Life in Israel: 2026

Oct 25, 2026

Netanyahu on US pressure: 'You bow your head, you're dead' | Exclusive (video)

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Oct 22, 2026

Quote of the Day

Any attack on Israel and any future terror attacks there may be, God forbid, will be registered to the names of Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett, Yair Golan and their friends in the Opposition - who do not stop attacking the Prime Minister and myself and casting aspersions in our judgement and warnings based on information we have about our enemies intentions to attack us and carry out terror attacks during the elections in order to influence the election results...

-- Defense Minister Yisrael Katz

this government does not take responsibility for any attacks after they happen, and now they are preempting and absolving themselves and passing around responsibility in advance too for future attacks (god forbid)

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State Sponsored Tefillin

In what might be the most interesting campaign promise, and perhaps the most absurd, of this election cycle, MK Aryeh Deri might take the cake.

This morning Deri made a campaign promise that would have the State giving every young man turning 13 years of age, ie turning bar mitzva, a set of tallis and tefillin. As well, he will force the Ministry of Education to allot an area in every school where any students who want to will be able to pray.

Deri says this is in response to harsh promises made by some (ie Yair Golan and others with similar ideas) that would be a threat to the Jewishness of the State of Israel - he says they want to turn Israel into a State of all its citizens [rather than a Jewish State]. Promises such as to remove religion from the public sphere or acting to remove Messianism from the schools...

Deri's promise is to pass this program he is calling "Tefillin for every child" - seemingly a spin on the old "a computer for every child" promise for imporving the educational system and giving children from lower socioeconomic families/communities a hand up to help them be less disadvantaged in relation to wealthier students. Deri says tefillin has been a symbol of the Jewish nation throughout the generations and this program will deepen our connection to Judaism and Jewish tradition, and will stregthen the security of Israel. The Torah says "the nations will see Gods name on you and will be afraid of you, and Chazal say that refers to them seeing the head tefillin. Tefillin is the spiritual power giving us the ability to defeat our enemies. The choice is clear, Deri says; either we strengthen the Jewish state ([in its Jewishness] and we deteriorate to a state of all its citizens, God forbid.

Journalist Yoeli Brim has made a quick calculation of Deri's promise. According to Brim, if the current coalition parties win the upcoming election and will be able to form a coalition, and if this law or directive gets passed and goes into effect in 2027, the boys in 2027 who will be bar mitzva and get these sets were born in 2014. In 2014 there were 130,000 Jewish children born. Assuming statistically approximately 51% of them are boys that would be about 67000 Jewish boys who will get these tefillin sets. Assuming approximately 2000nis per set, that will require a budget of at least 135,000,000 per year. In five years that becomes more than half a billion shekels - pocket change.

State sponsored kiruv/religion always irks me the wrong way. We can leave that aside.

I assume Der won't give tefillin sets to girls, but why should only the boys get stuff for fre from the State? Why can't the girls get anything too? If he only gives boys, and only Jewish boys, I see a discrimination suit potentially on the way. What would the girls get for their bat mitzva? A set of Halichot Bat Yisrael and/or Tzeea Ureena seems too small when compared to tefillin. Maybe girls get a free wedding dress when they get married? Maybe a free set of candlesticks to light for Shabbos?

And let's say we put aside a potential appeal to the courts for discrimination or whatever.

Why does the State need to buy tefillin for kids - why can't parents continue buying their kids tefillin as we have all done for thousands of years? Should the State also be paying for our Shabbos groceries? for our tzitzis? Holiday paraphanelia (e.g. lulav and esrog, sukka, seder plate, afikomen present, chanukah menora, etc)?

Tradition is meant to be passed down from father to son, not from legislator/politician to citizen. We should not be transferring our parental duties to the State, and we should not be passing our responsiblity for bearing the torch of tradition to the State. Some are trying to turn the State into one big kibbutz.

Truth is, I am just upset as I have no more boys coming up for bar mitzva... but on the bright side maybe my grandkids will benefit from this...

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'There's no negotiation with terrorists': Likud's Yoav Kisch (video)

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You Won't Believe What People Asked This Rabbi in Lakewood (video)

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Oct 21, 2026

Quote of the Day

I went along with netanyahu throughout all the years, in exchange for which I did not receive any friendship I can be proud of...I am disappointed, and he knows what the ramifications are of everything that happened today..

-- MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) in his final session in the Knesset Finance Committee, after the Coalition parties voted to approve the list of charitable organizations to receive Chapter 46 status, despite the Haredi organizations being left out

We often only learn our lessons after it is too late

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Settlements, Sanctions, and Smotrich: Religious Zionism's Simcha Rothman joins Israel Electioncast (video)

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I'm A Palestinian And I'm A Jew. Ask Us Anything (video)

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The Voice Allstars Israel: Mendy Twerski: Migdalim (video)

the full clip[ of his performance with the intro and the judging is pretty cool but they only put this part on Youtube...

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Oct 19, 2026

Interesting Psak: voting for a Har Habayit supporter

Rav Yitzchak Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas political party and member of its Council of Torah Sages, has issued a psak by which it would be prohibited to vote for Itamar Ben Gvir's party Otzma Yehudit in the coming elections, and possibly for others as well such as Betzalel Smotritch's Hatzionut Hadatit party (because of Moshe Feiglin, not because of Smotritch).

According to Rav Yosef, who signed a letter stating his psak, anyone encouraging others to ascend Har Habayit or who goes up is causing the public to sin and it is prohibited to vote for such a person. There are people, he says, who call themselves nationalist, from a variety of parties, who raise their hand up against God and His Torah and cause people to sin with the punishment of kareit, under the banner of nationalism.

Besides for the halachic problem itself of ascending Har Habayit, doing so also causes problems for us with other countries. Rav Yosef rejects the claim that it is needed for strengthening Israeli sovereignty and that, even if true that it strengthens sovereignty, is not any reason to permit an issur kareit..

Rav Yosef then says explicitly that it is prohibited to give such political parties any strength in the elections and to assist them or vote for them. ANyone who does will bear the sin of kareit and carry the collar of kareit around his neck.

source: Arutz7

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Yishai Fleisher: Ben Gvir, the Temple Mount, King David & Terrorism (video)

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Eretz Nehederet’s “Fauda in the Skies” 😂 The Plumber Who Saves the Plane | FLYDUBAI (video)

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The Niggun Within | Eitan Katz | Backstage with Benny (video)

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Kobi Mirsky - Horeni Hashem (video)

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Oct 18, 2026

Picture of the Day

no longer just for women...

Minister Itamar Ben Gvir did a hafrashat challa event for the success of the right wing bloc and for Tali Gotliv to be appointed Minister of Justice...

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The Law of the Indicted

Currently according to the law in Israel, as I understand it, anyone under criminal indictment is allowed to run for Knesset but cannot be appointed to a ministerial position. Even though Prime Minister is somewhat a ministerial position, the ultimate ministerial position, it is not specifically denied in law to someone under indictment, which is why the Supreme Court allowed Netanyahu to continue running for Prime Minister, when his candidacy was challenged a few years ago.

Back in 2021 Gideon Saar proposed an amendment to the current law that would also prevent anyone under indictment from being Prime Minister. Saar's proposal became known as Chok HaNeesham - the Law of the Indicted. I am not sure what happened to Saar's proposal - it seems to have just never been dealt with due to the multiple elections and chaos happening in those years.

MK Avigdor Lieberman has spoken out today (and maybe others have as well, not sure) that after the elections, assuming he and his potential coalition partners obtain some sort of victory in the elections, will immediately move to replace Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana with their own representative (nothing wrong with this move, it has been done before), and then immediately pass Law of the Indicted, Chok HaNeesham, which would then prevent Netanyahu from running again for Prime Minister (at least until his court cases are finished in his favor with an exoneration of all the main charges) in future elections.

Whether it is a good law or not I don't know, though I think it is. Just like someone indicted should not be any other type of minister, he or she should also not be Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister's attention should be focused on running the country, not on defending himself in court. Even being a good law, it should not be used to ban Netanyahu from running, at least one election forward. Passing this would be a law targeted at someone specifically which should always be out of bounds. If they do pass it, I would expect and hope that Netanyahu would be allowed to run in at least the elections after that (and I am saying this as someone who no longer supports Netanyahu for Prime Minister), though maybe not in elections after the next one. We cannot pass laws targeting specific people and we cannot change the rules in the middle of the game. If after the coming elections this law gets passed, it should only go into effect after the next elections after these.

