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Donald Trump is peaking early, but unlike the cherry blossoms in Washington D.C., it’s not a pretty thing to behold. As reported by Chris Cameron for the New York Times: Former President Donald J. Trump accused Jews who vote for Democrats of hating...
by Dartagnan
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 05:28 AM PDT
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My family was not religious, but we were always aware that we were Jews. Until I was 12, we were the only Jewish family in a Catholic neighborhood. Some families wouldn’t let their children play with us. My parents sent us to Hebrew School, to get in...
by AliceT4
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 01:03 PM PST
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To quote Robert Burns: "O, wad some Power the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!" Growing up in my argumentative Jewish family, I remember most political and cultural issues were subjected, at some point, to the question: but is it good...
by AliceT4
542 comments
on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 11:08 AM PST
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Cross-posted to my Substack, The Janovsky Report Today is the anniversary of the death of my great uncle, Dr. Iliazar Israel Schaechter, (above, c. 1930), so I am lighting a Jewish Memorial (Yahrzeit) candle in his memory. He was a hero physician in...
by Bethesda 1971
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on Sat Dec 23, 2023 at 01:50 PM PST
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I received a WhatsApp message the other day asking me to sign a petition demanding the Obama Foundation cancel the scholarship of a student for posting the above commentary on a photo of students demonstrating with Israeli and IDF flags. The people...
by thewavethatiam
44 comments
on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 09:28 PM PST
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Jews are not White! OK, in America, Jews are mostly considered to be White and it is a mostly correct thought based on American racial thought. Of course, it is not actually correct because Jews can be any race and are, in fact of every race...
by Democratic Hawk
154 comments
on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 09:23 AM PST
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Amid rising tensions on campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war, a prominent rabbi and imam have been meeting with�Jewish and Muslim student leaders at New York City campuses�on a ...
by Charles Jay
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 07:30 AM PST
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On Thanksgiving, I remember my Jewish ancestors who left Europe and am thankful America took them in “I’ve got something I’d like to say.” That’s what I usually offer up as a preamble�as I try to get the attention of my kids and other family members gathered around the Thanksgiving table. ...
by Ian Reifowitz
60 comments
on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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Antisemitic hate crimes on American college campuses are nothing new. But things have gotten much worse since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in which Hamas raped, murdered, and kidnapped civilians in Israel—overwhelmingly Jews, but those of other...
by Ian Reifowitz
451 comments
on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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I hear this question a lot lately: “Why do people keep hating and killing Jews?” I avoid answering but there are three people in history who are more responsible than most. Ironically, none appears to ever have directly killed a jew (“directly” being...
by Reinvented Daddy
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on Wed Nov 01, 2023 at 09:41 AM PDT
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[I started to write this before the Cornell story came out. I added this preamble within these brackets along with the attached screenshots, as well as part of the story below as it makes the points I had planned to write for me: Threats were posted to...
by David B
910 comments
on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 06:40 PM PDT
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Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's son says when VP Biden said Never Again at dad's death, he meant it This is a testament to the character and integrity of President Joe Biden. Willie Giest (whom I view as a real and serious journalist and respect) said, " Elisha I want to begin with you as we just heard the words of your father. Speak, if you would,...
by Dem
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on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 11:32 AM PDT
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To oversimplify the dilemma: Much of The non-Jewish right wing and their MAGA ilk have no problem “supporting” Israel (sure, let Israel fire-fight the Gazans- Hamas and civilians because they’re all Muslims), but are themselves also in bed with White...
by KKwriter
56 comments
on Thu Oct 19, 2023 at 04:16 PM PDT
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Some questions are, at the same time, both easy to answer and unanswerable. For instance, “What is Hamas’s goal?” The easy answer is the destruction of Israel and the death or expulsion of all Jews from the Middle East. But that is not going to happen...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon Oct 16, 2023 at 04:19 PM PDT
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A JEW IN HIDING: FOUR DECADES LATER, TERRIFIED AGAIN I don’t remember a time when I was unaware of the Holocaust. My father’s obvious injuries prompted questions that my parents answered frankly, explaining why he’d volunteered to serve in World War...
by nawlinscate
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 08:37 PM PDT
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Photo source In a post yesterday LaFeminista characterized the Israeli Defense forces’ (IDF) response to Hamas’s cowardly and barbaric Oct. 7 attack on Israeli soil on Simchat Torah, a Jewish holiday dedicated to joyously celebrating the completion of...
by cfordlaw
27 comments
on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 11:56 AM PDT
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October 12, 2023 by Netta Ahituv and Nadin Abou Laban In Haifa and Jaffa, joint Jewish and Arab patrols seek to prevent violence on both sides. In the south, Bedouin residents risk their lives to search for victims of Hamas terror. In the shadow...
by mettle fatigue
132 comments
on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 05:48 PM PDT
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As an ignorant Methodist farmboy from rural Michigan I probably should not be writing this and if I offend anyone I deeply apologize. I am terrified of I/P diaries and I do not want to tangle with those who are experts on history and the Middle East...
by McCrowlerr
23 comments
on Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 08:19 AM PDT
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The Jewish community and the Nation of Israel needs our undeviating love and support. Antisemitism and hate-speech in general is unacceptable, whether it comes from the far-right, the far-left, or anywhere in between. Please, if you see something, say...
by BLAYMAN
105 comments
on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 06:44 PM PDT
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My family is a bit odd, religion-wise. For the last several generations we were evangelical Christians, and then something weird happened. My aunt converted to Judaism. And then about twenty years later my sister, and ten years after that, me. My...
by Ninalyn
18 comments
on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 12:42 AM PDT
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