Zohran Mamdani is now claiming that billionaires shouldn’t exist because it’s “so much money in a moment of such inequality”
His parents are multimillionaires, btw.
Last night the sirens woke my 17-year-old son. From the safe room we heard the booms, very close, very loud.
His patience finally ran out. He lashed out and accused me of being irresponsible for bringing him to Israel during a war, relying on my imaginary friend—G-d—to keep us safe.
I raised my son an atheist because I was an atheist most of my life, until I converted to Judaism a few years ago.
As a child exposed to both Catholicism and Islam, I could never believe in the simplistic image of a mighty creator who is also petty, who intervenes arbitrarily in human affairs—or whose supposed intervention becomes a lazy explanation for events.
Judaism, to me, was different. It introduced G-d in a way I could understand, accept, and respect.
In Judaism, we do not sit back and wait for divine intervention.
We intervene with divinity.
And nowhere is that clearer than in Israel—where faith is not expressed through passivity, but through the relentless human effort to protect life.
I am not suicidal, and I would never bring my only child to a country under fierce attack without confidence in Israel’s defense systems and the Israeli commitment to the safety of everyone in this country.
That confidence does not come from imagination. It comes from Israeli excellence and pioneering technology.
So why be here for the war with my only child?
Some think I am a fanatic for exposing my son to danger. Behind that accusation lies the assumption that survival must always come first.
Some survive by running away. Others survive by coming together—by consolidating efforts and strengthening resolve.
But the lesson I wanted to teach my son is that our obligations are not merely legal or social.
In the West, where I raised him, people often do the bare minimum. First comes the self—self-care, self-help, self-preservation—and if energy remains, one might contribute something to the world.
But we also have moral obligations that come from within. Responsibilities that are neither expected nor rewarded.
My son grew up smart and strong, safe in Europe.
Yesterday I asked him: what about those who cannot leave? Those without visas or European passports?
What about teenagers whose parents cannot send them to school because Lebanon’s economy collapsed? The teenager raped in Sweida? Kurdish teenagers who became fighters to avoid the fate of girls sold as sex slaves in Iraq?
What about Israeli teenagers preparing to enter the army?
Are they not scared too? Would they not prefer a quiet life in Germany or New Zealand?
I watched the tears roll down his face.
Then I told him: welcome to reality. Welcome to adulthood.
Very few people are as intelligent as you are. You do not have to believe in my imaginary G-d.
But you have a gift—and gifts come with obligations.
Being afraid is normal.
Being brave means doing the right thing despite being afraid.
And here in Israel, bravery is not abstract. It is built into daily life.
People imagine chaos and blind faith. The reality is preparation.
Every new apartment has a reinforced safe room. Older neighborhoods have shelters. Schools are protected. Sirens warn civilians before impact. Missile defense systems work day and night to intercept threats.
This is what Jewish faith looks like in practice.
Not passivity. Not fatalism.
Responsibility.
This country does not rely on miracles.
It builds them.
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EXCL: Restaurant owner Harman Singh and his wife Kush have had their life ‘DESTROYED’ after putting up a ‘proudly non halal sign’ on his premises.
“I won’t be intimidated. We are losing business, but we WILL NOT lose our country to these people.”
@SamaramGill | @kingkapoor72
‼️INTERNATIONAL LAW VIOLATION 🚔
Another IRGC cluster munition ballistic missile attack on Israel
These are war crimes and meant to harm as many civilians as possible.
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