1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (241+ words) Jewish organizations from around the world signed the J50 Declaration on Zionism and Antisemitism in Jerusalem on Thursday, which states unequivocally that “Zionism is part of Jewish identity.” William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (479+ words) The declaration tells our story at the singular turning point when the Jewish people returned to history as a people. It is a capsule of distilled Israeli DNA, implanted in our national bloodstream by the founding generation as a gift…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (391+ words) Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, thinks that criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not make one anti-Israel and that the prime minister’s response to Oct. 7 is making the Jewish state less…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (457+ words) “I don’t go to synagogue.” So said the British Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, during an interview with the BBC the day after he announced a package of sanctions and other punitive measures against Israel, sending relations between London and Jerusalem…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (241+ words) Nearly three years after losing both legs in a booby-trapped tunnel explosion in northern Gaza, Elisha Medan is entering politics, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placing the 45-year-old father of six 15th on the Likud Knesset slate on Tuesday. Since…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (392+ words) Attendees at Brown University’s Opening Convocation on Tuesday were greeted by speeches, bagpipes and a plane circling overhead with a large banner reading “Brown 4 Israel,” accompanied by American and Israeli flags. The Rhode Island Coalition for Israel and Brown Jewish…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (858+ words) In April 1915, during World War I, Fritz Haber stood at Ypres, having personally directed Germany’s preparations to release chlorine gas from thousands of cylinders toward Allied trenches. He did not invent chlorine, though he championed the method and became the…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (588+ words) There was a time when any policy announcement from the foreign secretary of the United Kingdom was a momentous event. But that was a long time ago. Still, the panic in some quarters about this development is overstated. So, too,…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (450+ words) More than 5,000 leaders and public figures have signed an open letter rejecting the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, calling the charge a form of anti-Jewish scapegoating that is fueling antisemitism worldwide. “It’s an hour of crisis,” Deborah…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (807+ words) In Durban, South Africa, in late August 2001, the country was seven years out of apartheid, and the United Nations had chosen it, for that very symbolism, to host the World Conference Against Racism. Instead, vendors sold The Protocols of the…...