Organizers of the pro-Palestinian flotilla featuring Swedish anti-Israel activist Greta Thunberg announced that they had to abandon course just a day after departing Barcelona.
The reason?
Rough seas.
The “voyage will be postponed,” they declared.
Monday, September 1, 2025
Greta’s Gaza Flotilla Turns Back After One Day
Organizers of the pro-Palestinian flotilla featuring Swedish anti-Israel activist Greta Thunberg announced that they had to abandon course just a day after departing Barcelona.
Ben-Gvir pushing Tough Response to Gaza-Bound Flotilla
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is pushing a hardline response to the Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest Gaza-bound flotilla to date, with ships launching from Barcelona, Sicily, Greece, and Tunisia carrying activists from 44 countries, including Greta… pic.twitter.com/LKMMmiDdpm
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) August 31, 2025
Mossad will Target Hamas Leaders Even in Qatar
Mossad is prepared to eliminate Hamas leaders in Qatar if even one of the living hostages is executed!
— Israel News Pulse (@israelnewspulse) August 30, 2025
"Trans Shooting Up America"
something in the water… pic.twitter.com/sjhPmNy6uY
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 29, 2025
BREAKING - CNN is under intense scrutiny after anchor Brianna Keilar blatantly lied on air, claiming that only three mass shooters have been identified as trans since 2020, with people demanding a retraction from both her and the network. pic.twitter.com/JaQB9gaPwq
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) August 31, 2025
Israel isn’t getting enough credit for what just happened in Yemen.
Sen. Jon Ossoff Another Self-Loathing Jew
Votes by Sen. Jon Ossoff in support of resolutions calling for a halt of U.S. shipments of specific weapons to Israel met with overwhelming, but not universal, criticism from within Atlanta’s Jewish community.
Ossoff, a Jewish Democrat who has talked publicly about relatives living in Israel, voted Nov. 20 in favor of two of three resolutions advanced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont. Those resolutions called for a halt to U.S. delivery of tank rounds and mortar shells. Ossoff voted against a third resolution that called for a halt to delivery of guidance kits for joint direct attack munitions, known as JDAMS.
Sixteen Democratic senators, including Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, voted in favor of advancing all three resolutions, while another Democrat supported one of the three. Though the resolutions were defeated in the Senate by a large margin, their votes reflected divisions in the Democratic Party over Israel’s conduct of its war against Hamas in Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist massacre of 1,200 people and the kidnapping of 250 more.
Ossoff’s votes likely will be an issue when he seeks re-election in 2026.
The first-term senator explained his votes in a Senate floor speech. “I remain steadfastly committed to the U.S.-Israel alliance, and I also believe we must be willing to say no, even to our closest friends, when we believe it is in America’s national interest,” Ossoff said in closing.
Frankfort & Melbourne Stooping to take Crap from Pro-Hamas Protestors
Frankfurt doesn’t tolerate antisemitism and anti Israel!pic.twitter.com/8fJ2U9sU0J
— Azat (@AzatAlsalim) August 31, 2025
Watch the Pro-Hamas guy who tries to stop the burning of a Kaffiya , gets the crap beaten out of him!
In Melbourne they've had enough of pro-Palestine. pic.twitter.com/mkbKRGQhZJ
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 31, 2025
Mazal Tov Rabbi Leo Dee remarries Following tragedy:
Rabbi Leo Dee, 53, on Sunday night wed Aliza Teplitsky, 43, in an emotional ceremony held in the town of Efrat.
During the chuppah (ceremony), Dee’s surviving daughters, Keren and Tali, delivered moving words about their late mother, Lucy, and expressed their heartfelt support for their father’s decision to remarry Aliza.
The ceremony was officiated by Efrat's Rabbi Shlomo Kimchi and Rabbi Yair Bienstock, with musical accompaniment by Rabbi Shlomo Katz. IDF Chief Cantor Shai Abramson also participated, dedicating a moving song to the couple.
