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Oct 10, 2024, 6:23 PM
October 7 and Yom Kippur reflections
In less than 24 hours, the Jews will commence Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. As opposed to common thought, it is not a sad day, but it is a solemn day, the most solemn in the Jewish calendar....
Aug 8, 2024, 3:43 PM
Eichah and the death of multi culturalism
In a few days the Jewish people commemorate Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of Av. It is one of two major fast days, no eating or drinking for a little over 24 hours. It is a solemn day, a...
Jul 18, 2024, 5:27 PM
Why can’t the Jews be more like us?
Why can’t a woman be more like a man? So sang Henry Higgins lamenting the fact that women are, well, different. So with a nod to him, it seems that a lot of people now are asking, why can’t the...
Jul 14, 2024, 2:26 PM
I accuse
In 1898. Emile Zola famously wrote to the president of the French Republic, Felix Faure, decrying the conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. This conviction was based on a forged letter purporting to show treason on behalf of Dreyfus. Zola’s...
Jun 30, 2024, 2:35 PM
What is freedom?
Back in May, I spent 10 days in Israel. Prior to that we had been for the best part of 3 weeks in Spain. As Dara Horn has written, people love dead Jews, and so it is in Spain. ...
May 8, 2024, 11:54 AM
Context is still the word
So I thought “context” was such a 2023 word. How wrong I was. It is really such a now word. After all, where there are pro-Palestinian, sorry, pro-Hamas, encampments, calls for Intifada and the eradication of the State of...
Apr 22, 2024, 2:56 PM
Remember… this night is different
On Monday night, April 22, Jews worldwide will celebrate Pesach, an eight-day festival that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt. We will sit down to a meal, known as the seder, literally the order, and read from a book known...
Apr 9, 2024, 9:14 PM
When hypocrite is spelled Wong
When hypocrite is pronounced Wong. My mother used to tell a joke about a refugee in England after the War, trying to learn English with all its grammatical and pronunciation oddities. He apparently had it down pretty pat, but was...
Mar 21, 2024, 5:28 PM
Good Jew Bad Jew
These days there are two kinds of Jew. There is the Jew who is proud to be a Jew, who stands up for other Jews and acknowledges that the vast majority of Jews, both in Israel and the Diaspora,...
Mar 6, 2024, 2:40 PM
Gaslight: Coming to a Jew near you
Gaslight, the famous play of 1938 and then movie of 1944 just opened in Melbourne. Apparently it is very good. It is apt as Melbourne, and indeed Australia, are becoming known as the crucible of post-war antisemitism. According to...
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