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On The 80th Anniversary of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The Words of an Eyewitness

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Moshe Phillips Isranet, Mar. 30, 2023 “And We Are Not Saved” is at once a bitter, provocative, and emotional work. It is unlike any other Holocaust memoir in its scope, attitude, or conclusions.”   As we approach the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising there can be no doubt that the mainstream media will […]

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Gary Lineker Doesn’t Understand the Holocaust

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Samuel Rubinstein UnHerd, Mar. 9, 2023 “The problem with ‘Holocaust-as-civics-lesson’, like the problem of treating the collapse of Weimar Germany as a parable, is that it means that the Holocaust has to be ‘updated’ to reflect present political concerns.”   It’s like clockwork. Every few months the government announces a new plan to tighten immigration […]

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We Need a Better Definition of Antisemitism

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Ben Cohen JNS, Feb. 10, 2023 “… while antisemitic ideology isn’t very imaginative, it compensates for that weakness by being highly adaptive—able to reinvent its obsession with supposed Jewish malignancy in almost any situation and winning supporters accordingly.”   In the world of Jewish advocacy, the “working definition” of antisemitism endorsed by the International Holocaust Remembrance […]

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Communique: DOES TEHRAN, HEZBOLLAH AND HAMAS SMELL WEAKNESS IN ISRAEL?

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NO CLEAR ANSWERS Who Wrote the Ancient Passover Haggadah?:  Rabbi Ari Enkin, Algemeiner, Mar. 25, 2020 — Take a look at the inside cover of your Haggadah – you won’t find the name of any author! So how did we get the Haggadah that we have today? ____________________________________________________  WHAT’S TO BE DONE? INSS Experts on the Escalation in […]

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Iran Kickstarts Multi-Front Middle East War Against Israel – Analysis

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Seth Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Apr. 9, 2023 “The fact that Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh flew to Lebanon on April 5, a day before 34 rockets were fired at Israel from there, shows how it has increased its presence.”   A week of attacks on Israel, including rockets fired from Lebanon, Gaza and Syria, represents the manifestation […]

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The Message to the Iranians: You Are Playing with Fire

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Yoav Limor Israel Hayom, Apr. 2, 2023 “Experience teaches us that these attacks do not happen without a reason. They are generally based on pinpointed intelligence.”   We cannot disconnect the series of attacks that were carried out last week in Damascus and the blow that was dealt to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) […]

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Will Hamas and Hezbollah Try Again to Tear the Israeli Spiderweb?

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Dr. Netanel Flamer BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,190, Mar. 28, 2023 “An infographic produced on March 1, 2023, in Al-Ahed, a website identified with Hezbollah, quotes senior Israeli officials on the struggle within Israeli society and reports on signs suggesting that that society is as fragile as a spiderweb, as suggested by the infographic’s heading.” […]

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Israel Has Stepped Up Attacks on Iranian, Hezbollah Targets in Syria

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Yoni Ben Menachem JNS, Apr. 4, 2023 “Israel’s security establishment estimates that Iran is seeking ways to respond to Heydari’s death, and sooner rather than later.”   On April 2, 2023, Israel reportedly attacked several targets in Syria’s Homs province associated with the Syrian army and Iran-backed militias. Syrian state media reported that five military […]

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Daily Briefing: “WHY IS THIS NIGHT DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS?”

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INCREASING TIES  It Came to Pass at Midnight—From the Amidah to the Passover Haggadah:  Prof. Rabbi Laura Lieber, The Torah.com, Sept. 26, 2020  –– The Passover Haggadah concludes with a series of songs, the first of which is וַיְהִי בַּחֲצִי הַלַּיְלָה, Vayhi BeChatzi HaLayla, “It Came to Pass at Midnight” (Exod 12:29). The song, however, was not […]

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Some Jews Pass Over the Haggadah’s Curse

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Ruth R. Wisse WSJ, Mar. 30, 2023 “Why did “they” so often seek to destroy us? Why some nations and not others? Why the Germans? And why, more exigently by the late 1940s and ’50s, did Arab and Muslim leaders who already ruled over myriad countries adamantly refuse to coexist with the tiniest Jewish state? […]

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America’s Favorite Prophet

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Stuart Halpern Tablet, Mar. 31, 2023 ‘A harbinger of hope, a rebuker of the unrighteous, a hearer of stillness amid fractured times, the Seder night’s specter continues to visit, stirring Americans to perceive in his cup their own redemptive possibilities.’    Everyone’s favorite Passover guest is a ghost. In one of the Seder’s most mystical […]

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Let My People Go—For What?

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Shalom Carm First Things, April 2023   “… for Jews, the normative memory of slavery is ­inseparable from the threat of extermination.”   Jews throughout the world celebrate the first nights of Passover, which commemorate God’s deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt 3,500 years ago. The focus is the Seder, a meal at which a […]

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