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You’ll recall I said last week we didn’t know if the US would join in or not. Well, [https://jewishinsider.com/2025/06/u-s-military-strikes-iranian-nuclear-sites-including-fordow/ they did indeed]. After misdirecting everyone’s attention to Guam, the US sent B2 bombers loaded for bear, on a 30+ hour round-trip from the middle of the US to Fordow, Natanz, and back again — absolutely [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3_zSmb-sGg hammering Iran]. Right after the pre-arranged Iranian response, Trump [https://mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/ceasefire-for-now imposed a cease-fire] and then [https://jewishinsider.com/2025/06/trump-slams-israel-for-responding-to-iranian-ceasefire-violation/ got pissy with Israel] for responding to Iranian transgression of it.

In the meantime, we had an “energetic” start to the week until the “ceasefire” took effect. Since then, we’ve been cautiously easing back into “normality”, though I am not convinced the pause in hostilities will last very long. In particular, since the IR regime remains intact (as of now) and has not modified its belligerent stance one iota. But we’ll take what we can get…

We did manage quite a bit this week, once the war wound down. I spent some time each day working on organizing my office and tossing out debris. As I told Esther, I’m about 10% done, which means it will never actually end. She filed taxes left and right, eliciting various reactions from her clients.

Things of note:
* Iran strike: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMAmyhSBBro success, or failure]?
* A rather long (but interesting) essay [https://critiqueanddigest.substack.com/p/strategy-wins-history-loses “Strategy Wins, History Loses”]
* Uri writes [https://urikurlianchik.substack.com/p/rising-lion-hidden-eagle-a-review “Rising Lion, Hidden Eagle”]: A Review Of My First Iranian War.
* Why the Islamic Republic [https://www.thejc.com/opinion/the-syria-ization-of-iran-why-the-islamic-republic-could-soon-share-the-assad-regimes-fate-oyxpbet5 could soon share] the Assad regime’s fate.
* And Saul Sadka’s [https://x.com/Saul_Sadka/status/1937592614410191085 observations].
* Yo, New York! [https://jewishinsider.com/2025/06/after-mamdani-victory-jewish-democrats-alarmed-by-partys-tolerance-of-antisemitism-and-anti-israel-extremism/ WTF, man?!?] The guy who just won the NYC Dem primary [https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/A6943A co-sponsored this bill].
* Another [https://www.ymeskhout.com/p/italy Italy travelogue], by someone random I follow.
* And: a refreshing article on [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1937846506863702182.html reviving ancient Israeli wine] varieties!

Among other things, I made [https://8th-dev.com/forum/index.php?topic=3026.msg17505 another release of 8th] this week. I had planned to finish it two weeks ago, but, well, you know…

I did a fair amount of work on the Mechon-Mamre site, and am trying to be prepared for [https://mechon-mamre.org/shiurim.htm next-week’s ''shiurim'']. I’ll let you know how ''that'' goes; it’s my first time doing this sort of thing via “Zoom”.

It’ll be medium hot over ''shabbat'', but since we didn’t go to services the past two weeks (because, well, you know…) I feel modestly obligated to wend my way there this week.

In anticipation of a “normal” ''shabbat'', we’ll have:
 
homemade ''ḥalla'',
honey roasted chicken,
rice,
[https://www.winespectator.com/articles/adeena-sussman-passover-friendly-braised-short-ribs-with-roasted-kohlrabi-mash braised short ribs],
roasted veggies,
various ''salatim'',
and spice cake.
 

Until next time, 
''shabbat shalom''! 

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