By Jerry Klinger “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” — All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 4, Scene 3 A few weeks ago, the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation’s U.K. branch placed a historical marker at Leopold John Genn’s birthplace. The marker text: Jewish Prosecutor – […]
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Holocaust, International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “This is an affront to American democracy and does permanent, irrevocable harm to our justice system,” says America’s Mayor. Rudy Giuliani was not referring to accusations that he conspired to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. He was slamming the fact that a county prosecutor — a Black woman
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Israel’s Knesset is on its summer recess and won’t reconvene until after the Jewish holidays in October. There are several very important, unresolved issues that are simmering. They are: the fate of the reasonableness factor in making Supreme Court decisions (and subsequent to that, the composition of the
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Israel, Opinion, Steve KramerBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It was a paradoxical week for American Jews, as much as it was historic. The sentencing of Tree of Life synagogue killer Robert Bowers raises disturbing questions about antisemitism’s link to mental illness, the deterrence value of the death penalty and the merits of hate-crime laws. What does Bowers’
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — It is a cruel irony that Israelis are preparing to move to Germany or Poland where their parents or grandparents survived Hitler. “They’re willing to accept a drop in their standard of living because they’re so worried that their freedom of movement will be curtailed,” Shay Obazanek told The
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES — In recent months, we have seen tensions in Israel rise to alarming levels. Although the current debate is focused on Israel’s judicial system, it cuts deeper into divisions over what it means for different groups to coexist in a Jewish and democratic state. This has been very painful to
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Israel, Opinion, USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — For the last few months, Israel’s long-suffering population has been subjected to a double barrage of government legislation on the one hand and demonstrations protesting said legislation on the other. Anyone living in Israel who is not completely cut off from the news media is unable to avoid
By Eric George Tauber “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” — Barbie Okay. No. The iconic doll never said this. This quote actually comes from a Hindu tale in Baghavad Gita wherein Vishnu tells the warrior prince Arjuna not to worry about who lives and who dies in battle. Such choices are
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Eric George Tauber, Opinion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “There is nothing progressive about racism,” said. U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas. It was a shit-hits-the-fan moment last week when the U.S. House of Representatives reacted to Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s (D-Wash.) “racist state” dig against Israel. It was an empty resolution, officially having nothing to do with Jayapal. For
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — In The Philadelphia Inquirer’s food section, a Palestinian chef opened up a whole new front…quite an unappetizing one…in the propaganda wars over Israel. I missed a story about Anan Jardali Zahr a native of Acre, Israel, when it first appeared in the July 6 Inquirer. Zahr’s family moved to
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA
By Jerry Klinger Over 28,000 extraordinary human beings from over 40 countries have very deservedly been recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. The Righteous risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. They did not have to save Jews. It would have been very understandable if they chose not to risk
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Holocaust, International, Jerry Klinger, Opinion
The recent flyer incidents are not isolated and do not exist in a vacuum. Unfortunately, they are a microcosm of a nation that has been beleaguered by a rise in antisemitism and other forms of hate. ADL’s Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, which tracks anti-Jewish incidents of vandalism, harassment, and assault, saw a 36% increase in reported incidents in 2022 – the highest level ever recorded. Unfortunately, three of the past five years (2019, 2021, and 2022) were record-breaking years as well. [Fabienne Perlov]
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California, Opinion, San Diego County, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Quoth BBC journalist Anjana Gadgil, “Israeli forces are happy to kill children.” Said Amr Khamour, 14, “I wished for martyrdom and I received it.” If Israelis are indeed “happy to kill children,” they have an all-too-willing market out there. Of 12 Palestinians killed in Israel’s in Jenin the other
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA
By Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas —It was only 30 years ago that I learned I had close relatives in Belgium and the Netherlands, most of them Jewish, all with deep Jewish roots. As I got to know my Dutch de Wind (previously Levy) relatives better, I learned of the horrors so
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Dorian de Wind, Holocaust, International, Opinion