Vicki Chvatal

The one & only Yoseph Haddad: "IDF, enough ... I put on 8 kilos celebrating the elimination of terrorists ... Mohammed Oudeh isn't even worth it ... In the future I'll celebrate the elimination of terrorists with tomatoes instead of baklava."

@YosephHaddad היחיד והמיוחד: "די, צה"ל ... עליתי ב-8 ק"ג ... מוחמד אודה אפילו לא שווה את זה ... בעתיד אחגוג חיסול מחבלים העגבניות במקום בקלאווה". 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 English summary in the first comment. facebook.com/share/r/1GXgzy…

@haivri Of course. You asked for thoughts = opinions.

@OzPenguin An opinion.

What are your thoughts of ai generated images that are so loosely connected to sources that they project an imagined history.

@DanBurmawy 3/ human sacrifice (eg acc. to R' Jonathan Sacks z"l)

@DanBurmawy 2/ & humans, & the giving of a set of laws for people to live by in a Godly way. There was nothing "substitutionary" about the binding of Isaac. It was a test of whether Abraham was prepared to sacrifice the most precious of all at G-d's command (or an object lesson in rejecting

Why Isaac, Not Ishmael? Today, Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, believing it marks the moment Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son Ishmael. But this narrative, recast centuries later by Muhammad, hijacks the original account and distorts it. In the Bible, the foundation of both Jewish and Christian traditions, the son on the altar was not Ishmael, but Isaac. Ishmael was the result of human effort, Abraham’s attempt to fulfill God’s promise through his own performance, through Hagar, Sarah’s maidservant. It was a solution born out of impatience and control. But God’s redemptive plan was never about what man could do for God, it was always about what God would do for man. Isaac was the son of promise. He was born not through human scheming but through divine intervention. Sarah was barren. Abraham was old. His very existence was a miracle. Isaac represents grace, God doing the impossible, fulfilling His covenant not through man’s effort, but through His own power and faithfulness. The apostle Paul said that Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, represented Mount Sinai, where the law was given, a symbol of human striving, condemnation, and bondage. But Sarah, the mother of Isaac, represented Jerusalem above, freedom, grace, and divine sonship. Ishmael is law; Isaac is gospel. If God had asked Abraham to offer Ishmael, it would mean He was demanding a sacrifice born of human effort. But He wasn’t. He was foreshadowing the ultimate sacrifice, Christ, the Lamb of God, also born of a miraculous promise, also offered by His Father on a hill. Isaac was the prototype of substitutionary atonement. He symbolized the Son not born of the flesh but of the Spirit, God’s initiative, not man’s. To replace Isaac with Ishmael is theological vandalism. It exchanges grace for works, divine election for human performance, and the gospel for law. That’s why Isaac, not Ishmael. Because salvation was never meant to begin with our striving, it was always meant to begin with God’s promise.

@NoaMagid @KJudio21836 😢

We lost Sgt. Rotem Yanai today. She was only 19 years old. She was killed in a Hezbollah drone strike in northern Israel. Our hearts are broken 🥀

She was Israel's Iron Dome. Sahar Saudyan from Rosh Ha'ayin was just 21 years old. She served in Israel's Iron Dome division. Sahar shot down DOZENS of deadly Hamas rockets aimed at large, civilian-populated areas. On October 7th, she was in her army base even though she didn't have to be. She did it so her friend should be able to take off the weekend. On October 7th, she went on an army jeep to another Iron Dome battery. On the way, Hamas terrorists ambushed her and her fellow soldiers and killed them all. Sahar was killed while fighting to defend Israeli civilians. May her memory be a blessing.

They burned our ancient forests, and arrested anyone who asked why. Hamed Tizrooyan, a PhD student and wildlife photographer, was investigating the suspicious, devastating fires destroying Iran's ancient Hyrcanian forests. He clearly got too close to the truth behind the regime's ecological crimes. On May 4th, intelligence forces abducted him, seized his electronics, and threw him into Sari prison under fabricated “national security” charges. Reports now indicate his condition in prison is CRITICAL. The Islamic Republic has a dark history of murdering environmentalists to cover up their corruption. Hamed didn't commit a crime; he caught the criminals. We cannot let the regime murder another environmentalist in the dark.

