LevinAt11 Korach-Elections, NJ trans-abortion bill

 BS"D

ע"ש פרשת קורח, תשפו

June 19, '26

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Tefillah request, for expeditious recovery of:

Rav Yehuda Ben Masha HaLevi;

Shimon Ben Masha; and

Lea Bas Freeda

זה נפוץ לזכות רפואתם בקרוב.

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Linked below is this week's LevinAt11 Radio broadcast, of June 18, '26, regarding elections, and including a brief update on the antireligious abortion/transgender-tyranny edict looming in NJ legislature, in process of being modified.

למטה יש לינק לתכנית ראדיו רב יהודה לעוין, שליט"א, פרשת קורח, תשפו

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Selected Topic Highlights:

• Selected Election issues in NY;

•  authentic Da'as Torah pertaining to elections;

• The need for nuanced outreach in this generation;

• urgently needed insights from these parshiyos, and Neviyim, especially Hoshea 5:15, cf. Gemara Rosh HaShanah 31a;

• Update on S2260/A2218*, a dangerous, antireligious abortion/transgender-tyranny edict looming in NJ legislature, similar (in its' provisions and aims) to the persecutory, anti-Torah decrees of the Greeks against which the Maccabees fought to the death.

Action Item:

Please especially ensure that both Assemblymen Avi Schnall and Gary Schaer actively vote NO against the final version of this inherently evil bill, whatever form it takes.

Assemblyman Avi Schnall:

Asmschnall@njleg.org

W: (848) 245-9486

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{There are significant elements of truth in the following statement, in regard to this bill:

"Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech."

- Benjamin Franklin }

* this bill was also briefly addressed last week here, Parshas Shlach:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/06/levinat11-shlach-nj-meridah-update.html

• and here (Parshas Beha'aloschah) -

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/06/levinat11-schnall-vote-no-on-a2218.html

• and here, in a letter: 

https://jewishlink.news/transgender-enforcement-edict-s2260-a2218-looming-in-new-jersey/

The first part of the letter is on page 26. It continues on page 117.

• and here, in wake of a statement from Agudath Israel, issued a day prior to the scheduled floor vote in the Assembly yesterday, Thursday:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/06/agudah-sounds-alarm-over-nj-bill-that.html

• and previously, on our pre-Shavous broadcast: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/nj-amalekism-looming-levinat11.html,

• and updated here prior to passage in the NJ Senate: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/antireligious-edict-in-nj-senate.html.

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Recent Broadcasts Posted:

Parshas Beha'aloschah:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/06/levinat11-schnall-vote-no-on-a2218.html

Parshas Naso - see direct link below;

Parshas Behar Bechukosai:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/authentic-torah-priorities-levinat11.html

Parshas Emor, '86:*

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/chillul-hashem-root-causes.html

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The LevinAt11 program was founded by Rabbi Yehuda Levin Shlit"a, a protégé of Rav Avigdor Miller ZT"L, who sports vibrant hamlotzos (approbations) of Gedolei Rabbonim of the previous generation for his work against the immorality movements, especially the LGBT/abortion Axis, including from these internationally recognized luminaries:

מחבר הספר שערים מצויינים בהלכה , 

The Debritziner Rov,

The Kashover Admor Rav Refoel Blum,

The Skulener Rebbe, (father of the previous Admor), all OBM.

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Good Shabbos,

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director,

Help Rescue Our Children

845.642.1679

Direct: 771.215.8892

Israeli Helpline: 03.721.3337

torahjewsfordecency@gmail.com

Tomim Tih'yeh [countering "New-Age" infiltration]: 

Tomim1679@gmail.com

Presentations on New-Age dangers: 605-313-6831 ext. 2

Heard weekly on New Jersey's WSNR Radio 620AM, co-hosting the renowned Levin At Eleven program, every Thursday evening, 11pm to midnight (ET).

