“We’ll show up strong, with pride and solidarity, and keep the focus on peaceful support,” Yehuda Sichel, who owns Huda in downtown Philadelphia, told JNS.
With nearly two-thirds of the votes counted, Nithya Raman, a democratic socialist on the Los Angeles City Council, holds a narrow lead over Mayor Karen Bass.
Francesca Albanese, a U.N. special rapporteur, is “passing that off as if it were the legitimate standard that countries, including Israel, should recognize,” Brian Cox, a former U.S. Army military lawyer, told JNS.
“Excluding states that may not be ‘commonly seen as democracies’ risks shutting IHRA out of the very places where its mission is most in demand,” the U.S. envoy on Jew-hatred wrote.
The New York City mayor said “New Yorkers stand with” dockworkers in 22 countries protesting arms shipments to conflict zones, though no New York ports joined the strikes.
Netanyahu’s Likud remains Israel’s largest party, the opposition lacks a clear path to power, and an enlarged Arab bloc complicates coalition arithmetic. With Trump backing Netanyahu and Iran still on the agenda, another election could carry high strategic costs.
The country’s next government will depend on whether its political leaders can reconcile their competing commitments, or whether voters will again be asked to resolve a deadlock that negotiations could not.
The rout of the GOP by a party now dominated by “progressive” and antisemitic foes of the Jewish state will impact the alliance as well as American Jewish life for the worse.
The growing influence of Muslim and progressive candidates hostile to Israel raises questions about antisemitism and the values underpinning Western democracy.
“If the case is successful, if we’re able to come to a successful resolution of this matter, that will be what you might call the soil out of which CCJ will grow,” Rabbi Gary Zola, founding president of the College for Contemporary Judaism, told JNS.
“They want to make sure that nobody else dares to put principle ahead of party,” Alyza Lewin, of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS. “That’s why I think they’re being particularly nasty.”
“We Iranians have no better friends in this world than the Jewish people and will always unapologetically stand with them,” Fred Saberi, an Iranian activist in Sweden, told JNS.
“If the case is successful, if we’re able to come to a successful resolution of this matter, that will be what you might call the soil out of which CCJ will grow,” Rabbi Gary Zola, founding president of the College for Contemporary Judaism, told JNS.
“We’ll show up strong, with pride and solidarity, and keep the focus on peaceful support,” Yehuda Sichel, who owns Huda in downtown Philadelphia, told JNS.
With nearly two-thirds of the votes counted, Nithya Raman, a democratic socialist on the Los Angeles City Council, holds a narrow lead over Mayor Karen Bass.
Francesca Albanese, a U.N. special rapporteur, is “passing that off as if it were the legitimate standard that countries, including Israel, should recognize,” Brian Cox, a former U.S. Army military lawyer, told JNS.
“Excluding states that may not be ‘commonly seen as democracies’ risks shutting IHRA out of the very places where its mission is most in demand,” the U.S. envoy on Jew-hatred wrote.
The New York City mayor said “New Yorkers stand with” dockworkers in 22 countries protesting arms shipments to conflict zones, though no New York ports joined the strikes.
Netanyahu’s Likud remains Israel’s largest party, the opposition lacks a clear path to power, and an enlarged Arab bloc complicates coalition arithmetic. With Trump backing Netanyahu and Iran still on the agenda, another election could carry high strategic costs.
The country’s next government will depend on whether its political leaders can reconcile their competing commitments, or whether voters will again be asked to resolve a deadlock that negotiations could not.
The rout of the GOP by a party now dominated by “progressive” and antisemitic foes of the Jewish state will impact the alliance as well as American Jewish life for the worse.
The growing influence of Muslim and progressive candidates hostile to Israel raises questions about antisemitism and the values underpinning Western democracy.
“If the case is successful, if we’re able to come to a successful resolution of this matter, that will be what you might call the soil out of which CCJ will grow,” Rabbi Gary Zola, founding president of the College for Contemporary Judaism, told JNS.
“They want to make sure that nobody else dares to put principle ahead of party,” Alyza Lewin, of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS. “That’s why I think they’re being particularly nasty.”
“We Iranians have no better friends in this world than the Jewish people and will always unapologetically stand with them,” Fred Saberi, an Iranian activist in Sweden, told JNS.
“If the case is successful, if we’re able to come to a successful resolution of this matter, that will be what you might call the soil out of which CCJ will grow,” Rabbi Gary Zola, founding president of the College for Contemporary Judaism, told JNS.
In a special piece, the editors-in-chief of “Israel Hayom” and “L’observateur du Maroc et d’Afrique” call on Israel and Morocco to join forces to fight extremism.
Even amid a pandemic, we can rejoice at the first open, warm peace between Israel and Arab countries—and ignore the cynics seeking to downplay its importance.
COVID-19 will be with us for a while and seems to be bringing out the worst in us. Defeating the virus requires unity. There is no room for incitement or for flouting health directives.
While I welcome the court’s unanimous 11-0 ruling on the petitions against Benjamin Netanyahu and the coalition deal, it was the result of a game that should never have been played in the first place.
Israel has so far been handling the coronavirus pandemic well, but this is an ongoing, global crisis, unprecedented in scope, and grades are given at the end.
The anti-Netanyahu camp is ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater, like Rep. Rashida Tlaib did when she spurned the premier’s offer of a non-political visit to her ailing grandmother.
This Purim is hardly festive, but we need to see the glass as half-full, as Israelis are once again show their solidarity, social cohesion, friendship and responsibility, as individuals and as a society.