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Rabbi Avi Shafran

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Sep 3, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Rabbi Avi Shafran | Sep 04, 20260

    Violent settler youth betray Judaism (opens the original)

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    (JNS) — Ongoing accusations that Israel, by seeking to subdue those bent on her destruction, is guilty of “genocide” ring hollow in the ears of those who consider Israel’s war goals crucial to the safety of its citizens. Likewise, Israel’s raids on militants in Judea and Samaria, identified by Israel’s storied intelligence agencies as planning terror attacks, represent, to us, necessary self-defense. But supporters of Israel cannot allow our defense of the defensible to devolve into acceptance o

  2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Rabbi Avi Shafran

    Violent settler youth betray Judaism (opens the original)

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    Ongoing accusations that Israel, by seeking to subdue those bent on her destruction, is guilty of “genocide” ring hollow in the ears of those who consider Israel’s war goals crucial to the safety of its citizens. Likewise, Israel’s raids on militants in Judea and Samaria, identified by Israel’s storied intelligence agencies as planning terror attacks, represent, to us, necessary self-defense. But supporters of Israel cannot allow our defense of the defensible to devolve into acceptance of the un

  3. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Rabbi Avi Shafran

    Good question, Abdul! (opens the original)

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    Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory earlier this month in Michigan’s senatorial Democratic primary has left many American supporters of Israel unnerved. Should they be? Well, he has appeared happily in public alongside Hasan Piker (who has shared antisemitic sentiments and support for terrorism), and he answered a reporter’s question, “Do you think [Israel is] just as evil as Hamas?” with a “Yes.” At an event that El-Sayed held shortly after the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Feb. 28—t

  4. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Rabbi Avi Shafran

    Inspired by antisemitism (opens the original)

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    Some decades ago, when I was in my 20s, I published a book of short essays. The final one was titled The Beauty of Anti-Semitism. That provocative phrase was meant to embody the idea that Jew-hatred is just so varied in the forms it has taken and so ubiquitous—spanning centuries, continents and cultures—that it must reflect something unique about Jews. Some of the guises Jew-hatred has assumed have been cultural (ancient Greece); others, religious (the Crusades and European pogroms); others, rac

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