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News that matters - that you may not have seen:

https://us.list-manage.com/DqiJ9qmACrf?e=4fa57d7224&c2id=7507e8b297f0910ef6cf61f0cd652d4e

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Previously posted:

BS"D

June 12, '26

להיות עם חפשי בארצינו...

About 25 Hesder Roshei Yeshiva directed their boys not to enlist in IDF Tanks, due to the IDF's ultra-feminist pilot plot, advancing integration of women...

And do we really think that the Army actually wants to draft all the Chareidim - or anywhere near that? So what is it that the Erev Rav running affairs over there really do want? Hear our recent radio broadcasts for more.

Rabbi Noson Leiter,

HROC

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See VIN: https://us.list-manage.com/otq6ol2hNOG?e=4fa57d7224&c2id=7507e8b297f0910ef6cf61f0cd652d4e

Also see, for example, Kav HaChareidi, Thu., June 11, '26:

משבר מחריף בין צה"ל לישיבות ההסדר: 25 ישיבות מפסיקות לשלוח תלמידים לשריון

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PS: Here's a direct link to our May 28th broadcast:

 Levin 05-28-2026_HQ.mp3

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Broadcast weekly on Davidzon Radio: davidzonradio.com  718) 303-8000

Last week's audio (Shlach) :

 Levin 06-11-2026_HQ.mp3

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This week's audio:

 Levin 06-18-2026_HQ.mp3

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Who Won the Iran War? 10 Military Experts Explain

 https://www.newsweek.com/who-won-iran-war-10-military-experts-explain-12084896

The U.S. laid out several goals when it joined Israel with strikes against Iran on February 28. It succeeded in beating down Iran's conventional military power. But it did not fully achieve the White House's other stated objectives: eliminating the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons, regime change, dismantling Tehran's support for proxy groups and wiping out its ballistic missile capacity.

"There was no meaningful victory for ordinary Iranians, for regional stability, or for U.S. strategy."

"It's one of those cases in history where everyone fails."

"Significant achievements for both sides—though the U.S. achievements that mattered most arguably occurred last year in one day."

"Iran came out on top because, while the United States accomplished key military objectives, the political impact of the deal and the economic relief the deal could provide may allow Iran to undo U.S. military success."

"It is difficult to make the case that this war achieved any significant positive result for the United States."

"Neither side will gain a complete victory. That said, I think the United States is in a better position."

"There is a relative consensus worldwide, even in the United States, that Iran has won the war and President Trump lost this war."

71% of Israelis don’t trust Trump to look out for them in Iran deal; just 11% say Israel won war

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-71-of-israelis-dont-trust-trump-to-look-out-for-them-in-iran-deal-just-11-say-israel-won-war/

A television poll published Thursday found that only a sliver of Israelis feel their country won the Iran war, or trust US President Donald Trump to look out for their interests as he negotiates a deal with the Islamic Republic.

In addition, most feel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct hurt Israel’s interests in the US-Iran agreement, according to Channel 12 news.

The numbers marked a stark departure from the robust support Israelis have given Trump for years in poll after poll. Now, however, there is deep concern across Israel over the terms of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding signed this week, while a series of recent harsh public criticisms of Israeli officials from both Trump and US Vice President JD Vance point to a rift in the US-Israel relationship.

Is the Iran war really over?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/18/is-iran-war-really-over/

Iran won an immediate end to the fighting and the lifting of the American naval blockade of its ports. Washington agreed to issue waivers letting Iran resume selling its crude, to unfreeze some $24 billion of its assets and to help develop a reconstruction fund of at least $300 billion.

Iran conceded remarkably little. It will open the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping while the final terms of the peace deal are being negotiated. The six remaining U.S. hostages being held by the regime never featured in negotiations. Iran’s lead negotiator, the speaker of the parliament Mohammad Ghalibaf, boasted that the regime had won at the table “several times over” what it could not win on the battlefield.

