Let’s tune out all the static so we can truly connect. Put away the phones and technology, light the Shabbat candles, sanctify the day over a cup of wine, enjoy wholesome meals with family, and reconnect through Torah study and meaningful conversation. Then do it all over again next week. Wishing everyone a meaningful, uplifting, and impactful National Shabbat.

Bible critics have spent 150 years trying to pull the Torah apart, and the flood narrative is supposed to be their knockout blow. Here's why it isn't. Bible critics call the Documentary Hypothesis their strongest tool, and the flood narrative their crown jewel. Hermann Gunkel called separating its sources "a masterpiece of modern criticism." I want to explain why I think that's wrong. The hypothesis claims two separate flood accounts, one from J and one from P, were stitched together by an editor. J's God is emotional and personal. P's is transcendent and cosmic. J says seven pairs of clean animals, P says two of every animal. J says 40 days, P says 150. Irreconcilable contradictions, they say, proving multiple authorship. But look carefully and it falls apart. The critics' main criterion for splitting the text is that repetition signals multiple sources. Yet when you read their reconstructed J and P strands separately, each one still contains its own repetitions. You cannot use repetition as a splitting criterion and then ignore it inside the fragments you have produced. The supposed contradictions aren't contradictions either. Seven pairs of clean animals and two of every other animal are completely compatible. Noah needed extras to sacrifice later. 40 days of rain and 150 days of flood waters are measuring different things entirely. But the real death knell is the chiastic structure first identified by Gordon Wenham and developed by Joshua Berman. The entire flood story is one elaborate literary structure with 17 matching pairs of motifs mirroring each other perfectly around a single pivot point in Genesis 8:1. That architecture only exists in the unified text. Divide it into J and P and it vanishes completely. The flood narrative isn't the hypothesis's greatest triumph. It's its greatest problem.

Barstool sports was blown away by Amare Stoudemire's bookshelf. "They're Torah-cyclopedias."

At least there are 17% still available for @TuckerCarlson to interview.

The Shocking Cycle of Legal Lies: How FAKE Evidence Gets An ICJ Stamp of Approval So great speaking with @HausdorffMedia

The connection between hatred of Jews and Israel and moral and sexual degeneracy has become impossible to ignore.

Is there a Hidden Resentment Inside Every Act of Generosity? I visited Bethlehem and Hebron, traced a philosophical rupture at the heart of Jewish history, all to answer one question hidden in the Book of Ruth. The answer changes how you think about charity, parenting, society… and what it means to receive the Torah itself. The person receiving charity often secretly resents the giver. Not because they're ungrateful. But because receiving, without the ability to give back, quietly strips away your dignity. The Talmud calls it "the bread of shame." This is why Lot fled Abraham. Why teenagers slam doors. Why Adam's first act after creation was rebellion. And it's exactly the problem the Book of Ruth was written to solve. Ruth's insight changed everything: the receiver doesn't diminish the giver. The receiver creates the giver. You cannot give if there is no one to receive. Together, they build the act of kindness. Neither above the other. Partners. That's why we read Ruth on Shavuot. Because the only one truly ready to receive the Torah is someone who understands that in receiving, they become indispensable.

It is extremely easy to get Israel out of any of these: Lebanon - the Lebanese army needs to fulfil what it signed many times. Disarm Hezbollah. Then Israel leaves Gaza: Hamas fulfils what it committed to. Hand its weapons over to the new Gazan leadership. Syria: commit to an end to the official state of war; make peace. Then Israel leaves. Just like Israel fully left Sinai when Egypt made peace. The West Bank could have gone that way too. But at the 1968 Khartoum conference the Arab League issued its 3 “no’s”: no peace, no recognition, no negotiation. Translation: uncompromising commitment to war to try to destroy Israel. The Palestinians could have had the West Bank several times, but refused to sign the paper formally agreeing to end the conflict and accepting a non-Arab non-Muslim state in the region.

"The truth about their character comes out.” @DLoesch breaks down Massie's recent 180's including accepting donations from some interesting sources 👀 Podcast: apple.co/thedanashow

Not realising that historically many blood libels had masses of heads of the equivalent of civil society organisations. Whether Churches, courts, charities or whatever. None of that made obvious falsehoods true. But the nature of blood libels is that they pick up mass group think and that group think extends to self appointed ethical arbiters. Most blood libels also sweep along Jews at the fringes of Jewish society too who fall in line and ‘affirm’ the accusation. In today’s case every group @mehdirhasan sites includes people who had already accused Israel of genocide before the war began, people who have advocated for the definition to be changed so that Israel can be accused of it (in many cases before this war) or people who have openly called for the destruction of the state of Israel. Pretty much everyone on your list ticks at least one and in some cases all three boxes.

