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On May 16th, a group of approximately 50 British “with a variety of political beliefs – gathered in Parliament Square to mourn the deaths of the Palestinians killed by the Israeli army.” (See I’m proud to have led Kaddish by the leader.) Currently, Leah Jordan serves as the Progressive Chaplain for Students …
You claim that the Jewish state started with the Balfour Declaration, and only after WWII did Jews started migrating to Palestine. Micha Danzig answers this absurd claim with facts…including real numbers showing how false this claim is!
This post is part of the Response to “Hate Mail” from an Israel-Hating Conspiracy Theorist series dealing with biased and incorrect claims made against Israel. The first claim you often hear from Israel naysayers is one of the easiest to debunk. They love to claim that “before 1948 Muslims Christians and a minority of …
The survivors are dying…so few are left. They leave behind unquestionable evidence of the horrors committed by Nazi Germany. Unquestionable because there is so much. No other mass slaughter in history was ever so well documented…often by the very people who were committing the genocide. Germans were meticulous in documenting, …
Birthright Israel is an amazing program that brings, according to their website, brings more than 48,000 young Jewish adults to Israel to share in an unforgettable and often life-changing 10 day trip. Then there is the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. which has over 1,600 young people walk through their doors …
If you live somewhere long enough, you’ll eventually learn the lay of the land. Belonging somewhere means sharing in the national moments as well as the personal ones. As individuals, and as a nation, we go through a wide range of experiences and emotions – love and hate, anger and …
The Palestinians are in trouble. They know it; and so does the world. The latest – a Barghouti style hunger strike has been declared next week. The world is supposed to scream at Israel because it has driven the Palestinians to the desperate move of declaring a hunger strike. In …
I recall my dear friend Rabbi Mordechai Ganzweig, may the memory of the righteous be a blessing. I was a young man when we had this conversation. He warned me about the problems associated with teaching, of being a teacher, the dangers, the economic hardships, the lack of recognition and …
And sometimes, the humor becomes a bit sour, a bit too close to reality.
Sometimes, when you become overwhelmed, the best solution is to stop and go back to the basics of the situation. Basically, the fact that we live in this land is a miracle. Really, it is that simple, that obvious, and little else. Nearly forever, we have been breaking the odds…well, …
By her own admission, Netta is on a mission with messages for many – for all women, for “well-endowed” women, and for men.
We are born grabbing. We find it adorable when we put out our finger and the baby grabs our finger with his little fist. Soon the baby is grabbing everything and putting it into his mouth. This can be dangerous. Too much grabbing is dangerous. As we get older one …