The Iranians may be tempted to push their advantage, with American deterrence obviously weakened. They can activate Hezbollah to attack Israel at will and then point the finger at the U.S. for not stopping Israel from reacting. Worse, Trump unwisely laid out his concerns about the economy in public, and Iran’s ability to shut down shipping and terrorize its neighbors has not been removed.

Israel stunned by Vance attack and implied US weapons warning

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkzqvtbfgx#autoplay

Israel was stunned by U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s attack on cabinet ministers but chose not to fire back or respond emotionally, in an effort to avoid widening the rift with President Donald Trump. The decision came after Trump repeatedly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent days and on Thursday evening published a post spelling out his expectations at this stage, including from Israel.

In Israel, officials were surprised by the force of Vance’s criticism and by what was seen as an implied threat of a weapons embargo.

Ben-Gvir responded to Vance in a post on X.

“This is my proposal, JD Vance: deal with the Nazis of the 21st century exactly as the United States dealt with the Nazis of the 20th century,” he wrote.

You could have been the greatest president of all, but you failed

 https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/06/18/you-could-have-been-the-greatest-president-of-all-but-you-failed/

Mr. President, you have gravely harmed the human interests of the enlightened world, and you may be remembered forever as the president who brought about America's humiliation. You betrayed us, the Israelis. And in a single moment, the contempt you once faced suddenly seems so justified and logical. Danny Zaken writes to the US president.

And from where I sit, near Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the people of Israel since the days of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, I say to you: You made a colossal mistake. You failed by signing a surrender agreement with a murderous and cruel terror regime. You severely harmed American interests and the democratic and human values of the enlightened world, and you turned over the hourglass toward the next war, which your successors will have to deal with in the years to come.

In doing so, you sealed the fate of many thousands of people: civilians, women, children and the elderly, whom the regime in Iran will torture and murder, just as it murdered more than 40,000 of them at the beginning of the year; citizens of neighboring countries whom Iran and its terrorist proxies will murder; fighters who will be killed in the war against Iran and the terrorism it operates. And yes, many Americans too, just as Iran and its emissaries have murdered throughout the years of the mullahs' regime. You did all this in violation of every promise you made, in contradiction to the path you had followed until now, and against the values of America, which was supposed to return to greatness and has now been humiliated into the dust.

You could have been that president, as you claim to be, but you failed. You missed the opportunity. Instead, unless you change course against the advice of your vice president and envoy, you will be remembered forever as the president who brought about the humiliation of great America and gravely damaged its strategic power and its leading status in the world. And the contempt for you suddenly seems so justified and logical. The broad smile on former President Barack Obama's face contained so much mockery toward the man who had described his agreement as the worst ever. Would you believe that many of Iran's enemies, your friends, now miss that agreement?

And I am trying, and failing, to understand what caused this absurd change of direction, so contrary to everything you have said and done until now. The midterm elections are a flimsy excuse. You are in your second term, and the surrender memorandum of understanding will hurt the Republicans more than it will help them. Economically too, the excuse you are leaning on does not work. Perhaps oil prices will fall now and the stock market will rise temporarily, but what will happen when Iran uses, and it will use, the power you so rashly granted it and restricts movement through Hormuz? You weakened America. It will no longer be great during your term, and others will have to repair the damage after you. Yes, yes, your vice president as well, who pushed for the agreement, if he is elected after you, will run into the same troubles and crises and wars and murdered people that you brought about with your own signatures.

'Wake Up and Smell the Reality': JD Vance Warns Israel to Abide by Trump’s Iran Deal

 https://time.com/article/2026/06/18/JD-Vance-Israel-Iran-Deal-Donald-Trump-Lebanon/

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday issued a stark warning for the Israeli government to get on board with President Donald Trump’s controversial agreement with Iran, suggesting Israel had alienated much of the globe in recent years and that the U.S. was its last remaining major ally. 

“If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world,” Vance said near the end of an hourlong White House briefing with reporters.

Israeli officials have expressed “deep concern” about the deal, according to Axios,. A Netanyahu adviser said Israel doesn't consider itself bound by the Lebanon part of the memorandum .  

