Published by Algemeiner October 5, 2014 10:16 PM Last month, in a primetime national address, President Obama laid out his four-pronged strategy to “degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS.” The U.S. military has already begun to carry out the President’s directive; airstrikes against ISIS positions in Iraq have increased and we can likely expect a prolonged […]

First Publish: 10/1/2014, 11:00 PM By Cynthia Blank A group of fourteen diverse organizations have banded together to deliver a letter to more than 2,500 US colleges and universities urging such institutions to protect Jewish students on campus in lieu of rising anti-Semitism across the globe.  The organizations include: Alpha Epsilon Pi, AMCHA Initiative, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Americans for […]

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 — The cool elegance of the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night, precursor to a controversial season featuring John Adams’ “The Death of Klinghoffer,” was countered this week by a heated Jewish protest outside Lincoln Center.               An estimated crowd of 1,500 to 2,000, according to the protest’s organizers, were effusive in their […]

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 — Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will be the keynote speaker at the annual dinner of the Zionist Organization of America in late November, giving him an audience of some of the nation’s most influential Jewish leaders, including casino magnate and political financier Sheldon Adelson. “We’re inviting him because he’s one […]

September 20, 2014  8:24 PM by JP Newsroom A coalition of organizations will protest at Lincoln Center on Monday evening, Sept. 22, at 4:30 PM, across the street from the Lincoln Center Plaza at Broadway & 65th Street to protest the Metropolitan Opera House’s decision to air the “The Death of Klinghoffer.” Thousands are expected to gather […]

Confusion Over Ted Cruz Invitation to Opera Protest Middle East Politics On the Upper West Side   Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Update: This story has been updated to include Cruz’s spokesperson’s comment that Cruz will not be attending the protest after all. Sept. 16, 2014, at 8:42 p.m.  WASHINGTON – Senator Ted Cruz will join a protest outside Lincoln […]

Gary Rosenblatt is mistaken to refer to the Israeli designation of 988 acres of land in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem as a “grab,” nor does this drive “another nail into the fading prospect of a peace deal with the Palestinians” (“Israel’s West Bank Grab, More Than Bad Timing,” Sep. 12). Since the days […]

Members of the Knesset Interior Committee on Thursday will conduct a special tour of the Mount of Olives in order to examine up close the security arrangements there. The tour comes after hundreds of complaints by Jewish visitors to the huge cemetery located on the Mount of rock-throwing attacks by Arabs, and vandalism of the graves of loved […]

Anti-Semitism is a unique hatred. Throughout history, the Jews have dealt with adversaries not interested in territorial or economic gain, but genocide. This hatred manifests itself in irrationality and the absence of self-interest. Take the Nazis, for example. Why did Hitler try to annihilate the Jews during WWII? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to […]