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Miscellaneous | Judaism
Seven Things People Get Wrong When Learning Kabbalah - …and how to get on the right track
1. Myth: Nobody goes to a Kabbalah class expecting to actually understand anything.
Truth: Kabbalah is about the human mind grasping the ungraspable.
Politics | Judea & Samaria
Terror attack foiled in Samaria | Israel National News
Arab man planning to attack Jews with an axe captured in Samaria. Suicide note revealed his plans to massacre Jews.
News | News
The Three Ds and the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
It is painfully clear to anyone paying attention how much of the mainstream media, social media, and those who wish to destroy Israel are using the death of Abu Akleh to attack Israel.
Politics | Debunking Lies
Elder Of Ziyon - Abu Akleh: The world prefers definite lies about Jews to honest doubt
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Politics | Debunking Lies
Elder Of Ziyon - “Thinking past the sale” - how anti-Israel propagandists work
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
News | News
Elder Of Ziyon - Jews buy a building in Hebron. So, naturally, they are accused of "stealing" it.
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Elder Of Ziyon - I'm banned from @Twitter for a week - for supposedly violating a rule that they previously
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Politics | Media Bias
Guardian on journalist's death: Don't bother us with facts. Israel is guilty.
There was no Guardian editorial condemning the April 7 execution of three Israeli Jewish civilians in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian from Jenin named Raad Hazem - or
News | Antisemitism Watch
‘Say Yes to the World’ but No to the Jews: Lufthansa’s Antisemitic Scandal
Lufthansa Airbus A319 aircraft as seen flying and landing at Brussels Zaventem International Airport BRU in the Belgian capital. Photo: …
News | News
Elder Of Ziyon - Google Maps calls second holiest Jewish spot by its usurped Muslim name
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
News | ISRAEL NEWS
How Western dupes help propagate Palestinian lies
A Palestinian Arab journalist with Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead this week in a firefight between Hamas
Politics | Campus Watch
The Problem with Israel-Studies Departments
When the University of Washington returned a $5 million gift intended to start an Israel Studies Department, the reason was simple: the professor tasked with running the department had no intention of
Politics | Media Bias
NY Times Goes Down the BDS Rabbit Hole In Style
Quiz time! Can you distinguish BDS from its parody? The stances of the factually and morally bankrupt BDS are virtually indistinguishable from satire. The New
News | News
Social Media Execs To Gather For ‘Palestine Digital Activism Forum’ Hosted By Group With ‘Terror’ Ties
Amidst U.S. censorship, 'Palestine Digital Activism Forum' features Twitter, Facebook, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and radical speakers
News | Antisemitism Watch
It's time for tough measures against antisemitism
It was just reported late last month that incidents of antisemitism in the United States rose this year by 34% to record highs, continuing a dangerous upward spiral.
Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The Palestinian Authority
Why is the PA hiding the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh?
PA chief pathologist says he can’t yet determine which side killed Abu Akleh
News | Antisemitism Watch
‘Free Palestine’: Yeshiva Student Assaulted in Third Antisemitic Attack in Brooklyn In Five Days
Illustrative: An attacker runs toward a van in order to make his escape after punching a Jewish man in Flatbush, …
News | Antisemitism Watch
These Anti-Semitic Activists Don’t Want Elon Musk To Bring Free Speech to Twitter
Several of the groups calling on advertisers to boycott Twitter—citing Elon Musk’s objectionable views—are at the forefront of the campaign to boycott Israel and are known for trafficking in anti-Semitic canards.
History | History
The Jewish Nakba: basic facts have been abandoned and forgotten
This week in the run-up to 14 May, the day when Israel’s independence was declared 74 years ago, articles about the Palestinian Nakba are already proliferating. Not one mentions the greater nakba of Jewish refugees driven from Arab countries. In fact on
Politics | Opinion
Harvard, BDS and the Nazis
The editors of Harvard’s student newspaper have just urged a boycott of the Jewish state and praised a campus
History | History
The Temple Mount: The Astonishing Israeli Concession of 1967
In a triumphant moment, Israel’s flag was hoisted over the newly conquered Temple Mount—then quickly taken down.
