Pondering the state of American Jewry
He may have targeted black Americans, but gunman Payton Gendron, who murdered 10 and injured three others in a Buffalo supermarket, is an antisemite. The shooter’s 180-page long manifesto outlines his ideology and calls blacks and members of other ethnic groups “subhuman.” Jews were singled out by the gunman for special treatment. “I’m advocating for …
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett recently released a statement claiming that Putin had apologized for repugnant statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about Jews, Hitler, and the Holocaust, during a phone call that took place on Israel’s Holocaust Day. The Russian summary of the phone call, however, mentioned no such apology. That has led …
Liel Leibovitz at the Daily Scroll, commenting on the recent endorsement of BDS by Harvard’s student-run newspaper, The Crimson, opines that Jews arguing the opposite viewpoint are wasting their time. Leibovitz says: “Stop it. Just stop it. Stop pretending like any of this is real. It’s not: What we’re seeing here isn’t a conscientious decision …
The recent decision in favor of a BDS-inspired call at Princeton University to boycott the Caterpillar Inc. construction company has successfully been appealed. In the run-up to the referendum on the motion, Jewish students were assured that abstentions would not be counted as non-votes, when in fact, they were, the only reason the vote passed. …
Kosher consumers are confronting a chicken shortage, just in time for Pesach. So dire is the shortage that Facebook groups have sprung up to alert followers when a store restocks its shelves. In the stores themselves, customers police other shoppers’ carts, if it looks like someone is guilty of stockpiling, leaving that much fewer chicken …
The State Department is being asked to disclose the names of those responsible for approving $1m in grant money along with the names of those who applied for it. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request comes from the America First Legal Foundation (AFLF), a watchdog group that investigates government wrongdoing. Biden’s administration is now …
The Sierra Club, national environmental nonprofit, has canceled scheduled trips to Israel after pressure from progressives and anti-Zionist groups. BDS activists threatened the organization, stating that it was “greenwashing the conflict” and “providing legitimacy to the Israeli state, which is engaged in apartheid against the Palestinian people,” this according to an email from a volunteer …
The Palestinian Authority is reluctant to go along with the opinion of most of the world, in regard to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that Putin is a homicidal maniac. The most likely explanation is that Abbas doesn’t want to lose Putin’s support. Note, for example, the President Putin Palestinian Organization for Culture and Economy, …
Americans can’t help but be touched by the plight of the underdog Ukraine, a sovereign nation under attack by Russia. We watch, seemingly helpless as Ukrainians, either stay and fight and die, or flee their native land in droves. But aside from our empathy for a small nation under attack by a big Soviet-style bear, …
Were you hoping to be in Jerusalem for Passover this year? If so, you’re in luck. The Omicron wave is winding down in Israel, and it’s been decided that tourists are welcome to enter the country beginning March 1, no matter their vaccination status. You still have to have a negative PCR test before you …