On Shabbos, the last day of Pesach, 19-year-old John Earnest of San Diego walked into the Chabad of Poway synagogue and opened fire, killing one person and injuring three others. Liberal media …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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5/8/19
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American Jews have a long and understandable tradition of advocacy for immigrants. That’s due in part to the fact that most Jews were the children and grandchildren of immigrants as the …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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7/18/19
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An Israeli mother recently posted on her Facebook page a photo of Muslim-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli healthcare professionals dancing together at a staff function at Jerusalem’s Hadassah …
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By James Sinkinson, FLAME
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5/6/20
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In Shoftim, Moses speaks about the great institutions of Judaism: courts, judges, officers, kings, priests, Levites and prophets. In the case of the prophet, Moses says in the name of G-d:
I …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
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8/19/20
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The penultimate verses of Parashat Bereishit present us with dire foreboding: And the L-rd saw that the evil of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of his heart was only evil all …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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10/22/20
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A perennial discussion in the cauldron that is Middle Eastern politics concerns the degree to which a sovereign Palestinian state, should one ever be created, would be democratic.
The …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/4/22
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Sometimes others know us better than we know ourselves. In the year 2000, a British Jewish research institute came up with a proposal that Jews in Britain be redefined as an ethnic group and not as a …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks zt"l
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1/25/23
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It is not unusual for a book’s title to include a year. 1776 and 1912 are among my favorites. They resonate deep meaning and so does the year 1492.
“1492,” subtitled …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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12/27/23
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By Chananya Weissman
Issue of Sept. 12, 2008
I choose my topics carefully. After all, there is no need to present an exhaustive catalogue of the madness that one encounters or breathlessly …
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9/11/08
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The President-elect once bought a home whose deed prohibited its resale or rental to Jews. He had associations with a number of …
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By Rabbi Avi Shafran
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12/17/08
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