Category Archives: Jewish

“In Elul, our biggest concerns should be goiing back to school, menus and guest lists, not fear and hiding a Star of David necklace”

ARUTZ SHEVA I’m afraid to walk to shul in NYC Cindy Grosz September 5, 2022 I get some interesting requests. Several weeks ago, I received a phone call from a friend’s acquaintance who lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a … Continue reading

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“In the 14-minute film was a three-minute section of their visit to Kurtz’s grandfather’s home village of #Nasielsk, #Poland, a town whose Jewish community would be decimated by the #Holocaust not long after”

JTA How 3 minutes of a home movie from 1938 turned into an acclaimed Holocaust documentary Stephen Silver August 26, 2022 In 2009, writer Glenn Kurtz was working on a novel about “someone who discovers an old piece of home … Continue reading

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“For me and other young Jews, the future is no longer in America. What we experienced on campus has a lot to do with it”

COMMON SENSE My Post-Graduation Plan? I’m Immigrating to Israel. Blake Flayton August 29, 2022 I had always felt at home in America. It was my home and my parents’ home and my grandparents’, and it never seemed like it could … Continue reading

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“Of the hundreds of hate crimes committed against Jews in NYC since 2018, many of them documented on camera, only a single perpetrator has served even one day in prison”

TABLET MAG It’s Open Season on Jews in New York City Armin Rosen August 28, 2022 …Perhaps the attack, which stemmed from a seemingly innocuous dispute over a parking space—a common enough occurrence in a densely populated place like Crown … Continue reading

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From my pal Yishai Fleisher, Fireworks in Hebron for the Children of Abraham

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Morningstar has said repeatedly through statements that it “does not support the anti-Israel BDS campaign”

JNS 18 states join Missouri in probe of Morningstar’s alleged biased anti-Israel ratings Mike Wagenheim August 19, 2022 Following a JNS report on a growing list of state agencies investigating the investment firm Morningstar for potential anti-Israel practices, Reuters reported this week that 18 … Continue reading

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“The Inquirer portrays Abulhawa as being fired for purely being “pro-Palestinian.” The newspaper posits her dismissal as being part of a dastardly plot to silence “pro-Palestinian” voices”

ALGEMEINER The Philadelphia Inquirer Hides Antisemitism — Again Sean Durns August 24, 2022 Antisemitism, The Philadelphia Inquirer warned in 2018, is “rising.” But the newspaper is doing its best to hide what it once acknowledged was a growing problem. Indeed, … Continue reading

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Jews in Medicine

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“It was the Lion of Judah engraved on the door of a synagogue that helped him identify it as his grandfather’s hometown of Nasielsk, Poland, about 30 miles north of Warsaw”

NEW YORK POST Devastating lost footage of Polish Jews revealed in new Holocaust doc Johnny Oleksinski August 19, 2022 One day in 2009, Glenn Kurtz made a shocking discovery. In the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, home of his late grandfather … Continue reading

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“The field of research into the US-Israel relationship is likewise skewed, according to Mead, by writers who are convinced that Jews have been at the center of the decision-making”

ELDER OF ZIYON Book review: The Arc of a Covenant by Walter Russell Mead August 14, 2022 The Arc of a Covenant is a well-researched book about the history of the US-Israel relationship. And it destroys many myths in the … Continue reading

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