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Ed Lion is a former reporter for United Press International now living in the Poconos.
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PM Netanyahu has pledged the nation won't rest until the hero Eli Cohen is returned home to Israel
By Ed Lion
Many Black protesters compared Baltimore's unrest to the Palestinian penchant of terrorism & rioting
By Ed Lion
Each craved more out life and within a few months they’d mastered English, received their high school equivalencies, and begun climbing the rungs of the ladder of the American Dream.
By Ed Lion
Anti-Semitism today focuses on Israel and the quest to delegitimize it.
By Ed Lion
“These are good matzah balls,” my aunt Robertine would say, but her sister Irma would counter “No, not compared to Mama’s. They were always so light yet they never fell apart.”
By Ed Lion
Warsaw Ghetto: At its height, the Nazis walled in some 500,000 Jews within the1.3 square mile area.
By Ed Lion
The world wars caused unimaginable anguish for the Jews but God also scripted a great glory for our people.
By Ed Lion
The risks were great, but certain death awaited them if they remained. The gamble paid off, though the family was separated for the next four years of the war.
By Ed Lion
Beyond the severe discomfort there was also the danger of getting sunk by enemy submarines prowling the seas.
By Ed Lion
As his bomber lost altitude with the ground rushing up, my father remembered his last thought: “How am I going to get out of this?
By Ed Lion
Seventy-five years ago on November 10 the Nazis unleashed a wave of terror, destruction and death known as Kristallnacht upon Germany’s Jews, a fearsome presage of the Holocaust. On that day, the childhood of my then-12-year-old father, Kurt Lion, of blessed memory, was abruptly and savagely ended.
By Ed Lion
Forty years ago this week, Jews the world over watched in agony as Arab terrorists kidnapped and eventually massacred eleven Israeli Olympic athletes. The International Olympic Committee, bowing to Arab pressure, has repeatedly refused these Israelis a proper commemoration. But we as Jews ought to pay them the tribute of remembering their individual lives, deeds, and accomplishments.
By Ed Lion
Half a century ago in May, Israel hanged Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann for overseeing Germany’s extermination of six million European Jews, fully one-third of the world's prewar Jewish population. The murder of the six million staggers the mind. Such a vast breadth of our people, each of them with his own individual dreams, loves and aspirations, exterminated.
By Ed Lion
Judaism holds that nothing happens by chance, that everything is orchestrated by Hashem. And so it was long ago on a Sunday morning, about a month after Pesach when my father ran an errand for his parents.