Politics | Opinion
Palestinians Lie to Murder Jews; The U.S. Rewards Them
The terrorists and their families are saying that they actually believe the lies of the Palestinian leaders that the mosque is being attacked, violated and desecrated by Jews. They are saying that this is the reason they are sending Palestinians to
Politics | Resources
Elder Of Ziyon - Despite what Jordan says, their legal rights on the Temple Mount are limited
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Miscellaneous | Diaspora
19 Facts About Moroccan Jews - Jewish Life
At times, they were welcomed, and at times, they were persecuted, but the Jewish presence remained throughout.
News | News
Blaze Destroys Torah Scrolls, Chabad House Serving Florida State University
The Florida State University campus, in Tallahassee, Florida. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – A fire ripped through Chabad-Lubavitch of the …
News | Antisemitism Watch
Spanish Advocacy Group Weighs Legal Steps After Violent Attack on Visiting Israeli Basketball Fans
Basketball Champions League Final 4, MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg vs. Hapoel Holon. Photo: IMAGO/Pressefoto Baumann via Reuters Connect A pro-Israel advocacy …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Lufthansa apologizes after report all visibly Jewish passengers barred from flight
Airline says incident not consistent with its policies or values; videos shows airline supervisor saying all Jews barred from flight because a few hadn’t worn masks
News | News
Elder Of Ziyon - 05/10 Links Pt2: Zionism Remains a Freedom Struggle; Cary Nelson: The Anti-Israel Politicisation of the US Academy; Caroline Glick: Harvard stands with the terrorists. Who do the Jews stand with?
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The Palestinian Authority
New Palestinian fashion craze: M-16 shirts – celebrating M-16 rifle used to murder 5 Israelis
The latest fashion craze in the PA areas and among some Israeli Arabs are shirts and pants with an M-16 rifle printed on them.
News | News
Poll: 75% of Arab citizens believe Jews have no right to sovereignty in Israel
Arab Israelis are constantly conflicted by questions of political and national loyalty, as the majority of them have little
Politics | Politics
Karine Jean-Pierre Hates Israel
Though new White House press secretary Jean-Pierre doesn’t openly contend that Israel shouldn’t exist, her regurgitation of BDS talking points says just as much.
Politics | Debunking Lies
At Harvard, Facts Are For Losers - by Dara Horn
It turns out that nobody’s SAT scores can provide immunity to propaganda.
Politics | Opinion
The Palestinian death cult - worshipping the murder of Jews
At its core, the anti-Israel movement is a death cult, a movement that denies truth, craves bloodshed, glorifies violence, and worships death.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Elder Of Ziyon - Seattle "Nakba Day" rally to celebrate axe murderers
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
History | History
Israel, 1948: Vidal Sassoon in Combat
Not long before becoming the world's most famous hairstylist and building a business empire, Sassoon fought for Israeli independence. He lost friends, gained confidence, went weeks without a shower, and literally never learned the Hebrew word for 'retreat
News | Antisemitism Watch
Stealth Newspaper Campaign Exposes Jew Hatred at UCLA
In a stealth campaign to circumvent campus censors and reach students directly, the David Horowitz Freedom Center distributed over 4,000 newspapers
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
Antifa Activist Arrested for 'Racist' Attacks on Portland Synagogues and Mosque – and Media Erase His Connections
A long-time Antifa activist and Leftist video chronicler of the Portland protest movement has been arrested for a string of attacks on synagogues and mosques, and the local media seem to be very eager...
News | News
Ukrainian Holocaust survivors are being helped to flee Putin's army by a US-based charity
Israel has taken in almost 300 Holocaust survivors from Ukraine. Among them is 100-year-old Dova Govergeviz (pictured), who is now in an Israeli care home.
