Zachary Stein

[Zachary Stein @zachstein33]

@jonokatz Only solution is trading for Yesavage and signing Skubal

[Barstool Philly @BarstoolPhilly]

Brandon Marsh’s walk off with crowd noise only

[Zachary Stein @zachstein33]

@jonokatz Warriors and Rockets not wearing their primary jerseys for Game 7 tells you everything you need to know about the NBA

[Zachary Stein @zachstein33]

@jonokatz Fact. TBS*

[Jamey Baskow @JameyBaskow]

Scottttttyyy Laughton with the hat trick, empty net goal

[Zachary Stein @zachstein33]

@jonokatz @Yankees I've exclusively listened on mute. Sad that Costas is going to be remembered for this by so many people.

[Zachary Stein @zachstein33]

@jonokatz @OhioStateFB See you on 11/2

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

If you are watching the RNC Convention, you cannot help but be struck by the love of country and patriotism pouring out of the enormous crowd.

All conventions involve cheerleading, but this one is different. Standing as one behind President Trump, the sense is palpable that the Republican Party is determined and unified to rally behind its leader and restore honor, faith and dignity to our great nation.

Watching the convention from Israel (where I have traveled for a family event), I had one additional reaction as well: The crowd overwhelmingly loves and supports this Holy Land as does the Republican leadership.

May God bless America and Israel and guide their leaders to create a more just and peaceful world.

[Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz]

🚨WATCH: Senator Cruz RIPS Secretary of State Blinken for catastrophic foreign policy failures of Biden administration🚨

[Michael Eisenberg @mikeeisenberg]

This is the awe-inspiring will written by our cousin Ben Zussman z”l when he went to battle. I did my best on English translation. Pls read it. Ben is a member and leader of the Defining Generation.

The will of Ben Zussman, from Jerusalem:

"I'm writing you this message on the way to the base. If you're reading this, something must have happened to me. As you know me, there's probably no one happier than me right now. It wasn't just that I was on the verge of fulfilling my dream. I'm happy and grateful for the privilege I'll have to defend Our beautiful country and the people of Israel.

Even if something happens to me, I ask you not sink into sadness. I had the privilege of fulfilling my dream and destiny and you can be certain that I am looking down on you and with a big smile. I will probably sit next to Grandpa and we will bridge some gaps, everyone will tell about their experiences and what has changed between the wars we were both in. Maybe we'll also talk a little politics and I will ask him what he thinks.

If God forbid you sit Shiva, make it a week of friends, family and fun. Let there be food, meat of course, beers, soft drinks, nuts and seeds, tea and, of course, mommy’s cookies. Make jokes, hear stories, meet all my other friends you haven't met yet. Actually! I am Jealous of you. I would like to sit there and see them all.

Another very, very important point. If God forbid I fall into captivity, alive or dead. I am not willing to all even one soldier or citizen to be harmed because of some deal for my release. I forbid you to conduct a campaign or struggle or anything like that. I am Not willing for terrorists to be released for me. in no way, shape or transaction. Please Don't violate my request.

I'll say it again, I left the house without even being called to the reserves. I am full of pride and a sense of mission and I have always said that if I have to die I wish and hope that it will be in defense of others and the country. “Jerusalem, I have appointed guards”, one day will come and I will be one of them"

[Chabad Lubavitch HQ @Lubavitch]

How A Chess Game in a Manhattan Park Lit a Long-Dormant Jewish Spark

Alex Kernish wasn’t even planning to be in Washington Square Park that day.

The yeshiva student was planning to spend his Friday afternoon in Brighton Beach, a southern Brooklyn neighborhood, on mivtzoim—offering passersby the opportunity to do a mitzvah. But he and his friend Menachem Engel got off to a bit of a late start, and the hour-plus subway commute to Brighton Beach would have left them with some 30 minutes before they’d have to head home for Shabbat.

So they called an audible.

They got on the 3 Train and headed to Manhattan’s Washington Square Park. When they got there, they walked over to the west end of the park, where a group of chess tables with with its ever-present crowd of players, known as “Chess Hustlers,” often presented them the opportunity to share Judaism with others.

“The people playing chess there are often Jewish, and they’re usually very sociable,” Kernish told https://t.co/1MNPdggrdS. “So we went there, and I put tefillin on one guy, after we were done he said, ‘Do you see this older guy here? He’s turning 102 in two weeks.”

“‘I think he’s Jewish.’”

So Kernish approached the man, and said the phrase that has been said countless times in the decades since the Lubavitcher Rebbe introduced the Tefillin Campaign in 1967: “Excuse me sir, would you like to put on tefillin?” The man’s rejoinder surprised him. He said, “Do you want to play a game of chess?”

