The phrase “shotgun wedding” originates from the figurative image of the pregnant bride’s relatives threatening a reluctant groom with a shotgun to ensure he marries her. The Trump deal came to halt Israel just as Hamas was on the verge of…
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The mothers who had no choice
In the hours when we can barely breathe, following every update with trembling hands, it feels almost impossible to talk about anything else.
Yet precisely in these moments – when public grief and relief choke our throats at once (and still…
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When Hamas Militants FaceTimed Israeli Hostages’ Families, the Mutual Dehumanization Cracked – Opinion
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If it were up to Europe, Hamas today would be rubbing its hands in glee
Today is a great day for the slandered supporters of Israel’s line led by Benjamin Netanyahu. After the Hamas massacre, despite protests all over the world, Netanyahu pressed ahead with military strength, seeking the release of Israeli hostages…
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Will the Gaza crazies beat swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks?
Reckoning the odds stacked against it, Hamas declared the war in Gaza over. A comparable event would be Hitler declaring a pause in the Holocaust in order to stave off defeat.
“BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!” wrote Donald Trump.
The conversion…
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Is Berlin’s Jewish Museum still supporting Jews? Controversy resurfaces after October
Since its founding on September 11, 2001, the Jewish Museum Berlin has proved controversial. Though it draws over 700,000 visitors annually, it is funded by German authorities and has no institutional ties to Jewish bodies in Germany.
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Trump’s Knesset address and a mother’s cry mark a nation’s tu
The headline of this day did not come from any leader’s mouth — not even from the most powerful man in the world, in his extraordinary speech to the Knesset. It came instead from the few tearful words repeated over and over by Einav Zangauker…
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Now is the time to reclaim joy
Since the deadly terror attack on Simchat Torah two years ago — when more than 1,200 Israelis were murdered and many others kidnapped — the Gregorian date of October 7 has become a national and even international symbol of collective trauma….Continue Reading
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Welcome, President Trump: My letter to a true friend of Israel
Welcome, President Trump!
When you arrive this morning at the Knesset building in Jerusalem, your feet will step onto a place that is a true historical miracle. Indeed, the very existence of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish…
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to the fallen IDF soldiers and the wounded who made the hostag
And now, with the great joy over the return of the hostages—those alive and those who will never come home—and with a drop of optimism flowing back into our lives at the thought that this terrible war, now in its second year, may finally be…Continue Reading