intersectional myths that should not be tolerated.

News | News

Los Angeles protesters incite against Jews - US & Canada

California protesters call for murder of police officers, incitement against Jews.

You can hear the mob in the video clearly chanting “F*** the Jew, kill the cop!" This is Los Angeles in 2020. Yet progressive, liberals, and worst of all, liberal Jews will continue to insist that the leftist mobs aren’t antisemitic and, absurdly, that Jews enjoy “white privilege.”

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

How Amar'e Stoudemire Became An Orthodox Jew - Jew in the City

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

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.

Miscellaneous | Chabad

Fire at University of Delaware's Jewish center ruled arson

A fire at the University of Delaware's Chabad Center for Jewish Life has been ruled arson, the Delaware State Fire Marshal announced Wednesday.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

College leaders, you must put an end to Jew-hatred on campus

Universities must make it clear that if you harass students due to their Jewish or pro-Israel identity,  you will bear consequences.Op-ed.

My elite (“elitist” is more accurate these days) high school, Crossroads School for the Arts & Sciences, and my university, the University of Southern California, both encourage antisemitism by tolerating and ignoring it. And ignoring the few voices of Jewish alumni willing to speak out. This is a serious problem.

News | Antisemitism Watch

UK renters’ union rejects Jewish applicant: ‘Sorry, no time for Zionists’

Acorn Union issues apology after prospective renter in Manchester was told 'we are a pro-Palestine organization,' says it has launched internal probe

Europe=Toilet

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The Mind-Bendingly Insane, Completely Craven, Utterly Unconscionable Redemption of Al Sharpton

You're not confused. The ADL Is Becoming as Bad as You Think.

Sharpton is a conman, a race hustler, and indirectly responsible for murder. We must stop pretending that the ADL is a pro-Jewish organization.

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

We need to talk about the ethnic cleansing of Middle Eastern Jews

"The wholesale ethnic cleansing of Mizrahi and Sephardi communities, from Iraq to Egypt, from Tunisia to Libya, is a sordid episode in the history of the region which has been cynically ignored by the world." Asher Weisz reveals a disturbing pattern of pe

News | Antisemitism Watch

Lurid Antisemitic Posters Blaming Jews for Coronavirus Displayed in Argentine City

One of the antisemitic posters on display in the Argentine city of Neuquén. Photo: Simon Wiesenthal Center. Lurid antisemitic posters …

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

‘Jews Want A Race War’ sign hung on overpass of busy LA freeway

Local branch of ADL says it is working with police to identify who was behind banner, which appears linked to website Goyimtv.com

The usual people at the usual agencies express their outrage and then nothing changes. Why wasn’t there a group of Jews up there IMMEDIATELY confronting the people who did this AND taking it down. Instead it’s always statements and “outrage.” If we learned ANYTHING from the Shoah is that we have to confront the thugs, we need action not endless discussion.

News | Jewish Community

Support for Black Lives Matter repeats a lethal error of history

In the 20th century, thousands of progressively minded people refused to acknowledge the horrific abuses under Stalin when millions were murdered.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Antisemitic Protests Outside Michigan Synagogue Are Allowed, District Judge Rules

A protester holds an antisemitic sign outside the Beth Am Synagogue in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Photo: Witnesses for Peace. Antisemitic …

“The demonstrations, featuring signs that say “Jewish Power Corrupts” and “Resist Jewish Power,” have been taking place during Shabbat services at Beth Israel Synagogue in Ann Arbor.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Tolerating Jew Hatred: The Only Seemingly Acceptable Form Of Public Discrimination

The University of Southern California campus. Photo: Padsquad19 via Wikimedia Commons. Another Jew. Another resignation letter. Even the high numbers …

I am a graduate from two of Los Angeles’ most respected and “exclusive” schools: my high school, Crossroads School for the Arts & Sciences, and USC. Both pretend that antisemitism doesn’t exist, while at the same time doing, literally everything possible, to push a progressive agenda that has no place for the acknowledgment of Jews as a unique people and minority, or antisemitism. Ironically, the given reason is always that Jews are “white” and therefore are the problem. Acknowledging antisemitism destroys that narrative. So hatred of Jews and Israel are allowed to flourish in these places. I know the first real antisemitism I experienced was at USC way back in the 80s. It has only become more common since then.

