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Nov 17, 2023, 8:21 PM

Women’s rights leaders must break their silence

The stories of the crimes perpetrated against women in southern Israel on October 7--savage murder, rape and humiliation by Hamas in Israel more than one month ago is slowly being brought to light in the world’s mainstream media. But...

Oct 16, 2023, 4:11 PM

I know it’s not the Holocaust. So does my very sharp 92-year-old Holocaust survivor mother who remembers everything. She’s in a state of despondency and fear – again. She’s in shock that Jewish children are being murdered – again....

Jul 26, 2022, 4:35 PM

Abortion rights clash bodes ill for US Jews and Israel ties

Supporters of Florida Voice For The Unborn demonstrate outside the fourth floor as legislators work on property insurance bills Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)

With most Jews squarely on one side of a battle that splits America, fueling rising antisemitism, Israel had better be paying close attention

Apr 27, 2022, 1:45 AM

Back from Berlin where every day was Holocaust Remembrance Day

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in Berlin. October 5, 2014 (iStock)

Wherever we went, my husband – Israel's ambassador to Germany – and I, daughter of Shoah survivors, would encounter memorials

Aug 11, 2020, 4:44 PM

Stumbling stones for my murdered great-grandparents

Laura Kam (center), with her husband Amb. Jeremy Issacharoff (R) and daughter Ella at the Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stone) ceremony memorializing Kam's great-grandparents, Rosa and Abraham Hacker, in Dortmund, Germany Aug. 10, 2020 (Stadt Dortmund/Roland Gorecki)

As the wife of Israel's ambassador to Germany, the ceremony should feel triumphant. But it comes at a troubled time of resurgent Jew-hatred

Apr 21, 2020, 2:18 AM

‘Everything boils down to luck’: A Holocaust lesson for today

Sonia Kam at the Holocaust Memorial in
Berlin (courtesy)

'One day my father went to Brussels and got caught by the SS. One day you go to the supermarket and you get caught by the virus'

Apr 11, 2013, 11:33 AM

Hey Roger Waters, you do need some education

Instead of building bridges to peace, the Pink Floyd rockstar's boycott of Israel makes him 'just another brick in the wall'

Feb 28, 2013, 1:33 PM

Virulent campus anti-Zionism! Not really

College students get that the story is complex and are curious to know more

Jun 17, 2012, 11:19 AM

Israel can help feed the world

The upcoming Rio conference is an excellent opportunity to showcase Israel’s desire and capability to work cooperatively with the family of nations to promote international health and stability

May 15, 2012, 5:09 PM

With Iran, keeping our eye on the bomb

We all hope and pray that a negotiated solution can be reached that will satisfy all of the concerned parties,but in light of the Islamic Republic's record, the world must not be naive

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Laura Kam is the President of Kam Global Strategies, a communications company based in Jerusalem and Director of Communications for the Jewish People Policy Institute. She has recently returned to Israel from living in Berlin, where her husband was Israel’s ambassador to Germany.

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