Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) spoke out against a deal with Iran, referring to the Islamic Republic as a “cancer".
His comments came in an interview with Fox News, amid tensions between the US and Iran.
“How could you allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb? Now, people have always said that. Well, you know, [President Donald Trump] actually did something to actually prevent Iran from doing that," said Fetterman.
“If they have 900 pounds of near weapons-grade uranium why wouldn't you strike that? Why wouldn't you hold them accountable that way? And now here we are again, and now we've demonstrated that's the only thing Iran ever responds to is strength and power," he continued.
Fetterman opined that the US would likely have to hit Iran again “because I don't think you can't really trust and negotiate with them. You can't negotiate with cancer. You have to attack it and go right at it with superior force."
His comments came as the US holds talks with Iran, but as President Donald Trump has also ordered an increased military presence in the Middle East, should the diplomatic efforts fail.
Such a move would be a first step that would be designed to pressure Tehran into an agreement but fall short of a full-scale attack that could inspire a major retaliation, according to the report.
Trump warned Iran earlier on Thursday that it must reach a deal over its nuclear program or “bad things" will happen.
The President said negotiations with Iran were going well, but insisted Tehran has to reach a “meaningful" agreement.
“Now, we may have to take it a step further - or we may not. Maybe we’re going to make a deal. You’re going to be finding out over the next, probably 10 days," Trump added.
Fetterman has been one of the biggest supporters of Israel in the Democratic Party, and reaffirmed that support in a recent interview with i24NEWS.
Tucker Carlson’s lies unmasked after he is seen HUGGING Israeli Airport staff member and posing for photo-despite claiming he was ‘detained’ and ‘hauled’ off by security.
Carlson appeared in great spirits while getting the celebrity treatment in Tel Aviv’s… pic.twitter.com/o7fQ3VqhKF
Rescue organizations and Home Front Command have reportedly been instructed to prepare for a potential emergency scenario, as Israel raises concerns over possible Iranian missile launches.
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Over the past month or so, we’ve seen a series of tragedies in the Charedi world, most painfully the babies dying in the playcare and the teenagers being run over in the street. Running people over is obviously wrong, but reckless behavior in public spaces (standing in the street?) points to something deeper:
a collapse of basic civic and moral sensibility.
I think the explanation is uncomfortable but unavoidable:
cultural Yiddishkeit has won. The Jewish ethical-culturalists won their battle, decades after seemingly going extinct.
DIN: I really hope I'm wrong but this is the first domino to fall!
This Kollel culture is not sustainable and the system is collapsing! In Israel I know of at least 8 yeshivas ready to close and they get government funds!
Tuition should come before supporting Kollilim!
Bnos Penina Girls School, a well-known girls’ school in Lakewood, announced that it has suspended all classes indefinitely due to a severe shortfall in tuition payments.
The school informed parents and families that the decision was made only after exhausting all available options to cover expenses, including reaching out for community support and financial assistance. Administrators said the gap between operating costs and collected tuition has reached a point where the school can no longer maintain normal educational operations.
School administrators did not specify the exact dollar amount of the deficit, but described it as “significant” and beyond what the school’s budget can absorb. They said that late and missing payments from a large number of families over recent months created a financial strain that ultimately forced the decision to halt classes. They added that the Rabbonim in Lakewood were consulted, and ultimately this was the decision of Daas Torah.
The suspension of classes affects students of all grades, and parents have expressed concern and frustration over the sudden disruption to their daughters’ education. Some families posted on community forums asking for updates and urging positive solutions, while others emphasized the need for broader community support to help stabilize the school’s finances.
School administrators said they are actively exploring ways to resume classes, including reaching out to donors, community organizations, and supporters in and beyond Lakewood. They stressed that decisions about reopening and next steps will be based on securing enough funding to ensure the school can operate responsibly and meet its obligations to staff and families.
Frieda Vizel is a former Satmar Chasid who left the community, yet she remains deeply connected to it. She has even built a business guiding non‑Jews and non‑affiliated Jews through Williamsburg so they can see firsthand how Chasidim live. There’s nothing wrong with that in itself. But when she receives antisemitic comments on a nonbinary video—(see below)—she seems genuinely shocked, unable to understand why it happened.
