Friday, December 19, 2025
Brown University shooter also killed MIT professor
NEW: U.S. attorney for Massachusetts details how investigators linked the Brown University shooting to the shooting of the MIT professor:
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The Brown University gunman is also responsible for the murder of MIT professor Nuno Loureiro on Monday, officials said on Thursday night, confirming earlier speculations.
The shooter was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound earlier on Thursday, law enforcement officials confirmed.
Authorities have identified the suspect as Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, 48. He was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a New Hampshire storage facility.
Earlier on Thursday, CBS News reported that law enforcement authorities are examining whether there is a connection between the deadly mass shooting at Brown University and the targeted killing of Professor Loureiro.
Leah Foley, a US attorney for Massachusetts, detailed how investigators linked the Brown University shooting to the shooting of the professor.
“Investigators identified the vehicle that he had rented in Boston, and then drove to Rhode Island. And the vehicle was seen outside of Brown, and there was security footage that showed a person who resembled him,” said Foley.
She added, “There was financial investigations that were going on in the background that linked him not only to that car, but also to the hotels that he had rented."
“There is video footage of him entering an apartment building in the location of the professor's apartment. And then later that evening, he is seen about an hour later entering the storage unit wearing the same clothes that he had been seen wearing right after the murder.”
Chareidim Decide They Don't need to Light Chanuka Candles anymore Found a Bigger Mitzvah To Throw Stones at a Bus Carrying IDF Soldiers
The IDF condemned an incident in Jerusalem on Thursday in which civilians attacked and threw stones at a bus transporting IDF trainees and commanders from the Kfir Brigade.
The IDF said the bus was forced to stop after a group of civilians gathered around it and began throwing stones. Commanders disembarked in order to secure the vehicle and protect the soldiers until police arrived at the scene. Law enforcement officers dispersed the crowd, after which the bus was able to continue on its route. No injuries were reported among the soldiers.
“The IDF strongly condemns any violence against its soldiers,” the military said.
Video footage shows a crowd of Chareidi men surrounding the bus and engaging in heated verbal confrontations with the soldiers inside and outside the vehicle. The IDF did not identify the individuals involved.
The incident came amid broader unrest in Jerusalem earlier in the day. A riot broke out in the city involving Chareidi demonstrators, during which at least 10 police officers were injured. Protesters threw stones at police and overturned a police vehicle during the riot, which was sparked by the arrest of 3 yeshiva bochurim.
Police have not released further details regarding arrests or potential charges related to either incident.
A Conversation a Father Had with His Son going Viral
Q. Tattie, how did we defeat the Yevanim?
A. With Hashem’s help!
Q. So why did we need the Maccabim?
A. They were just soldiers, Hashem helped them and Baruch Hashem we won.
Q. The Maccabim were soldiers?!
A. Yes, they were soldiers in the army of Hashem.
Q. So they were Chabdniks?
A. No, no! Chas v'shalom! They were yeshivish.
Q. Did Yehuda Hamacabi fight? With a weapon?
A. Yes.
Q. So Yehuda Hamacabi was a goy or not religious?
A. Chas v'shalom, why would you think he was a goy or not religious?
Q. Because only goyim or non-religious Jews go to the army.
A. No, no, in the past religious people also went to the army.
Q. So why did the Maccabim go to the army and we don't?
A. Because today our Torah protects us.
Q. And then their Torah didn't protect them?
A. I think it’s time for you to go learn with Moishie.
Q. Did the Maccabim learn Torah?
A. Of course! They learned Torah all the time!
Q. They didn't work for a living?
A. Chas v'shalom!
Q. So how did they have money?
A. Well they worked a very little teeny bit.
Q. Off the books in secret like Uncle Yanky?
A. No!
Q. So what did Mattisyahu do?
A. He was a farmer.
Q. So how did he work in the fields with his white shirt?
A. How do you know he wore a white shirt?
Q. Moishie told me that a real Jew only wears white shirts.
A. You spend too much time with Moishie, but he is right.
Q. What did the Maccabim want?
A. They wanted an independent Jewish state that they would run.
Q. Is this what we want?
A. That is something that Zionists want.
Q. Tattie, I want to be a soldier, a farmer and a Zionist!
A. Gevalt!!! What happened to you?!
Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral in Sydney for 10-year-old Matilda murdered for being a Jew
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral in Sydney for 10-year-old Matilda, who was killed in an antisemitic mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.