Politics | Opinion
The DeSantis affair The disgraceful politicization of Jewish Institutions
By refusing to allow a conference to be held in its building where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a speaker, New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage declared itself a partisan institution.Op-ed.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Antisemitic incidents rose 226% in Minnesota last year
The Anti-Defamation League's data shows staggering increases nationwide.
News | Antisemitism Watch
JVP: Israel's memorial days created to promote 'harmful' narrative
"Israeli leaders intentionally designed the sequence of these fabricated, secular holidays," to promote "harmful Zionist narratives," argued Jewish Voice for Peace.
Politics | Campus Watch
No Comment: Harvard President Won’t Condemn Anti-Semitic Incidents
Harvard president Lawrence Bacow during a closed-door faculty meeting on Tuesday declined to directly condemn a recent string of anti-Israel incidents on campus but said he objects to "academic boycotts" of any foreign country, including the Jewish state.
Politics | Opinion
Progressively Sliding into Antisemitism
From the blog of Rachel Wahba at The Times of Israel
News | News
Biden Taps Anti-Israel Activist as White House Press Sec
The White House announced on Thursday that Karine Jean-Pierre, a veteran anti-Israel activist who is married to CNN correspondent Suzanne Malveaux, will replace outgoing press secretary Jen Psaki, raising potential ethical quandaries.
History | History
The New York Times’ ‘Nazi Correspondent’ - Tablet Magazine
As Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and then embarked on his program of world conquest and mass extermination, The New York Times’ Berlin bureau chief was busy slanting the news in his favor
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
‘My Heart Refuses To Believe That I Was Left Alone’: Three Jewish Dads Murdered In Israel By Palestinian Terrorists
On Thursday night, as Yom Hatzmaut, Israel Independence Day, came to a close, two Palestinian terrorists in Elad wielding an axe and a knife brutally murdered three Jewish men, all fathers who left behind 16 children.
News | News
3 dead, 4 injured in ax murder terror attack in Elad, Israel
Police are searching for two suspects who carried out the attack | Residents asked to shelter in place
History | History
History of US State Department Shows ‘Jewish White Privilege’ Is a Myth
US State Department Truman Building. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. On April 12, 2022, the State Department published its 2021 “Country Reports …
Politics | Opinion
Israel is not a shtetl, Messrs. Putin and Lavrov | Israel National News
Israel cannot be pushed around, as it was with the Jews in the good old days. At 74, it is a strong, vibrant country-and a democracy. Op-ed.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
It Is NOT Israel Independence Day But Israel REESTABLISHMENT Day
Israel did not become independent from anyone. Jews waited for the British to leave
Politics | Opinion
Elder Of Ziyon - Proud to be a Zionist - 5782
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
News | News
Israel Rings in 74th Independence Day With Jerusalem Torch-Lighting Ceremony
Broadcast of Israel’s 74th Independence Day celebration at Mount Herzl. Photo: YouTube screenshot After a mournful day commemorating its fallen …
News | News
Elder Of Ziyon - On Her 74th Birthday, 18 Reasons to Love Life in Israel
On the eve of the 74th Israeli Independence Day, the author shares the reasons she loves life in Israel
Miscellaneous | Jewish Life
One out of seven Jews worldwide are haredi | Israel National News
How many haredim leave the community? Study finds 80% of Jewish population growth is from haredi sector. 1/4 of Jews will be haredi by 2040.
News | Antisemitism Watch
Elder Of Ziyon - Jordanian Royal Committee says rebuilding a synagogue (destroyed by Jordan) is a racist Jewish crime
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Politics | Campus Watch
More Antisemitism at Harvard
Widener Library at Harvard University. Photo: Joseph Williams Last month, in a report sent to the United Nations, a clinic …
News | News
Remembering Israel's fallen: Hero after hero
On Mount Herzl, row after row, hero after hero — All Israel's fallen soldiers are a personal matter for Israelis.
