Shilo Sapir

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Nov 14, 2024, 8:59 PM

The World Has Forgotten the Pogrom in Amsterdam. We Cannot

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Less than a week has passed since the pogrom in Amsterdam, yet it feels as though it has already been forgotten. Jews walking on the streets of Holland were beaten mercilessly for the great crime of being born Jewish....

Oct 20, 2024, 5:40 PM

The Cost of Truth

There comes a time in every person’s life, when one must make an ultimate decision to sacrifice either comfort or values. Where one must decide whether life should be lived in pursuit of fleeting pleasures, or rather in a...

Sep 8, 2024, 5:15 PM

A Reason For Hope

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Ever since I was a child, I always dreamed of the moment in which I would return to the Land of Israel. Day after day, I would pray for the day when Jerusalem would cease to be just an...

Aug 5, 2024, 12:55 PM

The hypocrisy of the diaspora

For the past two thousand years, the Jewish people in exile dreamed a dream. A dream of unity and hope, a dream of return and longing, a dream where the Jew would finally have a place to call home....

Jul 30, 2024, 2:05 PM

The Lonely Nation of Faith

There are certain times, where as a Jew, I sense a deep existential loneliness that I have yet to have found a remedy to cure. Times, where it feels as if I have been destined to wander the world...

Jul 21, 2024, 4:11 PM

The Duality of the Jew

I once heard my father utter the saddened statement “עם לסבל נולדנו”, meaning in rough translation, “a nation of suffering we have been born to.” Yet, every day, at least three times each day, I thank God for making...

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Shilo Sapir made aliyah three years ago from the United States. He is currently completing his mandatory national service.

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