It would though be fun to see Gideon Saar's law passed to hurt Netanyahu after seeing how Saar has changed his poisitions the past 2 years....

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Halacha Headlines: 10/17/26 – Shiur 579 – What’s the right age to date and get married? (audio)

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First haredi women on a haredi Knesset slate speak out (video)

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Jerusalem. What's going on in the Old Town? Tourists visit the Holy Land (video)

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Hallelujah: Live in Jerusalem! - Shulem (video)

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Oct 16, 2026

Shay Viner - Shabat Shalom (video)

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Oct 14, 2026

Quote of the Day

Our enemies want to attack us in these days, the proxies of Iran want to shoot rockets at us, to attack us.... we did 90% of the work [on the various fronts] - but there is still work to complete. In the coming two years we will finish off Hamas completely, we will eliminate Hezbollah, and we will bring down iran.

-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

when he says things like this (he made similar style predictions regarding the draft of Haredim before he decided to not pass the law they were working on) I sometimes feel like I want him to win just so we can see how his words play out, or not, in reality

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Oct 13, 2026

Tweet of the Day

יש עסקה. את הכסף שלך אשמח שתתרום לאברכים הממיתים עצמם באוהלה של תורה, וחיים בעוני מחפיר יותר מאי פעם.
— מוטי לייטנר Moti Leitner (@MotiLeitner) October 12, 2026

Translation:

first, background of what this is in response to:

Haredi journalist Yaakov Rivlin tweeted to Moti Leitner, head of the Hatzibbur Hacharedi political party running in the elections for Knesset offering a deal. Rivlin says Leitner and his team claim they are very close to the minimum threshold for getting into Knesset. Rivlin says he thinks they are not even close and will not get in. Rivlin is offering a deal in which if Hatzibbur Hacharedi achieves even just half the votes necessary to get in to the Knesset he will donate 10000nis to the charity of Leitner's choice.And if they do not get at minimum half the votes necessary, Leitner will make the donation to a charity of Rivlin's choice. I am not sure why but Rivlin at the end adds in, just answer yes or no without turning it into a discussion and offering explanations and conditions...

In response to that, Leitner tweeted (above) saying "You have a deal. You can send your donation to the avreichim killing themselves in the tent of Torah and living in the worst level of destitution ever

impressive that he did not just ignore the whole thing... Rivlin is clearly trying to protect the old guard from losing votes (whether Leitner actually gets in taking away many votes from the original Haredi parties or whether he does not get in and "burns" those votes...) and one classic approach would be to ignore. Leitner went out on a limb here...

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Israeli Parties Go Head-to-Head in Fiery Election Debate (video)

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The Temple Mount Debate: A False Narrative (video)

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JERUSALEM TODAY! The Real Life of Jerusalem. (video)

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Prayer for the IDF – Live | Chaim Stern (video)

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Oct 12, 2026

Quote of the Day

I think the Haredim are ungrateful to God and we have a piercing disagreement with them on our relations to the State and the process of geula. I don't understand how anyone can be Haredi today. The Zionist enterprise is successful - is there any greater proof to the geula than that?... I won't comment on a gadol hador but I will daven that Rav Landau should do tshuva... I would suggest that Rav Landau and Lieberman should have a competition - He wants the Jordanians and the other wants the British, they can do a rotation...

-- Minister of Finance Betzalel Smotritch, speaking at the Arutz7 conference

harsh words there...

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“We Don’t Believe in Equality”: Haredi Public’s Nechumi Yaffe on Israel Electioncast (video)

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I have a choice - Ariella Zeitlin (video)

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Oct 11, 2026

Quote of the Day

When I met with my parents after I was released they said we hope you are not angry with us. I said I was not angry but was proud of them....my parents fought for me like crazy, and while they were fighting for me they were fighting for other things as well, and one does not cancel out the other. This was an issue of dinei nefashot, matters of life and death. Do you want to save a life now or save lives even later? To me it was ovious that if we make a deal now I would get out of there but in abother2 days, 3 days, a month, two months, a year, 2 years, 10 years, someone else will end up sitting here in my place.....

