new articles at Jewish Week
I have two pieces in the Jewish Week this week, which I am attaching here and here
The first one concerns a settler group from the West Bank enticing American Jews to buy apartments in settlements on the other side of the separation fence, which is dismaying evidence that fence or no fence, the settlement drive continues apace. second piece an interview with Gideon Aronoff, the executive director of HIAS, who makes a powerful argument that American Jewry must stand up and be counted in the fight for comprehensive immigration reform, including a path for citizenship for 12 million "illegals"--He urges us to remember that in 1941, European Jewish "illegals" were desperately trying to get into the U.S. on false visas--the alternative was usually death at the hands of the Nazis. He also says American Jews should oppose government discrimination against would be immigrants from Muslim countries. I would be interested in the reactions of readers to these two stories.
posted by Walter @ 12:45 PM
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It would be false to label even the most conservative Russian-Americans as either "anti-immigration", or "anti-non-white immigration." What we tend to deplore is the unbridled give-away of taxpayer-financed services to individuals whose contribution to American society and American economy have been negligible -- including, yes, our own countrymen who fight tooth and nail for a "home attendant" well before being able to pronounce the word, and excluding, of course, the Mexican and the Nigerian and the Pakistani who is working to support himself and his family the best he can. Our problem with the US Immigration policy isn't that it is too strict or too lenient per se -- what drives us up the wall is that it is administered, in words you either know well or should by now, "cherez zhopu."
Locke
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