Police monitor the scene in the aftermath of a stabbing attack at the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, N.Y., on Dec. 28, the seventh night of Chanukah. Source: Screenshot. By Richard Friedman Christmas week is typically a slow […]
From left: Dutch Parliament members Kees van der Staaij, Kay Wilson and Joël Voordewind, with Itamar Marcus (third from left), director of the Palestinian Media Watch. Marcus and Wilson spoke to the Dutch Parliament in 2018 as it discussed ways […]
A march held by members of New York Students for Justice in Palestine. Source: JCPA. By Sean Savage (JNS) — With anti-Semitism on the rise in the United States and across the world, a new report has just been released […]
By Alan Newman A 1970’s folk song by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young advised “Teach your children well.” Here’s a lesson: Back on July 5, 1934, for three cents you could buy a copy of the Jewish Daily Bulletin. On that Thursday, […]
Valerie Plame speaking at Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Dec. 4, 2007. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. By Sean Durns (CAMERA.org) — The only thing necessary for the triumph of antisemitism is for journalists to do nothing, to say nothing – […]
Anti-Semitic graffiti on The Rock at the University of Tennessee in September. As anti-Semitism grows on college campuses, with an increasing number of Jewish students feeling intimidated and harassed for their pro-Israel views, the Trump administration has taken an important […]
By Jordyn Wright Year after year, we have witnessed student leaders at McGill University being targeted as a result of their Jewish and pro-Israel identities. This year, that student is me. I am a Jewish second-year Science student at McGill. […]
by Larry Brook, editor (This column is the lead editorial in the November 2019 issue of Southern Jewish Life.) There has been a lot of talk about antisemitism lately, and a heated debate on where it comes from and what […]
By Richard Friedman There was a news story recently about an attack on a Jewish cemetery in Omaha, Neb. I shared it on Facebook in the midst of an exciting football Saturday only to remind my Jewish and Christian friends […]
The campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. By Jackson Richman (JNS) — A resolution introduced by Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Illinois passed the school’s student government on […]
By Larry Brook, Israel InSight Pastor Chris Edmonds says that “the difference between a regular person and a hero is two seconds,” and he hopes that the spreading of his father’s story inspires people to become that hero, should they […]