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Satmar leaders met with Zohran Mamdani, a man who has repeatedly called Israel’s self-defense “genocide.”

That’s not dialogue. That’s a moral failure.

If Noach taught us anything, it’s what happens when good people stay silent.

It’s time to speak up.

#Noah #noahsark #Satmar #Mamdani #Israel #JewishValues #SpeakUp #MoralCourage #JewishCommunity #TruthOverPopularity #JewishLeadership #StandWithIsrael #ShabbatShalom #jewishwisdom

Satmar leaders met with Zohran Mamdani, a man who has repeatedly called Israel’s self-defense “genocide.”

That’s not dialogue. That’s a moral failure.

If Noach taught us anything, it’s what happens when good people stay silent.

It’s time to speak up.

#Noah #noahsark #Satmar #Mamdani #Israel #JewishValues #SpeakUp #MoralCourage #JewishCommunity #TruthOverPopularity #JewishLeadership #StandWithIsrael #ShabbatShalom #jewishwisdom

Former Ambassador David Friedman pointed out that Israel is the only country where the younger generation is more conservative than the older one.

My takeaway isn’t about politics, it’s about reality. Young people in Israel are growing up in a world that demands maturity early. They can’t afford to see life in theories; they’re living it firsthand.

It’s not Right or Left. It’s real life shaping perspective.

#Israel #DavidFriedman #JewishValues #Zionism #JewishIdentity #MiddleEast #FaithAndReality #NextGeneration #Perspective #RealTalk #Naive #idealism #woke #TorahThoughts

Former Ambassador David Friedman pointed out that Israel is the only country where the younger generation is more conservative than the older one.

My takeaway isn’t about politics, it’s about reality. Young people in Israel are growing up in a world that demands maturity early. They can’t afford to see life in theories; they’re living it firsthand.

It’s not Right or Left. It’s real life shaping perspective.

#Israel #DavidFriedman #JewishValues #Zionism #JewishIdentity #MiddleEast #FaithAndReality #NextGeneration #Perspective #RealTalk #Naive #idealism #woke #TorahThoughts

The prophet Jeremiah cried out:
“They have healed the wound of My people superficially, saying: ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14)

Those words echo hauntingly today. We all long for peace, but the Hebrew word for “peace” שלום (Shalom) means more than calm or quiet. It means שלמות (shleimut,) wholeness. Real peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the presence of completeness, of justice and security for all.

When we call temporary ceasefires “peace,” we risk healing our wounds only superficially. Yes — a pause in violence can bring momentary relief. But when terror still reigns, and the lives of our holy soldiers are still being taken — as tragically occurred earlier this week, when two young soldiers were ambushed and killed in Gaza during the ceasefire itself, broken once again by H*mas, we cannot call that shalom. It may be a ceasefire — but it is not peace.

We should always pray and work for true peace, for the day when swords will be beaten into plowshares and the land will finally rest. But to label what is happening now as peace does not do justice to peace as wholeness.

At the same time, we must be grateful to God, as well as the Trump administration, for every hostage who returned home, for every life spared, for every moment of calm that allows an Israeli parent to not have to worry about their son or daughter on the army. And we pray, of course, that this fragile calm can one day become the seeds of real shalom.

#Israel #Peace #Shalom #Jeremiah #Torah #JewishValues #Truth #Babel #IsraelDefenseForces #Hostages #Faith #Hope #JewishUnity #PrayForPeace #AmYisraelChai #Trump #peaceinthemiddleeast #Ceasefire

The prophet Jeremiah cried out:
“They have healed the wound of My people superficially, saying: ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14)

Those words echo hauntingly today. We all long for peace, but the Hebrew word for “peace” שלום (Shalom) means more than calm or quiet. It means שלמות (shleimut,) wholeness. Real peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the presence of completeness, of justice and security for all.

When we call temporary ceasefires “peace,” we risk healing our wounds only superficially. Yes — a pause in violence can bring momentary relief. But when terror still reigns, and the lives of our holy soldiers are still being taken — as tragically occurred earlier this week, when two young soldiers were ambushed and killed in Gaza during the ceasefire itself, broken once again by H*mas, we cannot call that shalom. It may be a ceasefire — but it is not peace.

