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Combatting Antisemitism Conference hosted by the Office of Indiana...
9/20/2024 Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas horrifically attacked the State of Israel, antisemitic behavior across the United...
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JAACI invited by First Principles Forum to speak on the Middle East...
August 28 2024 The Middle East Conflict: What it’s Really About and why it Should Matter to Americans.
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Israel must acknowledge it is fighting against jihad
Accepting that Israel’s enemies are waging a religious war can reframe the narrative. (May 1, 2024 / JNS) ALLON FRIEDMAN Allon...
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Thank you GovernorEric Holcomb for supporting Israel and the Jewish...
March 18, 2024 The Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana (JAACI) thanks Governor Eric Holcomb for supporting Israel and...
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Please Veto HEA 1002
March 12, 2024 Dear Governor Holcomb, I am writing as President of the Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana (JAACI) to...
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THE JEWISH AMERICAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OF INDIANA (JAACI) URGES...
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, MARCH 2024The Jewish American Affairs Committee of Indiana is opposed to HEA 1002 as passed by the Indiana...
Read MoreThe president’s order would allow the government to withhold money from campuses deemed to be biased, but critics see it as an attack on free speech. New York Times By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman Dec. 10, 2019 WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Wednesday targeting what he sees as anti-Semitism on college campuses by threatening to withhold federal money from educational institutions that fail to...
MORDECHAI KEDAR LECTURER ON ARABIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ISRAEL Will Recent Election Results in Israel Make Peace More Achievable? Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University. He served in the IDF Military Intelligence for 25 years, specializing in Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups and the Syrian domestic arena. He has been featured on numerous media sites...
Dr. Charles Jacobs is the president of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, a Boston-based organization advocating for the civil rights of Jewish college students and objectivity in high schools’ Middle East curriculum, as well as educating the public on the Islamist threats to American civil society. Dr. Jacobs also co-founded the Boston branch of CAMERA, the David Project, and the American Anti-Slavery Group, which brought...
Originally Posted on August 17, 2018 via Current in Carmel. The recent defacement of Carmel’s Congregation Shaarey Tefilla with swastikas and iron crosses has galvanized supporters of a proposed statewide hate crimes law who argue that it will reduce the likelihood of future anti-Semitic hate crimes. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that such a law will address a key related issue—that there exists politically acceptable and unacceptable...
An Indiana Jewish group released a statement this speaking out against a proposed mosque in Carmel. The letter was written by top officials at the Jewish American Affairs Committee in Indiana. The Jewish leaders are concerned about a proposed mosque in Carmel. The Islamic group behind the mosque invited a noted Islamist with a radical history and background. It is not every day you see a Jewish group voice such concerns. Via The...
Letter to the Editor: BY CURRENT PUBLISHING ON FEBRUARY 11, 2018 Editor, As a statewide, grassroots Jewish advocacy group, we are committed to promoting the well-being and security of the Jewish people and society at-large. To that effect, last month we sent a letter to the Carmel Zoning Board recommending that it address whether the proposed Al Salam mosque is affiliated with or receiving funding from sources that advocate support for anti...
Originally published on July 23, 2017, INDY STAR. As a political science professor for over three decades, my research, teaching and community engagement has sought to further understanding about religion and politics. As such I must respond to a recent op-ed in the IndyStar by Dennis Sasso. Sasso’s vitriol against that with which he disagrees, be it the Jewish tradition or Vice President Mike Pence’s constitutional conservatism, is...
Originally posted at Jihad Watch, JUNE 19, 2017 5:48 AM BY HUGH FITZGERALD In Indianapolis, a billboard was recently put up that has caused quite a stir. It has been denounced as an “anti-Islam” billboard, because it lists six things about “the Perfect Man” (a clear reference to Muhammad, known in Islam as al-insan al-kamil, the Perfect Man), who (I quote verbatim the billboard): “1) married 6-year old 2) slave owner and dealer 3) rapist 4) 13...
Originally posted at Indianapolis Star on June 13, 2017 As officers of the only statewide Jewish advocacy group in Indiana, we feel obligated to respond to the letter signed by 16 rabbis essentially demanding the silencing of any public reference to Islamic hatred of Jews. This message directly contradicts core Jewish traditions as well as fundamental American rights. The rabbis would be well within reason to recognize historical Christian anti...