Question? If Christine, an American non jew, married a Moshe Mendel Menachem ben Swartzenberger and they have 2 kids together. The kids had their Bar Mitzvah with or without circumcision; Do they become Jewish because their dad is Jewish?

Shame on you for being the problem between Israel and US Jewry.
You are creating the conflict.
I thought most American Jews according to their own admission are not connected to Israel and have no knowledge or understanding of the conflict.

IMO they are doing the same to their own nation with this narrative over reality, There is also a rift growing between the same community and the US population. Should tell you something.

Just go and see what they are learning in school in the US from a young age. There is no reality anymore but narrative which is mostly pure lies often anti-Jewish.

Just as the US Jews mostly ignored the genocide of European Jewry during the Holocaust the same is happening today with Israel.

US Jews will and are beginning to suffer the consequences of denying Israels rights and the fact that its enemy are antisemitic genocidal mass murderers more often than not with the support of their people. They are being turned on as well.

You know the Phrase they come for the Jews. You should add they come for Israelis beforehand.

Not sure what thought to accomplish by making such a comment. Doesn't she realize that without American Jewry Israel would not have the support of the US. Surely I would think the Israelis know how to be diplomatic? I guess not and it doesn't surprise me. This attitude is common in Israel.

Israel established that they are Israel and the US is the US. Israel is not a vassal state, especially to people who will NEVER EVER accept you on your terms.

much as they deem proper, (or not at all) and then absolutely shut up when it comes to our internal matters!
All they're doing is buying themselves a refuge when the proverbial s...t will hit the fan and it will. All they have to do is notice the next generation of trend-setters being hatched at their universities. Absolutely horrendous& hair-raising.
So with all due respect: mind your own business, don't wate time and energy on matters you cannot fully understand, nor are required to understand.
Thanks in advance.

Israelis did not estrange american jewry . American jewry estranged themselves from Israel and from judaism. American jews think kashrut is a clothing brand....

The expression or well-known saying is " a Bull in a china shop " not an elephant in a china shop .Isuggest you further your education before you criticise ms Hotovely who ,by the way , did nothing wrong ,she merely spoke the truth.

All PM Netanyahu needed to do was simply keep silent ,to say nothing. Hotovely was 100% right ,american jews are alienated from judaism ,Israel and reality.

Selling bacon sandwiches by the Kotel/ Western Wall just to please some american jews? Judaism aint for sale. If some folk do not like that fact...TOO DAMN BAD.

The snowflake Lena Dunham generation of american jews long ago abandoned Israel and judaism and that can NOT be blamed on Hotovely nor on Netanyahu. Not for nothing do we say in our prayers" if I forget thee Jerusalem "

Ms Hotovely is also to blame for the sinking of the Titanic , Global warming , the Wall street crash and 9/11 .

Then you do not have the right to make decisions and choices, especially life and death decisions.

The i24 interview was almost 20 minutes long during which Hotovely talked about bringing every stream of Judaism together and working through all disagreements. The last 5 minutes and 32 seconds was posted on YNet a few days ago as being controversial. Even this statement was not correct there was nothing controversial about the last 5 minutes. During this time Hotovely talked about US Jews not massively joining the US military "the Marines and going to Afghanistan and Iraq. During the final 30 seconds, she mentions that US Jewish youth does not live with the reality of rockets fired at them (both the above true). And finally, she said that they (US Jewish Youth) live a convenient life. It is YNet and their writers who created and continue to stir a non-controversy into a storm. Shame on YNet.

The breaking up of the traditional religious Judaism is impossible to reverse. It had to come and is all-consuming. Israel must brace to be on its own, must rely on its abilities to assure survival. This is the bottom line of what Hotoveli had said. I believe the breaking up is normal in our times and good for Israel long-term.

two days before Hotovely made her comments the Prime Minister hosted a group of USA Jewish members of AIPAC.
He was very polite to them.
After they left he called on Hotovely to make her comments.
With her aggressive comments Hotovely joins an elite group of MKs who bite at the Prime Minister's command!

Jews of the world are Israel. Jews against Israel are Jews who soon will be responsibile of their own demise. Jews in Diaspora that are against Israel and really against themselves. When the next holocaust comes you can be sure these Jews will take the first plane to Israel. How easy it is for Jews who say they have no connect to Israel. Just wait when they knock on your door. The holocuast isn't over. You can be a liberal jews, conservative, tall, fat, short, dark skin, light skin. When the time comes you will be put to death.

History doesn;t change because you live in America. Jews living in western nations are free because Israel is a soverign country. German Jews lived very well until the Nazis came. Today is no different.

US Jewry has in the main become just as the Jews were in Germany prior and during WW1 in which they were under the illusion that they had equality and respect from their fellow Germans; they were soon disabused of that notion only a decade later.
So it is in the US.
Jews are tolerated at best by others and their knowledge used when it suits but have no doubt that could change in a trice.
Yes there are a substantial number who are not in thrall to the so called Democratic Party/Liberal elites who understand the reality of their US acceptance and act accordingly to support Israel and those Jews who have no illusions about the genuineness of others.

This is not about being liberal, conservative or reformist. Conscription in Israel army is a law. In the United States the draft
came to an end long time ago, the gov changed it to volunteer military force.
80% of americans are against conscription laws
and they have even organizations for that.
Hotovely probably knows how works the constitution in USA.

Hate Israel and this has nothing to do with what Hotovely said or did
The real insult is that Bibi did not stand behind her as the only person he stands behind is himself

at least she's relieved!
The rest of us? Well we'll just carry on donating our money while remaining constipated, I mean quiet!

it seems the writer forgot to mention how former Presdent Obama according to reports paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a leftist group that used the money for a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections! yeah we like a lot when americans donate money to Israel but to try to influence israeli elections? chutzpah!

Jewry kehilots in latinamerica & european diaspora communities do not have
conscription laws, not just the american jewry. In the United States people in general were against USA army fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Who ever is willing to joint the army can do it. But there are many that think those wars were not american wars because were far from their country.
Israel is very closed to trouble making countries as Syria,
Lebanon and Egypt, so to understand the
complexity of politics in those countries and in the region
is far to be understood by american jewry that think the judaism or
who is more jew than another is limited to will a little corner at the
western wall to pray with you own sectarian style, while many of them
dont care about other aspects of israeli life.

When you consider the tragic reality that 70% of American Jews regularly and insanely vote for the Jew and Israel bashing Democrats, Hotovely's comments are a mild but long overdue dose of truth.

American Jewish liberals need to act to stem the demographic death spiral of their community and stop giving unwanted and mostly idiotic advice to Israel, whose Jewish community is thriving despise many challenges.