Trump admin’s first steps in Mideast: Saudi ties, sanctioning Houthis
The US doubles down on Middle East strategy: Trump designates Houthis as terrorists while increasing communication with Saudi Arabia.
The US doubles down on Middle East strategy: Trump designates Houthis as terrorists while increasing communication with Saudi Arabia.
To Bring About the Geula
Translated from Rabbi Arush’s feature article in the weekly Chut shel Chessed newsletter. The articles focus on his main message: “Loving others as yourself” and emuna. Hiding His Face?! “The Rabbi tells stories about people who sang the song ‘Hashem yitbarach always loves me’ and experienced supernatural salvations, but I am seeing the exact … Continue reading “To Bring About the Geula”
Kedumim Council head: Elimination of terrorists from Funduq ‘awe-inspiring’
Forces from the ISA and the IDF’s Duvdevan Unit eliminated two of the terrorists who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Funduq about two weeks ago, Kedumim’s Ozel Vatik confirms. ‘With G-d’s help, the days of the third terrorist are also numbered.’
An emerging strategic axis: Washington-Jerusalem-Baku
Trump’s administration should factor the unique model of Judeo-Muslim collaboration between Israel and Azerbaijan, which transcends prevailing geopolitical divisions, into its foreign policy aimed at engendering enhanced international stability. Opinion.
Belgian gov’t panel: Deportation trains ‘collective responsibility’ of gov’t and public
Belgium’s railway should apologize but not pay for sending Jews to Nazi death camps, government panel concludes.
Parsha Summary for Parshas Vaera
Note: The Shabbos Torah Reading is divided into 7 sections. Each section is called an Aliya [literally: Go up] since for each Aliya, one person “goes up” to make a bracha [blessing] on the Torah Reading. 1st Aliya: The year is 2448 and Moshe had unsuccessfully confronted Pharaoh. The situation had gotten worse, not better,…
Haftorah Summary for Parshas Vaera
Yechezkel 28:25The theme of the Exodus is the Jew and the Egyptian recognizing G-d’s absolute mastery over all things. The nature of a slave / master relationship is for the slave to be dependent on the master and the master to feel a proprietorship over the slave. At the time of the Exodus, Pharoah had…
Feeling Ones Pain
This week we read the parsha of Vaera . In last week’s parsha, Moshe’s first appearance before Paroah to demand freedom for his people, Bnei Yisroel {the Children of Israel}, had led to a harshening of the conditions. The same quota of bricks was being demanded with the straw no longer being provided. Moshe was…
Not What It Looks Like
HE LED FOR one term. But when he refused to turn against the Jews, they got rid of him and forced him from office. But when he decided he liked being king more, he accepted the role and made the lives of the Jews a living hell. The ally had become the enemy. Sound familiar?…
Now Is The Time
“Hashem spoke to Moshe and Aharon and commanded them regarding the Children of Israel….” (6:13) The Talmud Yerushalmi relates that prior to leaving Mitzrayim, Hashem commanded Moshe to teach Bnei Yisroel the details involved in fulfilling the mitzva of “shiluach avadim” – “emancipation of slaves”.[1] However, the laws connected to slavery were not pertinent to…