As the world marked International Women’s Day last Friday, the various social-media platforms lit up with posts from pro-Israel celebrities and influencers demanding the release of the female …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/13/24
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In an appearance this week on MSNBC, veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville made a stunning statement. Speaking of the uncommitted vote in Michigan, Carville said that it will be …
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By Caroline Glick
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3/6/24
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Sigmund Freud always took a somewhat jaundiced view of the human psyche, but in the wake of the horrors of World War I, it turned even darker.
Confronted with mankind’s capacity to destroy …
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By Benjamin Kerstein
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3/6/24
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W hen all is said and done, antisemitism is fundamentally an ideology of violence. Behind every missive and every barb — whether delivered online, at pro-Hamas rallies or graffitied on the …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/6/24
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Evidence continues to pile up that antisemitism on American college campuses hasn’t just surged in the months since Oct. 7 but become commonplace. The disturbing incident this past week at the …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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3/6/24
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O ur parasha begins with Moshe Rabbeinu gathering the entire Jewish people before him, at which point we would expect some sort of listing of “the things that Hashem commanded to make.” …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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3/6/24
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T he Yalkut Shimoni’s opening comment in his Midrashic exposition on Parshas Vayakhel is translated as follows:
Vayakhel Moshe, and Moshe gathered: Our Rabbis, the master Aggadists, said …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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3/6/24
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Editor’s note: With life in Russia increasingly under the gun, and with its Jews again in the crosshairs, we revisit this column from 2013.
How ironic that a published history of the …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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3/6/24
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Purim, which begins at motzei Shabbat on March 23, is rooted in Jewish survival in the Persian Empire, thanks to the bravery and Jewish pride of Mordechai and Esther. …
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By Ethel G. Hofman
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3/6/24
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Q uite a few years ago, I spent almost every Sunday afternoon in one of the great museums of the city where we then lived. I no longer remember what first stimulated my interest in art, and …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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3/6/24
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