April 18th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
Currently in the Connecticut State Senate, Senate Bill 452, calling for Holocaust and world genocides to be included in the Social Studies curricula in Connecticut’s schools, is being readied for a vote. We must assure the powerful lessons of the ... Read More →
April 18th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Dror Markus The timing screams out at us Israelis. On the week of Yom Hashoah – the annual day of remembrance of the greatest tragedy and crime against the Jewish people – the Syrian regime ... Read More →
April 11th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Mark Silk When I arrived at Trinity College 22 years ago, Trinity Hillel was a modest affair – a club for Jewish students with a part-time director and little-used rooms on the edge of campus. ... Read More →
February 28th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
Reading the “Point/Counterpoint: Two State | One State | No State; Which solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict works best … or works at all?” commentaries (Ledger, Feb. 9, 2018), a few thoughts come to mind. It ... Read More →
February 14th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Ariel Kahana (Makor Rishon/Exclusive to JNS via JNS) – Following a recent Pew Research Center poll that revealed only 27 percent of Democrats sympathize with Israel more than with the Palestinians, while 79 percent of ... Read More →
January 31st, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Ben Sales (JTA) The share of Democrats who sympathize more with Israel than the Palestinians is falling fast, while Republican sympathy for Israel over the Palestinians is spiking. So says a new poll by the ... Read More →
January 17th, 2018 | by LedgerOnline
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) – Jews were “undesirable.” They were “of low physical and mental standards.” They were “filthy.” They were “often dangerous in their habits.” They were “un-American.” So read a report submitted ... Read More →
December 12th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
“American Jews and Israel: A Shifting Alliance’”(Ledger, Dec. 1), highlighted a real problem, but one that seems to be rather overblown. Speaker Tip O’Neill often noted that “all politics is local.” So, it is to be ... Read More →
December 12th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
By the Ledger Editorial Advisory Board There is not a single reader of this newspaper who believes Jerusalem is anything other than the capital of the State of Israel. But the United States has formally held ... Read More →
December 6th, 2017 | by LedgerOnline
As a 35-year veteran science teacher of middle school students, I was horrified at The Ledger’s obvious pro-marijuana stance posing disingenuously as a report on someone’s marketing of marijuana for normalizing its enhancement of food and ... Read More →
Currently in the Connecticut State Senate, Senate Bill 452, calling for Read more →
By Dror Markus The timing screams out at us Israelis Read more →
By Mark Silk When I arrived at Trinity College Read more →
Reading the “Point/Counterpoint: Two State | One State | No Read more →
By Ariel Kahana (Makor Rishon/Exclusive to JNS via JNS) – Read more →
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