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Boston protestors call on community relations group to retract criticism of Black Lives Matter platform (JTA)—A group of activists demanded the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council retract its recent statement criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement’s platform. According to a statement from the Jewish anti-occupation group IfNotNow, some 50 people gathered at the council’s Boston offices on Monday to express their support for Black Lives Matter. “We refuse to follow leaders that force us to choose between Jewish community and one of...
NEW YORK (JTA)—It’s never been easy for Jewish Republicans. Jews have broken overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates since Woodrow Wilson. Despite rising American Jewish affluence, usually a harbinger of conservative voting patterns, a plurality self-defines as liberal. Republican Jews have poured millions into upping their share of the Jewish vote in recent elections, portraying the GOP as the pro-Israel party and telling largely affluent Jewish Americans to vote their economic self-interest. The needle has only moved a little, despite tho...
“In each and every generation they rise up against us to destroy us,” Israeli MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid) reminded a packed Knesset hall last month during the premier joint meeting of the Knesset Caucus to Fight Delegitimization of Israel and the Christian Allies Caucus. The focus of the event: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), and how Jewish and Christian supporters of Israel can work together to quash the economic warfare movement against Israel. “MK Lavie did not complete the quote from the haggadah,” Josh Reinstein, director of the...
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)-When the 2016 Olympic Games opened on Friday, Aug. 5, the eyes of the world were on Rio-the first South American city to host the quadrennial event. True, the build-up to the massive event-which featured a record number of countries competing in a record number of sports-hasn't been easy, with reports of unfinished venues, polluted swimming and sailing sites and, most of all, concerns about the spread of Zika. The run of bad news has put a damper on what should have been a...
