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The concept of missile defense, long mocked by mainstream journalists, was a big winner in the recent combat between Israel... The anti-Israel extremists also falsely accused me of “elevating white supremacy” for appearing on Dr. Sebastian Gorka’s pro-Israel radio show to champion pro-Israel and pro-Jewish causes. Gorka was the victim of an outrageous far left-wing calumny in which he was falsely accused of fascist connections. Those charges have been conclusively debunked by both the ZOA...

Sanity prevails: Boston JCRC rejects anti-Israel groups’ campaign to remove ZOA from board Sanity prevails: Boston JCRC rejects anti-Israel groups’ campaign to remove ZOA from board Far-left groups falsely accused us of racism and more, when the goal of the organization is to protect the Jewish people. (May 7, 2021 / JNS) The Boston Jewish Community Relations Council rationally rejected an absurd petition filed by far-left anti-Israel groups like J Street, New Israel Fund and Workers Circ...

Will next anti-Semitism envoy address progressive push to sideline IHRA definition? Will next anti-Semitism envoy address progressive push to sideline IHRA definition? “Too often in Democrat and leftist circles, we witness a singular focus on white supremacy to the exclusion of radical leftist anti-Zionism and radical Islamist Jew-hatred,” said Ellie Cohanim, deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism during the Trump administration. (April 28, 2021 / JNS) With anti-Semitism o...

The verdict had hardly been announced Tuesday in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd before Jewish reactions began pouring in. Chauvin, a white man, kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes last May, leading to the Black man’s death and sparking a national reckoning about systemic racism in policing. On Tuesday, a jury found Chauvin guilty on two charges of murder and one of manslaughter. The San Francisco-based Jewish Co...

(JTA) — Seven months after being asked to kick out a group over allegations of racism, the board of directors of Boston’s leading Jewish coalition has come to a conclusion: Yes, the group’s president “elevated white supremacist voices” — but it shouldn’t be ejected. That’s the recommendation of an internal report issued last month by the leadership of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston, which includes dozens of local groups and community members representing virtua...

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton A. Klein (Joseph Savetsky/courtesy of ZOA) JTA — Seven months after being asked to kick out a group over allegations of racism, the board of directors of Boston’s leading Jewish coalition has come to a conclusion: Yes, the US group’s president “elevated white supremacist voices” — but it shouldn’t be ejected. That’s the recommendation of an internal report issued last month by the leadership of the Jewish Community Relations...

Duolingo is giving users who order in Yiddish a free bagel on the course launch date. (Duolingo) JTA — When Meena Viswanath signed on more than two years ago to help Duolingo, the world’s largest language learning app, create its first Yiddish course, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. But Viswanath, the daughter and granddaughter of famed Yiddish scholars who speaks Yiddish at home with her children, assumed most of the difficulties would be technical. She wasn’t prepared for the challenge...

How Duolingo created a Yiddish course with a secular scholar and Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn April 1, 2021 5:01 pm Duolingos "flag" for the Yiddish course showcases an aleph with a "komets" diacritic, a foundational Yiddish letter. (Duolingo) Advertisement (JTA) — When Meena Viswanath signed on more than two years ago to help Duolingo, the world’s largest language learning app, create its first Yiddish course, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. But Viswanath, the daug...

Read this article in Yiddish During the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic last year, when organizing events over Zoom was still a novelty, Rabbi Avram Mlotek and “Golden Land Concerts and Connections” president Moishe Rosenfeld put together a Third Seder online in an effort to bring together Yiddish aficionados unable to otherwise attend any seder at all. The Third Seder was a popular tradition in the afternoon Yiddish schools and Yiddishist organizations from the 1920s to the 1990s, ...

Will it be possible to achieve unity over the working definition of antisemitism when Israel is the sticking point? Yes, says the Conference of Presidents leadership; no, say progressive groups