‘Everyone just needs to copy what I say’: Trump vented anger with Vance over Iran messaging

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/donald-trump-jd-vance-iran-haberman-swan-book-excerpt-00967874?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it

“Trump vented to others that Vance hadn’t repeated his own new phrase that Iran’s nuclear program had been ‘totally obliterated,’” Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan write in their upcoming book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” obtained by POLITICO.

Early intelligence that leaked to the media indicated the damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities didn’t line up with what Trump had touted and Vance had used more cautious language when he appeared on ABC News. The vice president also said in that same ABC interview that the Trump administration’s intention was to not embark on regime change, only to have Trump say the opposite hours later.

Vance hits back at Iran deal critics in GOP, Israe

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5930853-vance-defends-trump-iran-deal/

The preliminary agreement faced criticism even before it was signed Wednesday evening, with a growing number of Republicans and conservative figures arguing it was too weak on Iran.

Vance pushed back on a reporter saying that Netanyahu was “fuming” over the MOU, and he warned Israeli officials critical of Trump’s deal with Iran from personally attacking the president and isolating Israel’s best friend in the world. 

Israeli officials across the political spectrum have come out against the MOU, with Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir saying that “Trump’s agreement does not bind us” and urging for stronger attacks against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. A ceasefire in Lebanon is the first pillar of the MOU.

Trump’s Iran agreement may be a dud, but he’s getting what he wants

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/18/politics/trump-iran-deal

Donald Trump insisted last month that he didn’t think about Americans’ finances when negotiating with Iran.

“I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that could have happened,” Trump said Wednesday, in seeking to explain what critics see as a deeply flawed agreement to end the war.

Trump’s comment, in France, was a revealing moment. It shows how, under political pressure, he often grasps for short-term advantage over the long-term strategic grind. And it underscores his reverence for the wisdom of the markets, which he said were “more brilliant” than any of his advisers “other than me, of course.”

Trump’s unfiltered commentary on Lebanon is leaving Israel with an impossible choice

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-unfiltered-commentary-on-lebanon-is-leaving-israel-with-an-impossible-choice/

Clearly tired of what Israel sees as an urgent fight, the US president is making the contradictory claims that the war on Hezbollah is both not speedy enough and not careful enough

“Israel is fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed,” Trump said at the G7 conference of global leaders in France. “And you don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody. Because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses. And they’re not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you.”

Then, minutes later: “I’m not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah. They should have been able to do the job faster. It just goes on forever.”

Soon, Israel may be forced to choose: Either keep up the military pressure and lose Trump’s diplomatic support, or stay on his good side — but only by ending, or scaling back, the conflict that many see as the country’s most urgent fight.

Trump made bad Iran deal because of relentless Democratic Persecutions

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428787

 Where does Trump come into the picture?

No doubt, he had turned soft. No doubt, as I had said, the mullahs, and the media, had feasted on him, so there was nothing left but the shell of a man.

They knew how to play his vanity, so that he’d be willing to sign any paper placed in front of him.

So it goes when you break a man. Have we forgotten when Trump was their dish and Adam Schiff was his appetizer?

Trump’s first four years as president were a sorry sight for himself and the nation. Four years of Russia…Russia…Russia.

For every day of four years the Democrats gave him no rest from accusations that he was a spy for Russia…all false.

From Hemingway…"The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places."

'HUMILIATION': Trump's Iran deal ignites backlash from Dems AND MAGA over 'surrender'

Garnel where are You?

 The world has become overwhelmed with a Pandemic 0f Trump Derangement Syndrome. Obviously you would claim caused by Obama and Biden. Even Fox News, NYPost,Yated and MAGA have caught it. The average Israeli  views him with contempt. Trump is being portrayed not as the defender of Israel but as the strongest champion of Iran. Garnel you have attacked me for months for being critical of Trump. Where are you now when the whole world has turned against him this self proclaimed Defender of the World?

