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Apr 28, 2022, 7:54 PM

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Holocaust Remembrance Day is internationally recognized on the 27th day of the month of Nissan on the Hebrew calendar, which also marks the date of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. On this particular day in Israel a siren is sounded...

Jan 27, 2022, 10:10 PM

Antisemitism: A recurrent theme

My mother was a young teenager who survived the Holocaust on her own. When her parents sent her to visit her aunt in Lodz over the summer of 1939, she never imagined that she wouldn't ever see her parents...

Oct 13, 2021, 9:59 AM

If Truth Be Told

In the not too distant past, when I was a student, we were taught the difference between “fact” and “fiction.” Many of our tests required answers of either “True” or “False.” During my years as a teacher, the objective...

May 31, 2021, 6:54 AM

Is There No Room in the World for Jews?

Golda Meir was exactly right, even so many years later, when she said that if Israel would put down its arms, Israel would be destroyed, but if the Arabs would put down their arms, there would be peace. Former ambassador...

Nov 3, 2020, 9:44 AM

Election 2020 An Election Like No Other

It is the day before election day. Tensions are high. Most of us realize that this election will determine the direction America will take in the next four years. Do we also realize that it is more than the...

Mar 2, 2020, 12:30 AM

Left Wing Jewish Democrats: You Don’t Speak For Us

Dear Left Wing Jewish Democrats, Jewish Democrats, it's time that you woke up from your self imposed slumber. Like Rip Van Winkle who woke up to find that the world had changed, you too must wake up to reality. The...

Aug 19, 2019, 5:40 PM

Israel Made the Right Decision

BDS supporters, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, generated much controversy and dominated the news this past week, amid speculation related to whether their trip to Israel would take place. In 2017 Israel enacted a law forbidding BDS supporters from...

May 24, 2019, 9:47 AM

A Devil’s Welcome

In her latest shameful outrage, Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to Congress, made the following comments while discussing the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians during an appearance on the Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery." "There’s always...

Dec 12, 2018, 9:24 AM

Anti-Semitism cannot be excused

We don't understand it. We have tried to explain it. We have tried to deny it. We have tried to hide from it. But we couldn't. We imagined we were past it. But it is here in our present....

Jun 1, 2018, 8:38 AM

The Struggle: A Dark Production

The “peaceful protests” at the Gaza border clearly demonstrated that fake news is quite real, as were the Hamas terrorists and Jihadists who took center stage, playing the part of Palestinian civilians gathering to peacefully protest the “unjust” existence...

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Ettie Kryksman is a teacher and free lance writer who whose articles have appeared in various publications.