Following the announcement of a formation of a new coalition government in Israel on Wednesday, American Jewish leaders and organizations for the most part stopped short of offering any type
Top Obama admin official celebrated Netanyahu’s pending ouster, tweeting the Israeli leader, 'a master of creating divisions, finally managed to unite people: his opposition'
“While we await to see how the current situation materializes, we have complete confidence in Israel’s democracy,” said Jewish Federations of North America president and CEO Eric Fingerhut.
Apr 9, 2021
The Disney Channel must reverse its replacement of the word “Jerusalem” with “Holy Land” in a Passover production, which denies the Jewish People’s yearning to return to their eternal capital for 2,000 years.
In a Disney Channel program last week devoted to Passover, the network replaced the festive meal’s key declaration “Next Year in Jerusalem” with the phrase “Next Year in the Holy Land.”
For thousands of years, Jews have concluded their Passover seder meals with a reference to Jerusalem, an expression of yearning to return to the Jewish People’s eternal capital.
In what many feel was an attempt to avoid offending people who deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, Disney removed replaced “Jerusalem” with “Holy Land.”
Apr 6, 2021
Disney changed the actual text of the Passover story from ‘next year in Jerusalem’ to ‘next year in the Holy Land’ in a holiday PSA.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
The Disney Channel got slammed this week for some bizarre, and potential politically motivated revisionism, related to the Passover story, an event that is central to the Jewish people’s history, culture, and tradition.
Disney changed the actual end of the Passover seder story by removing the word “Jerusalem,” which is the Jewish people’s eternal capital and also the modern state of Israel’s capital.
“We called out the Disney Channel for its Passover PSA [public service announcement] that replaced the traditional Jewish phrase ‘Next year in Jerusalem’ with ‘Next year in the Holy Land’ because it is a deliberate negation of Jerusalem as the eternal Jewish capital,” B’nai B’rith International tweeted.