Written by: M. Zuhdi Jasser for WhiteRoseMagazine THE first question any American Jew may contemplate asking me, an American Muslim activist is, how does this guy have the chutzpah to tell our diverse Jewish communities what we should or should not do vis-à-vis American Muslim communities, Islamism, and especially anti-Semitism? Anyone who has followed all of our public work in this…

Written by: Richard L. Kronenfeld Ph.D. for WhiteRoseMagazine ON Sunday, July 11, 2021, an impressive array of more than 100 Jewish and interfaith organizations concerned about the rising tide of anti-Semitism in America held a rally at the U.S. Capitol. Hoping to match the success of a rally for Soviet Jewry organized by famed Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky that drew more than 250,000…

Written by: Rabbi Cary Kozberg for WhiteRoseMagazine THANKS to the man on a blue notebook, I became a rabbi instead of a doctor.  That blue notebook was called a machberet, and it was given out to students in afternoon Hebrew Schools during the 1950s. On the front was the likeness of Maimonides, the renowned 12th century rabbi. Until I was a freshman in college, my…

Written by: Dexter Van Zile for WhiteRoseMagazine Editors’ Note: Dexter Van Zile, an activist and defender of the Jewish people and Israel, agreed to let us re-publish this article to inform American Jews and the American people in general about the decline of the Jewish condition since he, as a Christian, began working in the pro-Israel field in 2005. “Things have gotten…

Written by: Dr. Amy Rosenthal & Jsh Ravitch for WhiteRoseMagazine IT’S difficult enough to fight anti-Semitism. It’s that much more challenging when Jewish leaders work to silence those who want to fight, who favor creative approaches, and who think “outside the box.” “Deadly Exchange” is a campaign of Jew hatred that blames Israeli and American Jews for police assaults on American…

Written by: Karen Hurvitz for WhiteRoseMagazine THE Jews of Massachusetts are facing a storm of institutionalized enmity as anti-Israel curricula are spreading to public schools statewide. On February 1, 2022, I published an article describing how state-wide guidelines on teaching the Middle East had been changed in 2018 to tilt heavily against Israel. Massachusetts public school teachers were told to instruct their students about “Palestinian…

Written by: Joanne Bregman for WhiteRoseMagazine ALMOST every American Jewish community of a certain size has a Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) whose mandate it is to build bridges and foster warm relations with other communal, ethnic, and racial groups. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) is the national umbrella organization of these local JCRCs. Few understand that rather than reflect…