The president of Brown Students for Israel warns new freshman that anti-Semitism is alive and well on college campuses. From openly anti-Semitic professors to swastika graffiti, the campus can be a hard place for Jews,especially freshman, and is certainly a hard place for Zionist Jews. The hype is true: anti-Zionism is alive and well. But […]
By Edwin Black – CIJnews Richard Allen is one of a growing swarm of gadflies who are part of an ad hoc, semi-cohesive army of independent pro-Israel and pro-Jewish defenders that have changed and continued to change the Jewish communal landscape. Richard Allen is not a careful, polished Jewish communal leader with a seasoned staff operating from […]
New York photographer Paul Margolis toured Israel with Leica in hand, looking for the nostalgic and the absurd. His work is now on show in Israel. For photographer Paul Margolis, it’s all about the old and the new when he takes photographs in Israel; the balance between a modern, high-tech nation, and aspects of shtetl […]
By Gabe Friedman – JTA Barbra Streisand isn’t a fan of Donald Trump — so why did she sing a duet with him? Ok, the iconic 74-year-old Jewish singer didn’t perform with the real Donald — she actually sang with Jimmy Fallon, who pulls off a mean Trump impersonation, on “The Tonight Show” Thursday night. “It’s […]
By JTA Jewish actress/comedian Roseanne Barr repeatedly slammed Hillary Clinton on Twitter, saying Clinton “will be the absolute death of Israel.” Barr posted numerous inflammatory remarks, videos and articles about the Democratic presidential nominee this week, including one that refers to her as “Hitlery Clinton” and another that labels her “anti-Semitic Hillary.” On Friday alone, Barr […]
A Pennsylvania Jewish woman woke up one morning to find that her bins had been tagged with a swastika; she decided to turn the hateful message into a message of love by turning the offending image into a flower; neighbours painted the word “unity” on their bins up and down the block. HAVERTOWN — A Jewish […]
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Over 2,000 documents released containing the US government’s intelligence analysis on key national security issues during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The day before the Yom Kippur War broke out on October 6, 1973, US intelligence assessments reported large-scale military exercises in Egypt, but that “they do not […]
Meet Lior Suchard, the mentalist who just wrapped a month of halftime performances on Babs’s concert tour BOSTON — Yes, he made use of his mind-reading abilities while serving in the Israel Defense Forces. And no, he cannot tell you about it — not at all. As a mentalist, 34-year-old Lior Suchard travels the world […]
By Josefin Dolsten – JTA Three Jewish stars graced Forbes’ 2016 ranking of highest-paid actors and actresses — but the list also revealed the disparity in how much male and female stars are paid. While Adam Sandler was only ranked as the 12th highest-paid among male actors, with a $30 million annual salary, he earned almost three times […]
By Guy Cohen – Arutz Sheva Three Syrian-Jewish families, including seven children, spirited out of war-torn country and resettled in Jewish community in Louisville. Three of the last Jewish families in Syria have been resettled in the United States after posing as Christians to enter Sweden earlier this year, Point of No Return has reported. The Jewish […]
