Category Archives: Israel

WSJ: Jewish Baby Boom Alters Israeli-Palestinian Dynamic

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Luke Ford

By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV July 14, 2016 8:37 a.m. ET JERUSALEM—Israel’s peace camp and its international backers have long used one crude but powerful argument: Arabs make more babies than Jews and unless a separate Palestinian state is created, a demographic … Continue reading →

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Many Jews Don’t Care About Israel

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

A third of Jews in America don’t care about Israel and about a third care passionately. My guess is that a majority of American Jews identify more with America than with the Jewish state. Comments: * Many Jews believe that … Continue reading →

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From Albany to Kansas City, the Jewish Community Is Stepping Up for Refugees

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

Rabbi Jennie Rosenn is the Vice President for Community Engagement at HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees. She writes: One year ago, a photograph of a small Syrian refugee boy woke up the world. Our hearts were broken … Continue reading →

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‘Are Jews anti-Israeli for saying Israel has a right to choose which immigrants it wants?’

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: “Jews often say they’re for open borders because, after all, their grandparents were allowed to come here. Lawrence Auster, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, suggested that such people be told that if we had known that letting Jews in … Continue reading →

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Is Sex Through Deception Rape?

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Luke Ford

BBC: New evidence has emerged in the widely-reported case of Sabbar Kashur, an Israeli Arab who was found guilty of rape by deception after having sex with an Israeli Jewish woman. Back in July, it was reported that the two … Continue reading →

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