The story begins with a child of destiny, born into a world on the brink of catastrophe. His parents, recognizing the imminent doom, make an agonizing choice: they place their infant son into a vessel and send him away, hoping he will survive…
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The Blogs: Candace Owens’ Latest Attack on Ben Shapiro Uses Old Tropes in a New Media War | Carly McCurry
Candace Owens no longer flirts with antisemitic suggestions; she invites them to the prom. In her most recent episode, she frames her professional conflicts as something closer to a gang war than a public disagreement, casting Ben Shapiro as…
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The Blogs: A New King Arose | Manny Behar
This coming Shabbat we will read about the rise of anew king “who did not know Joseph.” Last week we observed the inauguration of a new Mayor in New York. Are there similarities between the two?
The new Pharaoh in Egypt knew very well…
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The Blogs: No One Is Coming to Save Humanity | Sabine Sterk
Borrowed Time, Chosen Life
Mental health does not exist in a vacuum. It breathes the same air as the world around us, and in recent years that air has felt heavier, darker, harder to inhale. As 2025 came and went, it once again left behind a…
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The Blogs: The Question That Must Precede The Royal Commission | Karen Fink
The Australian Government has just announced it will hold a Royal Commission in response to the Bondi terrorist attack. Jewish Australians are being encouraged to see this as a serious step.
Before anything moves forward, before terms of…
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The Blogs: When Trump’s ICE Turns Identity into Probable Cause | Richard Diamond
Targeted-city sweeps aimed at Hispanic neighborhoods—and now Somalis in Minneapolis—echo a mechanism Jews were born to recognize: fear made administrative.
When Identity Becomes Probable Cause
There are historical comparisons you should…
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The Blogs: Book review – Exodus: The Genesis of God’s People | Ben Rothke
If Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Grumet (director of the Tanach Program at Yeshivat Eretz HaTzvi) were not a scholar, I think he would have made for a very successful contracts lawyer. A contracts lawyer drafts and reviews contracts, emphasizing clarity and…
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The Blogs: When protecting Jews in Germany becomes dangerous | Michael Kuenne
When I spoke with Andreas Büttner, the antisemitism commissioner for Brandenburg, a German state, the official tasked with combating antisemitism and safeguarding Jewish life, he was still processing the fact that someone had set fire to an…
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The Blogs: Canada Should Step Up To The Plate | Sheldon Kirshner
Strangely enough, the Canadian government seems to be in no hurry to deal with the pressing problem of rising antisemitism in Canada.
Its somewhat lax attitude toward this issue is difficult to understand and fathom.
Since Hamas’ one-day…
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The Blogs: Stephen Miller and the Amnesic Hypocrisy of His Ideology | Warren J. Blumenfeld
Stephen Miller–Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor in the second Trump administration and policy advisor in both Trump terms—responded in an interview on CNN’s “The Lead” with Jake Tapper that the “formal position…
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