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Dec 23, 2024
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How Israel's Mossad tricked Hezbollah into buying explosive pagers | 60 Minutes (video)
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Natasha Hausdorff in the Oxford Union debate on Israel on 28/11/2024 (video)
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Yemen's antisemitic music video (video)
Yemenis are so talented at fabulously camp musical theater, I wonder what would happen if they used their powers for good instead of vulgar antisemitic propaganda and piracy on the high seas.
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) December 22, 2024
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Immersion in the Greenery of Israeli Cities: From Ramat Hasharon to Herzliya. (video)
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Shomer Yisroel - Schwebel, Scharf & Levine (video)
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Mordy Weinstein - Prayer for the Hostages [Official Music Video]
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Dec 22, 2024
Botzer - Yechida Sheli -My only one /Prod. by Ori Avni (video)
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Tweet of the Day
Islamic Republic of #Iran doesn’t have proxy forces. If we decide to take action [against enemy] one day, we don’t need proxy forces.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) December 22, 2024
not anymore they dont..
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the threat that isn't Hamas
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Halacha Headlines: 12/21/24 – Shiur 494 – How to not lose our children – and ourselves – to peer pressure (audio)
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AJC CEO Ted Deutch and Gov. Josh Shapiro on Standing with Israel, Fighting Antisemitism in the U.S. (video)
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FREE Palestine or SEE Palestine? (video)
FREE Palestine or SEE Palestine?🇵🇸👀
— Montana Tucker (@montanatucker) December 18, 2024
In this new social experiment, we show people what their algorithms wouldn’t. When the REAL voices of Palestinians speaking out against Hamas were shared, it left everyone stunned. Eyes were opened and all could agree that it’s time to bring… pic.twitter.com/A6NBpqq94S
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🔴 Jerusalem Today! 🔴 A WALK IN THE RAIN! 🔴 Friday! 12°C (53.6°F) (video)
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Tamid Ohaiv Oti (Od Yoter Tov) - sung by the newcasters (video)
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Dec 19, 2024
ask for us too
Vladimir Putin just agreed to ask deposed head of Syria Bashar Al Assad about Tice and where he might be located.
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you hurry up while we dont
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Mosab Hassan Yousef| This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide | 6/8 (video)
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Jerusalem: Bible Hill ➡ Tombs from the first temple period ➡ Blumfield Garden ➡ City Center (video)
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Yonina- Be A Light (Hebrew) feat. Neal Katz (video)
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Dec 18, 2024
- Ben Shapiro addresses the Liberty & Zion conference (video)
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"What I Smell Is FEAR" Israel-Palestine Conflict Latest (video)
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BEAUTIFUL JERUSALEM! A Serene Stroll Through the City's Charming Streets. (video)
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Six13 - A Wicked Chanukah (video)
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Dec 17, 2024
Alex Clare - Back of The Wagon - TYH Live Session (video)
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Dec 16, 2024
something brewing
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Interesting Psak: Rain Prayers
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Regular Contrails
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#167: Behind the Bima - Danny Limor (video)
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“The Golan Heights are NOT settlements. It’s Israel!” Prime Minister Bennett on FoxNews (video)
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Jerusalem. Unique shots captured in the depths of the Gehenna Valley, near Siloam village. (video)
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Tamid Aohev Oti - English (Cover) | Rav Shalom Arush
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Boker Tov
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Dec 15, 2024
Halacha Headlines: 12/14/24 – Shiur 493 – What it Takes to release an Agunah | Presidential Pardon – Pardons in Halacha – The Torah approach to pardons (audio)
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Agudah Convention 2024: Rabbi Sholem Fishbane & Rabbi Duvid Babad- Heimishe Kashrus vs. National Kashrus: What’s the Difference? (video)
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🔴 Jerusalem Today! Friday Vibes! Exploring the City at 15°C (59°F) (video)
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Kirvat Elokim - Shmulik sukkot (video)
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Dec 11, 2024
Dec 10, 2024
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free gefilte!
Retzlaff is the one in the football uniform |
“We are so proud to welcome Jake officially into the Manischewitz family this holiday season,” Shani Seidman, the chief marketing officer of Kayco, Manischewitz’s parent company, said in the release. “He is such an inspiration, and we are honored to support his exciting football career and dream. This partnership represents everything the brand aspires to be — celebrating our heritage and bringing awareness to Jewish food and excellence.”
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Facebook Post of the Day
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Benny Friedman & Yossi Hecht: Nothing Holding You Back (video)
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Dec 9, 2024
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let it be
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"WHY Are We Doing Netanyahu’s Bidding?" Jeffrey Sachs On Syria, Assad & Putin (video)
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Yoseph Haddad in the Oxford Union debate on Israel (video)
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🔴 Jerusalem's Winter Charm! Discover the Calm and Beauty of the City. (video)
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Halleluka (הללוי-ה) feat. Shlepping Nachas by Mendy Weinreb - A Trip to Jamaica (video)
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Dec 8, 2024
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decades
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the agent?
