Red Alert: What do Statistics Tell Us?

By Amy Zewe— You may think that identity groups that receive the most hate crimes attacks (per capita) are Muslim, or LGBTQ members, or even Asians or African Americans based on the news reporting we hear. Any hate crime against any community member is unacceptable and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the…

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Arabs Warn West: Do Not Let Iran Fool You

By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute—- Arabs are growing increasingly concerned about Iran’s sinister intentions and deception as the Iranians and representatives of Germany, France, Britain, Russia, and China continue their negotiations in Vienna about reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which the Trump administration abandoned in 2018. The deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive…

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Netanyahu returns mandate to the President

By Israel National News—- The mandate given by President Reuven Rivlin to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government following the elections to the 24th Knesset expired at midnight on Tuesday. Moments before the expiration of the mandate, the Likud released a statement indicating that the Prime Minister had returned the mandate to the…

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Mysterious scribe wrote eight diverse Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars find

By Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post— Some 2,000 years ago, an individual scribe wrote at least eight of the Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts, making him the most prolific scribe ever identified, a group of scholars have found out. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a corpus of some 25,000 fragments unearthed in caves on the shores of…

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State comptroller to review events leading to Lag B’Omer stampede

By Yair Altman, Israel Hayom— State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman announced Monday that he will launch a special review of the events leading to the April 30 disaster at Mount Meron. The tragedy saw 45 people killed and 150 wounded in a stampede that took place in a narrow passageway at the prayer compound, where over…

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The Mystery of Babylon

By Eric Teitelman, House of David Ministries—- We read in Jeremiah: “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; He shall recompense her” (Jeremiah 51:6, NKJV). There are varying theological opinions about this verse.…

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Red Alert: What’s Your Perspective on History?

By Amy Zewe— What’s Your Perspective on History? Sometimes it seems like decades and centuries past by and are but footnotes or textbook chapters for us to know about and then move on with our everyday lives. But let us really look at history in some context. For example, Prince Philip recently passed at age…

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Iran’s Goals

By Shoshana Bryen, American Thinker— What if Iran doesn’t actually plan to use a nuclear weapon? What if Iran wants, as various of its officials have said over the years, to prevent being toppled the way Saddam Hussein was, or Moammar Gaddafi or Hosni Mubarak? To prevent a 20-year U.S.-led invasion like that of Afghanistan?…

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Iranian fuel tanker attacked by drone, Israel suspected

By Seth Frantzman, JPost— An Iranian tanker was reportedly attacked off the Syrian coast on Saturday, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It was unclear what had happened, as Iran media was slow to report details. However, the Syrian state media did quote an oil ministry member as saying a fire took…

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Walking for Sarah

By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— A week ago, we felt deep pain and utter indignation, after hearing on the simply unbelievable insult of justice and common sense, after the French Court of Cassation upheld the previous scandalous decision in the case of the vicious murder of Sarah Halimi, the Jewish French teacher and physician…

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Iran and Israel: Once Friends, Now Foes

By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBNIsrael— During the Persian Empire and beyond, rulers, religions, and the well-being of the Jewish community shifted like the Middle Eastern desert sands. When it comes to news about Iran, reports today are dominated by deadly threats to Israel from Iran’s Imams, whose goals are set on establishing a modern caliphate…

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Why are so many North American Orthodox rabbis silent on aliyah?

By Michael Freund, JPost— Over the years, as I take part in the annual festive celebration of Yom Ha’atzma’ut and the Divine restoration of Jewish sovereignty that Independence Day embodies, I have found myself increasingly troubled by a question that may be simple yet is anything but simplistic. To put it bluntly: why are so…

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Why France Refuses to Prosecute an Antisemitic Murderer

By Bari Weiss, Aish— This essay was originally published on journalist Bari Weiss’ Substack. Please subscribe and support her important work. In a normal world, everyone would know the name Sarah Halimi. It’s understandable if you don’t. The press didn’t obsessively cover her murder the way they cover other hate crimes – for reasons I…

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One New Man, Week 5, Shared Teachings from Jim Hutchens

In February, I began to share some of Jim Hutchen’s commentary on the “One New Man,” a teaching that is especially important for us in these unprecedented times. During March, I took a break from the series to do videos recognizing the series of holidays and remembrance days in Israel, and the breaking news of…

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