Politics | BDS
Read the Anti-BDS Letter the Harvard Crimson Won’t Publish
The Harvard Crimson on Friday broke with the paper's longstanding editorial position to endorse—in a lengthy but borderline illiterate editorial—the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment, and sanction movement that aims to economically isolate the Jewish state
News | Jewish Community
Elder Of Ziyon - New study: Higher education is correlated with higher antisemitism
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Global Jewish Population Not Yet Recovered From WWII, According to Israeli Data
Thousands of runners take part in the 2018 Jerusalem Marathon on March 9, 2018. Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash90. JNS.org …
News | NEWS
Antisemitic Incidents Hit All-time High in U.S. - Under Joe Biden
The ADL reported that the number of recoded antisemitic incidents reached an all-time high in 2021, the first year of Biden's administration.
News | ISRAEL NEWS
Watch: Arabs pelt police with rocks on Temple Mount
After Jews were forbidden from ascending the mount due to fears of provocation, Arab rioters continued attacking police.
News | NEWS
‘Glory to the Heroes’: Warsaw Marks 79th Anniversary of Jewish Fighters’ Ghetto Uprising
Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland on 7 February 2022 Photo: Mateusz Wlodarczyk/NurPhoto via Reuters The 79th anniversary …
Politics | Politics
Amnesty International’s Campaign to Destroy Israel
In March, the human-rights organization Amnesty International engineered a publicity stunt. It wasn’t aimed at condemning Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which
News | Jewish Community
New York Times Bias Shows as Paper Smears Brooklyn Jews as Racist Profiteers
A taxi passes by in front of The New York Times head office, Feb. 7, 2013. Photo: Reuters / Carlo …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
As Palestinians Destroy Jewish Holy Sites, Media Focus On Fake ‘Attacks’ on Al-Aqsa Mosque
Palestinian rioters this week twice damaged Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish holy site under Palestinian Authority control.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Tales From Mariupol: A Devoted Rabbi and a Devastated Community
Desperation, death, and hope in a city under siege
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
UK National Union of Students' New President Celebrated Massacre of Jews, Called Hamas Critic 'Dirty Zionist'
The UK's National Union of Students (NUS) has found itself embroiled in yet another scandal as its new president was found to have a history on Twitter
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
Antisemitic Speaker at Duke University Mocks Jewish Students
From the blog of Amy Rosenthal at The Times of Israel
Miscellaneous | Judaism
Passover: Who Authored the Passover Haggadah?
The Haggadah evolved over time, starting from the Second Temple period until it reached its present form.
News | ISRAEL NEWS
After AP Story, Bnei Brak Slaughter Kills Palestine-Ukraine Analogy
Within hours of an AP report giving favorable coverage to the proponents of the false Palestine-Ukraine analogy, the slaughter of two peaceful Ukrainians by
News | NEWS
PICTURES: Palestinians Celebrate, Hand out Candy After Terror Attack that Killed 5 in Tel Aviv
Palestinians in multiple cities came out to celebrate a shooting attack by a terrorist in a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday evening.
Politics | Politics
No Ketanji Brown Jackson, Black Hebrew Israelites Are Not Hippies - They Are Vile Racists
Ketanji Brown Jackson's description of what Black Hebrew Israelites are in her confirmation hearing today was odd.
News | National News
Ivanka Trump donates a million meals to people in Ukraine | Israel National News
Daughter of former President purchases one million meals to deliver to people in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees on Poland-Ukraine border.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
96-year-old Holocaust survivor killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv
Boris Romantschenko, who was not Jewish, survived four concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
25 Chabad Rabbinic Interns Dispatched Towards Ukraine Border
As soon as a river of Jewish refugees began streaming out of Ukraine, it became clear that Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Europe needed more manpower—and fast.
