Category Archives: Jewish

StandWithUs complaint alleges UCLA is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act

JEWISH JOURNAL Department of Education to Investigate StandWithUs Complaint Against UCLA by Aaron Bandler January 9, 2020 The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced on Jan. 3 that it is investigating a StandWithUs complaint that UCLA improperly … Continue reading

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Ami Horowitz hits the streets of NY to ask blacks, Why are so many Jews being attacked in New York City ?

WSJ Yale, Al Sharpton and the Attacks on New York’s Jews And so the ultra-Orthodox Jews find themselves sitting ducks again in a New York hostile or indifferent to their fate. Their values have never been so out of step … Continue reading

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New York City march on antisemitism: “That the march drew together so many disparate elements of the Jewish community also may have stemmed from careful planning”

THE NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK 25,000 People March Against Anti-Semitism In New York City by Doug Chandler January 6, 2020 Joined by city & state officials, marchers from disparate parts of the Jewish community came together today to protest a … Continue reading

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Market and pilgrimage road were found in an area of Jerusalem archaeologist Levy refers to as the equivalent of “Times Square”

CBN NEWS Israeli Archaeologists May Have Uncovered Bustling Jerusalem Market from the Time of Jesus by Emily Jones January 6, 2020 The Israel Antiquities Authority believes it may have found a 2,000-year-old market next to the recently discovered Pilgrimage Road … Continue reading

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Yoram Hazony – Bret Stephens debate at Princeton on the subject of nationalism among other matters

At 5:05 Yoram Hazony discusses “nationalism” and why he defends it; at 33:52 Bret Stephens articulates his defense of Pax Americana, “a state of relative international peace regarded as overseen by the US”:

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Where’s Waldo joins 90,000 Orthodox Jews at MetLife Stadium to celebrate Siyum HaShas

TIMES OF ISRAEL Where’s Waldo? Celebrating the completion of the Talmud by Sam Sokol January 2, 2019 In a sea of black hats and suits, Yonatan Gray stood out like a striped thumb. As some 90,000 Jewish men gathered at New … Continue reading

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Netflix series: Alberto Nisman had closed in on the culprit in the Iran-directed AMIA murders, when he himself was murdered

ALGEMEINER Netflix Releases Documentary Series on Murder of Argentine AMIA Bombing Prosecutor Alberto Nisman by Staff January 1, 2019 Five years after the murder Alberto Nisman — the Argentine federal prosecutor who was investigating the worst terror outrage in the … Continue reading

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NYT ‘editors’ note’ and rewriting the Bret Stephens column post-publication are examples of the Times spinelessly surrendering to the perpetually-enraged faction of its readers

ALGEMEINER New York Times Editors Falsely Blame Bret Stephens for ‘Mistake’ in Column on Jewish Genius by Ira Stoll December 30, 2019 The New York Times has published an “Editors’ Note,” inaccurately accusing the newspaper’s own star columnist, Bret Stephens, … Continue reading

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The elephant in the room: “The muted response to the string of attacks in NYC shows that mainstream U.S. Jewry is indifferent to Haredim and hesitant to condemn those who target them”

HAARETZ Most U.S. Jews Don’t Care About anti-Semitic Violence Against the ultra-Orthodox by Jonathan S. Tobin December 30, 2019 …Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump conflated opposition to the removal of Confederate statues with support for an August 2017 neo-Nazi … Continue reading

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“Jews have taken and are taking #antisemitism very seriously. Non-Jews must do the same”

THE ATLANTIC Jews Are Going Underground by Deborah Lipstadt December 29, 2019 In a month of terrible anti-Semitic attacks, including a stabbing yesterday of multiple people at a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, the news … Continue reading

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