Israel
Why Trump’s tweets on Omar and Tlaib go to the heart of American Jewish politics
By Noam Pianko — August 26, 2019
(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
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 23, 2019
Politically speaking, this has been the most dangerous week in American Jewish history.
Trump: Any Jew voting Democratic is uninformed or disloyal
By Jonathan Lemire — August 21, 2019
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
By Mark Silk — August 21, 2019
(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
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 17, 2019
(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
By Alissa Wise — August 16, 2019
(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
By Bob Smietana — August 16, 2019
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
By Isaac Scharf — August 16, 2019
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.
Israel will ban entry to outspoken US congresswomen, official says
By Ilan Ben Zion — August 15, 2019
JERUSALEM (AP) — The move comes shortly after President Trump tweeted that "it would show great weakness" if Israel allowed them in.
‘Red Sea Diving Resort’ dramatizes Israel’s daring rescue of Ethiopian Jews
By Josh Shepherd — August 9, 2019
(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.
Ravaged by age, shrunk by immigration, India’s remaining Jews hang on
By Briana Trujillo — August 7, 2019
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.
How some Jews are deluding themselves about Trump and the “squad”
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 23, 2019
American Jews — let’s not get played. By anyone.
Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo address Christian pro-Israel summit
By Jack Jenkins — July 8, 2019
(RNS) — Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both addressed the annual summit of Christians United for Israel, a conservative Christian organization led by the Rev. John Hagee, which claims more than 6 million members.
The anti-Semitic theology behind the Christian Zionist lobby
By Lynn Gottlieb — July 8, 2019
(RNS) — Christians United for Israel says it supports a Jewish state, but it considers Jews useful only insofar as they trigger the end of days.
An afternoon of Israel hatred
By Jeffrey Salkin — July 1, 2019
I went to a JVP event so you won't have to. This is bad stuff.
