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

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Politics | Debunking Lies

Elder Of Ziyon - “Thinking past the sale” - how anti-Israel propagandists work

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News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - Jews buy a building in Hebron. So, naturally, they are accused of "stealing" it.

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News | Antisemitism Watch

Elder Of Ziyon - I'm banned from @Twitter for a week - for supposedly violating a rule that they previously

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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

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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.

Don’t hold your breath. Most Americans have demonstrated that antisemitism means nothing to them. That’s, unfortunately, true on the right and the left (where it’s more true). I used to think America was different. The events of the last few years have proven to me that I was wrong - they like us when we are exploitable, when they can’t do that - at best they are indifferent.

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, …

Where is the Democratic Party on this? Oh right. Silent AS ALWAYS.

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. 

Only very stupid people believe that censorship somehow helps Jews when the people making the decisions about what gets censored are antisemites.

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.

Moshe Dayan thought he was preventing bloodshed, and I am sure foremost on his mind was preventing Jewish bloodshed. But he made a mistake. You never surrender and inch of land to people who want to murder you. How much more so when you are talking about Judaism’s holiest place on earth? Ever since Israel relinquished control of the Temple Mount Arabs have used it as a propaganda tool. In fact their ability to do so has only expanded as they have conned large numbers of ignorant people into, against every bit of historical evidence, believing that Arabs in the region are a separate ethnic people called “Palestinian” who are the “real” indigenous people. Had the Israelis kept the Temple Mount, it would have sent the message to the world that ALL of Israel is Jewish, they aren’t afraid to proudly proclaim it, and that Arabs are welcome to live and pray anywhere in Israel, including the Dome of the Rock, ONLY if they accept the reality of the situation. Instead, now we have a “Jewish” state where Jews aren’t allowed to pray at the most revered place in our religion and in our history.

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

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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 …

Europe is a cesspool. That will not change. Why do so many people romanticize it?

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

They can stick it. They may as well be flying with swastikas on their tails. NOTHING changes in Europe. Jews need to wake up to that fact. Are all Europeans antisemites? No, but are far too many ok with targeting Jews? Absolutely. But, I guess this is yet another example of “Jewish privilege.”

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?

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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

This situation has never been sustainable. You bang have two million CITIZENS within your borders who want your destroyed. It is a fantasy to believe that a majority of Arabs will every except Israel as a Jewish state.

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Pathetic: Lufthansa ‘sincerely apologizes’ for discriminating against Jewish passengers in statement deliberately avoiding ‘Jews’ or ‘Jewish’

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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.

The Democrats have an antisemitism problem. So the fact that this woman is an antisemite (he Israel hatred is not mere criticism of policy-it is pathological) and the democrats have embraced her, and utterly failed to criticize her, is proof. There is antisemitism on both sides-but only one side routinely ignores and ELEVATES its antisemites.

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

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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

I had no idea about any of this. And I went to camp with his daughter!

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

You could do this at USC, any UC school, or an university in the United States: at this point, they are all exactly this bad.

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 | Antisemitism Watch

‘It was Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problem’: Lufthansa clerk defends booting all visibly Jewish passengers from flight [videos]

lufthansa

The one time I flew Lufthansa I felt funny about it…people told me that I was “over reacting.” The more things change…

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

An older article (not that old, from last June), but an important one.

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.

“The three fathers left behind a total of 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

Great column, I wish it was longer. Israel has ALWAYS been Jewish, and Jews have always lived there. It is Israel that was occupied for almost 2,000 years before the re-establishment of the modern Jewish state. Despite the propaganda that FAR too many people believe, no other people has ever established a nation in the Land of Israel.

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.

Wow! Good news! Of course this is the case, while anyone who has a Jewish mother, or had a proper conversion is Jewish, Orthodox Jews have a far higher birth rate and the secular Jewish community, especially in America, loses large amounts of its population to assimilation.

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

One thing has become crustal clear over the last few years: our “elite institutions” are garbage.

News | Jewish Community

Elder Of Ziyon - New study: Higher education is correlated with higher antisemitism

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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 …

This is a well known fact. So this data only confirms it. Again.

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.

Yes, not a single leftist will start using a hashtag to bring this to people’s attention.

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 …

I despise The NY Times.

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.

You will never see Jews do this, yet these are the animals who the left support.

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.

This is reason alone to invalidate the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson. It’s as if she called the KKK a bunch of farmers just trying to work their land. The Black “Hebrew Israelites” are vile vile antisemites. As always though, when Jews are the subject of bigots - no one actually cares.

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

Very sad news. He survived FOUR camps and then was murdered more than seventy years later by Vladimir Putin.

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.

These are the most fearless people in the world.

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.

These are very brave people.

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