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Trump Says He’ll Make ‘Major Statement’ on Russia on Monday
President Donald Trump announced during an interview with NBC News that he intends to deliver a “major statement” concerning Russia this coming Monday, though he offered no additional information on the nature of the announcement.
Over the past several days, Trump has voiced growing displeasure with Russian President Vladimir Putin, particularly over the continued conflict in Ukraine and what Trump perceives as Putin’s reluctance to earnestly engage in negotiations for peace.
“I think I’ll have a major statement to make on Russia on Monday,” Trump said in his comments to NBC News, stopping short of providing any further clarification.
Meanwhile, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are actively working on new proposals for sanctions targeting Putin’s regime, as the diplomatic efforts to end the war continue to stall.
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Poll: Majority Support Deporting Illegal Migrants to Their Country of Origin
A recent nationwide poll conducted by Cygnal in early July reveals that most voters heading into the general election are in favor of removing illegal immigrants and sending them back to their native countries.
Participants were asked, “Do you support or oppose deporting those illegally in the United States back to their country of origin?” Of all respondents, 61.3 percent said they back such a policy. Nearly 41 percent said they “strongly” support it. On the other side, 34.7 percent expressed opposition, including almost 17 percent who said they “strongly” oppose the idea.
The results displayed deep partisan divides. Among Republicans, a resounding 94 percent were in favor of deportation, with just four percent against it. Conversely, a majority of Democrats—68 percent—opposed deporting illegal immigrants, while only 26 percent supported the measure.
Independent voters leaned more in favor than against, with 59 percent supporting deportations and 37 percent standing against them.
One noteworthy finding was that among Hispanic respondents, half supported deporting illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds, while 48 percent were opposed.
Overall, the numbers marked a slight shift from May, with support for deportation dipping by two percentage points.
The survey also gauged public sentiment on the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. A plurality, 49.5 percent, expressed support for ICE operations, while 47.5 percent opposed them. Another three percent said they were unsure. Republican support was again overwhelming—89 percent approved of ICE raids—while 86 percent of Democrats opposed them.
Among independents, more opposed ICE raids than supported them: 52 percent disapproved, compared to 42 percent who voiced support.
The poll, conducted July 1–2, surveyed 1,500 likely voters in the general election and carries a margin of error of plus or minus 2.51 percent.
These findings come at a time when federal authorities are ramping up deportation efforts, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) emphasizing that most of those detained have criminal histories or pending criminal cases.
In a statement tied to the bust of a child exploitation ring run by illegal immigrants in Minneapolis, DHS stated, “70% of ICE arrests are of criminal illegal aliens with convictions or pending charges.”
The agency further clarified that many individuals who are classified as “non-criminals” may in fact pose serious threats. “Additionally, many illegal aliens categorized as ‘non-criminals’ are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gang members and more—they just don’t have a rap sheet in the U.S.,” DHS explained, adding, “This deceptive ‘non-criminal’ categorization is devoid of reality and misleads the American public.”
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Matzav Inbox: Stop Obsessing Over How We Look
Dear Hanhala,
You can take away our UGGs and sneakers, change the logo, or even rename the school—but the essence of this place remains. When you focus only on the external, you’re repeating the same mistakes so many other schools have made. You’re trying to mold us all into a picture-perfect Bais Yisroel, but it’s suffocating. When will you stop obsessing over how we look and start paying attention to what we’re going through inside? Because the truth is, we’re all struggling—whether you see it or not.
You’ve created rigid rules around phones and technology. The minute someone is caught breaking them, she’s punished—sometimes even expelled. “She broke a rule, she gets a consequence,” right? But what if you paused and asked why she broke that rule? What if you tried seeing it from her perspective? Our lives aren’t confined to the walls of your school. We live in a world saturated with technology—our siblings, cousins, friends, and neighbors all have it. It’s in our homes, yet you expect us to function without even a flip phone? Let’s be honest: many of your students have iPhones, smartwatches, and access to things that would devastate you—things that would break your heart—and you’re worried about sneakers? Please, get your priorities straight.
