What Our Hostages Endured While decent people worldwide cheered for the release of our remaining living hostages in the morning hours Israeli time this past Monday, October 13th, the Judean people collectively exhaled, nearly fully, for the first time since October 7th, 2023. Holidays, birthdays, vacations were twinged with guilt – guilt that we were living our lives to the extent we could, while our people were held captive by subhumans, many held hostage in dark tunnels where even most animals would not be allowed to be kept. 251 people were taken hostage during the Judean genocide – all are heroes for surviving and those who were murdered, most fought back and hard, even those who were released back in November of 2023, when the released included children! Children as young as three years old, a beautiful little girl named Abigail Idan whose parents were murdered in front of her.

As I begin to write this newsletter edition, it is currently Monday evening, October 6th at 11pm EST in New York. Two years ago on this date, I was freshly back from Israel after one of the most incredible trips I’ve ever had to the Judean homeland — from touring Mt. Azazel in the Judean desert, from where the Priests during the Temple eras would source two goats for Yom Kippur, one to carry away sins and one to sacrifice, to learning about the rich history of Jews who spent their diaspora in Italy and rebuilt their communities in their ancestral home, to meeting new friends at two separate Yemenite Judean restaurants where the recipes reflected Judean history from 586 BC to modern times, and a very animated tour of Shuk HaCarmel deep in talk with a Jew who was visiting from Italy who fully embodied Zionism, which has been

The Judean faith is central to the Judean culture, and that culture is steeped in the region’s history; therefore, it is beneficial to delve into actual Judean history to truly cement how centrally ingrained in the region were Jews. Jews were not some isolated group nor did Jews ‘appear’ from elsewhere, which is why as we have seen by learning historical facts, some concepts that are now associated solely with Jews, were indeed borrowed from our neighbors and our neighbors borrowed customs and ideas from us. The ‘modern’ observance of Rosh Hashana dates back to the 6th century BC and was heavily inspired by the Babylonians*, though the name, ‘Rosh Hashana’ did not appear in the Torah, but in the Mishna (first written collection of Jewish oral laws) in 200 AD. Rabbis applied meaning to the holiday as the anniversary of the creation of the earth/mankind per elements of the

It’s time to talk about the ‘Christ is King’ cohort of Christian antisemitism… not all Christians these days are antisemitic, some prominent examples who are not, in America, include Speaker Johnson, Sen. Ted Cruz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Dinesh D’Souza. The Coptic Christians in Egypt are fairly pro-Israel. And as antisemitic as the Orthodox Church was in the past and remains, their promise to Jews in 1948 in Judea & Samaria that deeds to Judean land would be preserved during the illegal Jordanian occupation, generally held. So, who am I talking about? These are the (mostly) born-again Christians on the right who believe Jews need to be ‘saved’ and who do not keep that thought to themselves. These are the same Christians who are now railing against AIPAC. As mentioned above, the now late Charlie Kirk recently had begun to turn, hence the antisemitic conspiracy theories of Israel being

I was hesitating to share this article in its entirety, nor does it take away my absolute admiration for Charlie Kirk in terms of spearheading Conservatism among our youth, especially. In my generation, it was Andrew Breitbart (who was also murdered) who was a force, Ben Shapiro (before he turned RINO and is now back, riding the coattails of unwavering Patriots), and Glenn Beck. But all were singular voices, impressive enough, but none turned their Conservatism into an actual national movement, and one that as we have seen, reached across generations. Not many people have reach from 13 year olds to 80-year-olds.  Charlie Kirk’s meteoric rise was a backlash against the left’s villainization of White culture, which is the dominant culture of America, of Christianity (America is a Christian nation), and most consequential, demonizing and humiliating young men by hammering the lie that ‘toxic masculinity’ is the central issue in

There are a few holidays I would ideally like altered. Purim needs to be amended to stop lying about ‘Queen Esther’ and that Zoroastrians were killing Jews. In reality, there was a Persian Jew Queen, Queen Shushanduhkt, who married a Sassanid King, who went on to establish/expand many Jewish communities across Persia. Also, Zoroastrians were very philosemitic. Why are we erasing real-life Judean heroines, and inventing stories of near atrocities of Jews, when, infuriatingly, there are more than enough real-life instances of such within Judean history. Next, Chanukkah is a celebration of the greatest Zionist military victory of all time – both against the Hellenized Jews (Judean Civil Wars) and the Seleucids (who were not Greek but Syrian. It is akin to saying Portugal attacked when it was say Brazil). There was no ‘miracle of oil’ – that was not added to the holiday until 200 years later, borrowing from neighboring

