Two Cincinnati rabbis — who felt that Jews in America needed a holiday of their own to compete with Christmas — are responsible for contriving and popularizing Hanukkah in America, according to Dianne Ashton, a professor of religion studies at Rowan University: In an editorial published by the independent media website, The Conversation, Ashton explains that outside of America, Hanukkah is regarded... 

WOW! Just WOW! 2% of the US population gets 94% of the DHS funds… who gets the remaining scrap of 6% Muslims? There have been plenty of attacks on Christian Churches yet they seem to get no protecting and no media coverage at all. There is an unfortunate tendency in the United States to throw money at a problem, particularly when the problem is related to powerful constituencies. The recent... 

According to Karoline Edtstadler, the new head of the working group on anti-Semitism in the European Parliament, the European Union needs to do much more to protect its Jewish community, including stationing police wherever Jews congregate: “In front of every synagogue, every Jewish school — anywhere where Jewish life takes place — there should at least be the awareness of the police, and depending...