The 5 passages of the US-Iran peace deal that worry critics the most: ‘Always tries to get more’

 https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/world-news/the-5-passages-of-the-us-iran-peace-deal-that-worry-critics-the-most/

“The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and other provisions of this paragraph.”

The language about Lebanon has raised concerns in Israel, which is not a party to the agreement and has repeatedly carried out military operations against Iranian-backed Hezbollah in the country.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran will conduct dialog with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf or [Gulf] states in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.”

The mention of “administration and maritime services” leaves open the possibility that Iran and Oman could charge service fees to ships that want to access the strait.

“United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

“The United States of America undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Upon the implementation of this MOU, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will mutually agree on the procedures related to the release of these funds during the negotiations.”

‘SO BAD!’: MAGA sycophants OPENLY REVOLT against Trump for caving to Iran

Israel Worried About Trump’s Bad Deal With Iran

 https://yated.com/israel-worried-about-trumps-bad-deal-with-iran/

Even before the details were released of the Memorandum of Understanding that President Trump negotiated with Iran and that was announced on Sunday, the verdict in Israel and among Israel’s supporters across the political spectrum was immediate, unanimous, and deeply disturbing: It is a very bad deal, and clearly endangers Israel’s national security.

Rather than bringing a new era of peace to the Middle East as President Trump had promised to do, the reported concessions to their demands in the new deal are likely to further embolden the new hardline leaders of Iran and make them even more recklessly aggressive. After a period of recovery from the damage that it suffered during the 40-days of bombardment by the U.S. and Israel, Iran will pose a renewed threat not only to Israel but also to Iran’s Persian Gulf neighbors and the other states across the Middle East, which are now well within the range of its drones and ballistic missiles, and which Iran has already attacked.

By agreeing to a deal that achieved none of the four original aims for which the U.S. and Israel jointly went to war against Iran, President Trump sold out both Israel and his partner in the original attack on Iran, Prime Minister Netanyahu. By failing to require Iran to give up its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, and end its support and protection of Hezbollah and its other terrorist proxies, Trump’s ignominious surrender to Iran’s demands endangers Israel’s long-term survival, and has made yet another war with Iran in the years ahead inevitable.

Dr. Donald and Mr. Trump: The Iran deal exposes a dangerous reversal

 https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/sjq07hgmml

The final memorandum appears even worse than the leaked version, strengthening Iran’s hold over Lebanon, ignoring Hezbollah’s disarmament and exposing a disturbing gap between Trump’s declarations and the agreement he signed

These are no longer rumors. The agreement is before us, and on some points it is even worse than the 14 leaked clauses.

The gap between Donald Trump’s declarations and reality has never looked so wide. It is a troubling and frightening gap, one that raises concern that something went wrong in the judgment of Trump and his two loyal envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Claims that something with the scent of corruption influenced this puzzling agreement are already being heard in the United States. And the more the final, authoritative version of the agreement is revealed, the more the concerns grow.

Start with Lebanon. The agreement turns it into an Iranian protectorate.

Trump defends his Iran deal, criticizes longtime ally Israel as G-7 ends

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/17/trump-defends-iran-deal-white-house-unveils-details/

While Trump previously expressed interest in facilitating regime change in Iran, the current agreement — which is in effect for 60 days, but can be extended — says that won’t happen.

Trump mused on his negotiations with Iranians, crediting their “genius primitive culture” for helping them hammer out a fair deal, and insisted, again, that he had staved off war from a nuclear-armed Iran.

Trump also criticized Israel, saying the U.S. ally had a right to defend itself but that he believed they were at times too heavy-handed. Israel and the U.S. jointly launched strikes on Iran on Feb. 28. Since then, Israel has also fought the Iran-backed Hezbollah military group in Lebanon and seized large swaths of that country.

MAGA ally Mark Levin turns on Trump over Iran deal

 https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-899584

Right-wing Fox News host said Trump should publicize all the details of the recent deal between the US and Iran and claimed he's "controlling the narrative."

