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I’ve said it a hundred times before, and I’ll say it again. You won’t like it, but you must have confused me with someone who cares. I’m not saying I don’t care about you. On the contrary! I care about your safety. I care about your future. I don’t, however, care about your negative feelings as they pertain to Israel. “Facts don’t care about your feelings!” (I will bet you $100 that someone in the comments will ask a question that I addressed in the post below. Someone who will only look at the image and attack. 100 bucks. Who wants to take that bet?) To those who say, “Israel is no safer than America! Israel is no better for Jews than America!” there is one tiny difference. It’s called the IDF. Here, we have one of the world’s strongest armies protecting us. Yes, the IDF failed on 10/7. That doesn’t change the fact that it exists. If anything, that horrible day taught the IDF many lessons, and it is now getting stronger by the day. Just look at its victories since that day. They are historic and unprecedented. Remind me, how many rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza in the last two years? That’s right, zero. Sure, if you want to look at how many attacks there were this month or this year in Israel vs. America, then you’d conclude that America is safer. No one has to lecture me about Islamic terror. I know it better than anyone. Is that the way you make other decisions? You don’t look ahead? If you’re walking down the street and you see a pit ten feet in front of you, would you keep walking and say, “Well, I haven’t fallen into it yet, so I’ll just keep walking!”? No, you would not. Because you make decisions based on common sense, and you look at trajectories. Where is the diaspora headed, and where is Israel headed? If you can’t answer that question, you haven’t learned history. Actually, scratch that. Forget history. Have you seen Paris lately? The UK? That’s what happens when Islamists take over. That’s what is about to happen in the US. It might take six months, it might take a year. It might even take a decade! (It won’t!) But it’s happening, and you need to read the writing on the wall. Sure, Israel has challenges. What home doesn’t? So come home and help fix Israel from the inside. Don’t sit there in your state that is now run by anti-Israel Dems and complain about Israel! Don’t get me wrong. You shouldn’t come home because of antisemitism. You should come home because it’s home, and it’s a miraculous and awesome home. But when you’re at a party and it comes to an end, you don’t stick around. You read the room. You see that the party is over and you’re no longer welcome. The party officially ended tonight. And pretty soon, that house where the party took place? It’ll be torched and burned to the ground. That house is America, in case you didn’t get that. The other houses have already burned down. Looking at you, France, UK, Australia, and the rest of them. So maybe, my Jewish brothers and sisters in the diaspora, don’t repeat the mistake of our ancestors in Germany and, before that, our ancestors in every other empire that came after the Jews, dating all the way back to ancient Egypt, where 80% of the Israelites stayed and didn’t read the room. Maybe get out now before it’s too late? Again, fear should not be the reason to come home, but it can and should be a trigger, a catalyst. America has spoken in the clearest words possible. Jews. Are. Not. Welcome. Anymore! So, if you want to complain about 10/7 or about the elections or about the many other challenges Israel faces, and you want to do it from the comfort of your home in the diaspora, go right ahead. But just know, you’re missing the point. We are headed in a good direction here. And yes, there will be hiccups along the way, but the trajectory is good. There? Not so much. So, please, take this opportunity to start planning your Aliyah. Even if it doesn’t happen tomorrow, just start the process. This offends you? I wish someone had offended my ancestors and told them to get the hell out when the writing was all over the wall. They probably would have said the same thing. “Stop fear-mongering. Enough of the hysteria. This is Germany. We are enlightened. What do you think is gonna happen? They’re going to kill all of us? Stop being ridiculous.” I’ll say it for the third time because I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that someone (Jewish) will come into my comments and say, “Israel is no safer for Jews.” Or something similar. So again, Israel has issues. Come here and fix them. Don’t stay there where you are not welcome and complain about Israel. Come here, jump in, make a difference. And yes, those issues include the fact that Israel has to make it easier for people to come home. We are definitely not there yet. Quite frankly, we are fighting for our existence, and I am not sure where you got the idea, as a Jew, that you have the right to sit on the sidelines and point fingers at us, as our kids risk their lives. You pray for Israel countless times a day. You