Most Clicked This Week
- "A festering dispute broke out into the open as Trump took aim at Tucker Carlson"
- "The media has a track record of tenaciously ignoring the anti-Semitism creeping into Democratic Party politics"
- Yazidi Commander Killed by ISIS; Massacres Feared on Mt Sinjar
- "Trump's extraordinary gesture of support for Israel and the rights of the Jewish people was evident in the historic statement. The US has rightly concluded that falsely calling settlements illegal is not helpful for peace"
- Richard Kemp: Truth #1 and Truth #2 about the Palestinians [VIDEO]
- “Opposition to Palestinian intransigence and radicalism will remain a centrist issue in Congress, even if the incoming administration is eager to re-establish ties with the Palestinians”
- "If you talk privately to those who work in the Jewish organization world, many will confide that the greatest threat to the security of the American Jewish community is “changing demographics,” which is a euphemism for a growing population of Arab migrants to the United States"
- EVENTS: Nova Music Festival Exhibition closes November 30, see before it leaves Chicago; Reprise screening of the excellent “Beneath the Helmet" in Highland Park
Category Archives: Jewish
“You’ve seen the movie ‘The Shawshank Redemption’? That’s what these young men did at first: They dug and put the dirt in their pockets”
NEW YORK POST Extremist Jewish teens secretly ‘hired migrants’ to dig covert Brooklyn synagogue tunnel ‘Shawshank’-style Isabel Vincent January 11, 2024 Extremist students from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic group secretly hired migrant laborers to help them build a controversial tunnel at the … Continue reading
“The Anne Frank Gift Shop” is joltingly, infectiously funny thanks to a dry humor-filled script by Rapkin, a seasoned journalist and writer who wrote “Pitch Perfect”
KVELLER Dark Comedy ‘The Anne Frank Gift Shop’ Is a Must Watch Lior Zaltzman January 5, 2024 The first time Mickey Rapkin went into the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam was a religious experience. “You can’t believe you’re there,” he … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish, Politics
Tagged Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Anne Frank House, antisemitism, Holocaust
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New York Times uncovers new information, devastating testimony, on systemic targeting of women and girls, use of sexual assault and mutilation during savage Hamas onslaught in Israel
TIMES OF ISRAEL In harrowing detail, NYT reports on weaponization of rape, sexual violence on Oct. 7 December 29, 2023 In a comprehensive, horrifying exposé published on Thursday, The New York Times detailed the systematic sexual violence against Israeli women … Continue reading
Why an historic massacre of Jews, even before the Israeli response got underway, triggered a powerful wave of hostility not toward the attackers—but toward Jews
THE FREE PRESS The Wisdom of Hamas Matti Friedman December 28, 2023 In the days after Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on October 7, triggering the current war in Gaza, many believed that Hamas had erred. The word “miscalculation” recurred in … Continue reading
When the kids call, I have no sage parental wisdom to impart about their experiences because I have never been there or done any of that.
JPOST Israel-Hamas War: What can we tell the kids? Herb Keinon December 30, 2023 …It’s not the first time we’ve had a son fighting in Gaza. The Lad, our oldest, was there during his regular service in 2008-2009 during Operation … Continue reading
After 2023, surely no one will deny that Western civilisation is under threat from without and within
SPIKED ONLINE The unholy alliance between wokeism and barbarism Brendan O’Neill December 29, 2023 My favourite story about Spinoza concerns the time he lost his cool. A philosopher, a Jew and history’s finest defender of Enlightenment, Spinoza was normally a … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Bill Ackman, Claudine Gay, Hamas, Harvard University, Penny Pritzker, wokeism
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Flight crew complained that passengers who switched seats made them uncomfortable
FORWARD Passengers accuse JetBlue of antisemitism after Orthodox Jews ordered off plane Beth Harpaz January 2, 2024 Three Orthodox passengers were ordered off a New Year’s Eve red-eye flight from California to New York after they changed seats. “My inflight … Continue reading
Sergeant First Class (res.) Joseph Gitarts wrote in a letter his parents received after his death: ‘I lived a good and interesting life, I wasn’t afraid of death; I made this choice myself and followed it through to the end; I fell with honor for the sake of my people, I have no regrets’
YNET ‘I gave it all, I have no regrets’: The letter a fallen IDF soldier left for his parents Adam Kutub December 26, 2023 “I could have chosen not to come here and hide. But that goes against everything I … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
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Soldiers who killed Israeli hostages to remain in Gaza
JPOST IDF takes no action against soldiers who killed Gaza hostages Yonah Jeremy Bob December 28, 2023 The IDF announced on Thursday that it will not take any current action against soldiers who mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages on December … Continue reading
If UNRWA were not there, Hamas would have been forced to fill the vacuum and, for example, build hospitals and schools and find solutions to economic hardship, including unemployment and poverty
GATESTONE How UNWRA Grooms Terrorists Bassam Tawil December 26, 2023 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was originally a small agency mandated to provide basic humanitarian relief for Palestinians, including a vote for renewal every three years. Seventy-three … Continue reading