Media Bias

Oscars’ Hamas moment

Accepting the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Jonathan Glazer, director of the Holocaust movie “The Zone of Interest,” read, with quivering hands, from a prepared …

Gaza War

3 of our eshet chayil

I recently watched a YouTube video filmed last year in which a Jewish woman tried to have a respectful conversation with a virulently anti-Israel student at UC Berkeley. I was in awe of her …

Global Focus

An act of genocide

As the world marked International Women’s Day last Friday, the various social-media platforms lit up with posts from pro-Israel celebrities and influencers demanding the release of the female …

Cedarhurst

What happened at the Cedarhurst Israeli real estate event that generated a protest

The Great Israeli Real Estate event drew a different crowd than its normal clientele during a stop in Cedarhurst. Nassau police and protesters gathered down the road from Young Israel of …

Food

Queen Esther 3D mini-crown cookies for Purim

You can add a touch of whimsy to your misloach manot with 3D Queen Esther cookies, an edible art activity that’s a joy to design, in part because to create the cookies, we turn kitchen …

Rockville Centre

83-year-old LI leader brings chizuk to Israel

The 83-year rabbi emeritus of a Long Island synagogue said his visit to four of the communities savaged by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 “was exhausting, sad and exhilarating.” …

Gaza War

Disgruntled Palestinian laborers turn against Hamas

Public opinion polls may indicate an increase in Hamas’s popularity among Palestinians in the West Bank after the Oct. 7 massacre, but a growing number of Palestinians living there have begun …

Media Bias

Woke antisemitic ‘as a Jew’ Oscars moment

Unless you’re a film buff, you may not have heard of Jonathan Glazer before his viral moment at this year’s annual Academy Awards ceremony. After “The Zone of Interest” …

Organizations

Hadassah demands that world ‘end the silence’

Hadassah, the largest Jewish women’s organization in the United States, held an event during the UN Commission on the Status of Women meetings to highlight both the irrefutable evidence that …

Holidays

In traumatized Israel, Purim will be different

The Israeli Ministry of Education is imploring Israeli citizens to think long and hard about how their Purim costume choices may affect traumatized members of the community. “Everything …

Soviet Jewry

In prison, Navalny wrote Sharanksy

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last week, had been carrying on a correspondence with former prisoner of Zion Natan Sharansky, the Free Press reported on Monday. …

Torah

Feeling Adar’s joy, despite all the pain

The Talmud advises that when Adar comes in, we increase in joy. But how can we celebrate when our brothers and sisters in Israel are in danger, displaced, fighting for their lives, besieged and …

Gaza War

Hamas fakes figures: ‘The numbers are not real’

The Hamas terrorist organization is disseminating fictitious figures for casualties in the current war in Gaza. That’s the conclusion of a deep dive into the data published on March 7 in Tablet …

Gaza war poses challenges for summer camps

When Jacob Cytryn, executive director of Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, was asked to share a story of the camp’s strong connections to Israel with the hundreds of delegates at the Foundation for …

Gaza War

Media and pols malign our humanitarian army

The following headline — an unsubstantiated lie — exemplifies how the media mislead millions of readers into believing that the Israel Defense Forces is a brutal, vengeful army that …

Shoah

Survivor’s last interview

It is painful for Jack Betteil, 100, to remember the concentration camps he survived during the Holocaust, narrowly escaping death many times. But after offering chocolate babka and water to a JNS …

Soviet Jewry

Navalny death recalls fight for Soviet Jewry

The death in a Siberian prison of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny could be the spark that burns down today’s iron curtain, Rabbi Avi Weiss told The Jewish Star. Rabbi Weiss, retired …

Gaza War

A pro-Hamas fifth column intends to kill people

Sigmund Freud always took a somewhat jaundiced view of the human psyche, but in the wake of the horrors of World War I, it turned even darker. Confronted with mankind’s capacity to destroy …

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