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“Telling your wife your needs and wants” is a complete waste of time for married men who want to get the passion and I’ll tell you why. So many marriage experts claim they have the secret to a happy marriage and that it all comes down to communication, boundaries and bringing in more money. They tell you to help out more at home, talk about the past, go together to a marriage professional but never stop to take inventory of whether ANY of these methods are actually WORKING in creating happiness and joy! I am not saying those strategies don’t work at all, but they are the long… slow… painful way of having a happy home. And for the few that make it with these strategies, they’ve done it while he doesn’t get what he needs, and she doesn’t get what she needs.  Meanwhile, we’re helping our clients connect with their wives on the highest level, living lives full of passion and excitement and it gets more and more joyful by the day where both husband and wife feel happiness and passion… … all without needing their wife to meet them halfway! To check out how they do this, click below to watch my free presentation where I share all the details … you’re going to thank me for it! 5 Steps Married Men Use to Get Rid of Friction and Create Passion and Intimacy… Without Needing Their Wife to Meet Them Halfway!

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday urged Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to order a broad counterterrorism campaign throughout Yehuda and Shomron, just hours after three police officers were shot dead by Palestinian terrorists near Hebron.

“I would like to address the prime minister, my colleagues in the Cabinet and the minister of defense. We are one step away from Oct. 7 in Yehuda and Shomron,” Smotrich said in a video recorded at the site near Hebron where Ch. Insp. Arik Ben Eliyahu, Command Sgt. Maj. Hadas Branch and First Sgt. Roni Shakuri were murdered on Sunday morning.

“We have the opportunity to do what we failed to do in Gaza on the night between Oct. 6 and 7,” he said. “To restore barriers, free ourselves of the [security] concept, and to strike terrorism with a hard blow.

“Gaza, Lebanon, and Yehuda and Shomron are part of the same Iranian choke ring that seeks to destroy the State of Israel,” stated Smotrich. “We are proving in Gaza that there is a military solution to terror. We must prove this here in Yehuda and Shomron and in Lebanon against Hezbollah.

“One people, one front, one war, and with the help of God, one strong, determined and victorious fist,” the right-wing minister concluded.

The three police officers were killed in a drive-by shooting on Sunday morning near Tarqumiya, some 7.5 miles northwest of Hebron.

Israel Defense Forces soldiers initiated a search for the terrorists, who opened fire from a vehicle at the police car on Route 35 and then fled on foot. Roads in the area were closed to traffic and Israeli security forces were preparing to launch a raid on the nearby Arab village of Idna.

On Friday, Palestinian car bombers wounded three Israelis in two separate attacks in the Gush Etzion region of Yehuda. The IDF believes that the two terrorists, both from Hebron, coordinated their attacks.

Over the weekend, an IDF soldier was killed and three others wounded during clashes with Hamas terrorists in Jenin in northern Shomron.

In the first half of 2024, Yehuda and Shomron saw more than 500 Arab terrorist attacks each month on average, according to figures Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Yehuda and Shomron) published on Aug. 1.

In the first six months of this year, first responders recorded 3,272 acts of terrorism in the region, including 1,868 cases of rock-throwing, 456 attacks with Molotov cocktails, 299 explosive charges and 109 shootings.

Terrorists have killed 14 people and wounded more than 155 others in the Yehuda and Shomron regions since the start of the year, the group said.

(JNS)

The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group has issued a call to its supporters to carry out terror attacks in the United States and Europe, according to a post in its official weekly newsletter, al-Naba. The same post also claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a Russian prison facility on August 23, which left four prison guards dead. The attack, carried out by knife-wielding prisoners at the IK-19 Surovikino facility in the Volgograd region, was eventually thwarted by authorities who killed the attackers. Reports previously tied the attackers to ISIS. The details of ISIS’s call for attacks on Western targets remain unclear, but it follows a similar appeal made by the group’s spokesman in March. Following the March 22 assault on Crocus City Hall in Moscow, which killed 145 people, the spokesman urged attacks on Christians and Jews worldwide. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

To All the Choshuve Readers at Matzav,

L’maan ha’emes, I just had to sit down and write this letter, hoping you’ll take it to heart. I had the zechus to be your son’s madrich this summer, and let me tell you, he’s a really geshmak kid, full of energy, and baruch Hashem, he had a blast in camp. But like all boys his age, he could sometimes get a little too lebedik, if you know what I mean. But that’s all part of the fun, and we madrichim are here to guide them through it.

