A Jewish family took in a 7-year-old boy and gave him stability.
They helped him buy his first instrument. A cornet.
He was influenced by Jewish melodies. He spoke Yiddish. And wore a Magen David until his death.
That little boy was Louie Armstrong.
Shabbat Shalom💙
"May 1948. Haifa.
Golda Meir sat in a car leaving the city in darkness, wrapped in the wide dark robes of a Muslim woman. She did not speak Arabic. Her companion, Ezra Danin, a Haganah intelligence expert who did, was dressed as an Arab man. Together they posed as a married couple, moving through checkpoints into Transjordan, heading toward a secret meeting in Amman with King Abdullah I.
The windows of a second car had been covered with heavy black fabric so she could not be identified. The king had refused to come to the border. He had refused to alert his Arab Legion that Jewish guests were coming. If anything went wrong, she was on her own. C*pture meant interrogation. The implications beyond that were clear.
She went anyway.
This was not their first meeting. In November 1947, she had traveled to Naharayim on the banks of the Jordan River for a clandestine meeting with Abdullah, no disguise required that time. At that meeting, Abdullah had given his word. If the United Nations voted to partition Palestine, he would not att*ck the Jewish state. He promised.
Six months later, word reached the Jewish leadership that Abdullah had joined the Arab League and was preparing to march.
On May 11, 1948, four days before Israel would declare independence, Golda Meir traveled to Amman in secret to ask him directly. Would he keep his promise?
She found a different man from the one she had met in November. Pale, tense, and depressed. He explained that he had spoken to her as a man alone. Now he was """"one of five,"""" bound to Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Iraq in a coalition he could no longer break from.
He asked her to accept a proposal: Palestine would not become a Jewish state. Jews would receive autonomy within a unified Jordan and after a year the whole territory would be merged under his rule with Jewish representation in his parliament.
She refused immediately.
He asked why the Jews were in such haste to declare a state. She told him they had been waiting two thousand years. He told her the Arabs could not wait longer. She told him that if he turned his back on his promise, w*r was inevitable because the Jews would resist.
The meeting ended. The w*r came anyway, five days later, on the morning after Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948.
But Golda Meir had already been shaping that moment for months.
In January 1948, with the pre-state leadership desperately short of funds and w*r visibly approaching, she had been sent to the United States to raise money. The treasurer of the Jewish Agency believed they might collect seven or eight million dollars if they were fortunate. Meir aimed for twenty-five million.
She spoke at the General Assembly of Jewish Federations in Chicago, a speech she later described as unscheduled, unrehearsed, and unannounced, and the response was unlike anything the room had experienced. She raised twice the requested amount in that tour alone, ultimately bringing back more than thirty million dollars.
After independence was declared she returned to the United States on a second fundraising mission and raised approximately fifty million dollars more. In total, her two tours brought in around ninety million dollars, roughly a third of the entire cost of Israel's W*r of Independence.
David Ben-Gurion, who would become Israel's first Prime Minister, wrote in his diary: """"Someday when history will be written, it will be said that there was a Jewish woman who got the money which made the state possible."
On May 14, 1948, Golda Meir stood in a room in Tel Aviv and signed her name to Israel's Declaration of Independence. She was one of two women among the signatories. She later recalled: """"When I studied American history as a schoolgirl and I read about those who signed the Declaration of Independence, I couldn't imagine these were real people doing something real. And there I was sitting down and signing a declaration of establishment. She wept.
The decades that followed built one of the most consequential political careers of the twentieth century. She served as Israel's first Ambassador to the Soviet Union, as Minister of Labor overseeing the construction of 200,000 apartments, and then as Foreign Minister for a decade. In 1969, at age seventy, she became Prime Minister.
She was also, by then, secretly fghting cncer, diagnosed in the mid-1960s with a lymphatic condition she kept entirely hidden. She governed Israel and managed international crises while battling a terminal illness she had decided no one needed to know about. The country's needs, she had concluded, were larger than her own.
The wr she had spent her life trying to prevent came anyway in a different form on a different day. On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise attck on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The intelligence failure was catastrophic. In the first hours, Meir made decisions her military commanders later credited with preventing total disaster: authorizing the mobilization of reserves against cautious advice and refusing to collapse under the weight of what was happening.
Israel survved. But the political aftermath was merciless. In April 1974, Golda Meir resigned, not because she was found personally responsible, but because she understood that democratic leadership sometimes requires absorbing institutional failure regardless of individual blme.
She ded on December 8, 1978, in Jerusalem, at the age of eighty, survved by her children, grandchildren, and a nation she had helped bring into existence, fund into survval, and govern through its most dngerous years.
She had carried her illness in secret for more than a decade. She had crossed into enemy territory disguised as another person to try to stop a w*r with words. She had raised the money that by any honest accounting made the state possible.
