In 1948, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, and other Jewish notables published an open letter accusing future Prime Minister Menachem Begin of heading up a political movement “closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to the Nazi and..…
The future of American Jewry's relationship to Israel is an open question. . ... For decades, especially since the 1960s, there have been a lot of grassroots progressive Jewish movements in America that combine radical politics and radical spirituality, to differing degrees. . ..…
We want to open up conversation, one in which the ways that anti-Semitism affects both Jewish lives and other communities gets proper weight, and also that will help people to distinguish between anti-Semitism and legitimate critique of Israel.. ..…
Both groups also were asked about what being Jewish means to them in a different way, with an open-ended question that allowed them to give any answer. ... Most American Jews, by contrast, did not name an additional essential element of Jewish identity in the open-ended..…
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Aryeh Deri, rabbi who marshaled ultra- Orthodox Jews of Arabic and North African into political force, was convicted in bribery scandal that has plagued him for nine years.. ..…
Gallup surveys have asked about religious identity in a variety of ways over the years, with its recent surveys asking “What is your religious preference – Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, another religion, or no religion?” The Post-ABC trends are based on an open-ended religion..…
Imperial War Museum, London A British officer and troops outside of King David Hotel, Jerusalem, July 1946 In the early morning hours of July 31 this summer masked men torched two houses in West Bank of Duma. ..…
Since Oslo, Palestinians have been enclosed in what are often referred to as 'open air prisons' bounded by security walls and off-limits bypass roads to serve the Jewish citizens of settlements in the occupied territories. ..…
The starvation of Leningrad was the most notorious example of Nazis policy of killing by hunger. ..…
“The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people – the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe – was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the..…
Is Ramadan the Islamic holy month, the Hindu festival of lights or a Jewish day of atonement? ... (Open-ended) . Which religion aims at nirvana, the state of being free from suffering? ..…
They had imbibed some of the defining values of American Jewish political culture: a belief in open debate, a skepticism about military force, a commitment to human rights. ..…
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