Pondering the state of American Jewry
Beitar Illit, located in Gush Etzion, was on lockdown overnight, after a bomb was discovered on a bus. Baruch Hashem, nissim niflaos, the bomb malfunctioned. It fizzled and smoke, but didn’t explode. Residents were finally released from their lockdown at 7am the next morning, making it quite a lot easier to shop and get ready …
Jonathan Tobin has a thoughtful piece about “The Great Reset” and the push for a more global world. Big wigs in the globalist movement, if you go by the guest list of a conference on globalism, includes such luminaries as the heads of both Microsoft and Mastercard, along with King Charles III of Britain. Tobin, …
In a recent interview with the Proud Boys, Kanye (Ye) West declared that if he wins his bid to become America’s next president, said he’ll force Jews to work for Christians, and place cameras in their living rooms. The rapper also said that the Jews should “forgive Hitler” yemach shmo v’zichro. “Jewish people, forgive Hitler …
The hotly contested Pennsylvania senate seat has gone to stroke victim John Fetterman, showing just how blue this state has gone. Fetterman shows obvious signs of cognitive deficits. It is difficult for him to speak. And then there was the whole question about fracking: was he for or against. (He was against it, now he’s …
Gas prices have been soaring in the United States even while President Biden’s approval ratings continue to plummet. But in Israel, the price of gas is going down. Interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced that gas prices will be lowered in August after several successive increases. Lapid says lower gas prices are part of an …
Kosher consumers are confronting a chicken shortage, just in time for Pesach. So dire is the shortage that Facebook groups have sprung up to alert followers when a store restocks its shelves. In the stores themselves, customers police other shoppers’ carts, if it looks like someone is guilty of stockpiling, leaving that much fewer chicken …
Americans can’t help but be touched by the plight of the underdog Ukraine, a sovereign nation under attack by Russia. We watch, seemingly helpless as Ukrainians, either stay and fight and die, or flee their native land in droves. But aside from our empathy for a small nation under attack by a big Soviet-style bear, …
A New York Times account of a Baghdad conference on peace between Israel and Iraq was filled with inaccuracies, to the point of offending Jewish history. The article describes the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 that led to a schism between Iraq and Iraqi Jews. The most infamous pogrom in Iraq targeting the Jewish …
A survey by Alums for Campus Fairness, found that 27 percent of Jewish students reported having been the target of in-person offensive or threatening antisemitic comments from a faculty member or school employee. Another 30 percent said they knew someone who had experienced such comments. Three horrifying examples from a long list provided by popular …
A bullet was fired into the window of Brooklyn synagogue Khal Zichron Mordechai on Shabbos afternoon (June 26, 2021). It was just before 3 PM, too late for Shacharis, and too early for Mincha, so thank God, no one was hurt. But it was scary to see the bullet hole in the window, and not …