As I sat in my hotel bed at the Revere Hotel in Boston, my stay covered by Emerson College because they “couldn’t guarantee my safety” as a Jewish student during the pro-Palestinian …
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By Margaux Jubin
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2/12/25
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S ay what you will about former President Joe Biden’s policies, but he was the most knowledgeable US president on the Middle East. Donald Trump, on the other hand, may be among the least …
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By Mitchell Bard
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2/12/25
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I n late February 1945, among the first reports on the horrors of Auschwitz was one by a Polish officer, Lt. Wacław Lipiński, who wrote in the Polpress Bulletin, “Those who have survived …
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By Fiamma Nirenstein
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2/12/25
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When histories of the war in the Gaza Strip are written — a war triggered by the Hamas pogrom in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 — the name of Alice Nderitu probably won’t garner …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/12/25
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This week’s parsha , Yisro, begins by telling us that Yisro heard what G-d had done for Israel in taking them out of Egypt:
Yisro, father-in-law of Moshe, took Zipporah, wife of Moshe, …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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2/12/25
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B
ack in the days when I was a pulpit rabbi in Baltimore, I made it my business to meet with every bar mitzvah boy and girl several weeks before their big day. We would discuss their interests, …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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2/12/25
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It was her eyes that really captured me. There was an intense sadness there mixed with pain, and yet every now and then a flash of fire that seemed to suggest … defiance?
As the woman was …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/12/25
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The term “tikun olam” (which literally means repair of the world) has been popularized by mostly left- and liberal-leaning activist causes as a way of “changing the world for the …
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By Dr. Alan Mazurek
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2/12/25
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There’s an enthralling story about the Ten Commandments and the role they played in Jewish worship and the synagogue.
It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were …
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By Jonathan Sacks z"tl
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2/12/25
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Not all barbarians dress like terrorists.
That was what kept running through my mind as I wandered last week through the world premiere of “Anne Frank, The Exhibition” at the Center …
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By Karen Lehrman Bloch
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2/12/25
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