DePaul assailant Adam Erkan sentenced to 2 years probation and 100 hours of community service

Posted on November 27, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ABC7 NEWS
Man pleads guilty to battery in attack on Jewish students on DePaul Lincoln Park campus
November 25, 2025

Just over a year after two men attacked Israeli Defense Forces Reserve Staff Sgt. Max Long and his friend, Michael Kaminsky, in broad daylight on the DePaul University campus, one of the men charged pleaded guilty to a charge in the case. Adam Erkan was facing felony hate crime charges, and was being held in custody. He pleaded guilty to battery/causing bodily harm Tuesday, and was sentenced to probation for two years, along with 100 hours of community service. The other attacker remains at large…In video from a year ago, you see Long and Kaminsky approached by two masked men and beaten before the men ran off. READ MORE

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Trump order specifically highlights the activities of three chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat to the United States

Posted on November 27, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Trump directs Treasury, State to consider Muslim Brotherhood terror designation
Andrew Bernard
November 24, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the U.S. secretaries of state and the treasury to consider designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. According to a White House fact sheet, the president has ordered the two departments to submit a report within 30 days with recommendations to designate national chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as Foreign Terrorist Organizations…The order states that “a senior leader of the Egyptian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, on Oct. 7, 2023, called for violent attacks against United States partners and interests, and Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood leaders have long provided material support to the militant wing of Hamas.” READ MORE

FREE PRESS CAIR Official Joins Hamas Leader at ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ Event The Muslim group’s Ohio director says he had no interactions with the Hamas official and was there ‘as a Palestinian American.’ Al-Aqsa Flood is the terrorist group’s name for its gruesome attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

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“Forget Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform. After Oct. 7, only one label matters”

Posted on November 27, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
The End of Jewish Denominations
Liel Leibovitz
November 25, 2025

Until recently, the best guide to delineate between Jewish synagogues was denominational affiliation. These divisions within Judaism emerged from deep seated differing understandings of the nature of revelation and the authority of Halacha, and though, over time, Jews of all denominational affiliations interacted in all walks of life, the old division lines made sense. Questions concerning the nature of observing Shabbat, the role of men and women in the synagogue, or the acceptance of LGBTQ Jews, formed the central axis around which American Jews divided and understood themselves and their beliefs. No more. Since the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, we’ve only one division line: Zionist or anti-Zionist. That’s it. READ MORE

JPOST Anti-Israel org. places bounties on heads of Israeli academics for assassination
Bounties for the murder of Israeli academics are being offered on an anti-Zionist group’s website, with profiles and personal details of targets also provided to potential contract killers. The Punishment for Justice Movement website offers $500,00 for murdering a targeted Israeli academic, $100,000 for the murder of “special targets,” and other financial awards for providing information on them or committing acts of intimidation. The group lists the alleged home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social media accounts, and even identification numbers of hundreds of academics.

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“Many ultra-Orthodox young men are widely believed to register for yeshiva but not actually study, the yeshiva is funded for their ostensible presence, and the young men evade military service”

Posted on November 27, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Bismuth presents bill exempting yeshiva students from IDF draft, loosening sanctions
Sam Sokol
November 28, 2025

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Boaz Bismuth released on Thursday his long-awaited revision of a government-backed bill regulating ultra-Orthodox enlistment, paving the way for its continued advancement toward the final two readings necessary for it to become law. Bismuth’s version of the legislation would continue to grant military service exemptions to full-time yeshiva students while ostensibly increasing conscription among graduates of Haredi educational institutions. However, the proposed legislation removes various provisions from a previous draft that were intended to ensure that those registered for yeshiva study are actually studying, and cancels all sanctions on draft evaders when they turn 26. READ MORE

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“A Hamas intelligence network monitored about 100,000 IDF soldiers on social media for five years, infiltrated closed groups, and used the information to build simulators and train terrorists with VR headsets”

Posted on November 27, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
How Hamas tracked 100,000 IDF soldiers for years
November 23, 2025

Hamas’ military intelligence network, consisting of roughly 2,500 operatives, spent about five years systematically gathering information in preparation for the October 7 attack. According to IDF assessments, Hamas began operating in this field as early as 2018, systematically tracking nearly 100,000 soldiers and officers on social media. According to a report by military correspondent Doron Kadosh on Galai Tzahal (IDF Radio), Hamas did not rely solely on public accounts. It also created “avatar” accounts through sophisticated social engineering and used them to access private accounts and even closed WhatsApp groups – including groups of recruits joining combat units….An Air Force officer testified: “Hamas knew the base better than I did” READ MORE

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“Israeli officials say Dr al-Hams refused to cooperate with interrogators or disclose the burial location of Goldin, whose remains were kept in a large Hamas tunnel network in Rafah until Israel recovered them earlier this month after 11 years”

Posted on November 27, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

YNET
How Israel captured the Gaza doctor who handled Hadar Goldin’s body
Avi Issacharoff
November 27, 2025

A recently circulated Arabic-language video appears to show how Israeli forces captured Dr. Marwan al-Hams, a Gaza physician who served the Hamas terrorist organization and was involved in handling the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin, an Israeli soldier killed and taken during the 2014 Gaza war. Last week it was reported that al-Hams was detained in July during a special forces operation in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza. The new video, posted online by an unidentified source, claims he was lured to the location after being told he would be filmed for a documentary about him titled “Hero of Gaza.” The footage includes clips of al-Hams speaking to a woman with a French accent who allegedly recruited him for the supposed film project. Captions say the woman “succeeded in drawing him into an ambush and deceiving him.” READ MORE

