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Esteemed by Oscar Wilde, England’s ‘greatest Jewess’ may finally be getting her due
For book lovers, the news that Cambridge University has acquired a previously sealed personal archive of Amy Levy, a Victorian Jewish novelist and poet who won praise from literary notables of her era, is a cause for celebration. Levy’s 1888 novel Reuben Sachs is an exasperated, yet affectionate, look at English Jewish middle-class life. Levy,…
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Equal Rights Started with Abraham and Sarah
A Torah scroll. Photo: RabbiSacks.org. Few revolutions have shouted louder about equality — or practiced it more selectively — than the French Revolution. As Alexis de Tocqueville later observed in his study of that turbulent era, “The French nation is prepared to tolerate … those practices and principles that flatter its desire for equality, while…
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Mahmoud Abbas Met with Emmanuel Macron — and Lied to His Face
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Nov. 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier Just one day before Mahmoud Abbas was scheduled to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron, Palestinian Authority (PA) television chose to broadcast an interview with a Tunisian saying that the war against Israel…
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Anti-Israel Lie Online: Jewish Refugees Were Welcomed by Palestinians After the Holocaust
The sign “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”) is pictured at the main gate of the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. Photo: Reuters/Pawel Ulatowski Another day, another lie when it comes to Israel on social media. This includes fabricating the history of the Jewish State. While most anti-Israel inventions…
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Why Those Fighting for the Jews Should Concede that Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism
Rutgers University students holding an anti-Zionist demonstration on March 19, 2024. Photo: USA Today Network via Reuters Connect Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, as the latter is typically conceived. Anti-Zionism is its own libel-spewing hate movement targeting the Jews, and it’s time the Jewish people and their allies recognize this and change our tactics. We have…
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The Orthodox community in pre-war Czernowitz
די וואָך איז ניפֿטר געוואָרן הרבֿ מאיר מאָסקאָוויץ, וואָס איז געבוירן געוואָרן אין טשערנאָוויץ אין 1927 — דאָס עלטסטע קינד פֿונעם שאָצער רבין, ר׳ אַבֿרהם חיים. ווי אַ בחור האָט ער זיך געלערנט אין אַ ישיבֿה אין וויזשניץ. הרבֿ מאיר מאָסקאָוויץ Courtesy of the Moskowitz family אין 1941 זענען די דײַטשן אַרײַן אין טשערנאָוויץ. ווי…
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The cheesy way to do teshuvah
To Europeans, cheese culture in the United States is not quite ripe. The Kraft company, for good and for ill, has defined American cheese in high-gloss orange. But if you’ve been to a grocery store or farmer’s market in recent decades, guided by tatted-up slicers ready to educate you on musky bouquets and runny rinds,…
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Netanyahu, Touting Push Toward Greater Self-Reliance, Denies Report Israel Seeking 20-Year US Military Aid Deal
US President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, DC, US, Sept. 29, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied reports that his country is seeking a new 20-year military aid deal with the US, insisting that the Jewish state is working to wean…
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South African President Says ‘Boycotts Never Really Work’ Despite BDS Support
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa attends the 20th East Asia Summit (EAS), as part of the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 27, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain South African President Cyril Ramaphosa insisted that “boycott politics doesn’t work” following the Trump administration’s announced absence from a summit in his country later this month…
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Peter Beinart Lambasted by Leading Anti-Israel Activist for Calling Antisemitism a ‘Real Social Phenomenon’
Peter Beinart, a prominent anti-Israel writer, being interviewed in January 2025. Photo: Screenshot One of the most notorious anti-Israel activists in the US has castigated prominent Jewish writer Peter Beinart, a strident critic of Israel himself, for describing antisemitism as a “real” phenomenon rather than a political tool. The fracas began on Nov. 5, when…
