A call to GA participants First, permit me to open this column by expressing my distress that for the first time, the Jewish Federations of North American are holding their General Assembly in Tel Aviv rather than Jerusalem. I doubt this was a coincidence. Israelis are...
The Kavanaugh imbroglio and Jews Although I am not American, I must confess that I was glued to the screen watching the Kavanaugh hearings in the U.S. Senate. With the hindsight of time, I will attempt to provide a retrospective analysis, including the role of Jews. Let me first...
The devastating impact of American non-Jewish Jews There is no disputing that, except for the vast majority of Orthodox Jews, American Jews and their leaders have distanced themselves from their Jewish identity. In most cases this reflects an indifference to global Jewish issues, and often, a...
UK Jews: Unity at any price The list of 50 Most Influential Jews published by The Jerusalem Post included Marie van der Zyl, the recently elected president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Van der Zyl is a feisty, committed Zionist and has followed in the path of her...
Lauder loses the plot Ronald Lauder is a billionaire and respected art collector who became passionately committed to Jewish life when, as U.S. ambassador to Austria, he witnessed virulent anti-Semitism. I have known him for over 20 years and was involved in no small...
Interview on PJTN Channel I am sharing with you a link to program that was first aired last week on PJTN a Christian TV Channel. It deals at the outset with my award of Honorary Doctorate by Bar Ilan university. The subsequent interview and the topics discussed remain...
The Perils facing Anglo Jewry Over 10 years ago, I warned that the passivity of the Anglo-Jewish leadership would likely lead to disastrous political consequences and negatively impact the younger generation, which was being inadequately educated to face its challenges. I...
The disintegration of American Jewry American Jewry, apart from the Orthodox and a minority of committed non-Orthodox, is demographically imploding. Paradoxically, this is taking place at a time when support for Israel among the American people is at an all-time high and traditional...
AIPAC leadership losing the plot The American Jewish leadership’s downward spiral has accelerated. This can be traced back to its cowardly silence when then-President Barack Obama began treating Israel as a rogue state and applied moral equivalence to Israelis defending...
Aliyah from Western countries The founders of modern Israel originated from contrasting ideological movements. Since their dispersion into exile, Jews who for centuries endured Christian and Muslim persecution, maintained spiritual (and in a few cases physical) links with their...