YNET Dozens of rooms, 7 kilometers deep: inside the massive Gaza tunnel where Hadar Goldin was held Lt. Hadar Goldin was laid to rest in Israel after 4,118 days in Gaza; now, the IDF reveals the tunnel where he was held; ‘One of the most significant and complex underground routes exposed to date in the Gaza Strip,’ army says

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“He heard shouting and a loud commotion, which turned out to be the beginning of an ambush — surrounded by 7 to 10 people dressed in “black block” clothing that obscures gender and identities”

Posted on November 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL POST
The Toronto Jews caught in a real life nightmare on Elm Street
Vivian Bercovici
November 22, 2025

…As has become the norm for many gatherings of Jewish people in Toronto, or any Israel-related event, the final location was withheld from registrants until the last moment and distribution was carefully controlled. This has become the norm since Oct. 7, 2023. This is because protesters demonize all things Jewish and Israeli. They target Jewish schools, community centres, businesses, residential neighbourhoods, synagogues, Israeli government offices. All such places, to the pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas, leftist “progressives,” are equally offensive. The location of the SSI meeting was leaked. An “emergency rally” was quickly organized, including a flyer featuring Israeli soldiers with red Xs over their eyes, which is activist code for marking them for death. READ MORE

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“Ultra-nationalist Itamar Ben-Gvir, the national security minister who’s been in charge of policing since 2022, is known for his hardline attitude towards the Palestinian Arabs and instinct to excuse Jewish misdeeds”

Posted on November 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

MELANIE PHILLIPS BLOG
The muddled morass of “settler violence”
November 21, 2025

…The truth is that reports of “settler violence” are overwhelmingly exaggerated and distorted. A report published in the summer by Regavim, the Israeli organisation that monitors Judea and Samaria, found that some 90 per cent of incidents of violence attributed to Jewish residents by the United Nations in recent years were fabricated. Such incidents were either misclassified as attacks by Jews on Arabs, whereas they were, in fact, Arab attacks on Jews, or they involved anti-Israel provocations orchestrated by Palestinian and foreign left-wing activist groups. Video footage has shown such incidents in which Arabs launch violent attacks on Israelis who are being set up to react with force. That reaction is filmed by far-left activists and selectively edited to exclude the provocation, and then the video is made available to the United Nations or Western media outlets. In any event, Arabs attack the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria an estimated 60 times more frequently than attacks upon them by Jews. READ MORE

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“Even as Zohran Mamdani poses a threat to New York’s Jews, groups like the Anti-Defamation League helped make his victory possible”

Posted on November 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Zohran Mamdani Sides with the Anti-Israel Mob
The Editors
November 22, 2025

…It’s important to understand what will come next. If Israel and Israel’s supporters are violating international law simply by existing, then all Jewish spaces that don’t disavow Israel will be legitimate targets. That is what the anti-Zionist movement is doing with these so-called synagogue protests. First it was Borough Park. Then it was Park East Synagogue. Next it will be Jewish preschools that fly Israeli flags next to American ones. So let this week be a warning for every New Yorker who despises antisemitism and believes Israel has a right to exist. Zohran Mamdani is not on your side. Make no mistake, the crowd that swarmed Park East Synagogue on Wednesday evening was not protesting a violation of international law, as Mamdani’s spokesperson would have you believe. They were targeting Jews. READ MORE

CITY JOURNAL Liel Leibovitz: How the ADL Failed the Jewish Community To appreciate their cataclysmic failures, it helps to consider the threat Mamdani poses to New York’s Jews. As a student at Bowdoin College, he co-founded his school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the Hamas-supporting group now banned from several campuses for alleged material support of terrorism. He has crooned about his love for the Holy Land Five, terrorists convicted in 2009 for materially supporting Hamas.  Mamdani has repeatedly refused to condemn the slogan beloved by anti-Israel rioters—“globalize the Intifada”—which is effectively a call for violence.

TJV NEWS Commissioner Tisch Failed Jewish New Yorkers — and No Apology Will Rewrite What Happened at Park East There are moments in the life of a city when institutions prove whether they stand for the vulnerable or merely stand aside. Last week, outside Park East Synagogue, the NYPD under Commissioner Jessica Tisch chose the latter. New Yorkers watched it happen in real time: a mob descended on a synagogue, blocked its entrance, and terrorized congregants — and the police, whose very mandate is to prevent this kind of menace, fumbled their responsibilities so comprehensively that an apology is almost insulting.

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“I can’t keep everybody in jail because the State’s Attorney wants me to” says Chicago judge moments before releasing man now accused of setting a woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train

Posted on November 21, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JOHN KASS NEWS
How a City Dies: Woman Burned Alive on CTA by a Violent Career Criminal Who Was Enabled by Democrat Judges
November 23, 2025

…In Chicago, the great city shaped by Mayor Richard J. Daley and his son, Mayor Richard M. Daley there is a new policy, a progressive policy. It is not the law-and-order city. Instead, the liberal politically correct Democrats who have followed the Daleys now refuse to punish repeat violent lawbreakers. The Democrats have become George Soros Social Justice Warriors and the newspapers reflect the progressive view. They shrink the size of the jail population, and congratulate themselves by refusing to punish violent lawlessness, enabling and promoting social justice judges, while releasing violent predators, all the while playing race politics to isolate the good and the lawful, and so guarantee a surplus of lawlessness and anarchy. READ MORE

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