It’s time to recognize what I’ve long perceived as the thankless world of liberal Jews, who sometimes feel like the sole voice defending Israel among progressive circles. “I’m not looking for recognition or a medal for defending Israel against haters on Twitter,” one of my progressive Jewish friends told me last week, “but I hope …
As we recently passed the one-year anniversary of Daniel Prude’s terrible last moments we must ask ourselves: what have we done to prevent the next death? Has our community effectively united to combat systemic racism? Have we sufficiently reformed our criminal justice system to ensure that what happened to Daniel doesn’t happen again? Following Daniel’s death, a …
Linda Geller-Schwartz is the Chapter Leader of Zioness in Florida, a coalition of progressive, Zionist Jewish activists and allies.
Last week, we celebrated Passover, commemorating the first time the Jewish people fled persecution and found refuge in Zion. For 3000 years, we have celebrated this first Zionist voyage with cries of “Next Year in Jerusalem!” Three weeks ago, a Jewish congressional staffer found a U.S. Capitol officer reading the “Protocols of the Elders of …
The Algemeiner reported that the Zioness Movement deemed the alteration “utterly outrageous,” and Todd Richman, co-chair of Democratic Majority for Israel, said on Twitter, “@DisneyChannel for 2,000 years Jews at the Passover Seder have said ‘next year in Jerusalem!’ And now you decide to change it after a couple of thousand years? You sure about that?”
