Some beautiful words of reflection on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Hebrew year.  May we be sealed in the Book of Life, with hope and strength to carry us forward.  Challenge is Not the Opposite of Blessing, It's Often the Beginning of It by Rabbi Mendel Mintz

Melvin Kravitz, 66, z”l, was one of those murdered in the horrific terror attack on a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. May his memory be a blessing 💔

My grandparents, who lived in the southern USSR, used to hear people whisper, “In order to save Russia, we must kill Jews.” That very idea, in new clothing, has been welcomed into Western Europe. It is not normal that yesterday’s tragedy at the Manchester Synagogue—on Yom Kippur

No wonder the fake-aid Hamas–Sumud flotilla rejected all the proposals from Israel, Italy, and Greece to peacefully unload the aid for Gaza in one of the regional ports: after checking all the ships and yachts of the flotilla, the total “aid” we found amounted to barely 2 tons

I don’t want your kind and sympathetic words about October 7th if you are not willing to celebrate Israel. Israeli culture, people, history, and art. People love dead Jews. It doesn’t mean a lot to me. Stand with us when we’re alive.

Two years, today: I remember waking up to a text from an Israeli friend of mine: “Can you post a picture of Itay, please?” At first, I was confused. I didn’t know Itay. Then his face filled my screen. A beautiful young soldier in his mid-twenties. Almost instantly, headlines and

Two years since the mask of antisemitism and intellectualized terrorist ideologies was ripped off and exposed to the world. Two years since Jew-hatred became the latest fashion trend. It was only hours after the attack that Western streets lit up with glee, in celebration of

🚨 Students are back outside the George Washington University Board of Trustees building on the second anniversary of October 7 — claiming to protest the “ongoing genocide in Gaza.” They’re exploiting the anniversary of Hamas’ massacre to smear their own university and echo a

Hamas could have released the hostages on Oct 8, 2023 or anytime since then, agreed to the same plan and spare the deaths of ~33,000 civilians and 24,000 of their own fighters (see estimate below). Or not attack on 10/7. Every death is on Hamas' tab. Every. Single. One.

This is a quintessential Israeli reaction to a question like this 🙏🇮🇱🇺🇸

My U.S. sources: French, British, Spanish, Canadian & Australian diplomacy was irrelevant to this deal. Worse—their recognition of ‘Palestine’ only emboldened Hamas and undermined peace.

Toutes mes pensées sont, à cet instant, pour ceux qui rentrent, pour ceux qui vont rentrer et pour ceux qui ne rentreront plus jamais.