Why is it that being honest about our struggles automatically brands us as “off the derech” or “at-risk”? Struggles don’t always come in the form of tznius. Even the girl you proudly call your valedictorian, the one you think has it all together—she’s hurting too. But you’re so focused on maintaining an image that you’re ignoring our neshamos. We want to be good. We want connection. But we need space to be honest with you—without the fear that honesty will get us thrown out for not fitting into your narrow definition of what a “good girl” looks like.
You can’t keep saying, “This never would’ve flown in my generation,” because we didn’t grow up in your generation. We were born into a different world—one filled with challenges and influences you might not understand, but that are very real to us. Before you judge, ask: “How is she feeling? Why is she acting this way?” If a girl wears crew socks under her skirt, is she suddenly a bad person? If that’s what you believe, what hope is left for any of us?
Help us understand. Explain with compassion why certain things are considered wrong. Show us how to navigate this world with strength. Don’t just ban things or pretend they don’t exist. Technology, challenges, and pain are part of our reality, whether you acknowledge them or not. And if we don’t start being honest—if we don’t create a safe space for truth—I fear for what the future will look like. The world feels scary, and many of us are carrying so much inside. To survive, we reach for distractions—some of them harmful. Isn’t the school system supposed to help us grow into our best selves? But how can we, if we can’t even show you our true selves?
If you opened the door to real conversations about the hard stuff, girls would start to trust you. They’d come to you with their pain. You could change lives. I know this isn’t easy to hear, but it has to be said—because too many girls are slipping through the cracks. You’re shaping the next generation: our future teachers, principals, friends, shadchanim, bosses, and mothers. If we don’t start showing the world that struggling is normal, that it’s okay to talk about it and ask for help, then we’re just pretending. We’re building on a lie.
Your system teaches us that externals matter most. In class, the girl who takes notes and raises her hand is praised as “an amazing student.” But the one sitting quietly, listening intently, searching for meaning—she’s labeled as someone who doesn’t fit in. You don’t see a neshamah yearning for more; you just see someone who isn’t meeting your expectations.
Please, see us for who we are. We’re trying. We’re hurting. And we’re begging you to care.
Sincerely,
A Teenager
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Cory Booker: I Don’t Care If Trump Throws Me in Jail, I Won’t Stop Fighting
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) appeared on MSNBC’s “The Briefing” Thursday, declaring that not even the threat of jail from President Donald Trump would deter him from continuing his efforts to speak out and fight back.
During the segment, host Jen Psaki brought up recent attacks from Trump, noting that both Booker and others in public office had been targeted. She asked Booker what message he had for whistleblowers and those with critical stories to share during such a tense political climate. “Trump attacked you today, I believe, of being of Trump and people from the administration going after you. You’re in elected office. You accept that I know. What do you say to people? What is your message to whistleblowers or people whose stories are so important to tell about why they should do it now, and what impact it could have.”
Booker responded with a firm call to action. “Stand up and fight.”
He continued, emphasizing his own resolve in the face of personal attacks and threats. “I’m going to continue to fight. I don’t care if this president calls me out every day, mean tweets me, threatens me. We know I’ve had open conversations with senators I never thought I would have because we saw what they’ve done with a congressperson. My Congresswoman LaMonica McIver arresting her, my mayor they’ve arrested, they’re picking off, it seems, people that live in Newark that are in elected positions. But I don’t care throw me in jail. Do what you have to do. I’m going to continue to stand up for what’s right.”
In his closing remarks, Booker expressed hope that his stance would motivate others to act with courage and conviction. “I’m hoping that when one person stands up and calls this out, it ignites the courage of another person and another person and another person. We have to at a time that our fundamental rights and freedoms, that the very democracy that we that we know is precious, is under attack by this president. We’ve got to have more people willing to stand up and fight and take him on.”
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“Are Chareidi Girls Not Human?”: Thousands of Seminary Students Decry Discrimination Over Bagrut Exemptions
Thousands of Chareidi seminary students across Israel are voicing outrage over what they say is blatant discrimination and neglect by the Ministry of Education after the ministry failed to extend the same wartime exam leniencies to them as it did to students in the secular and religious school systems.
