The settlement comes after years in which officials around Jackson have been accused of trying to push out Orthodox residents

Posted on September 2, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
NJ township will pay $575,000 to settle lawsuit alleging discrimination against Orthodox Jews
Jackie Hajdenberg
August 29, 2023

New Jersey’s Jackson Township has settled a state lawsuit alleging that it used local ordinances to discriminate against Orthodox Jews, after settling both a federal complaint and a private lawsuit based on similar claims. In the settlement with the state attorney general, Jackson Township will pay $575,000 in penalties and restitution funds, repeal the ordinances that allegedly target Orthodox Jews and adopt new policies and procedures that protect religious freedom. It will also form a multicultural committee composed of residents that will meet quarterly to combat discrimination, and local officials will undergo anti-discrimination training. READ MORE

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In one of the movie’s memorable scenes, Meir and Kissinger engage in a battle of wills over the Israeli prime minister’s kitchen table, with Meir forcing the exhausted diplomat to eat borscht

Posted on September 2, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Helen Mirren plays Golda Meir in a new biopic about the Israeli prime minister
Sean Durns
August 25, 2023

A decade before the rise of U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Israel had its own “Iron Lady,” Golda Meir, a 75-year-old grandmother more famous for her chicken soup recipes than wielding weaponry yet who led the country through its biggest military challenge 50 years ago when Egyptian and Syrian forces invaded during the Yom Kippur holiday. And her life is now told on screen in Guy Nattiv’s new film Golda. Helen Mirren stars as Meir, and Liev Schreiber portrays Henry Kissinger, the U.S. secretary of state often, but not always, at odds with the Israeli prime minister. This is by a wide margin the best portrayal of the Israeli premier put to film, easily surpassing Ingrid Bergman’s 1982 movie A Woman Called Golda, among others. The film is dark and somber. READ MORE

JPOST Egypt wanted a limited war, Mossad reveals in declassified Yom Kippur docs The Mossad on Thursday initiated its own declassification of history for the first time, relating to before, during, and after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As part of a ceremony conducted by Mossad Director David Barnea, and with a number of former Mossad chiefs and senior officials in attendance, the spy agency released a book called Some day, when it can be revealed. The title is taken from a statement made by then-prime minister Golda Meir to then-Mossad chief Zvi Zamir. 

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ADL has no moral standing to dictate appropriate speech

Posted on September 2, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE FEDERALIST
Elon Musk’s Legal Threats Aside, The ADL Doesn’t Speak For Jews
David Harsanyi
September 6, 2023

Elon Musk has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League for some $22 billion over its slandering of him as an antisemite, which he alleges has tanked X’s advertising revenue. “Based on what we’ve heard from advertisers, ADL seems to be responsible for most of our revenue loss,” Musk says…The ADL isn’t a “Jewish” organization in any genuine ethnic or theological sense. Its primary mission is no longer to stop the defamation of Jews. The ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, a former Barack Obama appointee, has created a partisan leftist social justice outfit. And its primary goal these days is cynically using the organization’s historical position to advance often illiberal, completely irreligious, leftist ideas. One of the ways it does this is by dishonestly framing an endorsement of free expression as an endorsement of the things people say using free expression, including antisemitism. That’s what it has done with Musk. READ MORE

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Obama evaded the Nation of Islam leader’s core antisemitic ideology.

Posted on August 31, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Obama’s non-responses to black antisemitism
Eunice G. Pollack
August 27, 2023

In his 2017 book Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama and a Tablet interview this month, historian David Garrow revealed that Obama refused to take a stand against black antisemitism in the late 1980s when, as a Loyola University professor put it at the time, “virulent antisemitism has gripped Chicago’s black community.” Andrew Greeley, a Chicago priest and author, warned, “If I were Jewish, I would be terrified.” In 1988, the press reported that Steve Cokely, a “favorite aide” of the acting mayor Eugene Sawyer, had given a series of talks to followers of the Nation of Islam (NOI) in which he alleged that Jewish doctors were injecting black babies with AIDS, which Jews had invented. After Sawyer fired him, black student organizations hosted Cokely, who inverted the Holocaust, claiming that Jews were “building gas chambers to kill blacks.” READ MORE

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Diplomatic sources in Jerusalem say that Minister Ben-Gvir’s comments on restricting Arab movement inflict major damage on Israel’s public diplomacy efforts after American model Bella Hadid accuses him of racism

Posted on August 30, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Officials concerned Ben-Gvir’s spat with Bella Hadid ‘gift for BDS’
Eran Swissa and Shirit Avitan Cohen
August 25, 2023

…Ben-Gvir shot back on Friday, in a tweet attacking the pro-Palestinian advocate. “Good morning to Israel-hater Bella Hadid,” he wrote. “I saw that you took an excerpt from my interview yesterday and sent it out to the world in the hope of making me look racist and unenlightened. I invite you to my hometown Kiryat Arba to see how we live our lives, how Jews who have never hurt a soul get murdered here, and to witness the threats me and wife and children get every day…So yes, my right, my wife’s, my children’s, to roam the roads of Judea and Samaria and to make it back home safely – that is more important than the right of terrorists who throw rocks and murder us. I am not apologizing and not retracting what I said. I will repeat this 1,000 times. The People of Israel live.” READ MORE

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Terror deaths of Israelis fell every year under Trump and rose every year under Biden

