Opinion

Retired Major General Gershon Hacohen, commander of the Gush Katif Disengagement, now admits that the withdrawal was a huge mistake. Indeed, he currently says that October 7 would not have happened had there been no withdrawal from Gush Katif in 2005. Numerous other supporters of the Disengagement have admitted it was a colossal error.

Truthfully, I wrote about this topic years ago: the need to tell stories to your kids. But the stories should be made-up ones, not ones you simply read from a book. Those don’t have any lasting value.

Last week, Agudah MK Yitzchak Goldknopf, addressing the tension between the dati leumi crowd and the chareidi crowd, made a devastating statement in an interview with Makor Rishon:

The primary election of Zohran Mamdani as the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City, an avowed supporter of Hamas and a proponent of “globalizing the Intifada,” should send chills up every Jew’s spine. In a city with the largest population of Jews outside of Israel, such a result should have been unthinkable.

We received three bits of disturbing news this week. To top it off, the NEA (National Education Association), the nation’s largest teachers’ union, voted not to use ADL materials in their schools’ curriculum. Nothing about anti-Semitism, racial hatred, or the Holocaust. The reason? The ADL is biased toward Israel.

No doubt, we Jews are often saying Hallel in praise of Hashem’s goodness on our behalf. We do so on every Yom Tov. Many say Hallel on Yom HaAtzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim – all in thanks to Hashem for showing His Divine Providence over the Jewish people.