Category: Personal Stories
Local Yom HaShoah commemoration May 5 to feature a one-act play by Russell Kaback
RUSSELL KABACK ALBANY– As part of the Capital District Jewish community’s annual Yom HaShoah...
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Local Yom HaShoah commemoration May 5 to feature a one-act play
RUSSELL KABACK ALBANY– As part of the Capital District Jewish community’s annual Yom HaShoah...
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“Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles…” Gratitude and hope
By MARILYN SHAPIRO “There can be miracles/When you believe. Though hope is frail, it’s hard to...
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Egypt is in the Haggadah and the news this Passover season
Photo courtesy of Merrydolla By SARAH OGINCE JNS Every Passover, Albert Gabbai smiles when he gets...
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Was she there in spirit? Memory of favorite aunt…
Marilyn and her favorite Aunt Nesbeth “Nesh” Hurwitch. By MARILYN SHAPIRO My cousin Ellen called...
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‘Wash. Monthly’ publishes suppressed piece on Gaza: “From the Edges of a Broken World”
From the Edges of a Broken World Guernica magazine retracted “From the Edges of a...
Read MoreLocal woman agrees with view that “It’s high time for a negotiated cease-fire and talk of the day after”
By PAULA WEISS Yehuda Beinin, whose daughter had been taken hostage and son-in-law murdered by Hamas, spoke in the Capital District on Sunday, Feb. 18. A Times Union piece based on a private interview with the speaker was...
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Late Russian dissident Navalny corresponded from prison with Israel’s Natan Sharansky
Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, recently deceased By DAVID BARON JNS Russian opposition...
Read MoreWhy it’s ‘existential’ — Our story vs. their story
Ezra Klein Interviews Yossi Klein Halevi What Israelis Fear the World Does Not Understand The writer Yossi Klein Halevi talks about why many Israelis see the ongoing conflict as an “existential war.” Ezra Klein From New York...
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Keep marching toward the dream— The king of the free world
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C., during which he...
Read MoreDead and missing in Eshkol, our partner region
As of October 18th, more than 1,300 Israelis (soldiers and civilians) are confirmed dead, nearly 4,000 have been injured, and at least 199 Israelis have been kidnapped and taken to Gaza. Some 360,000 IDF reserves have been...
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I was a DEI director — DEI drives campus antisemitism
From the NY POST…. Dr. Tabia Lee writes that she was fired from De Anza College, a community...
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