As the new semester begins, we once again see a steady rise in antisemitic incidents personally targeting individuals for antisemitic discrimination. Too many of these incidents are reminiscent of my grandfather’s era.
Mindsets determine how we react when we are broken and imagine ourselves to be beyond repair, when paradise has suddenly disappeared.
The anonymous piece argued that Hamas’ violence is “a drop in a pool” compared to the U.S. and Israel, accusing the latter of murdering and torturing Palestinian civilians.
“Altneuland” was unique, Herzl’s biographer Shlomo Avineri explains, because it was “not just about Jews having a right,” but also about Jews making the right kind of state.
More than 10 years ago, Shifra Klein, a self-described “Chabad mom” from West Hollywood, sought to alleviate the autism symptoms that were debilitating to her then-3-year-old son.
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