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Category Archives: Israel
Trump’s Foreign Policy: A View from Israel
Israeli professor Yitzchak Klein writes: 1. Limiting Foreign Interventions Trump has got this right. Many Israelis were skeptical about the United States’ nation-building efforts in the Middle East from the start—from the Bush variety, which ended up handing most of … Continue reading
Jerusalem & Babylon With Trump in Mind, Two Rare and Valuable Examples of Leaders Who Refuse to Play on Our Baser Instincts
So does this writer Anshel Pfeffer want open borders for Israel? Does he want Israel to cease to exist as a Jewish state? If so, he is consistent. If not, he should shut up. I can only hope that more … Continue reading
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss Condemns Zionism at UC Irvine
There’s nothing sinister about Haredi (traditional Orthodox) Jews who do not support the modern secular state of Israel. They are being consistent with their understanding of Judaism. Prior to WWII, most Jews were not Zionist aka were not pushing for … Continue reading
No To Trump Because Holocaust
Many of my Jewish friends won’t vote for Trump because Holocaust. Because the Holocaust shows what happens when you try to blame minorities for your problems. Another Jewish friend says: Perhaps your friends are sincere, but I am more cynical. … Continue reading
London Ex-Mayor Ken Livingstone Suspended from Labour for Saying Hitler Was ‘Zionist’
REUTERS: Britain’s opposition Labour Party suspended former London mayor Ken Livingstone on Thursday in a row over anti-Semitism, as the party struggles with deep divisions since electing a hard-left leader last summer. Dozens of Labour lawmakers had demanded that leader … Continue reading
Haaretz: A Screenwriter, a Hasidic Mother of Seven, and a Sex Poet
From Haaretz: Marilyn Wennig, 36, uniquely combines the two estranged worlds of an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle with secular Israeli film and literature. A day after Marilyn Wennig was interviewed on Channel 2’s late night news show about the Oscars, she asked … Continue reading
Will Israel Survive Going Haredi?
From Ruth Marcus in 2012: “We’re verging on a trajectory of Israel slipping toward a third-world economy, and a third-world economy can’t sustain a first-world military,” says Yohanan Plesner, a Kadima member who chaired a committee to rewrite the exemption. … Continue reading
Young Non-Orthodox Jews Tend To Have A More Distant Relationship To Israel
Bernie Sanders, the one Jew running for President, seems to have the most distant relationship to Israel of any of the main contenders. Jared Sichel writes for the Jewish Journal: On April 12, Simone Zimmerman, a Los Angeles Jewish day … Continue reading
Israel’s Pro-Black Migrant Protest
From 2015: Israel’s Ethiopian Jews clash with police at race rally Dozens injured during anti-racism rally in Tel Aviv sparked by brutality against a black soldier. Israeli riot police have fired stun grenades and water cannon on thousands of ethnic … Continue reading
Israel vs America
In many ways, Israel is a much healthier and more serious nation than the United States. Israel has a serious wall to stop illegal immigrants, America does not. Israel is run for the benefit of its majority population — Jews, … Continue reading