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- “America's team of real estate developers and financiers may beat Iran's diplomats at the bargaining table”
- Students find affordable housing in shipping container apartments
- This all has to change: "Palestinian curriculum rejects the legitimacy of Israel’s existence, justifies violence against it, defines such violence as a religious obligation and informs students that Jews and Zionists are irredeemably evil"
- Eurovision Song Winner Barzilai was "unrepentant with her popular techno dance beat about women's empowerment" [VIDEO]
- Set in New York in 1977, “Hunters” follows a band of Nazi hunters who find out hundreds of Nazi officials living in the US are plotting to establish a “Fourth Reich”
- "The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented"
- “Yale University has quietly adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism”
- Politico establishes a red line on Israel
Monthly Archives: June 2019
“IfNotNow believes that the time is ripe to put Israel at the center of the primary debate: Only 26 percent of Democrats view the government of Israel favorably”
POLITICO Progressive Jewish group IfNotNow expands forces for 2020 by Holly Otterbein June 29, 2019 A progressive group of young Jewish activists opposed to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is expanding its organization in hopes of making a major impact on … Continue reading
“Socialism has now risen from the grave”
FDD Zombie Socialism featuring Joshua Muravchik with Clifford D. May June 29, 2019 In 2002, scholar Joshua Muravchik wrote a history of socialism which he thought would serve as the epitaph for an experiment that had failed over and over … Continue reading
PA security forces raid homes of Palestinian businessmen who attended Bahrain “Peace to Prosperity” conference
JERUSALEM POST After threat from U.S., PA frees businessman who attended Bahrain summit by Khaled Abu Toameh June 30, 2019 Palestinian Authority security forces released Hebron businessman Saleh Abu Mayaleh on Saturday at 10:45 p.m., after he had been detained … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Bahrain, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians
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“I came to Bahrain to cover an economic peace conference, and ended up discovering a small but unique local Jewish community”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Behind the scenes of the first morning minyan in Manama in over 70 years by Raphael Ahren June 28, 2019 …I had tried to arrange a visit to the city’s synagogue for weeks ahead of my trip … Continue reading
“They’ve rejected every peace initiative. Their no-show this week in Bahrain should be the last”
WALL STREET JOURNAL Take the Palestinians’ ‘No’ for an Answer bu Eugene Kontorovich June 23, 2019 …After so many rejections, one might conclude that the Palestinian Authority’s leaders simply aren’t interested in peace. Had they accepted any of the peace … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Eugene Kontorovich, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians
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“Desperate to preserve the nuclear deal, Iran with the help of its Western friends is creating just enough turmoil to make America, and not it, appear eager for war”
MOSAIC What Iran Is Really Up To by Michael Doran June 24, 2019 …As nodes in its nuclear-weapons program, Iran’s nuclear facilities are the crown jewels of the Islamic Republic. The JCPOA is the fortress that surrounds them. The waivers, … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran, Iran Deal, JCPOA
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“For millennia Europe was the center of diaspora life but as Jews continue fleeing the continent, by the end of this century all that’s left will be a Jewish graveyard”
TABLET MAG Judenrein Europe by Joel Kotkin June 26, 2019 …In his earliest speeches Adolf Hitler made clear that his primary mission was to make Germany, and then all Europe, judenrein—free of Jews. He failed only because of the Allied victory but today, … Continue reading
Israeli manufacturer Eviation rolls out electric commuter plane, which has a takeoff weight of 14,000 pounds (8,000 of those pounds are batteries)
REUTERS Eviation targets commuters with electric plane Alice June 18, 2019 An electric plane capable of flying up to 650 miles with nine passengers made its debut at the Paris Airshow on Tuesday, with its manufacturer targeting regional commuter routes … Continue reading
Not one of the candidates asked a simple question: How much is all of that going to cost?
SPECTATOR US The Democrats’ Catch-22 in the primaries by Charles Lipson June 28, 2019 The debates over two nights showed a party that has changed significantly since Hillary Clinton won the nomination in 2016. Back then, Bernie Sanders’s socialist positions … Continue reading
Chicago Event: Stand With Israel Summit
StandWithUs Midwest presents Stand With Israel Summit Sunday June 30, 2019 at 6pm Northbrook Community Synagogue 2548 Jasper Court Northbrook, IL 60062 Now, more than ever, Israel and the Jewish community need friends who stand with us. For six years, … Continue reading
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