5+ hour, 33+ min ago  (816+ words) My father placed his leg across a train track in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and waited. He weighed 85 pounds. He had calculated exactly which wheel would shatter the bone without severing the leg. He had nothing left to lose " except the…...

6+ hour, 53+ min ago  (588+ words) Sixty Holocaust survivors from Israel, who endured ghettos, camps, forests, and places of hiding, were meant to lead today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the International March of the Living on Polish soil, alongside 40 survivors from around the world. They are…...

20+ hour, 28+ min ago  (520+ words) In my recent notes on Parshat Vayikra I focused on the Torah's radical distinction between one who brings a bullock as a voluntary whole burnt offering in the Mishkan and one who brings a humble meal offering." The former is…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (289+ words) Every woman is to ask her neighbors and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing which you can put on your sons and daughters. Thus will you help the Egyptians." (Exodus 3: 19-22) The…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (362+ words) Yom Hashoah calls upon us to fight the "Jew-as-Nazi" lie With schools throughout the U. S. reflexively'turning'to'Holocaust'or genocide education as a Band-Aid for surging antisemitism, and activists spuriously equating Israel"s actions with the Nazis", Holocaust inversion is primed to be mainstreamed…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1396+ words) Passover does not offer a blueprint for managing artificial intelligence. But it does offer a moral framework. Its symbols, rituals, and lessons illuminate the dangers we must recognize and the cautions we must heed as we enter a world increasingly…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (754+ words) Every year, we gather around the Seder table and tell a story that is at once ancient and immediate. We speak of slavery and liberation, of fear and faith, of a people caught between despair and destiny. And yet, this…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (533+ words) Every year, as Pesach approaches, my phone fills up with messages. Emails from my children's school and our shul, texts from friends, posts on social media-all of them wishing me a Chag Kasher V'Sameach, a joyous and meaningful holiday surrounded…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (915+ words) Since Prophet Muhammad's ancestry can be traced back to Prophet Ishmael the son of Prophet Abraham, doesn't that make Prophet Muhammad himself part-Jewish? Most people say no, because Abraham, Isaac and Jacob weren't "Jewish'. They were ANCESTORS of the Hebrews....

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (733+ words) I am a lecturer of American Government, and the history of Liberal movements. I have 2 Masters Degrees, one is from New York University: " Women's Liberation and the Media"; and the other is from Tel Aviv University: "The Comparison of Hannah…...