Iran Attacks Israel: CNN’s Amanpour Minimizes Barrage & Fake News Goes Viral by Rachel O'DonoghueRachel O'Donoghue

Iran launched an unprecedented direct attack on Israel overnight on Saturday, launching at least 300 drones and missiles towards the Jewish state. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) coordinated with other militaries, including the USA and UK, to intercept most of the projectiles, which were also supplemented by further rockets fired from Iranian terror proxies in […]

The Red Heifer and the Road to Freedom by Sara LammSara Lamm

The holiday of Passover is imminently approaching, and breadcrumbs everywhere are making themselves scarce. At least, I hope that’s the case – for bread is forbidden during the eight days of the holiday. In addition to the meticulous cleaning, cooking, and overall holiday preparation, there’s something else that marks the build-up to this holiday, and […]

Biblical Leprosy and the Power of Words by Rabbi Pesach WolickiRabbi Pesach Wolicki

The portion of the Bible, Tazria deals primarily with the ritual impurity of one who is afflicted with tzaraat, the Biblical skin ailment usually translated as “leprosy.” This leprosy is not the same as the condition known today as leprosy. Tzaraat is a physical affliction that has a spiritual source. The one afflicted with tzaraat […]

Special Edition: Iran Attacks Israel by Park MacDougald
The Big Story On Saturday evening, Iran targeted Israel with hundreds of suicide drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. The vast majority of these projectiles, according to IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari, were intercepted outside of Israel’s borders by Israeli jets and missile defense systems. “A few impacts” were identified inside Israel, including at a military base in the south, causing “slight damage to infrastructure.” One injury has been reported so far—a young Bedouin girl who was hurt in the Negev. The most recent update from Israel’s Home Front Command, sent just before 4 a.m. in Israel, said that Israelis no longer need to remain near bomb shelters, which suggests that the current wave of attacks may be over.
Why the left united around hatred of Israel by Jonathan S. Tobin
Since Oct. 7, woke ideology brought together a diverse coalition of advocacy groups eager to stop the war on Hamas. The Democratic Party will never be the same.

If you have to keep asserting, as Tobin does, that Donald Trump’s “very fine people” comments after Charlottesville included the nazi attendees, then it’s all a bit more than a myth. And if Tobin wants American Jews to leave the democrat ic party in favor of the Republicans he’s going to need to start being honest about Donald Trump’s at best questionable support for Israel and his outright support of antisemitism.