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Sep 16, 2026, 10:27 PM

Into the Fray: Comparing Catastrophes- 9/11 vs 10/7

Why did the insidious Islamist attack on 9/11produce such a great outpouring of sympathy across the West, while the no less insidious Islamist attack of 10/7 generated such a deluge of Judeophobic animosity? Last week was the 25th anniversary of...

Sep 16, 2026, 3:19 PM

Young Faces. Infinite Ripples.

* The original photograph of one of the venues was converted into a pencil drawing, with facial features intentionally softened to preserve the anonymity of the individuals pictured.

Over the past week, I have had the privilege of speaking with more than 2400 students about September 11. I entered each room believing I was there to share something with them. I left each one realizing that, in...

Sep 15, 2026, 3:57 AM

Anti-Zionist Jews need to do Repentance this year

New York NY USA-April 28, 2024 Students from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and their supporters rally for Palestine at the school in New York
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Avinu Malkeinu. Again and again during this sacred season, we return to these words. We confess that we have fallen short before You, our Father and our Sovereign, and we ask: have compassion upon us and upon our children; bring an...

Sep 15, 2026, 12:24 AM

Twenty-five years after 9/11

Twenty-five years after the Twin Towers fell, a reporter working on a story about our family’s 9/11 experience told me something that I had never realized: my son Jacob's first memory was breathing through a wet sleeve on the...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:44 PM

Able Danger – Story of the 9/11 Fail

In late May 2000, an Army major named Erik Kleinsmith sat in his office at the Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) with a chief warrant officer named Terri Stephens, weighing two options. Delete the data his team had...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:10 PM

From a Day of Horror to a Day of Service

At a moment when relations between Canada and the United States have been strained by a bruising trade dispute, the US Consulate General in Toronto hosted a moving commemoration marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. I...

Sep 14, 2026, 8:27 AM

If you tell a lie often enough people believe it as fact

Many have died because of the greedy ambitions of a failing empire to have one last stab at survival. Palestinianism was created by Russia in 1964 using the Egyptian, Yasser Arafat, as a weapon with which to crush Israel and...

Jennifer Handel

Sep 13, 2026, 12:59 PM

Why Is This Rosh Hashanah Different From All Others?

I know. Wrong holiday. But as I sit here on the first full day of being 41, trying to make sense of the last 48 hours, it's the question that keeps coming back to me. Why is this Rosh Hashanah different...

Nassir Hussein Kahin

Sep 12, 2026, 6:38 PM

9/11 – A Personal Remembrance: The Day the Screen Became Real

This original HOASR editorial illustration remembers the victims and first responders of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The illuminated Twin Towers, memorial candles, white roses and a firefighter’s helmet represent loss, courage and remembrance. Airport screening, surveillance, watchlists, military operations and barbed wire illustrate the security architecture, wars and social suspicion that followed 9/11.

A Muslim immigrant remembers September 11 and the world it made A personal remembrance of the lives taken on 9/11, the suspicion endured by innocent Muslims afterward, and the enduring lesson that security must never be pursued at the expense...

Orly Lavi Travish

Sep 12, 2026, 11:01 AM

Between memory and history

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My Hebrew students weren’t alive on September 11, 2001. If memory is to survive as more than a date in a textbook, I have to teach them the vocabulary to pass it on

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