Fox News' major MAGA ally Mark Levin slammed US President Donald Trump over the Iran war peace deal, calling on the White House to release details of the accord’s Memorandum of Understanding.

Levin on X/Twitter wrote: “I have asked for days, why can’t we, the people, see the damn MoU? Not through people briefed by an anonymous person. Honestly, I’ve never seen anything like this. If it is a great outcome for peace, then release it.”

“In a period of two-months, Israel has gone from a great ally and partner in war, fighting by our side against a horrible enemy that has killed thousands of our people, killed tens of thousands of their own people, and was a dire nuclear threat intent on attacking us, to Israeli PM Netanyahu being a difficult person who should be thanking us for saving his country from Iran and should get our permission if he wants to defend his people from Hezbollah and Iran, and stand down when his country is attacked," Levin wrote.

Hawks lament ‘disaster’ on Iran as Trump strains to sell deal

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5929372-trump-defends-iran-missile-rights/

An especially startling example came when Trump defended Iran’s right to maintain ballistic missiles — despite the fact that a prior U.S. and Israeli objective had been the destruction of this capacity.

“They have to have some because other people have some. You’ve got to have some,” Trump mused, referring to Iran’s position in relation to other Persian Gulf nations.

The president added that when unnamed advisers told him he needed to wholly eliminate the Iranian conventional arsenal, “I said, ‘Well, what am I going to do? Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles but they can’t have them?’”

Ted Cruz slams Iran deal: Not a good idea to give millions to lunatics

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428810

Senators Ted Cruz and Bill Cassidy condemn President Trump’s Iran deal, labeling its $300 billion fund a historic blunder.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz expressed profound concern on Wednesday regarding what he views as massive American capitulations codified within President Donald Trump’s memorandum of understanding.

The newly unveiled framework prompted Cruz to issue a public warning that the commander-in-chief is being guided by deeply flawed counseling.

“History teaches that giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea. I think the president is receiving some very poor advice on this deal," Cruz told The Hill.

Trump’s deal is a catastrophic capitulation to Iran’s aggressors, leaves Israel vulnerable and constrained

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-deal-is-a-catastrophic-capitulation-to-irans-aggressors-leaves-israel-vulnerable-and-constrained/

In the US president’s reality-challenged view, Israel is an ingrate and a warmonger, while Iran’s mass-murdering leaders are ‘very rational.’ They are indeed all too rational, and he, clearly, is not

Fast-forward three and a half months, and the US will on Friday formally sign a memorandum of understanding with Iran, already signed digitally long-distance, that resolves none of the goals of the war — none of the goals that Witkoff and Kushner attempted to resolve in their negotiated effort to avert the war.

According to a draft of the text obtained by The Times of Israel, CNN and Bloomberg on Wednesday, the 14-point MOU potentially grants the regime hundreds of billions of dollars — which it will doubtless utilize to help keep its restive population in line, to massively fund Hezbollah, Hamas and its other terrorist proxies, and to spend as needed on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. (The White House said later Wednesday, without elaboration, that the draft text “does not reflect the language of the actual MOU.”)

Incredibly, the draft text of the MOU already rewards the regime for its intransigence: The draft document states that Iran’s “nuclear needs” will be addressed in those 60 days; the US negotiators apparently could not even persuade the regime to include the words “peaceful” or “civilian,” to at least keep up the pretense that it has legitimate nuclear requirements

Lawrence: Trump's describing his so-called Iran deal the only way he knows how. With nonstop lying.

Reacting to Scandal

 https://www.torahmusings.com/2010/12/reacting-to-scandal/      Dec 16, 2010

A new book by Dr. Daniel Eidensohn, Child & Domestic Abuse: Torah, Psychological, & Legal Perspectives, displays a different balance between thoughtful response and outrage. The first volume contains essays by an assortment of professionals — rabbis, psychologists, social workers, lawyers. Each, in his own way, lashes out at the community’s response to sexual abuse of children and attempts to explain the proper response according to the Torah and/or their professional training and experience.

