It’s not surprising that the press had a field day following Dr. Phil’s interview last week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Until recently, the iconic TV …
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By Ruthie Blum
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5/15/24
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President Joe Biden’s speech on May 7 at the US Capitol, during which he eloquently revisited Nazi Germany’s journey from racial laws discriminating against Jews to outright …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/15/24
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Long ago, I was held captive in Kabul as a young bride. When I managed to get out, I understood in my bones that the West and the East are very different places. Other Americans do not …
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By Phyllis Chesler
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5/15/24
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Antisemitic violence and intimidation continue at encampments and protests at universities across the United States. At the same time, debates on free speech, hate speech and threats …
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By Gerald M. Steinberg
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5/15/24
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Seven months of an unprecedented surge in antisemitism that has turned American college campuses and even K-12 schools into hostile environments for Jews has changed a lot of …
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By Jonathan Tobin
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5/15/24
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Most of the news we get about America these days is about the awful demonstrations on the university campuses. They already stopped calling for a ceasefire, and have starting demanding …
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By Shari Hartuv
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5/15/24
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The beginning of our parasha, Emor, focuses upon a variety of laws that pertain solely to the kohanim. From a halachic perspective, they have little to do with the majority of the Jewish people, as …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/15/24
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It was our first masah , our first forced march. We were barely two weeks in the army and Itzik, a sadistic little first sergeant who had made it his mission to break us into soldiers, owned us for …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/15/24
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This week’s book, “The Accidental Zionist” by Rabbi Ian Pear (New Song Publishers, 2008) is an informal, somewhat irreverent book, zany at times about subjects that are dead …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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5/15/24
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Dead. Unburied. Abandoned. Forgotten. What can be a worse fate?
I once read a very moving novel about the events immediately preceding World War I and the fate of those who were caught up in the …
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By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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5/15/24
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