We should always pray and work for true peace, for the day when swords will be beaten into plowshares and the land will finally rest. But to label what is happening now as peace does not do justice to peace as wholeness.

At the same time, we must be grateful to God, as well as the Trump administration, for every hostage who returned home, for every life spared, for every moment of calm that allows an Israeli parent to not have to worry about their son or daughter on the army. And we pray, of course, that this fragile calm can one day become the seeds of real shalom.

#Israel #Peace #Shalom #Jeremiah #Torah #JewishValues #Truth #Babel #IsraelDefenseForces #Hostages #Faith #Hope #JewishUnity #PrayForPeace #AmYisraelChai #Trump #peaceinthemiddleeast #Ceasefire

Times are heavy. We all could use a good laugh once in a while. 😂

#timelinecleanse #goodlaugh #marriagememes #marriagehumor #haha #parentinghumor #funny #stopscrolling

Times are heavy. We all could use a good laugh once in a while. 😂

#timelinecleanse #goodlaugh #marriagememes #marriagehumor #haha #parentinghumor #funny #stopscrolling

I don’t love mixing Torah with politics but there’s something so dangerous about Zohran Mamdani’s run for Mayor and something so relevant in this week’s Parsha - “The Tower of Babel”.

The kabbalists teach that the goal of Babel’s builders wasn’t to literally reach God. If that were the case, they wouldn’t have started building their tower in a valley as opposed to a mountain. Instead, the builders of Babel leveraged the sanctity and creative power of language itself—the “holy tongue”—to coordinate a false and seductive narrative. Words that should build became scaffolding for a revolt, turning it into a tower of defiance. Through unified speech they broadcast a false narrative: not “Let us serve God,” but “Let us ascend, dethrone, replace.” That’s why God confounded their speech and made them sound like “babel” to one another.

Mamdani uses a veneer of moral language — “liberation,” “apartheid,” “genocide” — to frame a narrative about Israel and its war against Hamas.

That’s the danger NYC faces with Mamdani’s rhetoric. On Oct. 7 he called Hamas’s massacre merely a “war crime,” but he brands Israel’s defensive war against that terror group a “genocide.” The inversion speaks for itself.

Mamdani counts on his voters to resonate with buzzwords like “justice,” and “human rights.” But when such words are used to justify a premeditated slaughter of Jews while criminalizing Israel’s right to self-defense, it’s not moral clarity—it’s Babel all over again: a single, crowd-pleasing language masking a single aim.

When critique becomes a cloaked denial of purpose, we are back at the foot of the same tower. The weapons are words, and the casualties are truth and peace.

Jewish New Yorkers, and ALL people who cherish truth: do not be seduced by the language of faux-righteousness.

If Mamdani becomes mayor, his rhetoric will matter. A leader who frames a nation’s right to defend itself as the problem, and defines its response as “genocide,” isn’t speaking truth to power. He’s speaking power into falsehood.

And like the Tower of Babel, everything built on distortion eventually crumbles under the weight of its own lies.

Vote him out.

#mamdani #towerofbabel #nycmayor

I don’t love mixing Torah with politics but there’s something so dangerous about Zohran Mamdani’s run for Mayor and something so relevant in this week’s Parsha - “The Tower of Babel”.

The kabbalists teach that the goal of Babel’s builders wasn’t to literally reach God. If that were the case, they wouldn’t have started building their tower in a valley as opposed to a mountain. Instead, the builders of Babel leveraged the sanctity and creative power of language itself—the “holy tongue”—to coordinate a false and seductive narrative. Words that should build became scaffolding for a revolt, turning it into a tower of defiance. Through unified speech they broadcast a false narrative: not “Let us serve God,” but “Let us ascend, dethrone, replace.” That’s why God confounded their speech and made them sound like “babel” to one another.

Mamdani uses a veneer of moral language — “liberation,” “apartheid,” “genocide” — to frame a narrative about Israel and its war against Hamas.

That’s the danger NYC faces with Mamdani’s rhetoric. On Oct. 7 he called Hamas’s massacre merely a “war crime,” but he brands Israel’s defensive war against that terror group a “genocide.” The inversion speaks for itself.

