בגיל 19 חזרתי בתשובה.
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
בגיל 19 חזרתי בתשובה.
Aron Bielski, also known as Aron Bell, the youngest and last surviving of the Bielski brothers, died recently, on September 22, 2025.
He was a key member of the Bielski partisans, who rescued over 1,250 Jews during World War II by living and fighting in the forests of Belarus.
Aron joined his brothers in forming the largest armed group of Jewish rescuers during the Holocaust, creating a community in the forests that provided sanctuary and protection for over 1,200 Jews.Channel 12 News reporter Omri Maniv revealed on Saturday night that just two weeks before Hamas’s deadly attack on October 7, 2023, the Mossad issued a detailed position paper assessing that Hamas was not seeking a military confrontation with Israel.
The document stated, “It is evident that Hamas’s leadership in Gaza does not seek a military confrontation with Israel at this time, though it is not deterred from one should it be forced upon them.”
It further noted that “the broader interest of Hamas’s leadership in Gaza is to avoid escalation.”
In response to the report, the Mossad clarified:
“The division of responsibilities among intelligence agencies, as defined by the political echelon since 2005, established, among other things, that the Mossad is not responsible for strategic warnings regarding military moves in the Palestinian arena. Consequently, the weight of the aforementioned document in decision-making processes was minimal to negligible. It should be noted that, in accordance with this definition, the Mossad did not operationally engage in the Gaza Strip - neither in intelligence gathering, agent operations, nor the execution of special operations.”
A 1.5-year-old toddler from the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem was evacuated on Thursday morning in critical condition to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, after contracting measles. Sadly, he was later pronounced dead.
The toddler has been identified as Yonatan Wisky z”l, son of Rabbi Rafael Shmuel Wisky, a member of the Breslov Hasidic community in Mea Shearim.
According to B’Chadrei Chareidim, emergency medical teams from United Hatzalah performed CPR on the child, who had reportedly lost consciousness at home after becoming infected with measles.
Avremi Rozovski, Yehuda Fahima, and Yaakov Bulag, United Hatzalah medics who were first on the scene, said:
“We performed resuscitation efforts with the help of a United Hatzalah physician. He was then transported in critical condition to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital while CPR was ongoing. The family told us the child had contracted measles and lost consciousness this morning. United Hatzalah’s trauma support teams also responded due to the nature of the incident.”
David Levi and Pini Weiss, volunteers from ZAKA’s emergency response team, added:
“When we arrived, we saw a 15-month-old toddler with measles, without pulse and not breathing. According to the family, he had not woken up from his sleep. Together with other medics and MDA paramedics, we immediately began advanced resuscitation efforts, including chest compressions and ventilation. He was evacuated by MDA’s mobile intensive care unit in critical condition to the trauma room at Hadassah Mount Scopus.”
B’Chadrei Chareidim also reports that the child’s father was in Uman for Rosh Hashanah and received the devastating news there.
The Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed that this is the fifth death from measles since the outbreak began, all of them children under the age of 2.5 years who had not been vaccinated.
Three of the fatalities occurred this week alone, all in Jerusalem. During Rosh Hashana a one-year-old girl who had been on an Ecmo machine in Hadassah hospital passed away and on Sunday another baby, also from a charedi family, passed away from the disease.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was eliminated in a targeted attack a year ago on September 27, but it can now be revealed how Israel succeeded in locating him despite all the efforts to protect his whereabouts.
During the course of a covert operation, the Mossad succeeded in planting microphones, a miniature camera, and an HF transmitter in the air conditioner remotes located in Nasrallah’s bunker.
The technological capabilities used in the operation were the product of developments by the Weapons Systems Department at the Ministry of Defense, in cooperation with the intelligence units and the Air Force, and with the defense companies Rafael and Elbit. The technology, which was completed in 2022, was intended to cope with penetration and accuracy challenges at varying depths, and was particularly essential for operations in Lebanon and even for thwarting the Iranian nuclear project.
The aim of the development was to ensure that the munitions would hit with maximum precision, even in rocky ground conditions, since a deviation of a single meter could lead to missing the target. The emplacement of the devices by Mossad agents was the key to the success of the operation and to the elimination of Hassan Nasrallah.
A female officer from the Intelligence Corps’ technological unit was responsible for developing the system, a charedi woman who enlisted in the service and is a mother of seven children.
Letter to the editor!
Seminaries Must Stop Abandoning Girls for Sukkot
The travesty that girls’ seminaries committed 30 years ago when my own daughters went to seminary, which I hoped they would have corrected when my granddaughter entered seminary last month, seems to still be alive and well!
I am referring to the fact that seminaries start only a few weeks before the Yomim Noraim, before the girls even have time to make contacts, yet the girls are expected to place themselves for Sukkot on their own! They are literally thrown out of their dorms!
A girl told my granddaughter that she never felt homeless before and now she feels homeless, having to find a place to stay for Sukkos!
The dorm is closed for the whole Yom Tov, so there is not even the possibility for the girls to stay in and the seminary to provide meals.
If the seminary wants the girls to come before the Yomim Noraim, they should be responsible for them. Otherwise, seminary should start after the Yomim Tovim.