Posted on August 28, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Biden’s Terror Funding Just Killed an Israeli Preschool Teacher
Daniel Greenfield
August 28, 2023

Last year, Biden met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and boasted that, “I reversed the policies of my predecessor and resumed aid to the Palestinians — more than a half a billion dollars in 2021.” Batsheva Nigri, a preschool teacher, was riding in a car with her six-year-old daughter when Islamic terrorists from the Palestinian Authority’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade cut them off and riddled the car with 22 bullets. Batsheva’s six-year-old daughter watched her mother die. The Palestinian Authority’s terror group hailed the murder of a 42-year-old preschool teacher as a “natural response to the crimes of the occupation”…Monday’s murder comes after an Israeli father and son were shot to death on the Sabbath. They’re among a growing list of terror victims this year ranging in age from a 6-year-old boy run down on a Jerusalem street to an 82-year-old woman who was killed while trying to get her disabled husband to safety when a rocket hit their building. READ MORE

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Former state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said Robin L. Garrell leaving CUNY sends a message to “to stop hiring Jew-haters.”

Posted on August 25, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
CUNY official who hired fired ‘CNN’ commentator exits position
August 31, 2023

Marc Lamont Hill lost his cable-TV news gig after giving a speech calling for anti-Israel boycotts and “a free Palestine from the river to the sea.” Now the woman who just brought him to the City University of New York (CUNY) will likewise depart from her role. Chancellor Matos Rodríguez announced that Robin L. Garrell, president of CUNY’s Graduate Center, will conclude her position after three years, stepping down at the end of September. While no official reason appeared for her leaving, opponents of the decision to hire Hill saw it as “wonderful news.”  READ MORE

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US Marines purchasing Iron Dome systems to help defend against ever increasing threats posed by cruise missiles and drones

Posted on August 25, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE WAR ZONE
USMC Buying Nearly 2,000 Tamir Interceptors For Its Iron Dome Systems
Joseph Trevithick
August 25, 2023

The U.S. Marine Corps has laid out plans to acquire three batteries worth of Iron Dome systems, including 44 launchers and 1,840 Tamir interceptors. The exact estimated value of this purchase is unknown, but based on publicly available figures the cost of the Tamirs alone could be close to $200 million. The Marines say they want Iron Dome systems primarily to help protect units from cruise missiles, but these systems can also provide defense against drones and rockets and other artillery rounds. The new details about the Marine Corps Iron Dome plans were posted yesterday on the U.S. government’s System for Award Management (SAM) contracting website as part of a notice about future potential sole-source deals with Raytheon. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA Yoram Ettinger: Israel is a mega-billion-dollar battle-tested laboratory for the US A recent mega-billion-dollar increase in the export of Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is due to the overcoming of a series of pivotal glitches. This was achieved by Lockheed-Martin, as well as by Israel’s air force and aerospace industries, known as the cost-effective and battle-tested laboratory of the US defense and aerospace industries and armed forces. ..The scores of Israeli solutions to the F-35 glitches have been shared with the US manufacturer and the US Air Force, sustaining the F-35 superiority over its global competition; sparing Lockheed-Martin mega-billions of dollars in research and development…

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Hatred of the Middle East’s only democracy threatens us all, not just Britain’s Jews

Posted on August 25, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
There’s a word for how the world judges the Jewish state: Israelophobia
Jake Wallis Simons
August 26, 2023

…Contrary to common perception, in 2022 an American insurance firm named Israel the fifth-safest tourist destination on Earth, behind only Singapore, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Its history may be bloody, but there are at least 27 live conflicts in the world, affecting two billion people; and while the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the Syrian civil war killed hundreds of thousands apiece — and the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 claimed at least a million lives — the cumulative number of Arabs who have perished in all wars with Israel numbers about 86,000. That’s over a period of 75 years. READ MORE

THE TELEGRAPH Israelophobia is the one hatred that polite society embraces The country is labelled “white supremacist”, despite being at least 60 per cent non-white. It is blamed for “genocide”, even though the Palestinian population has grown five-fold since its birth. There are no concentration camps or execution pits in the Jewish state. It is accused of “apartheid” when its national football team contains more Arabs than Jews. Although it is the Middle East’s only democracy – the only country in the region to protect the rights of women and minorities – it is routinely compared to the Nazis.

Jake Wallis Simons is the author of ‘Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred’, out next month

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It is unacceptable that while non-Jewish students get protection from microaggressions, Jewish students don’t merit protection from macroaggressions, especially when those aggressions have nothing to do with academic freedom

Posted on August 25, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
Princeton Case Shows That When Jews Get Attacked, It Suddenly Becomes “Academic Freedom”
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
August 30, 2023

“Wokeness” and cancel culture operate in reverse when it comes to the Jews. For all other minorities, the Woke Police eagerly sniff out barely perceptible (or non-existent) “harm” caused by a teacher’s stray phrase in a classroom, an actor’s comments, an author’s opinion, or a physician’s approval of biological facts. When such a “sin” is discovered, the woke world demands not merely retraction of the offending statement and a craven apology for the statement’s issuance, but also abnegation of the sinner. And then the offenders are often officially cancelled…But then there are statements about Jews. For these, even the most outrageous and wildly unfounded assertions about Jews and/or the Jewish State are not only permitted to be uttered but also tweeted and retweeted, expounded upon and, most significantly, taught as truth in classrooms. READ MORE

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