A complaint from the hawkish Zionist Organization of America about alleged anti-Semitism among pro-Palestinian activists has drawn a quick response from administrators at New York City’s public university system, and a pile-on from elected officials and Jewish groups. In a February 24 letter, ZOA accused local chapters of the group Students for Justice in Palestine…
Bernie Sanders, the Jewish candidate who has gone further than any other member of the tribe in a presidential race, is struggling to connect with Jewish voters. But the rumpled firebrand is dominating rival Hillary Clinton among a surprising slice of the electorate: Arab Americans. Sanders swept Tuesday’s Democratic primary vote in Dearborn, Michigan, the…
Yishay Montogmery wanted to spend Tuesday evening relaxing and strumming his acoustic guitar on the Jaffa waterfront. Instead, his evening turned a real nightmare situation. When a young terrorist with a knife started attacking him, he didn’t waste anytime, he bashed him on the head with the only weapon he had available: his guitar. “After…
(JTA) — Fifty-one years ago this week, hundreds of people marched from Selma toward Montgomery, Alabama, to demand voting rights for African-Americans. The march, one of the most famous civil rights demonstrations in American history, helped spur the passage of the Voting Rights Act. What is less well known is that kippahs were a symbol…
Donald Trump’s ascent in the Republican presidential race has presented one group of Republicans with something more than just concern about the fate of their party. For neoconservatives, a Trump nomination could mean an extension of their sentence in a political Siberia. Some members of this hawkish cohort saw the 2016 election as an opportunity…
Forverts editor Boris Sandler, who introduced Yiddish journalism to a new generation and earned the laurels of the Jewish literary community in the U.S. and in Israel, will retire, Samuel Norich, publisher and president/CEO of the Forward Association, announced today. Sandler, 66, took the reins of the Yiddish Forward 18 years ago, and broadened the…
The bloody murder of an American business student in a tourist area of Jaffa, a seaport city adjacent to Tel Aviv, stunned tourists in Israel’s vacation hub — and shocked a university campus thousands of miles away in Tennessee. Taylor Force, a 29-year-old student at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, was stabbed by a Palestinian as…
An Israeli Masorti Jew may be the one who goes to synagogue on Shabbat morning and then takes off his kippah and drives to watch his favorite team’s soccer game in the afternoon; or the teenager who will never forget to kiss the mezuzah mounted on every doorpost, even on the way out to a…
The U.S. Department of Education has accused the Michigan Jewish Institute, a college in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, of illegally obtaining federal Pell Grants for its study abroad program. “The Department will permit this scheme to continue no longer,” the DOE stated in a damning , outlining their investigation. Last week, the DOE…
Even though Peter Jaffe had never been to Israel, the Maryland lawyer felt a kinship with the people there, imagining a nation state full of “New York Jews.” That changed as soon as he set foot in the Holy Land. “After I was there, I found out that we’re much less similar,” he said. It’s…
As Donald Trump’s campaign surges to front-runner status on shock value in America, his bombast is familiar to a certain type of Israeli. “He’s a no-bullshitter,” said Doron Mizrachi, owner of a South Tel Aviv restaurant that sells bourekas, or Middle Eastern puff pastries. Mizrachi concedes that customers in this left-wing neighborhood sometimes bristle at…
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