The Shocking Cycle of Legal Lies: How FAKE Evidence Gets An ICJ Stamp of Approval Was an honour to speak with @HausdorffMedia on my recent episode of Real Talk

In my conversation with Natasha Hausdorff, we explored one of the most important and dangerous battles facing Israel today: the weaponization of international law through misinformation, media distortion, and what Natasha describes as “lawfare.” We discussed how accusations such as “genocide,” “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “colonialism” have become the modern form of blood libels against the Jewish state. Natasha explained how these narratives are repeated so relentlessly across media, NGOs, universities, and international institutions that even highly respected legal figures can begin treating them as unquestionable truths. One of the most eye opening parts of the conversation was Natasha’s breakdown of the ICJ case against Israel and the widespread false claim that the court ruled Israel was “plausibly committing genocide.” She explained how that narrative spread globally despite the actual ruling saying no such thing, and how media cycles, activist organizations, and international bodies can create a dangerous echo chamber that launders misinformation into accepted “fact.” We also spoke about the deeper historical pattern behind this phenomenon. Throughout history, hatred of Jews has often taken the language of the moral systems of the age. In religious societies it appeared through religion. In racial societies it appeared through race science. Today it appears through the language of human rights and international law. At the same time, this was not a conversation about despair. Natasha spoke powerfully about the need for education, moral clarity, and the courage to push back with facts and truth. We discussed the extraordinary standards Israel and the IDF hold themselves to, even under impossible conditions, and why defending truth in this moment matters not only for Israel and the Jewish people, but for the future of the wider Western world as well. A deeply important and thought provoking conversation.

As someone who knows many kids in Israel being raised to dream of and pray for peace and to respect everyone, this depiction is clearly from the fantasy land that Jew-state obsessive haters live in. The conflict began because there is a wing of the Muslim world that believes it is religiously forbidden for there to be a non Muslim state in the former Caliphate lands. One of the leaders of what became the ikhwan (Muslim brotherhood) was Haj Amin al Husseini, mufti of Jerusalem who initiated the attacks on Jewish communities in the Nebi Musa pogroms 28 years before the Jews had a state. His attacks destroyed ancient Jewish communities like Hebron. He destroyed the moderate Palestinian leadership of the Nashashibis who wanted to make peace with the Jews and would have peacefully divided the land. He galvanised the pan Arab attempt to destroy the Jewish state the day it was born. The Arab league rejected any recognition of Israel in any borders for the reason. When Sadat became the first Arab leader to made peace, he went to the Al Azhar University and had the Islamic scholars write a Fatwa justifying why it was permitted in Islamic law to do so. The rest of the Arab league expelled Egypt. The scholars of the Brotherhood rejected the reasoning and Sadat was assassinated for it. Hamas is an offshoot of the Brotherhood. It believes in the religious obligation to destroy Israel. Thanks to Fatwas by its spiritual leader the late Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi, it has even religious justification for killing Israeli civilians and for getting Gazan civilians killed in wars. This is contrary to traditional Islamic jurisprudence but is justified when fighting Israel largely because of the priority in their mind of liberating the Caliphate lands. The last Caliphate was the Ottoman Empire. That is the reason the conflict started and the only reason it still continues. Every Muslim nation that has rejected such reasoning has made peace.

"Have a wonderful weekend, everybody. Shabbat Shalom. Good Shabbos. Turn off your phone. Enjoy your family. Gd bless America. See you guys Sunday night in Albuquerque."

Let’s tune out all the static so we can truly connect. Put away the phones and technology, light the Shabbat candles, sanctify the day over a cup of wine, enjoy wholesome meals with family, and reconnect through Torah study and meaningful conversation. Then do it all over again next week. Wishing everyone a meaningful, uplifting, and impactful National Shabbat.

Good national Shabbos to all!

Where to begin? 1. Israel is not even close to the biggest recipient of foreign aid. Unless you only count the direct FA budget which is not how most countries get US aid. Most get it directly through the defence budget. South Korea gets what Israel gets and Japan gets much more. Europe orders of magnitude more. In fact apart from 10s of 1000s of troops deployed all over the world to protect allies, most of the Pentagon’s annual almost $1 trillion is not to defend america. For $100-200 bn no-one could invade. Instead it is to be able to deploy to Europe or East Asia if any of those allies get invaded by Russia or China. If anyone’s streets are paved with US dollars it is Europe’s. But of course you would never point that out because… 2. The primary source of US access to Soviet equipment throughout the cold war was Israel - the ally most likely to capture them. 3. Israel’s intel, weapons testing and upgrades is worth a lot more than it receives (and that aid mainly goes to US factories companies and jobs) 4. Israel has $14 bn annual trade with the US. If God forbid Israel’s enemies ever got their way and destroyed it, and its economy became like neighbouring countries, that would evaporate to $13 bn annual trade. So it is a pretty good ROI. It’s certainly fun being a Jew-state basher. You get lots of free fame joining history’s most popular sport. Also you never have to worry about facts ever again. Just a few deconstextualised stats here and there and more or less any outlandish claim. Guaranteed short term popularity. Unfortunately the longer term tends to look at such people quite differently and unlike current museums of ancient medieval and modern Jew-demonisation, future museums will have lots of contemporary social media exhibits to explain how the bandwagon works.

