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“With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory, I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s human to become an agent of the angel…

The term “Semitic” originally comes from the Biblical figure Shem (one of Noah’s sons) and was later used by linguists to describe one of the major branches of the Afro-Asiatic language family – a linguistic and cultural, not racial,…

On Saturday, we visited Reim. The park memorial site of the Nova party. Crowded parking area. Constant turnover. Reactions. Emotions Only indifference can’t be found there.

I wandered among posters on wooden posts with names of young people…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has an opportunity to stand up for her most vulnerable constituents with a veto of the dangerous Medical Aid In Dying Act (S.138/A.136) which legalizes assisted suicide. It would permit physicians to offer…

About 66 million years ago, the Cretaceous-Paleogene meteor impacted earth near the Yucatan Peninsula. This “extinction event” wiped out the dinosaurs and almost three-quarters of all living species. The prehistoric creatures had no idea…

As I told in an early entry:

Neither am I a descendant of a Polish or Lebanese Jewish family, but of marranos, or as they used to call derogatorily all those judeoconverts who practiced their Judaism in secret due to the fear of being…

The Islamist playbook used in the UK is being employed in the New York City mayoral race, and it must be stopped.

A crowd of 500+ pro-Palestine demonstrators marches through an elite university campus, screaming obscenities and throwing trash…

Origins of the UN

The UN was born from the ashes of the Second World War amidst the collapse of The League of Nations in the face of fascism and world war. Its creation and mission as set out in its founding Charter (in 1945) was to “save…

Book review of Anzac Guerillas by Canberra-born historian Edmund Goldrick and his story of how two plucky Australians uncovered a wartime alliance between Serbian royalists and Nazis.

In the heady years of World War II, amid the wreckage of…

B”H

ניסים (Nisim)( Hebrew word for Miracles) Can Happen!

Lyrics by: Tzedeck

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Tzedeck

Backround Vocals

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Courtney…