Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Baghdad was home to one of the oldest Jewish communities and then...............................
For centuries, Baghdad was home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world, a community older than Islam itself.
Monday, August 3, 2026
Skverer Chutzpah ! Schnooring from the very communities they are trying to destroy!
The sheer chutzpah of asking for money from the very Jews New Square considers too problematic to live near, or expose to its children, cannot be ignored.
A fundraising letter from Merkaz Hakollelim Dshikun Square recently arrived in mailboxes throughout the Monsey community.
The appeal describes kollel families struggling “to clothe their children, put food on the table, and cover the huge daily expenses.” With Yom Tov approaching, it asks outside donors to help these families celebrate with dignity.
The need is real. These families deserve help.
But the letter raises an unavoidable question:
There Is Plenty of Money, Just Not for This!
New Square’s leadership has spent years advancing a policy designed to prevent other frum families from settling near the village.
Within the Mile has documented numerous properties connected to that campaign, homes acquired to preserve New Square’s claimed “isolation” and protect its supposed spiritual “purity.”
These are not inexpensive properties.
Consider 6 Durante Court, purchased for $810,000. Article HERE
The property sits directly across the street from a neighborhood shul. Local residents view the purchase not merely as another acquisition within the mile, but as a deliberate attempt to interfere with and disrupt the surrounding Jewish community.
That is one house.
How many struggling families could receive food, clothing and Yom Tov assistance from $810,000? How many children could be properly dressed, refrigerators filled and worried parents given room to breathe?
Instead, the property was purchased across from a shul serving the very community New Square wishes to keep away, and now a fundraising letter is being sent to those same Jews asking them to finance food and clothing inside New Square.
Do Not Blame the Families
The struggling kollel families are not responsible for these priorities.
They should not be shamed, and they should not be left without food or clothing.
The responsibility belongs to the leadership and wealthy supporters who can apparently mobilize extraordinary resources whenever another house becomes available within the mile, but then turn to outsiders when families inside New Square cannot afford basic necessities.
No one is claiming that this particular Yom Tov fund purchased these houses.
The issue is communal priorities. Article HERE
When $810,000 can be found to purchase one property across the street from a neighborhood shul, it is difficult to accept that the surrounding community must then be asked to cover food and clothing, especially while being told that its own families must stay away to protect New Square’s “purity.”
You cannot treat neighboring Jews as a spiritual contamination and then address your fundraising appeal to them as “Dear Friend.”
Return the Envelope to the Ashpa like the dead Sheretz it is!
Anyone receiving this appeal should not simply throw it into the garbage.
Keep the return envelope.
Send it back with a respectful note explaining why you will not participate until New Square changes its priorities.
The note can say:
> I fully support helping families afford food, clothing and Yom Tov necessities. However, New Square-linked buyers continue spending enormous sums purchasing properties around the village as part of the so-called mile policy.
6 Durante Court, located directly across the street from a neighborhood shul, was purchased for $810,000.
Before asking surrounding families for donations, please sell this property, or another property acquired for the mile, and use the proceeds to support your own struggling families.
The same Jews being asked to finance your charitable needs should not simultaneously be treated as too impure to live near you.
Send the envelope back.
Let them see the address. Let them see the purchase price. Let them explain why $810,000 was available to purchase a house across from a shul, while outside donations are needed to provide their own families with food and clothing.
Feed the families. Clothe the children. Sell the houses. *End the mile.*
Why is New Square asking surrounding communities to pay for food and clothing while enormous sums are being spent purchasing houses around the village for the so-called “mile”?
Saudis convinced Trump to stop ‘massive’ weekend attack on Iran
Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reached out to President Donald Trump by telephone on Sunday to advocate for "de-escalation and diplomacy," according to a report by the kingdom's official state news outlet, SPA.
SPA reported that the crown prince - frequently referred to as MBS - initiated the discussion with Trump to discuss developments in the region and their regional and international implications."
During the exchange, the Saudi leader "stressed the need to prioritize dialogue to reduce escalation and the importance of making every possible effort to achieve calm that paves the way for diplomatic solutions, preserves the region's security and stability and prevents a wider conflict whose repercussions would affect regional and international security and stability," SPA detailed.
