These days, it’s easy to completely melt into a puddle of doom and fear when scrolling through the news or the ignorant, malignant Instagram comments of so many. This morning, it was reported that Bolivia cut ties with Israel and Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors. There are death threats to Jews on college campuses, […]
The horrific events done at the hands of Hamas on October 7th have shaken our people to the core. We haven’t felt such a rise in antisemitism since the Nazi Holocaust in Europe. We are deeply wounded. Over 1,400 people in Israel were murdered, often in the most barbaric ways imaginable. Thousands more were injured […]
I used to be scared of spiders. Every time I spotted a little (or big) black dot on the wall or floor and confirmed it was a multi–legged critter, I would scream. My husband needed to be the one to come up if he was home and remove that tiny sucker at once. My sister calls […]
By Anonymous Lawyer Over the last two weeks, we’ve seen an emerging PR tactic among Hamas-sympathizers: faced with the realization that the public will not support the beheading of babies and some of the other gruesome acts perpetrated in the October 7 attacks, such as violent mass rape, they question or deny the reality of […]
The Jewish people recently witnessed the Holocaust trauma of our nightmares playing out in real time updates, and instead of the world seeing evil as it is, unequivocally, instead too many people explained that “the complicated history needs context.” Instead academics in Harvard, Penn, Columbia, and Cornell, are justifying the evil, while their students celebrate […]
Dear Jew in the City, Is this Hamas war the war of Gog and Magog? How will we recognize it? Sincerely, David Thanks for your question, David. First, let’s address what the war of Gog and Magog is. Many people are under the misconception that “the war of Gog and Magog” refers to a conflict […]
