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OpEd: Purim and the Holocaust

My motto is never again, never forget, and never forgive. While some have criticized me for never forgiving the Nazis for what they did to my family, it is precisely this hatred that makes me the fighting Rabbi I am. I refuse to forgive. This is what motivates me to speak out against injustice wherever it may be found. [Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg]

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Pro-Israel but anti-Netanyahu: Democratic Party leaders try to find the middle ground

Published by The Moderate Voice Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under unusual criticism from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Jacquelyn Martin / POOL / AFP Naomi Schalit, The Conversation Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on March 14, 2024, “The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel.” It was an extraordinary

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US pushes for truce and hostage deal as Gaza war grinds on

Published by AFP Gaza Strip (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – The US top diplomat said Thursday “gaps are narrowing” in talks for a ceasefire in Gaza, and a deal to free hostages held by militants in the devastated coastal territory. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke in Cairo after Israel said its spy chief would head

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Our Shtetl San Diego County: Israel’s War with Hamas on Our Minds

StandWithUs Southwest on Wednesday showed a 47-minute unedited video of the October 7 massacre carried out by Hamas and other terrorists, aggregated from captured Hamas body cam footage  as well as home security and CCTV footage taken in Israel that day [SDJW staff]

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OpEd: Failure to Incapacitate Hamas: Recipe for More Massacres of Israelis

By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel –Why are today’s political leaders in Washington, and others outside of the US, against Israel’s imperative to wipe out Hamas? The US, Germany, et al are strongly discouraging the IDF from entering Rafah, the remaining nerve center of Hamas and most likely the hiding place its two foremost terrorist

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Oct. 7th Survivor Lauds JNF-USA’s Red Mountain Therapeutic Riding Center

Shortly after evacuating to another city in Israel with other survivors and looking for ways to work through her grief, Twilly began an emotional healing journey at Jewish National Fund-USA’s Red Mountain Therapeutic Riding Center, a treatment facility in Kibbutz Grofit that uses equine therapy and other methods to treat children and adults with special needs and who have experienced trauma. [Press Release]

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OpEd: High-Minded Schumer Speech on Israel and Gaza Deserves Serious Attention

Schumer’s speech is among the most high-minded that I have heard or read. I am leery about some of Schumer’s ideas, especially the two-state solution, but at least he is serious and laying out many of the needs for a peace plan, the obstacles that might stand in the way and the steps that can be taken to succeed. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Netanyahu says Rafah plan will take time as Israel strikes elsewhere

Published by DPA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes preparations for an offensive on the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip will “take a little time” as the Jewish state continued to hit other Palestinian areas on Wednesday. The United States and other Western powers are worried about Israel extending its war south and

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State Of Florida Adds $50 Million To Israel Bonds

Published by Tampa Free Press Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis announced Tuesday that the state has purchased an additional $50 million in bonds to assist Israel as it continues to wage war against Hamas in Gaza. In a news release, Patronis encouraged his counterparts across the country to do likewise “to stand with Israel.”

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This gubernatorial candidate is the early frontrunner for 2025 | Opinion

Published by NJ.com By Alan J. Steinberg While the current focus of New Jersey political pundits is on the 2024 Democratic US Senate primary, the first stirrings of the 2025 gubernatorial race are also underway, with prospective candidates intensively seeking fundraising sources and building political partnerships. In this early stage of the campaign, Rep. Josh

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Senate Democrats urge ‘bold’ US push on Palestinian state

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – More than a third of the US Senate’s Democrats called on President Joe Biden’s administration Wednesday to take “bold” action toward establishing a Palestinian state, in the latest pushback against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The letter to Biden comes days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the country’s

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Yigael Yadin

Yadin devoted himself to archaeology, winning the 1956 Israel Prize for his doctoral thesis on seven Dead Sea Scrolls, three of which his father had purchased in 1947 from a Bedouin goatherd and four that Yadin purchased in 1954 in New York.  He excavated such sites as the Qumram Caves, Masada, Hazor, Tel Megiddo, and the Judean Desert caves where artifacts from the Bar Kokhba revolt were found. [SDJW staff]

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JNF-USA Helping to Rebuild San Diego’s Sister City in Israel, Sha’ar Hanegev

Approximately 30,000 evacuees from San Diego’s sister city of Sha’ar Hanegev and the neighboring municipality of Eshkol, both within a close distance of Israel’s border with Gaza, are returning to their homes, where they will find that volunteers from Jewish National Fund-USA have rebuilt, refurbished, and repainted some of the structures that were damaged or destroyed during the Oct. 7 Hamas-led massacre.  New facilities are also being planned. [Donald H. Harrison]

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