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The World’s Silence Is the Real Genocide

Normally, our foundation, Time To Stand Up For Israel, focuses on one subject:  Israel and her people. But today, we must speak about something bigger: the world’s hypocrisy.

For years, Israel has…

For millennia, the relationship between Jewish civilization and the broader currents of Western culture has been marked by a persistent, often violent, friction. We’ve analyzed this conflict—historically dubbed the “Jewish…

The Qur’an points out that “Abraham was not a Jew (Yahuudiyyan) nor a Christian (Nasraaniyyan), but rather a Haniifan. Since Prophet Abraham lived before the Torah was revealed to Israel, he could not have been a Jew who is informed by…

Because facts matter

Although the USSR collapsed in 1991, the legacy of its involvement endures. Today, many of the rhetorical patterns pioneered by Soviet anti-Zionist campaigns are still visible. Accusations that Israel is an apartheid…

Recently, in these pages and elsewhere, I’ve read many rabbis fretting over whether to take a public stand on what they call political issues. Despite everything that has come to pass, apparently much of the American rabbinate has an…

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” says the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. Russian prisons are notorious for their harsh treatment and are among the toughest closed institutions with the…

Why the World Turned on Israel So Fast: Emotional Addiction to Suffering — and the End of the Holocaust Halo

For about one day — two at most — the story was painfully clear. Hamas and allied Palestinian gunmen burst into Israel on…

Some will call it paranoia. Others will call it observation. I call it recognizing the patterns unfolding in plain sight.

In parts of Europe and the United States, there is a growing pattern in which fundamentalist Islamist groups seek to…

This is Part Two of a blog about growing up Jewish as a minority in West Palm Beach, Florida, and then finding Zionism through Hadassah.

I owe my Jewishness to my parents, mostly my mother, but I am a Zionist because of Hadassah. Though my…

This is Part One of a multi-part post by the author about her upcoming trip to Israel.

My name is Sara…