One of my most formative experiences as a rabbi occurred early in my career, during a shiva call. I went to visit a young woman who had lost a parent, and I was desperate to say something helpful, to open a space for her to share her…
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The Blogs: Jewish Self Defense | Ginette Weiner
We began the year 5786 with yet another synagogue car ramming, stabbing, and killing Jews in the U.K. And for Chanukah, killing 16 Jews, aged 10 to 87 years old, including a Holocaust survivor, gathered on a beach in Australia, to celebrate…
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The Blogs: 20-Point Peace Plan Must Put Dismantling Iran’s Next-Gen H3 Playbook First | Tanveer Zamani
In this analysis, I examine the 20-point peace plan through a single strategic lens: whether Iran’s next-generation H3 proxy playbook is dismantled before political abstractions take hold.
‘H3′ refers to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the…
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The Blogs: Time to Starve the Monsters | Rena Cohen
Thoughts on the Bondi Beach Massacre, the Redlands, California Shooting and Possibly the Brown University Shooting
Something that every child who has ever hidden beneath their bed knows: monsters eat hatred for breakfast, fear for lunch,…
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Zohran Mamdani visits the Rebbe’s Ohel, increasingly a pilgrimage site for politicians
Zohran Mamdani visited the gravesite of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s late leader on Monday, one day after the shooting that killed 15 people at an Australian Hanukkah event hosted by Chabad.
Yaacov Behrman, a Crown…
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The Blogs: When the coat is gone | Rebecca Liebermann Nissel
While listening to Rabbi Dunner’s speech, I heard something so powerful that I knew I had to preserve it until after Shabbat and then pass it on to my readers.
As I have mentioned many times, the Holocaust accompanies me constantly. It…
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The Blogs: Chanukah Light in a World of Darkness – Our Response to Tragedy | Sofya Tamarkin
Like for many of us, the news from Australia came as a shock. Reports described a public Chanukah gathering at Bondi Beach disrupted by violence against Jews who had come to celebrate openly. What was meant to be a moment of light and…
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The Blogs: Be a Maccabee! The Secret of Jewish Survival and Victory | Pinny Arnon
Chanukah commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian-Greeks who had conquered Judea and attempted to forcefully convert the Jewish people to paganism and the worship of their idols. Despite the fact that the invading forces…
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The Blogs: From Brilliant Products to Predictable Growth | Weeb Cnossen
Israel has never had a problem building brilliant products. We are world-class at innovation, engineering, improvisation, and raw ingenuity.
The challenge begins when those inventions must evolve into predictable, repeatable revenue engines….
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The Blogs: Blood On Their Hands | Brad Goverman
Bondi Beach is not Israel.
It is not Gaza.
It is not a checkpoint, a settlement, or a war zone.
It is a public beach in Australia. And Jews were attacked there because they were Jews.
In fairness, much of the initial reporting was clear and…
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