Anti-police policies and antisemitism that fueled riots 30 years ago are on the rise again By Alana Goodman (WASHINGTON FREE BEACON / AUGUST 19, 2021) Thirty years ago, antisemitic mobs plundered the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn for three days, chanting Nazi slogans, destroying Jewish homes and businesses, and lynching a young Jewish seminary student. […]
Click Here to View as PDF Summary: The private (Jewish) owner of property brought eviction proceedings against Arab squatters and holdover tenants who failed to pay rent for decades. The current owner has a chain of title of voluntary purchases/sales that goes back to 1875, when two Jewish community trusts first bought the then-empty land. […]
By Melanie Phillips (AUGUST 12, 2021 / JNS) The latest move by President Joe Biden to appall many American Jews as an act of wanton hostility is his appointment of the progressive rabbi, Sharon Kleinbaum, to the U.S. commission on International Religious Freedom. Kleinbaum has been accused of repeatedly using her pulpit at New York’s Beit Simchat Torah—the […]
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) sent a letter yesterday to Kevin M. Guskiewicz, the Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), urging UNC to cancel a course this fall (titled “The Conflict over Israel/Palestine”) that will be taught by an instructor who denies Israel’s right to exist, says that boycotting […]
By Jonathan Tobin (AUGUST 9, 2021 / JNS) Americans woke up to a new reality last month when the Biden administration revealed that it was “flagging” social media posts that it wanted Facebook to censor. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the motive for this unprecedented move was to combat “misinformation” about COVID-19. But after a […]
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The ZOA opposes and expresses deep concerns about President Biden’s appointment of hostile-to-Israel Reconstructionist Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. In 1992, Kleinbaum became the spiritual leader of New York City’s LGBTQ synagogue, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST). Kleinbaum […]
By ZOA National President Morton A. Klein (AUGUST 4, 2021 / JNS) As a Temple University alumnus and an Israel-supporter, it’s deeply troubling that Temple and its leaders have not held its new presidential choice, Dr. Jason Wingard, accountable for chairing the anti-Israel, antisemitic Tides Foundation and serving on the Tides Center board, at the very […]
By Arutz Sheva Staff (AUGUST 3, 2021 / ARUTZ SHEVA) The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) took renewed aim at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, after the ADL announced a partnership with Hillel International, the Jewish college organization, to document antisemitism on American campuses. While such an effort is noble and worthwhile, the ADL, CJV pointed out, […]
Phillips: “Biggest Danger to Jews is Islamists & Leftists like Black Lives Matter” By Melanie Phillips (AUGUST 5, 2021 / JNS) U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice of Emory Professor Deborah Lipstadt as America’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism has not been greeted with the unqualified approval that might have been expected for such an appointment. Lipstadt […]
