Despite Israel’s herculean efforts to avoid killing noncombatants in the Gaza Strip, a new wrinkle has been added to media charges of indiscriminate Israeli killing — a kind of blood …
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By David Isaac, JNS
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3/6/24
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The Israeli Ministry of Education is imploring Israeli citizens to think long and hard about how their Purim costume choices may affect traumatized members of the community.
“Everything …
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By Judith Segaloff, JNS
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3/6/24
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Since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, we have witnessed Israel’s long arm of counter-terrorism operations. Two examples were the assassination of a Hamas leader with a well-placed rocket …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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3/6/24
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The death in a Siberian prison of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny could be the spark that burns down today’s iron curtain, Rabbi Avi Weiss told The Jewish Star.
Rabbi Weiss, retired …
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By Alex Augenbraun
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3/6/24
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In an appearance this week on MSNBC, veteran Democratic political strategist James Carville made a stunning statement. Speaking of the uncommitted vote in Michigan, Carville said that it will be …
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By Caroline Glick
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3/6/24
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It is painful for Jack Betteil, 100, to remember the concentration camps he survived during the Holocaust, narrowly escaping death many times. But after offering chocolate babka and water to a JNS …
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By Heather Robinson, JNS
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3/6/24
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Sigmund Freud always took a somewhat jaundiced view of the human psyche, but in the wake of the horrors of World War I, it turned even darker.
Confronted with mankind’s capacity to destroy …
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By Benjamin Kerstein
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3/6/24
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W hen all is said and done, antisemitism is fundamentally an ideology of violence. Behind every missive and every barb — whether delivered online, at pro-Hamas rallies or graffitied on the …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/6/24
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Evidence continues to pile up that antisemitism on American college campuses hasn’t just surged in the months since Oct. 7 but become commonplace. The disturbing incident this past week at the …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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3/6/24
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O ur parasha begins with Moshe Rabbeinu gathering the entire Jewish people before him, at which point we would expect some sort of listing of “the things that Hashem commanded to make.” …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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3/6/24
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