La estilista iraní Ami Moghadam recibió amenazas de muerte por publicar videos en Instagram realizando cortes de pelo a mujeres. Entonces decidió trolear al Régimen Islámico y sus opresivas leyes obligatorias de hiyab de la manera más épica y hilarante posible.

Gertrud Luckner sat on a train from Freiburg to Berlin. March 24, 1943. She was 42. Small. Hunchbacked. Half-deaf. In her bag was 5,000 Marks. Cash. Headed for the last Jews still alive in Berlin. She never made it. The Gestapo boarded the train. Walked to her seat. They'd been watching her for months. "Catholic activist. Fanatical opponent of National Socialism." Nine weeks of interrogation. She gave them nothing. So they sent her to Ravensbrück. The women's concentration camp. Nineteen months of hell. She survived. Most didn't. Here's how she got there. 1900. Liverpool, England. A baby born to German parents living in the city. Birth name: Jane Hartman. Her parents died young. At 7 she was sent to a German foster family who renamed her Gertrud Luckner. She grew up in Germany. Went back to England in the 1920s for university. Birmingham. The Quaker college of Woodbrooke. In 1927 she heard an Italian Catholic priest speak. Father Luigi Sturzo. Anti-fascist. Exiled by Mussolini. She converted to Catholicism. Back to Germany. PhD from Freiburg in 1938. She believed in helping people. One at a time. That was her whole philosophy. 1933. The Nazis came to power. Gertrud was 32. Living in Freiburg, a few miles from the Swiss border. She joined Caritas. The Catholic charity. They let her work freelance helping Jews. Most Germans looked away. She didn't. Every week she collected foreign newspapers thrown out by the university library. Read what the German press wouldn't print. She was among the first Germans to understand. The Nazis weren't just persecuting Jews. They were going to kill them all. November 9, 1938. Kristallnacht. Across Germany, Nazis burned synagogues and dragged Jewish families from their homes. The next morning, Gertrud got on her bicycle. She rode around Freiburg visiting her Jewish neighbors. Said she was sorry. Asked what they needed. Nazi thugs sometimes attacked her on the street. She weighed less than 100 pounds. They beat her up. She kept going. 1939. War broke out. With protection from Freiburg's Archbishop, she opened an Office for Religious War Relief inside the Catholic Church. On paper it helped persecuted Christians. In reality it helped Jews. She smuggled Jews across the Swiss border. Procured Swiss visas. Forged passports. Set up safe houses. She organized Catholic women to do food shopping for Jewish families. Because under Nazi law, Jews could only shop between 4 and 6 in the afternoon. Most of the food was gone by then. She built a national underground through Caritas cells. Hundreds of Jews escaped to Switzerland because of her network. For thousands more, she sent food, clothing, money. To Jews deported to Poland. To Jews dying in the ghettos. To Jews in the camps. When her packages came back unopened, she knew the recipients had been killed. She kept sending them anyway. She worked with Rabbi Leo Baeck, head of the Reich Union of Jews. With Catholic priests doing the same work. Bernhard Lichtenberg, who died on the way to Dachau in 1943. Alfred Delp, hanged in 1945. Gertrud kept working. By 1943, the Gestapo had her under constant surveillance. March 24. The train to Berlin. The 5,000 Marks. The end of the line. The head of the Reich Security Office personally signed her commitment papers. Ernst Kaltenbrunner. A future Nuremberg defendant. He wrote that if released, she'd just go back to helping Jews. He was right. So they sent her to Ravensbrück. She arrived in November 1943. The camp held far more than the 7,000 women it was built for. Gertrud was tiny. Hunchbacked. Half-deaf. They could have killed her in a week. She lived because of communists. The political prisoners had networks. Communist women had been in the camps longest. They knew which work details kept you alive. They put Gertrud on the right ones. Hid her when the gas chambers came calling. In July 1944, they kept her off a death transport to Bergen-Belsen. She would have been gassed there. She nearly died anyway. Severe intestinal influenza. She lay for days in a barrack of dying women. Lice. Filth. Corpses beside her. She survived. While dying, she smuggled food and a nightgown to her Jewish friend Gertrud Meyer, also a prisoner. Meyer survived too. May 3, 1945. The Red Army liberated Ravensbrück. Gertrud weighed almost nothing. She was alive. She went back to Freiburg. Back to Caritas. Back to social work. She spent the rest of her life on one thing. Building friendship between Christians and Jews. Repairing what her countrymen had destroyed. 1948. She founded a journal. Freiburger Rundbrief. Still published today. 1949. She visited Israel. The first German citizen officially invited after the war. Rabbi Leo Baeck himself invited her. 1950. Yad Vashem named her Righteous Among the Nations. August 31, 1995. Freiburg. Age 94. Here's what makes this story matter. Gertrud Luckner was nobody. A foster child from Liverpool. A hunchbacked welfare worker. Half-deaf. Under 100 pounds. She had no power. No army. No money of her own. What she had was a bicycle. A briefcase. A telephone. And a refusal to look away. Most Germans claimed afterward that they didn't know. She knew. By 1933. By 1938 she was sure. By 1942 she was reading death camp numbers in foreign papers nobody else bothered to find. When asked after the war why she did it, she always gave the same answer. "But that was obvious. That was obvious to me." She helped hundreds of Jews escape. Sent food to thousands more. Forged documents. Built a network. Spent 19 months in a death camp. And then spent 50 years teaching Germany how to make peace with the Jews it had tried to exterminate. Her crime? Looking at the people her country was murdering and refusing to look away. Her legacy? Hundreds of Jews who lived. A Catholic-Jewish dialogue that reshaped the Church. Proof that "I didn't know" was always a lie. She bicycled past Kristallnacht. She walked into the Gestapo trap with 5,000 Marks. She survived Ravensbrück. And history remembered her name for about a week.

