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

Operation Rising Lion (Am KeLavi in Hebrew) will go down as one of the most daring executions to neutralize an enemy whose intention was to carry out a nuclear Holocaust against the Jewish homeland. The full scope of the operation will not be known for some time, but what has been disclosed is that 50 Mossad commando teams successfully attacked Iranian military installations using drones and Spike-anti-tank missiles. An entire drone factory was built inside Iran by the Mossad. The drones were activated overnight, striking surface-to-surface missile launchers aimed at Israel. In addition, vehicles carrying weapons systems were smuggled into Iran. These systems took out Iran’s air defenses and gave Israeli planes air supremacy. One IAF pilot mentioned he witnessed an Iranian jet take off from a base and quickly retreat. The initial phase of the attack involved neutralizing air defense and detection systems in northern Iran and Iraq. Most

I was not planning on sending a newsletter this week, but not even 24 hours ago, two Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky, a proud Zionist Jew who was a practicing Christian, whose family made aliyah from Germany to Israel, and his girlfriend, Sarah Milgrim, an American Jew, were brutally murdered, at point blank range, outside the Jewish Museum in D.C., while at an American Jewish Committee (AJC) Young Diplomats event. Two beautiful souls who were set to become engaged in Jerusalem, Israel next week. My heart absolutely breaks for their immediate families. And because Jews are a race, Jews worldwide feel the pain when even one Jew is killed. The subhuman terrorist, who was shouting ‘free free Palestine’ while being taken into custody, was immediately identified as 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago. Not an Arab most likely given the name. And therein lies the root cause of the antisemitic virus

On this Yom Ha’atzmaut, found a previous article I wrote in 2020 which is still apropos to share, and one previously published article I wrote in May 2023, which explains clearly why it is not Israel’s ‘birthday’… 77 years of independence has been achieved due to brave Jews who reversed the longest colonization period in history. No other indigenous group was able to accomplish such a feat.. and to thousands of years more… A Love Note to Israel (written May 2020) by Laureen Lipsky Recently Israel celebrated 72 years of independence and to honor that, I would like to share some of my personal thoughts and experiences about Israel. I did not know I was Jewish until I was about 7 years old. When I found out, I wanted nothing more than to attend Hebrew school. My father was not a fan of the liberal rabbi at the local Conservative

The need to prove that ‘Palestine was never an independent Arab state’ is the absolute wrong approach. Anyone with eyes can open maps to see that a piece of land in the Middle East was called Palestine for over 1,000 years. It matters not to antisemites whether it was ‘independent’ or not. What they are connecting is that the Arab occupiers many Jews are calling antisemitically ‘Palestinians’ must be from that land and that Jews came and stole it. Instead, using facts and history matters to combat antisemitic lies, by clearly explaining that Israel/Judea was renamed to Palestina by the Romans in 136 AD. They took the Greek term for Judea, a term in use by the Greeks since the 5th century BC. That is why Jews IN Israel for 1,812 years (136 AD – 1948), and ONLY Jews were called Palestinians while Israel was under occupation. In 1948, Israel

Pesach (Passover) started off as two very different holidays in ancient times, one called Pesach was a spring pastoral holiday celebrated by semi-nomadic Jews who subsisted on livestock. They slaughtered their youngest lambs (during lambing season) to ward off evil, and then held a feast. The other spring holiday was celebrated by village farmers up north whose first harvest was barley and the bread from that yield was unleavened. Their previous supply of bread was used up, hunger would have taken hold by the end of winter, and so even the unleavened bread (which even the superior bread of their time made from wheat flour and ancient baking techniques was flat at the time), was a major cause for merriment. Their holiday was called Chag Hamatzot. It was only under the United Monarchy (Kings Saul, David, and Solomon) period that the spring festivals merged into one holiday, given a faith-based