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Apr 18, 2025, 1:52 PM

Free speech and our right to know

I’m the owner of a degree from an American university that once celebrated all forms of diversity. As an anthropology student, I understood diversity to mean a great wealth of cultures – of ways of understanding the world and...

Apr 18, 2025, 1:51 PM

Palestinian Lies Debunked: The Airline Hoax

Photo Credits: Google.com. Creative Commons License

Eretz Israel Airways: The Zionist Aviation Legacy the World Should Remember In today’s era of misinformation, it has become increasingly common to see desperate attempts to rewrite history — especially when it comes to the land of Israel and the...

Apr 18, 2025, 1:41 PM

Another Passover in Hostages Square

Seder Night at Hostages Square - Passover 2025. Photo: Nili Bresler

DAYENU! We have been passed over yet again! Another Pesach and again, we need to shout: There is no time left! These words become truer and truer each day: THERE IS NO TIME LEFT. Every day, every hour, every minute,...

Simone Suzanne Kussatz

Apr 18, 2025, 1:38 PM

My Best Ever Easter Celebration

A photo of a Forget-Me-Not taken at the cemetery in Le Havre. Photo credit: Simone Suzanne Kussatz/ ARETE

On my 40th birthday — a birthday that sometimes falls on Easter — I wanted to do something special, something unforgettable. So, I flew to Washington, DC, a city that had long drawn me in like a magnet. Back...

Apr 18, 2025, 9:37 AM

The Song of the Sea — Was it Plagiarized?

After the sea was crossed would come two poets worthy of this name, first Moses, clearly hardly dumb, then Miriam, of equal fame, with all her maidens, singing: “I will sing to God, for He has wrought great wonders. Horse and rider high above the waters...

David Rosenthal

Apr 18, 2025, 9:34 AM

The Rabbi of Macondo

Richard Gamboa, is a supposed Colombian rabbi, who has a title or certificate of rabbi of quite dubious reputation, it is even possible that any real or fictitious person could obtain it online for only 150 dollars. This certificate...

Ilan Sinelnikov

Apr 18, 2025, 9:23 AM

Defund Universities Time for Accountability Is Now

In November 2019, I was invited to the White House for the first time to attend the Hanukkah Party under President Trump as the head of the Students Supporting Israel movement. That moment wasn’t just a highlight of my...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Apr 18, 2025, 9:19 AM

Why are Israelis happy? A Hebrew lesson in Zionism

Astounding. Israel has been fighting a brutal war for over a year and a half – after a horrendous massacre of its citizens. Dozens of Israelis – dead and alive – are still hostage in Gaza. The country is...

Charles E. Savenor

Apr 18, 2025, 9:16 AM

From Egypt to Paul Revere’s Ride

'The Battle of Lexington,' by William Barnes Wollen, 1910. (Wikipedia)

This year, the conclusion of Passover coincides with a significant American milestone: the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. “The shot heard ’round the world” ignited a struggle...

Apr 18, 2025, 9:10 AM

The Comfortable Zionism of American Jewry Has Failed Us—Again

The name of every Jew is a Jewish name. Even mine—Houston Mack. It doesn’t sound like Goldstein or Cohen or Levi, but it’s a Jewish name because I have borne it in war, in grief, in covenant. I wore it in...

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