“My grief with the Pittsburgh and Poway shootings deepened because the congregants were unarmed. If there had been armed security in place, it could have saved lives”

NEW YORK POST
Why I always bring my Glock to Shabbat
by Doree Lewak
May 4, 2019

As an Orthodox Jew, every Shabbat morning it’s the same routine: wake up at 8 a.m., get dressed in my suit and tie, and head out the door with my wife and three children for our 10-minute walk to synagogue. But not before I open my safe and strap on my Glock, which I’ve been carrying to shul for the past year. When I was growing up, synagogue was always a fun, carefree place to go. It was social, it was sacred, but it was never scary. READ MORE

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“The attacks on Mr. Barr are first and foremost an effort to force him out, to prevent this information from coming to light until Democrats can retake the White House in 2020”

WALL STREET JOURNAL
AG Barr gets attacked because his probe endangers powerful people
by Kimberly Strassel
May 3, 2019

Do not underestimate how many powerful people in Washington have something to lose from Mr. Barr’s probe. Among them: Former and current leaders of the law-enforcement and intelligence communities. The Democratic Party pooh-bahs who paid a foreign national (Mr. Steele) to collect information from Russians and deliver it to the FBI. The government officials who misused their positions to target a presidential campaign. The leakers. The media. More than reputations are at risk. Revelations could lead to lawsuits, formal disciplinary actions, lost jobs, even criminal prosecution. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT

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“Since around 10 a.m. on Saturday, around 300 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza”

JERUSALEM POST
1 killed as 300 rockets slam southern Israel
by Tzvi Joffre
May 5, 2019

One man has died and 83 people have been injured, since terror groups in Gaza began firing rockets into Israel around 10 a.m. on Saturday. Around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, a rocket hit a building in Ashkelon, critically injuring a 60 year-old man. The man died on his way to the hospital, marking the first death since the fighting began on Saturday. Shortly before the rocket hit Ashkelon, another rocket hit a building in Sderot, lightly injuring 3 people. Between 10 a.m. Saturday and 4:30 a.m. Sunday, 83 people were injured,..READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Avi Issacharoff: Why the Gaza rocket fire? Because Hamas thinks Israel is vulnerable to extortion Ahead of Independence Day and the Eurovision Song Contest, Gaza’s terrorist rulers see a rare opportunity to pressure Israel, which it knows is desperate for calm

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“The Palestinians are right to believe that the Arab world no longer cares about them and their problems”

GATESTONE
Palestinian Leaders and Inconvenient Truths
by Khaled Abu Toameh
May 4, 2019

…The Arab betrayal of the Palestinians is not new. Instead of supporting their Palestinian brothers, the Arab states have been cutting aid to them. According to one report, Arab financial aid to the Palestinians has dramatically dropped in the past two decades. Another report revealed that donations from the Arab world to the Palestinians has been slashed over the past few years by 50%. A mere quarter of the PA’s 2017 budget of approximately $3.7 billion has come from Arab states, the report saidREAD MORE

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH PA misrepresents photos of Holocaust victims as Arabs killed by Jews – again! Official PA TV last month deceitfully broadcast pictures of bodies of Holocaust victims in a Nazi concentration camp presenting them as pictures of Arab victims killed by Jews in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948. Two other pictures, which PA TV also claimed were of Arabs killed in 1948 by Jews, were actually pictures from the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon in 1982. 

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Memo to American Jews: “Israel’s Security is NOT a Jewish Issue”

DAILY WIRE
The Clash Of American Liberal Jewry And Israeli Nationalism
by Yishai Fleisher
April 30, 2019

…In this light, Israeli support of the current American president makes sense: Trump is understood to be a determined, defense-minded fellow sovereign, a strong ruler, and an ally. Many American Jews are dumbfounded at the nearly ubiquitous Israeli approval of a man they detest so much. But from across the pond, and in the tough Middle East reality, things look quite different. Trump’s nationalism and certitude might threaten American liberal Jews, but these characteristics play well in Israel where those very characteristics are needed and admired…READ MORE

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Rabbi Sacks on the connection between, antisemitism, anti-Zionism, Judaism and Israel

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“Hysterical children” at Chicago DePaul University condemn professor and demand his resignation for defending Israel