Her parents, immigrants from Ukraine, had brought her to what they believed was a safe family event, a rabbi said, calling the tragedy a collective failure.
Brown University shooter found DEAD
The suspected Brown University shooter found DEAD to a self-inflicted gun-shot wound in Salem, New Hampshire at a storage facility.
The individual is identified as Claudio Neves Valenti, a 48-year-old man. He was a Brown University student, a Portuguese national, and his last known address was in Miami, Florida. He took his own life
Israel building its First Tunnel Under Tel Aviv!
After Decades of Talk, Israel Breaks Ground on Its First True Underground Metro as Netanyahu Hails a National Turning Point
Netanyahu framed it as a shift from decades of talk to execution, pitching the underground network as a national “leap forward” that will reshape commuting, growth, and day-to-day life across the Tel Aviv metro area. Plans call for three lines spanning roughly 150 km with 109 stations across 24 local authorities.
He also fused the transit milestone into a broader message of Israeli strength, saying Israel has brought back 254 hostages and will not stop until the last fallen hostage, Staff Sgt. Ran Gvili, is returned as well.
And he tied momentum at home to leverage abroad: Israel has approved a record Leviathan gas export agreement with Chevron and partners to supply Egypt, worth about NIS 112 billion, while Egypt stressed it is a “purely commercial” deal.
Nvidia’s newly announced mega-campus push in Kiryat Tivon added fuel to the pitch that global tech still chooses Israel.
A Call to Come Home
A dear friend of mine was in Israel last week for a family wedding. We visited the Kotel (Western Wall) and the Kotel Tunnels and had lunch at Café Rimon in Mamilla. We packed as much conversation and updates on our families as we could into those precious hours. As we said our goodbyes, I was holding back what I had wanted to say to her the whole time: “Please come home! (make aliya) At least, make sure your passports and documents are up to date and open up a file with Nefesh B’Nefesh before you are forced to! ,” I wanted to plead. But, because I am often accused of being an “aliya bully,” I held back that request and hugged her goodbye.
The Shock of Sydney
I decided to leave a voice message for my friend and shared with her all I had wanted to say. I begged her to consider making aliya for so many reasons. The continued rise in worldwide antisemitism, prophecies and teachings that explain to us that all Jews should all be living here by now, and the teachings about the impending Geula (Final Redemption) by esteemed Rabbeim like Rabbi Pinchas Winston (Ohr Yechezkel, Emunas HaGeulah, Sanhedrin 111a, Tuv HaAretz and The Merit of Living in Eretz Yisroel Before Moshicach Arrives). For over 20 years he has been saying that the window to make Aliya (immigration to Israel) is closing. Literally 10 minutes after I left the message, I heard about the horrific attack on Sydney’s Jewish community,
The Tragic Loss of Alex Kleytman Among the 16 Jews murdered: Never Again?
Part of the breaking news about this massacre: Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman was fatally shot while shielding his wife, Larisa, during the Hanukkah terror attack in Bondi Beach. Both Alex and Larisa survived the Holocaust as children, Alex enduring “dreadful conditions” in Siberia. The elderly couple had been married for 57 years, had two children, and 11 grandchildren. Australia is home to one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors outside Israel. My friend’s parents were Holocaust survivors. I tell my husband all the time that I cannot believe how the children of survivors don’t read the warning signs of Antisemitism and get out before it is too late. Are they going to repeat “hanging in” until the bitter end, as most of the Jews did in Nazi Germany?
Voices on the Attack
- An Israeli official: “We warned the Australian authorities multiple times about an attempt to murder Jews on their soil. They did nothing.”
- Hillel Fuld: “The only thing that’s shocking about this is that anyone is shocked.”
