Interesting Recent Links - Miketz 5775 IV

Geula-Related

Geula Update from Rav Fish (sorry, no translation.  I found some errors in his date calculations, but still interesting.)

Video of Rav Fish talking about Hishtalshut and many of the Geula ideas mentioned recently (Hebrew, about 43 minutes)

Mikeitz - The End of Time (audio, about 24 minutes)

Election Season in Israel

The Sony Hack Attack

(Also, 32 days after the Har Nof Massacre is this Shabbat.)

3 Cubans and Alan Gross freed, but not Pollard

VIDEO AND FULL TEXT: Obama’s Remarks On Release Of #AlanGross, Future US-Cuba Relations

WATCH: Alan Gross Addresses The Media – Opening Words Are ‘Chag Sameach – Today Is The First Day Of Chanukah’
Video: Alan Gross Addresses Media After Release
Alan Gross: ‘I Support the President’

אלן גרוס לאחר השחרור: "זה החנוכה הטוב ביותר מזה שנים"

White House: Alan Gross Was Not Part of Prisoner Swap, Cuba to Free U.S. Spy Held for 20 Years

Statement of Agudath Israel of America on the Release of Alan Gross

'Obama Freed Three Hostile Cuban Spies, Why Not Pollard?' (h/t MIC)

ZOA: If Pres. Obama Can Free 3 Cuban Spies, He Must Free Jonathan Pollard

Alan Gross Released by Cuba While Jonathan Pollard Still Jailed

A Year Later, Another Victory for High-Profile Jewish Prisoners

a humanitarian gesture of releasing a spy

Obama Grants 12 Pardons and 8 Commutations (no one we know)

הנשיא ברק אובמה: "זכיתי לקיים את המצווה היהודית של פדיון שבויים"

(see the comments there)

VIDEO: Obama At Whitehouse Chanukah Party: We Are Celebrating ‘Pidyon Shvuyim’ Today After Alan Gross Was Freed

Terrorism and Anti-Semitism

Hamas Reconstructing Terror Tunnels in Gaza With Israeli Material

אזרח טוען: ערבים ניסו לחטוף אותי סמוך לקרית ארבע

השקט הופר: צבע אדום בעוטף עזה: רקטה נפלה בשטח פתוח

Explosion triggers red alert in Eshkol district

SHOCKING PHOTO: Aron Wieder Receives Doctored Photo Of Himself Being Beheaded By ISIS

Hikind: The Threat to Aron Weider Must Be Taken Seriously

Masked Hamas adherents in defiant parade on Temple Mount

Watchdog Launches Latest Billboards Accusing NY Times of Biased Reporting on Israel

EJA Director Slams ‘Foolish Decision’ to Remove EU Terrorist Designation from Hamas

EJC Calls the Removal of Hamas from the EU Terror List ‘Legitimating Murder and Genocide’

EU Still Considers Hamas a Terror Group, Bloc’s Envoy to Israel Says

Jews Must Assimilate to Become Swedes, Far Right Leader Declares

Mastermind of Attack on Mumbai Chabad House Gets Bail

Boko Haram Takes 185 Women, Children

Rabbinical Student Released From Hospital After Stabbing Inside Brooklyn Synagogue
Levi Rosenblatt Released From Hospital 8 Days After Being Stabbed Inside Chabad World Headquarters

Palestinians: Israeli Withdrawal by 2017

Agudath Israel Statement on EU Court’s Removal of Hamas from Terrorist List

Election Stuff

מתאחדים? אלי ישי נפגש עם אורי אריאל

Yishai Meets with Minister Ariel

MK Uri Ariel Supports Split From Jewish Home Party

העיתון של חב"ד מחבק את מפלגת ישי

הקרע הספרדי: הרב חיים רבי חוזר בו: צריך לציית למועצת חכמי התורה

(R' Rabi Shlit"a retracted his statement not to vote at all)

בני תורה או דגל התורה? האפשרויות של אלי ישי

PHOTO: Chanukah & Election Fever in Israel

Kahlon Official: Yair Lapid Is Like A Large Inflated Balloon Losing Air

Open Orthodoxy

Upstart Open Orthodox “Poskim” Change Geirus Requirements

What Is Chanukah?

Miscellaneous

Shining the Light on “Self-Hating” Jews (from my old Yeshiva friend, Rabbi Hoff)

Against The "Spirit of Chanukah," Davka in Israel

Jew Arrested for Shouting ‘Hashem Hu Elokim’ on Har Habayis

Did The Mossad Do The Impossible?

Iran Unveils Monument to Jewish Soldiers Slayed in War With Iraq (a broken clock is right twice a day)

Hebrew Firsts

WATCH – CHANUKAH MIRACLE IN BORO PARK: Runaway Van, Driver Gets in Last Minute Before Hitting Building

תעלומה: מדוע ארבעה גברים התמוטטו באשדוד?