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My plan was to be in Queens by the time this column appeared. The airport has been shut down, and all flights were canceled. I have spent the bulk of the last few nights in a secure room, awakened every few hours by air raid sirens. Within the past two weeks, my nephew has been wounded in Gaza, and a piece of shrapnel landed in front of the building where my cousin lives in a suburb of Haifa. Many shuls in my neighborhood are not having minyan because they don’t have bomb shelters.

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” So, how is it that the Arab world manages to fool so much of the world over and over? 

(Author’s note: At the end of the article there will be strategies on how to rank your ballot to ensure that socialists get as few votes as possible in the Ranked Choice Voting system.)

Would you ever have believed that the city with the largest Jewish population in the world could elect an anti-Semitic mayor? Yet that is a very real possibility in less than two weeks. Zohran Mamdani is a leading candidate in the upcoming Democratic Primary. Our best—and perhaps only—hope of stopping him is to support Andrew Cuomo for mayor. Early voting begins on June 14, and Primary Day is June 24. Be sure to rank Andrew Cuomo as #1 and do not rank Zohran Mamdani or Brad Lander at all.

A string of attacks on Jewish-owned businesses in the Five Towns has left a community rattled. While the crimes are not being labeled as anti-Semitic in nature and are currently being considered personal vendettas—not attacks on the Jewish community as a whole—it is understandable that nerves are frayed and conclusions are jumped to. High-profile attacks on Jews worldwide are reaching a breaking point as more people fall into the Palestinian trap.

This week, former President Joe Biden’s office announced a devastating diagnosis: an aggressive form of prostate cancer, graded a Gleason score of 9, with metastases to his bones. The news, first reported after a “small nodule” was found during a medical exam earlier this month, has sent shockwaves through the nation. Regardless of one’s political stance, this is tragic news, and no one should celebrate or take pleasure in Biden’s suffering. However, the timing and circumstances of this revelation raise profound questions about transparency, trust, and the integrity of those who led the country during Biden’s presidency (as it was clearly not Joe Biden).