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An ancient Roman-era street in Jerusalem is being restored for wheelchair access so more people can enjoy it.
Positive progress doesn’t always make headlines.
What other good stories from Israel have you seen lately?
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Israel, Greece, and Cyprus held their first joint open-sea oil spill drill.
The exercise included maritime and aerial operations coordinated through a joint command center, with Environmental Protection Minister @iditsilman leading the Israeli delegation.
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Israeli students developed technologies to support emergency response.
Chareidi and Modern Orthodox students from the Jerusalem College of Technology won two of three awards in a national competition with potential defense and emergency-response applications.
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The government approved NIS 45.1 million to bring approximately 600 members of the Bnei Menashe community from northeastern India to Israel in the first half of 2027.
Led by Aliyah and Absorption Minister @ofir_sofer with budgetary approval from Finance Minister @bezalelsm.
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The Israeli Defense Ministry hosted a senior delegation from Peru’s Interior Ministry for a showcase of Israeli defense and security technologies.
The Goal: strengthen bilateral cooperation and expand Israeli defense exports.
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While the world focuses on conflict, here’s what Israel is actually building and doing this week 🧵
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Since whoever is managing the X account of @Israel is either gen-z or a boomer pretending to be gen-z by using ai, I will attempt to take it upon myself to start sharing the incredible positive things that Israel is actually doing and not just post inane comments like, "I haven't had coffee yet."
Here's today's good news update:
- The Israeli Defense Ministry hosted a senior delegation from Peru’s Interior Ministry for a showcase of Israeli defense and security technologies, aimed at strengthening bilateral security cooperation and expanding Israeli defense exports.
- The government, led by Aliyah and Absorbtion Minister @ofir_sofer with budgetary approval from Finance Minister @bezalelsm, approved a budget of NIS 45.1 million to bring approximately 600 members of the Bnei Menashe community from northeastern India to Israel in the first half of 2027.
- Israeli students develop technologies to support emergency response. Chareidi and Modern Orthodox students from the Jerusalem College of Technology win two of three awards in a national competition with potential defense and emergency-response applications.
- Israel, Greece, Cyprus hold first joint open-sea oil spill drill. The exercise includes maritime and aerial operations coordinated through a joint command center, with Israeli Environmental Protection Minister @iditsilman leading the Israeli delegation.
- Ancient Roman-era street in Jerusalem are being restored for wheelchair access so more people can enjoy them.
Sources:
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israelnationalnews.com/news/…
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Welcome to an isometric Tel Aviv-Yafo 🫶
→ 36,604 buildings from open municipal data, built into a 3D model and painted with GPT Image 2.6 in one style.
→ 230,452 trees where the city tree map puts them.
→ 2 GB of paintings, but the map opens in under a second (~400 KB).
→ 218 prompts in Claude Code with Opus 5.5.
It is the kind of project I always wanted to build but wouldn't even have tried without agents.
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Someone should tell the dictionary people that we no longer need the phrase, “it goes without saying” because everything that was, no longer is.
Then plainly:
The indictment is not that progressivism occasionally tolerates vice. It is that much of modern progressivism confers moral legitimacy on things that injure people, then treats resistance to those injuries as the sin.
Pornography does not merely “liberate sexuality.” It trains men to consume women, trains women to accept being consumed, and then calls the resulting degradation freedom.
A sexual culture organized around male appetite does not liberate women when women still bear the greater risks of pregnancy, abandonment, coercion, violence, humiliation, and bodily vulnerability. Calling that liberation does not alter who pays.
Women do not gain equality when male claims are allowed to override female privacy, sports, prisons, shelters, language, medical categories, or sex-based association. When women are ordered to surrender those things and condemned for refusing, that is not inclusion. It is domination of women dressed as compassion.
Race discrimination does not cease to be racism because the target is white. If institutions sort, exclude, stigmatize, or morally burden people because they are white, that is racism. “Equity” does not sanctify it.
