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Mostly Cloudy Israel to Iowa’s rescue
In Iowa, sparsely populated rural areas exist with emergency medical services response times that are so long that they sometimes prove deadly. Now, the Hawkeye state is turning to the Jewish …
GOP
When Santos exits, GOP may select Israeli-Ethiopian Orthodox woman
At whatever point George Santos — who falsely claimed to be Jewish (later, “Jew-ish”) with Holocaust-survivor grandparents and a mother killed by the 9/11 attack, and who’s …
antisemitism
WAR CRY Students demand a ‘Solution’: ‘Death to Israel, death to Jews’
The Nazis murdered six million Jews in their blitzkrieg toward a “Final Solution.” Last week, students at the University of Michigan advanced their own “Solution”: an …
History
Herzl believed that no one is free until we are all free
Theodor Herzl has been with me my whole life. I know that is an odd statement from a Canadian who has lived his entire life in Toronto. I am not related to Herzl and, of course, I never met …
antisemitism
A letter from one editor to another [Note: Distribution of this column was BLOCKED BY FACEBOOK]
In “It’s a strange time to be a Jew, but when isn’t it?” Herald guest columnist Alan Singer adds his voice to the mainstreaming of Jew-hatred and Israel-bashing in our communities. …
Books
New book eyes parsha-haftarah links
When did Jews start reading the haftarah? If you were asked that question, you might recall a link to the Chanukah story, to a decree by Antiochus that the Torah itself could not be read in …
Israel
Where Har Habyit fits in Jewish and Israeli law
Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs for Agudath Israel of America, recently wrote in Religious News Service that according to “Israeli law, non-Muslims may go up to the Temple Mount …
News
‘There is no occupation’ push
A new ministry will aggressively push back on the international condemnation of so-called Israeli “occupation.” “We have not occupied any territory, there is no …
Texas
From Colleyville: Surviving a hostage situation
Recounting his experiences on Jan. 15, 2022, when an ordinary Shabbat service turned into an 11-hour hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, Jeff Cohen said it …
Schools
HAFTR cupcakes
The “combat” was all in good fun on motzei Shabbat, as HAFTR middle school girls competed to decorate cupakes under the gun of a ticking clock. Callenges included designing treats …
Schools
Chumash day at HAFTR
HAFTR second graders received their first Chumashim in a Chagigat Chumash on Dec. 11. Family and friends joined to celebrate what HAFTR Principal Joshua Gold said are all of the incredible things …
Israel
Big & deadly Al-Aqsa lie
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir’s recent visit to the Temple Mount was uneventful, as it should have been. After all, Ben-Gvir was an Israeli minister visiting sovereign …
Antisemitism
The invisible Jews
Should I start with the good news? Okay. If you are a secular Jew who does not wear religious symbols, skullcaps and attire, isn’t walking toward a synagogue or waving an Israeli flag and …
Shoah
Yad Vashem to unveil ‘Book of Names’ at UN
It’s a book filled with the names of 4.8 million murder victims. The blank pages at the end, though, are especially haunting. In recognition of this year’s International Holocaust …
Opinion
Here’s why Reform defends a vile antisemite
A rather remarkable open letter was recently issued by a group of left-wing Jewish organizations, defending a confirmed antisemite. Rep. Ilhan Omar, and deriding House Speaker Kevin …
Schools
Doing good during Asera b’Teves fast
Asara b’Teves became especially meaningful for the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls students who stayed after school to hear a shiur from Rabbi Shmuel Diamond about the significance of …
Schools
Mercaz tech plugs in
As Mercaz Academy in Plainview, the full-time Director of Technology, Lynda Last (at right assisting Grade 5 teacher Katherine Papaccioli), ensures that every teacher is well-equipped to use the best …
This week in Torah
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Learning from stories we tell about ourselves
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The Exodus and Sodom: Similarities, differences
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Learning to love each other when we disagree
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From its opening parsha, Torah tells us a story
As we wrap our tefilin, we bind with our G-d
What is the power of a hug? Sometimes it’s all about the context. Recently, someone sent me a story regarding a fellow named Yankel, a survivor of Auschwitz who began his journey there …
Jonathan Tobin
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Cheers and cash for terrorists killed 2-state fix
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Chanukah’s message is alien to most US Jews
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Stop the hysteria! Harvard didn’t ‘cancel’ Roth, it chose not to honor an authentic antisemite
Cancel culture in academia is a serious problem. There is no sector of American society in which dissent is so routinely crushed, or where free speech is most endangered, as the country’s …
Ben Cohen
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The Iran nuclear deal is dead. Or is it really?
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Beware of the ‘reformist’ clerics who rule Iran
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Now Chinese cry for freedom from autocrats
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How Israel views the Russian-Iranian alliance
It is perhaps a measure of Israel’s elevated stature in the world that its newly elected right-wing government is under scrutiny not just for its domestic policies and its approach to the …
Melanie Phillips
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Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake
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Unholy alliance links Republicans, Islamists
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EU’s subversion of Israel is the real story
Liberal Jews in both the Diaspora and Israel have been hyperventilating over the “extremist” ministers in the incoming government headed by Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin …
Food
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Winter blessing: Early, warm Shabbos dinner
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Amid January’s cold, soup warms the soul
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Baking tea breads for a cozy winter’s day
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Let’s resolve to eat heathier in the new year
Celebrating our fruitful trees on Tu B’Shevat
When I was a kid, each week for ten weeks before Tu B’Shevat (which begins Sunday night, Feb. 5), we brought 10 cents to school and bought a stamp which formed another leaf of a tree which, …
Travel
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10 places to sense Jerusalem’s ancient history
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Top 18 things to do in Jerusalem — for free
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Bold, beautiful rewilding of Israel’s wetlands
Nadav Israeli smiles as he peers through binoculars at a flock of Eurasian jackdaws soaring over Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in the Jordan Valley. It’s mid-September, the beginning of …
Health
Parker exec earns distinguished service honor
The Distinguished Service Award of the NY Chapter of the American College of Health Care Administrators has been awarded to Parker Jewish Institute President and CEO Michael N. …
More Opinion Columns
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Thanks to an intifada-by-media, whole world is wrong about Israel
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CUNY’s Jew-hating Zionist purge continues
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So … are Judaism and Zionism the same thing?
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Why the Ivys get an ‘F’ on campus antisemitism
We must remember (and teach) the Holocaust
EDITOR’S NOTE: Last month, the Long Island Herald published a column, by Hofstra University Professor Alan Singer, that maligned Judaism and the Jewish state of Israel; Singer bizarrely …