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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    The Sukkot Miracle in the Sky: The Heroes Who Saved an Israel-Bound Plane (opens the original)

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    By Rabbi Shmuley BoteachSometimes heroism announces itself with trumpets. Sometimes it happens at 33,000 feet, in a matter of seconds, when ordinary people realize that unless they act immediately, they and everyone around them may die.On Wednesday, passengers aboard a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv experienced a nightmare almost beyond comprehension. The co-pilot attacked and stabbed the captain, Indian national Smit Machchhar, and the Boeing 737 plunged dramatically before passengers a

  2. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Francesca Albanese, The UN’s Dumbest Antisemite, Becomes the Laughingstock of the World (opens the original)

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    By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach The term “Muselman” was a term used by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, particularly Auschwitz, to describe inmates who had been reduced by starvation, exhaustion, disease, and brutality to a state of extreme physical and psychological collapse.Muselmann was effectively a term for the “living dead”—people who were still breathing but appeared to have lost nearly all strength, vitality, and ability to resist.The spelling is:German: MuselmannPlural: MuselmännerPronun

  3. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    When I Looked at Jesus on the Cross in Florence, I Saw a Murdered Jew (opens the original)

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    By Rabbi Shmuley BoteachToday, walking through Florence, I entered one of the city’s magnificent churches. There, as in virtually every church in Italy, I encountered the central image of Christianity: Jesus nailed to the cross.But standing there in Florence, I saw something different.I saw a murdered Jew.Jesus was born a Jew. He lived as a Jew. He prayed as a Jew. His disciples were Jews. He quoted the Hebrew Bible. He celebrated Jewish holidays. And when he died, the charge placed above his he

  4. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    Nazis Didn’t Murder Six Million Jews. The Germans Did (opens the original)

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    By Rabbi Shmuley BoteachWEIMAR, GERMANY — There are few places on earth where the promise of human culture and the catastrophe of human evil stand in such obscene proximity as Weimar.This small German city is synonymous with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, the towering figures of Weimar Classicism. Goethe made Weimar his home for most of his adult life. Schiller joined him here. Together, they helped transform this provincial city into one of the great capitals of European tho

  5. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Pink Found Her Courage When the Music Industry Lost Its Spine (opens the original)

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    By Rabbi Shmuley BoteachThere are moments when celebrity is merely celebrity – fame, glamour, applause, record sales. And then there are moments when celebrity becomes a test of character.This week, Pink passed that test magnificently.After rapper Macklemore turned an Ed Sheeran concert at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium into a platform for his anti-Israel activism – performing Hind’s Hall, displaying wrenching images from Gaza, accusing Israel of genocide, and repeatedly proclaiming “Free Palestin

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