יום חמישי, י׳ תמוז תשפ״וThursday, June 25, 2026
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Rabbi Y Y Rubinstein is a popular international lecturer. He was a regular Broadcaster on BBC Radio and TV but resigned in 2022 over what he saw as its institutional anti-Semitism. He is the author of fourteen books including most recently, "Never Alone...The book for teens and young adults who've lost a parent." He made aliyah in 2025.
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The question now is, at what point does the spread of the disease become so bad that the only solution is to flee.
In today’s world, so defined and financed by Jew hatred both on the Left and Right, I wonder how many millions or even billions of lives will be lost, by the exclusion of Jews from places like Harvard, Yale or Columbia?
The men watched their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters struggling and collapsing under their burdens and it broke their hearts and their spirits. Pharaoh smiled and his people applauded. His plan was working perfectly.
Today, South Africa under the ANC, is one of Israel’s most implacable enemies on the world stage, something Nelson Mandela would have wept over.
The Birmingham Muslim community lobbied hard to have the match cancelled and all Israelis banned from the city. The police sought the input and opinion of the Muslim community and claimed to have pursued the same process with the Jewish community. This last point too was a complete lie. The Jews were never consulted.
Tomorrow, I am going to a shiva here in Jerusalem... I am going soon with my daughter-in-law who is related to them. Yet at this particular shiva… we all are... Their son was one of those massacred in the Bondi Beach attack. And I have to tell you that I am more than angry that this shiva and the other fifteen are happening. I am in fact furious.
I always feel sorry for Jews I know and like when I see them trying to disprove or convince people on social media that Israel did not commit genocide in Gaza or starve Palestinian babies. This is a fruitless exercise. There is simply no point at all in trying to offer rational arguments to an irrational mind.
The reason that the Left needs to promote the lie of Israeli genocide is that it absolves Hamas of the guilt of their actual genocide and it justifies their pledge of repeating it.
In the eyes of many on the Left, particularly the young, he is as big a hero to them as Princip is to the Serbs. There are virtual statues and shrines being “erected” to him across the internet.
Chaos Theory deals with systems that are highly dependent and sensitive to initial conditions. Small variations in the starting point can lead to vastly dramatic changed outcomes. Those altered outcomes may only become apparent over time.
There is no issue that raises the temperature and polarizes Israelis more than exemptions for yeshiva bochurim serving in the army.
Unity amongst the Jewish people, especially at a time of a threat to our very existence, is our greatest defense and persuader for Heaven to intervene on our behalf.
Most Israelis I have ever told this story to, finish the ending for me. Honestly, Israel and aliyah can drive you crazy…
As recently as March 7, Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Congressman Adriano Espaillat issued the following statement: Revoking federal grants to Columbia University isn’t about combating anti-Semitism; it’s about the Trump administration’s war on education and science. Suuuure it is Jerry. Try telling that to the Jewish students who faced violence and threats there since the Hamas mini-Holocaust.
There is an irony that a newspaper which has traditionally upheld the concept, practice and concept of free expression, if reader's comments are to be believed, is increasingly censoring and suppressing them.
They know that Mr. Trump didn’t like them much before they tried to assassinate him. They are probably going to find that he dislikes them MUCH more the second time around.
It would be stupid not to recognize there are plenty of good people still in the Democratic party who abhor the Squad and other of their most extreme party members.
For Jewish students across American campuses today, joining the new student uprising and belonging to the DEI community requires denying and denouncing your people and your peoplehood. Sadly many young U.S. Jews have done so.
You can reach your own judgment whether Kamala Harris is honest. What is less a matter of personal opinion is her intellect.
It occurred to me that there is a huge amount of laughter and giggling to be had from the current Presidential campaign, particularly from Team Harris. After all, there is so much that her campaign team requires her to say that is frankly ludicrous and no one would ever anticipate or expect …and that is exactly what makes folks laugh the loudest.
When Kamala Harris took up the mantle of the Democratic Party’s nominee for President, she lost no time in reinforcing doubts Jews have about her.
The number of incidents is way too long to cite in this article. But there is little doubt that the world of medicine has become sick.
