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I would hope that even Ed Kass would admit that brief conversations with one or two people are not enough to gain an understanding of the complex relationship between Israelis and Palestinians.

The response addresses Ms. Ito's criticisms regarding Israel's history, the legitimacy of Palestinian claims, and the occupation narrative, emphasizing the need for mutual understanding and acknowledgment to achieve peace.

Last Sunday, I had a short conversation with a resident from the south Hebron Hills. I asked this resident about the attack in March on the Palestinian village adjacent to the resident’s village.

By Rafael Medoff The autumn of 1938 was a grim time for the Jews. The Nazis’ Kristallnacht pogrom had devastated German Jewry. The Evian conference, which was supposed to find havens for Jewish refugees, had proven to be a farce. And Britain was preparing to shut the doors of Palestine.  …

I believe Bruce Ticker is sincere in wishing to educate the 'Useful Idiots' being exploited by Hamas but his arguments are woefully inadequate.

Which river? Which sea? In a video, a sample of humane, kindhearted advocates for the “Palestinian cause” could not identify the bodies of water referenced in the “from the river to the sea” chant.

Ed Kass wrote to Boulder Jewish News on November 14 (Letter: As George Put It: “It Ain’t Necessarily So”) lambasting Jewish Israeli settlers and our November 2 speaker from Judea, Natalie Sopinsky.   His letter was full of misinformation and baseless accusations.

In August 1933 Dr. Max Neumann, the founder of Verband Nationaldeutschen - the Association of National German Jews, wrote in the Jewish Telegraph Agency that the Jews' loyalty to the Nazi government was the key to their survival. 

To understand what’s in store for New York City, and for New York’s Jews, all we have to do is take a glimpse into what’s happening in London, England, a city run by a Muslim mayor since 2016.

The four-year New York City nightmare commences on Jan. 1. But whose nightmare?

Who is this Natalie Sopinsky? Where is her peaceful village? How many red scarfs does she wrap around her head?

Bazrouk pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges last June and on Tuesday (Oct. 28)  was sentenced to 17 months in prison for kicking and punching Jews at three demonstrations, according to The New York Post.

As the Middle East crisis stains four election campaigns, a small army of teen-agers in Skokie, Illinois, ganged up on five Jewish children on Oct. 7.

I agree with Ed Kass. The conversation is a start. However, progress in settling the conflict between Arabs/Palestinians and Israel requires acceptance of past history.

What have we got to lose? Here's an example.

This past Monday, the JCC sponsored “The Israeli Palestinian Conversation”, an extra-ordinary, emotionally moving and thought-provoking play. I commend Ami Dayan and his cast for their courage in tackling this issue and providing an artfully weaved fabric of history and emotional context about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

We can extend our appreciation to Trump for announcing a 22-point plan to rebuild Gaza and implicitly advance a two-state solution. However, he undermined his own program by basking in his newfound glory and facilitating yet another gory and warped chapter.

Probably no one is surprised that, just as Bruce Ticker predicted, Hamas has already broken the ceasefire that President Trump hoped would be the beginning of true peace between Israel and her neighbors.

It is a relief that Israel retrieved the hostages who were carried off from southern Israel after Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 Israelis and others on Oct. 7, 2023. However, that leaves 21 more provisions to achieve peace between Israel and the people of Gaza.

I join with Bruce Ticker in hoping that people who don't approve of Israel's standing up to those who seek to destroy the nation-state of the Jews will not get away with physically attacking Jews (whether those Jews are Zionists or not). However, I believe that he could help matters by doing a better job of defending Israel's actions in his columns.

Unfortunately, in my position as a University Research Fellow, I am constantly exposed to the results of this successful antisemitic campaign to change the narrative by changing the definition of "Nakba."

We can hope that President Trump’s Gaza plan will end the war between Israel and Hamas, but who will end the war against the Jews in the rest of the world?

Bruce Shaffer expresses gratitude for community support during recovery from the June 1 attack, emphasizes the need for proactive Jewish engagement in Boulder, and hopes for the hostages' safe return.

While most Jews spent the first day of Rosh Hashanah in solemn observance, delegates to the United Nations Security Council spent Rosh Hashanah’s first day urging a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and release of the hostages. The Israelis notified the U.N. that Sept. 23 was the start of the Jewish New Year, but U.N. went ahead with the debate, anyway.

Two years after the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas, Israel is still carrying wounds that in some ways have deepened and worsened after two years of war.