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Balfour Mis-Declaration
In 1917, Arthur James Balfour publicized the infamous “Balfour Declaration” in the form of a letter to Baron Walter Rothschild: “His Majesty’s government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which…
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Zionist Majority?
”Sanity is not statistical – Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.” Winston Smith, 1984 (George Orwell) Living as many of us do in a democracy, we’ve been indoctrinated with the importance of “majority rules”. So entrenched is this idea that it can take on mythic proportions, a…
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Prayer: The Jewish People’s Greatest Strength
The Megillah of Esther is the only book of the Tanach in which G-d’s name is not mentioned. One explanation is that the Megillah is teaching us that even when G-d is not openly revealed in the world, and no supernatural miracles occur, still He is behind the scenes, manipulating political events to protect His…
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Zionist Eugenics: Their Attempts At Remaking Jewish Identity
When the foremost spokesman of the “alt-right” movement equated Zionism with White Supremacy, as similar movements striving for the same objective, to a Hillel House Rabbi at Texas A&M University speech, the rabbi was left speechless. In all honesty, he should have been. If one were to envision the accusation of “Zionism = White Supremacy”…
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The Business of Antisemitism
Every good marketer will tell you that one of the first steps in selling a product is convincing a prospective buyer of their need for a product and/or service. If the consumer feels no lack in living without this particular object, then the entire impetus to buy is lost. Selling a country to people is…
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Held Back – A Returnee’s Story
“Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world – the image of aworking and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.”David Ben-Gurion “A working and intellectual people? What were we before then?” Jonathan Finkel’s life was typical of many American Jews. Growing up secularin Detroit, Judaism was…
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The Silencing of anti-Zionist Jewish Rabbis
The Central Rabbinical Congress, the largest Hasidic institution, released a powerful statement earlier this year against Zionism in general and against organizations such as AIPAC and the ADL in specific. One must understand the magnitude and significance of this unprecedented step. The CRC’s rabbinical body includes more than 300 Rabbis throughout the USA and Canada.…
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Does Israel increase the safety of Jews?
In contrast to other democracies, the State of Israel operates as a representative body for citizens of other countries. Their alleged status of being a Jewish State ties Jews living around the world with a foreign country, Israel. This creates the dangerous perception of Jews being extensions of Israel and, thus, are vulnerable to being…
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Torah Jews are fighting Israel’s PR machine
Brooklyn: The air was somber, but an inflection of hope was embedded on the faces of those assembled. The past Thursday, the intimate team members of Natruna, also known as Torah Jews, galvanized their forces to plan and pray for the future in our tumultuous times. Since the horrific Oct 7 atrocities, our writers, researchers,…
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Does the Israeli Government ‘fight’ antisemitism? No.
One of the Israeli governments’ said goals is to protect the Jewish people from antisemitism & fight any manifestation of it. The question is: “Does the Israeli government and its leaders mitigate the hate directed towards the Jewish people?” The answer is simple. No. It is correct that Israel hides under the banner of ‘saving…