The J Street Challenge is coming to Congregation Ahavat Achim in Portland Oregon on Sunday, February 8th at 7:00 p.m. The documentary film, the J Street Challenge was recently screened twice in the… Continue reading
In perhaps one of the more interesting, if not transparent responses to calls for the boycott of Israeli academics, a group of professors, including Israeli Professor Yomi Braester at the University of Washington, has called… Continue reading
The Owen family; Ruben, his sons Rabbi Benjy and Jacob and his grandson Jeffrey set forth on a nine day journey to discover the Sephardic and American history of the deep South. Tuesday morning,… Continue reading
COUNCILMAN GREENFIELD RESPONDS WITH SPEECH FOR THE AGES Today, as reported at JP UPdates. Jewish Voice for Peace and others disrupted a Holocaust Memorial Resolution being passed in the NYC City Council. The group, it… Continue reading
Quickly responding to the horrific stabbing of passengers on a public bus in Tel Aviv earlier this week, J Street issued a press release condemning the attack. But as with virtually all such… Continue reading
By TMR Contributor Randy Kessler. Randy Kessler suffered through a truth challenged screed against the Jewish state delivered by Alice Rothchild at the University of Washington earlier this month. Randy was moved by the… Continue reading
Back in 2010 when the Olympia Food Co-Op passed a boycott against carrying Israeli goods in their store, a small group of pro-Israel co-op members challenged what they saw as unethical procedural manipulations used… Continue reading
In a surprise announcement, Mikael Kvart, Board President of Hillel UW informed community partners late last week that Hillel UW Director Rabbi Oren Hayon has tendered his resignation. Rabbi Hayon assumed the position of… Continue reading
In late December a promotional notice for a new undergraduate event to take place on January 7th appeared on the Hillel UW calendar. Ensconced between Citrus Shabbat and Bagel Club was a program titled… Continue reading
Dana Kennedy from the Daily Beast explained to MSNBC yesterday that there are Muslims who believe that the terror rampage in Paris last week were committed by “a race of Magical Jews, shape… Continue reading
Ruben Owen with his two sons, Jacob and Rabbi Benjy Owen along with grandson Jeffrey toured the deep South this past December, uncovering their Jewish Sephardic roots along the way. Part three of a five… Continue reading
With a helping hand from Israel advocacy organization StandWithUs, the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (IMFA) posted a powerful new video to their YouTube account today. The slick minute long production features a series of… Continue reading
OPINION: By TMR contributor Jessica Hoffman. My oldest child, Jonah, is ten years old. Overall, he is a mensch. Like any fourth grader, he knows how to trash talk, gets into the occasional… Continue reading
Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a man who wrote his college thesis on the premise that the Shoah never happened. He organized the funding of the 1972 Munich massacre and is partnered with… Continue reading
Ruben Owen dreamed of returning to his childhood home of Columbus, Georgia. A descendent of Sephardic immigrants from the Greek Island of Rhodes, Ruben wanted to combine his homecoming with a tour of the Sephardic South.… Continue reading
As a young boy Ruben Owen would leap off the red brick porch of his family’s modest cottage style home in Columbus, Georgia, glance both ways down the pecan tree lined street before… Continue reading
