✡ We Stand With the People of Israel ✡
By Julia Gergel (New York Jewish Week) – (New York Jewish Week) – New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined fellow progressives Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar and Cori Bush in saying she will skip Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s address to Congress … Read More
Before he left for Israel, much of what Kendall Boyd knew about the country came from Jimmy Carter’s controversial book, Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid. “He brought to my attention a lot of how this conflict came about,” Boyd said of … Read More
Gov. Matt Bevin, this week, signed a bill that prohibits the commonwealth from doing business with significant contractors that engage in boycotts of the State of Israel. The signing, which took place Tuesday, Aug. 27, at the Capitol in Frankfort, … Read More
JCRC Scene Matt Goldberg As many people are aware, the Kentucky Legislature, in its last regular session, passed a bill that prohibits the commonwealth from engaging in significant business with contractors who choose to boycott any nation that does business … Read More
As Zionists and supporters of Israel, we follow what goes on there closer than your average person. We tend to hear sooner about important events making Israeli headlines. Our ears perk up when we hear Israel mentioned in the news. … Read More
Gov. Matt Bevin signed an anti-BDS executive order on November 15, making Kentucky the 26th state to prohibit state agencies from doing business, to some degree, with vendors who engage in a boycott of Israel. Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to … Read More
When Julie Weinberg-Connors, a bubbly, smiling 23-year-old Jewish woman from Boston, arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in September, she was first interrogated, then informed by an Israeli security agent that she would not be allowed to enter the country. Her … Read More
Imagine if we could … “see ourselves in a world in ways we have never seen before?” Lisa Eisen, vice president Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation. Why did this one specific slide from one presentation at the three day … Read More
The 2016 Annual Conference for the Jewish Council for Public Affairs took place in Cleveland, OH, May 14-17, and the dominant theme was uniting to confront the various challenges our Jewish communities face. The JCPA is the umbrella organization of … Read More
Throughout the year there are specific events that serve as the best reminders for why we support the Jewish community, locally, around the world and especially in Israel. One of those events occurred this past weekend, as the Jewish Community … Read More