Monthly Archives: November 2024

Partisan organisations such as United Nations Relief and Works Agency are an obstacle to...

Would you find it conceivable that an entire UN agency was created to perpetuate a conflict rather than solve it? Would it sound reasonable to you that a UN agency would knowingly pay salaries...

Lies, Truth, and the Moral Compass of Holocaust Education

Reflecting on my time as a tour guide at the burnt vehicles compound, where remnants of cars destroyed on October 7th stand as stark reminders of recent horrors, I witnessed firsthand how the truth...

An Obstacle to Peace

WOULD YOU FIND IT conceivable that an entire UN agency was created to perpetuate a conflict rather than solve it? Would it sound reasonable to you that a UN agency would knowingly pay salaries...

Biden administration gives Israel until November 13 to implement its demands to improve humanitarian...

The Biden administration is putting maximum pressure on Israel, threatening to suspend military aid if Israel does not fully implement its demands before November 13, Axios reported. Biden has thus far avoided suspending military aid, but the...

Dilemmas

We are faced with a situation in which difficult choices have to be made. The story of creation which we read in Synagogues last week tells us in the first few sentences that the world...

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach at the Yom Kippur War

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach is interviewed by the Dutch TV and sings to soldiers in the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0SFkN_9_E

When 120 Years Finally Arrives

Now, when humanity began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, the princes and judges saw how pretty the girls were, and they took themselves wives from...

Featured Post Rabbi Avi Goldberg: A man who lit up the world

It was late at night. I was walking home from one engagement or another, weighed down by the war, the losses abounding around us, the daily grind. I was reading the news on the...

Interior Ministry suspends ties with Haaretz after publisher’s controversial Gaza war speech

The Interior Ministry announced Thursday it would suspend all cooperation and advertising with the Haaretz newspaper following controversial remarks made by the paper's publisher, Amos Schocken, at a conference in London where he criticized Israeli policies...

The Flood of Hatred: Reflecting on Humanity’s Moral Crisis

This has been a fast-moving, heart-wrenching week. Every headline tells a story of unimaginable loss and sacrifice, and it’s challenging to keep up with the harsh reality Israel faces. Over 35 soldiers have fallen...