When a teenager informs his parent that he intends to do something rash, any normal, responsible parent tries to dissuade him. “Don’t do something crazy just because your friends are …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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3/29/23
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Five years ago, an 85-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, Mireille Knoll, was brutally murdered in her apartment in Paris by two intruders, one of whom was a neighbor she had known since his …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/29/23
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The 3,697 US antisemitic incidents the Anti-Defamation League recorded in 2022 represent a 36% increase over the 2,717 it tracked in 2021 and “the highest number on record since ADL began …
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3/29/23
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Two incidents of swastikas found in the Woodmere Middle School boys’ bathroom on March 14 and 16 prompted the school to bring a visitor to speak to the sixth- and seventh-graders last week in …
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By Kepherd Daniel, Nassau Herald
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3/29/23
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Innocent people of color were assaulted by a racist mob this past weekend. The victims were guilty of being the “wrong” color.
The wrong color license plate, that is.
It happened in …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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3/22/23
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Once upon a time, Roger Waters was a hero in Germany. In July 1990, a few months after the razing of the Berlin Wall, the former Pink Floyd frontman performed the group’s 1979 album “The …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/22/23
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The Israeli security establishment has received dozens of concrete alerts about plots to carry out terrorist attacks, both in Judea and Samaria and within the Green Line, a former defense official …
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By Yaakov Lappin, JNS
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3/22/23
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This spiteful playground barb has been leveled at Jews in one form or another for centuries: “Then the L-rd G-d said to Moses, All the Jews shall have long noses.”
While antisemitism …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/8/23
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In common with many people who spent their childhood in the 1970s, I loved Roald Dahl’s novels for children, especially “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Of course, as a …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/1/23
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A rabbi on his way to board a connecting flight at Jordan’s main airport had the straps of his tefillin cut by security guards who called them a security threat, he said Thursday.
It was the …
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By Etgar Lefkovits, JNS
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3/1/23
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