Kadima Mada Student Leads Efforts For Visually Impaired
Baruch Matatov, a 17 year-old boy from Ashkelon, Israel and an 11th grade student at Kadima Mada’s Kfar Silver Youth Village, is one of the winners of World ORT’s Gina and Joseph Harmatz Award for his...
View ArticleKeys without locks
Jews have been kicked out of Arab areas, and Arabs out of Jewish ones. What if everyone who wants to go home did so, and learned to live with the new neighbors?
View ArticleSinat Hinam: The awful hatred displayed at the Kotel
The Talmud teaches us that both the First and Second Temples were destroyed because of baseless or wanton hatred, Sinat Hinam (שנאת חנם). Yoma 9b:8 explains that the First Temple was destroyed due to...
View ArticleWho’s Buried in the Maccabees’ Tomb?
I wasn’t upset to see the Hebrew and Latin inscriptions from Isaiah over the doorway of San Gregorio della Divina Pietà, a church near the Jewish ghetto of Rome and its Great Synagogue because they are...
View ArticleHow Others See Us Really Matters
There is no simple way to describe “Jewishness,” even among Jews. For better or worse, how others define us seems to be what really matters. When Whoopi Goldberg commented that the Holocaust was “not...
View ArticleOn Yom HaShoah it is time to face the truth
The Nazis' plans to eradicate the Jewish people were widely known – Apathy and feigned ignorance laced with antisemitism allowed them to proceed unimpeded
View ArticleAnti-Israel and Antisemitic Campaigns Fail to Stop Game
Tottenham Hotspur will face AS Roma in a football (real football, or ‘soccer’) match, titled the “I-Tech Cup,” at Haifa’s Sammy Ofer Stadium on Saturday night, July 30. Both teams have loyal fan bases...
View ArticleA Cautionary Tale
Perhaps this should serve as a cautionary tale for the United States and American Jewry. Israel’s election was November 1 and while they still need to sort out who will be in the next government, some...
View ArticleMeir Kahane slept on my couch
I wasn’t particularly happy about it. But it was also someone else’s couch that happened to be in the apartment. My roommates were asked to host Meir Kahane because our apartment was Shomer Shabbat (I...
View ArticleDefending Israel’s Brand
Israel does a fine job in selling its brand as a tourist destination, yet it is failing to garner sympathy and support in its conflict with Hamas. It has been four weeks since Hamas brutally attacked...
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