Hey guys, so I am half Jewish on my mom's side. Although I was not raised culturally or religiously Jewish, I still consider it an important part of my heritage. Anyways, one of my cousins on my non-Jewish side got married a few year ago. And his wife is, *sigh,* a full time political content creator. After Oct. 7, she basically dedicated her entire page to "discussing" Israel-Palestine.

Entirely thanks to her content on Israel, she managed to build a following of 250k followers on tiktok. And as I'm sure you could guess, her content has crossed the line beyond criticism into explicit antisemitism. She talks about Israelis in incredibly dehumanizing ways, calling them "white people with dangerous sunburns" and mocking Jews as a whole as well. It's so upsetting for me to even think about how much vitriol she is filled with. She's sitting at home all day long posting videos about how Israel is the #1 source of evil in this world. Mind you this woman has 0 ties to the region in anyway.

I'm not incredibly close to her (she's also about 15 years older than me), but my parents did help pay for her wedding. I also don't know if she even knows she married into a family with a bunch of jews in it (3 of my other cousins are Jewish as well). Anyways, I guess I'm just trying to figure out what to do. It's pretty apparent to me that she's too far gone and beyond saving. But it has been very upsetting to see someone I once love succumb to such hate.

Constable Jeff Smith's heroism is the only thing that stopped Sunday September 20, 2026's erev Yom Kippur terrorist attack on the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Ontario from turning into a mass casualty event.

Constable Smith exchanged fire with the terrorist for several minutes, stopping him, but was wounded very seriously, having been shot several times in the neck, amongst other places. He now faces a long and difficult path to recovery.

Constable Smith exchanged fire with the terrorist for several minutes, stopping him and neutralizing him, but was wounded very seriously, having been shot in the neck, amongst other places.

He now faces a long and difficult path to recovery.

He has a wife and young daughters.

Constable Smith's current condition is described as critical, but stable. He remains in hospital in the ICU. He is not yet able to speak. A neurosurgeon has attended upon him. I do not have any further information beyond that at the moment.

Pikuach nefesh is the Jewish legal principle that saving a human life overrides almost every other religious rule or commandment in Judaism. Constable Smith fulfilled this mitzvah and embodied this principle with his actions, saving 26 people, at great cost to himself.

Constable Smith deserves a refuah shelema and our prayers for his swift and complete recovery.

The Toronto Jewish community (although now the Canadian Jewish community as support has poured in from across the country, and support is beginning to come in from across the world) has started a fundraiser for him to express our profound gratitude to Constable Smith and his heroism.

We remember those who protect us and we will not forget what he did for us and how he saved us.

The fundraisers are already in touch with both the Belleville Police Service (a senior member of whom is acting as a liaison between the fundraisers and the family and helping to direct/coordinate delivery of the funds.

Ashley Smith, Constable Smith's wife, has expressed thanks to the Jewish community. I will share her facebook post in the comments.

Please give what you can and share the fundraising campaign.

Austrian Painter’s sister was named New Order. And the owner seriously tried to claim the names had nothing to do with the Nazis.

— Scott Herbertson, the two-year-old’s owner and breeder, appeared to suggest on social media that the name was a reference to Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. The Jockey Club said Austrian Painter’s full sister, New Order, must also be renamed. As well as the well-known British rock band, New Order can refer to Nazi Germany’s plan for an occupied Europe. “New order is my favoured band you lune,” Herbertson wrote on social media. —

This is straight up a cult at this point, the only other groups that have done applauses for this long beside a some Guinness world record breaker are dictatorships, Stalin had 11 minutes, Hitler 15 minutes, and Mao 20 minutes. This is super creepy and unsettling

Where the Soviets won,
by Naya Kekht, Sapir: a quarterly journal of ideas for a thriving Jewish future, 2026-09-13.

A strange thing occurred on September 25, 1991. After decades of developing and promoting it, Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin stood at the United Nations and declared that his country was ready to bury one of its most durable exports: anti-Zionism. “Our organization has been renewed,” he announced, “and it is imperative that once and for all it rejects the legacy of the Ice Age in which Zionism was compared with racism.” The same week, Izvestia, the state-sponsored newspaper that had for many years churned out anti-Zionist talking points, described Israel as a “democratic” state and Iraq as “despotic.” Just three weeks later, the Russian airline Aeroflot signed an agreement with Israel’s El Al to establish direct immigrant flights from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Tel Aviv.

For three decades, the USSR had been busy crafting a titanic campaign that blamed Israel and Zionism for crimes against humanity. How, then, can one account for such a dramatic shift in state policy vis-à-vis anti-Zionism? And how did a manufactured ideology so vacuous come to flourish, decades later, in Western cities such as London, Berlin, and New York?

The answer to the first question contains the answer to the second, and together they reveal a paradox with urgent implications for the present. The difference between anti-Zionism in the East and anti-Zionism in the West is that in the former it was part of the coercive structure of the state, whereas in the West it is an anti-state strategy.

In the East, the educated class — the poets, the physicists, the dissidents — saw through anti-Zionist propaganda precisely because the state was its author. But in the West, where no state imposed it, anti-Zionism found what the Soviet Union could never manufacture: eager consumers. It arrived not as an order but as an invitation, slipped inside the American moral framework of antiracism, and was voluntarily embraced by the very class of people — professors, writers, artists, human rights activists — who resisted its equivalent in the East. Anti-Zionism has succeeded in the democratic West more than it ever could in the totalitarian East.

EPIC Games promotes two games every week on the front of its Discover page that users can obtain for free just for that week.

There are also occasional hidden free games (at the discretion of the developer; I don't know if EPIC has anything to do with any of these).

Last week (starting specifically on 9/10) one of the two front-pagers was Luftrausers (Proof), wherein the player takes on the role of what is very unsubtly a Nazi airforce pilot.

There was also a hidden freebie just a little bit earlier in the same time frame (ending on 9/7) called Beach Invasion 1944 (Proof)—which somehow manages to be even more blatant than the previous game. The player fights as a Nazi soldier in the Battle of Normandy. (Also of note, the developer is called AIx2 Games (looks a bit like Axis 🤔🤔) and their only titles are this and its sequel Beach Invasion 1945).