The Jewish State must end, says its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere els
Numbers do not, and should not, pop out of the sky or from the alembic of the chief investigators who produce them. Jewish population estimates are not mere numbers. Numbers offer a snapshot of a situation at a given point in time.
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The Talmud is the main text of Judaism and is comprised of teachings and commentaries that are concerned with the laws of Jewish culture and society. Although the Talmud speaks largely about law, it should not be conflated with the Torah, which contains, among other things, the codes of law...
which were great for the war effort but easy targets. On returned bombers the wings were the most popular destination for bullets, and so the knee-jerk response was to fit them with armor. But the Jewish mathematician Abraham Wald saw things differently, believing it wasn’t the most bullet...
"I just think that people quietly buried it and stopped talking about it," says psychiatrist Joel Paris, a professor at McGill University in Montreal and a research associate in the department of psychiatry at Jewish General Hospital there. "If you speak to an intelligent psychoanalyst, they'd...
many new ideologies. The Jewish people are one of the central groups that was affected by all these things and it greatly changed them as a people. The Holocaust, a horrifying and brutal systematic slaughter of mainly Jews and other non-Aryan people, one of the world 's greatest tragedies ...
DC Jewish Leader Reacts to Shooting ‘Just send us a note and tell us you're thinking of us.’ Ron Halber says rising antisemitism has left his community in mourning – and in need of allies. Elliott Davis Jr.May 22, 2025 The Senate is poised to take up the Republican megabill after...
From that day forward, these words have continued to resonate with me, just as they have resonated with so many others within the Jewish community. Yes, we have faced repeated attacks, and yes, we are fighting back. We do so with the clarity that Israel is our ancestral homeland while al...
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