The phone call comes a day after Axios reported that the Saudi Crown Prince held a telephone conversation with Trump to express deep misgivings over potential broad-scale military strikes targeting Iran.
"The Saudis expressed concern and asked for clarity about the plan of action," one US official told Axios.
Some reports suggested that this phone call ultimately contributed to Trump’s decision, announced on Saturday night, to cancel a planned attack on Iran and allow for diplomacy.
He was asked whether there is a deadline for Iran to come to an agreement and said, “We will see. Would I rather make a deal? I am not looking to kill people. Because people die. A lot of people die. We don’t want that."
Crazed antisemites now blaming Israel and the Jewish people for the recent migrant surge into Spain
A new report by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) claims that antisemitic conspiracy theories blaming Israel and the Jewish people for the recent migrant surge into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta spread widely on X, reaching an estimated audience of more than 100 million people within 72 hours.
According to an analysis by CAM's Antisemitism Research Center (ARC), 173 posts from 119 influencer accounts recast the border crisis as a Jewish plot, generating 57.5 million views, an estimated reach of 103.1 million people, 1.9 million likes, and more than 368,000 shares.
Between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta on July 30, prompting Spain to declare a state of emergency. The migrant influx followed a Spanish domestic legal ruling and came amid ongoing tensions between Spain and Morocco, as well as years of pressure on Europe's asylum system.
While the causes of the crisis were publicly documented, conspiracy theories rapidly gained traction on X, claiming that Israel and the Jewish people had orchestrated the events.
The ARC said its analysis focused exclusively on named, monetized influencer accounts rather than anonymous users or bot networks. According to the report, many of the accounts held paid verification, which CAM said gives their content greater visibility through X's recommendation systems.
Among the examples cited in the report was an account identified as "Forbidden HQ," which allegedly shared an image depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with migrants emerging from his mouth onto a Spanish beach. CAM said the post was viewed 5.3 million times and was accompanied by additional claims portraying Morocco as an Israeli puppet state.
The report also cited a post by social media personality Dan Bilzerian, which CAM said received 2.7 million views. According to CAM, Bilzerian falsely claimed that Prime Minister Netanyahu had threatened Spain with "the ultimate price" over its criticism of Israel, combining that allegation with an unrelated Israeli Foreign Ministry holiday greeting to Morocco.
CAM further alleged that an account calling itself "China Times," which it said is unaffiliated with any Chinese news organization, falsely claimed Israel had admitted to engineering the migration through the Mossad, citing a parody account as evidence.
According to the report, shares significantly outnumbered comments across the analyzed posts, suggesting that users were more likely to amplify the claims than challenge them.
The ARC also found that similar narratives appeared across far-right, far-left, and Islamist accounts, despite their differing political ideologies.
According to CAM, far-right accounts promoted longstanding antisemitic "Great Replacement" theories alleging that Jewish elites are engineering demographic change in Europe. The report said far-left figures, including author Susan Abulhawa, claimed that the migrant surge had been "completely engineered by the US, Israel, and Morocco," while other accounts linked Spain's support for the Palestinians and other geopolitical developments to what they described as an Israeli plot.
CAM also cited posts falsely attributing statements to Spanish actor Javier Bardem alleging that Israel planned the migration in retaliation for Spain's criticism of Israel. According to the report, Bardem made no such statement, but the claim was subsequently amplified by commentator Mia Khalifa.
The report said additional posts attempted to portray Morocco's military cooperation with Israel as evidence that Israel orchestrated the migrant crossing, while others revived longstanding antisemitic narratives portraying Jewish people as manipulating migration to undermine European society.
"A humanitarian emergency at Europe's border was turned into a global antisemitic campaign in under 72 hours, and X did nothing to slow it down. This is not a story about a few bad actors. It is a story about a platform whose design rewards the fastest and most inflammatory explanation available, and on X that explanation is increasingly a Jewish conspiracy," said CAM CEO Sacha Roytman Dratwa.
CAM called on X to introduce what it described as algorithmic safeguards for keywords associated with established antisemitic tropes during humanitarian emergencies, remove accounts spreading such content from the platform's advertising and verification benefits, and deploy expert Community Notes in partnership with organizations, including CAM, to provide historical context in real time.
