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Oct 20, 2022, 8:45 PM

A wake-up call to American Jewry

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"History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done." ~ Sydney J. Harris. Hatred and discrimination are not things that pop up overnight. In medical terms, they are more like slow-growing...

Mar 27, 2022, 10:40 AM

Them Today, Us Tomorrow

Our country sure has been going through some good times lately. Between our booming economy that has largely weathered the pandemic and new friendships with our Arab neighbors, our nation has been doing good. With the continued support of...

Nov 15, 2021, 1:34 PM

The Smartest Virus in History

Once upon a time, people went to college to "expand their horizons" and gain actual knowledge and know-how about functioning as productive members of society. We socialized with others and learned from others. We looked up to professors as...

Jan 7, 2021, 2:21 PM

The Point of No Return

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For over a decade (long before many of us even knew who Donald Trump was), America began to rapidly head down a path for which there is no return after a certain point. This path is "The path of...

Dec 1, 2020, 11:15 PM

Oh, the Places We’ll go!

To my brothers in Saudi Arabia living a finger's length away from me on a map, the time has come for us to change the world as we know it forever. Today we are closer than ever to making...

Nov 9, 2019, 11:01 AM

A Bittersweet Moment

It started as a typical day in the life of a soldier in the hills of Hebron. A few of my teammates and my officer were in a bunker overlooking a road often used by Jews in nearby settlements....

Oct 14, 2018, 6:47 AM

The human beneath the helmet

Every Friday, the sky above me rains down with grenades and homemade bombs attached to balloons by the very same protestors who the media makes out to be oppressed and unarmed. Bullets from snipers on the other side of...

Jul 10, 2018, 12:13 PM

Why I chose the Canteen over the Pina Colada

It has been almost a year already since I made the life-changing decision to leave my comfortable life in Miami behind and embark on a new and unfamiliar path: Making aliyah and joining the Israel Defense Forces. In a...

Mar 5, 2017, 12:33 AM

All Talk, No Action

So I have not made a secret that as a Republican who believes in traditional conservative values, there are a plethora of things about Donald Trump that I find repulsive, to put it lightly. However, I was always taught...

Dec 25, 2016, 4:54 AM

Angered, but not surprised

So I am sure that by this point, I am not breaking any headlines by writing about the anti-Israel UN Security Council resolution that was passed hardly a day ago. Nor is it a surprise anymore that President Obama...

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Benjamin Jaffe currently lives in Jerusalem and is a nursing student at Machon Lev College.