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[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Boy George shares message of solidarity with the British Jewish community.

“I don’t want to be thanked for doing what is right. I have so many beautiful Jewish friends…even if I don’t know you I send you my love.”

[WikiBias @WikiBias]

Once bias and corruption become the norm, it makes perfect sense that a 2023 photo wins the 2025 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year.

[WikiBias @WikiBias]

Wikipedia has become increasingly politicized, with bias against Israel.
The winner of the 2025 Wikipedia-based media repository’s Picture of the Year is an image taken in 2023 by WAFA (the PLO news agency).
No image depicting the October 7 horrors was included. Act surprised.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

A secular Jew asked me why I was converting to Judaism.

Why would a rational, educated woman choose to join an ancient people and embrace traditions that seem to belong to another age? Did I truly believe those traditions were still relevant?

My answer is simple: Judaism survived because of its traditions, not despite them.

What modernity often dismisses as outdated ritual is precisely what preserved Judaism when empires collapsed, borders shifted, and entire civilizations vanished. Judaism did not endure by accident. It endured because it anchored human life to meaning, discipline, and moral responsibility. Where others dissolved into myth or memory, Judaism remained a living system.

Long before these ideas became fashionable, Judaism introduced principles we now take for granted. It insisted that no human being stands above moral accountability. That power does not grant impunity. That compassion must extend beyond convenience, to the vulnerable, the weak, even to animals. That rest is not a luxury reserved for the privileged but a commandment binding all. And that time itself must be structured, sanctified, and directed.

Judaism brought order into human existence. It introduced a calendar, a rhythm, a weekly reset, a moral framework, and a sense of mission. It taught that freedom without discipline becomes chaos, and that meaning does not emerge spontaneously. Meaning must be cultivated, practiced, and renewed.

Is this irrelevant in the 21st century?

People still lie to escape responsibility. They still seek shortcuts in moments of pressure. They are still cruel to others and to themselves. And they still need to be reminded that life is not arbitrary, that human beings are accountable to something higher than appetite, ego, or ideology.

Judaism insists that above us is a source, a Creator, from which both our unity and our diversity emerge. Humanity may number billions today, but the Torah begins with one. With origins. With Bereshit. Because to understand where we are going, we must understand where we come from.

The Torah does not offer abstract philosophy detached from lived reality. It tells stories, human, flawed, and timeless stories, that illuminate the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. It speaks of jealousy, power, failure, responsibility, repentance, and moral struggle. That is precisely why those stories endure. They are not frozen in time. They speak to every generation anew.

Judaism, then, is not a relic. It is a system of moral memory. It is a civilizational framework that trains human beings to pause, reflect, restrain themselves, and choose responsibility over impulse. In an age obsessed with speed, gratification, and self-expression, Judaism insists on restraint, reflection, and continuity.

That is why the question of relevance misses the point.

If Judaism were merely symbolic, merely cultural, merely metaphorical, it would not have survived. And if it were irrelevant, Zionism itself would be unintelligible. What is Zionism without Judaism, without the original story, the language, the laws, the calendar, and the covenant that bind a people to a specific land and history? Why should Israel exist precisely where it does if Judaism is nothing more than an abstract faith detached from place, memory, and obligation?

Strip Judaism of its traditions, and what remains is not enlightenment, but erosion. Without obligation, there is no continuity. Without practice, there is no identity. Without memory, there is no people.

For me, Judaism is not an abstraction. It is not a costume, nor nostalgia, nor a political statement. It is identity carried through time, through exile, through Babylon and beyond. It is woven into history, culture, memory, and continuity. Anyone who takes a DNA test in the Middle East understands this instinctively. The connection is not theoretical. It is embodied.

That is why tradition in Judaism is not only relevant today.

It is indispensable.
#israel #judaism #zionism

[justlooking @eranhor]

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[justlooking @eranhor]

@StopAntisemites @Iberia @Iberia_en @BillAckman

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Unbelievable footage: The contents of approximately 950 food trucks, inspected and approved by Israel, are rotting on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom crossing because the UN refuses to distribute them.