News | News
In Ukraine, Jews Celebrate Purim With Muted Joy - Holiday goes on in cities under attack
Wearing a wide-brimmed sombrero and colorful poncho, Kherson’s Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff, stood in the city’s beautiful renovated synagogue clutching a megillah.
Miscellaneous | Purim
Shushan Purim - Why Jerusalem celebrates a day later
All cities that were walled at the time when the Israelites, under the leadership of Joshua, entered Canaan, observe Purim on the 15th. This results in the occasional unique phenomenon of a “triple” or three-day Purim.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
From Kharkov Subway to Hamburg Hotel, a Jewish Family’s Escape from Ukraine
Alona Dedovsky considers herself lucky. For nine days she, her husband, young son, elderly parents and even older great-aunt lived deep underground in Kharkov’s Prospekt Gagarina subway station.
Miscellaneous | Chabad
140 Refugees From Ukraine Children’s Home Arrive Safely in Israel
A group of 140 refugees from a children’s home in Zhitomir, Ukraine, —including 90 young children—arrived at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, where they were greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other cabinet ministers, ending a grueling, five-day journey through a deadly war zone.
News | News
‘Get Out of Ukraine, You B*stard’: Holocaust Survivor in Kyiv Sends Defiant Message to Putin
Sitting in front of Ukrainian and Israeli flags, Tamara Oleksiivna (r) and Valentyna Romanova (l) told Russian President Vladimir Putin …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Who Are the Jews of Ukraine?
350,000 Jews are served by 200 Chabad couples in 35 cities and towns
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
72 Hours Under Siege with the Jews of Kharkov, Ukraine
Jews take shelter in synagogue; Russian troops make incursion to city; heavy aerial bombardment
News | News
‘We Need a Miracle’: Jews of Ukraine Pray for Peace as Invasion Continues
Chabad rabbis are providing material aid and spiritual comfort wherever possible
News | The News
Elder Of Ziyon - How Amnesty's anti-Israel apartheid report backfired; Israel ranks above Spain, Italy and US for democracy in new global index; 'This Is Just Jaw-Dropping': McConnell Reacts To Assassination Attempt Of Dem Mayoral Candidate
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Politics | POLITICS
Justin Trudeau Gets Eviscerated After He Accuses a Jewish MP of Supporting Nazis
This petty little dork of a tyrant is way out of his league.
Miscellaneous | Judaism
Sinai: Were the First Tablets a Mistake? - Guest Columnists - Parshah
Why were the first set of tablets given with such fanfare?
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Thanks, Whoopi! Why Holocaust Education Is mostly counter-productive
Shoah education proposes that Jews are easiest to murder without payback, and it makes Jewish youngsters want to escape that fate. Op-ed.
Miscellaneous | Chabad
Chabad in Beijing Provides a Kosher Boost at Olympics
A whopping 1,500 meals prepared for visiting athletes, coaches and journalists
Miscellaneous | Judaism
17 Facts About Moses Every Jew Should Know
Moses was born in Egypt during the enslavement of the Jews. His parents, Amram and Yocheved, were from the illustrious tribe of Levi.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
HonestReporting Research Study: Comparing US Media Coverage of Hate Crimes Against Minorities, Including Jews
HonestReporting CEO Daniel Pomerantz is slated to appear on the FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition podcast this afternoon (6 PM EST), when he will discuss
Miscellaneous | Judaism
The Moses Connection - The Daily Dose of Jewish Wisdom
“Command” in Hebrew is tzivah, which also means “connect.”
News | Jewish Community
What It’s Like to Be a New Jewish Arrival in Utah
Entrepreneur Mort Fertel shares how he and his family have turned Salt Lake City into home
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The ADL's disturbing obsession with race
Whoopi Goldberg put the issue of race and antisemitism in the headlines this week with her gobsmackingly stupid comments
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The Anti-Defamation League and Amnesty International
The Anti-Defamation League, which has an annual budget of around $100 million, is supposed to be the leading Jewish organization in the Diaspora in the fight against Jew-hatred. But Amnesty's declaration of war against the Jewish state placed the ADL in a
Entertainment | Entertainment
A Jew on ‘The View’? Some say it’s long overdue
In the wake of Whoopi Goldberg’s comments, Jewish thought leaders consider a potential Jewish co-host for the long-running show.