A religion does not become benign because its adherents are locally fewer in number. Nor does Christianity become uniquely suspect because it is historically native to the West. When one faith receives indulgence and another receives suspicion according to an identity hierarchy, that is not pluralism. It is favoritism and religious prejudice.
A criminal does not become more morally important than his victim because his biography is politically useful. Mercy without justice is not mercy. It is abandonment of the innocent.
Children are not owed affirmation of every desire or identity claim that adults place before them. They are owed protection, judgment, restraint, and adults willing to say no.
Gambling companies do not become public benefactors because the state taxes them. Pornographers do not become liberators because they use feminist vocabulary. Cannabis dependence does not become harmless because it is legal. Appetite does not become virtue because commerce and politics profit from it.
And the family is not an antiquated obstacle standing between the individual and freedom. It is one of the principal institutions by which men are bound to duty, women and children gain durable claims upon others, and one generation accepts responsibility for the next. A culture that destroys those bonds and then offers bureaucracy, therapy, medication, entertainment, and consumption as substitutes has not liberated people. It has left them alone.
That is the charge.
The lie is not merely that these harms are regrettable side effects. The lie is that the harms themselves are progress.
The woman who objects is called hateful.
The parent who objects is called ignorant.
The Christian who objects is called reactionary.
The white person who objects to racial discrimination is told racism cannot really apply to him.
The Jew who objects to antisemitism is told to account first for Israel.
The citizen who asks why his country’s inherited norms must continually yield is told that his wish for continuity is itself suspect.
And thus the trick is completed: the injured person is placed in the dock, while the ideology that injured him assumes the robes of the judge.
That is not merely foolish. It is a corruption of moral judgment.
Cicero would ask whether a republic can endure when law ceases to be common.
Seneca would ask what sort of civilization calls surrender to appetite freedom.
Epictetus would ask by what right one citizen claims possession of another’s conscience, body, speech, or boundaries.
Marcus would ask what duties we have abandoned while congratulating ourselves on our virtue.
And Tacitus would recognize the darkest part immediately:
the language has been corrupted so thoroughly that the name of the vice is now used for the virtue that opposes it.
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Introducing my latest music video for everyone who thinks the "Zionists" are responsible for literally EVERYTHING.
Because when life gives you lemons, blame the Zionists. 🍋
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Joe Rogan just passes on any ol' lie he finds in the deepest holes of the internet, even when the lie is raw hate from beginning to end.
Israel allows genetic testing. Almost all clinical tests and prenatal tests are actually covered under our national health insurance.
And you absolutely can get ancestry testing in Israel. 23AndMe specifically, which Joe mentions as outlawed in Israel, ships to Israel. Go to their international website and try it before you spread this dumb, mean lie. Also FamilyTreeDNA and some others.
And once you get your raw DNA information through 23AndMe and others, you can upload it to every other ancestry website for analysis.
In fact, Ashkenazi Jews, including Israeli Ashkenazim, are some of the most genetically studied populations on the fucking planet, you racist dolts. (Oops, just realized I'm kinda pissed.)
There are even Israeli studies by Israeli researchers of Israeli Jewish genetics. Nature has published studies using Israeli genetics databases. Here, for example: nature.com/articles/nature09…
So what does Israel actually restrict, and why is it so severe about it?
Two words: Parentage and obsessive privacy rules.
Parentage tests are as tightly controlled as heroin.
The reason is peculiar to our tradition and may be hard for outsiders to understand. In Jewish religious law, a "mamzer," someone born of the mother's adultery or from incest, lives a restricted life in some ways, including limits on who they can marry under traditional laws. And their religious status is heritable. These are ancient laws, but they matter in a basically conservative and religious society.
To protect children from ever becoming saddled with this status, parentage tests require a family court order, even if both parents consent to the test. Because the child has to be protected. Rabbinical courts have often forbidden testing almost across the board, including in divorce cases. In one case I once read about, the rabbinical court quashed the father's genetic test and demanded that he adopt the child to avoid any doubt. This was to protect the child in that particular case. The court refused to release the father from responsibility for the child and refused to examine evidence into the child's actual parentage.
