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On Sunday evening and Monday morning, sirens will sound throughout Israel, signaling Israel's Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron. Traffic will come to a halt, as our entire nation stops for silent contemplation. Since October 7th, more than 600 soldiers and 800 civilians have been killed battling Hamas and in terror attacks. This is the deadliest year […]
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After watching their university become synonymous with anti-Israel protests sweeping universities around the world, a group of Jewish students at Columbia is fighting back. Last week, four undergraduates had enough. The brainchild of Rivka Yellen, a sophomore at Columbia’s Barnard College, she and her friends penned a powerful letter setting out some common-sense statements about […]
The story is told that one day, as a small child, Thomas Edison came home from school and gave a paper to his mother. He said, “Mom, my teacher gave this paper to me and told me only you are to read it. What does it say?” Her eyes welled with tears as she read […]
It was 1896 and a handful of unlikely people were about to change the course of Jewish history. While working as the Paris correspondent for the Austrian newspaper Neue Freie Presse, Theodor Herzl reported on the 1894 trial of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army who was accused of selling military […]
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