Now, let’s talk tachlis. We worked our tails off, I’m talking nights with barely a blink of sleep, always keeping the ruach high, pumping up the chevra, and making sure every kid had the best time. And let me tell you, we did it with all our heart, even though we’re not getting a dime from the camp for our efforts. But you know what? That’s not the point. We do it because we care about your sons, and we want them to have the best summer ever.

But here’s the thing. In our world, we know how important it is to show hakoras hatov. And I’m not talking about anything fancy, just a little something to say, “Hey, we appreciate what you did for our boys.” Unfortunately, I gotta be honest—it didn’t really happen this time around.

So, I’m asking you, as a fellow Yid, please check in with your son. Did he remember to show a little hakaras hatov? Maybe he got distracted by the canteen or just plain forgot. If he didn’t give a tip, no worries—there’s still time to do the right thing. It’s always better late than never.

I’m not asking for much, just a little recognition for the blood, sweat, and tears we put into making this summer unforgettable for your boys. Thanks a ton!

Your Son’s Madrich

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A Dallas police officer was “executed” and two others injured Thursday in what officials called a “targeted” and “premeditated” attack on law enforcement.

Officer Darron Burks was parked near the front entrance to a community center between call assignments just after 10 p.m. when the suspect approached his squad car, police said in a statement Friday.

Corey Cobb-Bey, 30, appeared to be recording on his cellphone as he briefly spoke to the officer through the driver’s side window, police said. Then, they said, Cobb-Bey drew a handgun and fatally shot Burks.

“I know that the word ‘ambush’ has been thrown around in the last 24 hours or so,” Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a news conference Friday. “That’s not what happened here. Officer Burks was executed.”

Roughly a dozen other Dallas police officers have been killed in the past decade. Of those, five were killed in a single incident in 2016.

On Thursday, a dispatcher noticed an “unusual transmission” from Burks’s radio, police said. The dispatcher tried to contact Burks but got no response, so they sent other officers to check on him.

Cobb-Bey, meanwhile, went back to his Buick, took out a shotgun and put it on the roof of Burks’s patrol car, police said.

When Officer Jamie Farmer got to the parking lot at 10:11 p.m., Cobb-Bey immediately shot him with the handgun, striking his leg, police said. Farmer shot back and ran across the parking lot.

Cobb-Bey then grabbed the shotgun from the top of the squad car and fired once more toward Farmer, who kept running, police said.

The assailant then ran at Officer Karissa David as she got out of her squad car and shot at her several times. David returned fire and was struck in the face during the exchange, police said.

Cobb-Bey fled into Lewisville – about 20 miles northwest of downtown Dallas – then stopped on an expressway and got out of his car, police said. He allegedly approached officers and pointed a shotgun at them. Six officers fired at him, hitting him several times.

Cobb-Bey died at the scene, and none of the six officers were injured.

Farmer was released from the hospital on Friday, and David was in critical but stable condition.

“The investigation determined last night was premeditated – again, for no other reason than the uniform we wear, that my men and women proudly wear, and for the brave and honorable job our men and women do each day,” Garcia said at the news conference.

Days earlier, he said, Cobb-Bey had approached an unmarked squad car belonging to an unknown law enforcement agency and recorded himself asking officers why they were parked there. Online, Cobb-Bey had shared that he had problems in his professional and personal life, Garcia said, and “made a post indicating an event” would happen on Friday.

There is currently no evidence that Cobb-Bey and Burks knew each other, Garcia said. He added that Cobb-Bey’s guns were purchased legally.

