Elections

זריזין מקדימין: הגר"ח קנייבסקי ראשון בקלפי


As Israelis go to elections today, Rbbi Lazer Brody writes, " Let's all of us here perform our civic duty and vote. It only takes a minute or two. But, let's cast our permanent vote for Hashem,..."
http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/#sthash.pTMzaCGy.dpuf 



A U.S. non-profit that has received State Department funding scrambled last month to create a new legal entity in the aftermath of a congressional letter suggesting its efforts to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may violate tax law, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/issues/anti-netanyahu-nonprofit-forms-new-entity-after-congress-says-it-violated-campaign-law/

 

An article at the New Republic describes the New Israel Fund as "a charity devoted to supporting the progressive civil sector in Israel" while Ronn Torossian describes it in another manner in an article titled My Stand Against the New Israel Fund.
The New Republic article also details "the rapidly rising rate of intermarriage, now 71 percent among non-Orthodox Jews."
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121304/generational-divide-american-jews-israel