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A Very Special Hakhnassath Sefer Torah in Mumbai, India

A joyous celebration took place this past week in Mumbai (Bombay), India, at the famed and historic Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue. The Sefer was...

Portraits of Irish Holocaust Survivors Present Nation with a Teachable Moment

When Irish artist Diana Muller first presented her works in progress—paintings of some of her country’s few remaining Holocaust survivors—to the Irish Jewish...

A Perspective on Israel’s Failure To Effectively Confront BDS

It appears that an ample amount of news ink has been spilled in recent days over the ever burgeoning BDS movement.  Pundits of...

Al Pacino Reopens the Debate Over Pro-Nazi Celebrities

Should cultural contributions by individuals whose views are anathema and/or harmful to others be shunned? The decision by actor Al Pacino to withdraw...

One Year Later: Honoring our Murdered Boys

When I heard the tragic news that the three Israeli teenagers, Naftali, Eyal, and Gilad, who had been kidnapped by members of Hamas...

Remembering the Six-Day War: A Fact Sheet – Part II

(Continued from last week) Israel's victory came at a very high cost. In storming the Golan Heights, 115 Israeli soldiers perished...

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s 8 Principles for Dealing with the Iran Nuclear Threat

President Barack Obama reluctantly signed into law the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act. He was forced to accept, by overwhelming votes in both...

Initiative Helps Jewish Camps Secure the Funds Behind the Fun

For those who attended the Jewish camps of the previous generation, summertime likely invokes memories of smelly old bunks and rickety dining halls....

When a Piece of Paper Meant Life or Death – Breckinridge Long’s Chilling Memo

“It is a fantastic commentary on the inhumanity of our times,” journalist Dorothy Thompson wrote at the height of the 1930s European Jewish...

Remembering the Six-Day War: A Fact Sheet – Part 1

Why are we talking today about the West Bank and the "Palestinian question"? How did Israel get into this situation where it is...

How Well Do You Know New York? Culture, Amusements and the Arts Await You This Summer in City That Never Sleeps

New York City is the cultural center of the world. So many of us live in this wonderful city our entire lives, without...

Summer Nights: Dating and Marriage as Byproducts of Jewish Camp

Eighteen-year-old Bernie Kozlovksy spent from sundown to sunrise on a boat with 16-year-old Sonia Rosenbaum in the summer of 1972. “We talked until...

How Should Pro-Israel Voices Tackle the War of Ideas on College Campuses?

Recent ordeals for Jews on college campuses include being probed on their religious identity in student government hearings, seeing swastikas sprayed on fraternity...

The Legacy of Robert Wistrich, World’s Leading Scholar of Anti-Semitism

The cemetery in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul neighborhood was bathed in the fading sunlight of a late May afternoon. Silently and steadily, the column...

When Baghdad Burned – the June 1941 Farhud Massacre

“Violent dispossession.” In an Arabic dialect, the word is Farhud. For decades after it occurred, many thought the nightmare was a sudden and...

Inhabitants of the Land of Israel During the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate

The identity and origins of the inhabitants of Palestine are often unknown or ignored, yet this information is of importance for those who...

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