This confusion stems from her Satmar upbringing, which instills the belief that they are the “authentic” Jews, while Zionists are somehow outside the Jewish people. When Satmar Hasidim speak to non‑Jews, they often try to convey this distinction. But the reality is that non‑Jews do not see these internal divisions. To them, Jews are Jews. Antisemites throughout history—including the Nazis—never differentiated between Satmar Hasidim and Zionists. Hitler didn't bother to kosher the ovens between burning Satmar Chassidim and burning Zionists!
Even though Frieda left the community, she still carries many of its assumptions. As the saying goes: you can bring a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Back on October 15, 2024,I wrote about another video of hers in which she tried to explain to non‑Jews the difference between Zionist and anti‑Zionist Jews. She could not understand why some viewers expressed hatred toward her and her Satmar family despite their anti‑Zionist stance.
I wrote then:
I truly believe Frieda is a kind and gentle person with good intentions. But that is precisely what makes her influence so concerning. She has thousands of non‑Jewish followers who respect her deeply, and she now wants to use that platform to teach them about internal Jewish divisions.
In her videos, she tends to group all “victims” together. She avoids acknowledging Jewish victims specifically, instead equating Israeli women who were raped and murdered with Arab civilians in Gaza—many of whom supported a terrorist regime that launched tens of thousands of rockets at Israel long after Israel withdrew from Gaza. She insists on feeling equally for all “victims,” which ignores the moral and historical context.
She now wants to explain to her followers that not all Jews support Israel, and that some religious Jews believe Zionism caused the Holocaust and that the State of Israel should not exist. She hopes that by doing so, non‑Jews will understand that her community “has nothing to do with Israel.” She genuinely believes this distinction will matter to them.
But she fails to grasp a simple truth: antisemites do not care about these nuances.
In her recent video about her trip to Poland, she once again expresses genuine bewilderment at the antisemitic comments she received. She even says she would like to “have a dialogue” with the commenters. She wants to open a conversation with people whose hostility toward Jews is so deeply rooted that they themselves could never articulate its origins.
Frieda seems to childishly believe that if she just engages them kindly enough, she can change their minds. For hundreds of years, the Pols murdered and pillaged their Jewish neighbors and were Hitler's willing executioners, but she wants to understand them and perhaps change their minds. Nazis knew where to place their largest extermination center, yes, in Poland in the city of Oswiecim, Auschwitz!
It’s a level of naïveté that reflects her upbringing: the belief that dialogue alone can dissolve centuries‑old hatred. She truly thinks that by talking, she can persuade committed antisemites whose parents assisted the Nazis, to rethink their views. It’s a mindset that only someone shaped by her Satmar background could sincerely hold.
This kind of naïveté is dangerous.
We have seen similar tragedies in Israel. Some of the most left‑leaning Israelis—people who truly believed in coexistence and built friendships with Gazans—were brutally murdered by those very same people on October 7. Their goodwill and their "dialogs" did not protect them, on the contrary it was their death trap, as they had a false sense of security thinking that the Gazans would never commit these atrocities!
Frieda has not internalized this lesson. She does not understand—and perhaps never will—that her son, who may not look visibly Jewish, is still viewed by antisemites the same way as a Jew wearing a kippah and tzitzit. To them, a secular Israeli at a music festival and a Chariedi Jew in Williamsburg are the same.
Another important point that you will only see on DIN
When Satmar or Neturei Karta tell Goyim that they believe that the Torah doesn't allow a State until Moshiach comes, they don't tell them what they truly believe will happen AFTER Moshiach comes!
Both Satmar and Neturei Karta believe that when Moshiach comes all the Arabs will be driven out of Eretz Yisrael to make room for the Jews!!
Deep down they have absolutely no respect for Goyim and lie to them about Zionists! If they had any respect for them they would tell them their true beliefs, the fact that they themselves are Zionists as well!
Satmar won't tell Goyim that they yearn for a time when ALL Jews will return to Eretz Yisrael! That they have Eretz Yisrael in ALL their prayers! And that they shout at their Seder Table "Next Year in Yerushlayim"
They don't tell them that there is basically only one difference between them and Zionists....... and that it is ........"timing!"
