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May 3, 2022, 4:18 PM

Do We Appreciate the Miracles?

One of my favorite places to visit is an ancient wall in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem with a playground on top. As I watch the children at play, my mind drifts back to what...

Apr 25, 2022, 6:06 AM

Enduring Monuments Or Enduring Legacies?

As we approach Yom HaShoah, I want to write not about the Holocaust but about memory. What is memory? How do we preserve memory? How can we who learned of the Holocaust from the people who lived through it, make...

Apr 12, 2022, 4:17 PM

Pesach: The ongoing triumph, the ongoing challenge

The Seder is, in many ways, a study in contradictions. We recline like aristocrats while eating the bread of the poor. We are required to see ourselves as actually having participated in the exodus from slavery to freedom, while...

Apr 5, 2022, 5:07 AM

The Iran Deal: Connecting the Dots

Last week, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was in Israel for meetings with Israel’s leaders and a summit with the Foreign Ministers of Israel and four Arab states. For public consumption, the purpose of the summit was to show...

Mar 28, 2022, 5:53 AM

When Dems & GOP Work Together, Israel And America Win

Amid the recent run of bad news there is a positive development that deserves our attention. Congress recently passed and President Biden signed a $1.5 billion appropriations bill, that may well be the most pro-Israel legislation ever passed. It...

Mar 17, 2022, 12:38 PM

A Purim lesson for our time

As we celebrate Purim, a new Amalek in Iran, the land of Haman, threatens the future of Israel, the Jewish people, and the civilized world. At the same time, war between two countries with long histories of anti-Semitism, Russia...

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About Me

Manny Behar is the Former Executive Director of the Queens Jewish Community Council and was a senior aide to several public officials. He currently lives in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem