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Palestinian women march in Hebron in support of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 13, 2023. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.

The hypocrisy of the feminists

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Outrage at violence against women is the merest hypocrisy unless it includes outrage at the horrific rampage of sexual crimes committed by Hamas on Oct. 7. The only explanation for not including it is...
Russian President Vladimir Putin with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov being awarded the Order of Service to the Fatherland, 1st class, at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 21, 2015. Credit: Kremlin Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikimedia Commons.

The apology that Russia won’t make

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Did Russian President Vladimir Putin really apologize to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the atrocious remarks on the Holocaust uttered by his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov? There is no way of knowing for sure....
Ida Nudel. Credit: Jonathan Feldstein.

Soviet Jewish activist and refusenik Ida Nudel dies in Israel at age 90

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Ida Nudel, a leading activist and Zionist who sought permission for 16 years to leave the former Soviet Union and move to Israel, died on Tuesday at the age of 90. Nudel was born in the former...
Isi Leibler. Photo: Courtesy.

Soldiering on for the Jews and Israel

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Reading a biography about a friend is a mixed experience. On the one hand, the protagonist is familiar. On the other, he’s a complete stranger, whose story unfolds like that of a fictional character...
American-born Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi holds “I Am My Brothers Keeper” sign circa 1970. Credit: Courtesy.

50th anniversary of Leningrad trial sparks memories, educational initiatives

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On Dec. 15, 1970, a small item appeared at the top of page three of The New York Times under the jarring headline, ‘Soviets Reported Trying 11, Mostly Jews, in Hijacking.’ Few could have predicted that...
Design for the Babyn Yar Memorial Center. Credit: BYHMC/Querkraft.

Babi Yar at 79 … and its future

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Over a two-day period, beginning on Sept. 29, 1941, almost the entire Jewish community of Kyiv was wiped out at a ravine on the outskirts of the city known as Babi Yar. The Nazis and...
Anatoly Altman

Russian Prisoner of Zion Anatoly Altman dies at age 77

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Former Prisoner of Zion Anatoly Altman, one of a group of Jews arrested by Soviet officials for attempting to hijack a plane to Israel, died on Thursday in Haifa. He was 77 years old. Born...
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at the Capella Hotel in Singapore on June 12, 2018. Photo courtesy of White House/Wikimedia Commons.

Trump, Kim and the ‘good citizen’

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One of the many memorable scenes in “The Lives of Others”—an exemplary German movie whose plot centers on the Stasi secret police in the late, unlamented German Democratic Republic—involves the indiscreet telling of a...