”Please write more,” Arsen asked during our last meeting three weeks ago. I will, I promised, not even imagining that it would be Arsen that I’m writing about. One of the first things I saw when I woke up this morning was a beautiful…
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From Israel to Bondi Beach, When Terror Reaches a Friend
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Peace Cannot Be Curated: The Fatal Flaws of the Doha Gaza Conference
As representatives from more than 25 nations come together in Doha on December 16 for what could be a pivotal conference on the future of Gaza, the event is clouded by notable absences, unsettling contradictions, and crucial questions about who…
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Senator Van Hollen – Protect your Jews
While it is clear as day that you have taken the side of the terrorist regime Hamas in Gaza against the Jewish state, you are silent or respond feebly to the pandemic of Jew Hatred here in the US. You didn’t take the side of…
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Carlson, Fuentes and the Old Prejudice
The danger of treating Jews as a single political force This article focuses on the false claims made in that exchange about Israel as a state, about Jewishness as an identity, and about the conspiratorial framework constructed around both. The…
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When Chanukah Light Meets Australian Darkness
At 6:47pm on the first night of Chanukah, Bondi Beach felt unrecognizable. For a moment, it recalled something far darker, a modern-day Port Arthur. A day off the eleven year anniversary since the Lindt Café siege at Martin Place, something…
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When Hanukkah Stops Trembling
When Hanukkah Stops Trembling There is a question that is rarely asked with real honesty: What is truly lost when a tradition is absorbed by a total system? Not what is distorted. Not what is betrayed. Not what is forbidden. But what stops…
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Germany and the Germans — Thomas Mann
On May 29th 1945, three weeks after the surrender of Nazi Germany but before the nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world-famous German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, gave a lecture at…
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Lighting the Menorah After Bondi Beach
There are moments when history intrudes upon the calendar, when the gentle rhythm of sacred time is pierced by events that leave us shaken and searching for words. The attack at Bondi Beach on the first night of Chanukah is such a moment. As these…
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Piers Morgan’s Gift to Nazi-Loving Fuentes
Inviting Nick Fuentes—an unabashed admirer of Hitler and Stalin—onto popular podcasts is not “free speech in action.” It is a direct affront to the victims of 20th-century totalitarianism. From a Polish perspective, treating this as just…
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What is Hanukkah Really About?
The popular explanation of Hanukkah centers on the miracle of the oil. According to the familiar tale, the Greeks desecrated the Temple and outlawed Jewish religious practice. Outraged, Mattathias and his sons launched a revolt. After their…
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