Unilever Canada sign on their head office in Toronto, Canada. Credit: JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock. BY FAYGIE HOLT   (August 12, 2021 / JNS) Despite major corporations investing significant time and funds to address traditional gaps in “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies, many of them—most notably, Google, Unilever and Cigna—have fallen short when it comes to addressing the needs of Jewish employees. […]

By Tyler O’Neil | Fox News A New York rabbi told Fox News he suspects anti-Semitism after two planes booted a group of Jewish girls, stranding them in Amsterdam on their way home to New York. “I’m not G-d, I don’t know people’s motives, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck,” Yisroel Kahan, […]

Onward Israel participants with iPads in hand take an interactive ‘Jew Quest’ through Jerusalem’s Old City. (photo credit: Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)   By: Jeff Seidel In this day and age, getting a high-quality job is difficult. Since “the internship” has become a prerequisite for being in the race for a good job, the competition for finding one that […]

By: Jeff Seidel Even though the Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, the State of Israel does not question the right of Muslims to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque or visit the Dome of the Rock. Though, many in Israel’s Muslim population and in the Palestinian Authority’s jurisdiction not only oppose Jew’s right to pray […]

By: Jeff Seidel Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism) is officially on the 4th of Iyar (this year on May 1st), though we should be spending a lifetime commemorating. Not that long ago, Jewish people were denied from colleges and prevented from owning a business because of their […]

By: Jeff Seidel For Jewish People living outside the State of Israel, as well as for Israeli Jewry, this is one of the best moments in history to be Jewish. In a rendition of alternate history, Diaspora Jewry would have no promise of security from persecution and who could predict the future of Jewry in the […]

By: Jeff Seidel Since 1999, the educational program bringing young Jews (18-26) from all over the world to discover their heritage and homeland is the well-known Taglit-Birthright. A free 10-day tour of the Jewish state, the student participants either went on to please their parents and grandparents or bragged about to their friends. Today, Taglit-Birthright is just the tip of the iceberg for the […]

By: Jeff Seidel Earlier this month, the Jeff Seidel Student Center was involved with a student mission to Poland. We visited concentration camps and other sites relating to the Shoah (Holocaust) and the Jewish People. While my goal was to help guide these students through an unimaginable period, I myself learned a great deal. Not so much on the topic of the Shoah, […]

By: Jeff Seidel In June 1967, the Jewish People stood at the face of another genocide; only nineteen years before had the atrocities of Nazi Germany’s genocide of 6 million Jews (wiping out a third of world Jewry) been exposed to the world. The State of Israel, though still in her youth, had the ability […]

By: Jeff Seidel Before my trip to Istanbul, Turkey, I was a tad skeptical about what the trip would be like. Istanbul has always been a city of conquest, from the Byzantine to the Romans to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey has a unique place in history and Istanbul was the nucleus. A city once known as “Constantinople,” […]

By: Jeff Seidel   In these last few days, American Jews in Israel have been welcoming a little bit of our past lives back into our Aliyah living. Steve Leibowitz (founder of American Football Israel), Robert Kraft (owner of the New England Patriots), and Yonah Mishaan (American Football Israel Trustee) have brought to us “Touchdown in Israel II,” a […]

By: Jeff Seidel Before I wrote this article, I was planning to write about the impact of COVID-19 on Israeli society but due to the global resurgence of anti-Semitism tied to the outbreak, this is what I feel needs to be addressed.  Towards the end of December 2019, the World Health Organization in China was […]

By: Jeff Seidel It is well known that pro-Israel university groups have not been able to get their message across on campus, especially when in a constant battle with the anti-Israel university groups. The main one being Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). SJP’s tactics on campus are well documented by pro-Israel groups like CAMERA, […]

  By Max Matza BBC News, Washington 28 May 2021 As the world watched fighting rage in Israel and Gaza, US Jews endured an increase in anti-Semitic attacks on a scale not seen during previous Middle East conflicts. Experts say it is too early to tell if the high-profile assaults – including a daylight brawl […]

By: Jemima McEvoy    Weeks after the end of the deadly fighting between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas leaders, American Jews are more concerned about their safety and say they are witnessing anti-Semitism at a dramatically increased rate, according to the results of an anti-Defamation League survey published Monday.      KEY FACTS The survey […]

By BEN SALES JTA — One week after Ben & Jerry’s announced that it would stop selling ice cream in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the company’s board chair for the first time publicly rejected the suggestion that the move was antisemitic. Meanwhile, the brand’s parent company, Unilever, disavowed the movement to boycott Israel. The disavowal comes […]

By: Walter Reich On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. The date is now consecrated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as the world vowed never to allow murderous anti-Semitism to recur. Yet 75 years later, attacking Jews has once again become socially acceptable in many countries—across the left-right ideological spectrum, and among different groups […]

“So you’re that ni**er lover that wants to tell us what to do with all our ni**ers in Mississippi?” Those were the last words that a Klansman said to Mickey Schwerner before shooting him in the head at point blank range. The shot was fired just after the killing of fellow Jew Andrew Goodman and […]