Next to the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, Israel still maintains a small presence in Lebanon; in Syria, it controls the buffer zone and remains there to this day. And Syria, especially, remains an incredibly tense situation that could escalate…
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The Blogs: 1781 The Travelogue of the Chida: A Window into the 18th Century Jewish World | Shlomo Pereira
JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL
1781
The Travelogue of R. Chaim Yosef David Azulai:
A Window into the 18th Century Jewish WorldThe Ma’agal Tov of R. Chaim Yosef David Azulai represents a remarkable fusion of personal memoir, scholarly…
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The Blogs: Global Jewry Unites for Climate Action | Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
Flooding in Annapolis overtakes statues of children listening to Alex Haley. Photo by and courtesy of Javin Hernandez When Hurricane Milton devastated Jamaica this this past week, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, and leaving…
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The Blogs: Why We’re Losing | Lizzy Brenner
Every election cycle, my phone lights up the same way:
“Who should I vote for? Who’s even on the ballot? Do you know what district I live in?
I get dozens of these messages. While well-meaning, they’re always too late. For years,…
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The Blogs: Yitzhak Rabin’s Vision Is Alive | Eitan Yudilevich
On November 4, 1995, I was in Washington, D.C. It was a sunny, cool day. Since it was a Saturday, I was at home with my family. There was internet, and of course there was news, but very far from the real-time updates we get today. We were…
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The Blogs: You Gotta be your Best Friend/ Lyrics by Tzedeck | Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer
Design: Tzedeck
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You Gotta be your Best Friend
Words and Music by
Tzedeck
Verse One
When you’re down feeing blue
And the whole world feels against you
Had to travel through some lonely…
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The Blogs: We Don’t Value Palestinian Lives | Meir Brooks
When I write “we,” I don’t mean all Israelis. Some Israelis care deeply about Palestinian lives, and some even dedicate their livelihoods and even lives for that cause. Many are heroes. I have had the privilege to meet some of these…
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The Blogs: Sde Teiman: The Leak That Shocked Israel | Ilya Bezruchko
A video that shook the system
What began as an internal investigation into the conduct of Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman base has spiraled into one of the most damaging controversies in Israel’s military justice history.
The case…
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The Blogs: Book Review: Comic take on woke antisemitism recalls Roth and Jacobson | Matthew Kalman
The Very Annoying Jew, by Michael Kretzmer
(Envelope Books, £15.95)
Award-winning TV producer David Britton has offended most of his staff, his wife wants a divorce, he’s getting hate mail, and he’s being harassed by religious freaks….
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Zohran Mamdani, Muslim Democratic NYC candidate, looms large at Republican Jewish confab
LAS VEGAS — There were a number of villains at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual summit here this weekend.
Tucker Carlson, who recently hosted avowed antisemite and white nationalist Nick Fuentes on his show,…
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