What is Hebrew for "Stay Strapped or Get Clapped?"

I dropped out of Hebrew school after three classes, and my dad didn't make me continue on, so I can't help there.

Firearm instructors and Jewish security groups across the country say they have been flooded with new clientele since Hamas assaulted Israel on Oct. 7. And gun shop owners in Florida say they have seen more Jews purchase firearms in recent weeks than ever before.

“We’ve definitely seen a tremendous increase in religious Jewish people, Orthodox people, purchasing firearms,” said David Kowalsky, who owns Florida Gun Store in the town of Hollywood, and also offers firearms training classes. “I’ve seen a surge in interest in individual training as well as group training.”

I have never understood my co-religionists who believe that America is different from all other countries throughout the arc of human history, that the authorities would be eager to protect the Jews living here.

There were some bombings of synagogues and Jewish community centers by far-right terrorists in the 1950s and 1960s. The story was that the FBI was loathe to do anything, which is understandible, as its director, J. Edgar Hoover, was a notorious white supremacist. So the Mossad sent a not-so-subtle signal to the FBI, which boiled down to "you fix this mess or we will." Since this was around the time that the Mossad had tracked down Adolph Eichmann and abducted him from Agentina and because Hoover believed that every American Jew would help Mossad, he believed that the Mossad had the capability and the will to do what they threatened. So the FBI got into the cases. Or so the story goes.