I was told not to share with anyone in Berlin that I am Jewish or Israeli. Locals from the Jewish and Iranian community told me Jews had been spit on and attacked. Some said that if an event was known to be Jewish or featuring…
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From Kristallnacht to Freedom Week
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In Search of a Way Forward: The Stakes of Monday’s Gaza Vote
The United Nations Security Council is gearing up for what could be its most crucial decision in decades: whether to back President Trump’s Gaza peace plan and give the green light to an International Stabilization Force (ISF). At first, most…
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When Jews Leave, Europe Is in Trouble
When Jews Begin to Leave Europe: A Warning Europe Cannot Ignore There is a moment in every society when the alarm bells start ringing, not with speeches or explosions, but with silence. With packed suitcases. With families quietly deciding they…
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What Do You Really Know About Gazans?
For the first time in two years, we Israelis are finally starting to talk about the future of Gaza and its relationship with Israel. This future depends crucially on the beliefs and ideologies held by the two million people of Gaza….
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The Ideal Jewish Wife
It was Eliezer’s task to find a suitable wife for Yitzchak. Avraham was not prepared to allow his son to marry a woman from Canaan, and Yitzchak was too holy to be allowed to leave Eretz Yisrael. The task was given to the faithful servant,…
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The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #195, Crystal Haggadah, 6
In this episode, sorrows in Kotsk and repairing an old haggada in The Eretz. The Eternal Jew’s Tale A Pesakh Montage, The Crystal Haggadah Seders in Kotsk and Kibbutz Na’an Khassidic Seder, Kotsk, 1838 CE Where is the joy in our season of…
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Democracy Is Fragile. American Jewish Women Founders are Holding the Line.
Their activism, scholarship, and moral clarity have carried the nation through upheaval before. They are doing it again now. American democracy is fragile. Jewish women founders show us the work every generation must take on to keep it alive….
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Exploring Love – ahavah, r’chim, chibah, and agav (Part 1 of 2)
The verb for “loving” appears in the Bible for the first time when Hashem commands Abraham to offer up his son “that he loves” (Gen. 22:2) — Isaac. Afterwards, Isaac himself becomes the subject of ahavah, as the Bible reports that…
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The Powerful Legacy of Jewish Women
The Israeli women who suffered on October 7 endured unspeakable terror at the hands of terrorists—they were degraded, raped, murdered, mutilated, and then, tragically, disbelieved by many. Unlike Sarah, our biblical foremother whose son Isaac…
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Ox-ford University — Studying the Mind of a Beast and More Zevachim 69-71
69 The Universe is a Giant Kal V’chomer Our Gemara on Amud Beis discusses the source for the famous rule of dayo by Kal V’chomer. A Kal V’chomer is the first of the thirteen rules used to derive halachos from the Torah, as per the…
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