Posts Tagged: Jewish Diaspora
From the Editor: The Oct. 7 Massacre, Three Years Later
I was on my tractor, using a bush hog to cut my front field, when I realized that the attack in Israel on Oct. 7,...
More Than Half of Israelis Fear Revealing Their Nationality Abroad, Survey Finds
More than half of Israelis now hesitate to disclose their nationality while abroad, a new survey has found, as rising antisemitic violence, growing anti-Israel hostility,...
Israelis Feel More Jewish Than Ever but Less Responsible for Diaspora Communities, Survey Finds
A record number of Israeli Jews now define themselves first and foremost as Jews rather than Israelis, according to a new government-backed survey that also...
Israeli President, Jewish Leaders Meet to Discuss Diaspora Strengthening Support for Judaism, Israel
Senior leaders of the Jewish educational organization Aish met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at his residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday to discuss Jews in...
‘The Butcher of Tehran’: Diaspora Iranian Jews Celebrate Death of Raisi, Iran’s Hardline President
Iranian Jews in the diaspora this week have been celebrating the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, whose long record of human rights abuses, Holocaust...
Israel’s President Tells Jews to ‘Stand Strong’ Amid Rising Antisemitism, Says Campuses ‘Contaminated by Hatred’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has released an impassioned message of support to Jewish communities around the world ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day next week and...
On Yom Kippur, the Jewish Community Must Unite and Stop Judging Others
On Yom Kippur, we will hear the sound of the shofar and recite the following confessional in “Al Chet”: For the sin which we have committed...
Orthodox and Conservative Jews Should Be Natural Allies
JNS.org - Jewish tradition holds that the Second Temple was destroyed by baseless hatred. Since we’re currently in the annual three-week mourning period for the...
An Israeli Investment in Diaspora Relations
JNS.org - For the last four years, a virtual classroom has united students from Akko’s Weizmann School and Indianapolis’s Bureau of Jewish Education, including joint programming...
The Chosen People and Antisemitism
I recently remarked to my six-year old daughter that I love the God of Israel. She fumed and cried out, "Not only people in Israel...
President Reuven Rivlin Calls for New ‘Vision’ in Israel-Diaspora Relationship
JNS.org - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday called for a new partnership to be forged between Israel and the Jewish Diaspora to deal with global...
Why Sukkot Reminds Us of the Need for a Jewish State
The Duke of Manheim once asked Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Levin why children ask the "Four Questions" on Passover and not Sukkot.“After all, on Sukkot you have more...
Jewish Community in Wales ‘Feeling Vulnerable’ Following Record-Breaking Antisemitism in Britain
The Jewish community in Wales, UK is dwindling in number and its members are feeling vulnerable in light of the record number of antisemitic attacks...
Tunis: Muslim Cell Allegedly Tried to Kidnap Jewish Child (VIDEO)
Three would-be Muslim kidnappers failed in an attempted kidnapping of a 12-year-old Jewish child in the tiny community's ancient quarter on the Tunisian island...
