Feliz 2025!

 

Vida

 

 

 

A murmuration of starlings over the Avalon marshes, Somerset, UK

 

Hanukkah

 

 

 

"The Hidden Story of Chanukah", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (2012)

Daniel Gordis

 

 

 

"Daniel Gordis Answers 18 Questions on the IDF’s Morality, the Hostage Crisis, and the Iranian Threat"

Feliz Hanukkah!

 

 

Happy Hanukkah!

 

Hebron, 1929

 

 

 

"1929: A harbinger of October 7th" - with Yardena Schwartz

Pagers

 

 

 

"How Israel's Mossad tricked Hezbollah into buying explosive pagers" | 60 Minutes

"Fire Dance" de Rama Burshtein-Shai

 

 

 

Trailer

 

Vida

 

 

 

A young male Antarctic fur seal, named JOCA by biologists, 

and likely carried by Antarctic ocean currents, 

makes a rare appearance on Ipanema beach, Brazil, earlier this week 

Israel

 

 

 

"What do we mean when we call Israel ‘The Jewish State’?", Einat Wilf (2018)

Gaza

 

 

"Debunking the Gaza Death Toll", Major Andrew Fox

David Baddiel

 

 

"Jews Don't Count"

 

Irão

 

 

 "Iran's Next Move" - with Raz Zimmt

 

 

וְאַל־יֹאמַ֣ר בֶּן־הַנֵּכָ֗ר הַנִּלְוָ֤ה אֶל־יְהֹוָה֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר הַבְדֵּ֧ל יַבְדִּילַ֛נִי יְהֹוָ֖ה מֵעַ֣ל עַמּ֑וֹ וְאַל־יֹאמַר֙ הַסָּרִ֔יס הֵ֥ן אֲנִ֖י עֵ֥ץ יָבֵֽשׁ

 

Let not the foreigner say,
Who is joined to GOD,
“ GOD will keep me apart from this covenanted people”;
And let not the eunuch say,
“I am a withered tree.”

כִּי־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהֹוָ֗ה לַסָּֽרִיסִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יִשְׁמְרוּ֙ אֶת־שַׁבְּתוֹתַ֔י וּבָחֲר֖וּ בַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר חָפָ֑צְתִּי וּמַחֲזִיקִ֖ים בִּבְרִיתִֽי

 

For thus said GOD:
“As for the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths,
Who have chosen what I desire
And hold fast to My covenant—

וְנָתַתִּ֨י לָהֶ֜ם בְּבֵיתִ֤י וּבְחֽוֹמֹתַי֙ יָ֣ד וָשֵׁ֔ם ט֖וֹב מִבָּנִ֣ים וּמִבָּנ֑וֹת שֵׁ֤ם עוֹלָם֙ אֶתֶּן־ל֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֖ר לֹ֥א יִכָּרֵֽת

 

I will give them, in My House
And within My walls,
A monument and a name
Better than sons or daughters.
I will give them an everlasting name
That shall not perish.

וּבְנֵ֣י הַנֵּכָ֗ר הַנִּלְוִ֤ים עַל־יְהֹוָה֙ לְשָׁ֣רְת֔וֹ וּֽלְאַהֲבָה֙ אֶת־שֵׁ֣ם יְהֹוָ֔ה לִֽהְי֥וֹת ל֖וֹ לַעֲבָדִ֑ים כׇּל־שֹׁמֵ֤ר שַׁבָּת֙ מֵֽחַלְּל֔וֹ וּמַחֲזִיקִ֖ים בִּבְרִיתִֽי

 

As for the foreigners
Who are joined to GOD,
To render service,
And to love GOD’s name,
To be devoted servants—
All who keep the sabbath and do not profane it,
And who hold fast to My covenant—

וַהֲבִיאוֹתִ֞ים אֶל־הַ֣ר קׇדְשִׁ֗י וְשִׂמַּחְתִּים֙ בְּבֵ֣ית תְּפִלָּתִ֔י עוֹלֹתֵיהֶ֧ם וְזִבְחֵיהֶ֛ם לְרָצ֖וֹן עַֽל־מִזְבְּחִ֑י כִּ֣י בֵיתִ֔י בֵּית־תְּפִלָּ֥ה יִקָּרֵ֖א לְכׇל־הָעַמִּֽים

 

I will bring them to My sacred mount
And let them rejoice in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
Shall be welcome on My altar;
For My House shall be called
A house of prayer for all peoples.”

 

Isaiah 56: 3-7

 

Sionismo

 

 

 

"Politics: Emancipation & Political Zionism", with Einat Wilf (1/5)

Vida

 

 

 

Raccoons lounging at the Cinta Costera on Panama City’s waterfront 

 

Oxford Union

 

 

 

Mosab Hassan Yousef at the Oxford Union, on Israel and Palestinians 

Leonard Cohen

 

 

"The Partisan" (1969)

Síria

 

 

 

"This is a historic day for the Middle East.": Israeli PM on the Collapse of the Syrian regime

Oxford Union

 

 

 

"Jonathan Sacerdoti's speech defending Israel at the Oxford Union"

 

Einat Wilf

 

 

 

 "Einat Wilf answers 18 Questions on Gaza, Anti-Zionism, and the Israel-Hamas War"

Bret Stephens

 

 

 

"New York Times columnist Bret Stephens in Melbourne" (June 2023)

Vida

 

 

Spinner dolphins in the Rea Sea, Egypt

 

América

 

 

 "The Future of American Jewry", Rabbi David Wolpe

 

Elie Wiesel

 

 

Elie Wiesel Interview (1995)