A new investigative report (dogabuseclaim.netlify.app) traces the claim that the IDF runs a programme training dogs to sexually assault Palestinian detainees on command, the claim now sitting in a @NickKristof New York Times column, back to its origin: One non-credible source, and the chain of amplification that turned it into something “verified by multiple sources” without anyone actually verifying anything. 1.The first post. June 18, 2024, 20:46 UTC, on Al Jazeera Mubasher (Al Jazeera’s Arabic live-events channel). The source: Munir al-Bursh, Director-General of the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. He does not claim to have witnessed anything himself; he is reporting hearsay. Even Al Jazeera English doesn’t carry the claim. 2.The making of an “eyewitness.” 18 hours later, @SuppressedNws (North-Africa-based, anti-Israel, now deactivated) re-uploads the Mubasher video natively to English-language X with first-person framing grafted on: “I literally cannot believe what I just heard…” 3.June 23, 2024. Ramy Abdu, chair of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (whose Hamas-linked affiliations are public record; Euro-Med disputes them), posts the clip: “A horrifying testimony from one of the released detainees from Israeli prisons reveals how Palestinian prisoners were raped using Israeli dogs.” The claim is now sourced to “a released detainee,” as if the video claimed to be a witness. It went viral. 4.November 2025. PCHR, the Gaza-based NGO whose director Raji Sourani has been accused of PFLP ties (which he denies), publishes a testimony from an anonymous “A.A.” claiming he was raped by a dog at Sde Teiman. 5.April 11, 2026. Abdu’s Euro-Med Monitor publishes “Another genocide behind walls.” The report quotes the same A.A., renamed “Amir,” plus a few additional anonymous witnesses. No forensic evidence. No medical records. No CCTV. The testimonies use the word “trained,” a description no witness could directly know, but the word that converts “a dog attack occurred” into “the IDF runs a programme.” 6.April 13, 2026. 2 days later, anti-Israel commentator Shaiel Ben-Ephraim discusses the claim on the Danny Jones Podcast, citing Euro-Med. Admits the claims are “unverified”. 7.April 17, 2026. 4 days after the podcast, Ben-Ephraim posts an X thread that escalates the claim. He drops qualifying language and adds a personal-authority claim that did not appear in the podcast: that he had personally “talked to 2 guards in Sde Teiman… one had seen this happen… the other said that he had heard about it from others and believed it was true.” 2 million impressions. 8.April to May 2026. Novara Media, Owen Jones, and on May 11 the Kristof NYT column carry the claim westward, each citing the previous rung as corroboration. By the time Kristof writes, it looks like “multiple sources.” Each source is citing the one below it. To be clear: the report does not deny abuse at Sde Teiman. Apart from the Force 100 case (where charges against 5 soldiers were dropped in March 2026) other are cases are under investigation in Israeli courts. Any actual abuses must be investigated and punished. But the claim, that the IDF runs a programme training dogs to rape detainees on command, traces back to 1 Arabic broadcast deemed not credible enough for Al Jazeera English; amplified by Hamas affiliated Ramy Abdu, “corroborated” by anonymous testimonies cited by Ramy’s NGO; legitimised by an X commentator whose “2 guards told me” claim appeared 4 days after a podcast in which he had not made it. One Arabic broadcast. One repeated key-word (“trained”) doing the load-bearing work. 3 institutional rungs sharing the same human bridge. And the @nytimes . Read the report. Every date, every impression count, every screenshot is there. dogabuseclaim.netlify.app

What was Jerusalem like under Jordanian rule? Today is Yom Yerushalayim- marking 59 years since the liberation of Jerusalem People say Jerusalem was "better before 1967." Let me tell you what it was actually like. Under Jordanian rule, Jews were completely banned. Not less access. Zero access. All 58 synagogues in the Jewish Quarter were systematically destroyed. Every single one. Mount of Olives gravestones were ripped up and used for roads and latrines. This wasn't apartheid, it was worse. At least under apartheid people could physically live in the country. Christians weren't spared either. Church land ownership was restricted. Christian schools were controlled by the Jordanian government. And this happened despite a signed armistice agreement guaranteeing freedom of access. Jordan simply ignored it. Then came June 7th, 1967. Israeli paratroopers entered the Old City. Three words came over the radio that stopped a nation: "The Temple Mount is in our hands." Since that day, Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship freely here. All their populations have grown. The Waqf still administers the Temple Mount. Every church has remained open. Today I'm standing where the last Jews were expelled in 1948. Elderly people sitting in the squares. Children playing in the streets. Exactly as Zechariah prophesied. The city is alive. And it's open to everyone.