“Another Jew. Another resignation letter. Even the high numbers of assaults and murders perpetrated against Jews haven’t slowed the growing onslaught of the only seemingly acceptable form of public discrimination: Jew-hatred."

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

EXCLUSIVE: The End of Jewish Yemen is Imminent

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have ordered at least some of the country’s remaining Jews to leave, according to sources in the Amran Governorate, north of the capital Sanaa, who spoke recently with The Media Line.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Brooklyn mother of 6 ordered off JetBlue flight as 2-year-old won't keep mask on

Passengers on flight from Orlando seen supporting woman, as flight attendants insist family deboard despite airline regulations excusing young children from mask-wearing

The tyranny of the mask. Would this have happened if they weren’t Orthodox Jews?

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

New York Man Who Threatened Gun Massacre at Jewish Summer Camp Over Social-Distancing Complaint Released on Bail

Nicola Pelle was arrested for threatening a shooting massacre at a Jewish summer camp in Long Island because of alleged …

Of course they released him. If this had been a camp for black kids do you think that he would have been released?

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Dozens of State Legislators Slam Democratic Socialists of America for ‘Blatantly Antisemitic Litmus Test’ of New York City Council Candidates

A nearly-deserted 7th Avenue in Times Square is seen near midday in Manhattan during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease …

The party of AOC...yet Jews continue to support members of the DSA and thot democrat buddies.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Democratic National Convention hosts imam from Islamic extremist institution

Noman Hussain, imam of ISM Brookfield in Wisconsin, was one of the religious leaders who took part in the “Interfaith Welcome Service.”

“Hussain is a scholar at the Texas-based Qalam Institute, whose officials have advocated “the use of female sex slaves, the killing of adulterers, and incite hatred against Jews and other non-Muslims,” according to the Middle East Forum.

One of the Qalam Institute’s courses, “The Prophetic Code,” warns Muslims to strive for “cleanliness” and “purity,” so that they “do not resemble the Jews.”

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Jewish community: Harris, Omar, and the party’s great march leftward

On Tuesday, two notable events occurred in the Democratic Party. Joe Biden announced he selected California Senator Kamala Harris to

News | Antisemitism Watch

French Jewish Man Verbally Abused, Badly Beaten Up in Paris Elevator in Antisemitic Assault

Demonstrators hold up a banner reading, ‘Stop racism,’ in Marseille, France, March 28, 2018 (Illustrative). Photo: Reuters / Jean-Paul Pelissier …

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

StandWithUs Condemns Antisemitism That Led to USC Student Leader's Resignation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2020 (Los Angeles, CA -- August 6th, 2020) -- StandWithUs is deeply disappointed to learn that a Jewish student at University of Southern California (USC) has stepped down from student government as a result of antisemitic

This absurd. When will Jewish “leaders” lead instead of issuing never ending statements that no one, except those part of the organizations that issue these things, cafes about. I am a graduate of USC. They looked the other way on antisemitism decades ago when I was there. In fact, the first time I experienced real antisemitism was at USC-and it happened regularly while I was there. They had a Holocaust denier as a professor a few years ago and couldn’t be bothered to even acknowledge it. Jewish students are routinely harassed there. The school needs to face real consequences for its acceptance of bigotry and hate towards Jews. A “statement” will not accomplish that.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Jewish World Mourns Passing of Renowned Talmudic Scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

The late Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. Photo: steinsaltz-center.org. The Jewish world was in mourning on Friday following the death of Rabbi …

I can't over estimate how important Rabbi Steinsaltz was to the Jewish world. He was the first person since the 11th century to significantly make the Talmud more accessible to the masses. He was a genius. A massive intellect.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Linda Sarsour’s Pal Wins Democratic Nomination in Missouri Primary

So, Israel has lost another friend in Congress.

We need to ask the question of why so many black, female antisemites are elected to Congress, or the Dems push for seats (and that includes other “women of color”)? That cannot be a coincidence. I think it’s a concerted effort to give the Dems intersectional credibility on the back of the Jewish community. The question of why there are SO MANY black antisemites also needs to be answered.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Nancy Pelosi Stands with the Anti-Semites

Last Wednesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi endorsed Rep. Rashida Tlaib in her August 4 Michigan Democratic primary rematch with Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones, whom Tlaib narrowly defeated in 2018. 