Dr. Eidensohn writes that we will not change the attitude of our rabbinic leaders by providing Torah sources and arguments, even from someone as respected as R. Moshe Sternbuch, who advised Dr. Eidensohn on the publication and personally reviewed the Synopsis section. The only way to spark change is to dramatically describe victims’ pain. When community leaders recognize the extent of the problem and its effects, they will join the cause. “To the degree that the rabbis and community leaders can be convinced that abused children suffer horrible lifetime wounds, you will discover that the legal objections disappear” (p. 12). The same, I believe, applies to the problem of corrupt and unethical practices. When leaders realize how much this damages the community, how deeply this disrupts the basic functioning of our community, they will respond seriously.

Eidensohn’s first volume provides an interesting contrast to another recent book, Breaking the Silence: Sexual Abuse and the Jewish Community, edited by Dr. David Pelcovitz and David Mandel. This book also contains essays by rabbis, doctors and lawyers, and contains victims’ accounts of abuse and its aftermath. The experts writing in this book are top notch, many of whom are household names in the Orthodox community. They provide statistics, guidelines, and concrete advice. The book is edited and typeset in a much more professional way than Dr. Eideonsohn’s. It is nothing short of a communal guidebook for best practices.

Yet, Dr. Eidensohn’s book is what really makes me want to do something. It inspires the passion that is necessary to change our communal practices. It elicits the appropriate level of outrage. It is a J’accuse against the bumbling efforts of Jews unwilling to make hard choices to save our children, incapable of admitting mistake, and failing to learn from the collapse of the Catholic Church over precisely this issue.

These books, along with speeches and blogs, serve an important purpose. They alert the public to dangers and provide guidance on managing them. More importantly, they clearly confirm the existence of the problem, something our communal leaders have slowly done over the past decade only with great reluctance and after the application of tremendous pressure. These books demonstrate, not that any further proof was necessary, the disconnect between leadership and laity that has caused such great distrust. How can the leadership regain this trust?

Destroying a Nation's Angel

 Shemos Rabbah (21:05) When Pharaoh and the Egyptians began to pursue them, they raised their eyes heavenwards and saw the guardian angel of Egypt hovering in the air and became sore afraid, as it says, And they were sore afraid. What then is the meaning of And, behold, Mizraim was marching after them? Because the name of their guardian angel was Mizraim, and God does not cast down a nation before He destroys their guardian angel first.

Likud reportedly scraps election campaign highlighting Netanyahu’s close ties to Trump in wake of US-Iran deal

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/likud-reportedly-scraps-election-campaign-highlighting-netanyahus-close-ties-to-trump-in-wake-of-us-iran-deal/

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party has canceled a planned election campaign highlighting the premier’s close ties to US President Donald Trump, after assessing that the messaging will not help Netanyahu’s chances at the upcoming election, the i24 news outlet reports.

According to the report, the decision to scrap the campaign was made several days ago as Trump finalized the terms of a deal with Iran that many in Israel find deeply undesirable.

With the deal in mind, Likud officials assessed that Netanyahu’s close ties with the US president would not bring in new voters or increase his chances at the polling booth later this year.

Mike Pence Warns US Deal With Iran ‘Much Bigger Than a Mistake’

 https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-warns-us-deal-with-iran-much-bigger-than-a-mistake-12082593

Former Vice President Mike Pence is warning that reported U.S. concessions to Iran, in an agreement first announced by President Donald Trump, are "much bigger than a mistake," arguing that they risk being a "lifeline" for Tehran.

Pence also warned that the reported details on the memorandum of understanding "smacks of appeasement" and that Trump should "stand firm" against Iran and that this is not a moment to pull back.

When asked by Collins is he thinks the reported agreement is a mistake by the Trump administration, Pence replied, "Well, it's much bigger than a mistake."

