Tag: antisemitism
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Happy Birthday Israel
When Theodore Herzl conceived of the idea of a Jewish State, he hoped that it would solve the “Jewish problem” — that antisemitism would be eradicated if Jews could become a normal people in a normal nation state. Yet here we are, 77 years after the founding of the State of Israel, and antisemitism is…
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Out of Egypt Part V
On our tour of Egypt I had eagerly anticipated our visit to the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, which was recently re-opened as a tourist site by the Egyptian government. The Ben Ezra Synagogue is the place where the Cairo Geniza was discovered, a treasure trove of Jewish manuscript fragments from the 6th to the…
Rabbi Marc D. Rudolph 