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Russia: Assad left Syria, giving instructions for a non-violent transfer of power
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ANNEX GAZA, JUDEA, & SUMMARIA: THE SCREAMING RIGHT (book review: One Jewish State)
ANNEX
GAZA, JUDEA, & SUMMARIA: THE SCREAMING RIGHT
Harold
Goldmeier teaches international university students at Touro College Jerusalem.
He is an award-winning entrepreneur who received the Governor’s Award
(Illinois) for family investment programs in the workplace from the Commission
on the Status of Women. He was a Research and Teaching Fellow at Harvard,
worked for four governors, and recently sold his business in Chicago. He is a
managing partner of an investment firm, a business management consultant, and a
public speaker on business, social, and public policy issues.
Time is Ripe
The wind is at their backs. Activists screaming for
a Greater Israel want the government to annex Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. Former
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has published the manifesto.
Gaza is no longer a factor among the existential
threats to Israel. According to Jared Kushner, the airstrip sliver of land will
be gentrified into Vegas with a seashore. Hezbollah is enervated but police
actions similar to America’s war on drug cartels ought to suffice. Iran is all
talk until the Trump administration and the women of Iran overthrow their
abusers. Houthis are busy getting rich off blackmail payoffs from shipping
magnets. Iraq is a political and military mess. Syria barely survives as a viable
nation lacking enough military forces to stave off rebel tribes. The Arabian
Gulf States are morphing into Middle East Disney theme parks. Democrat Party
leaders appear pathetic, the party in tatters, and without a clear message.
This simmering stewpot undergirds the hardihood of
Religious Zionists, ultra-nationalists, and Evangelicals to fulfill their
dreams to expand the state bigger than the Kingdom of David and Solomon.
Imagination has them envisioning Jewish communities from Lebanon’s Latani River
to Eilat, from the Mediterranean through Gaza to the eastern border of the
Jordan Valley abutting Jordan. Friedman’s screed talks only of Gaza. Unfolding
events make anything possible including France enforcing peace in Lebanon, chaos
in Syria, Pres-elect Donald Trump filling critical U.S. government positions
with politically hard-right thumpers, and few in Israel besides the judiciary willing
to challenge Prime Minister Netanyahu.
The Manifesto
Team members responsible for the historic Abraham
Accords are visionaries. Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was a
key member of the team. They all deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, at the very
least. The Abraham Accords is so authentic it survives the October 7 barbaric,
genocidal attack by Hamas against Israel, the vicious battles in Lebanon, the
Red Sea attacks, and Israel-Iran hostilities. One Jewish State is
David Friedman’s manifesto about where the Middle East goes from here.
Friedman calls for an end to the conundrum of the
two-state solution. Friedman is convinced that one state, ruled by Jews –
Israel – is the only solution to stability and peace in the Middle East. His
position is disappointing. It lacks vision. Friedman offers America’s rule over
Puerto Rico as the model for a one-state rule by Israel. He gives no quarter to
the innate desire for self-determination and national pride driving
Palestinians. He and Simpaticos fervently believe that Palestinians lust far more
for the blood of the Jews than seek a national homeland. The two-state solution
has been a failing talking point from colonial British times through Donald
Trump’s 2020 “deal of the century.” A state of its own will train and arm
terrorists to erase Israel. Friedman points to a survey claiming that 85% of
Palestinians agree with Hamas regarding October 7. He sighs, “Perhaps that says
it all.”
In the last chapter, Friedman claims Israel tried
living in peace, side-by-side with Gazan Palestinians since 2005; they had
local self-rule and economic independence to build a prosperous, peace-loving,
Palestinian pearl on the sea. Instead, terrorists took charge: “We cannot
repeat the mistake in Gaza.” Only a Jewish-ruled state governing Palestinians
can safeguard Israel.
Ambassador Friedman ignores that Israel lives in
relative peace with Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and the Gulf states. The book
would be more relevant if Friedman had researched and exposed why Israeli Druze
are patriotic. What are the ingredients for successful coexistence with the
Arabs of Abu Ghosh, the African Hebrew Israelites, and Bedouins? How can Israel
make the formula work with Palestinians? Israel is home to 97 embassies most
established following the Oslo Accords. Attempts at peace have had their
blessings. Friedman ignores this peace progress.
In a greater Israel, he argues, Palestinians will be
ruled akin to US rule over Puerto Rican islanders. It is his model for
coexistence. But it took some 300 years for the Spanish and US colonizers to
drive out any notion of self-determination and nationalism. Massacres were
helpful. The U.S. government maintains army and air force bases and the
National Guard is federalized at will. Puerto Ricans prefer statehood but
Americans refuse.
