Jewish New Yorkers protest outside ICE offices

Jewish activists and allies take part in a Passover Seder outside ICE headquarters in New York City on Monday [Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu]

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KL Stutthof, German nazi concentration camp, Sztutowo, Poland (part 2 of 2)

It was said that the camp was created by neighbors for neighbors. Survivors recalled that they recognized their old German friends among the supervisors, with whom they had good neighborly relations before the war. However, KL Stutthof quickly became a real death factory. During its nearly six years of existence, from September 2, 1939 to May 9, 1945, 110,000 people from 28 countries passed through it. The Germans murdered about 65,000 people there, mostly Jews. Today, the Stutthof Museum is located on this site, which occupies only one sixth of the former camp. The rest is covered by forest.

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People are again rationalizing #hamas into some kind of humanitarian organization, using #Israel's bombing campaign as an excuse to promote lies and propaganda that solidify the pretense that Hamas are the good guys.

They are not.

Hamas kills #Palestinians.

Hamas oppresses #gaza

Hamas started this war.

Hamas continues to hold hostages that it could have released every day since October 7.

And, yes, Hamas DOES operate from hospitals, schools, and apartment buildings. There are no aboveground Hamas bases.

There are many pictures and videos of Hamas fighters shooting at the #IDF from hospitals and schools.

Regardless of how you feel about the way Israel is conducting the war, that doesn't make Hamas a patriotic organization that represents the interests of the Palestinian people.

Hamas exists for only 1 reason: To destroy Israel and #Jews everywhere, all over the world.

Hamas doesn't care about the suffering of the Palestinian people.

Hamas doesn't want peace or a ceasefire or co-existence.

There are 1 million Israeli citizens who are Palestinians. If you ask any of them if they want to be governed by Hamas they will look at you like you are insane.

And you know what? You ARE insane to be praising Hamas, repeating their lies and propaganda, and pretending that they represent the interests of the Palestinians of Gaza.

Hamas is a terrorist organization. They have done nothing right, nothing good, and nothing worth praising.

Hamas has committed horrific war crimes. Hamas has committed crimes against humanity - all against the Palestinian people.

Netanyahu's conduct is reprehensible but the fact he is a monster doesn't make Hamas any less monstrous.

If you say nothing about Hamas while condemning the bombing campaign then you are supporting #terrorism and #genocide

Silence is complicity.

Israel Seizes Control of Rafah, Establishes New Security Corridor in Escalating Gaza Offensive

  Israel Seizes Control of Rafah, Creates New "Security Corridor" in Latest Gaza Offensive Expansion Israeli forces have effective...

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"Wherever we go, here we are, stuck in some version of suffering and pain and tyranny. Wherever we go, we have no choice but to try to make it out and through. The story is one of wandering. Of making it through the long days and dark nights."

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"In synagogue, we read an adaptation from Michael Walzer: 'Standing on the parted shores of history, we still believe what we were taught before we ever stood at Sinai's foot: that wherever we go, it is eternally Egypt. That there is a better place, a promised land; that the winding way to that promise passes through the wilderness. That there is no way to get from here to there except by joining hands, marching together.'”

~ Emily Tamkin

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https://emilyctamkin.substack.com/p/on-vanya-and-passover

On Vanya and Passover

A play and Pesach. A play-sach.

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"But the only way, he says, to get to that promised land is that you link arms with each other and march through it, march through the wilderness. There's a wilderness in every generation."

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Paul Waldman talks with Rabbi Yael Ridberg about what's at the heart of the Passover narrative:

"Just when we think there's no hope, holidays like Passover are meant to remind us that in the words of Michael Walzer, wherever you live, it's probably Egypt. This is in his book, Exodus and Revolution. Wherever you live, it's probably Egypt and there's probably some promised land that you want to get to, whatever it is."

~ Yael Ridberg

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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/wrestling-with-passover

Wrestling With Passover

How should American Jews who have no intention of making their own exodus understand this beloved but somewhat problematic story?

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