Opinion

Biden’s ‘Complicity’ With Pro-Palestinian Rhetoric

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “Silence is complicity.” By his own standards, President Biden undermined his expansive project to confront antisemitism in America that he introduced last Wednesday, and 15 days before that he ignored an opportunity to directly take on an act that threatens the Jewish community. U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, […]

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Multiple Nakbas Imposed Upon American Jews

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Nakba Day resolution opens with a brazen lie: “…the Nakba is the root cause of the issues that continue to divide Israel and the Palestinian people today.” The Democratic congresswoman’s resolution for May 15 calls for commemorating the 75th anniversary of “Israel’s uprooting, dispossession, and exile

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

County’s Recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month Fights Hate Before it Starts

By Marsha Sutton Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — At its May 10 board meeting, the San Diego County Office of Education adopted a resolution proclaiming May 2023 as Jewish American Heritage Month, and offered ways for school communities to observe JAHM. This is not the first time SDCOE has passed this resolution, which

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Opinion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Those Pesky Antisemitic Thugs: How Low Can They Go?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Two antisemitic thugs in London and Boca Raton, Fla., picked on Jewish targets their own size to badger, as disgusting as these attacks are. However, two of their confederates chose Jewish schoolchildren outside a religious school in north London to blare a Hezbollah battle song from their car. “We

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Bruce Ticker, International, Opinion, USA

The Rosenwald Schools in Palm Beach County: Keeping Open the Door of Freedom

By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Every Julius Rosenwald marker has a backstory. The Rosenwald marker story in Boynton Beach had a shocking twist. The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP) recently donated and dedicated with its partners, the Boynton Beach Historical Society and the Boynton Beach Historic Resources Preservation Board, its newest

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Netanyahu Remains Elusive

By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — The longest serving leader in Israel’s history. A senior minister, leader of the opposition, or prime minister since 1996. Currently with a tiny Knesset majority of four seats. Last weekend’s poll shows a tie between the government and the opposition, which is an improvement over earlier polls. Benny Gantz

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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion

Who Would Vote to Block a Measure to End Antisemitism?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Once upon a time in America, Israel’s existence was held in as much high esteem as motherhood and apple pie. Even today, what reasonable person here would not want to stamp out antisemitism? In Washington, 19 members of the House of Representatives last Wednesday voted against a resolution to

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA

Hinei Ma Tov

By Doron Krakow The setting was an estate on Long Island—a one-time family home now an elegant retreat center about an hour from midtown Manhattan. The topic was talent and the professional pipeline of the organized Jewish community, and along the way I found myself in a meeting with the heads of the major denominations

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Doron Krakow, Lifestyles, Opinion, USA

Long-Overdue Recognition for British-Jewish War Hero Jack Nissenthall

By Jerry Klinger The BBC called Jack Nissenthall “The VC (Victoria Cross) Hero Who Never Was.” Eighty years on from the 1942 British raid on Nazi coastal facilities and radar installations in Dieppe, Nissenthall’s extraordinary, courageous actions remain hidden by the British Secrecy Acts. What he did, what he learned, what he saw, remain British

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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion