journalism

Daily News: Zohran ‘fuels fires of hate’

The editorial board of the New York Daily News, which endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020 and whose owner has discontinued endorsements, stated that Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for …

Rafael Medoff

Schumer falls in line with Mamdani squad

Israeli ambassador Abba Eban was greeted by an irritating sight when he rose to speak in Harvard University’s Sanders Hall on a chilly Tuesday evening in the autumn of 1970. A group …

Yisrael Medad

Eyeing Hindus to join anti-Mamdani alliance

It has been said that in politics, it’s not always the best ideas that win, but the best alliances. With Zohran Mamdani leading the Democratic ticket in New York’s Nov. 4 mayoralty …

Editoral

What do YOU think?

Over the last three weeks, The Jewish Star published editorials critical of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist who opposes the existence of the Jewish state and refuses to take …

Glastonbury Festival

Art world’s hatred of Jews, from Wagner to Vylan

Nearly 200 years separate Richard Wagner, the German composer who revolutionized the opera, from Bob Vylan, a musical duo from the English city of Ipswich presently attempting to revive the spirit …

antisemitism

Acknowledging Muslim Jew-hatred in UK, NYC

For much of last week, Britain was consumed by the appalling spectacle at the Glastonbury festival when the rap duo Bob Vylan led chants by thousands of festival-goers of “Death, death to the …

kosher kitchen

When it’s sizzling hot, it’s time for cool foods

H ot! Hot! Hot! The weather is doing what it does in the summer. It heats up, the humidity rises and the air stops moving. Stale and hot. If you can get to the beach, go. If you have air …

gary Rosenblatt

These Times columnists doth protest too much

In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” Queen Gertrude says, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Variations of this have come to mean that denying something vigorously may …

Hebron

The revolutionary plan of five Hebron sheikhs

In a potentially trailblazing development on the peace front, five leading Muslim Arab sheikhs from the Hebron area have signed a letter pledging peace and full recognition of Israel as a Jewish …

gaza war

With husbands at war, women hold the fort

When war erupted in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Orya Marriott was in London with her husband, Reuven, and their toddler daughter. What was meant to be a pleasant vacation spent with his family in his …

health

Bicycling toward both physical and mental health

A bicycle is more than just a means of transportation. Adva Sharvit co-founded Hamaslul with her husband, Karmy Shirby, to promote the use of bicycles as an educational vehicle and to explore …

Glastonbury Festival

Music died on Oct. 7, and again in Glastonbury

It all started with a music festival in southern Israel where peace-loving teenagers spent the night under the stars and awoke to barbarians wishing them their final good morning. What occurred …

history

Why HIAS hides behind an anonymous acronym

I have a beef with HIAS. The organization was long known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society before it was renamed as a Hebrewless acronym in 1975 as an undefined acronym. This refugee agency …

TRAVEL

It’s time to travel to Jerusalem

“Jerusalem has become probably the safest city to be in Israel,” said Steve Rubin, director of Tourism in the Jerusalem Development Authority, and “this is actually the best …

Jonathan tobin

Mamdani, AOC are Democrats of the future

It was no small irony that I learned the news that Zohran Mamdani would be the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York and the odds-on favorite to win the general election while I was in Medora, …

media bias

Wikipedia OK to hate ‘outrageous, not surprising’

Wikipedia deems the Anti-Defamation League and NGO Monitor to be “generally unreliable” sources to cite when discussing Israel and the Palestinians, but it finds that an organization with …

health

Weizmann posts leukemia findings after direct hit

During the Iranian missile attacks that rocked Israel in the second half of June, few stories captured the resilience of the Israeli spirit like the one that occurred at the Weizmann Institute of …

Emissary

App curates and pushes pro-Israel, Jewish content

Of the many things Israel does well, fighting the narrative war is generally not considered among them. The country’s response to international criticism, both broad and specific, is often …

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