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Evian: The Most Fateful Conference of All Times in Jewish History

The 1938 Evian Conference and its consequences… Continue reading

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American Jewry’s cherished values

Surveys show that roughly 70 percent of American Jews intend to cast their ballots for President Barack Obama’s reelection next month… Continue reading

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The war against the Jews

The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds… Continue reading

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The Battle over Silwan

On the face of it, the sparring that erupted over a gate built illegally by Arab residents may seem like a miniature version of the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians over who controls the Holy Land… Continue reading

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Founding National Myths

The vast literature proving the historic Jewish connection to the Land of Israel has been extensively manipulated and distorted as part of the Palestinian politics of nationalism… Continue reading

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A Friend in Britain: How Churchill Used “Emotional Intelligence” to Help Jewish National Sovereignty

For over three thousand years, the Jewish people were defined by an identity shaped by the Hebrew language… Continue reading

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Why Isn’t Obama Visiting Israel?

By now it’s clear that President Barack Obama isn’t going to visit Israel in his term of office… Continue reading

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Why Do So Many American Jews Support Obama?

In the 2008 election, a remarkable 79 percent of American Jewish voters supported Barack Obama to be president of the United States. In 2012 this number is likely to fall by 20 to 25 percent but will remain a large majority. Why is this?… Continue reading

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Defeating the Jewish Alinskyites

Saul Alinsky, the godfather of subversive radical political action, had a very clear strategy for undermining and destroying his enemies… Continue reading

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Winston Churchill – A Good Friend of Jews and Zionism?

Churchill’s political involvement with Jews and Zionism was enormously variegated and long, and the list of headings under which this involvement can be assessed no less so… Continue reading

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Winston Churchill Visits Palestine in 1921, Voices Support for Jewish State

The British leader Winston Churchill visited Palestine in 1921, relatively early in his career while serving as Colonial Secretary… Continue reading

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Seated Among the Heroes and Watching the Faces of the Martyrs

In all of this and throughout the nation on this day, there was not a word of hatred, of reviling any enemy… Continue reading

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Betrayal Glorified: The Bizarre Jewish Movement to Destroy Israel by Pretending to Save It

I can only laugh at the idea of dilettante Peter Beinart and J Street as leader of the anti-Israel movement… Continue reading

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Jews and the Dutch: A History of Ups and Downs

The Netherlands is widely considered one of Israel’s closest allies but at the same time continues to take a critical stance toward Israel in line with EU’s pro-Palestinian policies… Continue reading

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Mainstreaming anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism may not yet be a litmus test for social acceptability in the US, but it has certainly become acceptable… Continue reading

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Israel’s Tenured Extremists

Israel is under assault from within and not just from the usual suspects… Continue reading

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Ban on Circumcision: Trampling Religious Rights of non-Christians in the Netherlands

Holland’s doctors’ association is encouraging Dutch parliament to place a ban on male circumcision, calling the practice “a violation of human rights”… Continue reading

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Poisoning the Well of Animal Welfare

For the first time in Western history, the physical as well as emotional pain felt by animals became a human concern three millennia ago in the Jewish Scriptures… Continue reading

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PM Netanyahu’s Greeting for Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day

Today Israel celebrates 63 years of independence. We celebrate the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty, the restoration of our capacity for… Continue reading

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Obama’s Passover Message Misses the Message of Passover

There’s some controversy about President Barack Obama’s Passover message. The key passage is this… Continue reading

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Our World: Women’s surprising defenders

Every few months, we are presented with media reports about Jewish women rescued from their Muslim husbands in the Palestinian Authority or within Israel… Continue reading

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The Slow Disappearance of Turkey’s Jewish Community

A study by Rifat N. Bali on Turkey’s Jewish community for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’ (JCPA) Institute for Global Jewish Affairs. It’s the December 2010 publication in the Changing Jewish Communities Lecture Series… Continue reading