Rabbi Meir Kahane never copyrighted it, despite the fact that the leader of the Jewish Defense League popularized its use on the streets of Brooklyn. Nor did those who first used the words “Never Again” when referring to the murder of 6 million Jews …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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5/2/18
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Using information secretly removed from Iran and verified by the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu exposed on Monday major Iranian deceptions regarding the history of its …
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By Jeff Dunetz, Jewish Star columnist
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5/2/18
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Between now and May 12, President Trump will announce his decision on whether or not the United States will pull out of the JCPOA, the nuclear deal with Iran. This reporter’s prediction is that …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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5/2/18
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On April 25, the day set aside to commemorate the end of Nazi occupation in Italy during World War II and the victory of the Resistance, the story that dominated the Italian news involved people …
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By Fiamma Nirenstein
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5/2/18
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Sometimes a cluster of unrelated events transpiring in close succession seem to have an invisible dialogue all its own. Last week was just such a week.
It started with the milestone of modern day …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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5/2/18
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Naftali Bennett is Israel’s minister of education and Diaspora affairs.
For decades, world Jewry helped Israel. Organizations gathered and sent funds to the feeble, small state; our Air …
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By Naftali Bennett
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5/2/18
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In “Anti-Semite and Jew,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “I refuse to characterize as opinion a doctrine that is aimed directly at particular persons and that seeks to suppress their …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/2/18
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Spring is finally here. We want to be outside as much as possible, and we do not want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen on dinner prep. The kids are probably busy with after school programs and …
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By Joni Schockett
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5/2/18
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We should not be surprised by the similarities between Judaism and the surrounding cultures, one of my professors, Rabbi Menachem M. Brayer, PhD zatzal, once noted. After all, they were in the same …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/2/18
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Shortly after his election as Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel in the early 1970s, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef visited New York City and spent Yom Ha’Atzma’ut here. He gave a shiur for rabbis, at …
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By Rabbi Marc D. Angels
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5/2/18
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