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Survivors, Scholars, & Holocaust Fatigue
-A Muslim mother visits Dachau. (Jewish Journal)-A new study asserts that Holocaust trauma affects grandchildren of survivors. (Haaretz)-An Israeli teen ...
The Motion
JTA is reporting something about an imaginary motion for a one-state solution to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What they’re reporting ...
Military Matters
-Reuven Pedatzur concludes that a war with Syria would include a missile attack on Israeli cities throughout Israel that the ...
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Diane Ackerman’s book The Zookeeper’s Wife — which details how Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who ran the Warsaw Zoo, hid ...
Keeping up with the Brooks…
in jail?David Brooks, notorious for spending more than $10 million on his daughter’s bat mitzvah two years ago, was arrested ...
Seperate but equal doesn’t work
I’d like to believe that the findings from this investigation won’t prove the allegation true. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem too ...
The Orthodox World
-Isi Leibler bemoans the fact that in the Israeli Orthodox world, “the voices of moderation are silent. Zealotry has become ...
Rabin Memorial Day
Today is Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day, which coincides with his yartzeit on the 12th of Cheshvan.I’ve included some links for ...
A rabbi, a philantropist and, a professor walk into a room…
Sounds like a bad joke?It might as well have been one last Thursday at “A Debate on Jewish Values.” Hosted ...
Condemning Violence
Several blogs have picked up the Haaretz report about 5 ultra-Orthodox men who apparently assaulted a woman and an Israeli ...
Elie Wiesel Digs Jesus
Last night, Elie Wiesel began his lecture at the 92nd Street Y with a few words about Jean-Marie Lustiger, the ...
Gaza and the West Bank
-The Palestinian Authority is paving a four-lane highway inside Israel’s sovereign territory. You’ve never heard of this? That, says Yossi ...