By Amy Zewe This is a question I keep asking myself. This Labor Day weekend, I was looking at Facebook and a classmate from my high school posted about a visit to Dachau and how moved he was by it. I appreciated that he was able to connect it with a substitute teacher we had…
By Amy Zewe— Unfortunately, no. Andrew Pessin shared to the Facebook group Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS disturbing reports about universities and their faculties over the last month as communities prepare to send their students back to the classroom. We have shared stories over the past months about antisemitism and its…
Jewish Queens Link is a local publication but it shares news worthy of a global audience. They posted yet another disturbing bit of news about the ongoings at CUNY (City University of New York, a public university system). I shared with you in the last few months the ongoing antisemitism at CUNY college, specifically the…
By Amy Zewe To follow up on our conversation last week (August 9, 2023) regarding the antisemitic tide that many university faculties, administrations, and associations are engaging, this week my goal is to examine a bit more of what it means to equate antisemitism with anti-Zionism. Many of those in education and politics will tell…
Antisemitism is a relatively new word. Prior to the 20th century, the hatred of Jews was often called Jew Hatred (which does the job well in assigning a term to a concept) and anti-Judaism. For centuries, even millennia, throughout the European ages and through the biblical ages before, the drumbeat to snuff out the line…
Over the past 10+ years, our weekly Red Alert videos highlight issues surrounding the anti-Judaism, antisemitism, and antizionism that pervades our culture and society, worldwide. I discuss the historical underpinnings of the overarching Jew hatred, whose beginnings are documented in the Hebrew Bible and its history recorded through two millennia in Europe. Often anti-Judaism was…
On May 17, just two weeks ago, I reported on how CUNY (City University of NY in NYC) was working proactively to combat antisemitism, which has taken root systemically in the CUNY system. One of the initiatives to raise awareness and show solidarity with the large Jewish community in the system is to display a…
Welcome to May 31. 2023, Jerusalem Connection Red Alert. This week we are excited to share just a few of the festivities we participated in on May 17 to celebrate Israel’s 75th anniversary of being an independent nation as well as Jerusalem Day (the reunification of Jerusalem under Israeli rule in 1967). The Jerusalem Connection…
By Amy Zewe— Join us today to hear from Sarah Weiskopf, the Jerusalem Connection’s 2023 Hebrew University Scholarship recipient. Sarah sends us a message directly from the Holy Land sharing her joy and gratitude for the opportunity to immerse herself in the holy land and all its people. What better way to combat antisemitism than…
May is filled with celebrations and commemorations for Israel both national and religious. Israel’s 75th anniversary of being a modern state occurred on Israel’s Independence Day on May 14, 2023. Jerusalem Day is from the evening of Thursday, May 18, 2023, until the evening of Friday, May 19, 2023. This celebrates the reunification of East…