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Op-Ed: Kick the reaction addiction on campus
Some in the pro-Israel community react to every anti-Israel infraction on campus, but the real work in supporting Israel isn't reactive at all but targets the influencers with a positive, pro-Israel message, writes the head of The David Project. Read more »
Op-Ed: Ultranationalists have no place in Russian protest movement
Jewish organizations, sensitive to the fragility of a newly emergent Russian civil society and Jewish community, need to speak out against the inclusion of ultranationalists in the Russian protest movement, writes the executive director of NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia. Read more »
Op-Ed: Israel must criminalize the purchase of sexual services
A measure heading for Knesset consideration that places criminal responsibility on those who purchase sexual services would allow Israel to concretely join the ranks of those nations working tirelessly toward a world free of modern slavery, writes the director of the Task Force on Human Trafficking. Read more »
Op-Ed: Colleges playing catch-up on Israel
Universities are building new academic bridges to Israel in an effort to catch up with their students' already connected imaginations and passions, writes the president and CEO of Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Read more »
Op-Ed: Haredi leaders must speak out against zealots
The founder of the ZAKA Rescue and Recovery Organization equates the violence of some haredi Orthodox Jews against innocents to terrorism and calls upon leaders -- in the community and elsewhere -- to make their voices heard in deploring their actions. Read more »
Op-Ed: A Palestinian mufti and the U.S. election, then and now
With remarks by a Jerusalem mufti echoing a controversy from the World War II era, the co-author of an upcoming book about Herbert Hoover and the Jewish vote says all sides would do well to keep in mind what 1948 says about the potential electoral impact of Middle East politics. Read more »
Op-Ed: On Arab anti-Semitism, from indifference to complicity
International governments and companies are indifferent to -- indeed, complicit in -- vile and incendiary Arab anti-Semitism, writes a B'nai B'rith official, citing as a major example the abundant output of Jordan-based Palestinian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj. Read more »
Op-Ed: A universal message for Holocaust Remembrance Day
Without ever disregarding the uniqueness of the Shoah, the Jewish people cannot remain silent when tragedies threaten other people and when other population groups are in distress, writes the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany as International Holocaust Remembrance Day nears. Read more »
Op-Ed: Unity is vital for harmony in Beit Shemesh, all of Israel
With the friction in Beit Shemesh between some haredi Orthodox and others, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington -- a community that has been partners with Beit Shemesh for many years -- tells of "the other Beit Shemesh" and the need for Jewish unity to create a more harmonious city and Israel. Read more »
Op-Ed: Exploiting the memory of child Holocaust victims is obscene
The recent spectacle of haredi Orthodox Jewish boys wearing yellow stars of David and simulated striped black-and-white concentration camp uniforms at a demonstration in Jerusalem was reprehensible, writes vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, who lost his 5-year-old brother, among others, in the Holocaust. Read more »
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