✡ We Stand With the People of Israel ✡
By Grace Gilson (JTA) — Antisemitic incidents in the United States increased once again in 2024, the Anti-Defamation League reported, reaching a new all-time high and providing the latest indicator of a continued surge in antisemitism following Oct. 7, 2023. … Read More
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA) — Voting opened Monday (March 10, 2025) in an election that gives American Jews a rare chance to directly shape Israel’s future. The U.S. election for seats in the 39th World Zionist Congress will help determine … Read More
By Andrew Lapin (JTA) — Pro-Palestinian encampment protesters at dozens of universities have called for their administrations to divest from Israel. But on two campuses, activists are asking their schools to split from organizations closer to home that they say … Read More
By Sara Klein Wagner A week before the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, Howard and I visited the Milwaukee Art Museum. I could not pull myself away from Marc Chagall’s painting “The Horseman,” as its bright reds and oranges drew … Read More
Human Resources Lee Chottiner Every year, there are fewer Jews who recall a time when there was no State of Israel. Fewer who recall the Holocaust, the decimation of European Jewry and attempts by survivors to enter (often illegally) British … Read More
Two recent stories in the news have reignited debate on what it means to be pro-Israel. The first concerns Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat running for the U.S. House in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. About 25 years ago, she co-authored a … Read More
As Richard D. Heideman takes the reins of one of largest Zionist organizations in North America, one crisis keeps him concerned. “The attitudes of too many people against Israel – against the Jewish people and against Zionists – is worse … Read More
Presbyterian Committee distributes Anti-Semitic Study Guide Every two years, the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) has their biennial convention, and this summer it is in Detroit. Also every two years (since 2004), PCUSA considers resolutions meant to demonize the State of Israel, … Read More