Hourly Roundup 05:00 Israel · 20 May 2026
Stories in this hour
- Interviews with Holocaust survivors reveal the richness of YiddishMany people today prize the Yiddish of native speakers who grew up in Eastern Europe before World War II, viewing it as a mark of linguistic authenticity. As a language of daily life that millions…
- Report: Israel and the US planned to Ahmadinejad in power in IranThe New York Times reports of a secret US-Israeli plot to install former anti-Israel Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran's leader.
- Iran Will Not Surrender: Is There a Good Reason to Return to Fighting? | With Danny CitrinowiczTrump's recent statements express deep frustration in the American administration over the difficulty of formulating a clear strategy toward Iran. So far, neither the economic siege nor the military campaign has yielded a change in…
- Biden's Son: The War with Iran - Under Israeli PressureIn an interview that Hunter Biden gave to conservative conspiracy theorist Kennedy Owens — which was dubbed "the summit of filth against Israel" — he addressed a variety of topics. From Trump's policy in Gaza,…
- The Wave of IPOs in Tel Aviv: Companies Worth About 30 Billion Shekels on Their Way to the Stock ExchangeDozens of companies are moving to capitalize on the surge in the local stock market and the appetite of institutional bodies for new merchandise. While in the previous IPO wave small technology companies came to…
- Russia offers to mediate between US and IranRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Russia is ready to assist in mediation between Washington and Tehran and promote talks between the sides.
Torah perspective
Every word of Yiddish that a survivor speaks carries the breath of a Torah-true world that perished but still teaches us how to live. The new Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe lets us hear those voices, not as artifacts but as living transmissions of emunah, bitachon, and daily kedushah. When the Chafetz Chaim taught that the Jewish home is a miniature sanctuary, Yiddish was the language of that sanctuary. Listening to these interviews is not nostalgia but an act of shemiat ha'oznein, hearing with the ear of the soul, drawing closeness to the Shechinah that dwells in every pure Jewish word. Let each recording be both a Kaddish and a revival.