Tag: Diaspora Jews
Pittsburgh Jewish Fed. Head Jeffrey Finkelstein to Carry Diaspora Torch on 71st Israeli Independence...
“Jeffrey Finkelstein will light the torch in honor of the shared fate and mission between Israel and Diaspora Jewish communities."
Inside Israel Today: Netanyahu vs Diaspora Jews? [audio]
Go behind the scenes into the conflict between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and progressive Jews from the Diaspora. What will the fate of egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall be? Hear more with Gil Hoffman on today's episode of Inside Israel Today.
Bah! AIPAC Shmay-Pac. Hear The REAL SOLUTIONS That Will Strengthen Israel – The Tamar...
People are meeting at the big AIPAC convention, spouting their solutions to strengthening Israel and bringing peace. But what is THE REAL ANSWER?
US Jews Step Up for Israeli Kids
Jewish communities from around the world have stepped up to support children from southern Israel who have lived their entire lives under the threat...
Reform, Assimilated Jews Want Voice in Israeli Affairs
Glossy new report worries that Israel losing support from Diaspora Jews; suggests abandoning Land of Israel to terrorists
Avigdor Lieberman Warns US Jews ‘You Are Facing a Catastrophe’
It is not an easy fact to swallow, but the real demographic problem for Jews is in the Diaspora and not in Israel.
Malkah on Her Way Back to Israel, Yishai on Driving in the US
On the eve of Malkah's return to Israel, she and Yishai bring us up to date on their tour in the US, Yishai talks about his music choices, and they discuss the differences between products and packaging in the US and Israel.
Yishai and Malkah: From Florida to New Jersey
Yishai and Malkah, continuing their road trip from Florida to New Jersey, discuss looking at Israeli politics through American eyes and keeping family connected across thousands of miles.
Draft Diaspora Jews into the IDF!
If we can’t forcibly draft Diaspora Jews, then it’s up to them to enlist on their own.
Jews Who Can’t Speak Hebrew
Did you have trouble reading the Hebrew? That’s exactly my point. Some readers say that I’m a crazy fanatic when I say that Diaspora Jews suffer from schizophrenia when it comes to their Jewish identity. For example, even though they are Jewish, many don’t know more than a few simple words in Hebrew. After all, Hebrew is the language of the Jewish People, not English, or German, or Russian, or Yiddish.
Judaism in a Jar
If the recent Sukkot overdose of Shabbat, followed by two days of Yom Tov, and another Shabbat followed by two more days of Yom Tov, isn’t enough to get Diaspora Jews to move to Israel, with its force-feeding of gefilta fish day-after-day, until gefilta fish jelly drips out of people’s noses and horseradish pours out of their ears, I don’t know what it’s going to take until Diaspora Jews are fed up with practicing Judaism in a jar.
Microscope Jews
I found some essays penned by Diaspora Jews who succumbed to the Sin of the Spies in their negative reports of the Holy Land. Oy.
Survey: Israelis Split over U.S. Role in Reaching Peace
The 2012 B'nai B'rith World Center Survey on Contemporary Israeli Attitudes Toward Diaspora Jewry also found that an overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews disagree with calls on American Jewry to "boycott the settlements," while thirteen percent support such a boycott. And 51 percent of respondents said that “encouraging Aliya” is the best government response to anti-Semitism.
Opposition Mounting To Proposed Israeli Conversion Bill
WASHINGTON - Opposition to a proposed Israeli conversion bill is mounting, from the U.S. Congress to the Israeli prime minister.