In cities throughout the Netherlands, you can’t walk far without coming across a Stolperstein, or “stumbling stone”: a small brass plaque in the sidewalk commemorating a Jewish victim of the Nazi regime. The plaques are intended to jolt passersby into pained remembrance. “Hier woonde,” the plaque reads—here lived—a person with this name, born on this […]
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The Dutch didn’t have an opportunity to participate in Kristallnacht back on November 9-10, 1938–those two days of antisemitic wilding in Germany and Austria when the low-life Master Race murdered nearly 100 of the Chosen People on city streets like Berlin and Vienna, ransacked and torched 7,000 Jewish homes and businesses, destroyed 1,000 synagogues and […]
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A California federal judge has dismissed allegations that Mark Zuckerberg deliberately concealed Facebook and Instagram’s mental health risks from young users. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected claims that the Meta CEO directed efforts to hide the platforms’ potential dangers from children. A lawsuit filed in May against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and […]
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There’s an earthquake crackling through the Democratic party ecosystem in the wake of the humiliating loss to Donald Trump. After eight years of castigating Trump as the country’s #1 enemy– a congenital liar and cheater who would stop at nothing to get his way, even if that meant destroying our democracy– Democrats were shaken that […]
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David Siegel, president of the U.S. affiliate of pro-Israel European Leadership Network (ELNET), told The Journal in a phone interview that the antisemitic violence that occurred in Amsterdam on the evening of Nov. 7 was reminiscent of the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre. According to various media reports and video footage on social media, around 100 […]
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Israel Tech Startups and Innovations: Weekly Roundup November 2 – November 8, 2024New Startups / VC FundingTime Magazine Names 9 Israeli Startups Among ‘Best Inventions of 2024’ ListTime Magazine released its list of the “Best Inventions of 2024,” which includes nine Israeli startups. Startup Nation Israel continues to impress the world with its innovations and […]
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In 1944, the Jewish paratrooper Hannah Senesh (Szenes) was deployed into Nazi-occupied Europe by the British in a last-ditch effort to rescue Hungarian Jews from death camps. After her capture, she was tortured and ultimately executed, but her story and her poetry – in particular “A Walk to Caesarea” (commonly known as “Eli, Eli” / […]
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(Ruins of ancient Charan) Avoiding the Journey Thoughts on Torah portion Lekh Lekha 2024 There is something missing in the story of Abraham, as we usually tell it. Avram was not told by God to leave Mesopotamia for Canaan. We are told in Genesis 11:31 that Terach, Avram’s father, had already left Mesopotamia […]
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Believe it or not, Magic Mushrooms can enhance your sex life. So can LSD and other psychoactive compounds. A new study from the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London found that psychedelics like Psilocybin found that the test subjects reported improvements in a wide variety of areas in their personal sex lives over […]
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“George Gascon is about to be gone!” Nathan Hochman made this declaration on the evening of Nov. 5 as it became clear that his campaign to challenge Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon had been successful. As of press time, election results showed Hochman defeating Gascon by a wide margin. On Nov. 5, Hochman […]
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