Blog Profile / Jewish Current Issues
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| Archived Since: | September 18, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
New State Department Report Documents a Continued Global Increase in Anti-Semitism
The State Department has released the 2012 International Religious Freedom Report. In the Executive Summary, a section entitled “A Continued Rise in Anti-Semitism” summarizes a global increase documented in the report. The summary reads in part as follows: Of great...
Irv White's Great New Novel
Irving S. White has just published his first novel, MOSAIC -- the story of a young screenwriter, Sam Greener, on an odyssey from Hollywood to Manhattan to Israel, as he follows a famous author seeking the movie rights to his...
Benjamin Netanyahu at the Memorial Service for IDF Fallen Soldiers Today
[Translated from Hebrew] Dear bereaved families and distinguished guests, As the week of remembrance, revival and independence begins, we bow our heads and lower our flag in memory of 23,085 soldiers who fell in Israel’s military campaigns. Jews, Druze, Christians,...
Shabbat Shalom – Am Yisrael Chai
The Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC) in countries of the former Soviet Union posted a series of pictures showing a group of 12 year old girls from the Jewish community of Odessa celebrating their Bat Mitzvahs. Above is the picture...
The Lincoln Bedroom is Back!
MOHEAK RADIO & THE SATELLITE PRESENTS: LAxLA THE LINCOLN BEDROOM | WED 3/13 @ 9:00PM | During the week of SXSW, Los Angeles is putting on its 2nd annual festival version of South by, appropriately called LAxLA, for those who...
10th Annual Interfaith Concert – “Esah Enai” (Psalm 121) by Michael Isaacson
The Tenth Annual Interfaith Symposium took place today at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church, with a concert entitled "The Psalms: In the Past, In Our Lives," conducted by the extraordinary Nick Strimple, Director of Music at the church, member of...
Excerpt from the Best Speech at AIPAC
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, speaking on March 5, 2013 to the final plenary session of the 2013 AIPAC Policy Conference: You know, clearly the Holocaust was the most sinister possible reminder...
The Gatekeepers Does Not Deserve an Oscar
Have you seen these guys? Well, you have if you've seen "The Gatekeepers," the new documentary that bills itself as showing the "first ever" interviews with the ex-heads of Israel's Shin Bet secret service. Except the above picture is from...
Zionism and Courage
At Boker tov, Boulder!, Yael has put up an insightful quotation (her own) about Zionism: “What is Zionism if not the opposite of cowardice? And what are we without Zionism, but homeless … no matter where we happen to live.”...
Jews and History
Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor, addressing the UN Security Council on October 15, 2012, on the Palestinian denial of history regarding Jerusalem: The truth is plain and simple. Jerusalem had a Jewish character long before most cities in the world...
Against the Nothingness of Non-Distinction
American Thinker has published a moving and powerful piece entitled “Against Nothingness,” by the indispensable Anne Lieberman (author of “Two Jews” and “Six Days Remembered”). Here is how it starts: In Jewish tradition, rabbis try to discourage those who seek...
Too Many Candles
This short video of the Yeshiva Boys Choir singing “Daddy Come Home,” will make you cry: The song and the candles remind me of the remarks that Joel M. Geiderman, Vice Chairman of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council, made...
Unappeased at a Possum's Death
Published in this week’s Jewish Journal, Gerald Stern’s poem, “Behaving Like a Jew”: When I got there the dead opossum looked like an enormous baby sleeping on the road. It took me only a few seconds—just seeing him there—with the.....
The Most Important Question in the World
Rabbi David Wolpe’s Rosh Hashanah sermon this week was entitled “The Most Important Question in the World Today” -- a sermon he said every rabbi in America should be giving -- in which he announced that this year he is...
Special Presentation – Jabotinsky, Begin, Netanyahu – The Evolution of the Israeli Right
Thursday, August 23, 2012 7:00 p.m. Luxe Hotel Sunset 11461 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049 CJHS is proud to present an evening devoted to exploring the historical roots of the Israeli right, from Vladimir Jabotinsky to Menachem Begin to...
The Recurring Voices of Jewish History
At the Washington Post, Rabbi David Wolpe writes that it is a mistake to treat Ahmadinejad’s latest labeling of Israel as a “cancer” as mere rhetoric, because the logical result of designating something as a “cancer” is to irradiate it,...
Great Writing and Bad Writing
A letter to the editor in the August 18 Wall Street Journal, commenting on an article about Winston Churchill’s speaking skills, recalled a class the author had taken long ago on the art of writing: The teacher had a formula...
A Sampler from Jewish Ideas Daily
Jewish Ideas Daily is the premier aggregator and originator of Jewish ideas on the web, with a feature article every day and five or so other important articles of Jewish interest from around the Internet. Here are a few from...
Caroline Glick on Israel and the U.S. Election
Last week Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors presented Caroline Glick, speaking on “Israel on the Eve of U.S. Elections.” You can watch the video here -- and it is worth watching just to see the sustained standing ovation she go...
Daniel Silva at Sinai -- Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Daniel Silva, author of The Fallen Angel, the latest novel featuring Gabriel Allon, art restorer and retired Israeli spy, will be at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. for a conversation about the novel with Rabbi Davi...