By Melanie Nathan, April 01, 2026. I left West Hollywood for the Bay Area many years ago, yet West Hollywood lives in me. It is where I first landed as an immigrant, coming to terms with my sexuality in the 1980s. It is where I found refuge, safety, and a place to belong. It gave … More MAGA Supporter Seeks Seat on West Hollywood City Council
By Melanie Nathan, Nov 27, 2025. Why Trump’s Retreat From Africa Endangers Israel’s Future: “Power vacuums in Africa become power blocs at the U.N.- rarely in Israel’s favor.” During the last presidential election I warned fellow Jews, often to uncomfortable silence, unfriending, or cancellation, that Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy, democratic norms, and global … More TRUMPS DUMP OF AFRICA ENDANGERS ISRAEL
By Melanie Nathan, Nov 11, 2025. I sat only feet away from Emily Damari as she spoke, her voice steady, her truth unflinching. I watched her courage, so raw, it pierced. And in that moment, I felt something shift inside me. I realized that for all my years of advocacy, all the times I’ve raised … More Courage After Emily
By Melanie Nathan, Oct 15, 2025. I feel compelled to give voice to the broad sentiment I’m hearing daily: that Jews are being squeezed by the twin pressures of far-right and far-left extremism, each exploiting us for its own narrative. This piece channels our community’s alarm, resolve, and insistence on moral clarity—not to inflame polarization, … More The Accordion of Extremes: Squeezes Jews in the Middle
By Melanie Nathan, September 07, 2025. In a City on Edge, Only One Candidate Confronts Hate with Unflinching Clarity … See the Jews Guide to Voting for NYC Mayor at the end. In a city as kaleidoscopic and politically combustible as New York, the mayoral showdown between Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani transcends electoral rivalry. … More The Socialist Mirage: Cuomo’s Clarity vs. Mamdani’s Dangerous Evasions
Jewish Man asked to leave MAURO CAFE on Melrose Ave in West Hollywood By Melanie Nathan, August 21, 2025. This past month, I have watched with alarm as antisemitic incidents increase and flood social media. Many are captured on video, but one cannot help but ask: how many go unrecorded, unseen, and unacknowledged? One recent … More Antisemitism on Melrose: When Hate Prevails in West Hollywood
BY Melanie Nathan, June 02, 2025. Since contracting Kehlani as a headline act for San Diego Pride, a coveted honor, there has been a spate of attacks against Jews in the United States that is very clearly rooted in the call to “Globalize the Intifada”, a movement which Kehlani not only supports, but fervently promotes … More San Diego Pride Founder Calls for Cancellation of Kehlani Jew-Hate at Pride
By Melanie Nathan, March 30, 2025. I had a visceral reaction to Hannah Einbinder’s 7+ minute visibility award acceptance speech at Human Rights Campaign’s Los Angeles gala last week. Several things struck me, pointing mostly to the infringement of the platform, resulting in subpar representation of real life for Queers, couched in the performative and … More Hannah Einbinder’s Irresponsible Visibility through HRC Gala Award Speech
A Call to Action for Humanity: By Melanie Nathan, November 26, 2024. Today we stand today at a crossroads in history. It is a time when America cannot turn its back on established refugee resettlement protocols. It is a time when the numbers of forcibly displaced people is at a record high, and anticipated to … More Jews during the Pogroms and the Plight of Persecuted Refugees today
Jews voting for Trump hate the comparison to Hitler. See the screenshot from Stop Antisemitism @StopAntisemitism, below and the post that introduced it by a member of a Private Facebook Group whose name shall remain anonymous*. The spread of this ridiculous notion on social media is repugnant to all I have been taught about NEVER … More Jews for Trump Fail NEVER AGAIN as do those who Refuse the Hitler-Comparison
By Melanie Nathan, October 22, 2024 I will never set foot in Hymie’s Deli, again. This is not about the fact that Hymie’s and its ownership seem to be supporting Donald Trump. If they do, I don’t care – that is their right. It is about exclusion and divisiveness. It seems that the ownership of … More The Hymie’s Boycott is regardless of whether Hymie’s supports Trump or not
HIGH HOLIDAY CALL- AUDIO CALL – I thought the call was very good. It actually moved me. VP Harris was very clear in her support of Israel including against Iran, she will never allow Iran to have nuclear weapons, and in her condemnation of antisemitism. The Vice President spoke specifically to the issue of campus … More VP Kamala Harris High Holiday Call to Jewish Voters.
