Herut North America

09/28/2026

09/28/2026

*Diaspora asks Israeli Parties: Where Do You Stand on World Jewry?*

A live panel discussion with representatives of Israeli political parties on Israel’s relationship and responsibility towards the Global Jewish People

🗓️ *October 14*

📍 In person at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People | Doors open 19:00 IL

📡 Livestreamed globally | Broadcast 12:30-14:00 ET/19:30–21:00 IL

Hosted by the Tisch Center for Jewish Dialogue at ANU and its Israeli Jewish Peoplehood Coalition and eJewishPhilanthropy/Jewish Insider along with the American Zionist Movement, the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, and MASA Israel Journey.

Join us in person or online — be part of the conversation.

Full list of panelists will be shared closer to the time.

Register in attached link to reserve your in-person or virtual spot. koretcenter.inwise.net/Page_23-09-2026_2

09/25/2026

For generations, the sukkah has been a place of gathering, tradition, and connection.

This Sukkot, may we continue to draw strength from our shared history, our communities, and one another.

Chag Sukkot Sameach! 🌿🍋

09/25/2026

Sukkot is a joyous seven-day holiday that begins this year at sunset on September 25th and continues until nightfall on October 2nd. Under the Jewish calendar, Sukkot occurs in the middle of the month of Tishrei (from the 15th to the 21st of Tishrei), fifteen days after Rosh Hashanah and five days after Yom Kippur, and is immediately followed by the holidays of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. Sukkot is a harvest holiday, and it also commemorates the miraculous protection that G-d gave the Jewish people during the 40-year period in the Sinai desert following the flight from Egypt, as described in the Torah’s Book of Exodus (Shemot).

by Andrew S. Pessin, J.D., Herut Member

09/24/2026

51 years ago, in 1975, Daniel Patrick Moynihan stood at the United Nations and rejected the claim that Zionism was a form of racism.

The UN General Assembly had just adopted Resolution 3379, which made that designation. Moynihan challenged it directly, arguing that Zionism was a movement of Jewish national self-determination—not racism.

The resolution was ultimately revoked by the General Assembly in 1991.

Some words from 1975 still resonate today.

09/24/2026

🦅 76 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, AN ANCIENT JEWISH COMMUNITY CAME HOME. 🇮🇱✈️

In September 1950, the final flights of Operation Magic Carpet — “On the Wings of Eagles” — brought an extraordinary chapter of Jewish history to a close.

Nearly 49,000 Yemenite Jews had been airlifted to Israel, bringing almost the entire ancient Jewish community of Yemen to the Jewish state. (JDC Archives)

But their journey to Israel was anything but easy.

Thousands trekked across hundreds of miles of desert, often on foot, carrying children and whatever possessions they could save. They arrived in Aden exhausted, hungry and often sick, waiting for the planes that would carry them to Israel. (JDC Archives)

And then came the airplanes.

For many, it was their first time seeing an aircraft.

They weren’t simply boarding a plane.

They believed they were going home.

The operation’s name echoed the words of the Torah:

“I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.”
— Exodus 19:4

From Yemen to Aden.
From Aden to Israel.
From centuries of exile to the Jewish homeland.

🦅 On the wings of eagles, they came home.

Their story is not just Israeli history.

It is Jewish history.

🇮🇱 Am Yisrael Chai.

09/22/2026

🇬🇧🇵🇰 THEY SAID IT THEMSELVES: KASIM HAFEEZ

“I am a Zionist, a proud Muslim Zionist, and I love Israel.”

Meet Kasim Hafeez.

British-born, Pakistani heritage, and once deeply hostile toward Israel, Hafeez describes growing up surrounded by anti-Israel and antisemitic ideas. As a young man, he became involved in the anti-Israel movement.

Then he started questioning what he had been taught.

He read The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz, traveled to Israel in 2007, and encountered a country very different from the one he had imagined. He has described that visit as transformative.

Standing at the Kotel, Hafeez later recalled thinking:

“Kasim, you are a Zionist.”

And his response?

“I was pretty cool with that.”

In 2012, he put his position even more directly:

“I am a Zionist, a proud Muslim Zionist, and I love Israel.”

His public advocacy has continued for years. Today, Hafeez works in pro-Israel advocacy and speaks about Israel, antisemitism and Jewish self-determination.

You don’t have to be Jewish to be a Zionist.

Kasim Hafeez said it himself. 🇮🇱

09/22/2026

On September 22, 1918, thirty years before Israeli independence, Jewish soldiers serving in the British Army attacked an Ottoman-held crossing of the Jordan River at Umm esh Shert.

The attack began at 5 a.m.; by 8:30, a company of the 38th Royal Fusiliers, led in part by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, had secured the crossing and dug in.

These Jewish volunteers had accomplished something veteran British Empire troops had failed to achieve at the same crossing months earlier. ANZAC mounted troops swept across behind them, pushing deeper into Ottoman-held territory as part of the wider offensive.

Thirty years before independence, a chapter of Jewish military history was already being written. Did you know this story?