THE FEDERALIST
DePaul Students Demand Professor’s Censure, Call Him ‘Xenophobe’ For Supporting Israel In The Federalist
by Joy Pullmann
April 30, 2019

Campus administrators are trying to calm down students after a week of outrage over DePaul University professor Jason Hill writing in The Federalist to support Israel’s right to create defensible borders and repel Islamist attempts at genocide….The protesting students demanded that the university formally censure Hill, require him to take “racial sensitivity training,” and him to publicly apologize for writing that Israel has a “moral right” to annex the West Bank because it is territory it won during a war initiated by enemies who believe Israel and Israelis should be wiped from the earth. READ MORE

Watch Tucker Carlson interview Jason Hill: College students, faculty calling for the removal of a professor after he publishes pro-Israel op-ed

COMMENTARY At Williams College, Zionists Need Not Apply Late last month, the College Council at Williams voted, 13-8 against recognizing a pro-Israel club, Williams Initiative for Israel…Your “club is pro-Israel, which means you support a state that is built on Palestinian land,” said one and made it clear that “believing in the right of Israel to exist” was a red line that no registered student organization should be permitted to cross. Israel is a “fascist state” said another. The “existence of Israel is built on the killing of Palestinians,” said a third.

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Benjamin Anthony speaks at a vigil for Poway and offers wise words for American Jews

Benjamin Anthony addresses the Chabad of Poway shooting and the rise of antisemitism in the United States and across the world at a vigil held by the Palm Beach Synagogue in Florida. To listen, click here, then click ‘play’

https://soundcloud.com/israelrisingpodcast/onantisemitism

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL Solidarity, call to action stressed at Palm Beach vigil for Poway [Benjamin] Anthony said, regarding what he hopes people took away from his presentation, “I think it’s vital that people recognize and understand that the battle for the American Jewish future is a worthy battle that can be won and that actions must be undertaken both in the realm of security and political enfranchisement.” “This battle is against a form of anti-Semitism that is of a physical kind, an institutional kind and a political kind emanating from the far left and from the far right.”

THE TOWER Violent Anti-Semitism on the Rise Worldwide, Report Warns
Anti-Semitic attacks spiked 13% in 2018 from the previous year, Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry said in a grim assessment in its annual report on Wednesday. The highest number of anti-Semitic incidents in Western countries were reported in the United States, France, Britain, and Germany. The report said that Islamists, as well as far-right and far-left activists, were behind many of the attacks but also warned that anti-Semitism was going more mainstream.

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Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein at White House National Day of Prayer: “We cannot control what others do, but we can control how we act”

ABC NEWS
Trump invites heroes of Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting to National Day of Prayer event
by Rachel Scott and Jordyn Phelps
May 2, 2019

The heroes of Saturday’s Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting in California, along with Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, attended an event marking the National Day of Prayer on Thursday in the White House Rose Garden, alongside President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump. Goldstein, who was shot in both hands in the attack, called the president a “Mensch par excellence” – a Yiddish term meaning a person of integrity and excellence — and credited him with helping him start to heal. “Mr. President, when you called me, I was at home weeping. You were the first person who began my healing. You healed people in the worst of times and I’m so grateful for that,” Goldstein said. READ MORE

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#EMP, the threat no one likes to talk about: “Fatalities estimated from a protracted nationwide blackout lasting one year range from 67 to 90 percent of the U.S. population, due to starvation, disease, and societal collapse”

NATIONAL REVIEW
The EMP Executive Order — Where Were Bush and Obama?
by William Graham, R. James Woolsey & Peter Vincent Pry
May 3, 2019

…Combined-Arms Cyber Warfare, as planned by Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, may use combinations of cyber-, sabotage-, and ultimately nuclear EMP-attack to impair the United States quickly and decisively by blacking-out large portions of its electric grid and other critical infrastructures. Foreign adversaries may also consider nuclear EMP attack as the ultimate cyber “denial of service” weapon, one which can gravely damage the U.S. by striking at its technological Achilles’ heel, without having to engage the U.S. military…Alarmingly, in the military doctrines of potential adversaries, nuclear EMP attack is considered a dimension of cyber warfare, because EMP is not directly injurious to people, only to electronics. READ MORE

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