Jew-hatred, is a welcoming, diverse and inclusive sort of evil. Its very inclusivity helps to make it particularly popular in woke circles. People will find fellow Jew-haters from every conceivable background and class.
The realization of our ongoing Jewish solitude, or perhaps a more accurate word is isolation, is a hard one for many if not most Jews to accept.
It isn’t the benefit of hindsight that make Chamberlain’s claims so risible. Plenty of his contemporaries saw exactly how ridiculous their Prime Minister’s confidence was and how catastrophic his appeasement of Germany had been. An empty black taxi indeed.
We can’t rely on anyone else; we never could. Whatever we can do to create shalom and unity within our people, is what we have to do.
I have written here before about Facebook’s abysmal and ongoing inaction over antisemitic content on its site. Much worse; since October 7, has been its Fact Checkers interventions to quell and stifle posts supportive of Israel or condemning Hamas.
The thought of massive numbers of demonstrators marching on America’s streets waving the chilling black flag of Al Qaeda and winning acceptance from the American government and people is beyond insane.
Whether the epidemic of anti-church/anti-state attacks are coordinated or spontaneous, they combine to achieve a common goal. They fracture the French nation and drive a wedge between good people on both sides of France’s religious racial/divide.
Tragically, when their utopian certainty finally dies, the pain and desolation the faithful face is pitiful.
Haim denied that any Israeli children had been kidnapped or any Israeli civilians were killed by Hamas! The interviewer was flabbergasted.
I authentically played the role of the 'Chutzie' and gently asked him if he did not feel any sympathy for international critics who pointed to the Supreme Court’s partiality and liberal activism?
All that was over forty years ago in 1980. We were unaware that protecting our children then was an infinitely simpler task than it would be when they occupied the same roll for their four children in 2023.
A question was asked that offered exactly such an opportunity. “What does the panel think about parents spanking kids?”
The classic Torah commentator Rashi, explains that when Hashem sent Noach’s flood, he used a malach called “Androlmusia.” This angel simply cannot distinguish between good humans and bad and so it kills and killed everyone.
There is a sickening irony that history shows us non-Jews who heroically stood shoulder to shoulder with Jews to protect them but also shows simultaneously, Jews who stood shoulder to shoulder with their foes.
It was quite clear that from the start, Prime Minister Netanyahu sensed the scale of the trouble and tried to proceed with caution.
My mission was and is to allow people to hear and understand the Jewish people and their story.
Her truly remarkable past philanthropy and support for left-wing causes counts for nothing. Like Stalin or Mao’s purges, only total submission and complete capitulation will do.
Once when I was there learning with my son, he approached me and attempted to explain and defend his actions. After listening to his self-justification, it was my turn to respond.
Esav believed he was supposed to be supreme in this world and in its material possessions. Yaakov could have the world to come. Why was he prospering here?
I was stunned at this sudden change of topic and tone. The warm and cozy shop suddenly seemed cold and threatening.
Today, perhaps the last great love affair takes place here in America. The current political scene is no less revolutionary as those of the past.
The fact that she died in her beloved Scotland, brought a cascade of memories about my own mom and dad rushing back and I cried again.
Book burnings and academic purges were the hallmark of both the twentieth century’s extremes, right and left. Some of the greatest minds of the time were driven from universities to become, if they were lucky, refugees or if unlucky, concentration camp inmates in Poland or Siberia.
The jokes and mockery came fast and furious but the non-funny side of the story is that CNN is more known for intentionally getting the facts wrong than for accidentally making fools of themselves.
The problem is that these new Jews, these frum Jews are different in every way to the ones that came before. These Jews look Jewish; in fact too Jewish and for many, that is a problem.
A few weeks ago disaster struck, Elon Musk bought Twitter and started tweeting several patently obvious truths, like the fact Twitter has a clear Leftist bias and many others.
Putin’s ally President Assad of Syria has repeatedly used chemical weapons in his country. This was the famous 2012, “Red Line” that Obama warned them not to cross and then did absolutely nothing about when they did.
The choreography of history that brings various essential elements together at the right moment to provoke us to react and change, is one of the recurring themes of the story of the Jewish people.
In the last few weeks, the Jewish people as a whole, and the religious community in particular, has experienced a trauma which has been simply enormous and appalling.
I think feminine wisdom must run in that family. When my late wife was first diagnosed with cancer, Debby called me to say, “Remember… Doctors think they’re gods… and people forget that G-d’s a doctor!”
The UK Parliament showed that Facebook refused to remove 90% of anti-Semitic posts even after they were brought to its attention.
Interestingly, Rooney’s last novel was published by a Chinese State-approved publishing house. Hmm! One million Muslim Chinese in concentration camps doesn’t seem to trouble Ms. Rooney in the slightest.
I must admit to being confused at all the anger and consternation. I am not in the slightest offended by what the Pope said. He simply and honestly stated the classic Christian position and not in a way designed to offend or hurt.
Wars don’t stop when you run away from them. Only when both sides agree to peace, does peace have a chance. The Taliban et al. don’t want peace.
Of all the vilest anti-Semites and enemies of the Jewish people, one category stands out above all the rest: Jews.
Ha Ha Ha! America…you may have secured your ambition of “No Taxation without Representation” from us, but WE have secured “No Transmission or Contamination from SARS-CoV-2 EVER again.”
It would be convenient for my argument if I could dismiss all the people who offer online rabbinic courses as frauds and all those who take part in them as charlatans, but that would be untrue.
Just in case you have somehow missed the person who goes by those initials, AOC actually stands for Alexandra Occasionally Coherent although there is much debate about the word “occasional.”
They are deaf to protestations that there are whole areas of knowledge (even when they conform to the Torah’s perspective) that are only taught to our children when they are no longer children and ready to marry.
Newspeak restricted vocabulary so as to limit the people's ability to think “dangerous” and "subversive" concepts such as personal identity, self-expression and free will.
From the world of academia to the world of the media, no criticism of the Left’s worldview will be tolerated. Under this new administration things can only get worse.
Many countries vigorously tried to suppress and even eliminate the languages of their minorities or the peoples they conquer.
Every report I read on the story made it quite clear that the Roald Dahl Story Company’s belated acknowledgment of the vile side of Dahl was anything but sincere.
The phenomenon of becoming “Greek” never ends and whatever name they give themselves, there are only ever two categories, the Jews and the Un-Jews.
A couple of months back, Bill de Blasio sent New York cops to break up a Williamsburg funeral because...they were not using the opportunity to simultaneously demonstrate for Black Lives Matter.
Painful or not he spoke out. It was not a normal election and the Jewish community faced an abnormal threat.
Someone asked me a question about those Jews who'd faced death at the auto-da-fe if they refused to convert. “Why not simply pretend to convert? You don’t have to actually believe in Christianity. Just say you do and avoid a horrible death.”
For the NFL, Black Lies matter, especially if they are about Jews.
He argued that the statues should instead move to museums. I think he makes a fair point but an incomplete one.
When Corbyn arrived, their eyes were opened and almost all recognized that the source of the danger and threat to Jews today comes from the Left.
I have always seen myself as a rosh yeshiva. The fact that no one else on the planet shared my assessment is irrelevant.
Truth, honesty and trust, are under attack like never before and the attack is quite deliberate--Hiilary, Putin, Warren
There is only one thing that a university like Rutgers, given its doubtful history of toleration of anti-Semitic activity, will react to – and that is legal action.
Those who call for the destruction of the State of Israel, do so in the full knowledge that they are calling for a second Holocaust. They lamely pretend to others and perhaps even to themselves that they mean something else. They are simply acting.
I am not qualified to know if they’re right, but as we drove into Ben Gurion airport, I saw that someone had sprayed on a wall, “Am Yisrael Chai!” That graffiti is absolutely right.
Blacks cannot be racist, which is of course a racist statement. Try telling that to the Black Hebrew Israelite who lives near me and keeps pretending to point a gun at me and firing. Muslims like Omar or Tlaib cannot be anti-Semitic because they are Semites too. Try telling that to Hamas whose founding charter calls for the killing of Jews anywhere in the world. Socialists cannot be anti-Semitic. Try telling that to Jeremy Corbyn who laid a wreath at the grave of one of the Munich killers.