Is this a weird cultural artifact born from a specific feature of the Jewish tradition? Yes. Feel free to make fun of it over in the secular West. I make fun of it myself over here. But inasmuch as old traditional rules are an unavoidable part of our big-family, tightly-knit society, I'll take this weirdness, and the never-ending effort to cleverly circumvent the damaging parts of the old traditions, over what's happening in your neck of the woods.
Is it all an attempt to hide the 2000 years we spent in Europe? No, you dolt. What the hell is wrong with you?
And then there's privacy. Pay attention to this one, because you'll wish you had some of our rules in your own country.
This is the only real limit on ancestry kits.
Your genetic information is totally, utterly private. Your employer and your insurance company can never discriminate against you based on your genetics. Even just attempting to get their hands on your genetic information is a felony. Labs and genetic counselors are closely regulated.
In the age of AI, even just the leaking of a *relative's* genetic information can hurt your employability and your insurance premiums. And it's not some crazy fear. Ancestry kit companies are bought and sold by commercial investors all the time, and they're the owners of customers' data. A data breach of 23AndMe in 2023 put the genetic information of millions on the internet. You're telling me insurance companies didn't scoop it up? Israelis are more protected from that dystopian new reality than most of the rest of you.
And importantly, the law's prohibitions are on the commercial companies, not on the customer. Giving someone your own genetic information isn't a crime. The company buying and selling it commercially within the jurisdiction of Israeli law is committing the crime.
That's why the one company that's actually hampered in any meaningful way from testing Israelis is MyHeritage, which is Israeli. To bypass Israeli jurisdiction and that massive privacy regime, Israelis just order a kit from a company in Texas.
So why do literally hundreds of millions of people believe the lie that Israel has a blanket restriction on genetic testing to avoid anyone ever finding out that Ashkenazi Jews come from Europe?
At its core, at its most basic: because they want to create the permission structure to destroy Israel. They want to declare Israel a colonialist, imperialist interloper doomed to be felled by the noble indigenous Arab of the land.
So they declare that Israel is hiding this great, terrible secret that nobody has ever hidden and nobody could ever hide -- that it doesn't actually belong here.
Never mind the fact that every study of Ashkenazi Jews shows that they have origins in the Levant -- isn't it a bit odd that this argument never grapples with the millions of Israeli Jews who spent the past 1,800 years in places like Iraq and Yemen, Jews who were expelled and fled to the last man, woman and child to Israel, and who make up half of Israeli society today?
You'd think if this was actually about Israeli "genetics," that would be part of this conversation. But it isn't about any kind of reality, it's a bigoted, genocidal fantasy. So the millions of Jews who don't even come from Europe magically disappear from this conversation.
I don't think Joe Rogan dreams of our annihilation. I think Joe picks up garbage floating in the juices at the bottom of the internet's deepest garbage bins and launders it happily for clicks.
New: Joe Rogan reveals to comedian Sam Tallent that the real reason Israel restricts DNA ancestry testing is because most of the people over there aren’t Semites and are actually just European Jews:
ROGAN: “The real Semites are the Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu’s family is from Poland.”
CONTEXT: Israel does have restrictions on DNA testing.
According to Israel's Ministry of Health, paternity and family-relationship DNA tests generally require a COURT ORDER, even when everyone involved consents.
And there's an especially surprising detail.
MyHeritage, an ancestry-testing company HEADQUARTERED IN ISRAEL that offers DNA kits internationally, explicitly lists ISRAEL among the countries where its consumer ancestry tests are unavailable.
But that does NOT establish Rogan's allegation about WHY these restrictions exist.
Israel's genetic-information laws address matters including consent, family relationships, privacy, and potential consequences for children.
There is no substantiated evidence that the restrictions were created to conceal the ethnic origins of Israel's Jewish population.
And when Rogan brings up Netanyahu's Polish family roots, he's referencing something with a documented historical basis.
