GOLANI WINS! Yay… (Um, oops, it’s a different Golani. Never Mind)

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, leader of the Islamist rebel alliance that has captured swaths of Syria in a lightning offensive… Golani for years operated from the shadows. Now, he is in the limelight, giving interviews to the international media and appearing on the ground in Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo after wresting it from government control for the first time in the country’s civil war.

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In 2021, he told US broadcaster PBS that his nom de guerre was a reference to his family roots in the Golan Heights, claiming that his grandfather had been forced to flee after Israel’s takeover of the area in 1967 during the Six Day War.

Oh.

I had hoped it was the Golani brigade. Never mind then…

At least Jews took some more of the Golan, right?

Yeah, but it’s officially temporary until the regime can pretend they found a “peace partner”. Let’s pray their evil designs fail!

Sarah Schenirer – Still Somewhat Ignored by Chassidim

Quoting Jewish Action mag, paraphrased:

Sarah Schenirer in her autobiography described a gap between girls and their families in her Chassidic community. While Schenirer saw boys and men involved in intense Jewish learning and spending the yamim tovim gaining spiritual inspiration from their rebbe, she viewed women’s religious lives as empty. She is quoted as saying, “We stay at home, the wives, the daughters with the little ones. We have an empty yom tov. It is bare of Jewish intellectual concentration.”

I can see the benefit of men gathering for chizuk on Shabbos (especially if the Shalosh Seudos meal is outside the prayer hall!), but what about the wives and daughters? And then there is Yom Tov when many Chassidim leave their families to go to the Rebbe. And not all places have Shabbos afternoon groups, and not all women have where to go for Yom Tov.

I can see both sides, but is this even addressed as a religious question or just as a discomfort?