‘Bring them home’ chants replace usual festive mood at New York’s annual parade for Israel
Elected officials and Jewish leaders marched with relatives of Israeli and American hostages and Oct. 7 survivors
Elected officials and Jewish leaders marched with relatives of Israeli and American hostages and Oct. 7 survivors
Israeli cabinet ministers were shouted down by protesters while senior Democratic officials marched with pro-democracy activists
Rabbinic human rights group T'ruah won't march in Sunday's event
Some fear that political turmoil in the Jewish state will depress parade turnout
Ted Comet is an indefatigable leader and public figure who will serve as a grand marshal of the upcoming Celebrate Israel Parade, but he does one of his most important jobs in the privacy of his own Upper West Side apartment. That’s where he gives tours to school groups, rabbinic students, psychoanalysts and historians of…
(JTA) — More than 1,000 police officers will secure the Israel Day Parade in New York City. The annual event will make its way down Fifth Avenue on Sunday. No specific threats have been made against the parade, which celebrates Israel’s statehood. The police officers stationed along the route will include counterterror teams armed with…
I want to speak about courage and honesty, two concepts missing from much of the discussion about the events at the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City. At the parade, a group of activists from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) chose to create disruption by specifically targeting the LGBTQ contingent in the parade, a…
Jewish queer youth are a vulnerable population of Jews being unfairly targeted for Disruption and sabotage by an organization called Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). While it is important to counter the distortions and dishonesty disseminated about the group’s disruptions at the Celebrate Israel Parade (and I will below), it is far more urgent to…
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