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Chabad Shooter Was Fueled By Hate. Our Response At Chabad Will Be Love.
Another act of horrific anti-Semitic barbarism, this time in the Chabad synagogue of Poway, CA on the last day of Passover, six months to the day following the Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooting. One life lost, three injured, including my colleague, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was reported to have bravely continued leading his congregation even…
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Opinion Why Do Jews Have To Be Murdered For You To Admit Anti-Semitism Is Real?
For the second time this year, a white supremacist marched into a synagogue and shot it up. On the six-month anniversary of the deadly shooting in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, a copycat inspired by that attack marched into the Chabad of Poway and opened fire. In the wake of the horrific attack,…
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Opinion Spare Me Your Thoughts And Prayers. The U.S. Has Betrayed Its Jews.
The United States Constitution, and the government sworn to uphold it, is not protecting its citizens. It did not protect Lori Gilbert Kaye, the 60-year-old woman with a kind smile and a generous disposition, who was murdered by an anti-Semitic terrorist as she prayed in synagogue yesterday, the final day of Passover. It did not…
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Opinion Synagogue Shootings Shattered Our Illusion. America Is No Safe Haven For Jews.
On Saturday, April 27, a few hours before the shooting at the Chabad in Poway, California, I walked from my hotel in Amsterdam—where my family has been on vacation—to a synagogue I found online. I arrived at a building with no external Jewish markings. The door was locked. When I tried to open it, a…
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Opinion The Poway Shooting Didn’t Just Target Jews
The Jewish community is once again in mourning. Another white supremacist shot up a Chabad synagogue in Poway, just six months after the most violent attack against Jews on U.S. soil in Pittsburgh. And yet, despite the fact that the shooting was a horrific act of anti-Semitism, it was not just the Jews who were…
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Opinion The Happiest News Of The Jewish Week: World Seders, Jewish Superheroes, Yiddish Rockstars
It’s like a normal Friday times seven (or eight) — Passover is almost over! Take a slug of wine, count your blessings and your Omer, and celebrate the happiest news stories this Jewish week. It’s spring, it’s the season of redemption, and Natalie Portman showed up at the “Avengers: Endgame” premiere — that, my friends,…
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Opinion The True Cost Of The Trump-Netanyahu Alliance
Of course, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would promise to name a new community in the Golan Heights for President Trump. Why should he stop there? For all the ways Trump has answered Netanyahu’s prayers — tearing up the nuclear deal with Iran, unilaterally moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the…
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Opinion Democrats Hate Bibi But Not Israel – Just Like Their 2020 Candidates, Study Finds
On Tuesday, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) scolded Senator Bernie Sanders for expressing his low regard for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Sanders had called Netanyahu’s government racist. The U.S.-Israel alliance serves America’s interests. We benefit from the close bonds between the governments and peoples. Name-calling…
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Opinion I Wanted To Meet With Arabs – So Israel Treated Me Like One
I’ve never felt much fear or anxiety about traveling to Israel. I always knew I was protected by my American passport and, above all, by my status as a Jewish person. And I knew that Israeli Arab citizens do not share this sense of safety while traveling to or from their home country. But an…
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Opinion The Best Way To Fight Anti-Semitism? Remember Our Allies In Other Communities
It’s hard to read the news these days without encountering evidence of a significant rise in anti-Semitism. Defaced gravestones in France. A Belgian carnival float featuring puppet caricatures of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Here in the US, protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting “Jews will not replace us.” And, of course the continuing specter of the shootings at…
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Opinion Ukraine Is Teeming With Anti-Semitism. It Just Elected A Jewish President.
Ukraine’s always been a complex place when it comes to Judaism. The latest proof came on Sunday, when Jewish comedian Volodymyr Zelensky trounced incumbent president Petro Poroshenko in a landslide. After Zelensky’s inauguration, Ukraine will become the only country outside Israel to have a Jewish president and a Jewish prime minister. But it’ll also be…
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