Zionism
Recent videos and images shared by the Betar US social media account in February 2025 that helped lead the Anti-Defamation League to add the group to their glossary of extremism include (l-r) a video of a man yelling profane remarks at a New York mosque; a video of comedian Michael Rapaport praising Rabbi Meir Kahane; and a post praising the Proud Boys. (Screenshots via X)
February 25, 2025, 9:18 am
Right-wing Zionist group Betar wars with ADL after being added to its extremism database
Betar’s founder barged into a meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and was removed by security.
By Andrew Lapin
Yizhar Hess wants North American Jews to vote. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Livingston)
December 11, 2024, 10:16 am
Democracy in Israel requires voting in North America, says World Zionist Organization vice chair
Economics is one reason to vote. Post-war Israel is another
By Adam Reinherz
November 25, 2024, 2:22 pm
Post-Oct. 7, a Pittsburgher re-embraces her Jewish roots
Blumenfeld called the conversation a “catalyst moment” and said she walked away from it an atheist.
By David Rullo
More than 300 community members gathered at the JCC in Squirrel Hill to mourn the murder of six hostages in Gaza last week. Ben Wecht argues that its important for the Jewish communitiy not to splinter during divisive times. (Photo by Toby Tabachnick)
September 19, 2024, 9:35 am
Hanging together: A call for Jewish unity in divisive times
As Jews, however, it’s vital to remember that we constitute a mere 2.4% of the U.S. population. As Zionists we're a smaller number.
By Ben Wecht
Cancel. (By Focal Foto, courtesy of flickr.com)
August 28, 2024, 1:18 pm
A Brooklyn bookstore canceled my discussion of Judaism over my Zionism
Here's what I learned
By Rabbi Andy Bachman
New York University students set up a "Liberated Zone" tent encampment in Gould Plaza at NYU Stern School of Business on April 22, 2024, in New York City. NYU students joined the growing number of students in colleges throughout the country to set up tent encampments on school grounds calling on their schools to divest from Israel and a ceasefire in Gaza. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
August 26, 2024, 2:37 pm
NYU issues new hate speech guidelines discouraging students from targeting ‘Zionists’
Some Jewish students have described feeling excluded from campus activities if they do not denounce Zionism.
By Andrew Lapin
Yafa Negrete creates a portrait of one of the hostages abducted by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 (Photo courtesy of Yafa Negrete)
August 26, 2024, 10:30 am
Local Jewish artists confront rising antisemitism since Oct. 7
"If you’re Jewish, and you’re pro-Israel, which makes you a Zionist, you’re somehow not welcome in these spaces.”
By Toby Tabachnick
The closed storefront of the Detroit Institute of Bagels in Detroit, Michigan, after staff walked out in protest of the store's new "Zionist" owner, July 31, 2024. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)
August 7, 2024, 10:35 pm
A Jewish bagel shop in Detroit closes after staff walk out on new ‘Zionist’ owner
Philip Kafka, a developer who has earned praise and derision for his redevelopment projects, took over the Detroit Institute of Bagels from its original Jewish owner.
By Andrew Lapin
Julie Paris is running for the World Zionist Congress as part of the Kol Israel slate. (Photo provided by Julie Paris)
July 23, 2024, 12:25 pm
Julie Paris fights anti-Zionism and antisemitism
With a passion for Israel and Jewish community
By David Rullo
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Women's March (Photo by Dimitri Rodriguez, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
July 17, 2024, 10:06 am
The Democratic Socialists of America rebuked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Zionism
And proved their own irrelevance
By Eric Alterman
Exterior view of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College campus in Pennsylvania. (Wikimedia)
July 4, 2024, 1:45 pm
Following internal drama over Israel, Reconstructionist Judaism affirms support for progressive Zionism and 2-state solution
Rabbis from the liberal Jewish movement have taken leading roles in anti-Zionist activism
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Reconstructing Judaism's organizational headquarters in Wyncote, Pennsylvania (Photo b Mfessler, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
May 23, 2024, 5:05 pm
I run the Reconstructionist movement. We believe in Israel’s right to exist but reject litmus tests on Zionism
Since Oct. 7, we have had conversations that made all our rabbinical students uncomfortable — which will make them better rabbis
By Deborah Waxman
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch addresses those in attendance at the Re-Charging Reform Judaism Conference. Lenny Medina / RetroLenz Photography
July 23, 2023, 11:26 am
Local rabbis inspired at convention to ‘Re-Charge’ the Reform movement
Early Reform Judaism, Freedman said, allowed its members to be super-creative but today, all that remains are the harmonies. “How do we recapture the melody?” he asked.
By David Rullo
Photograph showing the delegates to the Sixth Annual Convention of the American Federation of Zionists, gathered at Turner Hall on Forbes Avenue (Image originally published in the July 1903 issue of the American Federation of Zionists’ Maccabean)
April 14, 2023, 12:47 pm
Bijou Theatre: Pittsburgh, June 7, 1903
An idyll based on historical documents, with a touch of dramatic license
By Eric Lidji
Rabbi Alexander Popivker (right) with his wife, Sarah, mounting a pro-Israel display on the campus of Cleveland State University. (Courtesy of Alex Popivker)
February 16, 2023, 3:44 pm
Rabbi arrested for his anti-Palestinian activism
He confessed on Instagram that he had stolen a Palestinian banner from the student center at Cleveland State University.
By Andrew Lapin
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