SUKKOT: Origins By: Amy J. Kramer Sukkot, The Festival of Booths Four days after Yom Kippur, Jews world-wide celebrate the holiday of Sukkot. The holiday is celebrated from the 15th of Tishri through the 21st or 22nd of Tishri, depending if you live in Israel or in the Diaspora. Sukkot usually falls out in late […]

By: Dr. Yitzchok Levine Jewish Press Wednesday, July 5, 2006 The Jewish Community Of Surinam The discovery of the Western Hemisphere opened new opportunities for Jews. Here was a chance to escape the repressive conditions that most Jews lived under in Europe, and, at the same time, to considerably improve one’s economic situation. It is […]

Only around forty Jews remain in the Lebanese capital. The once thriving community had sixteen synagogues; today, there is only one, with a broken roof Sefi Hendler Paris: After speaking for over an hour, Moshe wanted to stop the conversation. “Let’s talk slowly. It hurts me,” he sighed. Moshe soon recovered. “It’s okay. You can […]

By: Dr. Rafael Medoff Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Editor’s Note: The U.S. Postal Service recently issued a stamp honoring Hiram Bingham IV, a U.S. vice-consul in Vichy France, for his work with journalist Varian Fry in rescuing Jewish refugees from the Nazis during 1940-1941. The Capitol Hill ceremony unveiling the stamp image was held under […]

by Ben Hecht The Reader’s Digest Magazine broke the American silence attending the massacre of the Jews in February 1943. It printed my article called “Remember Us,” based on Dr. Greenberg’s data. Reading it in the magazine, I thought of a larger idea and set out to test its practicality. Thirty famous writers (and one […]

The Bash-Israel media and the amen choruses of the Arab terrorists have been repeating for so many years that Palestinian terrorism and barbarism are caused by Israeli “occupation” that few are still capable of examining that “theory” critically. The simple fact of the matter is that Palestinian terrorism and atrocities against Jews began not only […]

by Wendy Leigh Even now, I can still remember the moment clearly. There is a loud banging on the front door of our family house in Burgundy, France. Two policemen stand on the doorstep. My mother’s face is pale and she is no longer smiling, but she doesn’t cry. She asks me, then aged 12, […]

By Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com | April 27, 2006 With Holocaust denial rampant among Islamists and Western intellectuals, the celebration of Holocaust Memorial Day becomes more than an affirmation of the truth of the tragedy. It is also an act of defiance and moral clarity. In the Islamic media, Israel and Jews are labeled and portrayed […]

by Binyamin Zev Kahane z’l (written in 1997) It is clear that the major goal of the Seder night is to recite the Haggadah and to fulfill the mitzvah, “and you shall tell your children.” That is, by recounting to our children and to ourselves the exodus from Egypt, we actualize in our minds these […]

I have spent the better part of my life keeping secrets: state secrets, family secrets, emotional secrets. I have guarded them, held them close to my heart and locked them in my mind. Each secret has given me moments of pride, of joy, of pain. But there is one that has been breaking my heart […]