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Anshel Pfeffer

Anshel Pfeffer

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Navigating Between Jerusalem & Babylon: An End and a Beginning

One way not to feel infallible is to write a weekly column for 17 years. Looking back through these columns is an exercise in ego deflation. I was...

28.07.2024 30

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What Has Anne Frank Got to Do With the Gaza War?

The open letter by Rabbi Dov Landau, who for the last year has been recognized as the spiritual leader of the "Lithuanian" stream of ultra-Orthodoxy,...

14.07.2024 70

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From France to America, Stop Telling Jews How to Vote

One thing I've learned in my 17 years of writing about the Diaspora and Jewish identity for this newspaper is that there are few things as crass and...

08.07.2024 50

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U.K. Snap Election Means Six Ugly Weeks for British Jews and Muslims

I love British general elections. I've loved them ever since, as a 5-year-old, I sat on my parents' landing secretly watching their television through...

23.05.2024 80

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Israel's Foundational Conflict Is Playing Out in the Gaza War

If you spend much time following the interminable social media battles over Israel and the Jews, you'll soon see a supporter of Israel posting a...

11.05.2024 100

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Anti-Israel Campus Activists Aren't Nazis. But They're Complicit With Trump's Fascism

Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to address the Israeli people on such minor matters as the war that broke out with Iran just before Passover, but somehow...

02.05.2024 40

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Does Netanyahu Really Think Israel Can Take on Iran Alone?

What would have happened in the early hours of Sunday morning if the United States – along with Britain, France, Germany and a number of Arab...

21.04.2024 40

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Will Netanyahu Be Remembered as Israel's Worst Prime Minister?

Fifty years ago this weekend, Golda Meir announced her resignation as the prime minister of Israel. It was six months after the end of the Yom Kippur...

14.04.2024 30

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Israel's Lovers and Haters Have Learnt Nothing From Oct. 7 and the Gaza War

In the six months that have passed since Hamas burst through the Gaza border fence and massacred Israeli communities, we have all been trying to find...

07.04.2024 30

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The Existential Issues Facing Israel Are Heading Towards Explosion

A year ago this week, Israelis took to the streets and felt that they had saved Israeli democracy. What became known as "Gallant Night," not because...

31.03.2024 70

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Israel's Hasbara Is Failing. That's Good News

On Tuesday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a closed meeting of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "Closed"...

24.03.2024 50

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In Israel's Netanyahu-backed Haredi Autonomy, Corruption Kills

The decision by the former government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid to form a state commission of inquiry into the worst civilian disaster in...

08.03.2024 20

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Why Has Britain Become Such a Hub of anti-Jewish Hate?

The front pages of Britain's newspapers carried banner headlines Thursday reporting a record year in antisemitic incidents in the United Kingdom.

15.02.2024 10

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Anger Is Rising in Wartime Israel About Which Israelis Must Go and Fight

Early on in the Israel-Hamas war, a few dozen ultra-Orthodox men volunteered to join the Israel Defense Forces. It was a brilliant publicity stunt and...

09.02.2024 40

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Genocide Charge at ICJ Gives Bibi Chance to Pull an Old Trick

For Israelis who spent much of 2023 protesting against the coalition's now-aborted attempt to end the independence and dramatically weaken the powers...

12.01.2024 10

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Don't Turn Hamas Massacre Sites Into Israel's New Yad Vashem

When I was in Kibbutz Kfar Azza 73 days ago, as gun battles were still raging with the last stragglers who had breached the fence three days earlier...

21.12.2023 20

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Biden Is Right. Every Jew Is Safer Because of Israel

U.S. President Joe Biden got criticized this week by the usual crowd of Israel-haters, some of them Jewish, for saying at the White House Hannukah...

15.12.2023 10

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This Year, Every Jew in the World Is Living the Real Story of Hanukkah

Various municipalities and public institutions in North America and Britain have decided to cancel Hanukkah celebrations such as menorah lightings in...

08.12.2023 50

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