Hillary Clinton remains the favorite U.S. presidential candidate in the eyes of the Israeli public, a poll conducted by Israel’s largest news website, Walla News, showed.
According to the “>March poll, Clinton led Trump 38-23 as the preferable candidate among general Israelis and 37-26 among Israeli Jews.
The poll also showed that 73 percent of Israelis rank President Obama’s handling of recent terrorist attacks in the United States as ‘not good.’
Perhaps this also signals a belated reckoning for other false-flag NGOs claiming to promote human rights. The damage from terror-supporting propaganda will take many years to reverse, but at least further abuse can finally be prevented.
Shavuot is that moment in the year where all becomes one – People Israel, Torah, memory and the Divine – a unification begun at Sinai.
This idea is not just about fleeing antisemitism, nor proving native loyalty. It is about experiencing life from a different angle than the coasts.
So now, for my wife and me, it’s time for the mezinka, an Ashkenazi Jewish wedding custom that is observed when parents marry off their last child.
Emphasizing Israel’s value to America must become a community-wide effort. From the ADL to the AJC to the Federation system to Hillel and every pro-Israel activist group in the country, the collective priority must be to strengthen the U.S.—Israeli relationship.
When the walls feel like they’re closing in, it’s tempting to shrink away, to hide or to assimilate. But instead, let’s learn from those among us, ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
Amid so much media noise, with social media creating Algorithmic Radicals, spiraling deeper and deeper into violence-inducing echo chambers, many believe the shriller the better. But words matter – and tone matters too.
Only Jews are routinely told that indigeneity comes with a statute of limitations.
What are we to make of such flimsy evidence behind such incendiary and harmful accusations? Perhaps one answer is that the Times must have a reflex for assaulting Israel’s image.
Not a tale of two cities, but a story of two realities—one sanguine; the other ominous.
If I were a parent paying big bucks for my child to attend Michigan, I would want to know if Peterson is an outlier (what I believe) or if his malpractice is more widespread (what we should all fear).
Our trip to Morocco was not simply a tour. It was an encounter with both the beauty and fragility of Jewish life in exile.
This is a time to stand on principle, support our allies in the face of ruthless terrorist regimes, and reject extremists who want to see the U.S.-Israel partnership destroyed.
Words can leave behind the deepest scars and wounds that never heal.
Georgetown asked for my talk in advance, and I was about to send it to them on the day I discussed the petition with the dean. It draws on several of my JJ columns about humility, gratitude, and, ironically, the urgent need for dialogue in our polarized society.
Any excuse to use the word “mountain” in a poem…
In sorting through our recently-deceased mother’s writings, my brother and I came upon this treasure.
Our tradition upholds the sacredness of this level of intimacy.
