This week on AJC Passport we talk about CNN’s shocking report about antisemitism in Europe with CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward and AJC Europe Director Simone Rodan-Benzaquen.
The new CNN survey of attitudes towards Jews in seven countries – Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, and Sweden – raises profound concerns. Jews are an infinitesimal percentage of Europe’s population, but continue to play an outsized role in the European imagination.
The Mumbai attacks sent shock waves around the world. But in New York, where our own 9/11 experience had already traumatised us in much the same way that the Mumbai attacks did now, the events of 26/11—as the day became known—were terrible reminders of our own vulnerabilities.
A response to an essay in The NY Times: Jews today require a spiritual component, a sense that being a Jew means far more than eating latkes and receiving Chanukah gelt.
If you want to attend the 2019 Women’s March, you should. But make sure that the rank-and-file marchers next to you know: you are a progressive Jewish woman. You belong there. And you won’t be cowed.