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BDE, Sidney Spiegelman, Z"L, 1920-2016, As An Israeli
My late father and I on the plane to Israel when he made aliyah in 2009One of the reasons I was glad to be privileged to sit shiva for my my father here in Shiloh is because he lived here with us for...
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Caroline Glick's "Our estranged generals"
Considering the lateness of the hour after chag rishon Pesach/Shabbat and the fact that after sitting shiva for my father most of this week, I am having trouble concentrating on the news and thinking...
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Passover Story, Jewish Slaves, Nothing Like Pre-Civil War America
a very typical depiction of what is known as Jewish slavery in EgyptSome of you may remember that a few weeks ago I posted a series of articles about the true meaning of the Hebrew word חרות HERUT.חרות...
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Is There Another Holocaust on The Horizon?
Anne Frank pictured in 1940Adolf EichmannUnlike many of my peers of Jewish Ashkenaz-European background, I wasn't raised with any Holocaust awareness, stories, survivors etc. You can stress the...
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No Peace, Because The Arabs Don't Want It!
Just be pragmatic, please.There is nothing Israel can do or offer to "make peace" with the Arabs here. And only once Israel accepts this reality, will the terror calm down. Because part of this...
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Republicans More Pro-Israel than Democrats
My gut feeling about the antipathy and unreliability of the American Democrats towards the State of Israel is shown in the numbers in this article:The US may offer Israel the ‘largest single pledge’ of...
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Arutz 7 Readers Like This Blog
Yet again, I see that I have three out of the six most popular blog posts on the Arutz 7 Blog page.Popular PostsIs There Another Holocaust on The Horizon?16Tzipi Livni? No, Erel Margalit Smells0Gush...
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Passover Lesson for Today and Always
creditIn the mitzvot/instructions for celebrating the Holiday of Passover, חג פסח, חג חרות The Holiday of Herurt--The Engraving of Gd's Commandments into Our Souls and Beings, we are told to feel as if...
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Antisemitism "Alive and Well" All Over
Here in Israel, as part of the preparations for Israeli Independence Day, we commemorate the Holocaust in which millions, six million is the accepted number, of Jews were murdered by the Nazis and...
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Bernie Sanders: Vote for Him Since He's Jewish or Davka Don't?
When I was growing up, in the middle of the previous century in New York, the accepted "rule" was to support anyone Jewish, because we could trust Jews to do the best for us. And also, when voting in...
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Yuck! Trump is Like All The Rest!
Why does political success close people's eyes to the truth?re: Donald TrumpI had been hopefully optimistic when in earlier statements by US President Wannabe, Donald Trump, he had admitted that the...
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Rosh Chodesh Iyyar in Just a Few Days!
With all that has been going on, Pesach and my father's death, I never got to remind everyone that it's almost Rosh Chodesh Iyyar. We'll be having the Women's Rosh Chodesh Prayers at Shiloh Hakeduma,...
View ArticleThe Truth! Why Are There Still Palestinian, sic, Refugees?
Watch and share!Why Are There Still Palestinian, sic, Refugees?
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Trump Won The Republican "Musical Chairs." Will The "Party" Support Him?
Very few, if any, political pundits predicted that Donald Trump would be the winner, the last one sitting in this wild game of Republican "Musical Chairs." BUT HE WON!!I really wonder if the Republican...
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Holocaust Memorial Day, Worse to Come?
Credit: United with IsraelOne of the big adjustments for me as a mourner of a parent, a status that lasts a Jewish Year, is that I'm not permitted to watch my usual entertainment on the television, or...
View ArticleGuest Post: Shabbat Praised
Katy Perry (a famous non-Jewish celebrity) recently said:“I wish there was a thing like Shabbat that wasn’t particularly religious-based, that was kind of a worldwide day where we’re not on our phones...
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No Holocaust Survivors in My Family
Since moving to Israel in 1970, I've always felt rather fish out of water during this season. It's Holocaust Memorial time, and it has always seemed that I'm the only one who doesn't have a "Holocaust...
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Parshat Shavua Kedoshim, My Father, Mehadrin in Yosher, Honesty
Sidney Spiegelman, Z"L, 1920-2016On one hand it seems rather ironic to refer to my very secular father as "mehadrin," (most stringent religious/Torah observance) but while reading the Torah Portion of...
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Does Trump Have a Chance to Beat Hillary?
As we all know, all the experts, the pundits the poll mavins say that Donald Trump hasn't a chance in hell to beat Hillary Clinton, but please don't forget that until not that long ago, the same...
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Bibi's in USA's Top Ten Admired Men
Yesterday I blogged wondering if Donald Trump has a chance to win the United States Presidency. American polls keep saying that he hasn't, but in the latest UK-based YouGov Most Admired Men in the USA...
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