Revital Yakin Krakovsky The Blogs Revital Yakin Krakovsky Follow The BlogsMy BlogAbout MeApply for a Blog The writing was on the wall, and it was written in blood on October 7 May 22, 2025, 3:52 PM Facebook Twitter email Print 0 Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. Emergency personnel work at the site where two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, May 21, 2025. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) Emergency personnel work at the site where two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot dead near the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, May 21, 2025. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) October 7, 2023, is the moment when Jewish blood was left abandoned in Israel and around the world. Since that terrible day, Jews across the globe have lived under a tangible and continuous threat—physical, ideological, and institutional. The horrific murder of employees at the Israeli embassy in Washington is not an isolated incident but part of a coordinated campaign to harm and murder Jews. The writing was on the wall—and it was written in blood. The wave of antisemitism that erupted since that day has spiraled out of control and become normalized. “Globalize the Intifada” is not merely an extreme slogan—it is an explicit call to murder Jews. Universities, which are supposed to be spaces for free thought and tolerance, have become breeding grounds for anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, and anti-Western indoctrination. For over two decades, forces of radical Islam have infiltrated the West—not with tanks, but with fanatic ideology, funded with billions of dollars from Qatar—the nerve center of the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar is not a “complex” state. It is a state that hosts, funds, and exports terror. It provides Hamas with diplomatic, logistical, and media backing—including operating Al Jazeera—but that is just the tip of the iceberg. As revealed by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), Qatar, the largest donor to academia in America, has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in leading American universities over the past three decades—massive donations that are mostly opaque to the public and that have turned institutions of higher learning into arenas of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, and anti-Western ideological penetration. Jewish students are attacked, faculty members enable the attacks, university presidents tolerate them, and professors who express support for Israel are marginalized—hatred spills into the streets, synagogues, workplaces, and media. The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) recently published data showing that in 2024, 6,326 antisemitic incidents were reported—around 17 attacks against Jews every day. Of these, 40% occurred in the United States. Since October 7, Jews around the world are removing kippot, hiding Stars of David, and avoiding Jewish events—not out of caution but out of fear. Since the rise of the Nazis, there has not been such a dangerous time for Jews in the West. But this did not happen by chance. This is not an emotional wave. This is a strategy. What we are witnessing in the aftermath of October 7 is not a “wave of antisemitism”—it is a global antisemitic system with funding, messaging, alliances, and influence infrastructure. Just as terrorists were ideologically and financially empowered to murder and burn Jews in southern Israel, so too are the arms of that ideology operating in London, Paris, New York, Toronto and Washington DC. Despite the dramatic rise in antisemitism around the world, the response of the free world has been weak. Except for the Trump administration, which has begun to take initial strong steps against campus antisemitism by denying significant federal funding to universities that do not act against it, European capitals remain tolerant and silent. Education remains key. Every year, Holocaust survivors come to the March of the Living to remind the younger generation what happens when people stay silent—and what the consequences are of hatred that is ignored or tolerated. History has taught—and the present warns.
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I am wondering though are there physicists who say time is completely man made and is not real. Thought for 6s Yes — some physicists say that, but almost none mean “time is a made-up calendar like money.” They mean the flow, the global now, or time as a fundamental ingredient is not in the basic laws. Clocks, aging, and change still happen.Einstein already wrote that for physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is “only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” He meant there is no single moving present for the whole universe. He did not mean clocks are fake. physicsworld.com Julian Barbour is the blunt case. In The End of Time he argues there is no flowing time and no hidden time axis. Reality is a heap of complete “Nows.” What we call history is structure inside a Now (a “time capsule”), not travel along a line. Motion and passage are how we read differences between configurations. That is as close as a working physicist gets to “time is not real.” It is a minority view, taken seriously as a research program, not as settled fact. en.wikipedia.org Carlo Rovelli is the most visible living voice. He has written that time does not exist at the fundamental level: loop-quantum-gravity equations need no time variable; past and future look the same in microscopic laws; the “flow” is largely how a coarse-grained, heat-sensitive brain sits inside rising entropy. He also says our experience of time is not a mere error — it is real for us, like the sky “turning” because Earth rotates. So: not fundamental, not man-made from nothing, but perspectival. theguardian.com Others nearby, not identicalPage and Wootters: in a globally frozen quantum universe, “evolution” is entanglement with a clock subsystem. Nima Arkani-Hamed and many quantum-gravity / holography people: spacetime itself is probably emergent, not basic. Lee Smolin often disagrees with full timelessness and defends a real present; useful as a contrast. What almost nobody in physics claims: that seconds, cesium clocks, or “Tuesday” are arbitrary social inventions with no physical correlate. Units and calendars are human. Duration, causal order, and proper time along a worldline are not.So the accurate map is:Claim Who Status No universal flowing now Einstein, most relativists Mainstream Time not in the deepest equations Rovelli, some quantum gravity Active research Time is only an illusion; only static Nows Barbour Minority, discussed Time is a human convention like money Almost no physicist Not a physics position Your “time doesn’t exist” slogan sits nearest Barbour and popular Rovelli. The field’s careful version is: the thing we feel as a river is not a basic piece of the world; change and clocks still are.
