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Mar 22, 2023, 5:04 PM

Yes, it was a pogrom

When Israeli Major General Amir Fuchs used the word “pogrom” to describe the civilian attack on the Palestinian village of Huwara last month, he knowingly used a word that resonates with Ashkenazi Jewish collective memory. The images of pogroms in...

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Mar 15, 2023, 9:03 PM

Condemning the barbarism in Huwara: A statement from Orthodox rabbis

This is a statement, made by members of Torat Chayim, an international group of Orthodox rabbis, as signed below. We have watched events in Israel in recent days with profound sadness and heartbreak. On February 26, Hallel Menachem Yaniv and his...

Mar 13, 2023, 1:08 PM

From Zion came forth sacrilege

“Their weapons are tools of lawlessness. Let not my soul be included in their council and let not my being be counted in their assembly. When angry they slay a man, and when pleased they maim an ox. Cursed...

Mar 13, 2023, 12:15 PM

Have Burning Buildings Lit A Flame Of Hope?/Golden, Red and Dead Cows

Shavua Tov Still thinking about last week’s Torah portion (Ki Tissa), the pogrom, and events in the field last week, I am reflecting on idolatry born out of fear and a lack of trust, golden calves, red cows, holy cows...

Rachel Tzvia Back

Mar 9, 2023, 3:08 PM

The Occupation and the Anti-Democratic Legislation in Israel

In November 2008, on what would turn out to be his last birthday, I brought my father a book gift: the first ever English language translation of Khirbet Khizeh. This canonic 1949 Hebrew novella by S. Yizhar tells the...

Mar 6, 2023, 9:30 AM

Not In God’s Name

Settlers pray the evening service, as cars and homes torched by settlers burn in the West Bank town of Huwara on February 26, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The recent terrorist murder in Israel of two Jewish boys from Har Bracha in the Arab village of Huwara fills the Jewish world with sadness. Yet, it is the extrajudicial response by religious settlers to the killings which resulted...

Eliezer Finkelman

Mar 6, 2023, 12:34 AM

Magical thinking

Near the end of the Book of Esther registers as magic. The Jews, at long last given royal permission to defend themselves, kill enormous numbers of their enemies. This they accomplish without the usual complications: Readers do not learn...

Mar 5, 2023, 6:07 PM

On Remembering Amalek–The Evil Within Us

This past Sabbath in the Jewish calendar was known as Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath of Remembering. It was the Sabbath that precedes the holiday of Purim, which Jews around the world celebrate this week, to remember how they were saved...

Aviad Houminer-Rosenblum

Mar 3, 2023, 4:45 PM

After Huwara, we must say kaddish for Judaism itself

Settlers pray the evening service, as cars and homes torched by settlers burn in the West Bank town of Huwara on February 26, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A generation of Orthodox Jews has been raised on hate. We must reject this feral, anti-Torah approach, and return to tradition

Mar 3, 2023, 3:57 PM

Perversity instead of piety

In these tumultuous days, perversity replaces piety. Here is one example. Some 90 years ago in Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel was shocked to realize that with all the comings and goings of city life he had failed to notice that...

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