DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield “Go back where you came from.” “You’re invaders and don’t belong here.” Sound familiar?  I remember people shouting that at the Jewish refugees who came to my hometown of Cleveland after the war. They were called “the DP’s,” displaced persons, and they dressed differently, spoke differently and looked different. We are hearing it more lately […]

By JONATHAN TOBIN (JNS) – With impeccable timing, a new American Jewish Committee survey came out only days before the one-year anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. The memorials for the single bloodiest day in American Jewish history echoed with renewed outrage about that crime and the subsequent shooting at Chabad of Poway in Southern California. So it was hardly surprising that […]

By BEN SALES NEW YORK CITY (JTA)  – In the past seven years, the American Jewish population has grown 10 percent. It remains a population that is mostly liberal, college educated and overwhelmingly white. And it’s not getting any younger. This is all according to a new American Jewish population estimate of the 48 contiguous U.S. states put out by […]

By PHOEBE MALTZ BOVY TORONTO (JTA) – There’s a reason our moment demands a book called How To Fight Anti-Semitism, and it’s not just anti-Semitism’s violent global resurgence. American Jews — at least the liberal, pro-Israel majority — are at risk of becoming, as New York Times columnist Bari Weiss puts it, “politically homeless.” Right-wing anti-Semitism is, Weiss grants, the […]

DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield The real problem with elections in this country is not that so many ineligible people are voting but that so many eligible citizens can’t.  Voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in this country, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan authority on voting rights and practices, and multiple media […]

By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders earned cheers at J Street’s annual conference when he said some of the money Israel receives from the United States for defense assistance should go to humanitarian relief in the Gaza Strip. The liberal Jewish Middle East policy group as one of its conference themes this year wants to […]

By JEFFREY FINKEKSTEIN PITTSBURGH (JTA) — Over the last year, people across the world have stood shoulder to shoulder with all of us in the 412. We have been showered with love in the weeks and months since the attack. We will never forget the generosity, care and support. Words Matter But there is still a way that concerned citizens […]

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today issued a proclamation declaring October 27, 2019, the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Penn, as a “Day of Action to Combat Anti-Semitism.” The Governor also announced that the One World Trade Center, the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, the Kosciuszko Bridge, SUNY Plaza, the State Education Building, the […]

Almost one year ago, on a quiet Saturday morning, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community suffered the most brutal anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history when a gunman opened fire in the Tree of Life building, taking the lives of 11 innocent people across three Pittsburgh congregations: Dor Hadash, New Light, and Tree of Life * Or L’Simcha, who were all joined in prayer. […]

DC Report By Douglas Bloomfield Donald Trump, in his “unmatched wisdom,” has given the Turks a green light to do to the Kurds what they did for the Armenians a century ago. In a Sunday Oct. 6, call he agreed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s request to remove American troops across his border with Syria, effectively removing an obstacle […]