The Jewish Community

Is Holocaust Denial Really about the Holocaust?

Albeit Mach Frei : Holocaust Denial 2016

In 2005, The United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 60/7 to officially choose January 27 as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. This is the day when the world is supposed to mark and remember the Holocaust and its victims. Read More

 

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Antisemitism in 2015: A Year in Review!

Paris France antisemitism 2015

Within a week of the start of 2015, terrorism hit France in what became the worst terror attack in decades, claiming 17 lives. Eleven months later, in some sort of an eerie xenophobic bookend, France was hit again, this time losing 130 innocent people. As I see the fabric of our global village changing daily, especially with the recent migrant crisis in Europe, I am greatly concerned with the fate of my people and of Israel. Read More

 

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Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

Israel Independence Day

In honor of Israel's Independence Day, April 22nd – 23rd, we're posting Theodor Herzl's book 'Jewish State'.

Jewish-state-by-Theodor-Herzl PDF free e-book.

Der Judenstaat, written by Herzel in 1896, is one of the most important texts of early Zionism.

 

 

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Is this an Aliyah or an Exodus for French Jews?

French Jew Aliyah

It has only been two months since the terrorist attacks in France led to the death of 17 people including four Jews in a kosher supermarket on the east side of Paris. Prime minister Manuel Valls delivered an emotional speech punctuated with rightful indignation in front of the French Assemblée Nationale, calling anti-Semitism “The symptom of democracy in crisis”. French President François Hollande vowed to defend France’s Jews when he was recently quoted saying: “Jews are at home in France, it’s the anti-Semites who have no place in the republic, in protecting its Jews, the republic is protecting itself.”
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Yeshua Revealed in Orthodox Jewish Prayer Book for Rosh Hashanah

Yeshua is Sar Hapanim in orthodox machzor

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins in the evening of Wednesday, September 24 2014 and ends in the evening of Friday, September 26 2014.

The Biblical name for this holiday is called Yom Teruah (In Hebrew, literally "day of shouting/raising a noise") or the Feast of Trumpets.

On High Holy Days the Jews read from an orthodox machzor or Prayer Book.

There is a very interesting prayer that mentions the name of a high priest, or kohen gadol, which appears in various older machzors, going back over 100 years…His name is Yeshua. Read More