I looked at my captor and said to him I will not leave this land... He asked why not? I said look at the Gaza Strip - it is completely destroyed, everything here is death, when the war ends and the crossings will be opened will you leave to Egypt? He said no. Why not? Because this is my house. Exactly, this is my house as well.... In 100 years there will be Jews here. In 100 years there will be Arabs here. What should we do during these 100 years. Do you want my children to kill your children, and your grandchildren to kill my grandchildren? Or maybe we should be smart enough to find a solution so we can all live here. Because we will live here, one way or another we will be living here together...

-- excerpts from former hostage Avinatan Ohr's interview with Ilana Dayan

different news sources quoted different parts of the interview, each depending on the position they wanted to stress and promote. The first in which he is ok and understanding of his parents choosing to be in the Tikvah Forum and fight for advancing the war while not demanding immediate release of their children vs the second in which he talks about finding a way to allow Jews and Palestinians to live peacefully side by side. People are complex and situations are complex. People can hold different positions on issues that dont always jibe with each other so cleanly

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Halacha Headlines: 9/26/26 – Shiur 578 – ASSISTED SUICIDE IS NOW LEGAL IN NY!! (audio)

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Dan Illouz says Netanyahu cannot lead Israel after October 7 (video)

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Jerusalem, Friday. Bustling activity at the market and the city center quieting down before Shabbat! (video)

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JUST TRUST (Official Music Video) - Simcha Jacoby

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Oct 8, 2026

3 Years Later, Our Promise Remains Unbroken: To Protect Our Nation (video)

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How grandparents saved family at Israeli kibbutz during Hamas Oct. 7 attack | 60 Minutes Archive (video)

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Oct 7, 2026

October 7, 2026

I wanted to go down to the Nova Memorial site at Re'im this morning to commemorate October 7.

Driving down there was pretty open until Highway 232 where traffic was a bit backed up. Highway 232 became known as the Road of blood or the Road of Death, in the ocntext of October 7. A lot of the massacre happened on 232 with the terrorists attacking the Nova festival at the more southern side and going north towards Kibbutz Beeri, attacking cars with automatic weapons and RPG and just horrible bloodshed everywhere along that route. Obviously driving down and seeing the road signs pointing to the various towns and communities whose names we are all familiar because of how they were attacked 3 years ago was surreal. The road was lined with the protective shelters that were very much part of the events of October 3 as people tried to hide in them but they became sitting ducks for the terrorists. The road was lined with ad hoc memorials as well.

After a bit of traffic we made it to Reim and went in. I must note it has changed a lot since I was last there (dont know if the changes are recent - I have been there a few times but not recently). First, the road there is no longer a dirt road but has been paved. New displays and presentations have been established with a lot of signage both giving directions and giving the stories and events of the day. There are displays of the yellow trash bin people tried hiding in but most were eventually massacred, exhibitof the police who fell trying to protect the civilians, the people who died in the destroyed ambulance, obviously the party goers, and more. There was a tefillin stand present along with the main tent in which a religious scribe spends his time writing sifrei torah in honor of the soldiers and in memory of the victims.

We walked through much of the site and the presentations learning and listening. There were a lot of people there today, obviously, including many family members of victims. We listened to parents tell the stories of their kids and listened to other people (we didnt necessarily know who they were) who were guiding groups or just describing the events to individuals.

After leaving Reim we stopped on the 232 heading north at a migunit, one of the enforced roadside shelters that became a killing site 3 years ago.

From there we continued a little further north and visited the Tatzpitaniot Memorial site - the site honoring the IDF spotters who were slaughtered. The site overlooks Nachal Oz and sits between Saad and Beeri, Kfar Azza and Alumim.

The spotters were stationed in the Nachal Oz Army outpost and it was overrun by some 150 terrorists. The tatzpitaniot are a particularly tragic story as in the months preceding October 7 they had warned their superiors of the activities they were viewing just over the border on the Gaza said but their warnings and concerns were dismissed.

