Category Archives: Jewish

“How the Pittsburgh massacre brought out the worst in some liberal Jews”

COMMENTARY The Know-Nothing Excommunicators by Seth Mandel November 2018 Perhaps we should call it “Spinoza’s Revenge.” In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish leaders pronounced a cherem—excommunication—on Baruch Spinoza, the Jewish philosopher who contested the Torah’s divine provenance. Spinoza became the founding father … Continue reading

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Michael Oren: “Airbnb’s policy is the very definition of antiSemitism. No one should use its services”

JEWISH PRESS Deputy Minister Michael Oren Calls for Boycott Against Airbnb by Hana Levi Julian November 19, 2018 Kulanu Knesset member and Deputy Minister Michael Oren has called for a general boycott of the global Airbnb vacation rental listing service, … Continue reading

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Jared and Ivanka won’t be banned, “but I don’t think most synagogues would give them an aliyah”

BREITBART New York Times Jew-shames Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump by Joel B. Pollak November 18, 2018 The New York Times took aim at Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on Saturday in a story citing them as symbols of division within the American … Continue reading

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“Halevi said that while “criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism, criticism of Israel’s existence, denying Israel the right to exist, calling Israel the ‘Zionist entity’ – that is anti-Semitism.””

FREE BEACON Author: Criticizing Israel’s Existence, Denying Its Right to Exist Is Modern Anti-Semitism by Staff November 16, 2018 Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi, speaking at DePaul Law School in Chicago, responded to a question about the ethics of “humanizing” … Continue reading

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“Exploding the myth of #Moroccan tolerance”

GATESTONE The Jews of the North Africa under Muslim Rule by Ruthie Blum November 14, 2018 Exile in the Maghreb, co-authored by the great historian David G. Littman and Paul B. Fenton, is an ambitious tome contradicting the myth of … Continue reading

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“The media has a track record of tenaciously ignoring the anti-Semitism creeping into Democratic Party politics”

FREE BEACON Minnesota Dem Congresswomen-Elect: I Believe In, Support BDS Movement by Aryssa Damron November 12, 2018 Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar told Muslim Girl magazine that she “believes in and supports the BDS movement,” adding that she has fought to … Continue reading

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#LongIsland #Synagogue installing metal detector as well as double-door “mantrap” vestibule

JTA Here’s what it costs to put your synagogue under armed guard by Ben Sales November 13, 2018 After a mass shooting in a heavily Jewish area shocked the nation, Rabbi Yakov Saacks felt like his Long Island congregation was … Continue reading

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Another #ShuratHadin win: In precedent-setting decision, Jerusalem District Court rules that case on behalf of two Jewish American women held hostage by PLO terrorists in 1985 will be heard in Israel, despite the fact they’re not citizens

YNET Nation-State Law allows any Jew to sue terrorists in Israel by Yishai Porot November 8, 2018 A precedent-setting decision made by Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Drori based on the Nation-State Law means that any Jew from anywhere in the world … Continue reading

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Kristallnacht 80 years later: “Amid the worst pogrom to take place in Germany since the Middle Ages, most US Jewish communal leaders told their constituents to keep quiet”

TIMES OF ISRAEL How to explain the ‘timid’ reaction of American Jewish leaders to Kristallnacht? by Matt Lebovic November 10, 2018 …Most notably, the influential General Jewish Council insisted on maintaining radio silence following Kristallnacht. Comprised of leaders from the … Continue reading

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EVENT StandWithUs Hindu-Jewish Festival of Lights

StandWithUs presents Hindu / Jewish Festival of Lights Celebrating Diwali and Chanukah November 18, 2018 at 6 PM Temple Beth-El 3610 Dundee Road, Northbrook, IL Featuring Samson “Mahatma Moses” Koletar, The World’s only Indian-Jewish Stand Up Comedian Indian and Israel … Continue reading

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