“Sure, I’ll make a deal with you. I’ll play you a game of chess, but if I win, you put on tefillin,” Kernish agreed. The man across from him had decades of experience, but unbeknownst to him, Kernish is no slouch, as his 1500 Elo rating is considered the mark of an “experienced and great” chess player.

As the game progressed, Kernish asked the man, “Have you put on tefillin before?” He ignored the question. Then he asked, “You are Jewish, right?” He replied, “I used to be Jewish,” and began crying. He wiped his tears and continued playing.

As the game progressed, he started talking some Yiddish. “You speak Yiddish?” Kernish asked. “Yes, I was in Europe,” he responded. His father had taught him to play chess when he was nine years old, as the clouds of antisemitism began to blanket the continent. His family didn’t survive the war—he was the sole survivor. In order to remember his father, every day for more than 80 years he has come to Washington Square Park to play chess.

The game ended, and young Alex Kernish prevailed over his opponent.

Then he asked, “Are you ready to put on tefillin?”

He rolled up his sleeve, and for the first time in his life, he put on the tefillin. Kernish said, “Repeat after me, ‘Shema Yisroel, Hashem Elokeinu …” and the man was overwrought with emotion, barely able to get the words out.

“As soon as he started doing the mitzvah, all the emotion came pouring out,” Kernish said. “After 80 years of not putting on tefillin, 80 years since the last time he said he had a connection with Judaism, his Neshama [soul] was being reawakened.”

[Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom]

Nir Oz was one of the kibbutzim in southern Israel attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7.
Nearly half of the community’s 400 residents were murdered or abducted.
This is the community WhatsApp chat from that day:
https://t.co/F23DtzmfEn

[John Schindler @20committee]

Remember: Israeli children weren't beheaded unless we see confirmed photographs of severed baby heads, but the hospital was blown up by Israel, killing hundreds of innocents, because HAMAS said so.

[יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog @Isaac_Herzog]

An Islamic Jihad missile has killed many Palestinians at a Gazan hospital - a place where lives should be saved.

Shame on the media who swallow the lies of Hamas and Islamic Jihad - broadcasting a 21st century blood libel around the globe.

Shame on the vile terrorists in Gaza who wilfully spill the blood of the innocent.

Never before has the choice been clearer. Israel is standing against an enemy made of pure evil. If you stand for humanity - for the value of all human life - you stand with Israel.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

Following an analysis by the IDF's operational systems, a barrage of rockets was launched toward Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit.

According to intelligence information from a number of sources we have, Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is responsible for the failed rocket launch that hit the hospital.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Beginning tonight in Kansas City, NFL teams across the league will hold a moment of silence before each game this weekend following last week’s terrorist attack in Israel.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Some advice for students:

If an organization of which you are a member puts out a public statement you disagree with, you have a few choices.

You can:

Stay silent and have the entire world conclude that you stand by the statement.

Convince the other members of the group to withdraw or otherwise modify the statement so that it can reflect the views of all members.

Or you can resign in protest.

Claiming that you had no involvement or knowledge of the statement, but remaining a member of the organization without it withdrawing the statement is perhaps the worst of the alternatives, as it appears to simply be an attempt to avoid accountability while continuing to be a member of the organization.

If you were managing a business, would you hire someone who blamed the despicable violent acts of a terrorist group on the victims?

I don’t think so.

Would you hire someone who was a member of a school club who issued a statement blaming lynchings by the KKK on their victims?

I don’t think so.

Would you want them to be an associate at your law firm?

Of course not.

It is not harassment to seek to understand the character of the candidates that you are considering for employment.

In fact, as CEO, it is your obligation to do so on behalf of all of the other employees in your company, the clients and customers it serves, and all of your other stakeholders.

I have heard that the above inquiry has made some members of the groups which put out the statement feel ‘unsafe,’ a word that is sadly overused in universities today.

Ask yourself how unsafe it would feel in Israel beginning Saturday early morning and how unsafe it feels now?

Ask yourself how unsafe your Jewish classmates feel when 32 clubs published a statement assigning sole responsibility for the heinous, deathly acts of terrorists to Israel and the Jews?

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. If you have made a mistake, acknowledge it, and immediately correct your mistaken actions.

Public statements made by organizations of which you are a member can have a material negative impact on your reputation.

I have learned from experience that the best time to fix a mistake is now.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

40 babies murdered.

[i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN]

i24NEWS Correspondent @Nicole_Zedek reports from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, a quarter-mile from the Gaza border, and recounts the atrocities that were committed in the small community which remains an active scene as soldiers clear booby traps and recover the bodies of dozens of victims