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After Bondi Beach, over 1000 Jews reportedly put on Tefillin there, and many more took home menorahs to light up the world.

Australia began a re-examination of how they have dealt with antisemitism since October 7.

England decided that chants…

If you open the New Testament looking for the date of Jesus’ birth, you will not find it. The Gospel of Luke recounts a census under Caesar Augustus and shepherds watching their flocks by night. Matthew describes a star, Magi from the East, and a…

Cary Nelson

WEAPONZING ANTISEMITISM AT THE MLA

The latest attempt to weaponize antisemitism at the Modern Language Association, North America’s most influential disciplinary organization, is in motion for potential fulfillment in January….

Eric M. Meyers, a teacher of Jewish Studies at Duke University, points out that a section from the book of Prophet Zechariah is the Haftarah (an extra Bible reading) for the holiday of Chanukah. The rabbis chose Zechariah 2:14-4:7 as…

Morgenstern was dead. Dead as a lump of clay. Dead as he had been during his life, only more so.

There had been only one mourner at his funeral, his surviving business partner, Eliezer ben Kamtsin. This gentleman is a hollow-eyed, thin-lipped…

The final night of Chanukah always coincided with the Hebrew birthday of my late grandmother, Bubba, and so that was when we celebrated it. Bubba survived six concentration and labour camps and fought alongside my grandfather in the…

Ron Dermer was never a conventional diplomat; he was a force multiplier. American-born, Ivy-trained, and ideologically fluent in Washington’s grammar of power, Ron Dermer fused personal trust with state authority and converted access into…

Australia was my home for the first 25 years of my life. I grew up in North Bondi, in the heavily Jewish Eastern Suburbs. My parents like many of their generation were Holocaust survivors. My mother arrived in Australia in 1949 with her…

Bondi Beach is Australia’s shame,
a shoreline salted with Jewish tears,
where the candles of Hanukkah
were shot out by men who pray to death
and call it holy.

For years, the sky grew dark with warnings—
marches praising Hamas,
chants for…

Zevachim 104 — Known Unknowns: When Awareness Creates Reality

Continuing its discussion of the status of a sacrifice that becomes disqualified, the Gemara on Amud Aleph discusses an interesting case in which a sacrifice was found to be a Continue Reading