When Rabbi Jay Lyons prepares a body for burial, it feels like he’s in synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
Lyons, along with other Jews charged with …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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5/15/19
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Queens Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has been receiving well-deserved criticism for debasing the memory of the Holocaust and misrepresenting ICE’s treatment of illegal immigrant children with …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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7/3/19
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It was the kind of thing you would hear from old men. “Things just ain’t the way they used to be.” “This new generation is going to hell in a handbasket.” “I …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tavi Hersh Weinreb
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9/19/19
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In international conflicts, history is more of a weapon than a field of study. That’s why the history of Palestinian Arab refugees is so well-known. Far less understood is the story of …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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12/4/19
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If you are looking for an international institution that brazenly fawns over the world’s most despotic regimes regardless of how low they might sink on the moral scale, then the U.N. Human …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/22/20
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SKA’s graduates are not posing maskless at the school. This photo, virtually bringing together the entire Class of 2020, was produced by Art Photography.
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6/24/20
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The Israeli left likes to claim its no-holds-barred fight against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters is an ideological struggle that pits the forces of democracy and old-time …
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By Caroline Glick
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10/14/20
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With the balance of power in the Senate hanging on the dual Senate runoff in Georgia on Jan. 5, Georgia’s Jews have not escaped the national political divide.
Many worry about the long-term …
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By Larry Brook, JNS
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12/30/20
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Rabbi Dovid Kviat zt”l , prolific author of the acclaimed “Succas Dovid,” was born in Bialystock, Poland, one of the outstanding scholars of the Mir Yeshiva. During World War II …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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4/29/21
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Imagine: The vice president of the United States visits a college campus and fields questions from students. One student stands up and defiantly says, “I don’t understand why our …
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By James Sinkinson, FLAME
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10/20/21
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