In the wake of the recent “Am KeLavi” war between Israel and Iran, the Education Ministry announced a broad policy allowing high school students across the country to forgo external Bagrut exams and instead receive internal grades in recognition of the nationwide trauma and instability caused by the conflict. However, this policy was not applied to seminary girls in the Chareidi system, leaving them to sit for full external exams under unchanged conditions.
Seminary students describe feeling silenced, overlooked, and pushed aside. One student related with frustration, “The pressure, expectations, and demands didn’t change—as if nothing happened, as if we didn’t go through a frightening and chaotic time. The sense of discrimination is overwhelming. Why did students in the secular and national-religious schools get support, while we were abandoned? Why aren’t Chareidi girls, who suffered just as much, if not more, given the same compassion?”
Another student echoed these sentiments: “We have no one to turn to. There’s no official body that speaks on our behalf. We’re trapped in a closed system that often prefers to stay silent to avoid ‘unnecessary drama.’ But that silence comes at a cost—emotional, academic, and personal.”
A senior teacher in the Chareidi school system sided with the students, placing the blame squarely on the ministry and its inspectors. “We’re not asking for easy outs,” she said. “We want basic fairness. Recognize that this year has not been normal, and that these exams—under current conditions—do not reflect our students’ real abilities. We want equal treatment. We want the system to care about our future the way it cares about other students.”
When the Ministry of Education was asked about this, officials insisted that the wartime leniencies applied equally to all sectors, including Chareidim. However, when confronted with reports that school heads and exam supervisors in the Chareidi system had not implemented the policy, the ministry said it would investigate.
One student recounted, “I asked my teacher, who said that many had submitted requests to cancel the exams or at least receive some leniency. But the answer that came back was always the same—‘no changes to external exams despite the war.’ My teacher spoke directly with the official who deals with the ministry, and she was cold and unresponsive. She said, ‘That’s the policy from the ministry,’ and admitted there’s no one to appeal to. They’re just blocking us out.”
She added, “Another coordinator told us that they’ve received dozens, maybe hundreds, of requests from girls and parents. But they said there’s nothing to be done, and it’s not even worth trying. They don’t respond because they don’t see us as important. The teachers are defeated—there’s nowhere to turn, and every path leads to a dead end.”
In response, students have launched an online petition demanding equal treatment and urging the Education Ministry to extend the same Bagrut exemptions to Chareidi girls as to the rest of the population. They’ve also filed a direct appeal to MeravD, the department responsible for external exams.
The Ministry of Education issued a formal response: “The Ministry of Education clarifies that in the summer session of 5785, following the ‘Am KeLavi’ war, all students in all sectors—including the Chareidi sector—were granted the option of receiving an internal grade in all exams. As for the second sessions in math, English, and Hebrew grammar, those exams are being administered as external exams, and this decision applies equally to all sectors.”
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Netanyahu: I Hope 10 Living Hostages Will Be Released ‘In A Few Days’
[Video below.] Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu concluded his four-day trip to Washington on Thursday night, boarding the “Wing of Zion” aircraft to return to Israel after meeting twice with President Donald Trump at the White House.
Following the visit, the Prime Minister’s Office released a statement declaring, “All the goals Netanyahu sought to achieve during the visit were accomplished.”
In an interview with Newsmax before departing, Netanyahu shared a guarded sense of hope about the possible return of ten more Israeli hostages who remain in Hamas captivity.
During the conversation, Netanyahu spoke about the current diplomatic efforts to broker a temporary pause in fighting in order to facilitate the release of hostages who were seized during the October 7, 2023, attacks.
He described the suffering endured by the 255 hostages as “hell,” calling Hamas “monsters” for their treatment of those taken.
“Well, they’re monsters. I mean what they do to them and the stories we get are horrible,” Netanyahu stated. “So it’s not easy for us when we’re doing it.”
