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Jonathan Feldstein: Passover 2025: Celebrating Our Redemption While Still in Captivity
Jonathan Feldstein: Passover 2025: Celebrating Our Redemption While Still in Captivity A Passover seder is a multi-sensory experience, including a variety of traditions related to and recounting the redemption of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt so
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Jonathan Feldstein: Make Yousef Smile Again
Jonathan Feldstein: Make Yousef Smile Again What would you do if a superhero called out to you for help? Imagine Wonder Woman or Superman appealing to you in a way only you can pitch in. That’s how I felt in a quiet moment I never prepared for, in the w
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Jonathan Feldstein: Jimmy Carter Made the World Un-Safe from Terrorism
Jonathan Feldstein: Jimmy Carter Made the World Un-Safe from Terrorism Ok, Jimmy Carter died. Many will fill volumes writing now that he was a good guy, honest, smart, and did some good things as president and in his post-presidency. Despite many of these
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Jonathan Feldstein: This Chanukah and Christmas, We Need Some Supersized Miracles and Joy
Jonathan Feldstein: This Chanukah and Christmas, We Need Some Supersized Miracles and Joy We definitely need some miracles and extra joy this Chanukah and Christmas. I’d take an order, supersized. As the holiday most profoundly based on a serie
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Jonathan Feldstein: Jews Hunted in European Pogrom
Jonathan Feldstein: Jews Hunted in European Pogrom A pogrom is a premeditated, organized, violent riot with the aim of threatening, intimidating, and massacring Jews, made common in late 19th and early 20th century Russia and Eastern Europe. Last week, in
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Jonathan Feldstein: My October 8 Epiphany and Israel’s Future
Jonathan Feldstein: My October 8 Epiphany and Israel’s Future A year ago, I had no idea how bad things were, or were going to be immediately after the Hamas massacre. I had no idea my son was in one of the communities along the Gaza border, fighting ter
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Jonathan Feldstein: The UN is to Blame for All the Suffering in Lebanon
Jonathan Feldstein: The UN is to Blame for All the Suffering in Lebanon As the United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York this week, all eyes will be on Lebanon, and all daggers will be drawn to blame Israel. But in looking to ascribe blame, par
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Jonathan Feldstein: Israeli Pride in the Wake of the War
Jonathan Feldstein: Israeli Pride in the Wake of the War This week, I brought my youngest son to join the IDF. It’s a point we have anticipated from the day he was born, 19 years ago this week, but was especially poignant and a source of pride, especi
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Jonathan Feldstein: Meet Israel’s First Christian Olympic Athlete
Jonathan Feldstein: Meet Israel’s First Christian Olympic Athlete The Paris Olympics are behind us. Many outstanding athletes competed at their best, albeit marred by an outlandish opening ceremony that mocked Christianity. Israel’s Olympic team won t
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Jonathan Feldstein Israel: Armageddon Notwithstanding
Jonathan Feldstein Israel: Armageddon Notwithstanding I’d be lying if I told you that things are not tense in Israel right now, nationally and personally. As always, one of the ways to get through it is with humor, even when the situation is far from fu
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Jonathan Feldstein: Will There Be More Hamas Hostages?
Jonathan Feldstein: Will There Be More Hamas Hostages? Sunday, July 7 is not just another day. It is 275 days since the inhuman Hamas invasion and massacre in Israel, slaughtering 1200 and taking more than 250 hostages to Gaza. 120 are still in captivity
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Jonathan Feldstein: Israel’s Rockets’ Red Glare
Jonathan Feldstein: Israel’s Rockets’ Red Glare Americans around the world are celebrating independence today with vacations, outings, sales, bar-b-ques, fireworks, and more. As Americans wake up, Israelis are experiencing a modern “rockets’ r
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Jonathan Feldstein: Father’s Day With Hamas Terrorists
Jonathan Feldstein: Father’s Day With Hamas Terrorists It’s not every day that I read headlines at home in Israel and think of classic American folk-rock songs. In fact, it’s never happened before. Until recently. As I was reading a particula
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Jonathan Feldstein – Recognizing Palestine
Jonathan Feldstein – Recognizing Palestine If you’re keeping score, to date 138 states have recognized the ‘State of Palestine,” most recently Ireland, Norway, and Spain. This begs the question, what are they recognizing? They have reco
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Jonathan Feldstein – In Every Generation They Try to Destroy Us
Jonathan Feldstein – In Every Generation They Try to Destroy Us I came home early this morning from special pre-Passover prayers in which it’s customary for first-born men to take part, recognizing that if God had not liberated the Jewish people f
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Jonathan Feldstein: In Israel the Threat Is Real
Jonathan Feldstein: In Israel the Threat Is Real If you’ve been following the news, Israel is on high alert, bracing for an attack by Iran and/or its proxies. US and Israeli intelligence consider an attack on Israel to be a matter of WHEN, not IF. Follo
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Jonathan Feldstein – Two Queens, Same Genocidal Threat
