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Protecting Jewish Americans From Hate
We strongly want to voice our support for this week’s House of Representatives resolution condemning anti-Semitism.
More so, we want to thank the House for expanding anti-Semitism’s definition to include “accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews
Thoughts on the Jewish Link’s Sixth Anniversary
I haven’t written in this space in a while, but the occasion of our paper’s sixth anniversary provided me with the inspiration to tell my editors to set aside a few lines in this week’s edition and to actually make good on my threat of writing. I am doing that now.
As with all
This Is Israel’s Election, Not Ours
Certainly it is news when two of the nation’s largest pro-Israel organizations, namely AIPAC and the AJC, come out strongly in agreement about almost any subject.
That the two advocacy organizations reacted to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s choice to urge the formation of a coalition
The Importance of Rep. Gottheimer’s Congressional Letter
We want to use this space to thank Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-5) and Virginia Rep. Elaine Luria (D-2) for penning the letter signed by 25 Democratic Caucus members to Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemning and rejecting the very notion of anti-Semitism by other House members.
Indeed, we don’t need a codebook of
Do You Know an Inspirational 60-Something? Contact Us!
The Jewish Link is excited to announce the start of a new monthly series: “Six Over Sixty.” We will be highlighting the lives and careers of 60-somethings who have made major career changes after the age of 60.
In today’s economy, many people are working well beyond “retirement age,” whether
The Jewish Link, Opinions and the ‘Muddled Middle’
We at The Jewish Link have long tried hard to be perceived as staying solidly in the “muddled middle” of our community on tricky issues involving halacha and mesorah. We often like to think that we represent the “mainstream” or “consensus” views in these areas, while recognizing that there may be those on the right and left who
Welcoming Elan Carr to His New Position
Pittsburgh.
A 57 percent increase in anti-Semitism.
Random acts of violence against Jews in cities and towns all over the nation.
The time could not be more urgent for the job Elan Carr was appointed to do.
RCBC Draws ‘Boundary Line’ on Women Rabbis
The Jewish community is certainly not immune to the winds of change blowing through contemporary society. A Teaneck synagogue, Congregation Netivot Shalom, has twice hired a woman seeking semicha at Yeshivat Maharat as a rabbinic intern. The shul is ably and sensitively led by the much beloved Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, a department chair at SAR High School and a
DMI Is Arriving on the Scene Just in Time
In December of 2016, then Secretary of State John Kerry unleashed an hour and a half of invective against Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state.
His screed came just months after his boss, President Barack Obama, pushed through, against Israel’s protests, the Iran Nuclear Deal, even though
Supporting Gottheimer’s Golan Resolution
New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer got it so on point recently when he introduced a resolution urging the United States to formally recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
There is no more vital time than now for the Trump Administration to validate the New Jersey Congressman’s
Democrats Were Right to Pull Away From Women’s March
Louis Farrakhan.
A man who would compare Jews to “termites” and refer to Hitler as a “great man” and Judaism as a “gutter religion.”
How much connection to the Women’s March does anyone need from Louis Farrakhan to viscerally understand that this is a
Gov. Murphy, Thank You For Making Us Safer!
With his signature, Gov. Phil Murphy, before the over 300 assembled at YBH of Passaic on Tuesday, dramatically improved the safety of the state’s Jewish schools and those of other faiths.
The governor signed into law legislation that doubles the security allocation for the state’s nonpublic schools.