The movement argued that X's recommendation systems are amplifying antisemitic content and called on the platform to take action against what it described as the demonization of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
2025 Was the Deadliest Year for Jews Living Outside Israel in More Than 30 Years*
2025 Was the Deadliest Year for Jews Living Outside Israel in More Than 30 Years*
A new report from the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism has identified 2025 as the deadliest year for antisemitic attacks outside of Israel in more than three decades.
The report also found that antisemitic incidents across the seven largest Jewish diaspora communities have risen dramatically in recent years, with overall incidents up 136% since 2022 and violent attacks increasing by 97%.
Silence is not an option. Stand up. Speak out. Fight antisemitism.
Oct. 7 survivor commits suicide on the grave of his girlfriend who was murdered by Hamas
An Oct. 7 survivor died by suicide over the grave of his girlfriend, who had been murdered by Hamas.
The body of Bar Asraf, 30, was found at the cemetery Saturday. His partner, Liron Barda, was working at a bar at the Nova Music Festival when Hamas attacked, and she tended the wounded until she was killed. She was 26.
Jérémy Benhaïm, a French Jewish activist, broke the news of Asraf’s death, posting on X that “Since the pogrom of Oct. 7, 2023, during which his partner, Liron Barda, was murdered by Hamas, Bar had been struggling … Throughout this period, he had remained very close to Liron’s parents, visiting them regularly.”
“The horror of Oct. 7, it’s also this,” Benhaïm added. “Let us never forget. May his memory be a blessing.”
Video footage of Barda on Oct. 7 shows her administering first aid to victims of the attack. Her father told an Israeli outlet that he had begged her to escape.
“I spoke to her that morning. I asked her to leave the area. She refused; she said there were wounded people, and she was staying,” said her father, Avi. “This was Liron. I would have been surprised if she agreed to flee.”
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Sunday, August 2, 2026
The "Holy" Yenuka Goes to Secular Court instead of Bais Din to Shut up his critics
וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּשִׂ֖ים לִפְנֵיהֶֽם
לפניהם. וְלֹא לִפְנֵי גוֹיִם, וַאֲפִלּוּ יָדַעְתָּ בְדִין אֶחָד שֶׁהֵם דָּנִין אוֹתוֹ כְּדִינֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, אַל תְּבִיאֵהוּ בְעַרְכָּאוֹת שֶׁלָּהֶם, שֶׁהַמֵּבִיא דִּינֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לִפְנֵי גוֹיִם, מְחַלֵּל אֶת הַשֵּׁם וּמְיַקֵּר שֵׁם עֲ"זָ לְהַשְׁבִּיחָהּ,
The Storm Surrounding the Yenuka’s Legal Move
From moral lectures to the courtroom — the man who consistently preaches that accepting insults serves as atonement for the Jewish people has now turned to the civil courts.
The Yenuka’s decision to file a lawsuit against journalist Israel Fridlis continues to stir widespread astonishment and raise sharp questions about the gap between his words and deeds.
Following a video attached to the post, many followers wonder how someone who teaches his disciples that accepting humiliation is “the greatest gift” and “atonement for the Jewish people” chooses to wage a legal battle in civil court the moment he himself faces criticism.
The question is especially pressing in this tense period of security threats and after the passing of Rabbi Amos, known as “the protector of the generation,” when the Jewish people most need salvation and spiritual atonement.
Critics argue that this is not an innocent act of self‑defense but a carefully planned tactical move.
Its goal, they claim, is to create a smokescreen, intimidate critics, and block negative publications so that followers and the public will not be exposed to materials that cast doubt on his credibility.
Within the Torah world, harsh criticism has also arisen over the very choice to turn to civil courts — a step viewed as a serious halachic violation when done without explicit permission from a rabbinical court.
Conversely, those close to the Yenuka vehemently reject these accusations, asserting that the move — taken only after about a year and a half of silence — is a necessary measure to prevent harm, threats, and incitement against someone they regard as the greatest sage of the generation.
The controversy has sparked a broader discussion about the boundaries between spiritual ideals and practical defense. Is this a legitimate act of protection, or a maneuver meant to silence criticism?
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