Zionists believe that we have to do hishtadlis and live there in the here and now, and Satmar prays and yearns to live in Eretz Yisrael ASAP as soon as Moshiach comes, which can even happen today!
In what is becoming a regular occurrence, someone trans-identifying is accused of committing a mass murder, this time during a high school hockey game, in suburban Rhode Island.
In 2020, Dorgan had told police that he was being kicked out of his home, by his father-in-law, after Dorgan had undergone “gender-reassignment surgery.”
I can’t help it. I should be used to the myopic, self-centered attitude of Charedi leadership and their Askanim (Charedi Knesset members). But I’m not. Whenever I read an op-ed by one of them on the subject of drafting Charedim into the IDF or their insistence on no secular education, I nearly recoil with disgust.
It happened again over Shabbos as I read a guest op-ed in Mishpacha by UTJ’s Rabbi Yitzchak Pindrus.
The scary thing is that he probably believes every word he says. In this case, that amounts to a conspiracy theory: a coalition of Israeli institutions whose goal is to destroy the Torah world. Only now, with unprecedented zeal and determination. As though the State of Israel is more anti-Torah than at any other time in its history.
When in fact, it is more than obvious that the opposite is true. There is more Torah study now in Israel than at any other time in Jewish history!
The Jerusalem District Court convicted Shmuel Bezalel, the Rosh kollel in the city, of serious sexual offenses against his stepdaughter.
According to the verdict, Bezalel was convicted of all the counts attributed to him, including many offenses of rape and indecent acts committed over a period of about a year and a half, while the minor was under the age of 12 and came to visit his home on Shabbos and Chagim.
Bezalel denied the acts during the trial and claimed that nothing had ever happened: however, the court ruled that full trust should be given to the complainant and rejected the claim that it was a repressed false memory. The court also recognized that what was important to T., the victim, was the recognition and assumption of responsibility on the part of the defendant and her appeal to the police was a last resort.
The panel of judges ruled that the defendant's confession to the police in two incidents of harm was a true confession and should be preferred to his denial later in his interrogations and in court.
Following the conviction, T. said that she felt that justice had been done: "I feel that from all my hard work – standing in front of judges, proving and telling every detail – it turned out well in the end. The journey I've gone through in recent years is very shaky, the whole family cut off contact, no one believed it, everyone said: 'You're imagining and you'll see that he won't be convicted.'"
"I fought for justice and I'm glad I did it. Every woman who has gone through something like this and asks herself, 'Who will listen to me?' It is important that you know that there are people who will stand by you, there are people who will see the truth and justice will always come to light," she added.
"סוף סוף יכולה לנשום לרווחה"
בית המשפט המחוזי בירושלים הרשיע את שמואל בצלאל, בעל כולל בעיר, בעבירות מין קשות בנכדתו החורגת. לפי הכרעת הדין, בצלאל הורשע בכל הסעיפים שיוחסו לו, בהם עבירות רבות של אונס ומעשים מגונים שבוצעו במשך כשנה וחצי, בזמן שהקטינה הייתה מתחת לגיל 12 והגיעה לבקר בביתו בשבתות ובחגים.
בצלאל הכחיש את המעשים במהלך המשפט וטען כי לא היו דברים מעולם: עם זאת, בית המשפט קבע כי יש לתת אמון מלא במתלוננת ודחה את הטענה כי מדובר בזיכרון כוזב מודחק. בית המשפט אף הכיר בכך שמה שהיה חשוב לת', הנפגעת, הוא ההכרה ונטילת האחריות מצד הנאשם ופנייתה למשטרה הייתה מוצא אחרון.
הרכב השופטים קבע כי הודאת הנאשם במשטרה בשני אירועים של פגיעה הייתה הודאת אמת ויש להעדיפה על פני הכחשתו בהמשך בחקירותיו ובבית המשפט.
בעקבות ההרשעה סיפרה ת' כי היא מרגישה שנעשה צדק: "אני מרגישה שמכל העבודה הקשה שלי - לעמוד מול שופטים, להוכיח ולספר כל פרט ופרט - יצא טוב בסוף. המסע שעברתי בשנים האחרונות מאוד מטלטל, כל המשפחה ניתקה קשר, אף אחד לא האמין, כולם אמרו: 'את מדמיינת ואת תראי שהוא לא יורשע'".
