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The Farhud (“violent dispossession” (in Arabic), the two-day pogrom that befell the Jews of Baghdad occurred 75 years ago on Shavuot in 1941.

People may not believe in evil, but evil believes in them

These disparate positions make it unsurprising that poskim are divided about precisely which prohibition is violated when terminating a Jewish woman’s pregnancy and also result in significant differences in the circumstances in which they permit abortion.

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The Golden Square wanted Germany to destroy the British and Jewish presence in their country. The Third Reich craved what was beneath the ground – oil.

With his New Hope party's prospects up in the air, Likud officials say Gideon Saar now feels a Netanyahu-led government

Discrimination against Jewish prayer on Judaism's holiest site is obscene

What makes this very frustrating is that what New York State is about to do to us directly impacts our fundamental duty to perpetuate our faith in the time-honored way we teach it to our children – that Torah study is central.

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What happens when memory fails; when time or miscreant genes insidiously steal the basic tenets of selfhood? Who am I, who are you, who are we, without our memories, without our past?

Several days before Israel Independence Day this year, in a letter to Herzog, Erdogan extended his wishes for the well-being and prosperity of the people of Israel….

Building unity amongst Jews and all of Israel

Once returned, the body was transported to the church in the hearse under Israeli protection according to plan.

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Despite Sussmann’s well-known connection to the Democratic establishment and his then current role as a lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Baker apparently dismissed any concern that Sussmann’s was a partisan effort.

On the question whether singles felt that the Orthodox system of dating was going well, Nishma found that most singles had an unfavorable view.

Two years after the moral panic set off by the death of George Floyd, American Jews need to confront the way the BLM movement and the ideologies that underpin it enable hatred of Jews.

Despite the impulse to blame Netanyahu and the usual targets of left-wing scorn, the real answer is the growing popularity of theories like intersectionality that sanction anti-Semitism.

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What do the killers want above all else? FAME

One of the reasons the conflict with the Palestinian Arabs has dragged is that Israel has failed to conceptualize the conflict accurately.

The facts themselves are very simple and you won’t find many of them in the CNN report. Given everything we know about the events – and what we do not – we cannot know for sure who fired the shot.

A widely-respected veteran journalist with the JTA news service reported Biden's plan to visit Israel next month “appears unaffected” by Israel’s approval of the construction of some Jewish housing units in communities in Judea-Samaria. In other words, this “story” was—as in the mold of the classic Seinfeld sitcom formula—an article about nothing. He was writing about something that was NOT going to happen.

New Australian PM Anthony Albanese has called Israel an “oppressor” and accused it of collective punishment against the Palestinian Arabs.

There are 364 days a year during which one can discuss the challenges Jerusalem faces. For one day a year, let us simply rejoice in the fact that we are witnessing the vision of the eternal capital come true.

A number of leading Holocaust historians refute the notion the Germans dealt with the Gypsies in the same manner they did with the Jews

The past decade has been fraught with attacks on religious sites for Muslims and Christians throughout the Middle East. Only a free and democratic Israel will defend Jerusalem and all major religions.

The future of the Old City of Jerusalem will be decided by facts on the ground and the Jews who purchase and live in buildings along the route of the planned march.

Most of the partners in the coalition would rather bite their tongues than come out against the Arab MKs, whether their allies or those providing a safety net.

Almost every article on Israel, every report, that emerges in the west these days is rooted in skewed reporting and deliberate fictions.