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"Muslims don’t belong in American society," Representative Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, posted on X on Monday. "Pluralism is a lie." By Tuesday afternoon, 14.3 million people had viewed Ogles's post and more than 47,000 had clicked "like" — and the number was still climbing. America has always had its share of bigots. Demonizing religious minorities is […]
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The Optimist, a powerful new film by San Francisco-area writer and director Finn Taylor, tells the story of Herbert Heller, a Holocaust survivor who spent his later years educating Bay Area teens about his experiences before his death in 2021. The film is aimed squarely at young people who may be encountering these harrowing details […]
What does a Jew do when the sky disappears? For years, that question was my grandfather’s daily reality. For 14 months, Ignacy Chiger lived beneath the streets of Lvov, in the sewers, hiding from the Nazis with his wife and two young children. A City Alive — Then Under Siege Before the war he was […]
In early 1942, the 500,000-strong Jewish community of pre-state Israel faced the threat of Nazi genocide during World War II. The German army launched a campaign to seize the Middle East, then largely under British control. The targets: vital oil fields, the Suez Canal, and the land of Israel itself, then called Palestine. If Field […]
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Tucker Carlson recently claimed that Ashkenazi (European) Jews have no connection to the Land of Israel, suggesting they descend from Khazar Turkic converts rather than ancient Israelites. Is there any truth to this rapidly-spreading theory?
