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Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Huwara is a massive chilul Hashem - and a hint towards the biggest danger to Israel and world Jewry today

The riots of religious Jews in Huwara on Sunday night were unforgivable. Nothing justifies targeting innocents, burning down houses, and leaving one dead. The Huwara celebrations for murdering two Jewish brothers are not and cannot be an excuse for such behavior. The Jews were, in this case, terrorists by any definition of the term.But it's even worse.Perhaps the most disgusting...

Self-described Zionist rabbi refusing to say the prayer for the welfare of Israel doesn't make sense

Jodi Rudoren, editor in chief of the Forward, sent out in her weekly Friday newsletter:When Ansche Chesed, a Conservative synagogue in the liberal bastion of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, convenes for Shabbat services tomorrow, three familiar words will not be recited from the bimah: raishit smichat gi’ulateinu.Hebrew for “the initial sprouting of our redemption,” it’s the...

Yeruchem Eilfort: Antisemitism Keeps Us From Getting Too Comfortable in this Dark Galut (Judean Rose)

Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort, of Chabad at La Costa, in Carlsbad, California, came to my attention at about the turn of this century. I traded trees with a distant cousin, and there, smack dab in the middle of a lot of generic, not particularly Jewish-sounding names was “Yeruchem” married to “Nechama” and the two had a large number of offspring, all the children having Hebrew or Yiddish...

The massive chilul Hashem from some Orthodox communities during the pandemic

Here are some headlines from Arab newspapers this morning: * "Corona" ignites the racism of the Jews against each other - about how Israelis are upset at the haredi Jews of Bnei Brak for ignoring the government rules on no large gatherings and how the virus is rampant there * Despite the warnings, Jewish communities throng the streets of New York, USA - about...

Lakewood NJ Covid-19 case number skyrockets in the past day. And it will not get any better for a while.

On Sunday, after I noted that as of Friday the two New Jersey towns with the highest religious Jewish populations also had the highest number of coronavirus cases, I tweeted that I was very concerned about what would happen in Lakewood this week: While the vast majority of religious Jews in Lakewood have been taking the social distancing guidelines seriously, there have...

To those who claim Israel doesn't care about Palestinian lives

I was upset when I saw Brant Rosen, a Reconstructionist-ordained anti-Zionist rabbi, suggest that Jews should say Psalms for Israeli war crimes in Gaza. One prayerful Jewish response to the war crimes Israel is committing in #Gaza https://t.co/bFq6gnllWg — Brant Rosen (@RabbiBrant) November 13, 2019 Sickeningly, this was retweeted by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. I responded: I challenge you to show me a SINGLE war...