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I grew up in Canada. Sure, there were antisemitic incidents here and there, like most communities in the Diaspora. But for the most part, I felt safe and patriotic. I never had to look over my shoulder, and if something did happen, I knew the police had our backs. But it never quite felt like […]
Human Interest
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Two of the most powerful things you can do for your children have nothing to do with them directly. They require you to invest in yourself and in your marriage. First: Take Care of Yourself The Torah "love your neighbor as yourself." Self-love isn't selfishness; it's the prerequisite for giving anything real to anyone else. […]
The Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz 82 years ago. Approximately 440,000 Jews were sent during the deadliest period in Auschwitz’s existence, with thousands gassed and cremated daily. Dr. Mengele took a particularly sadistic pleasure in selecting Jews for the gas chambers and crematorium on the High Holidays, specifically targeting religious Jews for death on […]
The year was 1921. A catastrophic drought has hit one of the world’s richest grain producing regions, the Volga River basin. In a dramatic attempt to save lives, the American Relief Administration shipped millions of tons of grain to Russian ports. But that grain never made it to the starving interior. Broken down railroads couldn’t […]
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Unpacking the horseshoe effect driving far-right and far-left voices toward the same antisemitic conclusions.
