Ashager Araro

For Ethiopian-Israeli activist @blackjewishmagic, pride in Israel has nothing to do with its leadership. No matter who's in power, it doesn't change who she is: a proud Israeli. ㅤ Comment PODCAST and we'll send the full episode straight to your inbox.

I tried to film this video several times without stuttering. I couldn’t do it. So I’m posting the version where I stutter and where my voice breaks a little. And that’s okay. These are the last words of Captain Eden Provisor, 21, a tank commander who fell in Gaza on November 18, 2023. He dictated them to his father over the phone, three days before he was killed. The writer David Eagleman wrote that we die three times: when our body stops, when we are buried, and the last time someone says our name. So I’m asking you: say his name. Eden Provisor. Tell his story. Share it with someone who hasn’t heard it. *Why did he call it “the inferno”? Eden commanded the lead tank of his brigade, the first tank to move forward, from the first day of the ground operation until the day he fell. As his battalion advanced, they fired more and more anti-tank missiles at them, and the lead tank becamean especially vulnerable target. Eden knew it. Two days after he spoke to his father, during the battle in Jabaliya, his tank took a direct missile hit, and he was killed. From the book “If You’re Reading These Words”.

October 8th. The day after. A student once asked me why Israelis don't seem to care about international opinion. This was my answer. On October 8th, before a single Israeli soldier entered Gaza, we were still searching for our children. And parts of the world were already celebrating. We remember that. And we learned not to wait for anyone's approval to protect our people. The people in this video didn't wait either: 🔹 2nd Lt. Avihail Reuven ran 13 km toward the fighting and took command when his commanders fell. 🔹 Ismail Alkrenawi, a Bedouin from Rahat, drove into the Nova massacre again and again and rescued more than 50 young people. 🔹 Elior Yifrach (1989–2023), a police detective, fought with almost no ammunition and shielded the people fleeing with his body. This is who we are.

Today, on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, a pilot attacked his fellow pilot and tried to bring the plane down. He didn’t get the chance. A passenger and a crew member forced their way into the cockpit and stopped him. The plane landed safely, and every person on board is on their way home. In the moment it mattered most, someone chose to act. That’s the spirit I’m proud to come from. #Israel #AmYisraelChai #Courage #BlackJewishMagic

Boy George released “Od Nirkod (We Will Dance Again)” a song about the Nova festival massacre - with the caption “Shalom.” The backlash was immediate. His management pulled him from his role in “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the London Palladium. He split from his record label. Then some of his own band members started questioning whether they’d perform the song with him. His answer was simple: anyone who won’t play it is out of the band. Artists get praised constantly for speaking up about injustice - unless the victims are Israeli. Boy George already paid for refusing to accept that double standard. He’s not backing down now. Jewish communities remember who stood beside them when it actually cost something.

Roughly 9,000 Jews remain in Iran - down from over 100,000 before 1979. Those who stayed are reportedly facing intensified persecution. Twenty Iranian Jews told the Jewish Chronicle they’re facing interrogations, job losses, university expulsions, attacks on Jewish businesses, and pressure to publicly denounce Israel. One mother says her 10-year-old son was struck by a teacher for not chanting anti-Israel slogans loudly enough at a mandatory rally. Jews should not have to earn safety by becoming quieter, less visible, or less Jewish. Sovereignty means Jewish existence no longer depends entirely on somebody else’s permission.

In Madagascar - the same island the Nazis once planned to deport all of Europe’s Jews to - this is a Shabbat table today. For nearly a decade, they had no synagogue, no rabbi living on the island. This year, they’re finally building their first one. And still, every single week, before any of that: a community gathers under a thatched roof, wrapped in tallitot, singing in Hebrew, blessing their children. That’s not survival. That’s love, refusing to wait for better circumstances. Geography never fully defined the boundaries of Jewish life. Neither did poverty, isolation, or history’s attempts to erase it. Am Yisrael Chai. 🇲🇬🇮🇱 🎥 @shlomo.itach