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Tabby Refael

Iranians, including those in the diaspora were shocked by Biden’s statement.
Four extraordinary women answer two simple questions.
This year, the first day of Rosh Hashanah also marks the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who perished at the hands of Iran’s brutal morality police in 2022.
For some, the shootings prove what they’ve always suspected.
When it comes to Iran, it’s no longer a question of whether the regime will be overthrown, but when.
Iranians deserve our support because their revolution stands on its own merits, but I want to offer a plea that’s self-evident, but still overlooked: If you’re pro-Israel, you must unequivocally support Iranians who are seeking regime change today.
The unprecedented rage of citizens against the regime’s oppression renders today’s protests uniquely historic—because this time, there may be no turning back.
There’s something about the young Iranian woman’s murder that has especially repulsed the world, including her fellow Iranians.
Throughout Jewish history, there have been three luminaries who brought exiled Babylonian Jews back to their ancestral homeland en masse: the prophets Jeremiah and Ezra, and Ben-Porat.
Is it possible for Jews, who can’t seem to agree on anything, to strive for national resolutions as one people?
What is it about Israeli soldiers that drives my mother crazy in the best possible way?
For a regime that makes such noise about how many foreign leaders attend an inauguration, it sure is quiet about how many citizens it has murdered.