The Longer-Term Fight Against An Insurrection

By Drew Perkoski January 14, 2021

“Antiracist action requires more than protests; it requires community education, eliminating poverty & inequality, and abolishing those institutions which perpetuate racism and cannot be reformed.”

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U.S. Aid Isn’t Good for Israel

By Jackson Richman October 19, 2016

The U.S. and Israel recently renewed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The current version, signed in 2008, expires in 2018. According to officials, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to an MoU that would provide more than $30 billion over a decade, which would include advanced weaponry systems. The continuation of…

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Reanalyzing That Damn Survey Again…Again

By Amram Altzman May 18, 2015

  “American [Jew]s are fleeing organized religion.” This was the big takeaway from the Pew Report in 2013 (I feel a not insignificant embarrassment that we are still quoting it) and another report released last week on the state of American religion in general, both of which found that many Americans are affiliating less and…

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White Whine and South African Jews – A Jew in the Motherland

By Jonathan Katz February 17, 2015

One familiar thing about the United Kingdom for me is that I frequently hear South African accents. Here in the colonial heartland, I have met a lot of folks like me: born to South African [Ashkenazi] Jewish parents abroad, raised abroad, and with varied ties to South Africa. Some, like me, maintain citizenship in South…

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Learning to Love Iran

By Simi Lichtman May 30, 2013

BBC World Service recently released the results of a 25-country survey determining how the world’s citizens view 16 countries and their influence on the world. Iran came at the very bottom of the list, with 15% of respondents seeing it as having a positive influence and 59% saying it has a negative influence. That result…

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Supporters wave flags of Jobbik, an anti-Semitic Hungarian political party | CC via flickr user Leigh Phillips

From Comfy U.S. Campuses, Hard to See Anti-Semitism Facing European Peers

By Editorial Board February 27, 2013

It’s popular today to talk about the trouble encountered by Jews on American college campuses. We see it differently: As we wrote recently, there’s never been a better time to be a Jewish college student in America. Most supposed examples of contemporary anti-Semitism on American college campuses are actually examples of anti-Zionism mistaken for anti-Semitism, legitimate debate…

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Israeli Elections Might Just Be Superior

By Lex Rofes January 29, 2013

I have a quick question to ask our readers in the wake of recent elections in both the USA and Israel. What is Barack Obama’s middle name? My guess is that you, like much of our electorate, know that his middle name is “Hussein.” My guess is that you know this not because you were…

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From Victims to Victors: The Decay of Jewish Identity

By Koko Jaeger January 7, 2013

This article was originally posted on the author’s personal blog, and can be read here.  What I have to say is controversial. But bear with me, and let me first contextualize, with something I think we all can agree on. The Jewish narrative is one of struggle. With me so far? Since the birth of the…

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Escape America if Your Candidate Loses

By Simi Lichtman October 11, 2012

  “If this country votes for [insert name of whichever candidate you find more repulsive here], I’m moving to Israel!” Well, if you want to make good on that promise, all you have to do is buy yourself a ticket. But if you’re willing to be less extreme– say, take a vacation to the Bahamas…

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Après Merah, le Déluge [Terrorism]

By pkessler March 22, 2012

Mohammad Merah, the 23-year-old French-Algerian accused of going on a spree of killings culminating in Monday’s deadly assault on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, was killed trying to evade police after a 30+ hour stand off with law enforcement at his apartment. With Merah apprehended, France and Jewish communities everywhere can lick their wounds,…

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Hating America

By Ben Sales June 17, 2011

I saw the following status in my Facebook news feed today, regarding the resignation of Anthony Weiner: “I hate this country. I. HATE. This. Country. Take your moralism and shove it up your ass.” I too have been vexed over the past couple of days by Weiner’s resignation, and in general by the media circus…

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American Aliyah- An Imagined Concept?

By bzalcman January 4, 2010

Last week I read an article in the Jerusalem Post. The article was an opinion piece, and the writer was of the opinion that any attempts to promote aliyah among US Jews were futile, useless and a waste of time and money. There will be no mass aliyah from the US and Canada like there…

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