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Silas Anastacio

Oct 10, 2026, 1:39 AM

Cris Monteiro Honors Reserve Major Rafael Rozenszajn at City Council Ceremony

Last Tuesday (6), the São Paulo City Council held a solemn ceremony in memory of the victims of the October 7, 2023 attacks, when the Palestinian group Hamas invaded Israel, resulting in more than a thousand deaths and hundreds...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 10, 2026, 1:38 AM

Zionism = Racism: The West’s Useful Idiots

Slogans of destruction do not generate their own light; they survive entirely on the patronage of tyrannical regimes. The United Nations General Assembly proved this axiom on November 10, 1975, when 72 states—mobilized by Soviet Cold War machinations and...

Silas Anastacio

Oct 9, 2026, 1:11 AM

Ipanema Beach marks 3 years since Hamas attack, honors Nova Festival victims

Installation recreates on Rio's sand the memorial erected at the site of the electronic music festival and remembers the three Brazilians murdered in the attack This Wednesday, October 7, the date that marks three years since Hamas's attack on southern...

Oct 8, 2026, 4:08 PM

Remnant of a People

Group of Jewish orphans, survivors of the Holocaust, 1944.

In 2016, Israeli singers Gilad Kahana, Tamir Muskat, and A-WA (a terrific Yemenite-Israeli band of sisters) put out an electronic, hip-hop-inflected banger: I’M A TRIBE. My usual taste in music? Nope. But it captures a poetic truth I haven’t...

Oct 8, 2026, 4:01 PM

Bereishit: Good, Evil, and the Moral Crisis of Our Time

Three years ago, on October 7, Hamas perpetrated evil on a scale that the Jewish people had not experienced since the darkest days of the Holocaust. Terrorists invaded Israeli communities, murdered families, committed sexual violence, abducted men, women, children,...

Silas Anastacio

Oct 8, 2026, 2:18 AM

Murdered for Being Jewish!

On October 7, survivor Rafael Zimerman moved everyone during his speech at the Israelite Cemetery of Embu - São Paulo. As he recalled the tragic events of that day, he was overcome with emotion, struggling to find words while...

Jodi L. Goldfinger

Oct 8, 2026, 1:08 AM

October 7: The Fear That Crossed The Ocean

Image of a hand holding a Jewish Star necklace | Created by Jodi L. Goldfinger using AI tools on October 7, 2026

Are you safe? It is such a simple question. Three words I had asked people in other contexts, after storms, accidents, or emergencies. But after October 7, 2023, those words changed. I was thousands of kilometres away from Israel, sitting safely...

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Oct 7, 2026, 6:46 AM

Three Years On: Grief, Resilience and Joy

Fighting antisemitism, day in and day out, and hearing directly from families affected by bigotry is not easy. Often, when I talk to people about my work, they ask me what gives me hope. But that’s not a hard...

Kenneth Jacobson

Oct 6, 2026, 5:36 PM

The World’s Selective Memory on October 7

Illustrative: Israelis wave flags outside Jerusalem's Old City on April 20, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

As we approach the third anniversary of the worst massacre in Israeli history, what is so striking is the absence of any attention to that massacre outside Israel and the Jewish world. On the one hand, that could be...

Oct 5, 2026, 4:07 AM

When does Campus Ideology Cross a Dangerous Threshold?

From Columbus OH, 1999 (Credit: Paul Becker/Wikimedia Commons)

Every institution has a line it believes it would never cross, and the interesting question is how it crosses it anyway. Universities do not decide one morning to tolerate hatred. They get there through a thousand reasonable-sounding exceptions: a...

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