Un pueblo. Tres mundos. Tres maneras impresionantes de estar debajo del chuppah. 💍 ✡️ La ceremonia de boda judía es uno de los momentos más sagrados de la vida judía, pero su aspecto depende completamente de dónde vinieron tus antepasados. Una novia ashkenazi en Europa del Este, una novia sefardí en un riad marroquí, una novia Mizrahi en un jardín de Bagdad: mismos votos, mismo pacto, tres universos visuales completamente diferentes. Desde el encaje blanco y el shtreimal de una boda de shtetl polaco, hasta el kaftan bordado en oro y el dosel tallit de una ceremonia sefardí marroquí, hasta las guirnaldas de seda carmesí y jazmín de una celebración Mizrahi iraquí, las tradiciones de boda judías revelan lo maravillosamente diversa que es realmente esta gente.

@EYakoby @Aussie_Persian Correction: they SHOULDN'T have STARTED launching rockets.

BREAKING: Hezbollah is being decimated tonight. They should’ve stopped launching rockets.

@kosherronin @EYakoby 🤣😂

@EYakoby I've got a picture of Jvnior right here:

Jvnior is now posting AI photos of me. At what point does X suspend this account?

@haivri TBH I prefer the side-by-side arrangement - just make the women's section equal in size to the men's. Ending women's disadvantage in Orthodox Judaism doesn't mean that men need to because the new disadvantaged sex.

Interesting concept. Do you like the ideas projected in this AI rendered image? Please explain your thoughts on this. (BTW I am not sure why they added the grey dome in the background or what that is meant to represent).

🚨 The Islamic Regime is planning to hang four young men just because they protested. They were arrested in 2022 while they were out protesting. These young men did nothing wrong. They simply joined the protests. Yet this barbaric regime still wants to hang them for it. This is pure cruelty. Share their names before they kill them. Milad Armoun Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini Mehdi Imani Navid Najjaran

Why isn't anyone talking about the famine in Pakistan?! Send these poor people some humanitarian aid, quickly!

@AviKaner Why isn't anyone talking about the famine in Pakistan?

These Pakistanis would rather eat Israeli flags than join the Abraham Accords. Good riddance.

As an Israeli woman, I am truly happy that Somaliland is opening its embassy in Jerusalem . I can’t wait to meet you and to see the friendship between our peoples grow stronger. Much love and respect from Jerusalem ❤️