Mamdani counts on his voters to resonate with buzzwords like “justice,” and “human rights.” But when such words are used to justify a premeditated slaughter of Jews while criminalizing Israel’s right to self-defense, it’s not moral clarity—it’s Babel all over again: a single, crowd-pleasing language masking a single aim.

When critique becomes a cloaked denial of purpose, we are back at the foot of the same tower. The weapons are words, and the casualties are truth and peace.

Jewish New Yorkers, and ALL people who cherish truth: do not be seduced by the language of faux-righteousness.

If Mamdani becomes mayor, his rhetoric will matter. A leader who frames a nation’s right to defend itself as the problem, and defines its response as “genocide,” isn’t speaking truth to power. He’s speaking power into falsehood.

And like the Tower of Babel, everything built on distortion eventually crumbles under the weight of its own lies.

Vote him out.

#mamdani #towerofbabel #nycmayor

He wasn’t a believer….until the darkness.

In the tunnels, surrounded by nothing but blackness, Or Levy said,

“That’s when I started speaking to God.” ✨

The Torah begins the same way - not with light, but with darkness upon the deep. Because creation itself is God teaching us: the light we seek is born from the dark.

May this Parshat Bereishit remind us that even after chaos, healing begins, and light always finds a way. 🙌

#Bereishit #OrLevy #Hostages #LetThereBeLight #FaithInTheDark #TorahWisdom #JewishHope #LightFromDarkness #BringthemHome #BringthemHomeNow

He wasn’t a believer….until the darkness.

In the tunnels, surrounded by nothing but blackness, Or Levy said,

“That’s when I started speaking to God.” ✨

The Torah begins the same way - not with light, but with darkness upon the deep. Because creation itself is God teaching us: the light we seek is born from the dark.

May this Parshat Bereishit remind us that even after chaos, healing begins, and light always finds a way. 🙌

#Bereishit #OrLevy #Hostages #LetThereBeLight #FaithInTheDark #TorahWisdom #JewishHope #LightFromDarkness #BringthemHome #BringthemHomeNow

Two years ago, on Simchat Torah, our joy was silenced. The laughter, the dancing…. it was all robbed from us.

Since then, we’ve said again and again: “We will dance again.”

But often those words felt like a lifeline — fragile, wavering, something we clung to more than something we felt.

This holiday, when we dance with the Torah, we won’t be pretending. We won’t be acting out joy because we must.

Tonight and tomorrow joy will meet us. Our Simchat Torah celebration will flow from what is true, not what we force.

Because this year, it’s not about symbolism or hopeful slogans. It’s about real homecoming: the return of our loved ones, the restoration of the sacred wholeness of our people.

Putting aside politics, disagreements, whatever the future holds — tonight we celebrate what is. They’re home.

So as we gather, as we lift the Torah, let us lift our hearts. We’ve walked long through darkness.
But the song has never truly stopped, and tonight, with open hearts, we will dance again.

Baruch Hashem. Shehechiyanu. Am Yisrael Chai. 🇮🇱

#SimchatTorah #HostagesReturn #AmYisraelChai #Shehechiyanu #JewishJoy #TorahDance #Faith #Redemption #WeWillDanceAgain #Bringthemhome #letthemgo #thankyouhashem

Two years ago, on Simchat Torah, our joy was silenced. The laughter, the dancing…. it was all robbed from us.

Since then, we’ve said again and again: “We will dance again.”

But often those words felt like a lifeline — fragile, wavering, something we clung to more than something we felt.

This holiday, when we dance with the Torah, we won’t be pretending. We won’t be acting out joy because we must.

Tonight and tomorrow joy will meet us. Our Simchat Torah celebration will flow from what is true, not what we force.

Because this year, it’s not about symbolism or hopeful slogans. It’s about real homecoming: the return of our loved ones, the restoration of the sacred wholeness of our people.

Putting aside politics, disagreements, whatever the future holds — tonight we celebrate what is. They’re home.

