Dear Jews of the United States, both Jews shomer halacha and Jews shomea halacha, If I may, allow me to begin this letter with a few questions. Do you not understand that Israel’s Jewish population consists of a majority of MENA Jews – Jews that are Indigenous to this region? Read more…
To this post, Christians and Muslims need not respond, *except* to ask a question: “Just how *ignorant* am I ?!” I love Torah stories and here is a perfect reason why – *wordplays*, even across stories! “וּלְאָדָ֣ם אָמַ֗ר כִּ֣י שָׁמַ֘עְתָּ֘ לְק֣וֹל אִשְׁתֶּ֒ךָ֒ וַתֹּ֨אכַל֙ מִן־הָעֵ֔ץ אֲשֶׁ֤ר צִוִּיתִ֨יךָ֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹ֥א תֹאכַ֖ל מִמֶּ֑נּוּ Read more…
Thank you for participating in the Jewish people’s Sukkot – our yearly “Festival of Ingathering,” our every year’s *most important* “Harvest Festival”! And, if you did so, *THANK YOU* for waving the luval v’etrog – the “four species” – in the Six Directions for the future rains to come, by Read more…
When antisemitism increases in the Western and Eastern sides of this planet Earth (aka, the European and Middle Eastern worlds), *who* are the victims?! All around this world, the lessons of World War 2 are being quickly forgotten, and the Jewish people are *again* being blamed for the world’s problems, Read more…
Rabbi Ysoscher Katz’s wrote… “Rabbi, can you help me pick out an esrog? I know that aesthetics is an essential part of the considerations, but what determines supremacy in the citrus beauty pageant? ———-Sure! Here is, broadly speaking, what you need to consider. When buying an Esrog you look for Read more…
Uncomfortable conversations simply must be had, if we are to ever bring accountability and peace to this world. And, unfortunately, the land of Israel is center stage – “ground zero” – for bringing this about. Both Colonial Christianity, created in the Aegean north, and Colonial Islam, created in the Arabian Read more…
‘What if I say I’m not like the others? What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays? You’re the pretender. What if I say I will never surrender? … I’m the voice inside your head, that you refuse to hear! I’m the face that you have Read more…
All of the דרכו של היהודי “way of the Jew,” meaning our entire ethno-national relationship with sacred living tradition, can be summarized by one simple Psalm. To be indigenous to a land and obligated to its people (and the ways of its people) is to have a relationship with the Read more…
Yes, we Jews are the last surviving tribe of the Levant Canaanite peoples. We have been repeatedly colonized (occupied and re-occupied) by Europeans up north and Arabs down south for Allah-Christ-(now)Marx and caliphates-kings-(now)communism for over 1,400 years. We have been ethnically cleansed from our lands repeatedly by these Colonial Arabs-Europeans, Read more…
I can’t tell you how many groups that I’ve been kicked out of very shortly after being accepted in. Why? Because most Arabs-Europeans and their colonized have no real desire to hear an actual Jew’s voice, unless we are parroting what makes them feel comfortable with our presence among them. Read more…