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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: March 2020
Medtronic CEO Yaron Yitzhari: ‘The financial impact isn’t what counts – the main thing is to save lives’
ARUTZ SHEVA Ventilator manufactor Medtronic gives away patents to its competitors by Shimon Cohen April 1, 2020 Medtronic, the world’s largest manufacturer of medical equipment, is currently receiving large amounts of attention for its ventilator. This week, the CEO of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Medtronic, ventilators, Yaron Yitzhari
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To be clear, the rockets from Gaza are an effort—even amid their own health crisis—“to destroy Israel and replace it with an Islamic state”
GATESTONE Palestinians: Despite Coronavirus, Jihad Against Israel Continues by Khaled Abu Toameh March 31, 2020 As the world is busy pursuing the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the Iranian-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) groups in the Gaza Strip … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged coronavirus, Gaza, Hamas, Jihadists, Palestinian Islamic Jihad
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“The rise of anti-Semitism in the U.S. exposes the distressing fact that the American Jewish community lacks both a unified leadership and a singular voice with which it can respond appropriately”
MIRYAM INSTITUTE Awaiting ancient hatreds, anticipating new normals by Rozita Pnini March 29, 2020 Like a mutating virus, anti-Semitism continues to raise its ugly head in the United States. This virulent form of prejudice has infected the world for many … Continue reading
“Despite his very critical condition, Neumann’s family was holding out hope that he would emerge from his coma”
NEW YORK POST Monsey Hanukkah stabbing victim Josef Neumann dies three months after attack by Larry Celona and Kenneth Garger March 30, 2020 Josef Neumann, the most gravely wounded victim from a Hanukkah machete attack at a rabbi’s home in … Continue reading
Netflix series #Unorthodox doesn’t “accurately capture the soul of the Hasidic community”
FORWARD I left the Satmar Hasidic community. ‘Unorthodox’ is a grossly inaccurate depiction of that world. by Frieda Vizel March 31, 2020 …It’s okay to show the dark side of Hasidism, but the portrayal still needs to be human. The … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Brooklyn, Hasidic, Netflix, Orthodox, Shtissel
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“The sheer amount of interaction that religious Jews have with their communities made Orthodox Jewish communities Ground Zero for the coronavirus”
ELDER OF ZIYON Religious Jews are among the biggest victims of COVID-19 Sunday, March 29, 2020 Boro Park. Flatbush. Crown Heights. Forest Hills. Fresh Meadows. Every single New York neighborhood with a large religious Jewish population has the highest percentage … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, New Jersey, New York, New York City, Queens, Westchester
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“About 12% of Israel’s population are Haredim, often referred to as “ultra-orthodox,” an expression which they strongly dislike”
JEWISH PRESS The Haredi Disconnect by Vic Rosenthal March 31, 2020 …On the other hand, some things are true in general, and they are not good things for the future of the state of Israel. Haredi schools mostly teach secular … Continue reading
Former Senator Tom Coburn died Saturday: “He heroically opposed much of what goes on in D.C. — secrecy, pork-barrel spending, and corruption”
NATIONAL REVIEW Mr. Coburn Went to Washington and Left a Remarkable Example by John Fund March 29, 2020 Tom Coburn, the 72-year-old physician and former Oklahoma senator who passed away Saturday, battled the prostate cancer that felled him the same … Continue reading
“In what Freud might have analyzed as a classic case of the narcissistic wound run amok, the Never Netanyahus fell victim to a kind of collective insanity rooted in their own sense of virtuous entitlement”
TABLET MAG Bibi, King of Israel by Liel Leibovitz March 27, 2020 After 24 hours that would have filled several seasons of a great Netflix political drama, the once and future prime minister of the State of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Blue and White, Likud, Yuli Edelstein
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It’s decided: “Gantz to be defense minister under Netanyahu, Gabi Ashkenazi to serve as foreign minister”
JERUSALEM POST Blue and White splits as unity deal with Likud approaches by Gil Hoffman March 26, 2020 In a dramatic turn of events, the Blue and White Party, which served as the alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in … Continue reading
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