(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
There is Chillul Hashem. And then there is something that we can call Avi Avos Chillul Hashem. What happened Thursday in the state legislature can only be described as the latter.
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To better understand who and what the broader Jewish community has been up against in the vaccination civil war against measles, one only had to look at those gathered in the NYS Assembly gallery on Thursday. 
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(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
In 1951, an article in Life Magazine celebrated the 100th year anniversary of the New York Times and called her “the grey lady.”
But now, the grey lady has slipped and fallen and the whole world has seen her hidden swastika tattoos.

Attacks at places of worship and the security measures put in place to thwart them are still a relatively new concept in the US. This phenomenon is on the rise and has drastically changed the status quo.
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The following is via the New York Times:
By Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein
Today should have been my funeral.
I was preparing to give my sermon Shabbat morning, Saturday, which was also the last day of Passover, the festival of our freedom, when I heard a loud bang in the lobby of my synagogue.