Rabbi Dee’s wife Lucy and two of their daughters, Maia (20) and Rina (15), were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists in April 2023. Since then, Dee has become an internationally recognized figure of faith and resilience. He has authored three acclaimed books on faith, prayer, grief, and healing, following the success of his first book on contemporary Judaism, "Transforming the World: The Jewish Impact on Modernity."
Aliza Teplitsky, originally from Toronto, was active in Bnei Akiva and later served as director of programs for the movement in North America, based in New York. She immigrated to Israel in 2005, worked on the Jerusalem light rail project, designed exhibitions at the Israel Museum, and worked in tourism. Today, she manages a customer service team at a Tel Aviv hi-tech company.
Rabbi Dee and Aliza will continue to live in Efrat together with Dee’s three surviving children - Keren, Tali, and Yehuda.
Dozens of Haredim enlist in IDF
Dozens of young Haredi men arrived this morning (Monday) at the Tel Hashomer induction center, taking part in a special enlistment day designated for Haredi units in the IDF. The new recruits were assigned to combat service in the Netzach Yehuda Battalion of the Kfir Brigade, the Hashmonaim Brigade, the Negev Platoon, the Tomer Company in Givati, the Hetz Company in the Paratroopers, and the Border Police.
Several of the enlistees were graduates of the Netzach Yehuda pre-military academies, run by an association that supports young Haredi men with religious and social preparation ahead of meaningful service.
Yehoyada Cohen, who enlisted in the Hashmonaim Brigade, expressed, “This is our time. We are making progress in creating a spiritual framework adapted for Haredim. Many gave up what was most precious to them in order to enlist, and that inspired me to join as well. I hope the IDF will allow us to defend our country while safeguarding our Haredi way of life.”
His father, David Cohen, added, “Those who dedicate themselves to Torah study should continue on that path. But those who have completed it deserve to take part in this mitzvah. It is positive that the army has created frameworks that enable soldiers to serve while maintaining a Haredi lifestyle. As parents, we want to believe our sons will be kept within a system committed to preserving their values.”
David, 19, a graduate of the Nitzotz Ba’Emunah Haredi preparatory program who joined the Netzach Yehuda Battalion, remarked, “I have not been in yeshiva for the past two years, and I decided it was time to give my contribution. I am proud to become an IDF soldier and to devote myself to the people of Israel.”
Shomer Yisrael, the organization overseeing Haredi enlistment tracks in the IDF, stated, “We are proud of every recruit who chooses to integrate Torah observance with service to Israel’s security. They prove it is possible to be both a Haredi devoted to mitzvot and a combat soldier. We will continue to guide and support them during their service and after their discharge.”
150 News Outlets Across 50 Countries to Launch Coordinated Anti-Israel Push Today
A coalition of more than 150 media outlets across 50 countries is preparing a coordinated campaign accusing Israel of killing journalists and restricting press freedom, according to leaked plans circulated by pro-Israel advocates.
The campaign, slated for Today, Sept. 1, is reportedly led by international activist NGO Avaaz in partnership with Reporters Without Borders. Outlets are expected to publish black front pages under a unified slogan: “At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, soon no one will keep you informed.” The campaign will also feature coordinated hashtags, including #ProtectJournalistsInGaza.
Organizers appear to have timed the effort ahead of upcoming UN votes on Palestinian statehood and aligned it symbolically with the anniversary of Germany’s invasion of Poland.
Pro-Israel groups argue the campaign is less journalism than public relations warfare. Many individuals described as journalists in Gaza were affiliated with Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, with several filming the Oct. 7 attacks while wearing press vests. They also point to standard press restrictions in other warzones, including Mosul and Fallujah, and note that foreign reporters have been escorted into Gaza by Israel.
Finally!! Military Police Deployed To Jerusalem, Beitar Illit, & Elad To Arrest Draft-Dodgers
As thousands of Brelover chassidim prepare to travel to Uman, the IDF is planning to step up enforcement against Chareidi draft-dodgers.
The enforcement will not only take place at Ben Gurion Airport but also at various crossing and in Chareidi areas.
