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“The book doesn’t teach us how to grieve. It’s not about any one of our griefs. It teaches us what walking looks like when walking is the only thing left. Rachel parcelled out what she could not carry alone, and asked us to help”

FUTURE OF JEWISH The Most Tragically Beautiful Book I’ve Ever Read Adam Hummel May 9, 2026 I stayed up late one night this week reading the book, “When We See You Again,” published last month and written by Rachel Goldberg-Polin … Continue reading

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“Mohamed Soliman sentenced to life without parole for deadly firebomb attack on Boulder rally supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza”

ARUTZ SHEVA Mohamed Soliman sentenced to life without parole for deadly firebomb attack on Boulder rally supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza. May 7, 2026 A man who carried out a deadly firebomb attack on a demonstration in support of Israeli hostages … Continue reading

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Rutgers disinvites Rami Elghandour, producer of “The Voice of Hind Rajab”

JEWISH CHRONICLE Rutgers cancels graduation speaker over tweet claiming Israelis ‘train dogs to sexually assault prisoners’ Jackie Hajdenberg May 7, 2026 Administrators at Rutgers University have canceled a commencement speaker scheduled for next week, citing an “inflammatory claim” the speaker … Continue reading

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“Long before the 20th century, ancient Jewish texts recognized what much of the modern West still refuses to accept: Not every enemy can be reasoned with”

FUTURE OF JEWISH The problem isn’t Israel’s wars. It’s how the West thinks about war. Nachum Kaplan May 3, 2026 …The Torah does not romanticize war; it regulates it, distinguishing between different kinds of enemies and demanding peace when possible … Continue reading

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“Maher Bitar’s appointment is the latest sign that Democratic Party elites are leaning into growing hostility to Israel in their party”

FREE BEACON ‘He Was Easily the Most Antagonistic to Israel’: Anti-Israel Activist Who Advised Biden, Schiff To Head Influential Democratic Foreign Policy Group Designed To Staff a Future White House Adam Kredo May 4, 2026 An anti-Israel staffer for Sen. … Continue reading

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“Grief is a badge we wear,” Rachel said. She made the point that it shows we know love, that we have loved deeply, that another person’s existence had become inseparable from our own

TIMES OF ISRAEL The Weight of Words: Hearing Rachel Goldberg-Polin Speak Peter Himmelman May 4, 2026 …Early on, Rachel described feeling as though she had left this world entirely after Hersh’s abduction and murder. A friend was extremely helpful,” she … Continue reading

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“Invoking President George Washington’s seminal letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, and Revolutionary era financier Haym Salomon, President Trump paid tribute to the role Jewish Americans have played in the United States since its earliest days”

CHABAD.ORG Shabbat‘Shabbat 250:’ President Proclaims National Shabbat Honoring America’s 250th Birthday May 4, 2026 For the first time in American history, a sitting president has called on the nation to observe a Shabbat. As part of the White House’s Jewish … Continue reading

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“This is a glorious beat down on Mamdani and his radical cronies”

JNS Mamdani-endorsed NYC Council candidate trounced in special election Debra Nussbaum Cohen April 29, 2026 Lindsey Boylan, whom New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed and who has called the Israeli prime minister a “war criminal and a danger to … Continue reading

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“Protesters chant ‘Keir Starmer, Jew Harmer’; UK raises terror alert to ‘severe’ as anti-terror chief says attacks on Jews are ‘biggest national security emergency’”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Starmer booed at site of Golders Green terror; promises to tackle antisemitism, extremism Zev Stub April 30, 2026 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed on Thursday to deal with “the root causes of extremism and antisemitism” after … Continue reading

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“Israel exists precisely because Jews learned, at unbearable cost, that eloquence without power is fragile, and law without force is often meaningless”

ARUTZ SHEVA Israel is the ultimate response Dr. Alex Grobman April 23, 2026 Now that we have celebrated Yom Haatzma’ut, it is worth stating a truth that much of the West still does not understand: the greatest memorial to the … Continue reading

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