The tension between American and Israeli Jews

Can Israeli Jews realize that the support of the US Jewish community is an Israeli national security imperative? Can secular US Jews be convinced that their relationship to Israel may be needed?

Judea and Ruth Pearl, parents of slain WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, light a Hanukkia at a Hanukkah reception at the White House in 2007. Ruth died on July 20, 2021 at age 85.

(photo credit: JIM YOUNG/REUTERS)

By ERIC R. MANDEL

FEBRUARY 24, 2022 12:47

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