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“Fishback has raised little money and is polling poorly, but his campaign appearances are attracting crowds of antizionist bigots openly hostile to Jews on college campuses across Florida”

AFTER OCTOBER 7 After Jewish Students Were Blocked From His Event at USF, Antizionist Gubernatorial Candidate James Fishback Set for FAU Appearance Kevin Deutsch April 17, 2026 James Fishback, the anti-Jewish, anti-Israel Florida gubernatorial candidate whose campaign has been defined … Continue reading

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A Yom Hazikaron Reflection with Rachel Goldberg-Polin

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“‘Lox and Loaded’ partnership comes as anxieties fuel interest in firearms”

THE FORWARD A Jewish gun club teams up with the NRA, in pursuit of self-defense Louis Keene April 17, 2026 Capitalizing on heightened anxieties and surging Jewish interest in gun ownership, the National Rifle Association this week announced a partnership … Continue reading

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“What looks like distancing is actually forcing Israel to accelerate its independence, strengthen its defenses, and become more self-reliant in ways decades of alliance politics delayed”

FUTURE OF JEWISH The Left is doing Israel a favor by abandoning it. Bob Goldberg April 23, 2026 …Israel did not fall into disfavor because it chose the wrong prime minister. It has been attacked under Left, Center, Right, and … Continue reading

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“The Arab Case for Israel is the book that I would recommend above all others for anyone who sincerely wants to understand the entrenched conflict between Jews and Arabs in Israel”

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“There are many reasons for a Jew in the world today to be thankful for Israel’s existence, but this year has really driven home what it means as an American of any faith or creed to have Israel by our side”

COMMENTARY The Birth of a Great American Ally Seth Mandel April 22, 2026 Israeli Independence Day is a good time to think about what makes the Jewish state so successful. Going from a glorified refugee camp to a global power … Continue reading

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This month marks 12 years curating posts as a news aggregator.

I’m breaking the proverbial fourth wall today. This blog now begins year twelve, begun in April 2014. Prior to then I’d been sharing articles via mass BCC emails but eventually ran afoul with GMail as they intermittently denied access due … Continue reading

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Senior Israeli official: “United States now intends to actively lead efforts to disarm Hezbollah”

JPOST US intends to lead Hezbollah disarmament, senior Israeli official tells ‘Post’ Amichai Stein April 16, 2026 A senior Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post that, unlike in the past, the United States now intends to actively lead efforts to disarm Hezbollah … Continue reading

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Oren: “Before Europe casts us off completely, perhaps we should separate first. It’s time, I maintain, to say goodbye”

CLARITY Time to Say Goodbye Michael Oren April 16, 2026 This week, on Yom Hashoa, a friend told me a story I had never heard—how her father as a young Jew in Libya during World War II was arrested by … Continue reading

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“Critics of administration have predictably dismissed the reverse blockade move as a desperate effort to regain leverage over Tehran. In truth, the strategy is anything but spontaneous”

FORBES Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Has Been Planned For Years Ilan Berman April 15, 2026 …A decade-and-a-half ago, while on a visit to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, I had a candid exchange with a senior military official deeply … Continue reading

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