The Russian-Jewish oligarchs who founded the Genesis Prize with their plundered wealth, scored an own goal this week. The 2018 recipient of the award, film actress Natalie Portman, essentially turned it down by announcing that she would not travel to Israel at this time due to her "distress" at the IDF murders along the Gaza "border." In the latest … [Read more...]
Netanyahu Expects Demise of Non-Orthodox Jewry in Two Generations
#BREAKING Prime minister #Netanyahu says behind closed doors that non Orthodox #Jewish communities to disappear within a generation or two. Ariel Kahana's story in todays Makor Rishon pic.twitter.com/yqQE3HzV8n — Zvika Klein (@ZvikaKlein) December 1, 2017 Here is news everyone knew in their hearts, but Netanyahu was too chicken-shit to admit. In an … [Read more...]
Tzipi Hotovely: Campus Hillels are “Liberal Dictatorship,” and U.S. Jews Don’t Understand Israel Because Their Kids Don’t Fight in Afghanistan
In an Israeli TV interview, the hosts posed some tough questions to Tzipi Hotovely, Israel's deputy foreign minister. The background to the interview was that she'd been invited to speak at Princeton University Hillel last month. After Jewish students on campus protested her appearance as part of a Brand Israel propaganda campaign, the Hillel determined … [Read more...]
Avrum Burg’s Radical Diasporism
In spite of the dominance of Jewish life and identity by the concept of Zionism, for centuries prior to the last one, there was always a healthy tension between the concept of Zion and Diaspora. It is only in the past sixty years, since the creation of the State of Israel, that Zion has overwhelmed Diaspora in the life of world Jewry. It was not always so. … [Read more...]