The antisemitic lie that Israel was not a country during WWII needs to end. Israel did not go anywhere during the 1,812 years of occupations. Not one year was Jew-free since Jews emerged as a distinct race from the Semitic tribes in Judea & Samaria 4,000+ years ago. By the time Judea fell to the Romans in 136 AD (after 3 very expensive wars for the Roman Empire), Jews conquered and expanded territory west to Gaza, north to what is now southern Lebanon, south to the Negev, and east to what would eventually be stolen by Churchill and renamed to Transjordan in 1922. Jews had thriving societies across Israel during occupation years. What was missing was not physical land, but sovereignty. During WWII, Israel was under British occupation. The Mandate was simply a legal promise to restore sovereignty to Jews in the Judean homeland. However, barely two years in after

The Faisal – Weizmann Agreement (1919) is vital to understanding Judean rights and legality in Israel, that formal legal standing would a year later be codified by the League of Nations (all 51 member states) – Emir Faisal was the sole representative of the Arabs (was recognized as such in 1918 and even fully supported the Jewish homeland) at the Paris Peace Conference, acting on behalf of the Arab Kingdom of Hejez (Arabia – what would become Saudi Arabia). Dr. Chaim Weizmann represented and acted on behalf of the Zionist Organization. Emir Faisal not only fully accepted that Palestine, as the indigenous Jewish homeland, would continue to be a Jewish country, he also helped convince a few British attendees of the fact. The agreement stipulated that a Arab united state (Syria, Iraq, Arabia, Egypt, and what would become Lebanon) would be established, that the Jewish nation would be recognized as

In 2005, when Israel disastrously disengaged from Jewish Gaza (Gaza has been Judean land since 145 BC), it did not reverse Article 80 of the UN Charter which upholds all treaties of the League of Nations. In both 1920 and 1922, The League of Nations, with its 51 member states, codified that both Gaza and all of Judea & Samaria belongs to Israel based on legal and historical rights Israel’s ‘military’ ‘takeover’ in Gaza is absolutely meaningless. To defeat Hamas is to eliminate for the most part the 1.8 million Arab occupiers in Jewish Gaza, and it would mean to fully reclaim Jewish Gaza, with full military and civil control. The plan as of now is to let the Arab occupiers, post-war, to be ruled by Arab factions. Did the collective ‘we’ forget that Hamas emerged from the Arab occupier population in Jewish Gaza in 1987, while Israel was militarily

Last week, I spent the most wonderful three days in Vancouver – who knew! Many where I live on the East Coast travel more to Toronto or Montreal if choosing Canada as a travel destination. Points of interest included a food tour in Gastown, Granville Island to see the public market and artisans, Stanley Park with its meaningful totem poles and scenic seawall, dinner in Yaletown, and on our last day there, we visited the Museum of Anthropology followed by lunch near the gorgeous beach in Kitsilano. Not a keffiyeh in sight despite being a very liberal city. I learned a great deal about the First Nations tribes at the Museum of Anthropology; however, they will be receiving an email from me shortly. The primary focus of the museum is centered around the diverse First Nations, but secondary, they feature an extensive and very educational exhibit displaying cultures from Korean

There is currently massive misinformation about the Druze genocide, both in the media, and emanating from world governments, including the Trump Administration. The cold-blooded murder, not unlike what Hamas did to Israelis during the Jewish genocide on October 7th, is not some ‘rivalry’ as Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called it, but the latest attempt of ethnic cleansing by Arab Muslims in Syria against a long-established minority. Not only is it not a ‘rivalry’ but also not ‘Bedouin’ led, as some have been making cover for the Syrian government forces. Terrorists additionally admitted that 200 – 300 foreign fighters from Central Asia have joined. Nor are the Druze being targeted because of Israel. Islam considers everyone non-Muslim to be infidels, and although Jews specifically are signaled out in the Quran, throughout history since Islam was invented, it was former Muslims (Druze) or non-mainstream Muslims (Yazidis) who have been targets

I have never been more proud of being A Jew. Genetic Jews are a race (with a faith, not a religion), and we are not historically a people of scholars – Jews literally emerged from the Semitic tribes in Judea & Samaria 4,000 years ago and were and remain a warrior tribe. Only the Priests were dealing with scholarship. The rest of the Jews were agrarian and pastoral, and both types were warriors, when needed, which was often. How do you think Jews expanded out from Judea & Samaria to encompass all of Israel from Gaza (we conquered the non-Semitic Philistines, a Greek-Cretan tribe, twice, and utilized Queen Cleopatra III to our advantage when she sent in her top two Generals, both Jews) to the West, Negev to the South, north to what is now Southern Lebanon, and east to the edges of what was stolen by Churchill in 1922