Hashem Yikom Damam

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Israel Elections: IDF, Charedim, & Har Habayit (video)

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The Pool of Siloam to Temple Mount - Pilgrimage Road Revealed | Jerusalem Dateline - October 2, 2026 (video)

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BNEI BRAK TODAY! 🇮🇱 Inside Israel’s Most Ultra-Orthodox City (video)

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Thanks For It All | Tehila Erlich | TYH Nation | For Women & Girls (video)

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Oct 6, 2026

Quote of the Day

Hamas will try to challenge us with the last of its abilities approaching the elections to try to influence them. We will thwart such attempts and will respond with tremendous power if they will make such a mistake

-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at government meeting this morning

If you have information about them planning attacks, take them out now. But regardless, why does Hamas still have such capabilities that this is a serious threat after 3 years of decimation?

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Full Movie | NO NAME LEFT BEHIND: The Voices of Shura Base (video)

this is in Hebrew but important to post anyway, especially right around Oct 7. Just be aware that it contains graphic descriptions of what happened including images

In the days following October 7 — 1,215 fallen were brought to Camp Shura. This is the story of those who succeeded in identifying every one of them and bringing them to their final resting place — No Name Left Behind. Dedicated to the memory of the fallen, and in honor of everyone who cared for them.

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Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin: 'I want to see Gaza empty' (video)

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OLD CITY OF TEL AVIV & THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM 🇮🇱 (video)

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Eelazar Yifrach - Avi natan (video)

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Oct 5, 2026

Quote of the Day

There will not be a Hamas government in Gaza - anybody who was involved in the attack against us and held hostages is living on borrowed time. Every day we are settling the score with these despicable murders..

-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a State memorial for the victims of the Oct 7 War

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Sep 30, 2026

This Israeli Arab wants to be Israel's hasbara minister | Yoseph Haddad (video)

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Bill Maher on Genocide in Gaza (video)

Genocide or not? pic.twitter.com/SQsu6p1u8t
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) September 28, 2026

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🍋🌴 Birkat Kohanim at the Western Wall today. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered today. (video)

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Avaid: Lifros Knafayim (video)

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Sep 29, 2026

Celebrating Life at the Nova Memorial

I am not sure what I think about this. I "get" the logic of both sides. I am wondering what you think and would like to hear your opinions.

An event has been arranged to celebrate Simchat Torah at the site of the Nova festival that turned into a massacre, as Simchat Torah (aka Shmini Atzeret, especially here in Israel where this is the primary name of the day) is the yahrtzeit of those killed at the Nova festival 3 years ago.

Some survivors and families of victims are opposed to holding such a celebration at the Nova memorial site.

Eran Littman, father of Oriya Littman Ricardo, who was killed at the Nova festival during the massacre, thinks this event should not happen (at this location) - to go make a celebratory event with dancing and camping out for two days at a place where our children were murdered is not appropriate and is not a celebration of life or appropriate behavior.

Littman stresses, nobody would dare think of celebrating Simchat Torah by arranging dancing at Yad Vashem. Nobodygoes to Har Herzl and dances there.

This is in bad taste.

source: Kan

What do you think? Is it inappropriate to celebrate at that specific place which has become a memorial site? Is it appropriate to do it specifically there to show them (Gaza? the world? terrorists in general?) that we won, that we celebrate life?

Let me know what you think

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Naftali Bennett blames Netanyahu for October 7, yet backs a pardon for him (video)

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Gal Gadot on Meeting Madonna, Having Four Young Daughters & Getting 100,000 Steps a Week (video)

the clip ends with Gal Gadot (and Jimmy Kimmel) blowing shofar for Rosh Hashana...

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#KosherMaxxing @ Machane Yehuda (video)

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“WHERE YOU ARE” - Nissim Black, Eli Dachs (Official Video)

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Sep 28, 2026

The Jews and Fruit Gems

This is pretty cool for customers, an adoring public - even if just the small Jewish community, raised an outcry after a corporate announcement, and almost immediatly the company reversed its decision.

The Forward has the history of Sunkist Fruit Gems.

Fruit Gems have been very popular candies. Besides for being great candies, their soft and light body with some density and volume made them great for throwing at bar mitzvas and aufrufs in shul! Very popular. I don't think you will have an easy time finding an affiliated American Jew who is not familia with Sunkist Fruit Gems.

The Ferrara Candy Company, who have owned Sunkist Fruit Gems since 2006under the banner of the Jelly Belly Candy Co decided in May 2026 to discontinue the fruit gems, as they did not hold up well against many other candies in their lines of candies (e.g. Nerds, Atomic Fire Balls, Lemonheads, etc)..

