How To Help: Suggestions for Pro-Israel Advocates (Part I)

Source: Times of Israel Volunteer: “What can I do to help?” Me: “How do you want to help?” Volunteer: “Tell me what the options are, and I’ll tell you where I can fit in” Me: “I don’t think that’s a good idea, it’ll take me a week”. This is an abbreviation of a real conversation I have often (including my bluntness). As the Executive Director of the Milstein Family Foundation, I hear the question “What can I do to help?” all the time. Day after day, I meet dedicated people who want to do SOMETHING to advocate for Israel. Many  Read More…

A Trip to Israel Inspires Future Leaders

Source: Times of Israel The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation is proud to support AIPAC’s Campus Allies Mission, which brings non-Jewish, pro-Israel political activists to Israel for the first time. Participants learn about the importance of the relationship between the United States and Israel and gain a deeper understanding of Israel’s strategic, social, and security issues, right in the heart of the Holy Land. One of our Campus Allies Alumni, Micah Fielden, has shared how the Campus Allies Mission has impacted his life. You can read his post below. The Milstein Campus Allies Trip run by AIPAC in 2012 had  Read More…

A Life-Changing Experience: Seeing Israel’s Values Up Close

Source: Times of Israel The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation is proud to support AIPAC’s Campus Allies Mission, which brings non-Jewish, pro-Israel political activists to Israel for the first time. Participants learn about the importance of the relationship between the United States and Israel and gain a deeper understanding of Israel’s strategic, social, and security issues. What’s best, the AIPAC Campus Allies trip takes place in the heart of the Holy Land. One of our Campus Allies alumni, Myles Colton Laroux, has shared how the Campus Allies Mission has impacted his life. You can read his post below. When you  Read More…

To Defeat BDS, Enlist Israeli Americans

Source: Jewish Journal by Adam Milstein American Jewry has witnessed a tsunami of hate on college campuses and across our communities. In the past year, resolutions calling for a divestment and boycott of Israel have been considered or passed by 30 student governments across the U.S. Israel haters have charged Jewish undergraduates seeking student government positions at UCLA and Stanford with “dual loyalties,” claiming that their strong Jewish identities should disqualify them from representing other students. AEPi — America’s largest Jewish fraternity — has seen an unprecedented rise in attacks on its members and vandalism on its houses. On and off  Read More…

A Campus Allies Alumna Shares Her Story

Source: Times of Israel The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation is proud to support AIPAC’s Campus Allies Mission, which brings non-Jewish, pro-Israel political activists to Israel for the first time. Participants learn about the importance of the relationship between the United States and Israel and gain a deeper understanding of Israel’s strategic, social, and security issues, right in the heart of the Holy Land.  An alumnus of our Campus Allies — Caroline Wren — has shared how the Campus Allies Mission has impacted her life. You can read her post below.  When I graduated from college, I found myself at an important crossroads. I was  Read More…

Pew and the Jews, Part 2: Experts Say Leveraging Poll Data Trumps Numbers

Posted on June 21, 2015 by JNS.org and filed under Features, Jewish Life, U.S.. By Maayan Jaffe Since the Pew Research Center released its U.S. Religious Landscape Study in May, most discussion of its findings has been quickly drowned out by other news. This is in stark contrast to the much-debated Pew survey on American Jewry that was released in October 2013. Why the discrepancy? It’s likely because little new was discovered in the latest poll. According to the study, 25 percent of individuals raised as Jews no longer consider themselves Jewish, 35 percent of Jews who are married or living with a partner are with a non-Jew, and 39 percent  Read More…

Pew and the Jews, Part 2: Experts Say Leveraging Poll Data Trumps Numbers

Posted on June 21, 2015 by JNS.org and filed under Features, Jewish Life, U.S.. By Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org Caption: The Jewish Community Festival in Bellevue, Wash., in August 2007. At left is the booth of the Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound, which brings people together “to celebrate Jewish culture and heritage in a non-religious setting.” Surveys on American Judaism by institutes such as the Pew Research Center often ignite debates on religious vs. secular Jewish observance and identification. Credit: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons. Since the Pew Research Center released its U.S. Religious Landscape Study in May, most discussion of its findings has been quickly drowned out by  Read More…

Reaching The Tipping Point For Campus Anti-Semitism

Source: Times of Israel A wave of anti-Semitism is sweeping across American universities. During the 2014-2015 school year, resolutions calling for a boycott of the Jewish state were passed by 15 student governments — and considered by more than 15 others.   At UCLA, the student government passed a boycott resolution against Israel by a wide margin – and a Jewish student was almost prevented from joining the same government’s Judicial Board following accusations that her Jewish identity gave her dual loyalties. At Stanford, a young Jewish woman running for the Student Senate was subjected to a barrage of hostility due to her  Read More…