#jerusalem day

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siete_octubre

Look at the Jewish people in Israel, dancing, singing, celebrating Jerusalem Day with peace and joy. It’s pure love, pure hope. And yet, in London and New York, spoiled activists protest against that joy. Against love. Meanwhile, their beloved Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s death cult, kidnapped an 8-month-old baby, butchered his family, raped women, and committed genocide on October 7. All in the name of Jerusalem. These Western street protesters aren’t standing for justice, they’re marching for monsters. @amjadt25

[eretzyisrael]

🇮🇱 On this day 58 years ago, Jerusalem—the Old City and the Western Wall—was liberated from Jordanian occupation. With courage and noble spirit, Israeli fighters raised the Israeli flag on the Temple Mount and declared: "The Temple Mount is in our hands."

Since the founding of the State of Israel, Islam, Arab states, and terrorist organizations and regimes among them have declared all-out war on the State of Israel and its Jewish citizens. Jews have since been viewed as occupiers and a foreign presence in a conquered land—land which, according to their belief, is entirely Waqf (Islamic trust) land. Muslims, by religious obligation, are called to wage Jihad to liberate the holy land from the hands of the Jewish infidels.

One must not even for a moment think that this is a solvable conflict—that if we only offer better living conditions, land, and an equal division between the two peoples (what the so-called "peace advocates" call "two states for two peoples"), there could be peace. This is not a conflict with a solution; it is a religious war, a Jihad, a war of annihilation against the State of Israel, which is seen as a thorn in the eye of Islam and the Arab world. They have never recognized its existence and never will. They will always seek ways to destroy a state whose existence they refuse to acknowledge.

As Jerusalem is called “City of Zion,” it is our eternal capital. Without it, we have no right to exist—as Jews and as Zionists.

Jerusalem, our eternal capital—forever!

Happy Jerusalem Day!

[glitzy-dynamite]

Happy Jerusalem Day from my plush shark Maggie!! (She’s shy)

[psychologeek]

Official Memorial Day for Sudan Casualties

(Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel, via Sudan).

Tonight+tomorrow day (כ"ח אייר, Iyar 28th) is Jerusalem Day.

It is also the official memorial day to those who died during the journey from Ethiopia to Israel.

The date wasn't choose randomly. It came to represent the ancient connection, and the place they were yearning for.

This date is a memory of 4,000 People.

4,000 men, women and children that tried to reach Eret Yisrael and Yerushalayim (Yerusalem).

4,000 who didn't make it - but their families and friends did.

The official ceremony/service is in Har (mt.) Hertzel, in the official memorial, in Jerusalem.

Their bodies didn't make it, but their memories did.

I'm in my home, and I hear the ceremony in the local school.

And I'm sad.

But I'm also happy -

(We remember you)

There's something really powerful in hearing 600 kids (all kids in school) and their families singing.

"Oh, our brothers, all the people of Yisrael/

Who are in trouble, or in captivity, either in the sea or on land/

May G-d have mercy on them and deliver them from troubles to wealth.

And from darkness to light, and from enslavement to salvation,

Hashta Ba'agala Uvizman Kariv (Aramic: now, soon, in our time.)

Songs about the journey

NagashBeatz - Masa Shalem (full journey)

Gili Yalo - Salem

Shva Choir and Shlomo Gronich:

The Journey (to Eretz Yisrael) - video

Better quality

Hasida (stork)

Ba'Karavan

(I lived in one until I was 11, and everytime I talk about it, I automatically say it in a sing-song.)

Other songs

U-da - Ante Abate (you're my father)

Cafe Shachor Chazak - Yihiye Beseder (We'll be ok)

Climbing Up

Hanny Masele - Lambadina (light)

And obviously - The Project (of Idan Raichel)

Cabra Casay - Milim Yafot Me'ele (prettier words)

Im Telech (If you'll go) - despite not being sang by an Ethiopian singer, I do add it due to the background Amharic and the video.

Links for reading more:

Ethiopian Jewry heritage center:

Association of Ethiopian Jews:

(on guidestar)

They've been working for over 30 years, doing SUPER IMPORTANT JOB in multiple aspects, including (but not limited to): fighting racism, fighting over-crimilising of Black people, encouraging and increasing the number of Ethiopian jews in governmental and ministry positions. Help with immigration, housing, more.

[hebrewbyinbal]

As we approach Jerusalem Day this Wednesday, let’s reflect on a verse that captures the essence of our connection to Jerusalem:

"If I forget you, Jerusalem..." is how this powerful declaration starts.

We say the complete verse in Jewish weddings just before the groom breaks the glass — a symbol of joy mingled with our historical sorrows;

A testament to the enduring bond between the Jewish people and their holy city;

A promise of remembrance and devotion that has echoed through the ages.

This Sunday’s email will be dedicated to Jerusalem, and as part of it - I will dive into the full verse, exploring its significance and teaching it in Hebrew.

