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It is our refusal to assimilate fully into anyone else’s culture, our absolute commitment to our own tradition, at any cost — and yet our grief for this cost.
The Jewish state must achieve true independence, especially from the United States of America.
Recently, I went to a seminar in Israel run by a movement that aims to save Israel from internal strife by defining a more cohesive, inclusive, and respectful — and less toxic — public discourse.
As they say in Israel: Yom HaZikaron reminds us about the cost of having a state, and Yom HaShoah about the cost of not.
The popular chant, “We don’t want two states, we want 1948!” states that about as clearly as can be, as does “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”
“What the hell is going on?” is a weekly series in which we bring you the most bizarre, outlandish, and surreal developments from around the Jewish world during the past week.
“Gather about you all who observe the law, and avenge your people. Pay back the Gentiles what they deserve, and observe the precepts of the law.”
U.S. President Joe Biden’s betrayal of Israel is unpardonable, and he is beyond redemption.
It is time for Jews to fight back again, or look for another place to call home.
Christians and Muslims, who jealously believe they are God’s chosen people, denounce Jews for having trademarked the concept first. But anyway.
Both men are examples of what a prototypical politician looks like nowadays: hypocritical, contradictory, people-pleasing, self-serving, and disingenuous.
Zionist collector David Matlow of Toronto, Canada joined Joshua Hoffman (the founder of Future of Jewish) to debate this question.
The biblical Psalmist admonishes us to hate evil, not negotiate with it.
There is a guy whom you probably have heard of. He was a two-term U.S. president who left office at age 54. In other words, he needed “a job” for the rest of his working life.
Western governments, along with the United Nations, have never held and will never hold the Palestinians to account for their murderous depravity.
A few reflections on Jews and the Holocaust, as Israel observes Holocaust Memorial Day today.
Journalistic laziness and cowardice are behind the poor and biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here is where the reporting goes wrong — and why.
“What the hell is going on?” is a weekly series in which we bring you the most bizarre, outlandish, and surreal developments from around the Jewish world during the past week.
Hopefully my story can help people acknowledge profusely misguided errors of the antisemitic way.
This is why cultural appropriation is a progressive mega-sin, except when it comes to junior jihadists playing "Palestine" Barbie.