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On The Destruction Of The Middle East’s Christians, And The World’s Silence
by Shifra on June 1, 2015When I was eight, maybe nine years old, I remember thumbing through an old family photo album. Looking at pictures of my parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and baby pictures of my siblings and me, I suddenly spotted a picture I had never seen before. It was a picture of a young man and woman, and three small children. I ran to my mother. “Who are these people?” I asked. My mother looked at the picture, and then turned away. “It’s my cousin, Chaya Rivka, and her husband Yaakov (Jacob) Shlomo, and their three children.” I asked my mother where they lived now, and wondered why I had never met them. My mother was quiet for a moment. Finally, she told...
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Crazy Alert: Turkish Film Claims Jews Plot To Destroy The World
by Shifra on April 20, 2015Turkish President Erdogan This week marks the centennial of the slaughter of over one million Christian Armenians by the Turks. Historian Ronald Suny has called it “the holocaust before the Holocaust.” And what better way to commemorate this event than to watch a movie accusing Jews of trying to conquer and destroy the world? The ‘documentary’ is based on a speech by Turkish President Erdogan. And looks like he might have watched the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark one too many times…. Via Jerusalem Post: Turkish ‘documentary’ says Jews have been ‘mastermind’ for 3,500 years ….“As I have said before, behind all these there is a Mastermind, which has now become part of our national conversation. Some ask me,...
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Story Of Hannah Senesh
by Shifra on April 16, 2015To most Americans, the name ‘Hannah Senesh’ is unknown. But to several generations of Israelis, Hannah’s name immediately evokes sorrow over the loss of six million lives. And pride in the bravery of this heroine of Israel. Here is her story: Hannah Senesh (Anglicized from the original Hungarian ‘Szenes’) was born in 1921 in Budapest, to an affluent, secular Jewish family. Her father was a well-known playwright. He died when Hannah was six years old. Hannah was enrolled in a prestigious Protestant girls’ school in Budapest, where she stood out as a gifted student. She had been elected to the school’s Literary society as her grade representative, and it was a severe blow to her when she was informed that...
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In Memory Of A Survivor of Auschwitz, On The 70th Anniversary Of Liberation
by Shifra on January 27, 2015When our children were very young, they often played together with the children of another family who lived on our block. We always marveled at how well they all got along, racing around the block on their Big Wheels. Often, their grandmother, who lived in the neighborhood, would hover nearby. She seemed like a nice person. But there was a sadness about her, even when she smiled. And her eyes always darted nervously back and forth, as though scanning her surroundings. And then, there was the tattoo. On her forearm. Numbers, in blue ink. I knew that she had been in a concentration camp. More than that, though, I did not know. Several years ago, I ran into my neighbor....
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NYC Councilman *Destroys* Pro Palestinian Protests In Under 3 Minutes
by rickh on January 26, 2015**Bumped Up From TAM Wire. Posted By rickh** This City Councilman absolutely DECIMATES the Anti-Semitism in NYC in under 3 minutes. You need to see this.