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Where are Today’s Maccabees?
Written by: Thane Rosenbaum for WhiteRoseMagazine WHERE are the Maccabees when we need them? And do they work overseas? Those are serious questions, because aside from the amusing paradox of the American Jewish Mafia, those clever ruffians who saw no contradiction between Bar Mitzvahs and Murder Incorporated—Dutch Schultz, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Mickey Cohen and the more recent Russian variety from Brighton…
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The City of Slaughter
Written by: Haim Nahman Bialik for WhiteRoseMagazine This poem was written in tribute to the victims of the Kishinev pogrom. Arise and go now to the city of slaughter;Into its courtyard wind thy way;There with thine own hand touch, and with the eyes of thine head,Behold on tree, on stone, on fence, on mural clay,The spattered blood and dried brains of the…
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Moral Narcissism + The Psychology of Failure
Written by: Richard Landes for WhiteRoseMagazine CURRENTLY, Western elites are enamored of a discourse best described as “utopian universalism,” a vision of a peaceful world, rid of oppression and discrimination; a world with no borders and with freedom and human rights for all. Certain dominant memes carry the message: “violence never solved anything”… “war is not the answer”… “who are we…
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How did we get here?
Written by: Rebecca Sugar for WhiteRoseMagazine When I ran alumni programming for Birthright Israel participants in New York years ago, Michael Steinhardt and I lamented that the best way to capture the attention of American Jews might be to hire gangs of thugs around the country to break some windows and yell anti-Semitic slurs. Anti-Semitism has a way of reaching out…
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The ADL is undermining the battle against Anti-Semitism
Written by: Jonathan S. Tobin for WhiteRoseMagazine. ARE donors to the Anti-Defamation League aware of what they are funding? Do they know that the organization created to fight prejudice and attacks against Jews is on the record supporting an ideology that grants a permission slip to anti-Semitism? Do they know that the group still considered to be the gold standard for monitoring hate…
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Playing defense is not working on campuses
Written by: William A. Jacobson & Johanna E. Markind for WhiteRoseMagazine. THE ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu said, “Security against defeat implies defensive tactics; ability to defeat the enemy means taking the offensive.” In other words, you don’t win a war by playing defense. Major Jewish and pro-Israel organizations have reacted to specific campus incidents of anti-Semitism (usually masquerading as anti-Israelism), such…
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Far-left rabbis’ defamatory war against pro-Israel Jewish charities
Written by: Morton A. Klein and Elizabeth A. Berney on May 3, 2022 (May 3, 2022 / JNS) Israel has been suffering rising terror attacks from its enemies on multiple fronts within the past month. Palestinian Arab and Bedouin Islamist terrorists murdered 15 innocent Jews and others in cold blood. The Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Islamic State (ISIS)…
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Jews Who Hate Israel Are Teaching Your Children About the Jewish State
Written by: Moshe Phillips on May 3, 2022 We all hear about Jewish college students who have become pro-Palestinian. We know about polls showing that younger American Jews are much less connected to Israel than their parents. How can this trend be explained? Why do Jewish 18 year-olds begin their university studies with the pro-Israel sentiments, then emerge four years…
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Jews Who Hate Israel Are Teaching Your Children About the Jewish State
This is not just a matter of concern to individual parents; it also has important implications for our community as a whole. The Jewish community needs to take a long, hard look at the role that many Jewish academics have played, and are continuing to play, in influencing Jewish college students to side with the Palestinian Arabs over Israel.
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Far-left rabbis’ defamatory war against pro-Israel Jewish charities
T’ruah is making common cause with the anti-Israel “Squad” in the U.S. House of Representatives and efforts to persuade the IRS to remove the tax-exemption status from these charities.