Garcia also said there were indications that Cobb-Bey was part of the Moorish sovereign citizen movement, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a collection of people who believe that individual citizens hold sovereignty over governments. Moorish sovereign citizens have recently “engaged in violent confrontations with law enforcement,” the SPLC says.

The Dallas Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit is probing the incident, and the Dallas County district attorney’s office will carry out its own investigation, police said.

“As a department and as a family, we are devastated,” Garcia said at the news conference. “Last night, we lost a brother, a hero. Officer Darron Burks was a son, a nephew, a friend to many, and he was senselessly and tragically murdered in the line of duty.”

Burks, who recently had joined the department, taught high school math at Texans Can Academy in Dallas for about 17 years, the Associated Press reported. Tina Shaw, the school’s principal, told the AP in a statement that he was “not only an excellent educator but also a mentor to countless students.”

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson (R) said the city had “suffered a great tragedy.”

“Officer Darron Burks truly was a hero. As a teacher and a Dallas police officer, he lived his life in service to others – to all of us. He dedicated himself to giving us a better, smarter world and a safer city. And last night, he made the ultimate sacrifice,” Johnson said in a statement read at the news conference. (His office said he is isolating with covid-19.)

Flags at city facilities are being flown at half-staff.

(c) Washington Post

Sadly, some of the family members of the six hostages whose bodies were recovered yesterday from Gaza heard rumors of the news that their loved ones were found dead on social media. Elchanan Danino, the father of slain hostage Ori Danino, H”yd, told Army Radio that he was officially informed of the news of his son’s murder by an IDF representative on Sunday at 4 a.m. but he was exposed to rumors of the news hours beforehand – beginning on Motzei Shabbos at 8 p.m. “I want to utilize this platform to say – keyboard warriors, please stop!” the bereaved father said. “You murdered us beginning at 8 p.m.” “I beg and plead – for the sake of the other families, so they shouldn’t endure what we endured tonight. I request of you, stop collecting ratings and followers on the backs of the families. You murdered us – we’re talking here about people’s lives!” In a retrospectively heartbreaking scene, the video below shows Ori, z’l, singing “בעד עמך רחמים שאלי” with his family on Sukkos only a week before his abduction. Ori, H’yd, 25, was from a Chareidi family from Jerusalem and was engaged to be married.   (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Hundreds of Jewish and Israeli students at Columbia think that the Ivy League school “has not treated them with the standards of civility, respect and fairness it promises to all its students,” according to a report from Columbia’s task force on antisemitism released on Friday.

The 91-page report, which draws on interviews with almost 500 students, found that Jew-hatred on campus is “serious and pervasive.”

“These student stories are heartbreaking, and make clear that the university has an obligation to act,” the task force’s report states. (It wasn’t clear from the report how many of the 500 students were Jewish or Israeli.)

“Unfortunately, some members of the Columbia community have been unwilling to acknowledge the antisemitism many students have experienced—the way repeated violations of university policy and norms have affected them and the compliance issues this climate has created with respect to federal, state and local anti-discrimination law,” the report states.

“Many of the events reported in the testimonials took place well before the establishment of the encampments and the takeover of Hamilton Hall,” it adds. “The experiences reported during that period were even more extreme.”

Students, who often didn’t know how to report Jew-hatred to Columbia, found that “some faculty and staff responded with compassion and determination,” but “others minimized the concerns of these students, reacting sluggishly and ineffectively even to the most clear-cut violations,” the report states. “Even students who had successfully reported an incident spoke of a recurring lack of enforcement of existing university rules and policies.”

The task force suggested its own working definition of Jew-hatred for Columbia to use and recommended “in-person workshops about antisemitism and Islamophobia, as well as a range of optional training and workshops for others in our community, including on implicit bias and stereotypes, bystander interventions and having difficult conversations.”

“Many Jewish students said they now avoid walking alone on campus,” the report states. It quotes a student who said that crossing campus with a visible Star of David or wearing a kippah “could start World War III.”