- Paula Stern: “The painful truth we have to accept is that these terrorists were looking for a soft spot to attack Jews because they, correctly, see Jews as part of the people of Israel. And although this may sound shocking, there is another issue that needs to be made clear. The truth is obvious to Israel…and that is all that matters. This attack was directed at Israel, but there is a message for the Jews of Australia too. It’s time to pack a suitcase. Time to get ready.”
- Rabbi Josh Wander: We Forgot We Were Refugees “The saddest exile is not the one you live in — but the one you forget you’re in.”We became ‘proud Americans,’ ‘proud Germans,’ ‘proud Russians,’ even ‘proud Persians’ (and Australians). We forgot the one thing that mattered: We were never supposed to stay. There is nothing wrong with gratitude toward countries that sheltered us — America foremost among them. Jews flourished here economically, intellectually, and religiously. But gratitude is not identity. Jewish identity is destiny. There is a difference. Time to Come Home.” Rabbi Tzvi Fishman: Why would a religious Jew want to live in a gentile land inundated with spiritual impurity when he or she could live in the Holy Land????
Prioritizing Jewish Safety and Preparing to Make Aliya
Among the many memorable quotes of Rabbi Meir Kahana HY”D (May G-d avenge his blood), he said, “I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all.”
Yehudis Schamroth: “I, like Kahana, am sick and tired of seeing Jews targeted, attacked, and murdered in cold blood! I am sick and tired of Jews being murdered with the complicit acceptance of the world. And the world continues to get used to Jewish massacres and then whitewashes them as unfortunate incidents. Many people, including Paula Stern, noted that ‘The Guardian’s headlines rob us of our identity every bit as much as those terrorists tried (and succeeded) in robbing us of life,’ as they never once mentioned ‘Jews’ or ‘Israel’ in the headlines report of the Sydney massacre!
Perhaps if the people had been allowed to be armed, like we are here in Israel, there may have been only a few casualties. But why not come to live here, for all the right reasons, not the least of which is that you will be protected as a Jewish Israeli who is entitled to protection—you won’t have to hope it will happen.”
The Final Question leads to the Final Solution
On Chanukah in Skokie, IL, 1977, Rabbi Kahana said, “It doesn’t matter what the gentiles say, it matters what Jews DO!” “Time to go home!”
So, I say to my dear friend and to Jews all over the world when we say, “Please come home!” What will you do?
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Rubio announces sanctions on two ICC judges
US Senator Marco Rubio announced sanctions today (Thursday) against two International Criminal Court (ICC) judges over their participation in the ICC's targeting of Israel.
The sanctions were announced against Georgian judge Gocha Lordkipanidze and Mongolian judge Erdenebalsuren Damdin.
"These individuals have directly engaged in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel's consent, including voting with the majority in favor of the ICC's ruling against Israel's appeal on December 15," Rubio said.
He added: "The ICC has continued to engage in politicized actions targeting Israel, which sets a dangerous precedent for all nations. We will not tolerate ICC abuses of power that violate the sovereignty of the United States and Israel and wrongly subject U.S. and Israeli persons to the ICC's jurisdiction."
"Our message to the Court has been clear: the United States and Israel are not party to the Rome Statute and therefore reject the ICC's jurisdiction. We will continue to respond with significant and tangible consequences to the ICC's lawfare and overreach," Rubio stated.
Last week, an American official told Reuters that the US has asked the ICC to drop its probes of Israeli leaders over the Gaza war and to formally close its long-running Afghanistan file concerning American personnel. Failure to do so, the source said, could lead to further punitive measures targeting additional ICC figures and potentially the court as an institution.
On Monday, the ICC rejected one in a series of legal challenges brought by Israel against the court's probe into its conduct of the Gaza war.
The judges refused to overturn an earlier decision allowing the prosecution’s investigation into alleged crimes under its jurisdiction to include events following Hamas’s deadly assault on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The ruling means the investigation will continue, and the arrest warrants issued last year for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant remain in effect.
The ICC has faced accusations that its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, pursued the arrest warrants against Israeli officials to pressure a woman who accused him of sexual harassment to keep silent. Khan, in an unusual move, announced the warrants soon after he cancelled a fact-finding mission to Israel.
Israel and the US are not party to the Rome Statute or the ICC, which leaves them outside the ICC's jurisdiction.
