Israel’s warning to Trump, and the Mordechai precedent
Israel provided the intelligence that led the US Secret Service to secretly pull President Trump off Air Force One and smuggle him onto a different aircraft as he prepared to leave Turkey last month, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Irony in real time: Nashville bookstore cancels Jewish author’s book on antisemitism and cancel culture
Bell Bird Books, an independent bookstore, canceled a scheduled launch event for a new book “White. Blonde. Jew.” after facing an online pressure campaign from anti-Zionist activists, a cancellation that landed with particular irony given the book’s subject matter.
“Flesh shall rot away while they stand”: A modern outbreak meets an ancient prophecy
A rare and often fatal “flesh-eating” bacteria has killed at least seven people along the Gulf Coast so far this year, with health officials in two states warning residents to stay cautious around warm coastal water through the rest of the summer.
The Texas paradox: A state that loves Israel, but Jews are still six times more likely to be hate crime targets
Jews have been the target of 18 hate crimes in Texas so far this year, roughly 5% of the state’s 345 recorded hate crimes, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Uniform Crime Reporting system.
Marla Maples: Trump carries the Zohar over his heart “for protection and healing”
“He carries with him the Book of Pinchas, the Book of Zohar, in Aramaic. He puts it over his heart, inside, for protection and healing,” Maples said.
Iran strikes U.S. base in Kuwait despite Trump’s diplomatic pause, as regional attacks multiply
Until now, Iran had largely limited its retaliation to strikes following direct American attacks on Iranian territory. Tuesday’s reported strike came instead just days after President Trump halted a planned large-scale US offensive against Iran to give diplomacy a final opportunity.
Iranian state-linked outlet releases video calling for assassination of Melania Trump, threatens Barron
Tasnim, a Persian-language news agency affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, published a video Monday urging supporters to assassinate First Lady Melania Trump and threatening the president’s 20-year-old son, Barron.
A Shabbat in Austin, Built on Friendship
Rabbi Elie Mischel, Director of Education for Israel365, will lead a Shabbat afternoon Bible study for Jews and Christians at the Dell Jewish Community Campus in Austin, Texas
Mamdani admits he can’t arrest Netanyahu as Trump administration launches campaign to dismantle the ICC
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani acknowledged that he has no legal authority to arrest PM Benjamin Netanyahu, backing away from a pledge he had repeated for more than a year, while the Trump administration separately announced a sweeping campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court itself.
Echoes of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem in today’s Islamic conquest of the West
The destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem struck at the very foundation of Jewish life. Sadly, there are parallels between Rome’s siege and conquest of Jerusalem 1,956 years ago and the Islamist siege of Western society today.