Bibi is wrong about HBO's 'Our Boys'
Bibi got it wrong. "Our Boys" shows Israel in all its rich complexity.
Why Trump's tweets on Omar and Tlaib go to the heart of American Jewish politics
(The Conversation) — The president’s recent tweets have capitalized on a tension embedded within two paradigms of the place of Israel in American Jewish life.
American Jews are loyal to the vision of America
Politically speaking, this has been the most dangerous week in American Jewish history.
Trump: Any Jew voting Democratic is uninformed or disloyal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump's claim triggered an uproar from critics who said the president was trading in anti-Semitic stereotypes amid an ongoing feud with Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
Confessions of a disloyal Jew
(RNS) — On Tuesday, President Trump said, 'I think that any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.' Of the two, I have to choose disloyalty — and I'm proud of it.
Israel’s 'PR Masada' over Omar and Tlaib violates Zionism
(RNS) — We did not create Israel so that she could resemble a ghetto — physically, mentally and politically.
I’m a rabbi, and I understand Israel is not a democracy
(RNS) — I believe one day U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib will be able to visit her grandmother without forfeiting her commitment to justice to do so. That day is hastened when we see Israel for what it is: not a flawed democracy, but no democracy at all.
Israeli court fails to stop city concert that barred men and women sitting together
JERUSALEM (RNS) — An Israeli city wanted to ban men and women from sitting together at a publicly funded concert aimed at an ultra-Orthodox audience. Women's advocates said the concert violated anti-discrimination laws. Israel's high court agreed, but the ruling came too late to stop the concert.
Israel grants Tlaib West Bank visit on humanitarian grounds
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's interior minister said that Tlaib had requested and been granted permission to enter the West Bank to see relatives, including her 90-year-old grandmother.
Truck drives into line of Jewish demonstrators protesting ICE in Rhode Island
(RNS) — Organizers say roughly 400 people gathered for the protest and at least 30 participants formed a human barricade blocking the entrance to the Wyatt Detention Facility.
Israel will ban entry to outspoken US congresswomen, official says
JERUSALEM (AP) — The move comes shortly after President Trump tweeted that "it would show great weakness" if Israel allowed them in.
What was the legacy of Woodstock?
We thought that we had entered a new age. We were wrong -- but the music is still great.
'Red Sea Diving Resort' dramatizes Israel's daring rescue of Ethiopian Jews
(RNS) — A daredevil operation to rescue more than 8,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudanese refugee camps in the early 1980s has become a fast-paced Netflix drama that turns Chris Evans into a dashing Israeli hero.
America needs a holiday of self-reflection
Americans can learn from the Jews: turn inward, and ask hard questions.
Ravaged by age, shrunk by immigration, India's remaining Jews hang on
KOCHI, India (RNS) — The last Jew of childbearing age moved to Israel just months ago, leaving behind a small community of about two dozen elderly people beset daily by tourists.