Ashager Araro

Driving south now. On the shoulder of the highway.
At the entrance to a moshav.
In the middle of an open field.
Beside a bus stop.
At a kibbutz gate. Families & friends standing in small circles, around small memorials. Each one marks a place where someone they loved took

A year ago, Colombia severed ties with Israel, expelled its diplomats, and joined a genocide case against it at The Hague. This week, under a new government, Colombia restored full relations and recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Then an earthquake hit - and

Jews should not have to ask permission to exist openly. A Star of David should not become something you tuck beneath your shirt because you're unsure how the room will react. A mezuzah should not feel like a security calculation. A Jewish student should not have to determine

A Jewish, half-Israeli client was kicked out of a Virginia salon mid-appointment - after the owner learned her identity. "Get out of my shop," the owner said. "I can't provide service to an Israeli. It's against my political beliefs." She went on to tell the client Israel

Boy George released "Od Nirkod (We Will Dance Again)" a song about the Nova festival massacre - with the caption "Shalom." The backlash was immediate. His management pulled him from his role in "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the London Palladium. He split from his record label.

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US congressional investigators are examining whether China funded pro-Palestine protests in the UK and US through Code Pink, a "grassroots" activist group with alleged ties to tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, who's under federal grand jury investigation for producing pro-Beijing x.com/Telegraph/stat…

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Cambridge increasingly seems less interested in defending intellectual standards than in laundering extremism through academic language. Farah Ahmed, a former member of Hizb ut-Tahrir - banned in Britain as a terrorist organization in 2024 - was appointed Assistant Research x.com/visegrad24/sta…

Some legacies are carried forward in the way people choose to live. Capt. Omer Neutra, a New York native, was killed defending Israel against Hamas terrorists on October 7. His parents fought 759 days for his return. At Ramah Day Camp in Nyack, where Omer once lived and worked

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A man walked into Central Synagogue during Shabbat services, disrupted prayer, shouted antisemitic slurs, assaulted a 63-year-old congregant, damaged synagogue property, then spit at and headbutted security. Last month, Jews were targeted in 70% of all hate crimes in New York x.com/NYPDPC/status/…

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Jews should not have to earn safety by becoming quieter, less visible, or less Jewish. Sovereignty means Jewish existence no longer depends entirely on somebody else's permission.

Roughly 9,000 Jews remain in Iran - down from over 100,000 before 1979. Those who stayed are reportedly facing intensified persecution. Twenty Iranian Jews told the Jewish Chronicle they're facing interrogations, job losses, university expulsions, attacks on Jewish businesses,

In Madagascar - the same island the Nazis once planned to deport all of Europe’s Jews to - this is a Shabbat table today. For nearly a decade, they had no synagogue, no rabbi living on the island. This year, they’re finally building their first one. And still, every single

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Some of the governments lecturing the world on human rights at the U.N. are jailing dissidents, crushing free expression, and erasing women's rights. Session after session, their focus stays the same: Israel. Here's what makes it worse than hypocrisy: the U.N.'s Own x.com/HillelNeuer/st…

Someone wore a Hezbollah t-shirt to get coffee. Somewhere in Lebanon, that same insignia can get you killed, arrested, or buried under rubble, your own "resistance" invited. In the West, you can wear it to a café. That's the whole trick of turning terrorism into aesthetic: you

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One antisemitic hate crime every 25 hours in New York City. That's what this stat means in practice. Jews are 10% of the city's population and absorbed 57% of every hate crime recorded this year - while every other major crime category hit historic lows. Antisemitism doesn't x.com/WSJ/status/208…

Nearly three years ago, Avinatan Or went to a music festival to dance. He was dragged into Gaza by Hamas and held for 738 days, cut off from the world in darkness. This week, he returned to a festival for the first time. He danced beneath an open sky, surrounded by music and

One trip. One place. If it had to teach a college student everything about Jewish history in a single day, where would you send them? 📍 Jerusalem: 3,000 years of roots, still standing 📍 Yad Vashem: what hatred does when no one stops it 📍 A border kibbutz: proof the story

Calling Jerusalem "the city of three faiths" skips the most important chapter of the story. Jews were praying at this exact site 3,000 years ago - a thousand years before Christianity existed, and sixteen hundred years before Islam did. Jerusalem wasn't waiting to become

#MeToo was built on a simple promise: Believe All Women. Until those women were Israeli. It took UN Women 57 days to condemn what Hamas did to them on October 7 - mass rape, mutilation, sexual torture, documented by Israeli investigators, morgue workers, and the attackers' own

For nearly two thousand years, Jewish survival depended entirely on the goodwill of others. 1290: England expels every Jew in the kingdom. 1492: Spain does the same. 1948: for the first time in two millennia, that stops being possible. Jewish history demanded extraordinary