admin | July 19, 2024
Gerald Leval Gerard Leval The Jerusalem Post reported that Moshe Sebbag, the rabbi of Paris most prominent synagogue on rue de la Victoire, recently stated that it is clear today that there is no future for Jews in France. I tell everyone who is young to go to Israel or a more secure country. Sebbags statement reminded me of a conversation I had some years ago at a dinner with friends in Paris.
admin | July 19, 2024
Considering the surge of Jew hatred in America today, two questions challenge the Jewish community: how did we get here, and where do we go next? No single answer suffices, but a recently published book Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew by Noa Tishby and Emmanuel Acho does an admirable job answering both questions
admin | July 19, 2024
Like other forms of predatory behavior, there are common motivations that link fundamentalist Islamist terrorists and fundamentalist Christian missionaries. Both actively pursue the Jewish people individually and as a nation. Jihadists aspire to physically eradicate the Jews and their progeny, and missionaries hope to absorb and consume them spiritually
admin | July 6, 2024
This weeks French elections and the possibility of the country having its first far-Right prime minister since World War II has triggered once again the France question which has a Jewish angle.
admin | June 27, 2024
Taylor Swifts detachment from contentious global conflicts is a hallmark of her superstardom. For some fans in Israel, its also a selling point. Michal Paz-Klapp, the Young Adult editor at Israels prominent Modan Publishing House, snatched the opportunity to publish a Hebrew-language edition of Who Is Taylor Swift?, by Kirsten Anderson.
admin | June 27, 2024
As French Jews, Maury, and Alain Fischler feel trapped between equally unpalatable extremes as France rushes into a snap election with the far right ahead in the polls, followed by a left-wing bloc they say harbors antisemites. President Emmanuel Macron called the parliamentary election on June 9 after his centrist Together alliance was trounced in European elections by the anti-immigrant National Rally (RN), which is now the frontrunner to form France's next government. This is profoundly worrying for the Fischlers, who detest far-right ideology and see the RN's transition from a party that once flirted openly with antisemitism into one that denounces it as a cynical ploy to create a veneer of respectability
admin | June 27, 2024
The snap elections decided upon by President Emmanuel Macron after the poor results in the European elections are a major shock for France and causing major turmoil. There are three potential outcomes to these elections none of them are reassuring for French Jews: Victory for the far Right with the Rassemblement National (RN) The victory of a left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front The absence of any stable majority Marine le Pen has wanted to normalize her party since taking it over in 2011, and antisemitism was both an imperative and a very good way to achieve this goal.
admin | June 7, 2024
DUNWOODY, Ga. Victory over Germany was in sight for the Allies on April 29, 1945, as the 42nd Infantry Division stormed toward Munich. Pfc
admin | June 7, 2024
By Hamodia Staff The deputy Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Bjorn Berge, made it clear at the conference marking the Day of Liberation and Rescue of the survivors of the Holocaust on Wednesday, that it is our duty to prevent hatred of the Jews that is rampant throughout Europe. The Council was established 75 years ago in the aftermath of the Second World War.
admin | May 30, 2024
Neutralizing the death camps Round II: Will the US impose sanctions against the ICC? On May 2, six Holocaust survivors who were selected to light memorial torches during Israels Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara. One of the survivors commented that the State of Israel is the one and only shelter for the Jewish nation.
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