On the last Saturday of 2023, I walked with three of my grandchildren to our neighborhood synagogue for Sabbath morning services. The kids, ages three to seven, took part in the supervised play of the children’s program, then joined the...
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The mounting evidence of a sharp rise in antisemitic attitudes and actions raises a profoundly puzzling question: why now? What recent developments for the Jewish people and the state of Israel have provoked these alarming new levels of...
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Like America, Germany faces renewed racial tension with shadows from a troubled past. A terrorist in military garb burst into a synagogue in Hamburg on the festival of Sukkot, known to many Christians as the Feast of Tabernacles. A local...
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Bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and desecration of Jewish cemeteries make the news and produce fears of surging Jew hatred, even though scientific studies show anti-Semitism at historic lows. A survey from Pew Research Center...
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Vandalism against Jewish cemeteries and a hundred bomb threats against Jewish community centers look so puzzling that some observers spin conspiracy theories. This logic argues that cunning activists staged the attacks to smear the...
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