New Podcast About Soviet Anti-Zionism Propaganda and More Misery
Hello friends,
It’s been a dark week. We are heartbroken by the execution of the six Israeli hostages. Hersh’s family bravely went to the forefront and bared their agony with remarkable strength and dignity.
We are devastated and we are angry about the blaming of the executions of six hostages and the deaths in Gaza on everyone but Hamas. We are angry that the world doesn’t acknowledge that the all the deaths in Gaza on both sides and this unimaginable misery and agonizing suffering could end if Hamas and Iran wanted it to end. For those who want to help, they should pressuring Iran, Hamas and its proxies to end this war.
We hope you make the time this week to listen to our podcast with Izabella Tabarovsky about how the Soviet Union has been successfully spreading Ant-Zionism, Anti-West propaganda throughout the world since the 1960’s! This should be a movie or required reading. The college protestors and anti-Israel mob is literally repeating the same words that the Soviet Union was spreading for decades.
Here is the link to Izabella’s article for Tablet Magazine - it’s one of the important articles about the root cause of global anti-semitism. Absolute must-read.
We started our podcast to have conversations about living the life meant for us, professionally and spiritually. To explore parenting, travel, books, careers and how to be of service to our communities and friends.
We will continue in our search for the best content about living meaningful and happy lives, BUT we will also continue to cover the war in Israel. Yes, there are other wars but this one represents a war on western values and it is deeply personal to us.
To the six murdered Israeli hostages and to the innocent souls trapped in Gaza who have died at the hands of a demented, fanatical death cult that glorifies murder and hate, may your memories bring eternal, unstoppable strength and love to your family and friends. May the love from your family and everyone who knows about you grow so large and spread so fiercely that the evil that caused your death is suffocated, and eliminated from the world.
Thank you to the true allies of the Jewish people, like Chris Cuomo, Douglas Murray, Ritchies Torres, Elica Le Bon who have been speaking out for months. We appreciate their bravery and moral clarity to speak the truth, to be voices of justice.
Things we read and loved in the last two weeks:
US News
On Point op-ed from Nicholas Kristoff about why democrats need to stop demeaning Trump voters.
Working-class Americans have a right to feel betrayed. After almost 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11 attacks, we started two wars and allocated trillions of dollars to the response. But every three or four days we lose as many Americans to drugs, alcohol and suicide as died in the Sept. 11 attacks, yet the national response has been pathetically weak. The social fabric in many blue-collar communities has unraveled, and people are angry and frustrated.
Since the Obama presidency, Democrats have increasingly become the party of the educated, and the upshot has often been a whiff of condescension toward working-class voters, especially toward voters of faith. And in a country where 74 percent of Americans report a belief in God, according to Gallup, and only 38 percent over the age of 25 have a four-year college degree, condescension is a losing strategy.
Another fantastic op-ed from Joshua Graham Lynn on taking back our democracy.
We need to build a movement that works to change the laws governing our political system. We need laws that take power away from wealthy special interests and political parties and return it to the people. Laws that change how campaigns are funded — like Seattle’s democracy vouchers program. Laws like independent redistricting commissions to eliminate gerrymandering. Laws like open primaries to give 100% of registered voters a say in who wins elections. Laws like ranked choice voting that depolarize rhetoric and create space for third-party political competition. And finally, ethics and transparency laws with strong enforcement
From Sharon McMahon’s newsletter guns in America.
The fact that we can’t perfectly end gun violence doesn’t mean we should take no action on safe storage laws, on universal background checks, on mandatory waiting periods, on red flag laws, and on enacting harsher penalties for people who give dangerous weapons to minors, domestic abusers and violent felons.
Celebrities in the US were too afraid of being cancelled to even take a phone call from Rachel Goldberg-Polin. Please view and share.
About the Celebrity letter for Gaza from Noa Tishby and Jonah Platt
Life
Beautiful tribute from Laurel Braitman to her father.
Quotes of the Week
“Life from grief, pain into sweetness, sorrow into medicine.”
- Laurel Braitman
“Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.”
Music Break
How can anyone not love Coldplay?
What We Are Reading
Second Class by Batya Unger-Sargon
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The End of Race Politics by Coleman Hughes