What, Ambassador Friedman, is Israel prepared to do
with its Palestinians--massacre, deport, offer citizenship including Israeli
passports? Allow free movement and civil rights? Manage the healthcare system,
schools, and economy? Provide police for civil order and peace on the streets.
We barely do any of these things for Arab-Israeli communities. Is Israel
ready to deploy soldiers in Palestinian neighborhoods full-time, forever?
Engage in ethnic cleansing? Will peace escape us for another 250 years until self-determination
and nationalism are wiped from the Palestinian ethos?
Takeaway
The most egregious shortcoming of One Jewish
State is that Friedman ignores that, de facto, one Jewish-ruled
state has ruled Judea and Samaria, more or less, for 57 years. Palestinians and
world leaders call it “occupation.” Both sides have documented the extent of
that rule. A responsible overview is detailed in a May 28, 2024, article for
the Council on Foreign Affairs, titled “Who Governs the Palestinians?”
Daniel Gordis tells the story in one of his books
about a colleague who is a popular, soft-spoken, and dedicated Palestinian
teacher. They were friendly so he asked the colleague’s opinion about the
conflict. To paraphrase, she calmly responded that conquerors have come and
gone across Palestine for centuries and one day the Jews will be gone, too.
Friedman’s vision of one Jewish-ruled state condemns Israel to another 250
years of “occupation.” It is, he asserts, “the last best hope to resolve the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” The book lacks the vision Friedman and his
colleagues brought to the Abraham Accords. We expected so much more from him.
One Jewish State: The Last, Best Hope to Resolve the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
David Friedman
Humanix Books, 2024
256 pages; hardcover $25.22
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interesting times..
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Halacha Headlines: 12/7/24 – Shiur 492 – The new initiative to draft Chareidim into the army. Should Yeshiva boys draft into the all-Charedi “Chashmonaim” Brigade? (audio)
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The Last Letter of Lieutenant Ivri Dickstein to his wife Miriam (video)
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Jerusalem! An Evening Walk from the Bustle of the Market to the Calm of the Old City. (video)
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Pirchei Yerushalayim: Tefila Shel Yeladim (Prod. By Itamar Shkedi ) (video)
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Dec 6, 2024
Am Asher Ruach Bo: Chodesh Irgun (video)
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Dec 4, 2024
Quote of the Day
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Dec 3, 2024
Douglas Murray: The Truth is Important To Me (video)
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Jerusalem Today: Ancient Jewish Quarters ➡ Mea Shearim ➡ City Center ➡ Old City (video)
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Avraham Fried, Yishai Ribo, and Amir Dadon: Ki Anu Amecha (video)
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Dec 2, 2024
Send Them Home
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too much security?
PM Netanyahu submitted the request to change the location of the court hearing to an underground secure location due to security concerns with the ongoing war. Ever since the drone from Hezbollah that hit his house in Ceasaria he has been super paranoid about his personal security, despite being the most secured person in the country. But that is understandable.
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Widow of Rabbi Avi Goldberg: He connected hearts, we are continuing in his way (video)
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I can’t Believe THIS got me Invited to another MLB CLUBHOUSE! (video)
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🔴 JERUSALEM TODAY! Discover the City Wrapped in a Peaceful Winter Atmosphere! (video)
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Nachman zonenshein - Lavush Shchorim (Prod. By Shlomo Bachar) (video)
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Dec 1, 2024
good luck to you all
That being said, from what I understand, the Syrian rebels are not our friends either so I won't be wishing them luck and success. The most I can wish for them is that both sides are just strong enough to keep killing and hurting the other. This time it won't be like Sabra and Shatila where the two sides killed each other and Israel was blamed for letting it happen - this time they can kill each other and Israel is not involved at all...
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Tweet of the Day
After speaking with first responders and doctors in northern Gaza, many are reporting that Israeli forces are using new weapons that cause bodies to evaporate on the scene. They describe it as something they have never seen before.
— حسام شبات (@HossamShabat) November 30, 2024
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Halacha Headlines: 11/23/24 – Shiur 491 – Do we need to give when collectors ask for Tzedakah? What if it’s during davening, or a solicitation via mail or email? (audio)
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The craziest survival exercise at Israel’s Sayeret Matkal unit - told by Naftali Bennett (video)
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Hilarious Israeli Sketch Mocks UN USELESS Lebanon "Peacekeepers" (ENGLISH) (video)
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Such a Peaceful and Friendly Jerusalem! Such Kind and Beautiful People. (video)
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Ma Rabu | Afiko.man | TYH Nation [Official Music Video]
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Nov 28, 2024
where should working men be?
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taxes for Kan
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Natan Sharansky Interviewed by Rachel Sharansky (video)
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Bennett on BBC on the shameful ICC arrest warrants to Netanyahu and Gallant (video)
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