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[Daniel 🇮🇱 @Dstaffenberg]

How Jews reinvented themselves — and America https://t.co/3GrzOySTxu

[Daniel 🇮🇱 @Dstaffenberg]

Bucking threats, hundreds in Gaza seen protesting Hamas for first time in a year

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[Eli Staffenberg @EStaffenberg99]

Not the day we hoped to have, but proud of how @Rba360showcase played, missing a few key pieces. Came in to relieve … 3.1 ip, 0er, 4k and 1bb 62% strikes. Also played SS. Finished weekend with .429 obp Thanks @vabaseballtourn for a fun weekend @DeepRunCats

[Prep Baseball VA/DC Scouting @PrepBaseVAS]

‘28 Eli Staffenberg
- @Rba360showcase // @DeepRunCats

Lines this pitch up the middle to add on to RBA’s lead.

@PrepBaseballVA

#RVAOpen #VA75

[Don't Look Away @ExposingHamas]

This day in history, June 1, 1941:

The Farhud began in Baghdad, as pro-Nazi rioters attacked Jews during Shavuot, murdering 150-180 people, injuring hundreds, r*ping women, and looting 1,500 homes and stores, marking the beginning of the end for Iraq's 2,500 year old Jewish community.

The Farhud began in Baghdad on June 1, 1941, during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.

It came after years of rising Nazi influence in Iraq. German propaganda spread through Arabic radio broadcasts, Mein Kampf was translated and published locally, and pro-Axis Iraqi nationalists, including supporters of Rashid Ali al-Gailani and the former Mufti of Jerusalem, helped poison public life with antisemitic hate.

When the pro-German Iraqi regime collapsed, Baghdad’s Jews believed the danger had passed. Instead, soldiers, policemen, Futtuwa youths, civilians, and Bedouins turned on them. For two days, mobs hunted Jews through the city. Between 150 and 180 Jews were murdered, around 600 were injured, women were raped, and about 1,500 homes and stores were looted.

The Farhud shattered one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. Jews had lived in Iraq since the 6th century BCE, long before Islam reached the region. But after the massacre, many Iraqi Jews understood that their future in Iraq was dying. By 1951, about 124,000 of Iraq’s 135,000 Jews had left for Israel.

Those who stayed behind faced more persecution, discrimination, arrests, frozen bank accounts, job dismissals, and fear. In 1969, Ba’athist Iraq publicly hanged 14 people accused of spying, nine of them Jews. Baghdad Radio invited people to “come and enjoy the feast,” and hundreds of thousands reportedly came to watch, dance, and celebrate under the bodies.

The Farhud was one of the main events you could look to in order to understand the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the entire middle east. It was an event my own family told me about, and that convinced them to move to Israel themselves.

Like many Jewish refugees from across the region, they knew the road ahead would be hard. They knew they would have to leave most of their property behind, use whatever money they had to bribe their way through several Arab countries, and arrive in Israel with almost nothing, often living in poor transit camps, the Maabarot. But they had no real choice.

I am deeply grateful for the sacrifices they made, and for the courage it took to build a better future, and an amazing life, for all of us here.

[Daniel 🇮🇱 @Dstaffenberg]

Proud to call coach @nmulb both a Friend and a mentor. Class act and great person!!!

[Johns Hopkins Baseball @JHUBaseball]

Final Words after today’s game vs Denison. #GoHop

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[Daniel 🇮🇱 @Dstaffenberg]

As Israel widens war against Hezbollah, northern town of Shlomi hunkers down

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[Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter @yechielleiter]

I condemn in the strongest terms Minister Mai Golan’s verbal attack on MK Gilad Kariv and on Reform Judaism in general. As an Orthodox Jew and as Israel’s representative to the United States I find her words disgusting and reprehensible, worthy of excoriation and rebuke. Theological, political, and ideological differences are fine, even necessary for a healthy people. But there is a line that cannot be crossed, it is a line that divides debate from hate and separates altruism from populism. Too many are crossing the line. Mai Golan’s statement is one of them. I will visit with leaders of the Reform movement soon, in person, to apologize on Israel’s behalf.

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

THE TAMPA SPARTANS ARE HEADING TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!

FINISH THE JOB @UTampaMLax

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher just dedicated the end of his show to throwing his own party under the bus for defending every minority group except Jews.

“There is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of this one group. And Democrats, where are you?”

“If any other minority group was being talked about this way, you’d break out the Kente cloth and have 10 benefit concerts.”

“But because you see that so many of your brainwashed-by-TikTok constituents now have an unfavorable view of Israel, you indulge them when you should be correcting them.”

“All the people likely running for president now on the Democratic side want it known they don’t take money from AIPAC, the Israeli lobby… You take money from crypto and factory farmers and big tech, from Diddy and Weinstein and Epstein, but AIPAC is too far?”

“Let me just say this to all who ask me, ‘Why are you harder on the Democrats than you used to be?’ Until you fix this whole issue, stop asking me.”

[Conf Of Presidents @Conf_of_Pres]

Jewish leaders condemn Kristof’s New York Times column: Amplifying unsubstantiated claims that echo dangerous historical narratives about Jews https://t.co/qKcHH8eOCo

[Eli Staffenberg @EStaffenberg99]

Great team win tonight for @DeepRunCats JV. Went 2-3 with 2rbi and some strong d at ss. @Rba360showcase @PrepBaseballVA @ILBaseball @VarsityVirgini1

[Daniel 🇮🇱 @Dstaffenberg]

Counting and being counted. https://t.co/F01SrgTSgE @JCRCRichmond

[Doug Hynes @DougHynes1]

FINAL SCORE: Deep Run 7 Hermitage 2 : WP: Kaden Staffenberg
DR: Koontz 2-4 HR, 2B/ Willis 2-3, 3B,2RBI
H: Posada 2-4, 2RBI @TheRVASportsNet @henricosports

[Eli Staffenberg @EStaffenberg99]

Tough loss against Glen Allen. Two hard hit balls, @DeepRunCats and some strong defense at SS. Team battles @Rba360showcase @PrepBaseballVA @ILBaseball on l lol

[Deep Run High School Baseball @DeepRunCats]

Congratulations to the Deep Run Invitational All- Tournament Team!
Kaden Staffenberg, Aiden Bradshaw, and John Koontz represent the Wildcats!

[יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog @Isaac_Herzog]

From Jerusalem, my Passover message to our Jewish sisters and brothers around the world:

[CBS News @CBSNews]

After a Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on Monday, rescuers searched through the remains of damaged buildings to find survivors, including one woman, who reached her hand out from under rubble to grab a rescuer's hand.

One woman was killed and three others were injured in the attack, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

[The Jewish Federations of North America @jfederations]

Join us TOMORROW, March 18 at 12pm ET for a briefing on the rapidly unfolding conflict involving Israel, the U.S., and Iran. We’ll be joined by Haviv Rettig Gur, who will provide timely insight and analysis on the latest developments. Register now: https://t.co/z96V8w5EZQ

[The Jewish Federations of North America @jfederations]

"Today's events prove once again that the investments our community makes in security play a critical role in keeping us safe, even in the face of the intolerable antisemitic violence around us.” - @JewishHartford https://t.co/OStkIyGoi3