Similarly, for the Augu...

“What is Pelosi's motivation in supporting them? Is it identity politics? In Omar's race, Pelosi had the option of endorsing her progressive African-American opponent, who opposes the Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) campaign to isolate and destroy Israel. In Tlaib's race, where opponent Brenda Jones is a staunch ally of Rev. Louis Farrakhan, Pelosi had the option of staying neutral.”

Politics | Opinion

Larry Levine - Black Lives Matter (except if you are black)

Larry Levine – Black Lives Matter (except if you are black) Pretty catchy logo, BLM, and I like the extra added touch of the fist thing.  Since I am in the t-shirt biz, I can appreciate good marketing. If you are a corporation and want to look goo

News | Jewish Community

Advice to Jewish celebs: Grow up!

They’re mad at their parents for being pro-Israel, so they take it out on the rest of us, battering the Jewish world with their incessant whining.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Celebrity Antisemites Can’t Be Absolved Through Private Apologies

Ice Cube in 2012. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Recently, Mort Klein of the ZOA engaged Ice Cube in a two-hour conversation …

Miscellaneous | Chabad

From Catholic Italian to Jewish Rabbi: David Martinetti Shares His Story - Contemporary Voices

The rabbi walked toward me with a smile, extended his hand warmly, and offered me my first Jewish greeting: ‘Shalom.’ I froze, completely overwhelmed.

News | Antisemitism Watch

You can’t get cancelled for anti-Semitism, but you can for philosemitism

A people with dignity is able to stop chasing affections of enemies, and accept affection of friends even if they aren’t trendy enough.

Sad but true:

“If American Jewish organizations had put in a fraction of the effort trying to save Jews from the Holocaust that they did battling for admission to country clubs, fewer Holocaust museums would be needed.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Why Seth Rogen’s Anti-Israel Rant Matters

Seth Rogan told Marc Maron that support for Israel is outdated thinking. His opinion rests on a deep ignorance of the history of Israel and the Jewish people.

Seth Rogan’s total ignorance is typical of what results form the typical non-religious Jewish “education” in the United States. I know that because I grew up in that world. To put it in secular terms, it would be like if we took the comments of someone who has a kindergarten education seriously who was speaking about physics. Rogan (obviously) knows NOTHING. Which explains the entire generation of American, progressive, millennials with similar views about Israel. They know even less than even my anemically Jewishly educated generation.

This article makes that case incredibly well.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

18 Tisha B'Av Facts Every Jew Should Know

Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of Av, is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar.

News | News

Wiley permanently suspended by Twitter over anti-Semitism

Twitter was accused of inaction and delay over anti-Semitic remarks posted by the music star.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Brooklyn’s Anti-Gentrication Groups are Pushing Antisemitic Narratives and Activism

With a a few notable exceptions, the Jewish community appears unaware of the significance and relevance of these groups.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Preparing for Tisha B’Av During a World Pandemic - A 25-hour period of fasting and reflection begins on Wednesday night,

Every year, Jews around the world don non-leather shoes, and make their way to synagogues and Chabad centers for evening services, followed by the mournful reading of Eichah (the book of Lamentations), the slim volume in which the prophet Jeremiah mourns the impending destruction

News | Antisemitism Watch

HonestReporting Joins Blackout After Barrage of Twitter Antisemitism | HonestReporting

  HonestReporting is joining a widespread 48-hour Twitter ‘blackout’ after the musician known as Wiley was allowed to tweet incitement against Jews

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UK chief rabbi accuses Facebook and Twitter of 'complicity' in anti-Semitism

At start of 2-day social media boycott, Ephraim Mirvis lambastes social media platforms for failing to remove posts inciting hatred and violence against Jews

News | News

The sixth attack on Jews in a week. Orthodox man bashed in Brooklyn hate crime attack: NYPD - New York Daily News

The Orthodox man was attacked after one of the men in the SUV yelled something at him, and the victim in turn flipped them the bird, cops said.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Couple Who Wore Face Masks Bearing the Nazi Flag Swears They Aren't Nazis

Despite the months of pundits and reporters arguing that wearing a face mask shouldn’t be a political statement, there’s a select few assholes who think taking basic measures to keep the current global pandemic from raging on is an affront to their civil