By Melanie Nathan, August 31, 2024 I will not ask you to pardon this scurrilous analogy, noting while unsavory, it is metaphorically sound. A SIMPLE TRUTH that no Jew can escape acknowledging: We saw it with our own eyes: In 2016 Trump launched this current SURGE in antisemitism. While this does NOT deny the severity … More To my Fellow Jews who have yet to get it: Trump Unlocked this Surge in Antisemitism and what it means for Israel
By Melanie Nathan, August 07, 2024. Watching the discussion unfold in various venues, I am getting a sense of sentiment and have been able to coalesce them to formulate an evolved opinion on why Tim Walz is Kamala Harris’ best choice for Vice President. Kamala Harris is my candidate and she made the perfect choice. … More A Jewish Woman’s Perspective in understanding why Tim Walz was the Kamala Harris best choice
The following analysis is attributed to Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @JewishWonk VIA X (Twitter) thread, I have taken the thread directly from X, to extrapolate as a read for those who are not on X (formerly twitter) and to be of use to our Private Facebook Group, Jewish Woman for Kamala Harris (#JW4KH- 18,000 member … More Is Harris really Better for Israel than Trump – Clarity for the Voter and Influencer
By Melanie Nathan, July 27, 2027 There are plenty of recently available statements by Vice President Kamala Harris to point to her balanced view in attempting to promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, including her support of a cease fire deal which now seems to have been rejected by Hamas. There is … More Pro Hamas DNC Delegates Refuse to pledge for Kamala Harris
By Melanie Nathan, June 29, 2024 CAIR, Council on American-Islamic Relations, has also drawn controversy for its stances on LGBTQ+ issues, including its opposition to pro-LGBTQ+ materials in public school classrooms. Damn I got sidetracked again! G-d forbid – right, especially when I had designated my limited hours this morning to preparation for an asylum … More CAIR Crosses the Red Line against Mayor Karen Bass
By Melanie Nathan, May 27, 2024. I posted a picture comment and some verbiage about the seven young Israeli women who were kidnapped by Palestinian Hamas terrorists from their military post on October 07, 2023. It was so hard to wrap my head around such barbarism, the 8 months of ongoing torture and pain, and … More I ask Sinead MacLochlainn – What should I do if my Nurse is Antisemitic
By Melanie Nathan, April 28, 2024 My introduction to Rabbi Daniel Levin’s letter (below): As graduation and the end of this school year barrels toward us, American Jewish parents may find themselves in quandary. Their student children have been “got to” by the agenda-wielding anti-Zionists, anti-Israel BDS promotors, all of whom, knowingly or ignorantly, intent … More An Open Letter to Student Protesters
By Melanie Nathan, April 23, 2024 “Change course while you still have a good excuse – because after you read THIS there is NONE!” REPORTER TALKING TO A STUDENT AT EMERSON COLLEGE in BOSTON: Reporter: People say these encampments and protests are anti- Jewish” Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Hamas Student answers: “NO! How can the encampments at … More Campus Protests Reveal Jewish Voice for Peace Anti-Israel Mission Not So Peaceful
By Melanie Nathan, April 09, 2024. Bryn Mawr Film Institute (BMFI), operating in a largely Jewish township, has reset its illustrious path in one foul antisemitic swoop! That is how many in the Lower Merion networks see the BMFI decision to cancel Israel! For me, I see the pulling of an Israeli documentary, “A Child … More Bryn Mawr Film Institute Cancellation of Jews reflects a path to Kristallnacht
By Melanie Nathan, March 21, 2024. The source is The Judean: “Jewish Voice For Peace” Exposed By Errant Tweet From A Muslim Extremist” – and actual tweets! During the “Shield and Arrow” operation, CNN anchor Jake Tapper spoke about Israel’s right to defend itself. In an attempt to condemn Tapper, Dr. Hatem Bazian, an anti-Zionist … More Proof that Jewish Voice for Peace JVP Leadership is Actually an Anti-Semitic Muslim
by Melanie Nathan, February 08, 2024. “Now my disappointment and sense of exclusion, based on the imbalance reflecting sentiment, and despite the statement’s insistence that through 2024’s theme, Pride as a Beacon of Love, forces me to resign from my many years of San Francisco Pride support, love and membership.” I have a long and … More San Francisco Pride Gaza Statement where Fluff Fails Truth
By Melanie Nathan January 17, 2024. Creating Change, a preeminent LGBTQI+ conference, put on by the Task Force has a long history of making Jewish people feel unwelcome. Today they did it again at the 2024 plenary opening. There is a history of pro Palestinian led protests against Jewish events at the conference that has … More Jews NOT Welcome at Creating Change 2024
Justice for Mom, After Insult by Rabbi, by Melanie Nathan, May 20, 2023. I was shocked when my attention was drawn to a page in the Book, “The Traveling Rabbi: My African Tribe, by Moshe Silberhaft’s – an autobiography of so called “Traveling Rabbi” Moshe Silberhaft’s book about his purported work in Africa. Silberhaft writes … More Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft, The Travelling Rabbi’s Insulting Lie That Still Hurts
As this Jewish New Year approaches, I am reminded of the refuge, sanctuary and home that Africa gave to my grandparents approximately 100 years ago, as they fled the Pogroms in Ukraine. America and Canada had turned us away! We, the stranger, were welcomed to South Africa. And it was complex… We were classified as … More REFLECTIONS on WISHING YOU HAPPINESS NEW YEAR 5783
CHAG SAMEACH April 14, 2022, 13 Nissan 5782 Dear Friends, We are reminded to talk about the stranger at our Seder table. The Jewish people memorialize the Exodus from Egypt during the Pesach (Passover) Holiday, this year April 15 to April 23, reading and citing blessings from the Haggadah, where a passage from Exodus notes, … More Chag Sameach and The Stranger
The FIRST Woman – The First Jewish person – What does THAT tell YOU? I feel rage. For all the underhandedness, hypocrisy and abuse of power wielded by Mitch McConnell, Republican Majority leader in the Senate. Yes, I felt that – and then a friend this morning drew my attention to this, and it threw … More U.S. Senate Leader Mitch McConnell Chooses not to attend RBG Memorial and as first Women Lying in State
Rosh Hashana starts the Jewish New Year. It is a time for renewal and leading into the ‘Days of Awe’ it is a time for contemplation and atonement For many of us this has been an extremely difficult year and we wonder about our World: COVID-19 Over 30 million cases of the deadly Corona-Virus and … More AHRC Greetings for a Shana Tova this Jewish New Year 5781
The 37th World Zionist Congress currently taking place in Jerusalem for the first time is setting up a unit to work with the LGBTQ Jewish community. Within the framework of Pride Month, the World Zionist Organization (WZO )has established a Unit for Activities with the LGBT community that will operate in three spheres: The central one will … More World Zionist Congress Embraces LGBTQ Initiatives
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