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Congressional Action Alert for Israel – Keep Calling! | Women’s League for Conservative Judaism

You are here: Home » News » Congressional Action Alert for Israel – Keep Calling! December 11, 2023 Dear Friend, Last week, The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations joined our member organizations and Jewish federations in leading the American Jewish community’s National Mobilization Week. The effort was hugely successful with tens of thousands […]

‘America First’? Or ‘America Only’?

I am a strong advocate of America First. Indeed, I believe the citizens of every country should put their country first. The case for doing so is not difficult to make. Just as people should put their family’s well-being first, they should put their country’s well-being first. Just as we would regard parents who put […]

The Little Box that Could Change America

In my long life, I have never personally experienced antisemitism in America. I was raised by Jewish parents who believed that the best place Jews ever lived (other than in their own country in the Holy Land) was the United States of America. When the most prominent Jew of the 20th century, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, […]

American Jews on the Left Are Just Shocked by Their Fellow Leftists

New York Times headline: “On Israel, Progressive Jews Feel Abandoned by Their Left-Wing Allies.” NBC News: “The left faces a reckoning as Israel divides Democrats.” Time Magazine: “How the Activist Left Turned on Israel.” Los Angeles Times: “‘The left has really let us down.’ Why many American Jews feel abandoned” Financial Times: “Left’s take on […]

The Hamas Slaughter Confirmed Everything I Have Believed

With one exception, nothing about Oct. 7 surprised me. The one exception was Israel’s unpreparedness. That also surprised nearly every Israeli. My guess is that a combination of Iranian technology and Israeli complacency and incompetence led to the greatest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. Nothing else surprised me. Not the butchery; not the sadism; […]