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Nov 19, 2025, 8:13 AM

Say Something! In these days of violence unleashed, tenuously subdued, and barely restrained – what is a human being to do? In these days of flagrant public antisemitism intertwined with virulent anti-Zionism – what is a friend of Israel to do? How...

Sep 29, 2025, 10:17 AM

Twice Again and Thrice Shall Masada Fall

“Never again shall Masada fall” was the motto on which I grew up in Israel. We will never again have our fate determined by a foreign power. We will be strong and independent! Israeli kids were all taken on class...

Aug 2, 2025, 12:24 AM

A Consuming Fire

For so many Jews who came from Ukraine, the image of the Cossacks riding into town meant the shtetle would soon burn. People would die, lives would be devastated. The memory of those marauding Cossacks was etched into my...

Jul 21, 2025, 8:15 AM

The Third Temple

You no longer need to imagine what the fall of the Temple in Jerusalem was like. You no longer need to reconstruct a coherent picture from fragments of eyewitness reports filtered through ancient historians’ narratives. Scrolls no longer need...

Jun 3, 2025, 7:17 AM

Ad Matai? Until When?

Another senseless attack on Jews occurred just two days ago, this time in Boulder Colorado. Anger at Israel mixed with plain old-fashioned antisemitism, brought the Israel-Gaza war to this tranquil, lovely college town. A Holocaust survivor, marching to remind the...

Apr 10, 2025, 5:41 AM

Pesach is the holiday that teaches us to rid ourselves of the dross in our lives. It is the holiday of the eradication of Hametz -- the fermenting element needed for dough to rise. Get rid of the yeast and, with...

Mar 22, 2025, 11:11 AM

Like A Bird Out The Window

A Jew very much wanted to become a circus performer. One day, when the circus was in town, the Jew went and looked for the circus manager. “What do you want?” Asked the manager. “I want to be in the circus,”...

Mar 10, 2025, 7:27 AM

Requiem for a Hasid

In 1772, a child is born in Medzibuz, Ukraine. He is the son of a rabbi, a nephew of a rabbi, and a great grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, the iconic founder of the Hasidic movement, a reformative,...

Mar 2, 2025, 2:58 PM

Teach Your Children Well

My great grandfather, Shmuel Bloom, was orphaned at a young age in his little hometown in Lithuania. Barely surviving, hungry, weak of body – but never of mind or spirit – he would earn some precious money by reciting...

Feb 13, 2025, 5:06 AM

Crossing The Rubicon

At a news conference in the White House last week, the President of the United States proposed an ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. The President suggested removing the Palestinians of Gaza to other countries, while expressing his desire...

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Rabbi Danny Maseng is a composer, singer, clergy member and author living in California.

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