Photo Credit: PA Website The Gospel according to the Palestinian Authority {Originally posted to the PMW website} There were repeated new claims this week, by senior Palestinian leaders and the official press, that Jesus was a “Palestinian” and the “first Palestinian.” A senior Palestinian leader this week also referred to Jesus as the “first Shahid,” […]
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Photo Credit: courtesy, National Organization of Firefighters Torah scroll torched in a building in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof. by Dr. Simone Gordon, Psychotherapist I am outraged, once again. Let us not use “mental illness” as the defense against blatant anti-Semitism. I am a mental health practitioner and a child of a Holocaust survivor […]
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Photo Credit: courtesy, Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann lights the public menorah in Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio, Chanukah 2019 Jews across America expressed their determination not to become victims of fear on the final night of Chanukah, as they struggled to contend with the aftermath of anti-Semitic attacks aimed at […]
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Photo Credit: Fox News screen grab / via Facebook live news briefing NY Gov Andrew Cuomo speaks with reporters outside Rabbi’s home where machete attack took place after the Sabbath, Dec. 28 2019 Grafton E. Thomas was president of his high school class in Queens, New York, played on the football team, and eventually joined […]
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Photo Credit: Beny Shlevich via Flickr CC Antisemitic graffiti in Klaipeda, Lithuania {Originally posted to the BESA website} Contemporary antisemitic threats are highly fragmented. Organizations and individuals fighting them usually focus on scattered issues, which results in an inefficient effort to combat the overall problem. Priorities need to be identified—targets that are achievable and can […]
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Photo Credit: Naale The first time Chaya Ticker, originally from Brooklyn, NY, set foot in Israel, she had the feeling that she’d come home. “Already on my first visit, something resonated deeply,” Ticker said, “I knew I wanted to come back.” No one visits Israel and leaves unchanged, but the cultural and language barriers can […]
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Photo Credit: Fox News screen grab Former NY Assembly member Dov Hikind on Fox News President Donald Trump had special praise on Monday for former New York legislator Dov Hikind, founder of the Americans Against Antisemitism organization. The praise went two ways, however: Hikind made it clear in an interview Monday on Fox News that […]
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Antisemitism is skyrocketing in the USA and all over the world. Can it be solved, or even quelled? Tamar Yonah speaks with Ron Machol from www.ZachorLegal.org and talks about the efforts being made on ‘the books’ to try to quell this burst of hatred and violence erupting against peaceful and law-abiding Jews all over the world today.Also […]
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Photo Credit: Pixabay Light and darkness goes beyond a metaphor for good and evil. Inherent in creation, darkness serves a purpose. Understanding the purpose of darkness enables us to gain deeper meaning to the dark times in our lives. How can we enlighten the darkness in the world and in our lives? How can we […]
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