Politics | Politics
Drop the Goldberg name you co-opted, Whoopi -- you don't deserve it
Decades ago, when the performer Caryn Johnson decided her name wasn’t interesting enough and dubbed herself Whoopi Goldberg instead, it wasn’t because Goldberg signified “whiteness.”
Miscellaneous | Judaism
13 Facts About Jewish Leap Years - Jewish Calendar
The Hebrew leap year ensures that the Jewish calendar remains true to the solar cycle
News | Jewish Community
Too Many Jews Are Being Silenced About Our Racialized Experiences - Jew in the City
For most of elementary school, I was the only Jewish girl in a class of over eighty kids. There were a couple of Jewish boys. While I was secular during my childhood, everyone in school knew I was a Jew. A neighbor called me a “Jewish jerk” and made guttu
Politics | The Hall of Idiots
Whoopi Goldberg: 'The Holocaust Isn’t About Race'
Whoopi Golberg told her co-hosts Monday on ABC's "The View" that "the Holocaust isn't about race" while discussing a Tennessee school district removing Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus from their curriculum. | Clips
News | News
ADL, Founded To Combat Anti-Semitism, Goes Woke, Changes Definition Of Racism
The Anti-Defamation League, an international Jewish organization that is now headed by Jonathan Greenblatt, a former Obama administration official, has changed the definition of racism on its website to read, “The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.”
Politics | Politics
Christopher Hitchens Wasn’t Great
‘’Tis the season to remember Christopher Hitchens.” So my fellow Commentary columnist Matthew Continetti wrote in December in a Washington Free Beacon
News | News
UK Jewish Groups Blast BBC’s ‘Whitewash Non-Apology’ for Report Defaming Victims of Antisemitic Attack
The BBC logo is seen at the entrance at Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in central London. Photo by Vuk …
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
'Shema Yisrael' pendants discovered in Sobibor Excavations
The pendants were uncovered in areas where victims were forced to undress before being herded into the gas chambers and near one of the mass graves.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
It's not complicated. It's antisemitism.
Jews represent just over 2 percent of the US population but account for almost 60% of all US religious hate crimes.
History | History
Not Just The Mufti - the real extension of the Palestinian-Nazi collaboration | by Adin Haykin
When did the Palestinian Nazi connection really begin?
Was it limited only to the famous encounter between the Mufti and Hitler?
And how much did this connection affect Palestinian nationalism in the…
Miscellaneous | Jewish Wisdom
12 Women Who Impacted Torah Scholarship
Culled from the span of Jewish history, from the Talmudic era to pre-war Europe
Miscellaneous | Chabad
Bob Saget, 65, Comedian and Co-Host of Chabad Telethon in California
He is remembered as a warm, loving soul who gave back to the community
History | HISTORY
Wannsee Conference: The most shameful document of modern history
The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, was not about consumer trends, projected profits or shareholder value, it was about life and death. Specifically, systematic death.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
NYPD Seeking Woman Who Spat on Jewish 8-Year-Old, Made Antisemitic Comments
Surveillance footage of the suspect in the Jan. 14, 2022 attack on Jewish children in Brooklyn, New York. Photo: NYPD …
News | News
‘Nothing Compares to This’: Survivors Denounce Online ‘Trivialization’ of Holocaust Found in Study
Dutch vaccine refusal activists are seen wearing images and clothing associated with the Nazi Holocaust at a demonstration. Photo: CIDI. …
Miscellaneous | Jewish Wisdom
Women First - The Daily Dose of Wisdom
When it came time to give the Torah to the Jewish people, G‑d told Moses to speak with the women first.
