by Natan Sharansky Commentary Magazine, November 2003 No hatred has as rich and as lethal a history as anti-Semitism – “the longest hatred,” as the historian Robert Wistrich has dubbed it. Over the millennia, anti-Semitism has infected a multitude of peoples, religions, and civilizations, in the process inflicting a host of terrors on its Jewish [...]

(A Story) by Steven Plaut Monday, 23 September 2002, It was a bright, sunny day in the summer of 2009. It was in that period when the monthly death toll from Oslo passed its 1100 mark. The four remaining Knesset Members of the Israeli Labor Party were calling for more goodwill gestures by Israel and [...]

Based on a sicha by HaRav Aharon Lichtenstein. Adapted by Rav Reuven Ziegler. From the Yeshivat Har Etzion Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash, Yom Ha’Atzmaut 5763

By Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach zt”l In the Warsaw ghetto there was a Rebbe, the heiliger Reb Klonimus Kalman. He wrote a book and knowing prophetically that he would not survive, he put the manuscript under one of the stones in the ghetto where it was found after the war. He had a yeshiva not of [...]

By Rabbi Eliezer Melamed and Rabbi Shlomo Badash, ©Arutz-7 Op-Ed: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 Me’At Min Ha’Or, Tammuz 29, 5761 – July 20, 2001 – It came the day when all the ministers of the world came before the Heavenly Court to debate the matter of Israel facing a war against its enemies among the [...]

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