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A response to Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of Boca Raton, Florida.

They seek to be color-blind, and religion-blind. But in being so, they are also terror-blind.

After Israel’s War of Independence, poet Nathan Alterman famously memorialized those who fell in that struggle in his poem “Magash Hakesef” – “The Silver Platter.” The reference was to a statement by the country’s first president that no one was going to hand the Jews a state “on a silver platter.” In other words, it would have to be earned by sweat and blood.

I am a child of survivors. I stand as near to the gates of Auschwitz and Belsen as anyone who was not actually there, and that is still a million miles away

Interested in practicing the theology of political correctness? The very same practiced by
the PC Cult religion? Well, the theology of political correctness is based largely on going into
denial. So we have assembled a list of points in the PC Denial catechism that you will need to
practice if you truly wish to convert to being a PC progressive. Here is a list of the most
important principles of PC theology. Try to remember them all so that you can be caring and
open-hearted faster than you can say "race, gender, class" (the PC Trinity):

Dear President Carter: We at CAMERA have been outspoken in our criticism of the many factual errors and distortions about Israel in your book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, as well as in various op-eds and media appearances. We've been greatly concerned that false allegations you've made damage Israel, promoting misunderstanding, enmity and prejudice against that nation and its people.

The warning signs are everywhere, yet no one wishes to see them. Israel's foes are gearing up for war, and it's time we opened our eyes to the danger that confronts us.

Gratitude is shown by a vote for Trump

On Israel-Diaspora “distancing”: Nothing short of a deep commitment to traditional Jewish ritual practice is likely to lead to a revitalization of Jewish life in America and subsequently create a solid basis for recovery in Diaspora-Israel relations.

Our hero was the patron saint of the janitor’s closet. “Janitor Mark” we asked, “What are you doing with a photo of Rabbi Meir Kahane”?

Does HRW really expect Israeli soldiers and policemen to ask someone who shoots or throws a Molotov cocktail at them how old they are before firing back to defend themselves?

Any Jewish state worthy of its name should encourage aliyah as a national goal of the highest priority.

Most Jews in America, from Orthodox to assimilated and everything in between, seem to view the world not as it is but as it was – 50, 60, or 70 years ago.

When Biden pressured Ukraine to vote against Israel after the 2016 presidential election

My beliefs & actions have led to numerous death threats against me; my excommunication by my church

This year, one brave Israeli soldier’s recent death struck very close to home for me.

Judah Leib Gordon’s 1887 poem “Kotzo Shel Yod” (“The Point on Top of the Yod”) includes a description of cruel harassment by rabbis of an unfortunate agunah (literally, a “chained woman” whose husband deserts her or disappears without divorcing her, thus preventing her from remarrying). The description is vitriolic, wicked, dishonest, and disgraceful, in the spirit of the poets of the Enlightenment period, among whom Gordon was a central figure.

“The resentment towards us (Jews/Israelis) was really intense. They clearly hate Zionism & Zionists"

Our journey begins by attempting to see things differently, only then can we be open to change.

When the Jewish people left Egypt, we should have allowed the entire generation of slaves to die in the desert before we entered the Land of Israel. Israel has forgotten how to govern

The continuing bombardment of the Syrian province of Idlib by Russia, Iran, and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has been ignored for far too long by the international community. Attention must be paid – in particular by Donald Trump, who is showing himself worryingly prone to “Obama moments” of hesitation and lack of resolve.

A Palestinian event featuring Jew-haters at the University of Pennsylvania shows that in the age of DEI loyalty pledges, some forms of prejudice are tolerated on campuses.

Since Torah is the great equalizer, the great reconciler of divergent but valid opinions, this is also the place where common ground is reached.

Far from presenting "new and diverse perspectives," this $1 million project offers the usual academic obfuscation mixed with Islamist triumphalism.

The Ramaz children are clearly in need of instruction.

The Greenblatt-Sharpton campaign is a left-wing power grab disguised as a civil rights mission.

{Reposted from the MEF website} Gerald Steinberg, founder and president of NGO Monitor, a policy analysis think tank focusing on non-governmental organizations, spoke to participants...

Israel's revelation will no doubt create fissures in the Iranian regime. These can be exploited by Israel and the US when the inevitable conflict arises.

This multicultural volcano is not a threat only in the distant future of Europe; it is already in place. The big question is: why is it not stopped?

Once again, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has spoken simple words of truth, and once again he’s under attack from the Palestinian Authority and the Jewish left.