When asked what she thought of being called a great woman, she reportedly said she had worked to be a great leader. The adjective, she suggested, was beside the point.
She was right about the point.
She was both things anyway."
“If Israel falls, then Athens, Paris, and Amsterdam will fall next. Our mothers in the West can sleep peacefully at night, because the mothers of Israeli soldiers lie awake wondering if their child will come back alive from battle.”
- Geert Wilders
JAPAN: Thousands gathered to protest the construction of the first mosque in Fujisawa. The proposed mosque would be much larger than the nearby Shinto shrine, an act of provocation.
“We don’t want a single mosque, or Muslim cemetery here!”
The train to Auschwitz in 1942.
The color footage reveals a stark contrast between the innocence of those aboard and the horrific fate that awaited them.
Dressed in their best clothes, they moved toward their final destination, the gas chambers.
Never again.💔
Between 1939–1945, children in concentration and labor camps were stripped of their names - turned into numbers. (Holocaust in Color)
We will never forget.
They left their shoes behind but their souls will never be forgotten!
On the banks of the Danube River in Budapest, 60 bronze pairs of shoes stand as a silent
witness to a tragedy!!
In 1944-1945, thousands of Hungarian Jews were ordered to take off their shoes before
•being shot into the icy river!
Today, we give them back their faces. We
remember their lives, not just their absence and we thank Hashem that we have our homeland back!
Never again is Israel
Never again is the IDF!
Never again is NOW!
Post by @adidvashai ❤️🙏
Japanese Arrive in Israel Singing!
Devoted Japanese supporters dance through Ben Gurion Airport with joy, waving both flags and celebrating the arrival to the Jewish State.
Real friendship.
Share if you love this.
Michelangelo was only 23 when he carved the Pietà.
More than 500 years later, it still feels impossible.
Has any sculptor ever created something more beautiful than this?
BOOM! 💥 Truth bomb!💥
Geneva | Controversial Remarks at UN Human Rights Council
Jassim Al-Jarid, a Kuwaiti regime opponent, stated during the 44th meeting of the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council:
“We Arabs were the real colonizers.”
He added:
“Why does the council sanctify a lie by maintaining a permanent agenda item on Palestine while ignoring the indigenous return of Israelis to their homeland?”
He further said:
“Today, Israel stands with peace-seeking nations, liberating Gaza from Hamas and helping free Iranians from the Islamic Republic. What Israel is doing is a gift to humanity.”
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
🚨To every Black person tempted by the antisemitic wave sweeping right now:🚨
Back when white mobs lynched us in the streets...
When we had no money, no power, and literally no movement...
Who stood with us? Who risked everything?
The Jews.
They weren't just allies—they were family in the fight.
- Jewish leaders co-founded the NAACP in 1909 and funded/led it for generations when no one else would.
- When Dr. King and our people were arrested, beaten, jailed—Jewish lawyers defended us for free, and Jewish money paid bail bonds and court fees while others turned away.
- In Freedom Summer '64, half the white volunteers risking death to register Black voters? Jewish.
- Rabbi Heschel marched arm-in-arm with MLK in Selma—our struggles linked forever.
Without their blood, treasure, solidarity, and courage—there is no Civil Rights Movement as we know it. No Voting Rights Act. No dream realized.
That's why I stand with the Jews.
They were our only true friends when this country hated us—when doors slammed shut and ropes hung high. They showed up, bled, and built with us.
So to my people joining this demonic, divisive hate today:
Pause. Remember. Honor the alliance that freed us.
Our histories are bound. Our freedoms were won together.
Betray that, and you betray the very martyrs who died for our rights.
Black-Jewish unity forged the dream. Don't let hate destroy it.
I stand with my Jewish brothers and sisters—always. ✊🏾🤝✡️🇮🇱
Repost if truth > trends. If gratitude > division. If history matters.
#BlackJewishAlliance #RememberOurAllies #StandTogether #CivilRightsTruth #NoToAntisemitism
The regime in Iran slaughtered 40,000 innocent young Iranians in just two days during the recent protests.
Last night, many of their executioners were eliminated. Justice is finally beginning to be served, and Iranians see hope flourish again.
Hope for a brighter future, a better government, and a safer Iran.
Happy Chaharshanbeh Suri, my dear Iranian friends. May this festival of fire bring a free Iran at last.
29 people were murdered in the March 17, 1992 Iranian regime - Hezbollah terrorist attack in Buenos Aires, including Eliora Carmon, the wife of Ambassador @danielocarmon.
He survived. Today, he shares his story.
This is a small snapshot of the tens of thousands of protesters murdered by Ali Larijani and Golamreza Soleimani.
Their murderers are now in the ground.
And soon the dream they gave up their lives for will come to fruition. Free Iran. 🦁☀️