How Do We Celebrate Passover this Year?

Forgotten to publish in time From my weekly email message to Tzedek Chicago members: So many people have told me that they are not sure how – or even if – they will celebrate Passover this year. With the genocide and forced starvation of the people of Gaza deepening with no end in sight, they

An Epilogue to recent posts…

Find to read: War, Peace & Justice in Judaism

Prologue – A Time for Every Purpose: For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven; a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time

1,600 Jewish Harvard alumni threaten to stop donations over antisemitism on campus

November 11 More than 1,600 Jewish alumni of Harvard University have threatened to withhold donations to the school amid rising incidents of antisemitism on the Harvard campus. In an open letter published Friday, members of the Harvard College Jewish Alumni Association criticized the university for not doing more to combat antisemitism in the wake of

Hamas-Israel war – October 2023

A review day by day what started and what happened around the new Israeli-Hamas conflict, perhaps going into a long during war.

How Evangelicals betray Christians in the Holy Land

Palestinian Christians have been disappearing from the Holy Land for decades, even though this region is where Christianity began. So what’s going on? Dena Takruri goes to Bethlehem to ask the Palestinian Christians who remain. She only speaks to Trinitarian Christians, of which she finds the Roman Catholics and the Lutheran Church.  For many Christians,

Apartheid in Israel

We can follow ex-Israeli soldiers who want to show tourists how Israel and how Jewish settlers treat Palestinians and destroyed the old city of Hebron.

The Spectator: The shocking truth behind the Baghdad bombings of 1950 and 1951

Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Justin Marozzi. Avi Shlaim claims to have uncovered undeniable proof that Zionist agents were responsible for targeting the Jewish community, forcing them to flee Iraq and settle in Israel Avi Shlaim’s family led the good life in Baghdad. Prosperous and distinguished members of Iraq’s Jewish minority, a community…

DeSantis, the Florida Republican running for president

What Jewish voters need to know about Ron DeSantis, the Florida Republican running for president

The Nation: Israel Is Throwing a 75th Birthday Party. Palestinians Have Little to Celebrate.

Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Rashid Khalidi. While Israelis hail the 75th anniversary of their country’s founding, Palestinians are preparing to mark 75 years of brutal oppression. The coming month witnesses two very different, albeit intimately linked, 75th anniversaries. This May, Palestinians will solemnly commemorate the Nakba, the catastrophe that befell their society…