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Category Archives: Jewish
“On the contrary, the runaway success of Anne Frank’s diary depended on playing down her Jewish identity”
MOSAIC Anne Frank, the Beloved Victim of the Nazis Who Never Had the Chance to Write about the Holocaust October 31, 2018 …This disturbing idea [that “people love dead Jews”] was suggested by an incident this past spring at the … Continue reading
“Antisemitism is a politics of misdirected blame. Today its most frequent target is the state of Israel”
WALL STREET JOURNAL The Many Faces of Jew-Hatred by Ruth Wisse Oct. 31, 2018 …The most discouraging feature of the anti-Israel brand of anti-Semitism is its penetration of Western societies, including the U.S. That a single shooter wants to kill … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged antisemitism, Pittsburgh, Robert Bowers
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This week’s third rail, apportioning blame for Pittsburgh
JERUSALEM POST American Jewry’s false prophets by Caroline Glick November 1, 2018 Just hours after the largest massacre of Jews in America in US history, the Atlantic Monthly posted a piece by Franklin Foer. In his “Prayer for Squirrel Hill, … Continue reading
“It’s worth noting that many commentators, such as Franklin Foer in The Atlantic, simply ignore past antisemitic violence, and act as if the Pittsburgh murders were some unique event in recent American Jewish history”
JNS How much security will make us feel safe? by Jonathan S. Tobin October 30, 2018 …Stephen Colbert’s mocked Trump, saying, “Yes, it’s so simple. In fact, why didn’t the Jewish people have an armed guard for the last 5,000 … Continue reading
Said Sunday to an Abu Dhabi audience: “Ladies and Gentlemen, please rise for the national anthem of Israel”
JTA Israel’s national anthem played in Abu Dhabi for first time at judo tournament October 28, 2018 Israel’s national anthem was played for the first time in Abu Dhabi at a judo tournament. Israeli lightweight Judoka Sagi Muki on Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Abu Dhabi, Hatikvah, United Arab Emirates
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“I felt the time had come for someone on the Israeli side to try to explain our story to our neighbours, to tell a story about who we are”
FATHOM This is a conflict over narratives. Israel needs to tell ours to Palestinians. by Yossi Klein Halevi October 2018 …The book also came out of the realisation that the other side doesn’t know our story. The Palestinian media and school … Continue reading
Rabbi David Wolpe: “Calls to excommunicate pro-Trump Jews are not simply wrong. They’re poison”
Pittsburgh Massacre and Trump Continue reading
‘It’s a very bad day for America’
NEW YORK POST Alleged gunman’s anti-Semitic views revealed in social media posts by Eileen AJ Connelly October 27, 2018 The man authorities believe killed 11 people inside a Pittsburgh synagogue had a history of posting racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic rants — and … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, Pittsburgh, Robert Bowers, Squirrel Hill, Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue
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“In order to reclaim those liberal and progressive causes, liberal American Jews must force a total rejection of the anti-Zionism and anti-Zionists within the political left”
TIMES OF ISRAEL The real rift: how the left is driving liberal Jews away from Israel by Bruce Portnoy October 20, 2018 …Let’s be clear: There is a rift, but it isn’t between Israel and American Jewry. Fights over religious … Continue reading
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Brooke Goldstein on Canary Mission: “Why do we have to be afraid to publicly expose those who are rabidly anti-Semitic? Have we learned nothing from our tragic past?”
JNS Students support Canary Mission fight against ‘institutionalized, tolerated anti-Semitism’ by Jackson Richman and Alex Traiman October 22, 2018 The controversial Canary Mission—an anonymous campus watchdog group that exposes organizations, academics and activists that demonize Israel on college campuses—recently came … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Brooke Goldstein, Canary Mission
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ArchitectGuy on Israel 