Category: Science and Health

It was a question that crossed the line. Shaul Amsterdamski was interviewing Rabbi Tamir Granot, who had lost his son Amitai in battle a week after the October 7th war started.  Amsterdamski asked Granot to respond to a phrase some use (borrowed from Harry Potter) to negatively describe Religious Zionists: “Death eaters.” These critics accuse […]

    Highway 61 Things Done on Highway 61 (Shabbat Vayeira 2024) Rabbi Mordecai Finley    (adapted from earlier versions) Highway 61 runs from the city of Wyoming in Minnesota, down in to New Orleans. It also runs through a desolate region where the rivers of dread and destiny merge.   It is the road […]

It was the fall of 2010. I was sitting on the train, going back to my college in Westchester, New York and crying my eyes out. I was halfway through my internship at “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and I was not doing well. I’d spend all day transcribing boring tapes of politicians giving […]

Earlier this year, when Israeli singer Eden Golan performed at Eurovision,”she was forced to sing over a chorus of boos from anti-Zionists in the crowd who opposed her participation in the song contest because of their opposition toward Israel’s war in Gaza. When Golan appeared at Milken East Campus for a powerful three-song concert performance […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  (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 […]