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Sep 3, 2024, 6:59 AM

Do not let the execution of six more hostages blind you to the reality that the Biden-Harris administration signed their death warrants. Enough with the empty talk about “ironclad” commitment to Israeli security, the White House repeatedly threatened Israel...

Feb 20, 2024, 11:03 AM

Tucker Carlson isn’t ‘just asking questions’

Tucker Carlson’s sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his subsequent tour of Moscow drew widespread criticism. Given his sympathetic views toward Russia, critics believed the interview served only to legitimize an autocratic regime and American adversary, while mocking...

Nov 14, 2023, 4:09 AM

A people unlike other peoples

Most lines from Hayim Nahman Bialik’s poem “In the City of Slaughter” are hauntingly reminiscent of the Simchat Torah nightmare forever seared into our memory. One line in particular stands out, not for its depiction of the carnage in...

Oct 22, 2023, 7:43 PM

They said they’re going to gas us. Believe them

As the magnitude of the massacre became apparent and I struggled to find the words, a thought surfaced, one echoing the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno: “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.” I realize no words of mine could...

Apr 20, 2023, 9:25 PM

A Report on the Pittsburgh Trans Debate

Tuesday night I attended the anxiously awaited Michael Knowles event on transgenderism at the University of Pittsburgh, my alma mater. There I observed two completely different Americas: the free society inside the O’Hara Student Center and the brave new...

Sep 14, 2022, 10:50 AM

Rethinking Pittsburgh Jewish Leadership

Last October, I resigned from the Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh Community Relations Council. At that point, I had been a Pittsburgh-Israel Campus Fellow for several months, working as a liaison between the Federation and my now-alma mater, the University...

Jun 23, 2022, 7:59 PM

SJP’s Land Day Lies

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) constitute the most influential university branch of the anti-Israel movement. Despite their banal sloganeering and ludicrous propaganda, SJP keeps anti-Zionism in vogue with every cycle of impressionable college students eager to fight social...

May 18, 2021, 11:53 AM

The False Zion of Progressive Jewry

In 1987, Judaic scholar Jacob Neusner penned an op-ed for the Washington Post arguing that American Jews are living in the Promised Land. Between the unprecedented freedom and security, along with our disproportionate achievements in nearly every field, Neusner...

Nov 20, 2020, 8:31 AM

Never Forget, Ever Forgotten

Credit: US Holocaust Memorial Museum

In the winter of 1944, an Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner named Murray Scheinberg watched as the camp’s latest arrivals exited the boxcar of a train and onto a selection ramp to be chosen for either forced labor or certain death in...

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Aidan Segal is an award-winning freelance writer. He holds a bachelor's degree in English Writing and a certificate in Jewish Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. He intends on making Aliyah later this year.

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