In an Ironic Twist ...Just as Chilonim were getting ready to light Chanuka Candles Charedim were busy lynching a Police Officer
Following false reports of the arrest of three yeshiva students on Hanna Street near Ali HaCohen, clashes erupted between hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters and police and Border Police forces at the scene.
The Vanity Fair interview was a ‘targeted’ hit job on Susie Wiles, entire Trump admin
By Miranda Devine NYP
When it comes to hit jobs, the 10,000-word Vanity Fair spread on Susie Wiles is a classic of the genre.
Chris Whipple, a veteran journalist, producer and author with a career spanning the constellation of left-wing media — CBS’s “60 Minutes,” ABC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Politico, The Daily Beast, The New York Times, The Washington Post — has craftily framed the president’s chief of staff in a narrative of typical Trump-derangement fantasies.
The wonder is that she let him do it.
And there’s no doubt she did.
Washington journalism veteran Mark Halperin on his 2WAY podcast says Wiles may have thought the 11 interviews Whipple said she did this year were off the record.
Journalists talk to longtime sources all the time with an implicit understanding that everything’s off the record except when you come to a mutual agreement otherwise.
In an industry where trust is everything, burning a source by revealing off-the-record confidences is career-limiting to say the least.
Exhibit A: Olivia Nuzzi, the short-lived West Coast correspondent for Vanity Fair, has coined the term “Michael Wolffing it,” meaning telling a source everything is off the record and printing it anyway.
Trump biographer Wolff got rich burning sources and making up stories, but nobody buys his books or believes what he says anymore.
Nuzzi’s journalistic career is over — and not just for having affairs with the politicians she covers.
Wiles did not respond to The Post’s questions about whether she thought her conversations with Whipple were off the record — which is an answer in itself.
Missing Kentucky girl found alive with new identity 42 years later — and she had no idea
A woman who was abducted when she was just 3 years old was found alive and well more than four decades after her disappearance — with no knowledge she’d ever been a victim in the first place.
Michelle Marie Newton was first reported missing on April 2, 1983. Her mother, Debra Newton, allegedly moved the pair from Louisville, Kentucky to Georgia “to begin a new job and prepare a new home for the family” — but left her husband, Michelle’s father, in the dust, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
The missing child was none the wiser for a staggering 42 years.
Now 46, Michelle was raised under a different name. Her mother, now 66, started going by “Sharon,” according to the sheriff’s department.
After Debra allegedly absconded with their child, Joseph Newton tried to track them down. He told WLKY that he last spoke to his jilted wife sometime between 1984 and 1985 before she vanished entirely.
Still, the search for Debra and Michelle pressed on until 2000. At that point, the case was dismissed because prosecutors couldn’t reach Joseph, WFTV9 reported.
Five years later, Michelle was removed from the nationwide missing child databases, the sheriff’s office said. By then, she would’ve been around 25 years old.
The case was reopened in 2016 at the request of a family member, but there still weren’t any meaningful developments until police received a bullseye Crime Stoppers tip in 2025.
The damning tip led authorities to Debra’s home in The Villages, Florida on Nov. 24. She had been living in the famed retirement community as “Sharon Nealy” and had a new beau at her side, WFTV9 reported.
In body camera footage obtained by WESH 2, a police car rolls into Debra’s driveway. A friend joked, “They’re coming for you, Sharon!” according to the video.
Debra laughed it off, but one of the deputies plainly stated that they were in fact “here for you, ma’am.”
After cuffing Debra — who once held a spot on the FBI’s “Top 8 Most Wanted parental-kidnapping fugitives” — police went to Michelle’s doorstep and delicately shattered her reality.
“You’re not who you think you are. You’re a missing person. You’re Michelle Marie Newton,” they told her, Michelle told WLKY.
From there, Michelle phoned the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and planned a long-awaited reunion with her father.
“She’s always been in our heart. I can’t explain that moment of walking in and getting to put my arms back around my daughter,” Joseph told WLKY.
“I wouldn’t trade that moment for anything. It was just like seeing her when she was first born. It was like an angel.”
Debra was arraigned on a felony charge of custodial interference, according to the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office in Jefferson County. She was released on bond posted by a family member.
