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Former Board deputy to launch new leadership body
Those who wish to join will have to support three core principles: to promote Jewish life, to support Israel and to fight antisemitism. The NJA will not address any other issues such as climate change or repression faced by the Uighurs, he added. In a statement, the NJA said it aims to, “voice the opinions of ordinary Jews who have…
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Lakewood and Brooklyn attacks show, again, that we need to directly confront Black antisemitism
Sunday, April 10, 2022 Elder of Ziyon On Friday, a man in Lakewood NJ went on a string of attacks against identifiably Orthodox Jews, nearly killing at least one of them.
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Islamist Antisemitism: Where are America’s Jewish Leaders? with Charles Jacobs
Although antisemitism in the United States is in significant part an Islamist phenomenon, the great institutions of American Jewry have widely failed to confront this problem, as shown by the example of the Islamic Society of Boston cultural center. What explains this failure? What can be done to fix it?
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Chicago Synagogue Officially Designates Itself ‘anti-Zionist’
Written by: Arno Rosenfield on April 2, 2022 Tzedek Chicago was founded seven years ago, in part, to create a Jewish community free from a strong attachment to Israel. The congregation went beyond its original “non-Zionism” this week to become what is likely the first synagogue in the country to be affirmatively “anti-Zionist.”
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The Revolution Inside the ADL
Written by: Seth Mandel When Whoopi Goldberg said that the Holocaust was “not about race” but rather “two white groups of people” fighting, the actress and chat-show maven was shocked by criticism she received. Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, reprimanded Goldberg the following day on her morning program, The View. One thing Greenblatt did not do was ask…
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The Weakness of US Jewish Leadership in the Face of Growing Jew Hatred
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Four Comments on Colleyville
“Why a synagogue? Why Jews?” asks Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch in the wake of the standoff at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. “To fight effectively against antisemitism, it is not enough to condemn the individual antisemitic act — as welcome and as necessary as that is. We must also take on the toxic ideology that poisons the hearts and racializes…
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Why Reform Judaism doesn’t work, won’t work and how to fix it
Barak Hullman – Times of Israel. The Times of IsraelIn an article in the Times of Israel, Reform rabbi Rick Jacobs (the president of the Union for Reform Judaism) is quoted as saying “I believe with the very fiber of my being that young Jews are hungry, but not for a Judaism frozen in a distant time, no matter how…
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Jewish ‘Leaders’ Are Driving Away Jews
William A. Levinson – American Thinker. Jewish religious leaders complain that American Jews are intermarrying, assimilating, and abandoning Judaism. These leaders include Eric Yoffie, the former head of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ). The URJ was itself a major source of the problem on Yoffie’s watch, and it still is. I refer to its support of political agendas that…
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ADL: Fighting Yesterday’s Battles
Moshe Phillips – Arutz Sheva 7 Israel National News.If you want to know what grassroots Jews are thinking about the international Islamic terror, Israel issues, U.S. politics and more, please don’t look to the self-appointed leaders of the Jewish Establishment. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) seemed to want to do everything possible to direct attention away from the possibility that the…
