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Torah Jews Open Letter to Senator Charles Schumer:
An Open Letter to Senator Chuck Schumer On the proposed Anti-Semitism Awareness Act: Dear Senator Schumer,We write to express our grave concern about the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which was already passed by the House of Representatives and is to be considered soon by the Senate. The bill adopts the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which includes…
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Yom Haatzmaut: When The Sky Turned Black
“Our revolution is directed not only against a system but against destiny, against the unique destiny of a unique people.”David Ben-Gurion The 5th day of the Jewish month of Iyar is celebrated in “Israel” with streets festooned with flags, barbecues and of course the ubiquitous fireworks of all independence days around the globe. At some…
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Yom Yom HaZikaron: What are Zionists remembering?
Torah Jews received a letter from an American who recently made aliyah to “Israel”. Here’s what she wrote: I just returned from a Yom HaZicharon presentation with my Ulpan (Modern Hebrew language) class. It was my first and I went with an open mind. I hadn’t had breakfast or lunch and lacked the strength to…
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Yom HoShoah – The Art of Fabrication:
Holocaust Remembrance Day is a national holiday in “Israel”, one replete with official ceremonies which are, of course, sufficiently solemn. “Never again!” is liberally sprinkled like confetti at a parade. Officials stand by with folded hands at memorial sites looking, again, sufficiently solemn. In truth, “standing by with folded hands” is precisely what the nascent…
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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…