Both sides continue to co-opt Nazi imagery and the Shoah for their own political goals. That needs to stop. The only think it accomplishes is to lessen to real horror of Nazi Germany.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Rabbi Abraham Cooper missed his opportunity as a guest with @NickCannon

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

I have A LOT of respect for Rabbi Cooper, but I agree. This was a missed opportunity and we have to be more courageous in dealing with the growing problem of black antisemitism.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Retired NBA great Charles Barkley calls out Black celebrities for anti-Semitism

'Y’all want racial equality. We all do. I don’t understand how insulting another group helps our cause,' he says after several athletes, stars post anti-Jewish conspiracy theories

Great. That’s two people out of all current and former NBA, and NFL players.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

The Alignment of BDS and Black Lives Matter: Implications for Israel and Diaspora Jewry

This new radical discourse demands that American Jews be neither liberal nor progressive. - The Alignment of BDS and Black Lives Matter: Implications for Israel and Diaspora Jewry - Dan Diker

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 | Israel & The Jewish Community

The Reality of “My Jewish Privilege”

Yesterday, antisemites on Twitter started a hashtag called #JewishPrivilege about how Jews have it made. Jews (including myself) responded with stories of awful things that have happened to them or their families as a result of being Jewish

I can personally relate to every point in this article. From overt antisemitism to having to explain why I can’t eat the pepperoni pizza that my bosses brought in for everyone at work to eat, being a Jew means always being aware that you are different. The idea that we are just like everyone else in terms of the way we experience America, and everywhere else in the world outside of Israel, is totally absurd to any of us who have lived even a minimally connected Jewish life.

News | Jewish Community

From Cambodian Princess to Shabbat Queen - The story of Susie (Sarah Bracha) Koroghli

When the story broke that the daughter of a Cambodian princess was celebrating her bat mitzvah in Phnom Penh, the Jewish world wondered: Who is this Cambodian princess, and how did she become Jewish? Here is the story of Susie (Sarah Bracha) Koroghli, gra

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

NFL's Zach Banner calls to embrace Jewish community after anti-Semitism uproar

Steelers tackle says Jews 'are a minority as well,' recounts 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, after Philadelphia player posts anti-Jewish quotes online

Banner is an honorable, and wise, man. I wish there were more people like him. How do the majority of Americans not undertand his points, all of which used to be common knowledge? Except among bigots. Their ignorance is now the norm.

“There’s a common misbelief that among Black and Brown people — and I know this from growing up and I’ve heard it and I’ve listened to it — that Jewish people are just like any other white race,” Banner said. “You mix them up with the rest of the majority and you don’t understand that they are a minority as well.”

News | News

Jews aren’t indigenous to Israel? According to whom? Some in the Reform movement.

There are a lot of things wrong with woke culture. While the impulse to demonstrate solidarity with the oppressed and

At this point the leaders of the liberal Jewish movements are aiding the enemies of the Israel and the Jewish people. They are traitors.


“To the non-woke, that is an obvious and self-evident fact. But to Rabbi Andy, it's an offensive act of "appropriation" on the part of reactionary Jews. As he wrote:

"Let me say this as plainly as possible: Jews are not an indigenous people. It is appropriative to make use of this word when referring to our relationship to the land of Israel, and it undermines the difficult work being done to fix the ongoing oppression of indigenous peoples."

News | Antisemitism Watch

Jewish Actor Josh Malina Asks Why 'Cancel Culture' Ignores Antisemitism

Josh Malina. Photo: Instagram. Jewish actor and “West Wing” star Josh Malina advocated on Tuesday for the withdrawal of support …

News | Antisemitism Watch

Is Wokeness Awakening Antisemitism? | HonestReporting

  Over the last few years it seems as if an entire generation has become 'woke.' This is a term that describes a growing awareness of issues related

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Anti-Jewish crime in NYC dwarfs anti-Black crime

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New Report Reveals Increased Campus Anti-Zionist Activism Linked to Rise in Harassment of Jewish Students

A mock Israeli checkpoint set up during a past ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ at the University of California at Los Angeles …

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Why is the ADL aligning itself with Al Sharpton?

Not only a disservice to the Jewish community; but  a slap in the face to the African American community as well. Opinion.

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