Shraga Simmons

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Jan 13, 2025, 8:26 AM

LA Fires: The Meaning of Life, When Nothing is Left

We first enter this world with clenched hands, symbolic of a self-identity that tends to be defined by material possessions: home, clothes, car, mementos. We collect things in the hopes of finding meaning, satisfaction and attachment. Yet that is not...

Mar 23, 2015, 8:50 AM

MLK, Iran, and the New Racism

In connection with this week's 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, pro-Israel activist Chloe Valdary joined with Aish.com to produce a new video equating the fight against Jihad with the fight against...

Mar 28, 2013, 5:37 PM

Exodus in the Media 2013

With Passover in full swing, I’ve been thinking about how the Jewish actions in Egypt appeared quite harsh. The ten plagues devastated Egyptian society – land, sea and air – for an entire year. Talk about a “humanitarian crisis!” So...

Mar 21, 2013, 11:52 AM

The media myth of ‘racist’ Israel

Does racism against Blacks exist in Israel? That depends who you ask. Ten years ago, Yityish “Titi” Aynaw was walking around barefoot in Ethiopia. She then made aliyah and today, the 21-year-old has served as an IDF officer, and was recently...

Sep 28, 2012, 7:39 AM

Zionazis Storm the U.N.

At The Weekly Standard, Daniel Halper picked up a simply shocking pair of wire service photos distributed in the moments following Bibi Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations. Of the hundreds of news photos of this speech, AP and Reuters...

Sep 14, 2012, 4:17 PM

Instant Incrimination

It was Jewish money, and an Israeli trying to 'help his native land,' whose reprehensible film led to the murder of Americans -- at least according to the AP

Sep 2, 2012, 3:50 AM

Photo fraud: CNN resurrects the Rachel Corrie libel

Nine years after the fact, the news network continues to use discredited pictures to give the false impression that the American activist was purposefully run over

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About Me

Shraga Simmons is a rabbi and journalist. He is the co-founder of Aish.com and co-founder of HonestReporting, as chronicled in the acclaimed book, “David & Goliath: The Explosive Inside Story of Media Bias in the Mideast Conflict” (2012). Originally from Buffalo, New York, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Texas and rabbinic ordination from the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He is author of LifeWisdom, the multi-volume Torah study curriculum.