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Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt is the columns editor and editor of the JNS Wire.

Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, has suggested that Jews take on an extra mitzvah in the merit of the hostages.
The program “20th Hour—Money Power, Islam and a Just Order” featured speakers who dabbled in tropes debasing Zionism and the Jews.
“It’s about a bunch of Europeans back in the middle of the 19th century deciding that they were going to take over this piece of land, and kick out anybody that lived there and take it over for themselves and their own little cabal,” alleges the musician.
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt was in Argentina for the AMIA bombing ceremony, where attendees waved black-and-white photos of the victims.
According to Gustavo Zentner, president of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, “you would be hard-pressed to find a Jewish person in Winnipeg who doesn’t have a friend or relative buried there.”
“The shock was of such a nature that it touched the core of everyone’s being,” said Rabbi Sholom Lipskar of The Shul of Bal Harbour.
“Labour is still infested with people who have antipathetic views of Jews, and the party’s vetting process is an offensive joke,” says Joe Glasman, head of political and government investigations at the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
“Occasionally, I’ll meet editors there or famous illustrators, in which I case I get their autographs. It’s a big, exciting event,” says Shirley Waisman, a book illustrator and a coordinator of the Israel chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Marvin Rotrand, national director of B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, said “haters can spin anti-Zionism anyway they want; the reality is it results in hate and violence aimed at Jews everywhere.”