Posts Tagged: Jews
How the Torah Can Help When You Experience a Setback
I just learned of the passing of journalist and author Paul Johnson, at the age of 94. He was an extraordinary man -- a master...
Addressing the Rise of Minority Attacks Against Orthodox Jews
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn find themselves at the center of increasing antisemitic violence. Just this week, two teenagers chased a frantic Hasidic man down a...
‘Something Isn’t Working’: Israeli Researchers Urge Overhaul of Strategies to Combat 2021 Rise in Antisemitic Attacks Worldwide
Antisemitic attacks worldwide saw a “dramatic rise” in 2021 from the previous year, with the highest number of incidents reported in major Western democracies, including...
Prominent Black Lives Matter Figure Equates Ukrainian Resistance to Palestinian Terror Attacks
Newsweek reported on February 27 that social justice activist Shaun King drew a moral equivalence between the plight of the Ukrainian people under attack by...
Israeli Arab Party Leader Abbas Dismisses Charge of ‘Apartheid’ State: ‘Our Fate Here Is to Live Together’
Israeli Arab leader Mansour Abbas — head of the Islamic Ra’am party, which last year joined the country’s governing coalition — said he would not...
Whoopi Goldberg and the Jewish Moral Dilemma
Like a virus, antisemitism survives by reproducing into different strains, and each new strain can be more deadly than the last. In a talk once about...
Berlin Jews Face ‘Background Noise’ of Daily Antisemitism, Says German Monitoring Report
Antisemitic incidents in Germany’s capital peaked in the first six months of this year compared to years prior, according to a report published Thursday, fueled...
On Eve of Rosh Hashanah Israel’s Population Increases to Almost 9.4 Million People
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Israel’s population numbered almost 9.4 million people, growing by 146,000 people from the year before, according to figures published...
Pandemic Has Brought ‘Normalization of Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories’ in Germany: Study
As cases of COVID-19 once more begin to rise in Germany, a study released Monday detailed how the pandemic has fueled antisemitic conspiracy myths, holding...
Jews as Racial Villains: From Jewish Blackness to Jewish Whiteness
It was less than a century ago that white-presenting Jews were defined as Black. White supremacist arbiters of whiteness -- in an obsession with racial...
American Jews Need Wait No Longer, the Barbarians Have Arrived
“It is night, and the barbarians have not arrived,” the great modern Greek poet C. F. Cavafy’s “Waiting for the Barbarians” concludes. “And some people...
Social Justice Includes Support for Israel
W.E.B. Du Bois once spoke of a “double-consciousness” felt by Black people in the United States. Even when accepted by white society, he argued that Black Americans...
The Woke Mob and Critical Race Theory Come for the Jews
You have to marvel at the resilience of Jew-hatred. Like a highly contagious retrovirus and its variants, antisemitism has the uncanny ability to evolve with...
We Must Renew Black-Jewish Brotherhood
With friction between the Black and Jewish communities rising again, it’s time to renew African-American and Jewish bonds of brotherhood. While our problems regarding COVID-19 remain...
