On Religious Commitments and Human Commitments
I’ve just delivered this message to a group of Jewish communal representatives focused on high-level international interreligious dialogue. This past Shabbat’s Torah reading has special resonance for...
Tag: David Michaels
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Op Ed
February 22, 2022
Joint Op-ed in Ynetnews: Polemics do nothing to help heal the Holy Land (in Hebrew)
Read the op-ed in English on Ynetnews. Read the op-ed in Hebrew on Ynetnews. Translated below from the original Ynet publication in Hebrew: Last month, the leader of the Presbyterian Church (USA)...
In the News
January 13, 2022
CEO and Dir. of U.N. Affairs Op-ed in Newsweek: Holocaust Comparisons Are Holocaust Denial. It Has to Stop.
Newsweek published an op-ed by B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin and Director of U.N. and Intercommunal Affairs David Michaels urging members of Congress and all others...
Op Ed
November 12, 2021
Op-ed in Real Clear Religion: When Efforts to Convert Jews Become Harmful
A growing number of reports have recently emerged of missionaries targeting Jews for conversion. Some of these have even involved Christians disguising themselves as observant Jews in order to...
June 2, 2021
Op-ed in Jerusalem Post: Importance of Fighting the ‘Zionism is Racism’ Smear
Remarkably few people know that the United Nations – with nearly 60 Muslim and Arab member states – condemns Israel more than it does all other countries combined.The only state...
May 18, 2021
Op-ed in InsideSources: Israelis Are Underdogs in the Battle for Public Opinion
As Palestinians and Israelis are again locked in conflict, innumerable citizen advocates aim to promote the side with which they identify. Supporters of Israel face structural disadvantages in a...
March 11, 2021
Standing With the Asian Community in Its Fight Against Hate
Just over a year ago, an extraordinary series of violent attacks against local Jews hit the New York area—by far the largest Jewish population center in the diaspora. In response, one large...
December 28, 2020
To Outlast Pandemic, Religion Asks Us to “Choose Life”
2020 has been a trying year. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a terrible toll – in human life, in economic terms, in the functioning of society and in frayed nerves. The impact has been...
Op Ed
November 6, 2020
At 75, Time to Shift the U.N.’s Posture on Israel
Medium published an op-ed by B’nai B’rith Director of United Nations and Intercommunal Affairs David J. Michaels on the U.N. at 75 and the need for the world body to shift...