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The Blogs: Bind These Words as Totafot / Reflections on Tefillin | Richard Diamond
Bind These Words as Totafot… and What We Actually End Up Binding
There is a sentence in the Torah that has proven almost irresistibly generative—one of those lines that refuses to stay put on the page. “Bind these words as a sign upon…
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The Blogs: Not Leaving Our Own Behind: Holocaust Memory and a Soldier’s Last Words | Brad Goverman
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day.
Yes, the date was established by a United Nations that has often proven hostile to Israel, and yes, the irony is thick enough to cut with a butter knife. But that is trivia. History does not…
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The Blogs: Pope Pius XII’s Most Ironic Blessing | Janet Bond Brill
The Oberlangen Girls at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, 1946.
In 1946, Pope Pius XII prepared to honor a group of young Polish women who had become symbols of resistance during World War II.
They were known as the Oberlangen…
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The Blogs: Closing the circle means ending the cycle | Daniel Fogel
For me, this isn’t just national closure; it’s personal. It took more than a decade, but today, a circle closes. The body of Israel National Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, who fell in battle on the morning of October 7, 2023, and whose body…
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The Blogs: Israel as an Ally Under permanent Stress | Francis Moritz
From Unconditional Support to Conditional Partnership
Executive Summary
Israel is no longer experiencing a temporary political crisis. It is undergoing a structural realignment driven by a stable three-bloc configuration:
- Religious parties…
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The Blogs: Ran’s Return | Elliot B Karp
As with much of feelings about Jewish life and Israel I am conflicted and torn. Yesterday’s news that the IDF finally located, identified, and recovered the remains of Ran Gvili filled with so many raw emotions.
I felt enormous relief that…
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‘Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally,’ Trump antisemitism envoy says in refuting Walz’s ICE comparison
In the lead-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, both the State Department’s antisemitism envoy and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum criticized Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for invoking Anne Frank in discussions…
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The Blogs: Symbols of Redemption | Sharona Margolin Halickman
B’nai Yisrael kept two symbols of the redemption with them for the 40 years in the wilderness. These symbols ultimately teach us about the importance of the Land of Israel.
- Yosef’s Bones
Moshe took the bones of Yosef with him, for Yosef…
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The Blogs: Germany: A former Gestapo headquarters, as a place of remembrance | Toby Anne Axelrod
When Heinz Hummler was 12 years old in Stuttgart, in 1944, he wrote a letter pleading for the life of his father.
The Gestapo had arrested Anton Hummler in 1943 as a member of a communist resistance group that had listened to forbidden…
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