Posts Tagged: Jewish Americans
Mr. Romney, You did us Proud
By now the dust has settled on the Presidential election of 2012. I am left feeling like someone who has witnessed a young person...
Why Obama’s a Bad Bet for Israel
Recently, several Jewish-Americans who know I write about politics have confided that they are either planning to vote for Mitt Romney, or they...
Two Conventions, Cognitive Dissonance and the Jewish Vote
I recently attended the Republican National Convention (RNC) as a guest of the Maryland Delegation. I had never personally attended a convention and aside from...
Israeli Jewish Congress Launched to Strengthen Israel-Diaspora ties
The Israeli Jewish Congress (IJC), a new organization working to strengthen ties between Israel and the Diaspora, opened its inaugural conference in Jerusalem...
Opinion: A Victory for G-d and a Jewish Jerusalem
As a Chabad Rabbi I have the obligation to point out a distinctly "Chabad angle" to the recent debate over G-d and Jerusalem at the...
University of California Urged to Examine Anti-Israel Bias
The pro-Israel education and advocacy organization StandWithUs has garnered more than 1,500 signatures on a petition urging the University of California (UC) system's President's Advisory...
Days After Returning From Israel Romney Forms Jewish American Coalition
Days after returning from Israel where he declared Jerusalem as Israel's undivided capital and donors pledged $1 million to his campaign for the White House,...
US Congressional Elections: Critical to US-Israel Relations
During a June 15, 2012 seminar at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Dr. Bill Schneider, a leading expert on US politics, reaffirmed that both...
Second Stage Anti-Semitism
Jewish Americans should be concerned about the recent verdict in the Italian libel case that involves parliamentarian Fiamma Nirenstein. In 2008, cartoonist Vauro Senesi published...
The Jewish Problem in America
Previously in America, educated, passionate American Jews may have said that their biggest problems were external - anti-Semites, the survival of Israel or other pressing...