News | News
Hostages Freed at Texas Congregation After 10-Hour Standoff
People around the world prayed and dedicated mitzvahs in the merit of those held
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
Biden Doesn't Think There's 'Sufficient Information' on Why Hostage-Taker Made Antisemitic Comments
On Saturday, a British man took a rabbi and others hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. The hostages have all been released, and the hostage-taker, Malik Faisal Akram, is
News | News
Congressman On Synagogue Hostage Situation: Now ‘An International Investigation,’ ‘There’s Something More Here’
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told CNN on Sunday that the hostage situation that unfolded on Saturday at a synagogue in Texas has turned into an international investigation that there was “something more” to the events that happened.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
The U.N.'s final solution to the Israel question
Historians usually date the start of the Holocaust to June 1941 when German troops invaded the Soviet Union, identified Jewish civilians, lined them up and shot them by the thousands.
News | JEWISH COMMUNITY
‘Murdered Because They Were Jews’: Victims Remembered on 7th Anniversary of French Kosher Market Killings
Shoppers enter the Hyper Cacher in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, Jan. 7, 2019. Photo: Stephen Caillet / Reuters. Jewish …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Zionist Organization of America | ZOA to USC: Expel Student Who's Threatened to Kill "Every Mother F**king Zionist"
December 23, 2021 VIA EMAIL Members of the USC Board of Trustees Carol L. Folt, President Charles F. Zukoski, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0012 Dear Distinguished Mem
Miscellaneous | Judaism
Why Did G-d Smite the Firstborn? - Parshah
Our job is to find the divine sparks hidden within each person, each object and each event, and let that shine.
Politics | Politics
Ocasio-Cortez Staffer Calls Israel ‘Racist European Ethnostate’
On Christmas Eve, a staffer for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Israel “a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population.”
News | News
Muslim and Jewish EMTs Save A collapsed Woman’s Life in Ein Naqquba
Muslim and Jewish EMTs Save A collapsed Woman’s Life in Ein Naqquba Ein Naqquba- On Monday night at around 10:30 p.m., a 50-year-old woman collapsed in her front yard in the town of Ein Naqquba, an Arab village west of Jerusalem. Her children found her
History | History
20 years before the Holocaust, pogroms killed 100,000 Jews - then were forgotten
'In the Midst of Civilized Europe' by Jeffrey Veidlinger revisits the brutal violence in 1918-1921 that portended a genocide of Europe's Jews, and was soon overshadowed by it
Miscellaneous | Judaism
When Do Jewish Boys Begin to Wear Their Tallit? - And why do some Ashkenazim wait until after marriage?
The answer to this question really varies depending on your ancestry and/or community custom. Allow me to share some information...
Miscellaneous | Judaism
Do Jews Really Believe In Reincarnation?
Every descent of the soul into this world has a specific Divine purpose. This is the case whether it is the soul’s first descent or a subsequent reincarnation. There are many aspects of gilgul haneshamot—reincarnation of the soul—that are complex and intricate beyond the scope of this response. However, to understand the general purpose for reincarnation, we can look to the three reasons outlined by Rabbi Yeshaya HaLevi Horowitz, as provided by the Kabbalists, in his classic work Shnei Luchot HaBrit (Shaloh).1
Miscellaneous | Chabad
At Site of London Attack on Jews, a Menorah Stands Tall
Full lights lit in response to last week’s antisemitic attack
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
AOC defends her prog pal Rep. Jamaal Bowman by reminding everyone that the Jews have made his job a lot more difficult
It seems that freshman Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman has been stepping on some far-Left toes with his reluctance to publicly outright trash Israel.
News | News
Last Surviving ‘Band Of Brothers’ Officer – A Jewish Soldier Who Toasted His Son’s Bar Mitzvah With Cognac Stolen From Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’ – Dies At 99
Retired Army Col. Edward Shames — the last surviving officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division — passed away Friday at the age of 99.
