Valentin

Alon Ohel was kidnapped from Nova simply because he is Jewish.

Two years of injuries, beatings, humiliation, and psychological torture later, he is finally home, celebrating Shabbat with his family, still a proud Jew.

This is what victory looks like.
Shabbat shalom!

Maybe we can trade Elias while we’re at it

O’s finally showing some gumption

That was some 7th inning, the O’s went from being perfect-gamed to simply being no-hit…Go O’s!

An Iranian missile struck the largest hospital in southern Israel. Unlike in Gaza, there was no military bunker buried below. Still, you know the rules:

Done by Israel, no matter how justified: war crime.

Done to Israel, no matter how atrocious: not a war crime.

This is like when ISIS went to war with the Taliban

If you can't name antisemitism as the problem, you definitely can't fix it.

Orioles being only slightly superior to the White Sox is indicative of where we are this season

While we’re making changes, can we DFA Gibson?

Orioles have fallen off the biggest cliff in recent memory…Charlie Morton coming in relief in the first inning is as bad as it gets

“The Soviets succeeded in WW2 because the US lend-leased them to victory”

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HBO made Chornobyl’s tragedy known.

But it’s really the story of hundreds of thousands of lives — stories we must remember so history never repeats.

Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa died. I can’t think of a more powerful historical novel than The Feast of the Goat (La Fiesta del Chivo), excavating the public and personal ruins of a country in the grip of a corrupt autocrat.

It's as if we lent someone our credit card and they ruined our credit.

from adley rutschman's may 22, 2022 debut through june 20, 2024, the baltimore orioles went 217-141, a 98-win pace over a full season

the next day they blew a lead against houston on spectacular fashion and lost

as of today they've played 100 games since that loss, going 47-53, a 76-win pace

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Trump rebuffs Netanyahu and gambles on a deal with Iran Israel’s leader tied his country’s fate to Trump. Now America is talking to its enemy

those expecting Trump to be "loyal" to Israel are self-deluded. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

”Why don’t you wear a suit?”

Israeli hostage reunited with Israeli family. Does this look like apartheid to you? #AveraMengistu

Am Yisrael Chai!

Because the Palestinians being released committed and were convicted of serious crimes, including rape and murder, while the Israelis were taken from their homes simply for existing.

In 1999, we had a school assignment to submit a work of writing to the Baltimore Sun Writing Competition. When I got an award for poetry, I was dumbfounded. Nikki Giovanni had been the judge. May her memory be a blessing.

MAGA keeps saying the war in Ukraine needs to end, and I agree, but I never hear them say the easiest way for it to end - which is Putin stopping his war of aggression, which he can easily do anytime he wants. No, according to them, the US and Ukraine is to blame for the war.

BREAKING
#ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Harry S. Truman For Crimes Against Nazis.