"נלחמתי על הצדק ואני שמחה שעשיתי את זה. כל אישה שעברה דבר כזה ושואלת את עצמה, 'מי יקשיב לי?', חשוב שתדעי שיש אנשים שיעמדו לצידך, יש אנשים שיראו את האמת והצדק תמיד ייצא לאור", הוסיפה.
Following a violent protest in Bnei Brak where a police motorcycle was torched, Police Commissioner Danny Levy and Tel Aviv District Commander Chaim Sargrof ordered the immediate replacement of the officer's destroyed Tefillin, Siddur, and personal gear.
The fire, set by a small group of protesters two days ago, consumed the officer’s motorcycle along with his Tefillin, Siddur, and personal cell phone.
In a ceremony today, Dan District Commander Elad Klein presented the officer with a new pair of Tefillin and a replacement phone.
Additionally, the Commissioner directed that a replacement vehicle be issued to the officer to replace the destroyed motorcycle.
Israel Police emphasized that they view the arson with extreme severity and are continuing investigations to bring the perpetrators to justice.
It’s high time we acknowledged the real underlying cause behind these riots and stopped falling for the excuses that keep changing. Yesterday it was two female soldiers who dared to enter the nominal no-go zone, a few weeks ago it was autopsies on two babies killed by societal neglect, the week before it was an arrested draft-avoider, and the week before that, it was a phone shop selling unfiltered smartphones in Ramah Dalet.
Who knows what will inspire next week’s hooliganism?
Regardless of the excuse, the reason stays the same, and it is not what most people seem to say out loud.
Secular Israeli media talks about religious extremism, which fundamentally misunderstands the point.
The “moderate” chareidim who feign outrage or try to distance themselves by saying it’s just an extreme sect that takes things too far.
Take what too far? Religion?
If you truly believe in the hashkafah you claim to, then are they wrong?
Or is it just the tactics you object to, but the overall sentiment you agree with? Like the Mishpacha and YWN, and VINnews, who carefully try to tread the line between clear condemnation and tacit support.
But, by criticizing the IDF, legitimising “peaceful, dignified protest” and implying that violence is the result of righteous indignation gone out of hand, and the only real issue is that it causes a Chillul Hashem, he also shows that he does not understand the real cause.
The directorate of Israel's rabbinical courts published its 2025 activity summary report, which recorded a 3.9% decrease in Israel's divorce rate.
In 2025, 11,093 couples divorced, compared to 11,542 in 2024.
Alongside the divorce figures, the report also notes the achievements of the special unit of the Rabbinical Courts Administration in resolving cases of women whose husbands have disappeared and who are unable to remarry under Jewish law, which succeeded in obtaining a get (divorce document) for 198 women, compared with 221 the previous year."
Regarding get refusals, over the past year, heavy sanctions were imposed on both men and women who refused divorce. 156 sanctions were imposed on 36 men who refused to give their wives a divorce, while 41 sanctions were imposed on 12 women who refused to accept a divorce. The sanctions included stay of exit orders, closure of bank accounts, credit card suspensions, limiting of check usage, and revocation of driver's licenses, among other things. Following amendments to the law, the new sanctions have proven effective against divorce refusal.
Likewise, the Supreme Court ruled on 69 petitions against the rabbinical courts, of which only six were adopted, while the rest were rejected or erased.
Regarding the verification of Jewish status, in 2025, final rulings were issued in 2,558 cases referred to the rabbinical courts, compared with 2,174 the previous year.
The Director of the Rabbinical Courts, Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, said: ‘The rabbinical courts continue to improve and become more efficient. At the top of our priorities are service to the public and an uncompromising fight against the phenomenon of refusal to grant a get. This year, the number of husbands refusing to grant a get declined by about 30%. With God’s help, we will continue this trend of improvement and greater efficiency in public service this year as well.’"
In June 2025, Spain canceled a €285 million deal to purchase Spike anti-tank missiles from the Spanish subsidiary of Israel’s Rafael, citing a need to reduce dependence on Israeli defense suppliers.
