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The Everlasting Melody
Rosner’s Domain | Who Is to Blame for Antisemitism?
If Jews come to believe that changing their policies is the key to fixing antisemitism, they are likely in for disappointment.
Who’s Really the Victim?
Those who would revel in Israel’s demise are claiming victimhood on every front and denying attacks on us in the same breath.
The Price at the Pump Is the Price of Terror
Every time Americans fill their cars, buy groceries or book an airline ticket, they are paying an invisible terrorism tax.
Sukkot: A Place for Every Jew
Family wants everyone around the table, because we care about each other.
Biblical Deterrence
After Oct. 7, the sentiment in Israel toward the Iranian leadership was unequivocal: You went medieval — so we will go biblical.
How Sukkot Makes Us Whole
This year, I bless us that we open our eyes to truly see the beauty and the holiness of the world, and of the person before us at each and every moment, and to see the godliness of their aspirations and their fears.
The New Ushpizot
Ushpizin invite us to “welcome in our ancestral constellation and dwell amongst them.” This year, it’s Ushpizot, for the women. It’s the year of the Feminist Visitation.
Macklemore, Or Less
In between his songs, he proclaimed, “Free Palestine,” which is fine, asserted that opposing Israeli military actions is not antisemitic, which is accurate, and accused Israel of apartheid and genocide, which is offensive, untrue and hateful.
The Rokeach’s Remarkable Sukkah
To Rabbi Eleazar ben Judah of Worms (1176-1238), the medieval German pietist known as the Rokeach, the sukkah symbolized Jewish military might.
Men Need a Sukkah, Not a Manosphere
There is deep wisdom for men in Sukkot and its ritual objects.
The Sukkah and the Power of Endurance
They can destroy our Temples, demonize us in social media, shower us with hate, but they can’t destroy a spirit that never stops building. That enduring spirit is the power of the sukkah.
NY Mag’s Habibi City
A satirical response to Zaina Arafat’s erasure of Jews in her New York Magazine article “Habibi City,” written as Zaina Arafat.
The ‘Fauda’ Enigma
In many of the nations that believe Israel has no right to exist and routinely root for terrorists to slaughter Jews, a TV show that depicts Israeli covert operatives outsmarting and dispatching Arabs has an inexplicably loyal global audience.
Jewish Democrats Cave to Anti-Semites
Those of us who are not of the Democrat politic party have believed that the Democrats have done little to stop the disease of Jew hatred from infiltrating their party.
“Just a Few Sleeps Away” by Mike Nichols
A family’s discovery of good and evil in the aftermath of 9/11
Rabbi Kaplan Named JCC Camps Senior VP; Maman Events, JFSLA, Temple of the Arts
Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community.
Controversial Far-Left Streamer Hasan Piker Scheduled to Speak at Cornell, UT Austin
At Cornell, he is speaking at an event hosted by the Students Not Bombs campaign, which is demanding that the university divest from Israel.
When Celebrities Endorsed a Different “Free Palestine”
When many of America’s leading celebrities called for a “Free Palestine” eighty years ago this week, they were talking about freeing Palestine from British occupation, in order to establish a Jewish state.