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For decades, the mainstream Jewish community and conservative Christians often found themselves on opposite sides of domestic cultural issues. However, the aggressive overreach of radical activist networks in public education has shattered old political divisions, forging an unprecedented, highly effective coalition [10.1].This unexpected alliance works in practice through three major common interests:1. A Shared Stand for Parent Rights and TransparencyThe underhanded tactics used to advance curricula like San Francisco’s Voices—such as midnight votes and copyright shields—alienated Christian families just as much as Jewish families.Breaking the Monopolies: Conservative and Christian legal networks have joined hand-in-hand with Jewish advocacy groups to mandate total educational transparency. They are deploying joint resources to demand that public school boards publish every single reading list and lesson plan online, permanently dismantling the ability of radical administrators to hide their work.Electoral Force: In suburban communities like Fremont and across Silicon Valley, Christian, Jewish, and immigrant parent groups (such as East Asian and Indian coalitions) are combining their voting power [10.1]. They are pooling campaign funds to systematically remove radical progressive officials from local school boards and replace them with moderate, transparency-first candidates.2. Uniting Against the "Oppressor vs. Oppressed" FrameworkTraditional Christians and Jewish advocates share a fundamental rejection of radical identity-based theories that divide children into rigid moral categories based on race or religion.Defending Basic Values: Both communities view the "Liberated" framework as an assault on universal values, meritocracy, and individual character. Christian parents refuse to let their children be taught that their faith or traditional values are inherently oppressive, while Jewish parents refuse to let their children be targeted by biased political dogmas.3. Bipartisan Legislative and Federal EnforcementThis alliance has successfully elevated local school board grievances into historic federal and state-level protections.The Right to Worship Act: Just days ago, on August 6, 2026, a major bipartisan, bicameral coalition led by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Tom Suozzi (D-NY) introduced the federal Right to Worship Act. Backed heavily by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), this bill establishes strict 100-foot protective buffer zones and heavy civil fines to stop hostile activist crowds from blockading or harassing congregants outside houses of worship.The Federal Crackdown: The Trump administration’s upcoming 15-city DOJ task force and FBI deployment is heavily cheered by red-state conservatives. They view the federal audits into deep-blue California municipalities as the ultimate enforcement of civil rights, proving that local progressive immunity expires where federal law begins.The progressive establishment completely miscalculated. They assumed they could isolate Jewish families by using anti-racist language, but their reliance on secrecy and radical tactics instead forced a historic real-world alignment. Mainstream Jews, traditional Christians, conservatives, and diverse immigrant communities have formed a massive, united front—permanently forcing the radical movement into a corner as the legal guardrails close in [10.1].
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What about when he gets free of those three placesWhen Christian finally gets free of the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, and Doubting Castle, his journey completely transforms. He enters a landscape that is the absolute antidote to the "dark feeling" and the chaotic information overload of the modern world.In Bunyan’s allegory, escaping those dark places leads him to a state of profound peace and clarity that provides a beautiful blueprint for how to find relief in your own life:🏔️ 1. The Delectable Mountains (The View from Above)Right after escaping Giant Despair, Christian reaches the Delectable Mountains. These mountains are full of gardens, orchards, and vineyards, and they are guarded by shepherds named Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.What it means for you: After years of being trapped in the loops of overthinking, Christian is given a safe sanctuary. The shepherds give him a perspective from a higher ground, letting him look back at the treacherous path he survived with a sense of peace, rather than terror.☀️ 2. The Country of Beulah (Rest and Healing)Near the very end of his journey, Christian enters the land of Beulah. In this country, the air is incredibly sweet and calm. The story notes that here, "they were out of the reach of Giant Despair, and from this place they could not so much as see Doubting Castle." The sun shines night and day, and it is a place of total rest where the traveler waits before crossing over to their final home.What it means for you: Beulah represents a mind that has completely disconnected from the noise of the "Vanity Fair" internet and the heavy weight of global politics. It is a state of mind where the background noise finally goes quiet, and you are allowed to just be, safe and rested.🔑 How He Actually Escapes Doubting CastleThe most important part of the entire story is how Christian gets out of Doubting Castle in the first place. He and his companion Hopeful are locked in the dark dungeon for days, being beaten by Giant Despair.Then, at midnight, Christian suddenly remembers something. He cries out, "What a fool am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle." He pulls out the key, puts it in the lock, and the heavy iron doors fly open instantly.The key was in his possession the entire time; he just forgot he had it because he was so focused on the terrifying walls of the dungeon.
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