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- Son of Democrat Congressman Mel Levine: "Coming out as Republican worse than coming out gay"
- Israeli Air Force: “We are flying the #F-35 all over the Middle East" [VIDEO]
- "Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, world's largest kosher certification body, approves plant-based Impossible Burger" [VIDEO]
- Brooklyn: "At funerals, people no longer shoveling dirt on their loved one’s casket—no one, including the gravediggers, were allowed to touch the shovels"
- Iran hopes to stoke fear that its “breakout timing” is shrinking and thereby increase pressure on the Biden administration to reenter the #IranDeal before time runs out
Author Archives: ArchitectGuy
“Tel Aviv University report, released every year before Holocaust Remembrance Day, shows an 18% spike in attacks against Jews last year, warning that the pandemic has threatened to amp up incitement even more”
YNET NEWS Experts: Coronvirus brings spike in anti-Semitic sentiments by Associated Press April 20, 2020 …“Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant rise in accusations that Jews, as individuals and as a collective, are behind … Continue reading
“Initially, IKEA’s Ingvar Kamprad was happy to cooperate with Elisabeth Åsbrink’s book on his Jewish friend. Then she found a 1943 file showing he’d been a Swedish Nazi party member”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Letters reveal curious tie between Jewish refugee and Nazi-admiring IKEA founder by Renee Ghert-Zand April 20, 2020 A decade ago, Swedish investigative journalist and author Elisabeth Åsbrink was given an IKEA box containing more than 500 German-language … Continue reading
Yom Hashoah 2020
JNS Virtual Holocaust memorial plaques in thousands to be projected on Birkenau gates April 21, 2020 Although the 2020 March of the Living will not take place on Holocaust Memorial Day due to the coronavirus pandemic, an estimated 10,000 people … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Auschwitz, Birkenau, Holocaust, Yom Hashoah
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“Asked why the series is so popular, co-creator Avi Issacharoff noted that a large amount of the show’s dialogue is in Arabic”
ALGEMEINER Latest Season of Israeli TV Series ‘Fauda’ Becomes Massive Hit in Arab World by Benjamin Kerstein April 22, 2020 The Israeli television series “Fauda” is already a global hit, but in a remarkable turn of events, its third season … Continue reading
Thomas Friedman “seldom missed an opportunity to highlight criticism of the Jewish state, especially from Israelis who insisted that its “occupation” was immoral”
JNS Thomas Friedman’s political fantasy by Jerold S. Auerbach April 17, 2020 In a recent New York Times column (April 7), Thomas Friedman listed his preferred choices for various posts in a Joe Biden administration. Among those serving in his fantasy … Continue reading
Perhaps coming to your town: “National Guard’s raison d’être is not policing a domestic populace. Striking the requisite balance will be a tremendous challenge, undertaken beneath an intensive media glare”
SECURITY MAGAZINE Can the National Guard Protect America? by Benjamin Anthony, Cade Spivey, and Richard Kemp April 18, 2020 …While some have been dismissive of the role of the [National][Guard, the continuation of life without a paycheck may well result … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Anthony, coronavirus, National Guard, Richard Kemp
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“President Trump and Senator McConnell may be tempted to tell the Democratic states, like Illinois, to get lost. Mr. Stoll offers an alternative approach — using the sudden federal financial leverage “to demand policy reforms that would diminish the long-term structural dysfunctionality” of the mendicant states”
NEW YORK SUN State Bailouts: ‘Beyond Galling,’ ‘Shameless,’ Too Editorial Board April 20, 2020 The drama of profligate states using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to seek federal bailouts to paper over long-term mismanagement has finally found a Pavarotti … Continue reading
Netanyahu announces easing of health restrictions
JERUSALEM POST Coronavirus: Regulations eased up, certain stores reallowed to open by Rossella Tercatin, Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman and Tzvi Joffre April 18, 2020 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Saturday night a partial release of the restrictive measures imposed by the government … Continue reading
“The prominence of Arabs in Israel’s health system reflects an effort by many to move into the mainstream, despite decades of discrimination and marginalization”
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR In Israeli war on coronavirus, Arab doctors rush to the front by Joshua Mitnick April 16, 2020 …Though Arab doctors, nurses, and pharmacists have over the past decade become a familiar presence at Israeli hospitals and state-supported … Continue reading
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A battle to acquire failing UK Jewish newspapers
TIMES OF ISRAEL Rival bids submitted for UK’s two bankrupt Jewish newspapers by Staff April 17, 2020 Rival bids have been submitted for Britain’s two major Jewish publications — the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish News — which announced last … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged British Jewish News, Canadian Jewish News, Jewish Chronicle
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