Friday, October 4th 2024   |

This Week in Zionism

A weekly blog post by Rabbi David Gerber, senior rabbi of the URJ’s Congregation Gates of Prayer (Sha’arai Tefillah) in Metairie.

A Ceasefire in Lebanon? Really?

Apparently the United Nations, France and the US are pushing for a 21 day ceasefire in Lebanon. How lovely. Hezbollah has been firing...

Paging Hezbollah Terrorists

So... A few months back, as I was speaking to my congregation about the nearly 100,000 Israelis who are displaced from the North, I made...

Ten Things On My Zionist Mind…

We haven't posted at This Week in Zionism for a few weeks and while I can't speak for all of our contributors, it's safe to say we're all...

Hezbollah Bombed Children

You may not know the village of Majdal Shams. It is an Arab Druze community in the Golan Heights. Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed terror...

Netanyahu Speech Reaction

Love Him or Hate Him, Jews Should Listen The one thing everyone surely knows about Benjamin Netanyahu is that he is possibly the most...

Marvel…at the antisemitism

Ruth bat-Seraph, better known as Sabra, is a superhero that first appeared in the comic book Incredible Hulk. She is a mutant who was...

Righting a Few Wrongs

Palestine Invaded by Arabs! It has been well documented by those who read and study history that there never was a Palestinian state....

Righting a Few Wrongs

Palestine Invaded by Arabs! It has been well documented by those who read and study history that there never was a Palestinian state....

Gaza Economics 101

Most countries have substantial exports as their economic driver. So what drives the Gazan economy?

Gaza Economics 101

Most countries have substantial exports as their economic driver. So what drives the Gazan economy?