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News Controversial Pro-Israel Pastor John Hagee Basks In Return To Spotlight
On Monday night, the megachurch pastor the Rev. John Hagee addressed a crowd of thousands at the annual summit of Christians United for Israel, the organization he founded over a decade ago. Standing in front of a massive projected image of the Western Wall, the controversial evangelist spoke in uncompromising and biblical language about the…
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News ‘Christian Zionism’ Grabs Spotlight As Mike Pence Addresses CUFI
On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence delivers the keynote speech at the annual summit of Christians United For Israel — signaling what some see as a new ideological shift for the White House. “His speech marks a fundamental change in the language that the White House has historically employed to articulate the United States’ relationship…
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Fast Forward Schumer Calls Anti-Zionism A Form Of Anti-Semitism On Senate Floor
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a speech on the Senate floor that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism. Schumer, the minority leader in the Senate and currently the highest-ranking Jew in government, added his remarks on anti-Zionism to a speech he was giving on health care, saying at the end of…
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Fast Forward French President Macron: Anti-Zionism Is A Form Of Anti-Semitism
PARIS (JTA) – French President Emmanuel Macron condemned anti-Zionism as a form of anti-Semitism during the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv deportations. “We will never surrender to the expressions of hatred; we will not surrender to anti-Zionism because it is a reinvention of anti-Semitism,” Macron said on Sunday in Paris during…
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Community Is Religion Really A ‘Big Problem’ For American Jews?
A June 9 interview of Michael Steinhardt by correspondent Ben Sales of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency made a big splash in the Jewish media. The Forward titled its coverage of the interview, “Michael Steinhardt Says Religion Is Big Problem for American Jews.” As an American Jew who considers himself religious, I was shocked to discover…
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Opinion Why Israel’s Rules To Muzzle Professors Will Only Make Things Worse
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett is frustrated — as we are — that some professors who teach about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are designing their courses with the aim of undermining Israel’s basic legitimacy in the minds of their students. Such courses are an issue not just in Israel but also in the United States. The…
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Fast Forward ‘Hindu-Zionist Conspiracy’? Some In Pakistan Think So
Indian Premier Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel has kicked off speculation of a “Hindu-Zionist conspiracy” in Pakistan, where hatred of both India and the Jewish state runs high. According to a report in Haaretz, Pakistani pundits have falsely insinuated that Israel and India have infiltrated their country with agents perpetrating acts of radical Islamic terror….
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Yiddish World The Fantasy Writer, Der Nister, and His Ambivalence Towards Zionism
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Der Nister, a master of fantasy tales who later turned to Soviet-style realism in his writing, was a complicated man and rarely opened himself up to strangers. There were books of memoirs written about him but they deal, for the most part, with his earlier years. The…
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