Jewish America

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We have always loved America much more than America has loved us.  Therefore, total assimilation must be resisted if we are to remain Jews i...

Jewish America was overwhelmingly in support of Israel during the 6-Day War of 1967, raising $100,000,000 in emergency funding, and going to...

The Jewish vote has had a significant effect on Presidential elections.  Our votes for Franklin Roosevelt increased with each reelection, bo...

We were the most liberal white ethnicity in America.  In the 1950s we helped champion the cause of African America, including the leadership...

Instead of emigrating to Israel, Jewish America emigrated to the suburbs, where living among non-Jews made us more aware of our Jewishness. ...

David Ben-Gurion insisted that if Zionist America wanted to take part in Israeli policymaking they had to "make Aliyah".  ZOA coul...

Following the Holocaust, in 1947, Harry Truman approved the Jewish partition of Palestine.  In spite of State Department opposition to the e...

United States immigration policies between 1939 and 1945 were essentially anti-immigration.  A case in point is the Wagner-Rogers Child Refu...

Although discrimination is against the principles of the United States Constitution, "social anti-Semitism" flourished in pre-Worl...

Hoveve Zion (Lovers of Zion) was the international predecessor of the Zionist movement.  In America,  they published periodicals in the 1890...

Peddling became our profession - selling tinware, notions, fish, fruit, milk.  The profits from these endeavors were used to open shirt fact...

Issac Wise, a self-proclaimed rabbi, founded Hebrew Union College in 1875. Before then, all rabbis emigrated from Europe. Rabbi Wise was the...

Mordecai Noah was appointed by James Madison as Ambassador to Tunisia in 1813. He was recalled by James Monroe, then Secretary of State, in ...

The first Jews to reach America, in 1654, were Dutch refugees from Brazil. We were deported as part of the Portuguese seizure of Brazil from...