Yahya Ben Youssef, z"l, at nearly 100 years old, was one of the last six Jews still living in Yemen until he passed away last Thursday.
His Muslim neighbors helped bury him, as there are no enough Jews remaining in Yemen to carry out the funeral tradition.
Ben Youssef remained in Yemen despite harassment from the Houthis, whose rise to power during Yemen's civil war has led to more harassment and violence against the several dozen Jews who chose to remain in the country.
Yemeni Jews were oppressed as "dhimmis" or second class citizens for most of their over-2,000 years of history. In the 12th century, there were attempts to forcibly convert them, and in the 1600s, they were banished from Yemen's cities. The vast majority of Yemeni Jews made aliyah in 1949-50.
The Facebook page for the remaining community said that the funeral "was an act of unity and respect from the local Muslim community, who buried one of the six remaining Jews in the country."
Not in #Israel, not in #Gaza, but in #Sudan: since April 2023, 150,000 have been killed, 9,000,000 forcibly displaced, and 5,000,000 are starving. Every day, the Muslim Brotherhood-led Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) conduct airstrikes on hospitals, schools, churches, and mosques, destroying 86% of them. Why does the world refuse to protest or condemn these atrocities? Why aren't there cries of "From the river to the land, Sudan will be free" or "Free, free Sudan"? Do those students even know where Sudan is? How about "Black Lives Matter," "Africa matters," or "Muslim lives matter"? Sudan embodies all of these causes, yet it receives zero attention, allowing Muslim Brotherhood terrorists leading the army to kill people daily. Do you think the International Criminal Court will intervene, or are they too busy with Israel and Jews alone?
An Al Jazeera journalist kidnapped a woman and hid her for eight months with his criminal family to aid Hamas terrorists. Israel stepped in and freed her. The media, of course, says Israel rudely attacked a journalist's home, resulting in civilian casualties. Welcome to 2024 journalism, where the Al Jazeera journalist (Abdallah Aljamal) who kidnapped a woman goes live to dramatically recount how Israel crashed his party!
One post about the Eurovision results.
Israelโs Eden Golan won the second highest number of popular votes. Croatia leads this section by a margin of only two points.
Pay attention to what I have called the quiet undercurrents. Millions of voters worldwide have honored the talent, courage, beauty and deep sadness of the Israeli performance, and shunned the numerous episodes of hate against Eden and her team.
And no, antisemites, these votes werenโt bought by Jewish money. Refresh your vile ancient prejudices.
Thanks, Eden.
Now back to the hostages (219 days) and the Gazan innocents.
One of the saddest and scariest parts of what is happening right now on college campuses is that these students who are being arrested for their violent antisemitism and threats against Jewish lives think they are completely in the right. In fact, Iโm sure they equate themselves with protestors arrested in the age of MLK and the civil rights movement.
The truth is that they are spitting in his face, and in the face of all social justice movements. They are uneducated, unwilling to be educated, and do not care about Palestinians outside of following a trend to make themselves feel better about their own privilege.
Their arrogance and ignorance and complete contempt for Jewish life is a deadly combination and a tale as old as time that we Jews bear the scars of.
Four researchers receive time grant from Stockholm University Brain Imaging Center:
Aleksandra Adler, Julie Lasselin,Timothy Topper,
Laura Babcock.
SUBIC congratulates the researchers and encourages other researchers to apply for the next grant in the spring of 2024.๐๐
Antisemitism is not just hating Jews, but also minimizing the hatred we experience.
If you stood up and supported every other marginalized community, but canโt find the words to support Jews as we are facing a huge uptick in hate crimes against us, ask yourself why.
Never again is now.