Book Review | Breaking History: A White House Memoir: Colin Shindler, Fathom Journal, September 2022 — Jared Kushner’s account of his four years in the Trump White House produces several interesting revelations.
Mind the Gap: Divergence Between American & Israeli Jews: Emetonline, Sept. 7, 2022 –– Jonathan S. Tobin is Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate — JNS.org — an international wire service covering the Jewish world and Israel.
Podcast: Daniel Gordis on the Rift between American and Israeli Jews (Rebroadcast): Mosaic Magazine, July 16, 2021 –– It’s sometimes asserted, particularly in elite circles, that liberal American Jews have grown distant from Israel because of Israel’s actions, including those undertaken by longtime and now former prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Is the Writing on the Wall for America’s Jews?: Ruth R. Wisse, Mosaic Magazine, Aug. 8, 2022
US Jewry Shifting Away from Religious Streams – YU President: Zvika Klein, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 20, 2022
Judaism and the Politics of Tikkun Olam: Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, Sapir Journal, Vol. 1, Spring 2021
The Plot Against Jewish Education: Liel Leibowitz, Tablet, Sept. 7, 2022
AJC’s Survey of American Jewish Millennials; 2022 — Results from AJC’s Survey of American Millennial Jews, a part of AJC’s Surveys of American and Israeli Millennial Jews, conducted by the research company YouGov, is based on online surveys carried out February 9 – March 30, 2022, with a sample of 800 Millennial American Jews (defined between the ages of 25-40). The margin of error is +/- 4.69%. AJC is a non-partisan organization that neither supports nor endorses candidates for elective offices.
‘Jews Must Speak Up, Defend Israel’ | Conversations on Zionism: JNS, YouTube, Apr 27, 2022 — This episode of JNF’s “Conversations on Zionism” features global media thought leaders from Sweden, the UK, U.S. and Israel.
The Urgent Need for Proper Jewish Leadership: Melanie Phillips, JNS, July 21, 2022 — Diaspora Jews worry about how to deal with the current tsunami of anti-Semitism that is washing through the world. They also worry about how to deal with the anti-Zionism and demonization of Israel that are now the default position for “progressives” in the West.
In Wake Of Roe Reversal, Some American Jews See Attack On Religious Liberty: Daniel Arkin, ABC News, June 27, 2022 — The Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade answered the prayers of conservative Christians across the U.S. who rallied against the landmark 1973 ruling for nearly half a century. But many American Jews are dismayed, and some Jewish leaders view restrictions on reproductive rights as an attack on religious liberty.
What Should the Role of American Jews Be With Respect To Israel Today?: Moment, Jan. 20, 2022 — What, if any, obligations do we have toward Israel?
The Satmar Way of Life and Death Used to Be Our Way, Too: Armin Rosen, Tablet, Dec. 27, 2020 — You needed no special tipoff to have prior notice of the Williamsburg Jewish community’s latest act of alleged social treason and mass endangerment.
Jerusalem on the Atlantic: Tamara Berens, Mosaic Magazine, Apr. 4, 2022 — Are you from New York?” asks a middle-aged woman with a thick Brooklyn accent as she cuts through the aisles of the kosher Winn-Dixie grocery store in Boca Raton in a mobility scooter. It’s an hour before the start of the last Shabbat of the Jewish year.
Us and Them: Liel Leibovitz, Tablet, May 25, 2022 –We’ve lived through skirmishes between Israelis and Palestinians before, but May 2021 felt different.
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