Qatar's Foreign Ministry issued a statement of strong condemnation following an animated video simulating the construction of the Temple on the Temple Mount that will occur hopefully in our lifetime pic.twitter.com/baU747CcXu
— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) April 20, 2025
Did you ever notice how Orthodox Jews couldn’t care less what the world thinks of them?
— AP (@AP_from_NY) April 18, 2025
Not a little. Not secretly.
They truly, completely, deeply don’t care.
They’ll walk through an airport looking like they time-traveled out of 1850.
Pray out loud in a hoodie or a hat while…
🚨NEW: Nikki Haley slams Tulsi Gabbard for claiming that Iran has no active nuclear weapons program-despite stockpiles of near-weapons-grade uranium and evidence of covert weaponization efforts
— Nikki Haley HQ (@NikkiHaleyHQ) April 20, 2025
“There is no room for Iranian sympathizers in the national security team of the US.” pic.twitter.com/5UXh8PF9m0
TOM HOMAN ON MORNING JOE -- Not one person was vetted coming into America, now Democrats want to vet everyone we deport.pic.twitter.com/IC7IGiRGs8
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 18, 2025
While I am experiencing my own exodus from Egypt right now, I would like to share this personal note with you:
— Dalia Ziada - داليا زيادة (@daliaziada) April 19, 2025
The Passover is one of my most favorite holidays in all religions. It is very linked to Egypt, and thus, my Jewish friends and I (an Egyptian) used to use it as an… pic.twitter.com/cRTOLdx59Z
Harvard faculty members are finally upset about free speech and viewpoint intolerance. Hundreds of professors signed a letter of outrage over what they called an attack on the “rights of free expression, association, and inquiry” in higher education.
The cause for this outcry is the threat to end the university’s tax exempt status, freezing federal grants, and other punitive measures. Some of those measures raise serious concerns over academic freedom and free speech.
The problem is that Harvard faculty members have spent decades denying those rights to teachers and students alike.
The suspects of the violent Venezuelan gang were going to be deported using the recently reinstated Alien Enemies Act of 1798 before the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled Saturday morning against deportations under the 18th century law.
In a decision in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union, the administration was barred from removing Venezuelans held in Texas' Bluebonnet Detention Center "until further order of this court."
by Michael Goodwin NYP
As a lifelong journalist, I should be on the side of The Associated Press in its ongoing legal fight with the Trump White House.
And I would be if the AP were the neutral, fact-driven wire service it used to be.
Unfortunately, it has become just another outlet peddling leftist opinion disguised as straight news.
And as its fight with the White House demonstrates, it also reeks of a sense of elite entitlement.
The case involves the AP’s claims that its freedom of speech was violated when it was booted from its long-standing spot in the press pool, an elite, small group of legacy news outlets that get near-daily access to the president.
The AP was one of three wire services in the group, along with Reuters and Bloomberg.
Others getting special access include television and cable companies, photographers, radio reporters and rotating members from print outlets.
Because there was just one spot reserved for print reporters, most got only a monthly chance to question the president in small-space events, such as the Oval Office and Air Force One.
The AP got the boot from the group after it refused to change its influential stylebook and continued to refer to the “Gulf of Mexico” after President Trump officially changed the name to the “Gulf of America.”
I agreed with the federal judge who ruled the demotion unfairly punished the AP, but have come to admire even more the way the White House has used the case to carry out a much-needed move to democratize access to the president.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who at 27 is the youngest person to hold her job, took office wanting to open the door to new media outlets, including edgy podcasts, political influencers and specialized wire services.
DIN: What the article below doesn't say is that Biden now gets $300,000 per appearance!
Former President Joe Biden’s return to the spotlight has some Democratic party insiders — including top aides — fuming that his presence is only dredging up old wounds, according to a report.
After keeping a low profile, Biden reemerged Tuesday with an anti-Trump speech in Chicago, followed by private remarks at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.
But the reaction from within the Democratic party was less of a celebration and more of a panic-inducing event, with party operatives, strategists, and Biden loyalists saying his presence came at the worst time, The Hill reported.
“I love both Bidens dearly, but staff loyalty means there is a responsibility to provide them with an honest situational awareness, especially when it comes to their public image, no matter how hurtful it is to hear,” Michael LaRosa, who served as Jill Biden’s communications director, told the outlet.