Today, the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) offered to distribute the aid in the UN’s place, free of charge — and the UN declined.

The UN, in collaboration with Hamas, is starving the population of the Gaza Strip while simultaneously fueling the false campaign of “famine in Gaza.”

The shared goal of the UN and Hamas: to force the dismantling of the GHF and grant the UN exclusive control over food distribution — ensuring that nearly all of it ends up in Hamas’s hands instead of reaching the Gazan population.

HT @Tamir114

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.

They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.

A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.

Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.

And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.

In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.

They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.

The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.

So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.

They assume it must be cheating.

It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.

Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.

The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.

That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
It’s biblical.

There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.

Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.

This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.

Maybe He’s still in the story.

Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.

That’s what they can’t stand.

Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.

So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.

Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises.

And He’s keeping them still.

[Beni Bashan בני בשן @BashanBeni]

זה לא נורמאלי
שבכל פעם שרואה תמונה
של מישהו מחייך
או נערה יפה שלא מכיר
אני אמור לגלול מהר את המסך
כדי לא לגלות לעולם
מי הם
וממה הם מתו
ריבונו של עולם.

[שלמה פולק @shlomopolak580]

אבא כותב: הבת הגיבורה שלי הדר כהן הקריבה את חייה למען ארץ ישראל!
היא הייתה כל החיים שלי ואני מתגעגע אליה כל כך!!
אני אתרגש אם תשתפו לזכרה של המלאכית שלי!!
שתפו לזכרה של הדר כהן גיבורת ישראל!!

[שלמה פולק @shlomopolak580]

סיפור גבורתה של עדן נימרי!
עדן הלוחמת הגיבורה לקחה פיקוד ב7.10. היא תפסה פינה אחת במיגונית וחיילת שלה תפסה פינה אחרת.
עדן הגיבורה הצילה את חייה של לירי אלבג!
עדן נלחמה עד הכדור האחרון ונפלה בקרב!
שתפו לזכרה של עדן נימרי גיבורת ישראל!!

[justlooking @eranhor]

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[Hemi @hemi_xyz]

@MetronomeDAO and Hemi are working together to expanding the possibilities of decentralized finance! 🤝

This collaboration brings Metronome’s powerful tools into Hemi’s cross-chain ecosystem, bridging DeFi access between Bitcoin & Ethereum. Here’s what this means for users. 👇

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[MetronomeDAO @MetronomeDAO]

🎉 Exciting news! We're teaming up with @Hemi_xyz to bring DeFi to the next level.

Soon, you will be able to access multi-collateral support, mint synthetic assets, and explore Smart Farming, all through both Bitcoin and Ethereum in a secure, cross-chain environment.

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[Hemi @hemi_xyz]

🚨@Demos_Global Human Authentication services are now live on Hemi Testnet🔥

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[DEMOS @Demos_Global]

🚨GM Humans🚨

We are very proud to kick off our collaboration with @hemi_xyz

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[Hemi @hemi_xyz]

Hemi and @VesperFi are collaborating to bring easy-to-use DeFi yield opportunities to Bitcoin and Ethereum. This collaboration makes earning yield more accessible and secure, with cross-chain functionality powered by Hemi’s infrastructure.

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[Vesper Finance @VesperFi]

🎉 Vesper and @Hemi_xyz are teaming up to offer DeFi yield across Bitcoin and Ethereum!

Through this, Vesper users will be able to earn reliable, cross-chain yield through Hemi’s framework.

Learn more 👇
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[Hemi @hemi_xyz]

Hemi and @Satoshi_BTCFi are working together to enhance universal stablecoin capabilities. By combining Satoshi Protocol’s Bitcoin-backed stablecoins with Hemi’s modular architecture, we're unlocking seamless cross-chain interoperability and improved efficiency.

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[Hemi @hemi_xyz]

📰👀 -- When @avalonfinance_ says "$USDa: The Bitcoin Money," they mean it.

So do we when we say Hemi is the supernetwork that brings the best of Bitcoin and Ethereum together.

Put the two together and...

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