All this, for the mere cost of $30,000+.
This causes some parents to come for Yom Tov, adding to the cost of the seminary year. And the way Yom Kippur comes out this year, it necessitates people to come for two-and-a-half weeks, something that many working parents simply cannot do.
When will seminaries stop this travesty and when will parents unite and refuse to send their girls, only to have to fend for themselves, making the transition to seminary that much harder.
Enough is enough!!!
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False Alarm in Eilat Sirens sounded as Shabbat began, later confirmed by the IDF as a false alarm
Hamas Responds to Netanyahu:Called his UN remarks “demonization” and rejected his Gaza governance plan, though Hamas leaders have previously urged global attacks on Jews
Trump on Gaza Talks: Said negotiations on hostages and a ceasefire are “intensive” and Hamas knows the terms, while Israel has not yet responded
Israel–UAE Meeting: Netanyahu held a rare public meeting in New York with the UAE foreign minister since the Abraham Accords
Iran Sanctions: UN snapback sanctions on Iran take effect tonight; Iran recalled its ambassadors from Germany, Britain, and France for consultations
Iranian Espionage Attempt: Hundreds of Israelis reported suspicious calls attempting to recruit them as spies for Iran
Beirut Tensions: IDF drones flew over Beirut during Hezbollah’s commemoration of Nasrallah’s elimination
Gaza Evacuations: Israeli defense officials estimate 780,000 Gazans have evacuated southward, leaving about 250,000 still in Gaza City
New Zealand: FM Winston Peters told the UNGA his country will not recognize a Palestinian state while Hamas controls Gaza and the war continues
On Sept 7, 2023 we posted a story about Talia Avrahami, below is an update!
Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, MD – director of the Medical Ethics Unit at Shaare Zedek Medical Center and a leading halakhic authority – has authored a formal responsum (psak) affirming the female halakhic status of Mrs. Talia Sarah Avrahami.
In his ruling, dated 21 July 2025, Rabbi Dr. Steinberg defined Mrs. Avrahami’s case as a partial androginos (intersex condition) and concluded unequivocally: “therefore, her halachic status is female.” He issued this determination after reviewing Mrs. Avrahami’s complete medical documentation.
On 25 August 2025, Rabbi Asher Weiss, one of the generation’s foremost halakhic decisors (poskim ), affirmed the ruling by stating, “I agree with the conclusion of Rabbi Steinberg: Mrs. Talia Avrahami is a woman in every respect.”
Mrs. Avrahami said in a statement for this release:
“What matters to me most is that my husband, my daughter, and I can now live in peace without labels that never belonged to me and free from harassment. I am grateful to our generation’s leaders (gedolim) who affirmed my status as a woman, and I pray to serve Hashem with dignity as an ordinary Jewish woman.”
This ruling resolves earlier public misunderstanding by affirming Mrs. Avrahami’s female status. It has been recognized and accepted by leading Torah authorities (poskim) across the world, reflecting a broad contemporary consensus.
About Talia S. Avrahami Talia S. Avrahami is an Israeli-American educator in the New York City Department of Education and a doctoral student in Educational Leadership at St. John’s University at https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/talia-avrahami.
She also writes regularly for The Times of Israel, focusing on halakhic clarity and compassion in the Orthodox Jewish community.
Media Contact: avrahami.press@aol.com
A redacted copy of Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg’s responsum is available at https://tinyurl.com/femaleruling for verification.
Private medical information has been removed to protect confidentiality; the halakhic ruling and relevant context remain visible.
The Justice Department’s announcement that former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding is all but a fait accompli.
Pious, sanctimonious self-righteousness and hypocritical moralizing had long ago cost him his professional reputation. With charges of perjury and obstruction, Comey could face imprisonment. If that comes to pass, his tattered legacy will earn yet another stain.
More tragically, the narcissistic leader, who was relieved of his duties by President Donald Trump soon into his first term, will continue to damage the agency I love and served for a quarter of a century. And that makes me — and many others in my ranks — weary, saddened and angry.
Based on my own observations and those of my colleagues at the bureau, it was clear from the start that Comey was hellbent on altering FBI culture.
In the first of his five sermonizing books, 2018’s “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” the former director mused about his initial meeting with employees at FBI headquarters in 2013.
He describes placing himself atop a stool, sans suit jacket, but with a blue shirt and tie.
Tradition had long held that FBI directors wore dark suits and white shirts — keeping their jackets on while addressing employees in order to project proper image.
Yet per Comey, proudly resplendent in his blue shirt: “I thought that shirt color was one early, small way to set a different tone.”
Sadly, for so many of us at the bureau, Comey’s conduct and actions impacted far more than fashion at our agency.
The FBI had privately acknowledged the existence of those plainclothes agents, despite a Justice Department Inspector General report denying that they were there, according to a Blaze report on Thursday.
“It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again!” he went on. “I want to know who each and every one of these so-called ‘Agents’ are, and what they were up to on that now ‘Historic’ Day.
“Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That’s two in a row, Comey and Wray.”