Trump Is Losing the Hawks Who Once Defended the Iran War

 https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-iran-deal-conservatives-worried-58348d67?mod=hp_lead_pos4

Many of the hawkish conservatives who rushed to President Trump’s defense at the beginning of the war with Iran now fear he is at risk of losing at the negotiating table, emboldening Tehran and setting back joint U.S.-Israeli interests in the process. 

Early details, such as reports that a preliminary peace deal eventually could unlock billions of dollars in frozen Iranian funds, have turned once loyal allies into critics. They worry the deal doesn’t do enough to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions and offers economic relief to Tehran that could allow the regime to rebuild its missile arsenal. Some Trump allies have expressed frustration in recent days that the administration hadn’t yet released the text of the agreement the president announced Sunday.

The Iran deal is an American failure that endangers Israel

 https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/06/15/the-iran-deal-is-an-american-failure-that-endangers-israel/

The senior American official distorted the truth in a briefing to reporters: The centrifuges will remain, the enriched uranium will not be removed, and Trump himself contradicted him the next day. Iran won on the money issue: Lifting sanctions on oil exports will channel tens of billions of dollars to the Revolutionary Guards, more than they earned by bypassing sanctions. Senior US official to Israel: "You will not be a signatory to the agreement, but every action you take will have to be coordinated with the US."

The meaning is that the enrichment facilities and the centrifuges will remain, and there is no problem using them to enrich uranium to higher levels. A senior US diplomatic official said that in the negotiations set to open this coming Friday in Geneva, the sides would discuss the "technical details," and that he hoped oversight, supervision and restrictions on Iran's nuclear program would be achieved there.

The greatest practical failure in the agreement is the money issue, which was the major problem with the 2015 Obama agreement, the deal Trump called the worst ever. Yesterday, Obama gave an interview and struggled to hide a mocking smile over what Trump had achieved. The mockery was justified.

'Sold their brothers': Israeli right-wing figures brand Witkoff, Kushner as 'losers' over Iran deal

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-899553

Israeli media figures and commentators turned sharply against Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff this week, accusing two of US President Donald Trump’s closest Middle East envoys of helping push an Iran deal that many in Israel view as dangerous and incomplete.

The criticism came amid mounting Israeli concern over the emerging US-Iran memorandum of understanding, which critics say prioritizes regional calm and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz while leaving Iran’s nuclear program, missile program, and support for regional proxies for later negotiations.

But while Netanyahu avoided a direct public attack on Trump’s envoys, some Israeli commentators did not.

Channel 14, a right-wing Israeli television channel often described as Israel’s answer to Newsmax because of its strongly conservative, pro-Netanyahu editorial line and influence among right-wing viewers, carried some of the sharpest criticism.

5 reasons Trump allies don’t like his Iran deal

 https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5926899-trump-allies-oppose-iran-mou/

Conservative pundits and hawkish Iran experts are warning against any agreement that gives up key leverage against the Islamic Republic, or opens access to badly needed funds, without completely giving up its nuclear capacity. 

“Ask yourself: Why are so many of us who support and defend President Trump all expressing the same concerns about this deal?” asked Marc Thiessen, a conservative commentator with a line to the president, on Tuesday. 

“I can’t square some of the things that are coming out of the administration from reliable sources. That’s what I find so disturbing,” Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane said Monday on Fox News’s “Hannity.” 

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday the memorandum would immediately allow Iran to begin exporting oil and fuel, with the U.S. waiving transport and banking sanctions. 

Trump's Iran agreement raises a basic question: Is it actually a deal?

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-iran-agreement-raises-basic-question-actually-deal

President Donald Trump has hailed the newly signed Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) as a breakthrough that normalizes relations between the two countries after months of fighting. 

But by the White House's own account, the agreement settles few of the issues that dominated months of negotiations, leaving sanctions relief, frozen assets and Iran's nuclear program for a new round of talks.

"This is really just the first MOU and then we're going to launch into the real technical discussions later this week," a senior administration official told reporters Monday.