Jerusalem schools, synagogues would be shut if UN resolution is implemented

The human consequences of implementing the recent United Nations resolution about Israel would be devastating, say American representatives of Israeli schools, synagogues and other institutions in parts of Jerusalem that Israel captured in 1967…writes Rafael Medoff/JNS.org. Read more

‘A death sentence for the Jews’: 75 years since the British White Paper…writes Rafael Medoff

“We know we are going to be bamboozled,” a despondent Stephen Wise, the foremost American Jewish leader of his time, confided to a friend before boarding a ship bound for England in early 1939. The British had invited Wise and other Zionist leaders from the United States and Palestine to take part in a “peace conference” with Arab leaders. Read more