LaRosa argued that any advisors with a pulse on the Democratic party should have known that many people remain “furious or indifferent” to the former president.
While speaking at Harvard, Biden had to be corrected by his longtime adviser Mike Donilon when he mixed up Ukraine with Iraq when talking about the war with Russia, the Harvard Crimson reported.
After the 82-year-old former president bit into an ice cream bar at the event, the partially eaten dessert fell to the floor, the Crimson noted.
“This was hard to watch,” one former White House official told the Post of the speech, where Biden also reminisced about “colored kids.”
“It felt like seeing someone you care about start to regress. We just wanted him to enjoy retirement like other presidents — not go out like this,” the official said.
The mix-up only added to the Trump administration and conservatives’ attempt to use the unpopular ex-president’s appearance as a distraction from recent tariff turmoil, LaRosa added.
Biden’s return was a “lovely gift for the White House, President Trump, and conservative media at a time when they were playing defense and under the kind of heavy scrutiny over the botched tariff policy in ways we haven’t seen since Trump was elected,” he said.
LaRosa lamented that Biden’s handlers should recognize the end of his political career and act accordingly.
“It’s a heartbreaking and tragic ending to their time in public life, but it’s also the truth, and they should index the political realities into their decision-making,” the former aide continued.
Rabbi Mazuz spent much of the past month in the hospital, and his condition deteriorated over the past week.
He taught thousands of students in all of his yeshiva's institutions. During the 2005 Disengagement, Rabbi Mazuz participated in demonstrations and signed a ruling from the YESHA Rabbinic Council supporting soldiers who refused to obey the orders.
In 2015, politician Eli Yishai left the Shas party and created the Yachad party, which ran in the elections together with Otzma Yehudit. Rabbi Mazuz was recognized as the party's spiritual leader, but the joint party did not pass the electoral threshold.
In 2021, ahead of the elections for the 24th Knesset, Rabbi Mazuz supported the Otzma Yehudit party, but the party failed to pass the electoral threshold.
Ahead of elections for the 25th Knesset, Rabbi Mazuz expressed support for the Shas party, but continued to support Otzma Yehudit as well.
Rabbi Mazuz is the cousin of retired Supreme Court Justice Meni Mazuz.
His passing was mourned by several government figures.
UTJ MK Moshe Gafni eulogized, "Together with all of Israel we mourn the passing of the great Torah giant, the saintly Rabbi Meir Mazuz. We send our condolences to the esteemed family, to his students and admirers. May you find comfort from Heaven, until the Resurrection."
Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf stated "Rabbi Mezuzah was a great man of the Torah and the world of Jewish law I our generation, he merited to raise many students and to instill the tradition of the house of his father of the Tunisian Jewry."
The Minister of Jerusalem and Heritage Affairs, Meir Porush, mourned "Rabbi Mazuz was a tent of Torah in the Holy Land, the leader of the Tunisian Jewry in the world, a guide to multitudes and a luminary of the generation. He stood steadfastly for the threefold perfection – Torah, People and Land of Israel – without fear and without compromise."
"I had the privilege of a warm personal relationship with him over the years, a relationship that has continued from generation to generation. His passing is a loss to me and to the nation."
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated "Together with the entire House of Israel I mourn the passing of the great Rabbi Meir Mazuz. The rabbi was one of the leaders of Sephardic Jewry and one of the great scholars of the generation. With his prodigious knowledge of Torah and with great humility, he led the masses of Israel."
The Shas movement mourned, "A great loss to the world of Torah and halacha. The Shas movement extends its condolences to his family, his brother and his sons, to his many students and to those who heard his teachings. May the Almighty heal the breach in His people and hasten our redemption."
Interior Minister Moshe Ariel lamented, "With deep sorrow, I bid farewell to the great scholar Rabbi Meir Mazuz. In our last meeting two weeks ago, he reminisced wistfully about the days when I had the privilege of studying Torah in his home over twenty years ago. The towering figure of the rabbi will be sorely missed by the Torah scholars and his followers. May his memory be blessed."
Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar eulogized Rabbi Meir Mazuz: "Rabbi Mazuz – a great rabbi of Israel, a figure of Torah, humility and Jewish fortitude. I was privileged to meet him, to be impressed by his personality and to be blessed by him personally. A clear voice of tradition and wisdom, who brought depth and rare honesty. May his memory be a blessing."