Netanyahu's father, Benzion Netanyahu, was born in WARSAW in 1910, before his family immigrated to what was then British Mandatory Palestine.
But European family history doesn't automatically mean someone has no ancient Middle Eastern ancestry.
In fact, scientific research reveals a much more complicated story.
IMPORTANT NOTES: A major genetic study published in NATURE in 2010 found evidence connecting many Jewish diaspora communities to shared ancestral origins in the LEVANT.
And a 2020 study published in CELL examined ancient DNA from Bronze Age populations in the region.
Researchers found substantial genetic continuity between ancient Levantine populations and multiple populations living in the region today, including Jewish and Arab communities.
In other words, the evidence points to a history of shared regional ancestry, migrations, and intermixing. It’s not a simple genetic division between two populations.
Then Rogan takes the discussion even further.
He questions whether the term ANTISEMITISM should instead be called “anti-Jewish,” arguing that Palestinians have a stronger claim to being called Semites.
But there's another important historical distinction.
“Semitic” originally refers to a LANGUAGE FAMILY that includes Hebrew and Arabic, not a scientifically defined genetic race.
And the word “antisemitism,” despite its linguistic roots, has historically referred specifically to hostility or prejudice toward JEWISH PEOPLE.
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On Friday, you're going to see headlines and tweets from around the world from India to Oakland, California, about "Dockworker Protests," "Port Workers Demand Peace," "Labor Solidarity with Palestine" and "No Harbour for Genocide."
You'll see the images, like in this video hyping the protest with symbols of propaganda: hammer-and-sickle flags, red-black-and-green Palestinian flags, flares, smoke, keffiyehs, crowds, ships and cops confronting demonstrators.
The plan: carefully staged political theater at 113 ports across 22 countries and five continents.
What you won't see in the headlines are the NAMES and the IDEOLOGY. I've got you covered. You can see the names as I scroll them in this video I've made of the protest hype propaganda.
In my new investigation for @FoxNews Digital, I've assembled a database of 106 organizations and campaigns in the worldwide network behind the docks protest, including communist revolutionaries, Marxist-Leninist political organizations, socialist activists, Palestinian solidarity groups and far-left international labor unions.
Some are conventional trade unions. But others openly declare their goal is the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist-communist society.
That's THEIR language.
In February 2023, I published WOKE ARMY: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America's Freedom after reporting on the topic for 20 years, because I wanted people to understand how political ideologies and movements intersect — particularly the relationships between revolutionary left-wing movements and Islamist, Muslim or Palestinian political activism.
I'm thrilled that now, in late 2026, less than 4 years later, the phrase "red-green alliance" has entered the public conversation and pierced collective consciousness to understand everything from street protests to the rise of Muslim political candidates and influencers like Ilhan Omar, Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker.
It is my life mission that folks should UNDERSTAND THE IDEOLOGY behind all of these campaigns for political power and influence.
When we study organizations' own words, their leaders, their funding, their alliances and their stated political objectives, we can better understand what is happening behind the images on our screens.
We can understand political motivations, goals and strategies.
Here's the WHO'S WHO behind the global port mobilization. 🧵
🔴 Red - 26
🟢 Green - 32
⚖️ Labor outside red and green - 43
📢 Amplifiers - 5
Total: 106
🔴 THE RED: COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS — 26
23 explicitly communist and socialist organizations appear in the network, including 13 European communist youth organizations.
In their joint declaration supporting the October 30 strike, the youth groups proclaimed: "We strengthen our struggle throughout Europe against our common enemy, capitalism."
They also called for a "socialist-communist society."
Their statement links the dockworkers' action to student protests in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Greece and Albania.
That's an explicit political connection between movements that may otherwise be reported as separate "organic" national protests.
🇦🇹 AUSTRIA: Youth Front of the Party of Labour of Austria.
🇫🇮 FINLAND: Communist Youth of the Communist Workers' Party of Finland.
