A bus was hit by a rock thrown by Arabs in Azun tonight.

Some clashes taking place now in Dura (near Hebron) between Arabs and Israeli security forces.

Some clashes between Arabs and Israeli security forces taking place right now in Burqa, near Shchem (Nablus).

The U.S. and the Holocaust - Part 1 of 3

This is a new documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein.

It is a three-part, six hour series that examines America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a “nation of immigrants,” but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution, violence and flight as their families tried to escape Hitler, this series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with.

See part 2 below.
See part 3 below.

The U.S. and the Holocaust - Part 2 of 3

See part 1 above.
See part 3 below.

The U.S. and the Holocaust - Part 3 of 3

See part 1 above.
See part 2 above.

One of the homemade bombs used by terrorists against IDF and police forces in Jenin this week.

Great version of "Yoducha Raayonai" which is a song us Mizrachi Jews sing exactly like this on Shabbat.

It was written by Rabbi Israel ben Moses Najara who was born in the Ottoman Empire in 1555 in Tsfat (Palestine). Fun fact: There was also no such thing as Palestinians back then 😂

He was also the Rabbi of Gaza at the time and even lived in Damascus.

The guys singing this version are Yemenites.

Amazing!!

This is Meir Chajbi, an Israeli Jew of Yemenite descent and he is singing one of the Slichot songs in the Great Synagogue in Florence Italy.

Last year I made a post about this exact synagogue after an Israeli Mizrachi Jew was filmed singing another amazing song in there. The post hit over 10 thousand shares on Facebook. Here is the post and here on Facebook.

When the Nazis occupied Florence, this very synagogue was the headquarters for Nazi artillery storage. When the Nazis were retreating, the entire building was wired to be blown up. The Nazis dragged their wires several blocks away. As they were doing this, the non-Jewish caretaker was able to dismantle all of the bombs, leaving only one in an area of the building where, if blown up, would not threaten the structure. He did this, so that when the Nazis detonated, they would hear an explosion and leave. Because of that Righteous Gentile, the magnificent Synagogue of Florence was saved.

2 words.... "Jewish Army"

(This is the Netzach Yehuda unit of the IDF for ultra-Orthodox soldiers. They were having a lesson in the synagogue with Rabbi Shaul Abdiel regarding Slichot. The rest of the IDF can and should learn from them how to be a true Jewish army.)

The Israeli Magav border police services took their officers on a slichot tour of some biblical sites in Jerusalem this week.

They even had famous Israeli singer Yuval Taieb sing for them.

An only in Israel moment on a bus after 5am in the morning as these Yeshiva boys break out into song after attending the slichot services at the kotel in Jerusalem.