Tag Archives: Expert Analysis
Returning to Israel – B’nai B’rith International
By Andrea Cure, Vice President of Development & Strategic Initiatives I recently spent 13 days in Israel. This trip was long-awaited; I knew I needed to get back to the land and people I love, to bear witness and to help. I did so with great trepidation. I was worried I would not be able to bear the pain, but I also knew I needed to. Read more » »
Targeting ‘Israelites,’ archbishop doesn’t promote peace | Opinion – B’nai B’rith International
In a Times of Israel op-ed, B’nai B’rith International Director of U.N. and Intercommunal David Michaels criticizes San Antonio’s Catholic archbishop, Gustavo García-Siller, for spewing anti-Jewish rhetoric, including repeatedly calling Israelis “Israelites” and falsely comparing Nazi atrocities to the Israel-Hamas war. Read more » »
Israel and Greece in the Aftermath of October 7 | Opinion – B’nai B’rith International
In an opinion piece for The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune, B’nai B’rith International CEO Dan Mariaschin analyzes Israel’s relationship with Greece and how the relationship between the two nations is weathering its first crisis post-Oct. 7. Read the op-ed in The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune. Read more » »
Seniors and High Interest Rates: An Uneven Result – B’nai B’rith International
Has anyone been able to read the news over the past couple of years without noticing articles about high interest rates? Everywhere you look there is a financial pundit predicting how the Federal Reserve will respond to the most recent economic news. Over the past several years, the Fed has raised interest rates to fight inflation. Read more » »
Anti-Semitism is growing in Uruguay and members of the Jewish community express their concern – B’nai B’rith International
B’nai B’rith Director of Latin American Affairs Eduardo Kohn spoke with El País about the sharp rise in anti-Semitism in Uruguay – especially online – since Oct. 7, and the growing concern in the Uruguayan and larger Latin American Jewish community. Read more in El País in Spanish. Read below in English. Read more » »
Reflections on the 2024 B’nai B’rith Leadership Forum – B’nai B’rith International
By Joshua Levi Steinke, B’nai B’rith member and 2024 Leadership Forum attendee who authored this guest blog about his experience attending our 2024 Leadership Forum. This year I joined my very first B’nai B’rith Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. Read more » »
Jewish American Heritage Month and the crisis of antisemitism | Opinion – B’nai B’rith International
In an opinion piece for JNS, B’nai B’rith International CEO Dan Mariaschin urges Jews in the U.S. to tell our extraordinary story to open and fair-minded Americans – during Jewish American Heritage month and beyond. Read the op-ed at JNS.org. Read more » »
Ideological Holocaust | Opinion – B’nai B’rith International
In an El País op-ed, B’nai B’rith Director of Latin American Affairs Eduardo Kohn addresses the troubling news that a Uruguayan Israeli professor was prohibited by the state university from teaching classes on laicism because students called him a “Zionist” and a “supporter of the genocide against the Palestinians. Read more » »
Why is this Yom HaShoah different from all others? – B’nai B’rith International
Written by Alan Schneider, Director, B’nai B’rith World Center–Jerusalem Even in Israel, which has been tempered by a century of Arab aggression, the horrors of Oct. Read more » »
When Anti-Semitism Comes From the Top of Governments – B’nai B’rith International
By Eduardo Kohn, B’nai B’rith Director of Latin American Affairs Two days after the rampage of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel and the whole Jewish community were in shock. The rest of the world, if it were at all sensitive, should have been astonished and outraged by the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas. Read more » »