🇫🇷 FRANCE: French Communist Party, Union of Communist Youth.
🇬🇷 GREECE: Communist Party of Greece, Communist Youth of Greece.
🇮🇪 IRELAND: Connolly Youth Movement, Workers' Party Youth.
🇮🇹 ITALY: Rete dei Comunisti, Front of Communist Youth.
🇳🇱 Netherlands: Communist Youth Movement.
🇷🇺 RUSSIA: Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Bolsheviks).
🇪🇸 SPAIN: Collectives of Young Communists.
🇸🇪 SWEDEN: Communist Youth of Sweden.
🇨🇭 SWITZERLAND: Swiss Communist Youth.
🇹🇷 TURKEY: Communist Youth of Turkey.
🇬🇧 UNITED KINGDOM: Counterfire, Socialist Party of England and Wales.
🇺🇸 UNITED STATES: Bay Area United Against War, BreakThrough News, Communist Party USA, Jacobin, People's World, Popular Resistance, Progressive International Exchange Inc., Socialist Alternative, Worker's World.
🟢 THE GREEN: PALESTINIAN GROUPS (32)
The Palestinian labor movement has explicitly endorsed the international action: 17 Palestinian labor and professional organizations signed a Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) declaration urging port workers to oppose specified military and dual-use shipments to Israel.
Palestinian labor and professional organizations (17)
🇵🇸 Association of Employees of the Financial Sector – Palestine
🇵🇸 Communication, Information Technology and Postal Workers Coalition (CWU PS)
🇵🇸 Federation of Independent Trade Unions
🇵🇸 General Union of Palestinian Teachers (GUPT)
🇵🇸 General Union of Palestinian Women
🇵🇸 General Union of Palestinian Workers (GUPW)
🇵🇸 Health Services Employees' Union
🇵🇸 Palestinian Electricians Union
🇵🇸 Palestinian Federation of Trade Unions (PFTU)
🇵🇸 Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, Gaza (PGFTU)
🇵🇸 Palestinian New Federation of Trade Unions
🇵🇸 Palestinian Painters and Plasterers Association
🇵🇸 Palestinian Postal Workers Union (PPSWU)
🇵🇸 Southern Electricity Company Employees Union
🇵🇸 Union of the Southern Local Authorities
🇵🇸 Union of Workers in Kindergartens and Private Schools
🇵🇸 Union of Workers in Local Authorities
Additional Palestinian solidarity organizations and campaigns (15)
🇵🇸 Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Italia (BDS Italia)
🇵🇸 Europe Palestine Network
🇵🇸 Europal Forum
🇵🇸 Global Intifada
🇵🇸 Global Sumud Flotilla
🇵🇸 Labor for Palestine (LFP)
🇵🇸 Law for Palestine
🇵🇸 No Harbour for Genocide
🇵🇸 No Port for Genocide
🇵🇸 Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)
🇵🇸 Stop Arming Israel Coalition
🇵🇸 Thousand Madleens to Gaza
🇵🇸 U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)
🇵🇸 Workers in Palestine
🇵🇸 La Base, Cosenza, Italy
⚓ THE LABOR INFRASTRUCTURE (43)
The international campaign also includes maritime and industrial labor organizations. Total: 42, excluding the Palestinian labor and professional signatories.
Their shared declaration states: "We do not load death."
The campaign also includes demands for wages, employment protections, shorter hours and workplace safety.
Understanding the ideology means examining those labor demands alongside the organizations' political declarations and aspirations.