ask Hashem to bring you home. He has responded and said, “You ask, and you shall receive. You are good to go. Head home!” And you’re not taking that opportunity? That gift? Imagine telling your ancestors that you have the chance to live in a Jewish state in our eternal homeland, and you’re choosing not to! Imagine telling Moses, who would have given anything to set foot on this land, that you have the chance to do so and have decided to stay put. Are you aware of the fact that the Talmud says that a Jew who lives outside of Israel is like a Jew worshiping idols? Do you know that Nachmanides said that a Jew outside of Israel is simply practicing and actually not keeping the Torah? Do you know that there is a commandment in the Torah to live in Israel? Come home, folks. “If it’s so black and white that all Jews should be in Israel, how are there still so many leading rabbis in the diaspora?” Hmmm, rabbis telling their congregations not to leave? Where have we seen that before? Oh right, right, Europe, 1940. I heard a story about a great rabbi who moved to Israel, who made Aliyah. After he had been living in Israel for a while, his students said to him, “Rabbi, what do you miss most from America?” He responded immediately, “I miss the longing for Israel.” You long for Israel, and your prayers were answered. Now you’re being tested on whether you meant the words you say countless times a day. Do you really want to come home? Then do it. Come home! Israel is the winning team, and you should join us. Don’t sit on the bench when you have the chance to get in the game! Today, my conversation about this topic with Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of Boca Raton on his podcast, Behind the Bima, is coming out. Stay tuned for that. Spoiler: He disagrees with me about a lot of what I say in this post. Either way, no one is saying you need to pick up today and move your entire life across the world. But at the very least, have an exit strategy. Get the ball rolling. Don’t wait anymore. Not after tonight! When someone passes away, we say, “Their Neshama should have an Aliyah!” A friend told me that he tells Jews who come home that their Aliyah should have a Neshama. Loved that! Listen, if you’re reading this and thinking about the list of reasons why Israel is not for you and how it’s so hard in Israel, you’re more than welcome to stop reading now. If you want to make excuses, the list is long. If, however, you know your future is here, then start that future today. It’s infinitely easier to live here than it’s ever been, and that’s just a fact, whether you accept it or not. In the diaspora, you can succeed despite being a Jew (that’s changing too). In Israel, you can succeed because you’re a Jew. Here, you’re not a minority. You’re not the strange person walking around with a yarmulke. Here, you are the homeowner. Here, you are the majority. Yes, the elections here, and specifically how strong the Arab parties are, are scary things. You know what’ll help? If more Jews come home! You don’t just need Israel. Israel needs you too!! “But, but, if all Jews leave, who will lobby on behalf of Israel?” How did that lobbying go for you tonight? “But, but I don’t speak Hebrew.” That’s OK, you absolutely can move to Israel without Hebrew. “But I am not a zillionaire.” That’s OK, you don’t need to be a zillionaire to live in Israel in 2026. “But, but, I am alone, I would be moving across the world all alone.” Fake news. You have seven million people here who will help you, yours truly included. “But, but, how will I make a living there?” How about the same way tens of thousands of people did it before you? Listen, I’ll say it again, if you want to make excuses, I will beat you at that game. I will give you 100 excuses. But if you wanna come home, if you realize it’s time, if you know that this is where you belong, you will build an incredible life for yourself here. The Israelites stayed back because they convinced themselves that despite the enslavement, they were home. They convinced themselves that they were Egyptians, so they stayed. And then the spies told themselves that they were better off in the desert, where they were very religious, than going into Israel and building an army or an economy. We know the ending. As I am writing these words, I am reading that El-Sayed has won in Michigan. He will become the first Muslim in the Senate. If you don’t think that’s significant, and not in a good way, you’re lying to yourself. “These Dems who are anti-Israel and anti-Jewish are just a bunch of extremists. No one takes them seriously.” Gee, what other extremist politician did people say that about? Hint: He had a mustache. Stop kidding yourself. After tonight, America is headed for a head-on collision, and they are now moving a lot faster than before. To the Jews who supported the Democratic Party tonight, I have no words to describe how big of a disappointment you are, and that’s me being nice, very nice. As Jonathan Greenblatt pointed out: “Of all the people the DSA could have chosen to host its official election night livestream, it chose Hasan Piker, someone who proudly expresses support for terrorist organizations and traffics in antisemitism. Let that sink in. The DSA isn’t distancing itself from this kind of rhetoric. It’s elevating it. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.” I’ll remind you that over 100 House Democrats voted to block billions of dollars in military aid to Israel back in July. They have lost the plot. Their moral compass is totally shot. The fact that Jews vote for these people is nothing short of insane. It’s insane, but it’s not new. Throughout history, we’ve always had people like Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, and Norman Finkelstein who forgot who they are and where they come from. We’ve always had Jews who tried to appease the enemy. It didn’t end too well for them. Today, Jews voted for El-Sayed. A lot of Jews. 🤮 If you’re not going to come home because of the state of affairs in the diaspora, if you’re not going to come to Israel because Israel is awesome, if you’re not going to come because we are the winning team or because this is your home, then come because we need you here to strengthen Israel. And if not for all that, buy a place in Israel because Israel is a good investment. Know when the best time to buy Israeli real estate was? 20 years ago. And if all that didn’t do the job, come to Israel for the shawarma. It’s on me. 😁 Jokes aside, it was a tragic night in America, but the one thing that gives me hope is that tonight’s outcome will bring more Jews home to Israel. The bad news? The more Jews come home to Israel, the higher the prices of real estate. More demand, higher prices. So take the first step. Make the first move. And I’ll leave you with one more thought that, if you live in the diaspora, you are not going to like. We know that at Mount Sinai, God offered the Torah to the nations, and their response was, “Show me what’s in it, and we’ll decide.” God then showed them, and they said, “No, thank you.” Then God asked the Jews, and we said, “Naaseh venishma!” We agreed and accepted the Torah even before we knew what was in it. Today, Hashem is making it abundantly clear that it’s time to come home, and so many Jews are saying, “Show me what’s in it, and we’ll decide.” God then shows them, and they say, “No, thank you. Israel is not for us. We’ll stay here where we have our big house and our fancy cars. We’ll stay here where we are sheltered and our kids aren’t exposed to secular Jews.” God gave the nations the gift of the Torah. They rejected it. Today, God is giving us the gift of Israel. Many are rejecting it. Here’s the last thing I’ll say. I grew up asking how it is that the German Jews didn’t leave. I never had an answer. Until now. If I had told my friends in the United States just 10 years ago that one day, half of Congress would be antisemitic, that synagogues would be vandalized, that Nazi propaganda would be spray-painted everywhere they looked, that Jews would be harassed, assaulted, and even murdered on the streets, that leading politicians would go full-blown Jew-hating, and that the media, every single leading podcaster, and legacy media outlet would turn against the Jews, they would have said that there was no way that would happen in the United States, and if it did, they would be out of there. It’s all happened. It’s time to go, and if you disagree, answer this one question. Don’t answer me. Answer yourself. If you had a gun to your head, not a metaphorical gun, an actual gun, and you were told that if you’re not on an El Al plane one hour from now, the person would pull the trigger, would you get on the plane? Obviously, right? So my question is, what constitutes a gun to your head? If everything that’s gone down in the last three years in the diaspora doesn’t constitute a gun to your head, then tell me, what does? Tonight was that person pulling the trigger, only this time, you got lucky, there was no bullet in the chamber. The next time, you won’t be so lucky. For the millionth time, antisemitism should not be the reason that you come home. Home should be the reason that you come home. However, the people have spoken, and tonight’s results are as much of a wake-up call as anything could be. Please listen carefully and hear the warning. Please don’t repeat the mistakes of the past. Please get the ball rolling, do your research, look at real estate, check out communities, and just make sure that you have an exit strategy so that when, not if, things get to a point of no return, you’ll be able to get out of there, come here, and build an incredible life for yourself and your family. We are waiting for you with open arms. We are building an incredible future here. You should be a part of it! If you are one of those people who doesn’t believe everything I said above, well, you probably didn’t even make it this far, but if you did, I know that all of this probably upsets you, even offends you. I am willing to take that chance, because unfortunately, no one offended my grandmother before she went to Auschwitz. I wish someone would have.