I am angry. When Brittney Griner was taken hostage in Russia, the world was focused on liberating her. Our government moved mountains for her. Her plight touched the hearts of Americans. What about Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Edan Alexander, Omer Neutra, Sagui Dekel-Chen, and Keith Samuel Siegel, Americans held hostage by Hamas? What about Itay Chen, Gad Haggai, and Judy Weinstein, Americans killed by Hamas, their bodies still in Gaza? While the world rages at Israel about a ceasefire, something Hamas continues to turn down, Hersh, Edan, Omer, Sagui, Keith, and the memories of Itay, Gad, and Judy have been lost. When Islamic extremists kidnapped young girls in Nigeria back in 2014, First Lady Michelle Obama was photographed holding up a sign saying #BringBackOurGirls. Many other celebrities did the same thing, drawing international attention to the plight of the young hostages. What about Ariel and Kfir Bibas (and their parents, Shiri and Yarden), babies held hostage…
An engraved illustration image of Moses breaking the two tablets of stone, from a vintage Victorian book dated 1883 that is no longer in copyright Did you know…
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Dear Christian Friends, Judaism reminds us that “a season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven…[including] a time for war and a time for…
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Ross Stevens Most of you have watched the disgusting display of antisemitism that took place on Capitol Hill this week: the Presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University…
Written 85 years after Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, a series of Nazi-led pogroms against he Jewish community in Germany and incorporated territories. I am shattered.Bits and pieces…
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Hanay, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Tomorrow night, as we mark Tisha B’Av, the day we mourn the destruction of ancient Israel and the exile of…
There was a Torah scholar in the town Medzibuz (presently in the Ukraine) who was not respected by the townspeople. Frustrated by this lack of respect, the scholar…
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