Jonathan Feldstein – Two Queens, Same Genocidal Threat This week, Jews around the world celebrated Purim, the miraculous Biblical story of the Jewish people overcoming a genocidal threat by Haman in the Book of Esther in Persia 2500 years ago. Many
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Jonathan Feldstein: My Traumatic Yet Joyous Homecoming to Israel
Jonathan Feldstein: My Traumatic Yet Joyous Homecoming to Israel Coming home to Israel after a trip overseas to anywhere, for any length of time, is always emotional. Choking back tears, in a matter of minutes I see the coast, cities with countless
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Jonathan Feldstein – Inspiring Voices from South Africa
Jonathan Feldstein – Inspiring Voices from South Africa News last week was rife with criticism of the South African government and its bringing charges of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Criticism of South Africa
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Jonathan Feldstein – Hamas Depraved Pallywood Performance
Jonathan Feldstein – Hamas Depraved Pallywood Performance In the Academy Awards, no one has ever heard of an award recipient standing before a jubilant and envious audience, and saying, “No, thank you, I really didn’t make this film and I do not
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Jonathan Feldstein – The Awakening of Jewish Christian Mutual Support
Jonathan Feldstein – The Awakening of Jewish Christian Mutual Support Like many Israelis, I have had the privilege over the last few weeks of stepping up and doing things on behalf of others in a way that has been particularly uplifting, especially
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Jonathan Feldstein – Israel: Hijacking Our Memory
Jonathan Feldstein – Israel: Hijacking Our Memory Controversy surrounded Israel’s observance of Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, this week. As much as possible, given the social divisions the past month, political and military leaders of all backgroun
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Jonathan Feldstein: My latest article Personal and Raw-Why, What For?
Jonathan Feldstein: My latest article Personal and Raw-Why, What For? Throughout the streets of Efrat, the Judean mountain town of about 12,000 in which I live, on Sunday afternoon, thousands of people stood silently, in reverence and grief, to provide co
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Jonathan Feldstein – 15 Minutes Away from Terror
Jonathan Feldstein – 15 Minutes Away from Terror At 9:34 pm Thursday, I got a strange message from my daughter in our family WhatsApp group. “For all those who asked, I am ok and alive.” Since nobody asked, her sarcasm coupled with a litt
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Jonathan Feldstein – Celebrating A Modern Persian Heroine
Jonathan Feldstein – Celebrating A Modern Persian Heroine Marzi Amirizadeh is not a Persian queen. Unlike Esther, an orphan in Persia expelled from Judea following the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem and exile of the Jewish people, Marzi is a nativ
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Jonathan Feldstein – Remembering Amalek and Being Festive Amid Terror
Jonathan Feldstein – Remembering Amalek and Being Festive Amid Terror This week Jews observe Shabbat Zachor. We observe Shabbat (the Sabbath) every week, but this week is special. Zachor means “remember.” What’s unique that we are rememb
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Jonathan Feldstein: Israeli Perspective-Will Africa Be Blessed or Cursed
Jonathan Feldstein: Israeli Perspective-Will Africa Be Blessed or Cursed I just returned home to Israel after an extraordinary 10-day trip in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, a massive country in central Africa. I had always wanted to visit Africa
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Jonathan Feldstein – Praying for the Rain in Jerusalem
Jonathan Feldstein – Praying for the Rain in Jerusalem Israel is more used to giving names to military operations than storms, but this week, Israel is welcoming Barbara, a winter storm expected to bring heavy rain and even snow much of the week. Ba
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Jonathan Feldstein – Israel:The unscientific poll of my crazy friends
Jonathan Feldstein – Israel: The unscientific poll of my crazy friends With nothing better to do than engage people whose opinions I had not yet asked about tomorrow’s election in Israel, yesterday I sent a simple message to a few dozen friends
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Jonathan Feldstein -These Are Our Peace Partners
Jonathan Feldstein -These Are Our Peace Partners When they’re not shooting rockets at us, inciting terror attacks, and celebrating and paying monthly salaries to those who commit them, they are distorting and trivializing the Holocaust. What woul
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Jonathan Feldstein – Israel: A War, a Vacation, and a Teachable Moment
Jonathan Feldstein – Israel: A War, a Vacation, and a Teachable Moment It was the end of the summer of 2006, and my wife and I had plans for a much-needed family vacation. Within several weeks of each other that year, each of our mothers died necess
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Jonathan Feldstein – Praying that President Biden Stays Out of the Hospital in Jerusalem
Jonathan Feldstein – Praying that President Biden Stays Out of the Hospital in Jerusalem As President Biden arrives in Israel for a two-day visit, there’s concern about the possibility that he might end up in the hospital. No, not because of his a
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Jonathan Feldstein – Support for Israel is Good Policy, and Should be Non-Partisan
Jonathan Feldstein – Support for Israel is Good Policy, and Should be Non-Partisan I was grateful to be invited to speak at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s recent Road to Majority conference in Nashville. I was thinking about this in the context