It is not fully clear if all of those 274 plainclothes agents were supposedly all in the crowd that ransacked the Capitol that day or if they were in other crowds engaging in protest activity.
The official Justice Department watchdog released a report last year about the Capitol riot, claiming, “we found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6.”
However, that same report noted that the FBI had 26 confidential human sources in the Jan. 6, 2021 crowd. That includes four who entered the Capitol Building despite not being authorized to do so.
Earlier this month, the GOP-led House voted to form a new subcommittee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
“With that many paid informants being in the crowd, we want to know how many were in the crowd, how many were in the building, but I also want to know, were they paid to inform or instigate?” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who chairs the subcommittee, told “Just the News” on Sept. 23.
The Post has contacted the FBI for comment.
Wray previously testified to Congress that the bureau did not instigate the riot, but refused to disclose how many informants were there that day.
“If you’re asking if the violence at the Capitol was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources or agents, the answer is no!” outgoing FBI director Christopher Wray told lawmakers in July of last year.
On Thursday, Wray’s predecessor, James Comey, was indicted on accusations of making a false statement to Congress. The charges stem from Comey denying to Congress that he authorized a leak to the media about the existence of an FBI investigation into Trump and a second one into Hillary Clinton.
The indictment was handed down days before the statute of limitations in the matter was set to expire.
Earlier this year, Trump issued a mass pardon of rioters who had been convicted on charges related to the storming of the Capitol.
“Many Great American Patriots were made to pay a very big price only for the love of their Country. I owe this investigation of ‘Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians to them!” Trump added.
In 2018, Trump was openly laughed at by the representatives of other nations. They regarded him as illegitimate and a buffoon, someone they didn’t have to take seriously.
And as much as the global bureaucracy still regards him, his ideas and his supporters with contempt, they’re not laughing anymore.
Instead, they’re politely applauding his rants from the GA podium the way they do for other leaders and then lining up to ask for meetings with the president to beg for favors.
In some ways, that’s all to the good.
At least for now, it means that the United States isn’t, as it was under the Biden and Obama administrations, automatically funding every malign, anti-American, antisemitic institution and initiative coming out of the corrupt world body and its agencies.
But the new deference he’s receiving is also fueling Trump’s foolish craving for a Nobel Peace Prize, coupled with international agreements that will burnish his reputation as the master of the “art of the deal.”
And that is not so good.
This past week, Canada, the UK and Australia formally recognized the State of "Palestine". There is now a decent possibility that the declaration of Israeli sovereignty over the "West Bank" is likely to follow. Hamas is now further from agreeing to a deal than ever, as they are rewarded for 7th October and riding high in Palestinian Arab polling. Peace in the Middle East looks further away than ever, thanks to this foolish and premature move.
There is more to it, though. How did these three countries align and synchronize in this manner?
The Hidden Hand of the Center for American Progress (CAP)
An influential progressive think tank, aligned with Qatar's agenda, has been quietly orchestrating a significant shift in Western policy towards Israel and "Palestine". The Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington, D.C.-based NGO described by critics as a "pro-Qatar" organization, has used its global network to encourage allied governments to recognize a Palestinian Arab state and adopt more hardline positions against Israel.
The IDF's Intelligence Directorate on Saturday night revealed that in the days leading up to late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's elimination, he chose to remain in a bunker built with Iranian technology.
"Nasrallah remained in place and tried to plan counterattacks," the Directorate noted.
The Intelligence Directorate added that in the days preceding the elimination of Hassan Nasrallah, following the beeper operation and the elimination of Ibrahim Aqil, the leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization remained in place, unaware that he was the next target for elimination.
In the days before his elimination, Nasrallah attempted to rebuild the organization’s capabilities and to plan counterattacks, but each was quickly foiled.
In his remarks during the moments following the elimination, IAF commander Tomer Bar promised, “We will reach them all, continue with the same professionalism, maintain the same composure, we are on the right path.”
In the midst of Nasrallah’s efforts to restore Hezbollah’s capabilities, the precise intelligence gathered by the Intelligence Directorate over the years enabled accurate identification of the location of his secret bunker, which was constructed using Iranian technology and remained highly compartmentalized, even within the organization’s most inner circles.
Exactly one year ago, on September 27th 2024, at 18:21, as part of Operation “New Order” and with precise intelligence direction, the Israeli Air Force struck the bunker with 83 bombs simultaneously.
The strike resulted in the elimination of Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, together with Ali Karkhi, Commander of the Southern Front, and additional senior commanders present in Hezbollah’s underground headquarters in Beirut.
During Hassan Nastallah’s 32-year reign as the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, he was responsible for the murder of many Israeli civilians and soldiers, and the planning and execution of thousands of terrorist activities. He was responsible for directing and executing terrorist attacks around the world in which civilians of various nationalities were murdered. Nasrallah was the central decision-maker and the strategic leader of the organization.
The Hezbollah terrorist organization, headed by Hassan Nasrallah, joined the Hamas terrorist organization in its war against the State of Israel on October 8th. Since then, Hezbollah has been continuing its ongoing and unprovoked attacks on the citizens of the State of Israel, dragging the State of Lebanon and the entire region into a wider escalation.