The Flight Home I was flying home from my dad’s funeral. I was a wreck. I was sitting in the middle seat. I couldn't stop sniffling. The man next to me, a big guy in a business suit, put down his laptop. "Rough week?" he asked gently. "My dad died," I said. He didn't say "I'm sorry." He pulled out a deck of cards. "Do you know how to play Gin Rummy?" he asked. "Yeah," I said. "My dad taught me." "Good," he said. "I'm tired of working. Play with me?" We played cards for three hours. We laughed. We argued about the rules. For three hours, I wasn't a grieving daughter. I was just a card player. When we landed, he handed me the deck. "Keep 'em," he said. "Teach your kids." I looked at his business card later. He was the CEO of a major tech company. He could have worked. He chose to play cards with a stranger. Time is the greatest gift you can give.
Congratulations to the Jewish/Israeli athletes competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics!
Your hard work, commitment, and love of sport have brought you to the world’s biggest stage, and we’re proud to cheer you on alongside the global Jewish community. Mazel Tov and good luck!
Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges.
If you are comparing Minneapolis to the Holocaust you are engaging in Holocaust denial and revisionism. Because it’s not even remotely comparable to the Holocaust.
So stop 🛑
Signed,
A Jew
Two years. Two years passed since the last moment I saw Avinatan, the love of my life. Two years since the moment terrorists kidnapped us, put me on a motorcycle, and tore me away from Avinatan before the eyes of the entire world.
From that moment, our journey in captivity was separated. I was held captive with children, women, and the elderly, while Avinatan was held alone. I was mostly kept inside houses, while Avinatan was only in the tunnels. Hamas released videos and signs of life from me, while there was no information at all about Avinatan. I was held captive by Hamas for 246 days, while Avinatan was held for 738 days. I came back in a heroic rescue operation, and Avinatan returned in a deal.
But both of us, against all odds, came home and were reunited!
I cannot put into words the range of emotions I felt when I saw him for the first time after so long. Each of us faced death countless times, and yet, after two years apart, we are finally taking our first steps together again in the State of Israel.
At last, we can begin our healing together. The recovery will be long; we still haven’t truly processed what has happened here over these past two years. But we won. We won our personal war, and the war of all those who fought alongside us to reach this moment. And now, the time has come to begin our shared journey together.
I want to say a huge thank you, first and foremost, to the @IDF soldiers and security forces who have been fighting for so long and risk their lives for us every single day. Thank you to our family, friends, and to the people of Israel, Am
Yisrael, who raised their voices when we couldn’t speak. To the people around the world who embraced us, to all the incredible individuals who supported us through the hardest times and never lost hope throughout this long period. To the US government, which opened its doors to me and was always there to listen, especially @SEPeaceMissions Steve Witkoff, @jaredkushner, and the exceptional, President @realDonaldTrump.
To all the people who too stood beside our hostages and understood that light must overcome darkness.
We will never forget the fallen and the murdered, and we will not stop fighting until every fallen soldier and hostage is brought home for a proper burial in Israel.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
This could never have happened without you.
We are back ❤️
Hostage Bar Kuperstein has a huge surprise waiting for him at home.
His father, who had been paralyzed and nonverbal due to an accident, has learned to walk and speak again over the last 2 years, so that he’d be ready to hug his son and tell him he missed him.
📹@roniaviram
Hamas killed every single female hostage they had left so those girls couldn't tell the world what they had done to them.
To everyone who walks on a 'free palestine' march
To everyone who flies that islamo-fascist flag
To everyone who chants from the river to the sea
Fuck you.
Why we love sports today:
This girl DM’d DeVonta Smith’s fiancé letting her know that her Mom, who has been battling ovarian cancer, absolutely loves DeVonta & he’s her favorite player. Smith’s fiancé drove all the way to the hospital to drop this off for her.
Grab a tissue 🥹