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Micah Ben David Naziri

Apr 22, 2025, 10:41 AM

Black Hebrew Israelite Paternal Jewishness Claim Debunked

The Hebrew Israelite and Black Hebrew Israelite movements are as diverse as they are controversial, but one thing that remains a point of contention between most of them and normative Judaism and Jewry (the same word in Hebrew, it...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Mar 20, 2025, 4:50 AM

Trump’s travel ban is to protect the US and Putin!

Ukraine is not on the list but Russia is Some countries are targeted because they have a radical Muslim regime, some because they lie in Black Afrika, some because they are poor. He never made it a secret he wants White,...

Feb 4, 2025, 5:10 AM

4 Biblical Principles on Immigration

Giotto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Flight into Egypt.

In the discourse surrounding immigration, differing opinions often emerge, sometimes lacking a foundation in biblical teachings. The following are four fundamental biblical principles pertaining to immigration: adherence to legal statutes, the immorality of unlawful entry, the precedent set by...

Jun 13, 2024, 5:08 PM

The infiltrators among us

Those with no status who clean our streets and office buildings are not terrorists. They are strangers in a strange land

Feb 10, 2024, 4:24 PM

A Soul Lifting Uber Drive

I live in Toronto Canada. I moved here from Israel in June 1973 after having made Aliyah in 1969. My four years in Israel were among the most wonderful of my life: included medical residencies at the old Shaare...

Jan 23, 2024, 4:23 AM

Bibi’s “Genocidal” Backstory

The fatal red thread connecting a long string of older and current legal, ethical, historical, and political controversies and warnings about Israel committing “genocide” appears to be none other than Israel’s longest-serving, revolving-door Prime Minister, Benjamin or "Bibi" Netanyahu. Key...

Sep 20, 2023, 11:38 AM

Every few years, I write a new modern version of Y.L. Peretz’s “If Not Higher.” Having prayed my penitential selihot prayers this year as often as possible in the shepherding communities that we did not succeed in defending from...

Raymond M. Berger

Sep 9, 2023, 2:23 AM

A Guide to the Vocabulary of the Aspiring Anti-Semite

There are too many Jew-haters who would rather blame Jews than take personal responsibility for problems they themselves have caused. Language is often abused to cover for biased narratives and rank prejudice. Israel----and more broadly, Jews----have suffered from this abuse of...

Mar 29, 2023, 3:41 AM

The Baby We Musn’t Divide Must Be Healthy, Democratic and Include All Its Parts

When I left Israel a week ago Sunday, I wondered whether I would have a country to come back to. I am now here in the U.S. just over halfway through a speaking/fundraising tour, watching Israel ripping herself apart. ...

Mar 26, 2023, 1:49 PM

‘I’ve Never Even Heard of Eritrea’

During a day-long learning session through the streets of South Tel Aviv with the Yahel Social Change Fellowship, we met with an Eritrean woman who detailed her intense and harrowing journey from the State of Eritrea on the coast...

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