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Juliet Moses

'Excruciating': A Tonge-lashing from an anti-Semite

Jenny Tonge may have surpassed even her own toxic speech in asking why Jews need a safe haven 'when the going gets tough'

Illustration of Moses leading the Children of Israel out of Egypt in the Kaufmann Haggadah, 14th century. (Wikimedia Commons)

Devorah Schoenfeld

Judge, priest, prophet, and king

Even Moses was replaceable, but it took 4 different models of leadership to cover his job

Stuff on a bench (Miriam Herschlag)

Miriam Herschlag

Stuff people leave on benches

A Tel Aviv tale of giveaways and takeaways

To lead is to serve

The Torah is a sustained exploration of the extent to which a society can be organised not on the basis of power (Shoftim)

Yonatan Gher

Beinart’s airport grilling was no mistake

Netanyahu doesn't think the policy is wrong -- he's just sorry it was applied to a prominent Jew

Partial list by the Jerusalem Heritage House of those not welcome there, August 13, 2018. (Jacob Kornbluh on Twitter/via The Times of Israel)

Put me on the list

Everyone has the right to deny access to those they consider dangerous, but that doesn't make it the smart move

Chairman of the World Jewish Congress, Ron Lauder speaks during the 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on March 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Menachem Margolin

Israel is the only Jewish state we have

The vast majority of Diaspora Jews know that helping Israel may be the best investment for their own futures

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Jonathan Ferguson

Aug 17, 2018, 3:17 PM

Hodge Comparisons: A New Frontier in Legitimate Antisemitism (Part I)

What's the worst Labour antisemitism comment you've seen recently? And just how bad was it? As I sit scrolling through Twitter in the dull dismay of the perpetually unsurprised, I can see an utter deluge of tasteless #hodgecomparisons tweets from Corbyn...

Aug 17, 2018, 1:55 PM

Israel, This Is Exactly Who We Are

There's something that gets under my skin. Something that really bothers me. Something that makes me twist uncomfortably clenching my teeth together in a grinding motion that will definitely earn a reprimand from my dentist. It’s not the incessant criticism...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 17, 2018, 1:53 PM

First artistic depiction of a bi-gender Adam HaKadmon found near Bethlehem

According to a Times of Israel article (6/28/18) the first artistic depiction of Adam HaKadmon was uncovered in the 1930s in a cave near Bethlehem called Ain Sakhri. The ancient (11,000 years old) sculpture, chiseled out of a...

Aug 17, 2018, 12:27 PM

Jews and Australian Politics

So much has been written about Australia’s Anglo-Celtic culture and historic aboriginal traditions that it can be conveniently forgotten that Australia also possesses a rich multicultural heritage. In Jews and Australian Politics, Levey and Mendes note that “Judged by...

Aug 17, 2018, 12:26 PM

King Canute – Alive and Well and Living in America

The apocryphal story of King Canute and the tide was first recorded by Henry of Huntingdon in the 12th century. In the original story, Canute demonstrates that he has no control over the incoming tide. He was trying to...

Michael Laitman

Aug 17, 2018, 12:06 PM

A Review of Anti-Semitism in America After the Unite the Right 2 Rally

Let’s be realistic. The magnitude of racism and anti-Semitism in America cannot be measured by the low attendance at the recent Unite the Right 2 rally, the one-year commemoration of the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, which had resulted...

Christos Loutradis

Aug 17, 2018, 12:06 PM

Atheism as the new ‘Religion’ of our time

It is part of a post-modern discourse that dominates the Media of our time the collective accusation of Religion at whole from a new-age atheist perspective. Part of the increase of this new age atheistic perspective is the usage...

Aug 17, 2018, 9:27 AM

Labeling journalists “the enemy of the people”

“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People! 1:48 PM - 17 Feb 2017” -President Trump “When American leaders stand up for a free press, they embolden...

Aug 17, 2018, 9:26 AM

Min Ha-Maitzar… From Out of the Depths

In a few days on the 20th of Elul I will light a candle and go to the synagogue to recite the Kaddish prayer for my beloved and sainted wife. It is two years since I closed her eyes...

Aug 17, 2018, 9:25 AM

I generally don't like to go off-topic from focusing on the hearing-impaired. But, I feel the need to express something extremely touching that occurred last weekend. This story is about a cop who works in the Jerusalem, the great capitol...

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