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Dustup over a mashup This year, because Hanukkah begins on Christmas Eve, good-natured talk of hybrid holidays as well as interfaith goodwill is more noticeable than ever in the United States. Th...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/chrismukkah-you-mean-weihnukkah-its-german-and-over-a-century-old/

Reflections on Passover, the Holocaust, and History in a Series of Artifacts (3) Seventy-three years ago, on the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, the Nazis began to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, w...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-haggadah-from-the-warsaw-ghetto/

We are all familiar with the expression, “You can’t make this stuff up,” meaning something true but so preposterous–sounding that it seems as if it should be fictitious. Zionists broke in...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mossad-stole-my-shoe-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up/

Like many, I was cheered by the news that aid for victims of the tragic earthquake in Nepal was quick in coming from many quarters, including Israel. But as the saying goes, “no good deed goes ...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-in-nepal-no-good-deed-goes-unpunished/

After the Shoah As we mark Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Memorial Day on the Jewish liturgical and Israeli political calendar—we naturally think first and foremost of the dead, in their millions. But...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/yom-hashoah-and-the-survivors-a-heart-that-is-so-hard-that-nothing-can-affect-me/

For weeks, the news was filled with stories on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-awaited speech to the US Congress, and then came the election campaign and reaction to his surprise “cr...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obama-call-to-netanyahu-speak-loudly-and-carry-a-big-bat-gloves-on-or-off/

Security forces around the world, already on high alert in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and Kosher supermarket attacks as well as new threats from ISIS terrorists, became edgier still in respons...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/sightings-of-alleged-new-israeli-secret-weapon-reported-in-run-up-to-netanyahu-speech/

“Did kill himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed,” the Coroner’s report reads, identifying the cause of death as: “Sodium Amatol poison (self administered).” The words are ...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/zygielbojm-and-the-blood-shed-that-unites-and-divides-us/

Every spring, as Israel holds its Day of Remembrance (Yom HaZikaron) and the United States its Memorial Day, I cannot help but compare the two holidays and the way the two countries mark them. I ...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/yom-hazikaron-and-memorial-day-remembering-the-fallen/

Today, as we again mark the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, it is high time to recall one small, neglected episode in that immense struggle. This year, Yom HaShoah fell on April...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-the-margins-of-the-holocaust-70-years-on-high-time-to-honor-the-absentees-for-freedom/