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🚨URGENT: PAUL AND CHRISTY AKEO BEING HELD CAPTIVE IN MEXICO🚨 STATEMENT from their daughter: On March 4th, 2025, my stepdad and mom, Paul and Christy Akeo were imprisoned in Cancun, Mexico and are now being held without bail in a maximum-security Mexican prison. The last 21 days of being held captive is a direct result of my parents simply challenging wrongful credit card charges made by The Palace Company, aka Palace Resorts with American Express. American Express sided with my mom and Paul as a response to these wrongful charges. The last 21 days of torture my parents have been through is a direct response of The Palace Company’s corruption, extortion, retaliation and blackmail against our parents. The Palace Company is demanding $250,000, the signing of an NDA that does not even guarantee their release, as well as a Facebook post made by our parents to be left up for 1 week claiming all responsibility and fault for the torture they have endured throughout the last 3 weeks. If that’s not enough, they also demanded a public apology from my mom and Paul to be made to The Palace Company. Absolutely sickening. Despite what the completely false news articles posted in Mexico say, aiming to defame and slander our parents, we have all proof necessary to show these articles are written off of lies. With no mention of Palace Resorts at all in any article. My mom and Paul are being denied medical attention, denied proper communication and publicly defamed. They have been held captive in prison for 21 days and despite asking numerous times to speak to Paul, we have yet to have ANY communication with him. My mom has lost 25 lbs. in 20 days due to inability to eat as the prison is serving her food they are aware she is allergic to. She also has a severe rash all over her body they refuse to treat. These are all concerns that have been brought up numerous times to the US Consulate over the last 3 weeks, yet they failed to have any sort of visit with my parents until 17 DAYS into their imprisonment. In other words, the US Consulate and the US Embassy have been nothing short of useless. We have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars towards Mexican legal representation, but unfortunately that only goes so far when dealing with this level of corruption and extortion. We have also met prior demands given to us by The Palace Company and yet they have had no serious response to letting our parents free. This includes forcing my brother and I to remove a private Facebook Group of 8,000 members who came together as a community to share grievances and receive advice on how to deal with the strong hold tactics and manipulation that Palace Resorts enforces. By forcing us to remove this group, which we did not own or create, they silenced thousands of Palace Resorts members who were simply sharing their truth of how awful and actually harmful it is to be a Palace Resort Member. We have contacted numerous local and national government representation including but not limited to: · US Embassy & US Consulate · FBI, US Department of State & US Senate · Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Office · US Senator Gary Peters & Senator Elissa Slotkin · Michigan State Police · NBC News & FOX News ‼️Please let it be known - Paul is a US Navy Chief Petty Officer and served our country for 21 years. The lack of action from our own government officials to help an innocent veteran who proudly served our country is UNACCEPTABLE‼️ PLEASE help us SPREAD THE WORD—SHARE THIS POST, TAG MEDIA OUTLETS AND TAG OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND REPRESENTATIVES! If you know our parents at all, you know they are undeserving of this. My family is asking for EVERYONE to step in and PLEASE….HELP US GET THEM HOME.

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Wow wow wow, this 13 year old girl from Uzbekistan named Sofiya Fadeyeva belted out the song "Hava Nagila" in a very unique Middle Eastern style This was aired on The Voice Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is a Muslim country

More on the organization with terrorist ties that has been trying to get Israelis arrested abroad: jewishinsider.com/2025/01/hind-r…

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When the OU Torah Tidbits took pics of women off the back cover to satisfy a male complaintant, we took the issue to the executives. Here's the story of what went down chochmatnashim.org/the-slippery-s…

Palestinians attacked a church in Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, because they started decorating for Christmas. It’s becoming impossible for Christians to survive in the birth town of Jesus! The Christian population of Bethlehem dropped from 80% to under 10% in just 20 years.

“(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow” was co-written by two New York Jews, born to Russian and Lithuanian, Yiddish-speaking parents. The lyrics were penned by Yip Harburg (Isidore Hochberg) and Harold “Hyman” Arlen wrote the music. What few people realised while listening to the iconic song, is that the music is deeply rooted in the Jewish experience. This is perhaps the most moving song to come out of the mass exodus from Europe. Despite the song being written for its use in “the Wizard of Oz”, it draws on the themes of the Zionist movement expressing a yearning for Zion. In composing it, both men reached deep into their consciousness as immigrant Jews framed by the pogroms of the past and wrote an unforgettable melody with almost prophetic words. Read the lyrics in their Jewish context and suddenly the words are no longer about wizards and Oz, but about the survival of the Jews: “𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑤 𝑊𝑎𝑦 𝑢𝑝 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒'𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑙𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑦 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑤 𝑆𝑘𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑠 𝐴𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑤 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛, 𝑜ℎ, 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝐼? 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑤 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐵𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑤 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛, 𝑜ℎ, 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝐼? 𝐼𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑙𝑦 𝐵𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑤 𝑊ℎ𝑦, 𝑜ℎ 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝐼?” The Jews of Europe could not fly… They couldn’t escape beyond the rainbow. Harburg was almost prophetic when he talked about wanting to fly far “beyond the chimney tops” In the post-Auschwitz era, the chimney tops took on a totally different meaning than they did at the beginning of 1939. “Somewhere over the Rainbow,” was voted the number one song of the 20th century by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Foundation for Music. Arts (NEA).

BREAKING: Despite a court order demanding UCLA not allow Hamas supporters to block Jewish students from parts of campus, the terror mob is back. This is what a lack of accountability looks like and why the federal government must crack down on these universities.

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LOVE seeing our images in the media!! Image by @LauraBenDavd for the Jewish Life Photo Bank! jewishlifephotos.com.a project of @ChochmatNashim

@jmp_nyc @skjask We have Sukkos! Not so much Tuchus...

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Coffee or Tea...? What's your choice? 📸 @LauraBenDavd

🧵 Through the pain of their loss, these incredible Jewish women share with us their most intimate and deep thoughts. As we mourn with them, we should also learn from them, doing good in their names and in the names of those they lost- for them and for Am Yisrael.

Today's photo brought to you by Hezbollah. Tx for the laughs, mates! 📸 @LauraBenDavd

New photo shoot for the @JewishImages phot bank today was just what we needed to lift our spirits!! @LauraBenDavd captured the most gorgeous shots can't wait to share them with you

Thanks for counting with us! Chag Sameach! Photo: Tzippy Blumental