An Israeli-bound flight plunged toward disaster Wednesday.
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flight → bind → disaster
Passengers and crew acted to save lives.
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Passengers → act → lives
Saudi authorities helped the survivors.
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authorities → help → survivors
Meanwhile, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was coming off a round of sukkah visits and promoting an antisemitism strategy that avoids defining antisemitism.
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that → come → antisemitism
The contrast deserves attention.
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contrast → deserve → attention
An attempted hijacking of Flydubai Flight FZ1073, traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv, sent passengers into a terrifying emergency.
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hijacking → attempt → emergency
Israeli passengers reportedly helped subdue the attacker, and the flight crew regained control before landing safely in Saudi Arabia.
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crew → help → Arabia
Israeli officials described a suspected attempt to crash the aircraft, although the motive remains under investigation.
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motive → describe → investigation
The investigation must establish exactly what happened.
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what → establish → ?
Questions about cockpit security, the reported weapon, and the sequence of events demand serious answers.
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Questions → report → answers
But recognizing courage need not wait.
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recognizing → recognize → courage
People aboard that aircraft confronted a threat most of us can barely imagine.
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most → confront → us
Passengers intervened.
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Passengers → intervene → ?
Crew members brought the plane down safely.
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members → bring → plane
Their actions meant families could return home.
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families → mean → ?
We have witnessed that willingness to act repeatedly since Oct. 7, 2023: people accepting extraordinary risks because someone else’s life depends on them.
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life → witness → them
The emergency landing offered another reason for hope.
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landing → offer → hope
An Israeli-bound aircraft found safety in Saudi Arabia, where a passenger described a warm welcome, medical assistance, and food.
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passenger → bind → welcome
That response does not erase regional hostility or resolve the obstacles to peace.
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response → erase → peace
It demonstrates that cooperation is possible when people make protecting human life their priority.
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protecting → demonstrate → life
New York’s mayor should draw a lesson from it.
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mayor → draw → it
On Tuesday night, Mamdani visited sukkahs in Brooklyn.
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Mamdani → visit → Brooklyn
JNS reported that his stops included those of Devorah Halberstam, Chabad media liaison Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, and former city comptroller Brad Lander.
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stops → report → Halberstam
Behrman emphasized that he hosted the mayor in his personal capacity.
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he → emphasize → capacity
As someone who grew up in Brooklyn, I appreciate the importance of elected officials spending time with Jewish neighbors.
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officials → grow → neighbors
The hosts are entitled to offer hospitality.
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hosts → entitle → hospitality
The mayor is responsible for demonstrating that his solidarity extends beyond accepting it.
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solidarity → demonstrate → it
A sukkah photograph cannot answer the questions Jewish New Yorkers have about his leadership.
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Yorkers → answer → leadership
His new antisemitism strategy includes prevention grants, security improvements, and educational initiatives.
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strategy → include → grants
These measures can help, and I hope they do.
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they → help → ?
But the plan declines to provide a formal definition of antisemitism.
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plan → decline → antisemitism
The administration argues that existing hate crime and anti-discrimination laws are sufficient.
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crime → argue → ?
That position leaves a central leadership question unanswered: When does hostility toward Israel become hostility toward Jews?
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hostility → leave → Jews
Israelis engage in it constantly.
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Israelis → engage → it
Holding Jewish students responsible for a foreign government, threatening people outside a synagogue, or demanding that Jews renounce Israel as the price of acceptance crosses a different line.
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Jews → hold → line
A mayor promising to confront antisemitism should explain that line clearly.
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mayor → promise → line
Jewish leaders have already warned Mamdani about his own rhetoric.
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leaders → warn → rhetoric
After a meeting with the administration, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said the mayor’s language came across as vilifying Israel and putting Jews at risk.
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language → say → risk
That warning requires more than another holiday appearance.
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warning → require → appearance
So does Wednesday’s reporting about Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji.
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reporting → do → wife
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