⚓ Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) (Australia)
⚓ Federação Nacional dos Conferentes e Consertadores de Carga e Descarga, Vigias Portuários, Trabalhadores de Bloco e Arrumadores (FENCCOVIB) (Brazil)
⚓ Federação Nacional dos Estivadores (FNE) (Brazil)
⚓ SSZLV (Croatia)
⚓ SEGDAMELIN-PEO (Cyprus)
⚓ Fagligt Fælles Forbund (3F) (Denmark)
⚓ Fédération nationale des ports et docks de la Confédération générale du travail (CGT Ports et Docks) (France)
⚓ Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di) (Germany)
⚓ Ομοσπονδία Υπαλλήλων Λιμανιών Ελλάδος (OMYLE) (Greece)
⚓ Πανελλήνια Ένωση Ναυτών Εμπορικού Ναυτικού (PENEN) (Greece)
⚓ Εργατικό Κέντρο Πειραιά (EKP) (Greece)
⚓ Piraeus Port Authority Dockworkers' Union (Greece)
⚓ Ένωση Εργαζομένων Διακίνησης Εμπορευματοκιβωτίων στις Προβλήτες Πειραιά (ENEDEP) (Greece)
⚓ Teleperformance Workers' Union (SETEP) (Greece)
⚓ Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali (CALP) (Italy)
⚓ Gruppo Autonomo Portuali (GAP) (Italy)
⚓ Organizzazione Sindacati Autonomi e di Base, Porti (ORSA Porti) (Italy)
⚓ Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) (Italy)
⚓ Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU) (Ireland)
⚓ Forward Seamen's Union of India (FSUI) (India)
⚓ Water Transport Workers Federation of India (WTWFI) (India)
⚓ Unión de Estibadores y Jornaleros (Mexico)
⚓ Port of Bar labor unions (Montenegro)
⚓ Organisation Démocratique du Travail (Morocco)
⚓ All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions (Pakistan)
⚓ Federação Nacional dos Sindicatos dos Trabalhadores Portuários (FNSTP) (Portugal)
⚓ SŽPD (Slovenia)
⚓ South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) (South Africa)
⚓ Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar (CETM) (Spain)
⚓ Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak (LAB) (Spain — Basque Country)
⚓ Sindicato de Estibadores del Principado de Asturias (SEPRA) (Spain)
⚓ Trabajadores de los Puertos Andaluces (TPA) (Spain)
⚓ Svenska Hamnarbetarförbundet (Sweden)
⚓ Türkiye Liman, Dok ve Gemi Sanayii İşçileri Sendikası (Liman-İş) (Turkey)
⚓ International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10 (ILWU Local 10) (United States)
⚓ Sindicato Único Portuario y Ramas Afines (SUPRA) (Uruguay)
⚓ European Dockworkers' Council (EDC) (International)
⚓ European Regional Office of the World Federation of Trade Unions
⚓ International Transport Workers' Federation
⚓ Trade Union International of Pensioners and Retirees
⚓ Trade Unions International of Transport, Ports, Fishery and Communications Workers
⚓ World Federation of Teachers' Unions
⚓ World Federation of Trade Unions
📣 THE AMPLIFIERS (5)
The campaign's publicity reaches well beyond the docks.
📣 ASCOMARE (International)
📣 International Peace Bureau (IPB) (International)
📣 Ports at Work (International)
📣 Ports in Action (International)
📣 Stop the War Coalition (United Kingdom)
🔎 WHY IDEOLOGY MATTERS
When a communist organization says it wants to overthrow "capitalist barbarism," take its statement seriously and know that that impacts your corner Mom-and-Pop bakery.
When Palestinian solidarity organizations call for boycotts and sanctions against Israel, read their demands and know they want to eliminate the state of Israel.
Ideology defines goals.
That's why I wrote WOKE ARMY: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America's Freedom.
That's why I work through the nights studying open-source intelligence to make very LONG lists for you, so you can name names, see the data and see the patterns.
My goal is to help us understand the organizations, their beliefs, their relationships and their actions — using their own words and documented evidence.
READ our full article on the PORTS protest: foxnews.com/world/asra-noman…
STUDY our growing database of the red-green alliance behind the "student" protests in France and now the ports protest: foxnews.com/world/chaos-inc-…
READ WOKE ARMY to understand how we got here: a.co/d/0bdMUbON
Most of all: stay curious!
This week, in parshat Vayera, we learn about the proper way to dispense both kindness and mercy and @GadSaad acts as our frame of reference to an ancient Torah concept.
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