Miscellaneous | Other Stuff
"Eight Lights for Eight Nights" Chanukah Companion - A printable companion to help you celebrate Chanukah
To help you celebrate a most uplifting and joyous Chanukah, Chabad.org has prepared Eight Lights for Eight Nights, a night-by-night program to be printed and enjoyed.
Miscellaneous | Judaism
My Father, My Superman - Health & Wellness
I watched my father, encloaked not in a red cape but in a weathered, white tallit, a joyful Chassidic melody on his lips.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
How Radical Fringe Groups Manipulate Westerners Against Israel
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are seen through a panel as they pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City while …
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Helen Mirren attacked on social media over Golda Meir role
The British actress, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II, is under fire for accepting the role of Israel's first female Prime Minister.
Miscellaneous | Chanukah
How This Rabbi Built 30,000 Public Menorahs
A Chabad emissary in New Jersey has taken menorah construction to new heights
Miscellaneous | Judaism
Judaism: Why Is the Contemporary Prayer Book So Long?
During the days of the First Temple, no formal prayer was needed.
News | Jewish Community
An American Rapper and a Soviet Child: Parallel Journeys of Return
My childhood could not have been more different from that of Nissim Black.
News | News
Over Half of UK Population Doesn’t Know Six Million Jews Were Killed in Holocaust, Study Shows
The arrival of Jewish refugee children in London, Feb. 1939. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A new survey found disturbing levels of …
News | News
StandWithUs Launches Website Exposing Corporate Antisemitism
StandWithUs is a non-profit international education pro-Israel organization. StandWithUs supports Israel and fights Antisemitism through education.
Miscellaneous | Chanukah
Chabad: Chanukah Basics
The Chanukah story, Chanukah observances, Chanukah FAQs and the menorah lighting procedure in succinct form -- with a plethora of links that lead to the unabridged version...
Miscellaneous | Judaism
Uncertainty, Unknowability, and Free Will in Kabbalah and Quantum Mechanics - Torah & Science
Developments in the physical and biological sciences over the last two millennia have, in the minds of many, challenged the belief systems of the major Western religions. Consequently, many Jews and others longing to understand the nature of reality and the meaning of human existence have been lured away from their faiths in a quest for more ‘objective’ truths.
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
House Dems To Introduce Resolution to Condemn Israel, Praise Terrorist Palestinian Groups
A contingent of House Democrats plans to introduce a resolution urging the Biden administration to condemn Israel while also supporting six Palestinian groups that are designated as terrorist organiza...
News | News
Neo-Nazis hang ‘Vax the Jews’ banner near Texas JCC, synagogues
Jewish mayor of Austin says he's 'heartbroken to see antisemitic hatred' in the Texas capital after Goyim Defense League puts sign on bridge
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
Learning From Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks - Jewish Life
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who passed away on Shabbat, 20 Cheshvan, 5781, was an international religious leader, philosopher, and respected moral voice. The author of over 30 books, he served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013 and took his seat in the House of Lords in October 2009.
Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism
Climate Change Group Boycotts D.C. Voting Rights Event over 'Zionist' Participation
The District of Columbia chapter of the Sunrise Movement said it would not participate in voting rights rally because of "Zionist" groups.
Miscellaneous | Religion
Elder Of Ziyon - When the Irish boycotted Jews in 1904, they also claimed it wasn't antisemitic
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
Entertainment | Movies & Television
The Academy Museum ignores Hollywood’s Jewish founders – The Forward
The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles neglects Hollywood's Jewish founders
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
'Sabbath for $400': Chulent stumps Jeopardy contestants in question about Shabbat restrictions
Mayim Bialik, the show's host, explained the dish's roots in the prohibition on lighting fires on Shabbat.
Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous
Why anti-Zionism and antisemitism are inextricably linked
For centuries, Jews have debated who belongs to our community. While embracing a more inclusive Jewish world is an