Antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry — Colleyville attack, Holocaust remembrance, and persistent anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS President Joe Biden wanted to upgrade the US State Department’s Special Envoy for Combating and Monitoring Anti-Semitism to an ambassadorship. In July, Biden nominated Emory University professor and esteemed Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. Unfortunately, for Biden, the Senate must confirm her position. However, Republicans…

Antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry — Colleyville attack, Holocaust remembrance, and persistent anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS Considering the feelings from the outside world, the political and religious divisions among Jews in the United States, Canada, the rest of the Diaspora to Israel, and even among Israelis are even more troubling. In May 2021, the Pew Research Center released an updated…

Antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry — Colleyville attack, Holocaust remembrance, and persistent anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS There was an outpouring of support for the North Texas, Colleyville congregation from all over the world, the Jewish community, political leaders, and interfaith leaders. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took to Twitter and his social media to denounce the attack. Trudeau expressed solidarity…

Antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry — Colleyville attack, Holocaust remembrance, and persistent anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS An updated report on the state of anti-Semitism in the world shows just how rampant it is. On Monday, January 24, 2022, the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Israel released a report on anti-Semitism in the Diaspora on the eve of…

Antisemitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry — Colleyville attack, Holocaust remembrance, and persistent anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS My heart breaks for the act of anti-Semitic terrorism at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, but the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide numbs the shock of such events. On Saturday, January 15, 2002, the Reform synagogue in the Dallas Fort-Worth metro area was the…

Some might want to deny it, but anti-Semitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry — Some might want to deny it, but anti-Semitism is a huge problem for North American Jewry By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS My heart breaks for the act of anti-Semitic terrorism at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, but the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide numbs the shock of such events. On Saturday, January 15, 2002, the Reform synagogue in the Dallas Fort-Worth metro area was the…

When you find out you have been plagiarized — When you find out you have been plagiarized By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS What is the worst nightmare anyone in academia could have, finding out that someone else has stolen your topic or plagiarized you? Even worse, knowing it was done because you are a woman. Idea theft is a huge problem in academia, and women are…

By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA MLIS — By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA MLIS Early American Jewry vied for the approval of President George Washington before they had any suspicion that their Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, might have been Jewish. Historian Andrew Porwancher argues in his new book “The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton” that Hamilton…

How one Jewish woman triggered Brown v. the Board of Education and the desegregation of southern schools — By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS Esther Brown with jazz singer Billie Holiday and students from C.J. Walker School (University of Missouri-Kansas City) On this day in history… May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously made a “landmark” ruling that the “separate but equal” doctrine of racial segregation in public schools was…