So as we gather, as we lift the Torah, let us lift our hearts. We’ve walked long through darkness.
But the song has never truly stopped, and tonight, with open hearts, we will dance again.

Baruch Hashem. Shehechiyanu. Am Yisrael Chai. 🇮🇱

#SimchatTorah #HostagesReturn #AmYisraelChai #Shehechiyanu #JewishJoy #TorahDance #Faith #Redemption #WeWillDanceAgain #Bringthemhome #letthemgo #thankyouhashem

Last night in the MJE Sukkah at our Brisket, Bourbon & Bracha event, we spoke about the paradox of joy.

We leave our homes, step into a fragile sukkah… and somehow feel richer.

Because real happiness isn’t about adding more. Iit’s about uncovering the holiness within what we already have.

Sukkot teaches us that physical pleasure can lift us only when it’s connected to something higher.

✨ Chag Sameach my friends. May we all find joy that lasts longer than the bagel after Yom Kippur.

#Sukkot #Joy #Happiness #JewishWisdom #RabbiWildes #MJE #SimchatBeitHashoeva #SpiritualGrowth #ChagSameach #Purpose #JewishLife

Last night in the MJE Sukkah at our Brisket, Bourbon & Bracha event, we spoke about the paradox of joy.

We leave our homes, step into a fragile sukkah… and somehow feel richer.

Because real happiness isn’t about adding more. Iit’s about uncovering the holiness within what we already have.

Sukkot teaches us that physical pleasure can lift us only when it’s connected to something higher.

✨ Chag Sameach my friends. May we all find joy that lasts longer than the bagel after Yom Kippur.

#Sukkot #Joy #Happiness #JewishWisdom #RabbiWildes #MJE #SimchatBeitHashoeva #SpiritualGrowth #ChagSameach #Purpose #JewishLife

As Israel agrees to a deal with Hamas to bring home our hostages, many are elated, others skeptical. Some fear we’re giving in to terror, others argue there’s no higher mitzvah than pidyon shvuyim, redeeming captives. Still others worry about American pressure or Qatar’s growing influence.

All these feelings are valid. But Sukkot reminds us that there is no higher calling than unity.

The four species we take on Succot — the etrog, lulav, hadas, and aravah — represent four types of Jews:
those strong in Torah wisdom and good deeds,
those with good deeds but lacking in spiritual wisdom, those with Torah wisdom but lacking in good deeds and those still searching for both.

Each is incomplete on their own. Only when bound together do they become a single mitzvah.

We can disagree about how we got here. We can debate policy and we should. But Sukkot is called זמן שמחתנו — the season of our joy, and now that our remaining brothers and sisters are coming home, let’s rejoice together — as one people, one bundle, one heart.

#Sukkot #FourMinim #Etrog #Lulav #Unity #AmYisraelChai #BringThemHome #Hostages #Israel #JewishUnity #Faith #JewishPeople #JewishPride #TorahValues #m#Jerusalem #Simcha #Hope #Strength #OneFamily #Bibi #Trump

As Israel agrees to a deal with Hamas to bring home our hostages, many are elated, others skeptical. Some fear we’re giving in to terror, others argue there’s no higher mitzvah than pidyon shvuyim, redeeming captives. Still others worry about American pressure or Qatar’s growing influence.

All these feelings are valid. But Sukkot reminds us that there is no higher calling than unity.

The four species we take on Succot — the etrog, lulav, hadas, and aravah — represent four types of Jews:
those strong in Torah wisdom and good deeds,
those with good deeds but lacking in spiritual wisdom, those with Torah wisdom but lacking in good deeds and those still searching for both.

Each is incomplete on their own. Only when bound together do they become a single mitzvah.

We can disagree about how we got here. We can debate policy and we should. But Sukkot is called זמן שמחתנו — the season of our joy, and now that our remaining brothers and sisters are coming home, let’s rejoice together — as one people, one bundle, one heart.

#Sukkot #FourMinim #Etrog #Lulav #Unity #AmYisraelChai #BringThemHome #Hostages #Israel #JewishUnity #Faith #JewishPeople #JewishPride #TorahValues #m#Jerusalem #Simcha #Hope #Strength #OneFamily #Bibi #Trump

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