Here's to you, Jerusalem! 🥂

[dragoneyes613]

Jerusalem Day, (Yom Yerushalayim), the newest Jewish holiday, was declared in the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, during which Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem, which contains the Temple's still-standing Western Wall. When Israel's War of Independence concluded in 1948, the Jewish state controlled the new city of Jerusalem, while Jordan held the Old City. In the subsequent armistice agreement, Jordan agreed to permit Jews to visit and pray at the Western Wall. This clause, however, was never honored, and for the nineteen years before the Six-Day War, the Jordanians forbade Jews from entering the Old City.

This was a particularly painful deprivation, since for Jews Jerusalem has been the holiest city since the reign of King David, about 1000 BCE. Its liberation in 1967 was not only the high point of the Six-Day War, but one of the highlights of Israel's existence. Even today, although many Israelis would willingly trade land to the Arab world in return for peace, few would support returning the Jewish holy sites of Jerusalem to non-Jewish rule. As General Moshe Dayan declared the day the Old City was captured, "Jerusalem is united, never again to be divided." For the first time in almost two thousand years the holiest spot in Jewish life was under Jewish control.

When Israel gained control of the entire city in 1967, frustrated and infuriated Muslim leaders claimed that Jerusalem was Islam's third holiest city, after Mecca and Medina. (For Muslims, Jerusalem's sanctity derives from the belief that Mohammed ascended to heaven from there; Muslims today have full access to their religious sites in the city.) Yet it seems clear that the Arab furor abut Jerusalem has less to do with the city's sacredness than with its being under Jewish control. Between 1948 and 1967, when Jerusalem was under Jordanian rule, only one Arab leader, King Hassan of Morroco, bothered to visit the city. Today, Yom Yerushalayim is celebrated by many Jews with special prayers, most notably Hallel, a collection of joyous Psalms.

- Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, page 664 

[mental-mona]

Never has a city had such power over a people’s imagination. Never were a people more loyal than our ancestors who endured 20 centuries of exile and persecution so that their children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren could come home to Jerusalem, ir hakodesh, the holy city, the home of the Jewish heart.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l

[al-kol-eleh]

Tzuri

The soldiers are reciting in unison first שֶׁהֶחֱיָֽינוּ/Shehecheyanu and Rabbi Goren the final line of the Nachem prayer of Tisha B'Av-"Blessed are you HaShem who consoles Zion and rebuilds Jerusalem!"

[daniel-nerd]

a friendly reminder that “jerusalem day” is a racist holiday celebrating the occupation of the holy city of jerusalem, and hundreds if not thousands of settler terrorists come to jerusalem every year to celebrate the “victory” but terrorizing, attacking, and assaulting arabs in the muslim and christian quarters of the old city, with protecting of the state.

there is no world where you can be against racism and support jerusalem day.

and when we free palestine, jerusalem will be freed too. and become the international zone that it was meant to be. no one have the rights to jerusalem. no one can “inherit” jerusalem. it is for ALL of us.

[girlactionfigure]

[eretzyisrael]

#Happy Jerusalem Day❤️🇮🇱

[hungriestofbears]

My heart is in the east, and the rest of me at the edge of the west.

How can I taste the food I eat? How can it give me pleasure?

How can I keep my promise now, or fulfill the vows I've made

While Zion remains in the Cross's reign, and I in Arab chains?

With pleasure I would leave behind all the good things of Spain,

If only I could gaze on the dust of our ruined Holy Place.

- "My Heart Is In The East" by Yehuda HaLevi

[miametropolis]

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[marvacu]

and i spit on israel national holiday, jerusalem day

[themorningnewsinformer]

Jerusalem Day 2025: Israel Marks Second Celebration Amid Gaza War Tensions

Introduction Israel commemorated its second Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) on May 26, 2025, under the heavy shadow of the ongoing Gaza war. This annual event celebrates Israel’s capture and reunification of East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. However, this year’s observance has been marked by heightened tensions, large-scale police deployments, and continuing conflict in the…

[hebrewbyinbal]

Today, I’m holding two countries in my heart — and two memorials.

In Israel, it’s Jerusalem Day, /yom ye-roo-sha-'la-yeem/.

In the U.S., it’s Memorial Day.

One marks the reunification of our eternal capital.

The other remembers those who gave their lives for freedom.

And as an Israeli living in America, I feel the weight of both — deeply.

Growing up in Israel, memorial days were never abstract.

Yom HaZikaron stops the entire country. Sirens sound. We stand in silence. We know the names. We’ve served alongside them. We’ve wept beside their families.

There’s no separation between "them" and "us."

Everyone serves.

Everyone remembers.

So when I came to the U.S. and saw Memorial Day marked with barbecues and sales, it was jarring at first.

But over time, I’ve come to understand the quiet dignity in how Americans grieve — and the deep pride they carry for those who served.

And today, those worlds come together.

Jerusalem Day reminds me of what we fight for —

Our home, our history, our right to return and rebuild.

Memorial Day reminds me of what it costs — and how many have given everything for the sake of freedom.

From the stone streets of the Old City to the cemeteries lined with flags across America, today is about memory, courage, and the stories we carry.

To the fallen, in every uniform:

We remember.

To Jerusalem — my forever center — we celebrate.