After learnign of the fact that the Fruit Gems were discontinued, American Jews raised an outcry. I saw many posts online bemoaning the end of an era and the end of a beloved candy and tradition in synagogues across America.

Sunkist was aware of the outcry and because of it they reversed their decision. They announced on their Instagram page that they are working to bring them back and are working with another candy maker to put them back on the shelves very soon...

They clearly were not selling well enough to keep them on the shelves but Ferrara will bring them back because of the Jewish community expressing nostalgia for it and sharing our stories of hos beloved a candy it has been for so long and part of, even if just a small part of, our youth and our growing up. I find that amazing, though I am aware that if they bring it back and sales continue to lag they very likely will discontinue it again at some point.

Good to know Jews also control Fruit Gems, along with the weather :-)

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On the Ground in Judea: Building Eretz Yisrael (video)

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Einat Wilf: The anti-Israel "mass psychosis" now targets every Jew (video)

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Jerusalem. The festival of Sukkot begins in a couple of hours. The Mahane Yehuda market is packed. (video)

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Aryeh Kunstler - “It Starts With You” (video)

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Sep 25, 2026

LIVE: Israel PM Netanyahu speech at UN General Assembly 2026 (full) (video)

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Sep 23, 2026

Quote of the Day

I told him [Trump], why don’t you give them New Jersey, if you are keen to give Israel some land.. I think New Jersey belongs to the Democrats and they do not vote for President Trump, so it would be good to give it to them.

Trump owns New Jersey, but he does not own the Golan Heights. Regardless of this joke, the Golan Heights belongs to its people, and neither a Syrian president nor a US president has the right to give it away to the other

-- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, saying he joked with Trump about this recently..

Sorry but Israel does not want New Jersey. The USA can keep it

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Halacha Headlines: 9/26/26 – Shiur 577 – How to not get ripped off when making investments (audio)

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Palestinian Ambassador to UK: Palestinian History Was Stolen; We Are the Original Christians (video)

ok now, but then what are the Christians?

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ISRAEL ON YOM KIPPUR 🇮🇱 (DAY OF ATONEMENT) The City of Rishon LeZion (video)

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Miami Boys Choir - Atoh Kail (Official Music Video)

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Sep 22, 2026

GALEI - Eli Marcus & Baruch Levine (video)

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Sep 20, 2026

Yom kippur Kol nidre prayer Cantor Avraham Feintuch (video)

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Kol Nidre – | Avi Kraus ft. Zak (video)

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Unesane Tokef - Yeshayahu Manat (video)

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Unsana Tokeph - VolfBer (Official Music Video)

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Sep 17, 2026

Look what happened today on the Temple Mount. (video)

Leviim singing the Song of the Day for Thursday on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, just as their ancestors last did around 2000 years ago. מקהלת לוויים שרים שיר של יום חמישי בהר הבית בירושלים, לאחר אלפיים שנות גלות. This is a small preview of what will be sung by the full Levite Choir during the daily sacrifice on Thursdays, in the Third Temple once it has been built. תצוגה מקדימה למה שיהיה בבית המקדש השלישי שיבנה במהרה בימנו. The music was scored as an original composition by the famous composer Itzik Weiss, who has written the music for many liturgical pieces and is well known for his mass sing a logs. https://www.vezehakol.com

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Hanan Ben Ari: Hashiveinu - LIVE at HINDIKIM (video)

this is amazing

Hanan Ben Ari wrote the following message upon releasing the live clip from his concert:

Everything that happened with this song under the radar over the past year is crazy.

Jews from all over the world singing and praying it in all sorts of places as if it is an ancient tune, hundreds of years old!! And I, who pretty much does not compose psukim, who so believes that people should write with sincerity of himself and not the words of others, exposes again and again how much I don't understand anything, how genius God is, and how much the songs are so much bigger and wiser than me.....

I am excited to release Hashiveinu to you in its live version from the Hindikim 360 concertand take this opportunity to wish that we should all have a chatima tova and a good year full of new creativity and with a happy heart!

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Mamdani Gives Rosh Hashanah Message Amid Antisemitism Backlash, with Ami Kozak (video)

and now for Ami's voiceover version...

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Srulik Cohen - Oy Vey Tateh (video)

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