Months later, after failing to find alternatives, Madrid reportedly reordered the same Spike missiles through Eurospike, Rafael’s German-based affiliate.
Different logo, same tech. We’re everywhere. Even when you think we’re not.
The month of Adar is meant to be a time of joy for the Jewish people — a time to dress up, to celebrate, and to remember how we were saved from a threat that once loomed over our entire nation. Yet this year, the threat we must confront feels painfully internal. What happened yesterday was not only dangerous; it was a near‑miss that could have spiraled into tragedy.
Two female IDF officers, simply doing their job and visiting a soldier under their care, were attacked by a mob of thousands — not enemies, not extremists from afar, but fellow Jews. The absurdity of it could be mistaken for a Purim skit, but the reality is sickening.
According to Yeshiva World News:
The usually quiet Chagai Street in Bnei Brak turned into a mob scene on Sunday after two female military police officers arrived in the area and rumors spread that they were distributing draft orders.
A crowd of over a thousand people quickly gathered. Police arrived to rescue the soldiers as the crowd grew. A police vehicle was overturned on HaRav Shach Street, and a police motorbike was set on fire. A burned siddur and tefillin were later found in the storage compartment of the bike, belonging to a frum officer.
Community leaders did condemn the violence. As YWN reported:
A recent development agreement signed by the state and the West Bank’s Mateh Binyamin Regional Council will, once given final approval, see the establishment of a new settlement that would in practice constitute the first expansion of Jerusalem since 1967.
The proposed settlement announced earlier this month would technically be a westward expansion of the Adam settlement, which lies very close to Jerusalem’s northeast boundary. It includes plans for the construction of some 2,780 housing units in a new “neighborhood” for Adam.
But the land on which the new settlement would be built is physically separated from Adam, first by Route 437, a major traffic artery, and second by the security barrier.
Kariv said that he had written to Housing and Construction Minister Haim Katz about “the plan to expand Jerusalem over the Green Line and to de facto annex territory,” adding, “Annexation will bring about a security catastrophe.”
Mateh Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz lauded the new development, describing it as “the realization of the settlement vision” for his region.
“The new plan will allow us to build thousands of housing units, while at the same time dramatically upgrading the quality of life of the residents,” said Ganz, adding that his council is “already working on additional agreements” that will “herald dramatic change on the ground.”
An attempted antiquities theft on Mount Scopus led the Israel Antiquities Authority to a hidden Second Temple-era stone workshop, where hundreds of ritual vessel fragments and production debris were discovered.
The find reveals the site’s role in supplying Jerusalem’s Jewish population and pilgrims with ritual vessels, highlighting the region’s ancient craftsmanship and religious practices.
I was 19, dressed in black, listening to loud music—and suddenly responsible for two newborns.
My name is Roxy. Our dad was already gone, and my mom passed away just after giving birth. My baby sister, Charlotte, and my baby brother, Eli, had no one stepping forward. Relatives said it was too much. Two newborns. Too much responsibility. Too much sacrifice.
I signed the papers anyway.
Overnight, my world became bottles, diapers, sleepless nights, and trying to balance school and work. I learned how to mix formula half-awake at 3 a.m., how to soothe tiny cries, and how to stretch every dollar. I raised them in combat boots and band tees—but I never missed a doctor’s appointment, a school meeting, or a single milestone.
Today, Charlotte and Eli walked across the graduation stage. And when they searched the crowd and found me, smiling through tears, I knew I had made the right choice all those years ago.
No body is learning, no one to "protect the country" how much longer until someone gets himself killed!
For those in Lakewood writing on their popular WhatsApp news chats how police are beating the protestors, I ask, have you been on one of those buses or cars for hours while a bunch of parasites sit with their Fat derrières blocking traffic? If you haven't then shut the hell up!
The Police have to start using force and everyone eligible must be drafted.
Arabs are watching this and are seeing how easy it is to paralyze the entire country!
HAPPENING NOW:
The entrance to Jerusalem has been blocked. Ultra-Orthodox protesters are demonstrating at the city’s entrance in response to the ongoing discussions over the military draft exemption law.
