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Nov 9, 2023, 3:35 AM

Defending Israel’s Brand

An Israeli Magen David Adom ambulance waits at the Erez Crossing to transfer and transport a Gazan Palestinian cancer patient to an Israeli hospital for treatment. Photo by Robert Kern

Israel does a fine job in selling its brand as a tourist destination, yet it is failing to garner sympathy and support in its conflict with Hamas. It has been four weeks since Hamas brutally attacked Israel, killing nearly...

Dec 9, 2022, 11:04 PM

Meir Kahane slept on my couch

Illustrative: Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1984 (center photo by Bernard Gotfryd, US Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, PD)

His ideology is alive and well and his adherents will be seated as members of Israel’s new government

Nov 7, 2022, 6:41 PM

A Cautionary Tale

Perhaps this should serve as a cautionary tale for the United States and American Jewry. Israel’s election was November 1 and while they still need to sort out who will be in the next government, some things are crystal clear. The...

Jul 29, 2022, 6:52 AM

Anti-Israel and Antisemitic Campaigns Fail to Stop Game

Tottenham Hotspur will face AS Roma in a football (real football, or ‘soccer’) match, titled the “I-Tech Cup,” at Haifa’s Sammy Ofer Stadium on Saturday night, July 30. Both teams have loyal fan bases in Israel. The ‘Israel Spurs...

Apr 28, 2022, 6:39 AM

On Yom HaShoah it is time to face the truth

The Nazis' plans to eradicate the Jewish people were widely known – Apathy and feigned ignorance laced with antisemitism allowed them to proceed unimpeded

Feb 9, 2022, 5:08 AM

How Others See Us Really Matters

There is no simple way to describe “Jewishness,” even among Jews. For better or worse, how others define us seems to be what really matters. When Whoopi Goldberg commented that the Holocaust was “not about race” during the ABC television...

Dec 5, 2021, 10:17 PM

Who’s Buried in the Maccabees’ Tomb?

I wasn’t upset to see the Hebrew and Latin inscriptions from Isaiah over the doorway of San Gregorio della Divina Pietà, a church near the Jewish ghetto of Rome and its Great Synagogue because they are symbolic of Jewish...

Jul 20, 2021, 3:31 AM

Sinat Hinam: The awful hatred displayed at the Kotel

The Talmud teaches us that both the First and Second Temples were destroyed because of baseless or wanton hatred, Sinat Hinam (שנאת חנם). Yoma 9b:8 explains that the First Temple was destroyed due to “idol worship, forbidden sexual relations...

Jun 25, 2021, 6:05 PM

Keys without locks

(Key image via Pixabay)

Jews have been kicked out of Arab areas, and Arabs out of Jewish ones. What if everyone who wants to go home did so, and learned to live with the new neighbors?

Oct 12, 2018, 5:54 PM

Kadima Mada Student Leads Efforts For Visually Impaired

Baruch Matatov, a 17 year-old boy from Ashkelon, Israel and an 11th grade student at Kadima Mada's Kfar Silver Youth Village, is one of the winners of World ORT’s Gina and Joseph Harmatz Award for his efforts to raise...

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Robert L. Kern has served as Director of Marketing & Communications for several "American Friends," Zionist and Jewish organizations. He is a former President of the American Jewish Public Relations Society and a member of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Press Association. The views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author.

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