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  • US Birthright participants 160 percent more likely to marry Jews

    Susan R. Eisenstein|Dec 2, 2022

    (JNS) — U.S. Jews who participated in Birthright trips to Israel are more highly identified and engaged in communal life than their peers who did not, according to an analysis of the Pew Research Center’s 2020 survey of American Jews conducted by researchers at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. The profound disparity in attitudes and behavior also held true when the analysts took into account differences in the respondents’ backgrounds. Among the adults surveyed by Pew, nearly 45 percent had been eligible to pa...

  • StandWithUs opens office in South Africa

    Susan R. Eisenstein|Nov 25, 2022

    (JNS) - StandWithUs, an international organization that educates about Israel and combats antisemitism, has officially opened national operations in the country whose history forms the foundation of the "Israeli apartheid" slander. In South Africa, the continued rise in antisemitism, the challenge of fighting misinformation about Israel, and the call from Jewish and Christian Zionist communities for ongoing support from SWU have created the impetus for the organization to strengthen its presence...

  • StandWithUs opens office in South Africa

    Susan R. Eisenstein|Nov 18, 2022

    (JNS) - StandWithUs, an international organization that educates about Israel and combats antisemitism, has officially opened national operations in the country whose history forms the foundation of the "Israeli apartheid" slander. In South Africa, the continued rise in antisemitism, the challenge of fighting misinformation about Israel, and the call from Jewish and Christian Zionist communities for ongoing support from SWU have created the impetus for the organization to strengthen its presence...