Netanyahu stressed that Israel is resolute in its mission to recover every last hostage still being held.
“We have 50 left; 20 definitely alive, and some 30 that are not alive, and I want to take them all out,” he told Newsmax. “We now have a deal that supposedly we’ll get half of the living and half of the dead out, and so we’ll have 10 living left and about 12 deceased hostages. But I’ll get them out, too. I hope we can complete in a few days.”
The potential agreement being discussed includes a 60-day pause in hostilities. During that time, some hostages would be released, and talks would continue in pursuit of a broader end to the war. Netanyahu reiterated that peace could happen immediately “if Hamas lays down its arms.”
Shifting focus to the wider humanitarian crisis, Netanyahu condemned Hamas for its treatment of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza, accusing the terror group of hiding behind civilians and turning them into pawns in the conflict.
“It is a fighting force and a governing force in Gaza that oppresses its people, targets our people, our civilians, and uses their civilians as human shields. And then they complain that the civilian losses are because of us,” he told Newsmax. “No, we say to the civilians, ‘Leave. Leave the war zone.’ … And Hamas says, ‘You don’t go. You try to leave the war zone, we’ll shoot you.’ And they shoot them because they want the pictures of dead civilians that they are causing put on Israel’s head. And that’s what you get in TikTok and the social media: ‘Israel is deliberately killing civilians’; no, we’re not. Hamas is deliberately killing its own people, preventing them from escaping the war zone. So they’re monsters.”
Netanyahu also pointed to a significant and unusual development unfolding within Gaza: Palestinian Arabs themselves are beginning to rise up against Hamas’s iron grip.
“There are Palestinians fighting Hamas because we weaken them to this point,” Netanyahu told Newsmax. “We see something that never happened before. Palestinians in Gaza are fighting Hamas. Palestinians in Gaza are defying Hamas. Palestinians in Gaza are saying, ‘We don’t want them. We don’t want to be tyrannized and subjugated by these monsters.'”
He ended the interview with a firm message of determination: “Well, that didn’t happen before, and we think we can bring it to completion. So I wouldn’t tell you that we have a war goal that is unachievable. We’re going to defeat these monsters and get our hostages back.”
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Matzo Bakery in War-Torn Ukraine Awarded Prestigious Kosher Certification
Despite the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the renowned matzo bakery in Dnipro has received a top-tier kosher certification from one of the world’s leading kashrus authorities.
Rav Asher Eckstein, a senior dayan from the United States and one of the foremost figures in the global kosher certification world, traveled to the Ukrainian city of Dnipro to personally inspect and grant his certification to the matzo bakery that has continued operating even during the war. Dnipro is considered the nerve center of Jewish life in Ukraine, home to the largest organized Jewish community in the country, as well as the Menorah Center.
Rav Eckstein toured the city’s Jewish institutions together with the city’s chief rabbi and head Chabad shaliach, Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki, and Rabbi Meir Stambler, chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine.
One of the key highlights of Rav Eckstein’s visit was his inspection of the Dnipro matzo bakery, considered the largest of its kind in Europe. The bakery exports its meticulously prepared matzos to destinations including the United States. After personally examining its wheat supply and witnessing its meticulous standards, Rav Eckstein granted the bakery his personal kosher certification, which will now accompany the certifications already issued by Rabbi Meir Ashkenazi of Kfar Chabad, the OK kashrus organization, and the Dnipro Vaad Hakashrus led by Rabbi Kaminezki.
Joining Rav Eckstein on his visit were Rabbi Elisha Baram, the former head of the Dnipro kashrus division, and his successor, Rabbi Yisrael Gurevich.
During his inspection, Rav Eckstein remarked on the extraordinary level of halachic stringency upheld by the Dnipro community and its institutions. “It’s remarkable to see such high standards of kashrus being maintained in a country at war,” he said. “The commitment to halachic excellence here, despite the challenges, is clearly blessed with siyata dishmaya.”
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“STAY AND FIGHT”: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Urges Jews Not To Flee New York City Over Zohran Mamdani
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