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After the Maccabees won their war against the Syrian-Greeks and the Hellenists, the Hasmonean dynasty they founded eventually collapsed into a corrupt, expansionist regime—a historical warning for certain countries today.

Centuries ago, the…

No mention of the thread between ‘global intifada’ and the murder of Jews.

Intentionally or not, New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani is ignoring the connection between the massacre of 15 Jews at a Chanukah celebration in Sydney,…

“Keep showing us the beauty of your Jewish traditions” our State Rep told us at last Sunday evening’s Hanukkah lighting. Tommy Vitolo then added, “From the perspective of someone who is not Jewish, I hope you’ll share the…

The violence shocked everyone. The story chosen afterward should trouble anyone. Some heroes died, one fit the story.

An antisemitic terror attack in Australia becomes a parable about optics, virtue signaling, and the curious human instinct…

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday as the next special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, an ambassador-level role at the State Department aimed at coordinating U.S. efforts to…

In the months since Hamas’s October 7 massacre, a troubling argument has taken hold in political, academic, and media circles: that the global surge in antisemitism is a reaction to Israel’s military response in Gaza. According to this…

In 1966, the folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel recorded a track called “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night” for their third album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. The track is a sound collage–Simon and Garfunkel’s version of the…

In a short span of time this week, some very strange things took place. None of them were earthshattering events, and were not really treated as such in the press. They are not connected, nor do they stand up to juxtaposition. I thought them…

There are moments when Jewish parents sit at the Shabbat table and realize that history has stopped being something they explain — and has become something they must prepare their children to live inside.

The Chanukah massacre at Bondi…

In an appeal for donations from November in the Austrian weekly newspaper Falter, Amnesty International chose the banner “we call genocide by its name.” Amnesty’s recently published report about the atrocities committed by Hamas on…