Entries by Elena Yacov

Why I’m Optimistic About the Jewish Future in America

Jewish history teaches us that it takes great leaders to overcome major challenges. At the turn of the century, Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, founder of Revisionist Zionism Ze’ev Jabotinsky, World Zionist Organization president Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first female prime minister Golda Meir, and Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold saw growing antisemitism and acted to […]

You Can Now Experience Israeli Tour Spots On Virtual Reality

If you haven’t had the opportunity to visit major Israeli tour spots, you can now experience some of them through virtual reality tours on the Virtually Israel 2.0 website. A project of the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation and the MERONA Leadership Foundation, Virtually Israel 2.0 features the following videos: Beaches Bible Land Museums Dead Sea Scrolls […]

Milstein Family Foundation, MERONA Leadership Foundation Significantly Expands Virtual Reality Video Program to Showcase Israel’s Most Popular Destinations

A revamped website will allow people anywhere in the world to experience a variety of sites in Israel January 22, 2018, 04:58 PM Eastern Standard Time LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–This week, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, in partnership with MERONA Leadership Foundation, launched Virtually Israel 2.0—quintupling the number of free Virtual Reality (VR) videos of […]

Pride and Courage: Gifts for our Children in 2018

This month, we recounted the heroic story of the Maccabees, the Jewish rebel group that lived in the Land of Israel in the second century BCE, which makes clear that we must have pride, courage, and passion to fight for our survival and freedom as a people. During the time of the Maccabees, the Land […]

Israeli Americans can be the glue that builds a stronger Jewish community

The Israeli-American Council’s Fourth Annual National Conference in Washington, D.C., held last month felt like a long-overdue family reunion. Enveloping warmth and a powerful sense of togetherness, the love for Israel was infectious, radiating to and from all the participants. In the corridors of the Washington Convention Center, teenagers spoke with unique pride about their hybrid Israeli-American […]

Milstein Meme Competition Showcases Winning Memes

The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation is bringing pro-Israel memes to the world. LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) DECEMBER 18, 2017 The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation today announced the winners of their second competition for the pro-Israel memes. The Milstein Meme Competition brought together hundreds of meme-lovers from around the world – from U.S. and […]

Milstein Meme Competition Launches Today

The Milstein Family Foundation will award cash prizes to meme creators who show the fun and funny side of pro-Israel activism by creating entertaining and shareable images. The Milstein Meme Competition will give a chance for hundreds of pro-Israel meme creators to show off their skills and win cash prizes. This contest is a fun […]

Ascending Israeli-American group seeks to be the ‘glue,’ not the ‘wedge,’ for US Jewry

As Jewish communal organizations throughout the U.S. struggle to maintain membership levels and hefty annual budgets, a rapidly growing group with the energy of a well-funded Israeli start-up is challenging the Jewish communal world and its relationship to the state of Israel. Earlier this month, the Israeli-American Council (IAC) hosted its fourth annual national conference […]

A Dangerous Deceit

It seems that anti-Semitic views are increasingly being accepted in mainstream American political discourse. Anti-Semitism can currently be found among three different groups, two of which recently joined forces. The first is the radical Right, which almost everyone recognizes and denounces. Rooted in traditional Christian anti-Semitism, its legacy stretches from the Spanish Inquisition through the […]

Understanding the unlikely radical alliances spreading antisemitism today

Radical Muslims are focused on destroying and delegitimizing Israel – the historic homeland of the Jewish People — and they fan the flames of antisemitism wherever they can. Vicious antisemitism has long been present on the radical Right. It has been growing also on the radical Left. And it’s a cornerstone of radical Muslim movements. […]