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Jan 27, 2023, 6:50 PM
At times of challenge and controversy, Jewish peoplehood is a timeless value
Israeli summer camp directors at Dr. King’s family home (Photo courtesy of author)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1963, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” His remark is prescient, to say...
Aug 13, 2017, 12:04 AM
Good Things are Happening on Campus: Hillel Deepens the Connection between American and Israeli Jews
In my four years in the United States, launching Hillel International’s Israel Education and Engagement Department, I have had a front-row seat to some of the biggest issues and debates facing Jewish identity, US Jewish-Israel relations and the future...
Mar 16, 2017, 3:04 PM
How we’re defeating BDS
As scary as the boycott, divestment and sanction (BDS) campaign against Israel looks from home, sometimes it looks even scarier from far away. My fellow Israelis are alarmed by stories about the battles going on at American universities. They...
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Shelley Kedar is director of the Connecting the Jewish People Unit at The Jewish Agency for Israel.