If the Jackets want to show fans it's a new era in Columbus, they won't do a tribute video for the guy who begged out of town when he returns with his new club on October 20th.
David Axelrod and Van Jones debate AIPAC re: #MISen ⬇️
Axelrod: “It's a legitimate question. Should essentially an agent of any foreign government, whether it's Israel or any other, be able to spend.. $30 million in a race like this to influence the outcome of that race?”
Van Jones: “I don't think that they're an agent of a foreign power. I think they're American Jews… Their issue is to protect Israel… Why is AIPAC so mad? This guy is saying that the U.S. government can't even sell defensive weapons to Israel, which would make Israel completely defenseless. Now that would be a reason for a group of people who cares about Israelis to say this is not our guy.”
Israel has become the ultimate litmus test for one’s values.
Pro-Israel? Nine times out of ten you can accurately predict the rest of their worldview: men cannot give birth, there are only two genders, mass migration is bad, capitalism works, religious freedom must be protected, and Judeo-Christian values are the bedrock of Western civilization.
Anti-Israel? You can safely assume they’re either an Islamist, a communist, a neo-Nazi, or a teenage LARPer shrieking “Deus Vult” from his mom’s basement. “Palestine” is what unites the worst people in the world.
Israel didn’t ask for this role. It’s perfectly fine to have no strong opinion on a faraway Middle Eastern country. But in the current climate, a person’s stance on Israel instantly tells you whether they’re worth your time — or a waste of oxygen.
Sasha Troufanov and Sapir Cohen were abducted to Gaza two and a half years ago. Yesterday, they were married and began building a home together in Israel. That sentence is worth re-reading.
Every word spoken beneath the chuppah suddenly took on a deeper meaning.
“Behold, you are consecrated to me with this ring, according to the law of Moses and Israel,” Sasha said as he placed the ring on Sapir’s finger.
In interviews after his release, he said: “When I was abducted, my Jewish identity meant nothing to me. The first time I ever put on tefillin was after I was freed from captivity. I did not know there was a God. It is incredible. I was abducted because I was Jewish, yet I did not even know what that meant. Today, I do.”
Then came the breaking of the glass.
Rabbi Berel Lazar, the Chief Rabbi of Russia, who has supported the couple and officiated at their wedding, placed the glass on the ground and recalled the surgery Sasha had undergone on his leg after being wounded in captivity.
And there he stood, on both feet, healthy, strong, and smiling, as he declared:
“If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget it’s skill. Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not place Jerusalem above my greatest joy.”
By then, many were in tears. Sasha and Sapir were abducted from Nir Oz, but their story is also the story of Jerusalem. They both understand that.
Sapir once told me in an interview that her captors would speak to her about Judaism, the Ten Commandments, Jerusalem, and the Torah. The more she knew, the more unsettled they became.
“Ana Yahud,” she would tell them. “I am Jewish.”
One of the terrorists told her he disliked her because she was constantly looking out for the people around her, helping them and bringing “light into the darkness of Gaza.”
He was right.
The seven wedding blessings were recited beneath the chuppah yesterday. Sasha’s mother, Yelena Troufanov, and his grandmother, Irena, were there. Both had also been abducted to Gaza and later returned home. Since then, they have become symbols of faith, hope, and Jewish identity, particularly among Russian-speaking Jews.
One person was deeply missed: Sasha’s father, Vitaly, of blessed memory, who was murdered on October 7th.
Once again, the ancient words carried extraordinary meaning—a prayer for all that will now fill this new home, and for the home of the Jewish people:
“Who created joy and gladness, groom and bride, rejoicing and song, delight and celebration, love and fellowship.”
Amen. Mazel tov!
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This 👆 is from Sivan Rahav-Meir: https://t.co/4VHQBhf36Y
Imagine waking up on the first official spring weekend of 2026 and spending it going to a No Kings protest to protest a man who's literally removed the two biggest dictators on planet Earth over the last four months.🤣🤣🤣
Kevin Durant invested in an Israeli surveillance drone startup. Draymond Green shot guns with the IDF. And Curry has multiple Hebrew tattoos. The owners of the GS Warriors are huge Zionists. Makes perfect sense to me. But yeah, Curry is a social activist!!! For the PEOPLE ✊✊🏾✊🏿
A society that reveres its fallen heroes in this manner is infinitely superior to one that sends its young men to die for a promise of a pleasurable afterlife.
Stephen Colbert: “Don’t compare ICE to Nazis. That’s an unfair comparison. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.”
I just left Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, where I learned that Nazis buried Jewish babies alive by the thousands to avoid wasting bullets.
Auschwitz-Birkenau 1945, this is where those who were not sent right away to the gas chambers were stuffed into, six men in one bed.
Sitting in the home of Rabbi Gershon Jacobson, the editor of the @Algemeiner Journal, Elie Wiesel was once asked what the most humiliating moment he experienced in Auschwitz was.
Wiesel began crying, something he never seen him do.
Wiesel said:
"It was the end of a day in Auschwitz when we came back from a day of work. They were broken, tired, and starved. As they walked back, they gave them a small piece that looked like bread. At the time, I took the bread and soup and put them in my mouth.
My father and I continue walking to the barracks. And he tells his father that he suddenly had a desire and a yearning that his father would die right there, and he could take his portion of food. He turns to Jacobson and says, "This is what the Germans did to us; a child who is 14 and loves his father can only dream of his father dying for a piece of bread."
The Germans did not just systematically murder 6 million Jews; they sought to take away their humanity before they were murdered.
Photo: @historyinpic9
2013. Obama is asked why his administration is deporting so many people and separating families.
Obama: I'm the President, not the Emperor. I have to enforce the law even if it is tragic and heartbreaking.
Anne Frank was first deported to Auschwitz, then died of Typhus in Bergen Belsen concentration camp at 15.
One million Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust.
Illegal immigrants are offered thousands of dollars to take a free flight home.
Tim Walz is an evil retard.
It must be exhausting being a liberal.
One day you’re defending Somali daycare fraudsters.
The next day you’re defending a narco-terrorist communist dictator.
And it’s all driven by one thing:
their hatred of Donald Trump.
Listen to Zach talk. The one guy who chose to stay in Cbus despite the history and he sounds like he's close to being done. What's next? Fantilli decides he doesn't want to stick around? Could you blame him if he didn't? Ridiculous from the McConnells and the CBJ FO.
#cbj
This was 10 year old Matilda.
Happy, care free and enjoying a day out at Bondi Beach with her family for Hanukkah.
Shortly after this video was taken, terrorist Naveed Akram aimed his rifle at her and shot her dead as she tried to run to hug her father.