“The experiences of these students demonstrated that there is an urgent need to reshape everyday social norms across the campuses of Columbia University,” per the report. “We need to promote a richer ethic of pluralism, which would encourage greater tolerance of and respect for differences in religion, culture and national origin.”

“If we were really to succeed in promoting tolerance, students would come to understand and value these differences,” it added.

(JNS)

A nationwide general strike, announced by Histadrut chief Arnon Bar-David, will begin tomorrow morning, with Ben Gurion International Airport set to be closed in protest of a hostage deal not having been reached yet. The strike will commence at 6 a.m., with the airport closure scheduled for 8 a.m., when all takeoffs and landings will be halted. The duration of the airport’s closure remains uncertain, with the spokesman stating that it is “unclear” how long Israel’s only international hub will be shuttered. However, it appears that the strike is planned to last – at least at this point – for one day. “A deal is more important than anything else,” Histadrut Labor Federation chief Arnon Bar-David said in announcing the nationwide strike. “Jews are being murdered in the tunnels of Gaza. It is impossible to grasp and has to stop,” he added, asserting that no deal has been reached “because of political consideration.” “We are no longer one people; we are camp against camp,” Arnon added, saying “we need to bring back the State of Israel.” “We are getting body bags instead of a deal. I have come to the conclusion that only our intervention might move those who need to be moved,” he declared. “I call on the people of Israel to go out to the streets tonight and tomorrow and for everyone to take part in the strike.” A full list of workplaces set to participate in the strike will be announced later, the spokesman added. The general strike is expected to have significant impacts on various sectors, with the airport closure likely to cause disruptions to international travel – and to thousands of American yeshiva bochurim planning to fly to Israel this week. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The names of hostages have been written on the pavement of a major highway running through Tel Aviv

The Levaya of Hersh Goldberg-Polin HY’D will take place on Monday, September 2, at 4:00 p.m. (Israel time) at the Har Hamenuchos cemetery in Yerushalyim.

Billionaire ‘Shark Tank’ star and rabid Trump critic Mark Cuban polled his followers on X Friday night, asking them a simple question: “Who’s persona and character would you like to see young children grow up to have?” in a two way poll between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Unfortunately for Cuban, 68.9% of respondents selected Trump, compared to only 31.1% for Harris.

Back in 2015, Cuban was actually a supporter of Trump, and even considered being his running mate in an interview with Business Insider in July 2015.

Cuban said in August: “In 2015, I was like, ‘He’s great. He’s not a typical Stepford candidate. I thought that was a positive,” Cuban said. “A big part of that is I didn’t think he had a chance. I just wanted to kind of screw things up in traditional politics, which I’m not a fan of.”

In 2015, Cuban posted online about Trump, saying: “I don’t care what his actual positions are. “I don’t care if he says the wrong thing. He says what’s on his mind. He gives honest answers rather than prepared answers. This is more important than anything any candidate has done in years.”

However Cuban has changed his tune to the point that earlier this year, Cuban said he would vote for Biden instead of Trump even if Biden were “being given his last rites.”

Cuban has now switched to supporting Kamala Harris over Trump, and recently accused Trump of copying her policy positions.

{Matzav.com}

As news spread that 6 hostages had been found murdered, the staff and patients at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital stood in silence to honor their memory.

Video footage captured the moment Duvdevan commandos launched missiles at a building in Hebron, successfully neutralizing the Palestinian gunman responsible for the deaths of three police officers in the southern West Bank earlier today. The precision strike by the elite unit ended the deadly confrontation, ensuring the assailant was taken out.

