(Jewish Journal via JNS.org) – American activist and author Maya Angelou once said: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Oct. 7, 2023 was by no means the first time that Hamas showed the world who they were, but the atrocities committed that day will forever mark a turning point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For perhaps the first time, Israelis were left with...
(JNS.org) – The post-Oct. 7 information war against Israel has many fronts. Some involve the denial of the unspeakable atrocities committed by Hamas during its pogroms in southern Israel. Others concern disinformation about the efforts of the Israel Defense Forces to eliminate the terrorist movement or a refusal to acknowledge the genocidal goals of Hamas and other Palestinian groups while falsely accusing the Jewish state of genocide. But...
(Jewish Journal via JNS.org) – We are in a moment of darkness that began infamously, on the single most murderous day in Jewish history since 1945. But is this the darkness before night or before dawn?
The statement “Everything has changed since Oct. 7th” is no mere slogan. As we reflect, we are experiencing a fundamental repositioning of not only how Jews see themselves but also how...
In the end, not even the support of former President Barack Obama and one of his former cabinet members was enough to save Claudine Gay from being forced out as president of Harvard University. Nor did the initial support of the Harvard Corporation itself, the endorsement of much of the Harvard faculty or the student newspaper allow Gay to remain in office at one of the nation’s most prestigious academic institutions.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY.) may not be an expert on the Middle East, but in her Christmas tweet, she managed to describe the situation in Bethlehem at least half-correctly, even if she didn’t know quite what she was saying.
According to the congresswoman’s revisionist version of history, Jesus —like Palestinian Arabs today — faced the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents” and “was...
The year 2023 will forever be bifurcated for the Jewish community in New Orleans and the extended community throughout the world by the date of October 7.
That date, which resulted in the greatest number of Jewish deaths in the world since the Holocaust, cannot easily be forgotten or forgiven.
The Hamas attacks left many of us in the New Orleans Jewish community dazed and deeply disturbed....
(JTA) — “Everything changed after Oct. 7.” It’s an axiom being heard around Shabbat tables, in rabbis’ sermons and in countless opinion pieces after the Hamas massacre in southern Israel plunged the country into war. At an emotional level, it refers to the despair and shock felt among people in mourning – for the 1,200 victims of the initial attack, for the soldiers lost in battle and...
(JNS.org) –Many people do not know that Israel’s 1948 War of Independence took close to 10 months. Israel’s current war against Hamas, which has been dubbed Israel’s Second War of Independence, is now in its third month. Most military analysts believe it will take at least three more months to finish the job.
Part of the reason Israel is now fighting its third major ground war...
(JTA) — One hundred years ago, in November 1923, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, one of the greatest leaders of the Zionist movement and definitely the one with the greatest foresight, wrote in Berlin a seminal article in the Razsviet (Dawn, in Russian) newspaper, titled “The Iron Wall (We and the Arabs).” His main argument was that in order for the Zionists to succeed in settling the Land of Israel...
(JTA) — We need a do-over for the last two months since Oct. 7.
Of course we’d all love a time machine to take us back to that morning, to avert the horrors that would unfold in Israel. But that’s not what I mean. Let me explain.
In the book of 2 Maccabees — one of the main texts about the events leading to Chanukah — we...
