admin | April 20, 2024
How do we as Jews gather at our seder tables when the hostage situation by Passover may be unresolved? Let My people go that they may celebrate a festival for Me in the wilderness Exodus 5:1. Have any words ever sounded more profound and relevant than they do right now.
admin | April 20, 2024
For Jews, Passover is a time of liberation. The Exodus story tells the tale of a slave population liberated by divine intervention
admin | April 11, 2024
Hamass murderous October 7 attack wasnt only about hurting and killing people it was part of a larger, more ambitious plan: to remove all Jewish presence from Israel. This is why victory wont be gained merely by destroying Hamas but by making it clear to Israels enemies that we Jews arent going anywhere, that more Jews plan to move to Israel (make aliyah) and help to improve the countrys society and economy. October 7 was, without doubt, one of the hardest days in Israels history
admin | April 11, 2024
04-07-2024 Roger Berkowitz Jim Sleeper begins his long essay on the many forgotten historical and religious foundations of the shallow modern understanding of claims like zionism, settler colonialism, and antisemitism by quoting T.S.
admin | March 30, 2024
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between
admin | March 21, 2024
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP A 46-year-old from Pennsylvania will spend the rest of his life in prison after he burned down three houses in Midwood in an attempt to kill a rabbi.
admin | March 21, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) An arsonist with a tattoo reading KILL Rabbi Max was sentenced to decades in prison for setting fire to a rabbis home in 2019. Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email Matthew Karelefsky, 46, was convicted last month of charges including attempted murder, arson and assault for the crime in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood. On Monday, he received a sentence in Brooklyn Supreme Court of 25 years to life in prison
admin | March 21, 2024
ISRAEL (VINnews) Rabbi David Yosef, a leading Sefardi Rav, says that this Purim, due to the war, people should refrain from public celebrations. He said that while people should celebrate privately, public celebrations would convey an appearance that those who are celebrating are not feeling the pain of people who are suffering, and it would thus create a chilul Hashem
admin | March 13, 2024
Not long after Feigele (Vladka) Peltels father died of pneumonia in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, the 17-year-old found herself at a lecture about Yiddish author I.L. Peretz hosted by her social democratic youth group, Tsukunft (The Future). She doesnt precisely remember the talk, but she does recall the energy in the room
admin | March 13, 2024
Tel Aviv/West Jerusalem In 2015, Maya, a Jewish Israeli, travelled to Greece to help Syrian refugees. At the time, she was an exchange student in Germany and she had been deeply moved by the pictures she saw of desperate people arriving there in small boats. That was where she met Palestinians who had been born in Syria after their parents and grandparents fled there during the founding of her own country in 1948.
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