I recall him telling me of the morning he walked into Moscow’s Great Synagogue to pray. Sitting behind separate desks at the back, wearing tallis and tefillin, were the Jews known as “the Stinkers.”
Imagine how nice it would be if Jewish drivers, particularly if they are identifiable as Jews by their dress or the stickers on their cars, would be known as the Five Star guys on the road.
Amazingly, Jews have achieved their enigmatic 22.5% figure despite being the most hated and persecuted people in history.
I came here from the UK. The capture of the once noble Labour party (sister party of America’s Democratic Party) by extreme Left-wingers and anti-Semites is now complete. A disturbingly high percentage of them come from Britain’s Muslim community where anti-Semitism is off the scale. The identical process emanating from the same extreme Left-Muslim alliance, the so-called "Red-Green alliance," has infected the Democrats.
The same kinds of sinister and clandestine figures that protected and concealed Nazis like Eichmann protected leftist anti-Semites within the Labour Party, across the UK.
“It’s not just that people are going to think that fake things are real, but that they will think that real things are fake.”
It is hardly a surprise that this era has been described as “the post-truth era.” In this post-truth world, Ilhan Omar can claim she is not anti-Semitic in the slightest – and be believed. Rashida Tlaib can make insanely unbelievable claims about Palestinian Arabs offering “refuge” to Jews fleeing the Holocaust, and any attack on her is declared Islamophobic
All that was needed was a self-declaration and a woman’s wig. He was all set! In fact, he could have self-identified as a woman on Monday and re-self-identified as a man on Tuesday. My advice to him is to hold on to the wig. You simply never know these days whom you might feel like being when you wake up in the morning.
Subsuming anti-Semitism under general, bland, catch-all anti-racist wording is a typical Corbyn and British Labour tactic. Instead of condemning the racist Omar, the reworded motion turned her into the victim. Still, the situation here is not as bad as in the UK – yet. It could get that bad very soon.
We use the word “chinuch” for education, but “chinuch” actually means to launch or inaugurate (see, for example, Tehillim 30:1). The word reveals the Jewish perspective on education: It is the launch of a life, setting a course for the direction life will take.
“I remember my dad tried to make me Jewish and failed, the local rabbi tried to make me Jewish and failed, my Jewish friends tried to make me Jewish and failed. It took the leader (Corbyn) of the Labour Party to do that.”
Is there any hope for the Jewish supporters of the BDS movement? Is there any hope that, against all odds, many – or some, or perhaps a few – will abandon the Dark Side, that old special hatred to which they’ve allied themselves?
Sadly, we don’t live in an age of reasonable people. Lots and lots of people want to be offended. They relish it. It allows them to express their moral outrage and superiority.
Now that we have returned home from our Sukkahs, let's remember those who have to homes to go to. Charity "may start at home" but let's extend it others without one.
On Sukkos, we shake a lulav, esrog, haddasim, and aravos, symbolizing all Jews, from saints to sinners. We have to interact with all of them. Some may challenge us and even trigger anger and resentment, yet Hashem expects us, af al pi kein, to stand together.
From Brooklyn to Britain, the writing is on the wall--Will you read it?
Wowzers! Super-rich Zuckerberg doesn’t think Neo-Nazis and ISIS supporters are intentionally denying the Holocaust. Well shucks, why would they?
The famous, quote,"Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it" is the reason behind the annually commemorated holiday of Tisha B'Av. The Jewish people has not yet healed its divisions. Until we do so, we will continue to observe Tisha B'Av
The media continues to play a crucial part in Hamas' evil drama, faithfully publicizing any anti-Israel lie, no matter how obvious and grotesque.
Alfie Evans was born in May 2016 with an incurable neurological condition and has been in the hospital ever since. The boy’s parents have been fighting in the courts to keep their son alive. Last week, his family lost their latest legal appeal and Alfie's life support was switched off. But then something unexpected happened. Alfie carried on breathing without the life support.
If I knew some white guy who took his family over decades to an American church where the preacher railed weekly against African Americans using the “n” word, it would be reasonable to conclude he was a racist. It is not unreasonable for someone to draw the same conclusion regarding Obama and Corbyn considering the churches they attended and the Facebook groups they belonged to.
June 19, 2026 
