This week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on a four-day tour of East Africa, becoming the first prime minister to visit sub-Saharan Africa in almost 30 years. He visited Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. He will also visit Ethiopia. “Israel is coming back to Africa,” Netanyahu announced. “Africa is coming back to Israel.” The goals…
AIPAC never spelled the threat out. But last summer, Congress got the message. Politicians had to decide whether they would vote yay or nay on President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, which lifted economic sanctions in exchange for reductions to the country’s nuclear program. A vote in favor, pro-Israel activists indicated, would be viewed negatively…
A Louisiana sheriff who allegedly called a federal prosecutor a “son-of-a-bitch Jew bastard” and threatened to shoot him “right between [his] goddamned Jewish eyes” is facing a recall push over the shocking rant. Despite protests calling for Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal’s resignation since April, he has remained employed as the sheriff. Donald Broussard, vice…
Michael L. Weinstein has spent the last decade highlighting the hidden phenomenon of proselytizing in the military. As head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog group, Weinstein has earned many critics — and last week was sent a violent threat. The typed letter was sent by an individual claiming to be an ex-Army…
For Valerie Weisler, repairing the world began close to home. After suffering bullying in her school, the newly minted New York high school graduate founded the Validation Project, a program that connects struggling kids with mentors who can help them explore and build on their passions “This is a larger, global issue,” she said. “This…
This article is part of a series of profiles of formerly Orthodox Jews. A report released last month found that though many formerly Orthodox — or “Off the Derech” — Jews struggle to find new communities and feel acceptance from their families, nearly all retain their Jewish identity. You can read more about this community…
A Jewish man and woman in upstate New York claim they were kicked out of a Mexican restaurant Sunday due to their support for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. According to The New York Post, Esther Levy, along with retired local judge Alvin Goldstein, showed up at the Cancun Inn restaurant in Orange County…
A Jewish teenager from London felt something was terribly unjust about senior citizens and other needy people being hit with unjust parking tickets. So he created a crusading ‘chatbot,’ an internet tool based on articial intelligence, to fight the powers that be. Joshua Browder, the creator of DoNotPay, told the Forward the elderly and disabled,…
Abigail Minis was a widow, in her eighties and Jewish, but that didn’t stop her from doing her part to fight the British during the Revolutionary War. She put her skills and resources as an innkeeper to use and paid for food for soldiers fighting for American independence in 1779 in Savannah, Georgia. “Here’s a…
Elie Wiesel, the world’s best known and most influential Holocaust survivor, is no longer. His death at 87, announced Saturday, makes us ever more acutely aware that we are coming to the end of an era. Soon, all too soon, there will be no survivors. Elie Wiesel was a unique figure among American Jewish leaders….
Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died, Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said on Saturday. Wiesel, a philosopher, speaker, playwright and professor who also campaigned for the tyrannized and forgotten around the…
