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In case you don’t have enough data on coronavirus, here’s a minute-by-minute dashboard to fixate on

NO CAMELS Top Israeli doctors guide those under Coronavirus quarantine on diet, health–and staying sane by Simona Shemer March 11, 2020 Dr. Ishay Lev, a Jerusalem-based family physician with more than 15 years of experience, recently gave an interactive online … Continue reading

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Squad member Rashida Tlaib speaks at conference with keychain swag calling “for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with Palestine”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Rashida Tlaib Speaks at Event Promoting the Destruction of Israel by Daniel Swindell March 8, 2020 Last Saturday, Rashida Tlaib spoke in St. Louis for American Muslims for Palestine. I live in Missouri, so I protested her … Continue reading

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Israel’s new two-week isolation requirement applies to both Israelis and foreign travelers alike

JERUSALEM POST Two-week isolation ordered for all who enter Israel by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman March 10, 2020 All people entering Israel from abroad will be required to spend 14 days in home isolation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. The … Continue reading

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Holocaust revenge fantasies like “Inglorious Bastards” and “Hunters” are “bad-faith gestures, assuring an audience that we can ditch our collective trauma by lying to ourselves”

NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK Hunters’ Plays Unacceptable Games with the Truth by Andrew Silow-Carroll March 3, 2020 ‘Hunters” lost me at the chess scene. If you’ve been watching the Amazon mini-series about a team of Nazi hunters led by Al … Continue reading

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“For COVID-19, Iran has relied on foreign antisemitic conspiracies to add weight to misinformation about the origins of the virus”

JERUSALEM POST Iran’s Regime Pushes Antisemitic Conspiracies about Coronavirus by Seth Frantzman March 8, 2020 Iran’s Press TV, which represents the regime’s English-language propaganda, has been pushing antisemitic conspiracies about the coronavirus to distract from the mullah regime’s mishandling of … Continue reading

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“The plight of Christians living under the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is one that is often ignored by the international community and foreign journalists based in the Middle East”

GATESTONE Who’s Attacking Palestinian Christians? by Bassam Tawil March 8, 2020 While Christian leaders are busy condemning Israel and spreading blood libels against it, Christians in Bethlehem are again being targeted by hoodlums and punks. The latest victim of this … Continue reading

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“As a conservative Hispanic woman, I am accustomed to being in the minority opinion, especially on a liberal college campus”

THE CHICAGO MAROON I Am the IOP Whiteboard Girl by Evita Duffy March 6, 2020 Last week I was asked by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP) to participate in a digital initiative, called “I vote because…,” where … Continue reading

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Political feuding continues: “It is not yet clear how Liberman and Gantz hope to form a government to remove Netanyahu from power”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Liberman said to loathe Netanyahu for anonymous legal attacks on him, his kids by Staff March 7, 2020 Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman has told confidants there is “no chance” he will join a government led by … Continue reading

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“Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958, has long been criticized for his public silence during the Holocaust”

WASHINGTON POST Pope Pius XII was silent during the Holocaust. Now Vatican records may reveal whether he collaborated with the Nazis. by Gillian Brockell March 3, 2020 It was a Saturday — Shabbat — in October 1943. The Nazis had … Continue reading

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“Today, at least I can feel satisfied that my attacker will be held responsible for her actions and I hope that my experience may help bring this type of hatred to light”

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES Hate Crime: Woman Charged For Taking Racist Jibes At Israeli Student On New York Subway by Shreyashi Chakraborty March 5, 2020 A black woman from New Jersey accused of subjecting an Israeli college student to an anti-Semitic … Continue reading

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