Michelle and Joseph were both present at her arraignment. Michelle didn’t appear to immediately take a side.
“My intention is to support them both through this and try to navigate and help them both just wrap it up so that we can all heal,” she told WLKY.
How the Mossad took out 11 Iranian nuclear scientists....New details
The Washington Post and PBS Frontline have released a joint documentary detailing the planning and execution of Israel’s June military campaign against Iran’s nuclear program, including a covert operation targeting senior Iranian nuclear scientists.
According to the report, Israeli forces launched coordinated strikes as part of a broader campaign aimed at Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, missile capabilities, and air defenses. Central to the effort was what Israeli officials described as a campaign to eliminate key figures involved in Iran’s nuclear research, an operation carried out alongside widespread air and intelligence activity.
The documentary reports that Israeli strikes killed multiple senior Iranian nuclear scientists during the opening days of the conflict, including Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi and former atomic energy chief Fereydoun Abbasi. Israel said a total of 11 leading scientists were killed over the course of the operation.
The Washington Post and PBS Frontline state that their investigation is based on interviews with current and former officials from Israel, Iran, the US, and Arab states, many speaking anonymously. Officials cited in the documentary assessed that Iran’s nuclear program was significantly damaged but not eliminated, despite claims by President Donald Trump that it had been completely destroyed.
The report also documents civilian casualties resulting from some of the strikes, citing independent verification conducted by The Washington Post and investigative researchers. Israeli officials told the filmmakers that extensive measures were taken to reduce civilian harm, while Iranian authorities reported hundreds of civilian deaths from the campaign.
The documentary further describes the intelligence preparations behind the operation, including years of surveillance, the use of agents inside Iran, and coordination between Israel and the US. The documentary also examines diplomatic efforts and disinformation tactics that preceded the strikes, as well as differing intelligence assessments regarding Iran’s nuclear progress.
The joint report concludes that while Iran retains nuclear knowledge and some enriched material, the strikes set back its program by several years, according to Israeli, US, and International Atomic Energy Agency officials interviewed for the documentary.
Belgium ends federal protection for Antwerp’s Jewish quarter
Antwerp Mayor Els van Doesburg announced Tuesday that the 16 federal police officers assigned to protect the city’s Jewish quarter will no longer be deployed after January 1, reported the Belga news agency.
The decision, confirmed later by Interior Minister Bernard Quintin, raises serious concern in light of continued security threats facing Jewish communities in Belgium.
Van Doesburg revealed the plan during an appearance on a local talk show, emphasizing the timing just days after the deadly shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney that left 15 people dead. The mayor underscored the need to maintain security around Jewish institutions, calling the federal withdrawal “incomprehensible” and warning, “There must be no vacuum in the safety of Antwerp’s Jewish quarter.”
She added, “This is something we have to do together. It goes beyond the Antwerp police.”
On Monday, the Antwerp branch of Vlaams Belang had urged extra protection for Jewish schools and institutions during a city council meeting. However, instead of strengthening local security, the existing federal deployment will be discontinued.
A statement from Van Doesburg’s office to the Belga news agency confirmed, “The minister of the Interior has decided that security by federal agents will be discontinued from January 1.”
Since 2014, Belgium’s Jewish community has lived under an elevated threat level, prompting joint security operations between local and federal police in Antwerp’s Jewish quarter. The federal withdrawal will now halve the protection presence there.
Quintin told local authorities that the “deployment of the federal reserve should not be a structural measure for Antwerp.” He clarified that “the decision taken simply means that 16 Brussels federal police officers, who were temporarily assigned as reinforcements, will be redeployed to their original station.”
Despite the pullout, Quintin insisted that “the security of Jewish sites remains an absolute priority.”
Jewish community leaders strongly criticized the move, rejecting Quintin’s explanation and calling it a “political decision.”
Member of Parliament Michael Freilich vowed that efforts were underway to maintain full protection. “We are doing everything to solve the problem. There will be maximum security - regular police, federal officers, or soldiers. We will not leave the community without protection.”
He noted that legislation must be amended before soldiers can perform police duties, adding, “The law is expected to be ready by the summer.”
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