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May 13, 2024, 5:40 AM

If the US has been holding back Intel and if you are not angry yet, you should be

Much has been made over the past few days, and rightly so, about the Biden administration holding back certain weapons from Israel due to its objection to the operations in Rafah. But apparently, while it has seemed till now...

Mar 13, 2024, 8:41 AM

Shurat Hadin: Israel’s legal warriors

As we find ourselves in what is the most disturbing and frightening time for the Jewish people since the Holocaust, we look for rays of light to give us hope and warriors to make things better. Shurat Hadin Israel...

Jan 2, 2024, 6:46 PM

Today is my birthday, and Israel is my gift

I could not write this unless I really felt this way. To make a statement such as this, that Israel is my gift on my birthday, and not be a genuine sentiment, would be the worst kind of virtue...

Oct 23, 2023, 9:20 PM

A world’s ongoing obsession with the Jewish people

At the end of February 2007, a Jewish kindergarten was smeared with anti-Semitic threats and tried to set fire to it. © Shmuel Segal

There are some things people know their entire life. Those things that define you as a person. It might be the language you speak or the country you were born in. It might be financial status of your family...

Oct 19, 2023, 7:41 PM

How to win the war on our hearts and minds

Tel Aviv, June 2022

We are at war. And whether or not the misguided cowards in the Jewish community who marched on the US Capitol calling for a cease fire while elderly people, young women and babies are amongst the hostages being held...

Oct 12, 2023, 10:32 PM

B’nei Akiva’s importance in time of crisis

For those who do not know, I will give you a brief and simple historical background. B’nei Akiva is an Orthodox & Zionist Jewish youth group in which boys and girls, later to become men and women, from...

Oct 10, 2023, 10:38 AM

Jew hatred puts the world on trial and in peril

Palestinians hold a kite adorned with a swastika that is carrying a bomb near the border with Israel east of Gaza City, on April 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

As the full scope of the barbaric attack on Israel is still unfolding, people’s true colors are on full display. For all those tourists who visited Anne Frank’s House, or movie lovers and Hollywood types who loved and honored...

Oct 3, 2023, 5:58 AM

The Happiness and Unity of Sukkot

As the solemn day of Yom Kippur came to an end and we got together with friends and family to break the fast, there was an actual commandment queued up for us as soon as we were able to...

Mar 26, 2021, 9:26 AM

The lessons I learned from last years Seder in solitude

In a year in which a global pandemic has taken the lives of so many, an additional element, one more diverse and more universal in its scope, yet often overlooked in discussion, is that of opportunities or moments lost....

Feb 24, 2021, 7:50 PM

The lessons of Purim and Passover applied to the world of today

Part of what makes Jewish holidays special is that besides the historical significance and cultural impact, when studied and analyzed in-depth, lessons can often be applied to modern-day events and circumstances. With the world being impacted by so many...

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About Me

David Groen is the youngest of 5 children and the author of "Jew Face: A Story of love and heroism in Nazi-occupied Holland". He is also the presenter of the story of Bram's Violin, the story of how his uncle's violin returned to his family over 70 years after Bram was murdered in Auschwitz.