Qatar’s foreign minister last week declared that his country will not normalize relations with Israel. And yet, not long ago …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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10/20/21
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As Israel’s first president to visit the United Arab Emirates, Yitchak Herzog”s trip was a historic one and he was greeted with great pomp …
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From TheYeshivaWorld.com
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2/4/22
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Except for the saints among us, we all boast. Sometimes we boast about our own natural endowments, our good looks, or our athletic prowess. Often we boast about our achievements, social or …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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7/13/22
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While many see the creation of the modern State of Israel as a reaction to the Shoah, that’s not how nearly 30 veterans of the 1948 War of Independence in Israel — all octogenarians, …
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By Avi Kumar, JNS
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4/19/23
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The sages informed King David early one morning that the Jewish people required financial assistance. “Let them go and support one another,” the biblical king told them, as the Talmud …
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By Mike Wagenheim, JNS
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7/19/23
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Enough is enough.
My children said to me, Dad, what is this? And I said, it’s very easy. This is good, and this is evil, and there’s no …
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By Hempstead Town Supervisor Donald X. Clavin Jr. [Excerpt]
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10/18/23
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Disclaimer: This essay is a work of fiction. The author is a white Jewish male in his 60s, not a teenage African-American female. But he is a novelist with a number of titles to his name, so he makes …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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12/26/23
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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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By Jewish Star staff
Issue of Sept. 5, 2008
The One Israel Fund, in conjunction with three local institutions, placed three bomb shelters at shuls in Sderot on Aug. 31, in an effort to …
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9/5/08
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Issue of March 20, 2009 / 24 Adar 5769
Human nature has played a key role in the dearth of criminal cases and civil lawsuits filed against perpetrators of sexual abuse in our yeshivahs. Experts …
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3/18/09
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