A bomb threat on Friday evening led to the evacuation of a shul in Miami Beach, Florida, and prompted a swift response from local police. At approximately 7:40 p.m., officers responded to Beit Chabad South Beach and the Lubavitch Educational Center on Alton Road and 12th Street after a shul member flagged down an officer due to a suspicious envelope left in front of the building. The envelope contained handwritten lettering indicating a bomb threat and the words “safe house” on the other side. As a precaution, the shul was evacuated, and officers established a perimeter, shutting down Alton Road between 11th and 13th streets and diverting cars. Bomb squad officers and K-9s were deployed to conduct a thorough sweep of the shul and learning center. After a comprehensive investigation, police gave the all-clear, and the scene was cleared, with mispalelim. The incident is under further investigation, and police urged anyone with information to come forward. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

Watch Jessie Waters interview with Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis, about his investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Trump, and about the FBI’s stonewalling.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the commander of the country’s air force Friday, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a Russian bombardment and killed the pilot. The order to dismiss Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk was published on the presidential website. “We need to protect people. Protect personnel. Take care of all our soldiers,” Zelenskyy said in an address minutes after the order was published. He said Ukraine needs to strengthen its army on the command level. Lt. Gen. Anatolii Kryvonozhko was appointed acting air force commander, the army’s general staff said. The dismissal came on the same day that Oleshchuk directed scathing criticism at a lawmaker who is deputy head of the Ukrainian parliament’s defense committee for her claims that the F-16 was downed by a Patriot air-defense system. Ukraine has received an unspecified number of the U.S.-made systems. Mariana Bezuhla cited unnamed sources for her claim and demanded punishment for those responsible for the error. Oleshchuk accused Bezuhla of defaming the air force and discrediting U.S. arms manufacturers and said that he hoped she would face legal consequences for her claims. “The truth will win,” Bezuhla posted on X shortly after the dismissal order was published. The air force did not directly deny that the F-16 was hit by a Patriot missile. U.S. experts have joined the Ukrainian investigation into the crash, the air force said. Meanwhile, a Russian attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv using powerful plane-launched glide bombs killed six people, including a 14-year-old girl on a playground, and wounded 47 others, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said. The bombs struck five locations across the city, which had a prewar population of 1.4 million people, the governor said. One of the bombs hit a 12-story apartment block, setting the building ablaze and trapping at least one person on an upper floor. Emergency crews searching for survivors feared the structure could collapse. In other developments, Ukrainian rockets hit the Russian city of Belgorod and its surroundings on late Friday, killing five people and injuring 37, said regional govenor Vyacheslav Gladkov. The region borders northern Ukraine ans comes under drone or artillery attacks almost daily. Zelenskyy pointed to the Kharkiv strikes as further evidence that Western partners should scrap restrictions on what the Ukrainian military can target with donated weapons. The Kharkiv strike “wouldn’t have happened if our defense forces had the capability to destroy Russian military aviation at its bases. We need strong decisions from our partners to stop this terror,” Zelenskyy said. F-16s are one of the weapons that could be used to hit Russian bases behind the front line. Oleshchuk said on Telegram that “a detailed analysis” was already being conducted into why the F-16 jet went down Monday, when Russia launched a major missile and drone barrage at Ukraine. “We must carefully understand what happened, what the circumstances are, and whose responsibility it is,” Oleshchuk wrote in the post shortly before his dismissal. The crash was the first reported loss of an F-16 in Ukraine, where the warplanes arrived at the end of last month. At least six are believed to have been delivered by European countries. Military analysts say the planes will not be a game-changer in the war, given Russia’s massive air force and […]

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The autopsies of the bodies of the six hostages rescued from Gaza on Shabbos revealed that all six had signs of gunshot wounds in their heads and other parts of their bodies, Ynet reported on Sunday. IDF officials estimate that they were murdered in the previous 48 hours. One of the hostages’ bodies bore signs of being tied up. The conditions of the bodies also showed that the hostages had been systematically neglected, and among other things, they had not showered for an extended period of time. IDF forces found the bodies in a tunnel about 20 meters deep in Rafah, about one kilometer away from the tunnel where Bedouin-Israeli hostage Farhan Al-Qadi was found. The IDF did not have precise intelligence about the location of the six hostages but were aware that there were hostages in the area. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)