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Thanks for the crrringe, Jonah Hill
‘You People’ depicts Jews as obtuse and apologetic for enjoying white privilege. Is that the only kind of Jew acceptable in the US today?
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What to expect when the Palestinian Authority collapses
All hell could break loose, leaving the IDF to contend alone without the benefit of PA cooperation – and that’s just for starters
Marcus Sheff
What Muhammad Aliwat learned in school
Palestinian curricula continue to glorify religious martyrdom and spread hatred even as educational reform is underway elsewhere in the Arab world
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Boris Mints
Feb 1, 2023, 10:21 AM
Leading minds in Israel offer the gift of hope
Over the past week I was fortunate to be in Paris, listening to some of the stars of global academia giving their insight into the “New World Order”. Anyone that follows the news knows that there was much to talk...
Yaakov Selavan
Feb 1, 2023, 9:06 AM
Bamba, Coke, Unity
A Coke bottle and Bamba bag commemorate a fallen soldier, and call for unity amongst sectors Family and friends seek appropriate commemorations for their deceased loved one. But distributing Bamba and Coca Cola to honor a fallen soldier might...
Kenneth Cohen
Feb 1, 2023, 7:09 AM
Redemption of First Born Donkey
There is an unusual ceremony mentioned in the Torah, known as פדיון פטר חמור. It refers to the redemption of a first born male donkey. If someone owned a female donkey and its first offspring was a male, this first...
Kenny Schiowitz
Feb 1, 2023, 7:06 AM
The Survivor Nation
This past week, our family suffered the passing of our Bobby, Mrs. Blanche Steinmetz, Batsheva Beila bas Moshe a”h. Bobby was a survivor of Auschwitz and was laid to rest this past Friday, Jan. 27, on International Holocaust Remembrance...
Allen S. Maller
Feb 1, 2023, 1:25 AM
The Kaab’a And The Temple Mount Are Linked By Holiness
The United Nations General Assembly on October 20, 2010 proclaimed the first week of February of each year as an Interfaith Harmony Week for all religions, faiths and beliefs; recognizing ”the imperative need for dialogue among faiths and religions in...
Michael Carasik
Feb 1, 2023, 1:25 AM
Beshalach: Manna from Heaven
This week, before we begin, a Torah Puzzler: What connects this week’s reading with Parashat Bereshit, at the very beginning of the Torah? The answer, or at least my answer, will be at the end of the column. What I...
Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden
Feb 1, 2023, 1:25 AM
To begin drinking alcohol or smoking weed is not cool or smart
Intentionally, I exclude from this pep talk those already addicted "My parents always warned me to look both ways before crossing a street. But now, I'm big and can do whatever I want. And I only look when I...
Sheldon Kirshner
Feb 1, 2023, 1:25 AM
Blinken’s Trip Lays Bare Differences With Israel
Their stiff body language was unmistakably indicative of their sharp policy differences over the combustible, still unresolved Palestinian issue. As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken extolled the virtues of a two-state solution during his first trip to Israel following...
Israel Drazin
Feb 1, 2023, 1:24 AM
Thoughts on the Biblical Portion Beshalach
The weekly biblical portion Beshalach, meaning When Pharaoh “sent out” the Israelites from their centuries of enslavement, tells how the exodus began, Pharaoh pursued the Israelites, the Israelites’ panic, God’s assurance of safety, the splitting of the sea, the...
Yossi Feintuch
Feb 1, 2023, 1:24 AM
”My handiwork is drowning” — Israel or Egypt?
Evidently, both the Song of the Sea -- the "sea" being most likely a mere sea of reed, a narrow passage between the big bitter lake and the small bitter lake in the eastern delta of the Nile river...
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