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Close up from Spinoza's statue in The Hague. Statue erected in 1880.

Baruch Spinoza: The Universal Anti-Hero

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In his Theological-Political Treatise, published in 1670 and banned in 1674, Spinoza wrote: “In a free country every man is allowed to think in his own way and to say all that he thinks.” It...

La 4e Université d’été de langue et de littérature yiddish à Berlin aura lieu...

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Durant trois semaines, l’Institut d’Europe de l’Est accueille des étudiants du monde entier et leur propose des cours de yiddish et des activités culturelles en présentiel. Sous la direction de Yitskhok Niborski, l’équipe pédagogique vous propose un...

Substack removes Nazi newsletters for inciting violence

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The popular newsletter host Substack said on Monday that it intends to remove several neo-Nazi publications from its service. The tech newsletter Platformer, which itself is on Substack, said on Jan. 4 that it had reported...
Dor Steinbrecher is interviewed by Jake Tapper on “CNN,” about his sister, 30-year-old Doron Steinbrecher, who is being held captive in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, Source: Screenshot.

Hostage’s brother: Red Cross worker told family to care more about Gaza

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper interviewed Dor Steinbrecher, the brother of hostage Doron Steinbrecher, a nurse and veterinarian from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, who told him that a Red Cross worker had dismissed a concern from their mother for...
Aerial photo of Dallas Love Field, looking south with downtown Dallas in the distance. Credit: Mark Quadling via Wikimedia Commons.

Police arrest anti-Israel agitators as Biden arrives at Dallas airport

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A group of anti-Israel activists attempted to block an entrance at  Dallas’s Love Field Airport on Monday night, calling for a ceasefire in the war against the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip and the...
Members of the Mothers of Combat Soldiers group protest outside the hotel of U.S. States Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

With Blinken in Tel Aviv, IDF mothers protest US interference in war

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A group composed of some 7,000 mothers of Israeli soldiers fighting in the Gaza Strip held up huge posters depicting the children of senior U.S. officials as IDF recruits during a protest in front...
Released Israeli hostage Aviva Siegel testifies in Jerusalem to the Knesset Caucus for the Hostages, Jan. 9, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘The son of a bitch touched her’: Freed hostage testifies at Knesset

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A South African-Israeli woman freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza after 51 days delivered searing testimony about her experiences there to a Knesset panel on Tuesday. Aviva Siegel, 64, and her husband, Keith, 62, a...
View of the Jewish community of Pnei Kedem in Gush Etzion, June 14, 2021. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.

Ignoring minister’s orders, IDF destroys Jewish homes in Gush Etzion

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Israeli security forces early on Tuesday morning destroyed six Jewish homes in the eastern Gush Etzion region of Judea, in defiance of instructions by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. At least one of the destroyed houses...
U.N. workers and empty trucks wait for the arrival of humanitarian aid at the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Oct. 21, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Biden promised Gaza aid wouldn’t go to Hamas. He lied.

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A week after the horrors of Oct. 7, when the Biden administration first convinced Israel to open up the siege of Gaza and allow in international aid, it promised Hamas would not get it. “If...
The Chaim Herzog Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War Two in Latrun, Israel. Photo: Harel Gilboa.

All roads lead to Israel

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Zvi Kan-Tor, a retired Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, is a sabra superman who grew up with a uniquely Israeli perspective on the Shoah and World War Two. Now the director of the Chaim Herzog...