Month: 12 Adar II 5784 (March 2024)

After George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, Susan Korn was outraged. The 30-something founder, CEO, and creative director of Susan Alexandra, a New York–based fashion company that offers Judaica-inspired clothing, jewelry, and homewares, took to her brand’s Instagram page to show it, writing: Today I feel . . . helpless, devastated, disheartened. I know this is a jewelry/bag […]

Early in the pandemic, a friend of mine introduced me to another friend of his, an Emirati living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Knowing that my academic research is focused on the geopolitics of the Arabian Gulf, he figured it might be interesting for me to meet someone from the region — and why not make […]

Hamas’s October 7 slaughter of Jews in Israel and the Israeli response in Gaza have created a stunning backlash against Jews in the name of anti-Zionism. Episodes from the Holocaust such as Kristallnacht have been invoked, but this time it is primarily left-wing rather than right-wing action against Jews that we are seeing, whether in […]

View This Jblast as a web page BITACHON LESSON FROM THE PARSHA פרשת וַיִּקְרָא תשפ"ד 2 Operating Systems וַיִּקְרָא אֶל מֹשֶׁה And Hashem called to Moshe (Vayikra 1:1) Rashi tells us: וַיִּקְרָא לְש

Insights, Jerusalem Inspiration PURIM at time of War against AMALEK – from Haman to Hamas! 03/10/2024 By Daniel Luria 1 Comment 220 Views It’s that beautiful time of the year, the month of Adar, with extra happiness-simcha, and the festival of Purim, with its Megilla reading, the Seuda-with ex...