The Manchester synagogue attack wasn’t random. Britain’s refusal to confront radicalization, unchecked migration, and antisemitic street culture has left its Jews vulnerable — and exposed the failure of moral clarity in its politics.
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The Blogs: Lo-Am: From Babylonians to Hamas | Tzvi Pittinsky
This morning, as I listened to the Torah reading, one verse in Shirat Ha’azinu spoke to me. It felt like Moshe’s swan song was not only describing events of long ago but could have been ripped straight from today’s headlines.
They…
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The Blogs: Western Europe’s Jewish Question | Todd L. Pittinsky
Eva Hoffman, the Polish-born writer best known for her memoir Lost in Translation, once observed that Eastern Europe was “imagined as inferior, obscure and altogether insignificant by the inhabitants of what was considered Europe tout…
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The Blogs: From Prompts to Productivity, Designing Chat AI Assistants With Real Context | Kevin Leyes
Most AI assistants fail for a simple reason. They do not live where users live, and they do not know what users need at the moment the work appears. An assistant that asks me to paste calendar events into a web portal is already too late. An…
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The Blogs: Meatballs or Fishballs? A Kiddush Mystery! | Andy Blumenthal
A funny thing happened to me at the kiddush after synagogue services today, and it’s too good not to share with a smile.
So, this shul is proudly Sephardic—and they don’t mess around when it comes to lunch. Salad? Check. Challah? Check….
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The Blogs: Nature Abhors A Void And, In Jewish Mysticism, G-d Does, Too | Yael Chaya Miriam Gray
A void is not merely a gap; it is an absence that thinks it is neutral. In the Jewish imagination — in the Torah’s living tradition, the mesorah — absence is never passive. The moment the light withdraws, something presses forward to…
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The Blogs: J’Accuse…! Peace in our Time, Terror in our Synagogues | Philip Gross
Historically Britain’s antisemitism had a certain dignified, institutionalized and even genteel factor to it. That façade collapsed on Yom Kippur when Jews were slaughtered in a Manchester synagogue. As the impact of this horrific attack…
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The Blogs: Manchester Was Only The Beginning | Howie Silbiger
They told us this was an isolated act. They were wrong. Manchester is not an accident or a tragic one off. It is the inevitable result of a continent that has let violent slogans seep into the streets and then pretended nothing serious would…
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The Blogs: Dealing with Trumpian Uncertainty and No Cultural Boycotts! | Paul Scham
As I write this, the Gaza War is in a period of uncertainty and, perhaps, of transition. President Trump put out on Monday a half-thought-out “peace plan” containing various elements necessary to any agreement and Hamas predictably…
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The Blogs: Beyond Cleopatra: Africa’s Women Leaders | Ed Gaskin
When the world thinks of African queens, one name often comes to mind: Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Egypt, who ruled until 30 BCE. She has been immortalized in art, theater, and film, yet her fame has overshadowed a wider, richer…
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