Though I understand why, in defending himself, Bob Rae would reveal that his own wife and children are Jewish and he's travelled frequently to the Middle East, this is immaterial. Jews are extremely diverse, as are Israelis. For example, though a lot of Jews are Zionists, many Jews are, in fact, anti-Zionist. Though Israel is a Jewish state and many family laws are Jewish laws, it is, in many ways, a modern Western democratic state with a number of political parties, many of which are non-Jewish and some of which are anti-Zionist. Also, to equate Jews with Israel ignores the fact that one million Israeli citizens are Muslim and Christian Arabs. Though Israel depends on the charity and allegiance of millions of Diaspora Jews, it does not necessarily represent all Jewish people. In terms ...
In North America, the holiday was politicized when Jewish activists created the Campaign for Trees and Life in Vietnam. Hoping to spearhead reforestation efforts in the Vietnamese countryside destroyed by Agent Orange, these activists raised awareness of the issue by planting symbolic trees on American landmarks during Tu B'[Shevat]. Eventually this group merged with others to form the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, which officially declared Tu B'Shevat to be the Jewish Earth Day. Tu B'Shevat took on new significance in the late 19th century during the early years of the Zionist movement when Jewish pioneers sought to reclaim the land of Israel through the planting of trees and the draining of marshes. Ultimately, Tu B'Shevat became a day dedicated to tree planting within...
... Temple and the subsequent exile of the Jews to the Diaspora, however, Tu B'Shevat was rarely c...
ALTHOUGH the ancient Jewish festival of Tu B'[Shevat Seder] predates deforestation, carbon footprints and acid rain by thousands of years, it has particular environmental relevance in 2010. Tu B' Shevat, the New Year of the Trees, is a minor Jewish holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, a date that usually falls between late January and mid February on the Gregorian calendar. According to Jewish law, it was forbidden to eat the fruit of a tree that was less than three years old, while the fruit of a tree in its fourth year was to be brought as an offering to the Temple in Jerusalem. These practices came to a stop with the destruction of the Second Temple and the dispersion of the Jews in the Diaspora. In the late 19th century, with the return of pioneering Jew...
...Jews are subjected to conscription while Arabs may volu... Israel and the Jewish people in the Diaspora. Thus, the Palestinian Arab minority is excluded a...
The population doesn't have a reasonable chance if there aren't institutions in place to support them," says [Tad Taube], who now lives in San Francisco. He left Poland weeks before [Adolf Hitler]'s tanks rolled across the border in their Blitzkrieg attack that started the Second World War. "The preoccupation of Jews in most of the diaspora is of Poland as a cemetery for Jews," he said during a recent visit to Warsaw. But his philanthropy efforts are "about Jewish life in Poland, not Jewish death. "Poland really was more than just a country where Jews took refuge," [Sigmund Rolat] said in Warsaw. "Poland was really our home."
Jews and Money. The Story of a Stereotype. By Abraham H...Because of the Diaspora, Jews eventually became scattered through many cou...
... Empire destroyed the temple in 70 C.E., Jews have lived in diaspora communities, practicing the...
...(5) . Diasporas and ethnic lobbies and their role in lobbying and ... Well, "Can the Blacks do for Africa what the Jews did for Israel?" Foreign Policy 15 (summer 1974): ...
In a world where uncritical support for Israel is becoming less and less tenable due to the expanding human rights disaster in the West Bank and Gaza, leaders of Jewish communities outside Israel have circled their wagons, heightened their pro-Israel rhetoric, and demonized Israel's critics. These leaders imply that increased concerns about Israel do not result from that state's actions, but from an increase in anti-Semitism. Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic, nor does it "bleed into anti-Semitism," a formulation that says essentially the same thing. Some genuine anti-Semites do use Israel as a cover for maligning the Jewish people as a whole, but it is fallacious to argue that anyone who criticizes Israel is anti-Semitic because anti-Semites attack Israel. There are some anti-Sem...
... New Anti-Semitism, which accuses progressive Jews of abetting a resurgent wave of anti-Semitism by p...'s leadership and its supporters in the Diaspora consistently encourage this view by insisting that...
... in nature to the anti-Semitism suffered by Jews in other times and places. Nowhere can this be see... reports, "Neither the Israeli, nor the diaspora, rabbinical authorities ever reversed their ruling...
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