Channel 12 News reported that in recent days, military police have been stationed in areas where a high concentration of Chareidi travelers is expected, including Elad, Beitar Illit, and the Jerusalem area.
The police officers will conduct proactive inspections to locate deserters trying to leave the country at air, land, and sea crossings.
Rabbi Yosef Blau's Pathetic Response to his Critics
!כל המרחם על האכזרים סופו שמתאכזר על הרחמנים
Rabbi Blau made a few serious factual errors. First, the vast majority of Gazans and PA Arabs, inculcated in a terrorist, Islamist, destructive, and annihilating strategy and tactics, and suffering from indistinct roots and therefore insecure, cheered and still cheer Oct.7.
The settler violence and seizures are a concoction of the American and European Left, who have sponsored thousands of episodes of baiting of Jeeish shepherds, followed by flipping on cameras to catch their self-defensive responses.
It is the PA which has confiscated thousands of dunams of Area C land. Look how narrow E1 is now, eg.
Thirdly, a smart person does not provide fodder for pyromaniacs. He is not emotionally intelligent.
For 48 years, until he moved to Israel earlier this year, Rabbi Yosef Blau was the “mashgiach ruchani” at Yeshiva University, a revered figure who served as a sort of spiritual guidance counselor to students at Modern Orthodoxy’s flagship seminary.
In that role, he said this week in an interview, his job was to be “available to help students on issues that bother them, rather than issues that bother me.”
Earlier this month, he told the world what was bothering him, and the world took notice. Blau, 86, is the author of “A Call for Moral Clarity, Responsibility, and a Jewish Orthodox Response in the Face of the Gaza Humanitarian Crisis,” an open letter signed by 80 Orthodox rabbis. The letter forthrightly condemned Hamas, but took the Israeli government to task for its halting response to what most of the world sees as a hunger crisis in Gaza.
“Hamas’s sins and crimes do not relieve the government of Israel of its obligations to make whatever efforts are necessary to prevent mass starvation,” the letter reads.
The letter also decried extremist voices in Israel, the hardening of sentiments about Palestinians, and the explosion of settler violence in the West Bank. But unlike the growing number of similar statements released by non-Orthodox denominations and other Jewish groups, the letter was written by and for an audience of Modern Orthodox Jews, on balance the staunchest defenders of Israel among the major Jewish movements.
“This moment demands a different voice — one grounded in our deepest Jewish values and informed by our traumatic history of being victims of persecution,” the letter reads. “Orthodox Jewry, as some of Israel’s most devoted supporters, bears a unique moral responsibility.”
The media treated the letter as a tipping point in the internal Jewish dismay over the war in Gaza — Blau said he was “stunned” that the New York Times wrote about it. The letter also sparked a passionate, often angry debate among Blau’s fellow Orthodox Jews, especially those who tend to identify with the “religious Zionist” camp that weds religious piety with a deeply nationalist view of Israel.
While the letter was cheered by groups like Smol Emuni US, which represents Orthodox and otherwise observant liberal Zionists, and by individual Orthodox and non-Orthodox Zionists who have been critical of the Israeli government, the critics have been vocal. They accused the author and the signers of representing a fringe within Orthodoxy, aping the criticism of NGOs and governments hostile to Israel, and providing aid, comfort and talking points to Israel’s enemies.
This week Blau was back in his office at Y.U.’s Upper Manhattan campus, where he still has a volunteer role counseling students when he is not at his new home in Jerusalem. In a conversation with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Wednesday, he responded to his critics, explained why he wrote the letter and talked about his lifetime attachment to religious Zionism and where he thinks it has gone wrong.
Raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in a non-Hasidic Orthodox family, Blau attended the Yeshiva University High School for Boys when it was located in Brooklyn. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yeshiva College and his rabbinic ordination from its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. In 1977, he was appointed Mashgiach Ruchani by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, perhaps the most important Modern Orthodox figure of his era, and Rabbi Norman Lamm, Y.U.’s longtime president.
From 2005 to 2017, Blau served as president of the Religious Zionists of America.
The conversation was edited for length and clarity.
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