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Everything You Wanted to Know About Hamas’s Hostage Deal but Was Too Busy Blocking Highways to Listen
The deal will take 126 days to carry out, following which the war will end.
Israel No Longer Trusts Biden to Broker an Honest Hostage Deal
Israel incorporated some language from a previous Hamas proposal in March to call Hamas's bluff.
Brandeis, ADL Expand Civil Rights Complaint to Include Berkeley K-12 Schools
“Kill Jews” was scrawled in a Berkeley High School bathroom, and “Kill all Zionists” was written at the bus stop used by many Berkeley High School students.
IDF Takes Over Rafah Crossing, 20 Terrorists Killed
The "Palestinian" flags at the crossing were promptly replaced with Israeli flags, just in time for Independence Day.
Report: Biden Administration Has Not Made Good on Crucial Weapons Deliveries Since March
The most crucial item on the list of munitions the administration has yet to process for sale and delivery to Israel is the Joint Direct Attack Munition.
IDF’s Rafah Operation Begins
Thousands of Rafah locals were seen heading for the expanded humanitarian zone prepared by the IDF for their safety.
Israel’s War Cabinet Unanimously Votes to Continue Rafah Operation
“At the same time . . . Israel will send a delegation to exhaust the possibility of reaching an agreement . . . acceptable to Israel.”
US Blocks Ammunition Shipment to Israel, Reason Unclear
The reason for the hold on the shipment is unclear. There has been no comment from Israel.
Latest Hamas Stalling Strategy: ‘Agree to Egyptian-Qatari Ceasefire Deal’
"The proposal that Hamas agreed to is different from the proposal that Israel agreed to."
Biden Still Opposed to Rafah Operation, Bibi Forced to Reopen Kerem Shalom Crossing
"The prime minister agreed to ensure the Kerem Shalom crossing is open" . . . Biden "reiterated his clear position on Rafah."
Egypt Raises Alert in Northern Sinai as IDF Begins Rafah Operation
IDF flyers were dropped in southern Gaza on Monday, warning residents against approaching the borders with Israel or Egypt.
2 Israelis Killed in Hezbollah Attack on Metula
The terror group also fired rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) toward the Golan Heights.
Yom HaShoah after Oct. 7: How Holocaust Education Failed
A generation of young Americans was taught to universalize the Nazi war on the Jews, leaving them vulnerable to being seduced by antisemitism and woke lies about Israel.
If ‘Never Again is Now,’ We Must Finish the Mission in Gaza
We have severely compromised our autonomy and mobility due to our longtime dependence on others.
Why is Antisemitism on the Rise?
As Jews are fighting a war of self-defense against Hamas, the PLO, and other terrorist organizations, Israel is accused of genocide, war crimes, and perpetrating a Holocaust.
The Fight for Israel IS a Fight for American Values
We are losing America to radicals who hate the West and everything we stand for.
Never Again?
The obligatory Holocaust Remembrance Day mantra rings hollow in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre.
Germany’s Obsession with the Jews
Jews came to represent everything men feared
Illuminating Tragedy: Speaking to Rabbi Leo Dee a Year After Losing his Wife &...
Rabbi Dee is active in a number of projects which give him energy and hope, and he is grateful to his family and friends, and the love and support demonstrated by the Jewish people in the past year.
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Yishai and Malkah Fleisher return to discuss post-Pesach and the pro-Hamas protests on the Columbia campus. Then, Yishai speaks with the father of Omer Wenkert, one of the October 7th abductees. Also, Yishai does a deep dive on how the Narrative War on Twitter (X) is fought. And finally, Ben Bresky on Pinhas Rutenberg and the founding of the Israel Electric Corporation.
Fight for Jewish Survival – The Jay Shapiro Show [audio]
US campuses are now the front-line in the fight for Jewish survival in Western society
Columbia University in Love With Hamas – Returning Home [audio]
Natalie interviews Shira Dicker, a Writer and New Yorker who lives near Columbia University and walks daily through the campus. Shira gives us a description of what's been going on there since before Pesach.
We Will Survive This War – The Jay Shapiro Show [audio]
The Jewish people will survive the present difficult situation as it has done so for more than 3000 years
The Foundation(s) Of Our World
Torah is not the only pillar. Avodah is also important. Study alone is not enough to sustain the world and our existence.
Business And Shlichus In Dallas, Texas
I am back at my showroom working my appointments, it is now 3.00 p.m. and I still have not met anyone whom I could give these publications to. I am now walking the halls for about 5 or 6 minutes and lo and behold I see two women walking towards me.
Q & A: Shir HaShirim on Pesach
Question: Why do we read Shir HaShirim on Passover and more specifically the Sabbath of Passover? Also, being that it is one of the five Megillot, why don’t we recite a blessing over the reading of Shir HaShirim as we do for Megillat Esther?
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Stories About The Siyum HaRambam (Part I)
I was a bit involved in the first siyum. I had a connection with the New York Hilton, where the siyum was held. So I had a little, but not much, involvement.
Ambiguous Loss – A Lesson From Yaakov And Yosef
We might ask, why are these two things – giving up hope and aveilus – connected? After all, the likelihood of whether the loved one has died, which may be the more intuitive factor for beginning aveilus, does not change based on the subjective metric of losing hope, so why should this determine the threshold for commencing aveilus?
Time And Its Transcendent Connection To Pesach
In order to live a spiritual life, one must escape the physical, completely rejecting their physical nature. Therefore, spiritual systems such as Buddhism prescribe meditation, abstinence, and the suppression of physical desire. In such a system, the ideal is to sit isolated on a mountaintop and meditate on our navel.
Linen and Gold – Parshat Acharei Mot
On Yom Kippur, the Cohen Gadol wears linen.
Protected By A Mitzvah
The nurse became very frustrated and told him in no uncertain terms that as long as he continued to wear the tzitzis he would not be taken in for his surgery.
A Share Of The World To Come
All of this ultimately flows from Hashem. Hashem created Adam and Chava in the Garden of Eden, and He placed them there with the serpent so they could resist its charms. Only in that moment and in that place Adam and Chava failed.
Shall These Bones Live?
Hashem tells Yechezkel to inform the bones that they are the house of Israel, fallen so far in exile it is as if they have been dead for untold eons. What seems beyond hope of recognition, let alone of restoration, is not beyond the power of Hashem to redeem.
