(JTA) — Years ago, an Israeli colleague told me about the children’s book “Rivka’s First Thanksgiving.” Set in 1910, it tells the story of a 9-year-old Jewish immigrant persuading her family and her rabbis that she...
(JTA) — During the time I served as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism in the Obama administration, I traveled across Europe, Central Asia and beyond, working with governments, religious leaders and civil society to develop...
(JNS.org) – The most important story is not always the one dominating the headlines. Sometimes, it is a question—a question so disturbing that few are willing to ask it out loud, and fewer still are willing to contemplate...
(JNS.org) – Imagine what would happen if a known antisemite like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan or white supremacist David Duke mocked Israel’s right to self-defense when...
Today is Father’s Day, a day that has traditionally been given short shrift compared to Mother’s Day and a number of other secular and patriotic holidays like Thanksgiving Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
(JNS.org) – This past March, a copyright claim filed under the name of The Walt Disney Company, using a standard Gmail address, triggered a chain of automated enforcement actions that wiped out a Jewish creator’s monetization on Facebook....
(JNS.org) – The myth of the “Israel Lobby” has come a long way from its dusty origins at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and an essay published in the London Review of Books in 2006, and then a...
(JNS.org) – Attacks on Diaspora Jews are spiraling out of control.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, a young Israeli man was beaten and kicked “like an animal” when he stepped outside his apartment in London’s heavily...
