Tag: Jewish history
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Hear O Israel––How Do I Hate Thee?
by Joan Swirsky, ©2025 (Apr. 5, 2025) — King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). The sun rises, and the sun goes down… all streams run to the sea… what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. In his prescience, King Solomon…
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Suffering of the Jews Should Shame the Haredim
7 January 2025 Dear Editor, Once again, I say, “If Muslim Israelis can voluntarily join Israel’s Defence Forces and die and/or suffer horrendous wounds for their Nation of Israel, so, too, can Haredim Jews, living off most other Israelis!” Haredim Jews traditionally refusing to defend Israel by joining the IDF are shamelessly sullying Dean William…
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Dead Jews–What Else is New?
A “FULMINATING RESURGENCE OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE UNITED STATES” by Joan Swirsky, ©2018 (Oct. 29, 2018) — This past Saturday morning, 11 Jews were shot to death in a Pittsburgh synagogue by one of the millions of Jew-haters who contaminate our world. To Jews like me, who know and appreciate Jewish history as I do,…
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Book Review: “Politicide: The Attempted Murder of the Jewish State” by Victor Sharpe
“TERRIFIC, ILLUMINATING…” by Joan Swirsky, ©2018 (Mar. 11, 2018) — The word Politicide was first coined by Abba Eban––Israel’s foreign minister in 1967––to describe the attempted murder of the sovereign, independent State of Israel by enemies both within and outside of the fledgling state. When Victor Sharpe first read the word, he told me how…