Opinion

Guns Kill Americans

By Laurie Baron (Melody: God Bless America) In Memoriam to the Victims of Highland Park Guns kill Americans; we should expect Some who bear arms will inflict harms. With malice background checks detect. From the temples to the churches. To the markets and parades once secure. Guns kill Americans, easy for all to procure. Guns

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Lawrence Baron, Opinion, USA

We the People

By Doron Krakow Of late, I find myself thinking back on the meaningful ways I have marked America’s Independence Day over the years. At camp, barbecues and carnivals captured the spirit of America—while special pride was taken in the shared anniversary of Israel’s heroic rescue of the hostages taken aboard the hijacked Air France jet

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Doron Krakow, Middle East, Opinion, USA

Jewish Community Should Support Arizona School Choice Law

By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) The organized Jewish community—whether local Jewish community relations councils or national groups like the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, the American Jewish Committee or the Anti-Defamation League—and the religious denominations say they’re committed to two positions. On the one hand, all of them purport to be strong supporters of social

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Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The Murder of An ‘Elder of Zion’

By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — In postwar Germany, the humiliating burden of enormous contributions created an enormous economic crisis, hyperinflation, and impoverishment. Everything was devalued and the demand for antisemitism grew. During the Weimar Republic, articles accusing Jews of pushing the country into war and losing it were increasing in number. In 1922, the

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Alex Gordon, International, Opinion

With Bibi’s Bungling, Who Needs Antisemites?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — As Jerry Seinfeld would put it, “And you want to be prime minister again?” While Seinfeld once caught George Costanza sprawled on the floor in his underwear after stumbling in Seinfeld’s living room, last week Benjamin Netanyahu stumbled – a generous description – by comparing accusations against his family

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Opinion