The latest news from the New York Jewish Week.
Although Israelis clearly recognize the friction between the current right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and diaspora Jewry, a recent poll found that fully one-third would “trust” him to “best run the relationship with the American Jewish community” in the next government, handily beating all of the other major candidates running in the […]
On March 3, 2019, a photo of students from Newport Harbor High School and Costa Mesa High School in Orange County, Calif. went viral online. The students were at a party, standing around cups arranged in the shape of a swastika and flashing the Sieg Heil – the Nazi salute. Jewish students all over Southern […]
WASHINGTON — The Democratic leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives is working on a new resolution condemning anti-Semitism in the wake of controversial remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who has said that domestic support for Israel amounts to “allegiance to a foreign country.” A source confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the […]