Rabbi Lazer Nanes was sentenced to 20 years in a Siberian labor camp for the crime of teaching Torah. He still refused to eat bread on Pesach.
In my last column, I suggested a number of reasons for the rise of Orthodox Judaism and the decline in membership among non-Orthodox denominations.
Egypt\’s Muslim Brotherhood tweeted a message — believed to be directed at \”Daily Show\” host Jon Stewart — linking to a video alleging that Jews control the U.S. media.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel used a meeting with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to criticize his past remarks on Jews.
A video shows Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi saying amen to the prayers by an imam calling on Allah to \”destroy the Jews and their supporters.”
An Islamist group in Egypt\’s Sinai Peninsula bordering Israel said on Tuesday it will take revenge against the Jewish state for the killing of Palestinian militants in Gaza at the weekend.
The American Jewish Committee called on the United Nations General Assembly to suspend Libya’s membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Pro-Egyptian government counter-protesters in Cairo are screaming \”Jew!\” at foreign journalists, apparently spurred by Egyptian state TV accusations that Israeli spies are behind the protests.
The Haggadah tells us \”you were strangers in the land of Egypt.\” Here is the interesting thing — because we were strangers, we are supposed to learn not how the Israelites should have acted, but — how the Egyptians should have acted. We are supposed to learn how not to oppress others. Don\’t treat others the way we were treated.
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