Dara Horn’s fierce and often hilarious new collection of essays gives hope and backbone to the living

Posted on September 3, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
People Love Dead Jews
by David Mikics
September 2, 2021

…Horn’s sarcasm is bracing, reminding us that the politics of Jewish memory often becomes an outrageous marketing of half-truths and outright lies…Horn begins People Love Dead Jews with a story from the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam. One day a museum employee wore a yarmulke to work and was told to cover it with a baseball cap, since (a spokesperson later explained to the press) the Anne Frank House aimed at “neutrality.” “The museum finally relented after deliberating for four months,” Horn writes, “which seems like a rather long time for the Anne Frank House to ponder whether it was a good idea to force a Jew into hiding.” READ MORE

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A new literary weapon by Andrew Pessin is a sparkling and savagely satirical novel about campus “cancel culture”

Posted on September 3, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
When anti-Semitic lunatics take control of the academic asylum
by Melanie Phillips
September 2, 2021

…Those who support Zionism often find themselves “canceled.” That’s because the Marxist dogma of identity politics divides people into powerful and powerless according to crude economic or political status. Consequently, tiny, besieged Israel is viewed as a white oppressive country (even though the majority of its people are brown or even black-skinned) simply because it’s considered a Western nation, has a powerful military (albeit solely for its defense) and is supported by America. So on account of these supposed “crimes,” its supporters are targeted for vilification, too. READ MORE

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Can one even imagine Truman begging the Iranian ayatollahs for a nuclear deal not in our favor? Or handing over the keys to a country to the same terrorists who used it to launch an attack on America only 20 years ago?

Posted on September 3, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK SUN
A Tale of Two Photos Captures Different Americas
by Warren Kozak
August 30, 2021

Two photographs, taken 76 years apart — within the lifetime of many — drive home the change our country has taken in that short span of time…Two wars. Two different endings. Two very different Americas. In the older photo, a stern General Douglas MacArthur, orders the defeated Japanese officials to sign the surrender documents under the gaze of dozens of military officers. Then, 76 years later, it is the United States that is humiliated by the haphazard order of an American President. For those of us who grew up thinking that first photo exemplified who we are, the change is dizzying. READ MORE

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“Shmueli, one of the best sons in the country, fell in defense of the homeland and the residents of the south”

Posted on August 27, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
‘All Israel Prayed For Him’: Soldier Shot at Gaza Border Dies From Injuries After Nine-Day Battle
by Sharon Wrobel
August 30, 2021

Israeli 21-year-old border police Staff Sergeant Barel Hadaria Shmueli, who was injured by Palestinian gunfire along the Gaza border, succumbed to his wounds on Monday after nine days fighting for his life. “I was deeply saddened to receive the bitter news about the death of Shmueli, who fell defending Israel’s security. There are no words sufficient to comfort the family in its deep mourning,” said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. “Barel was a fighter in his life and in his death. He fought for his life until the last moment, as all Israel prayed for him. I would like to embrace the family, which has lost what was most precious to it.” READ MORE

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Israeli study finds booster shot of Pfizer vaccine can give 10-fold protection against severe illness

Posted on August 27, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
In Israel, Being Fully Vaccinated Now Means Three Shots
by Dov Lieber
August 31, 2021

Is­rael is up­ping the vac­cine ante, press­ing cit­i­zens to get Covid-19 booster shots and say­ing those who don’t will face re­stric­tions on trav­el­ing, din­ing out and other ac­tiv­i­ties. Hold­ers of Is­rael’s vac­cine pass­ports must get a third dose of the Pfizer-Bio­N­Tech vac­cine within six months of their sec­ond dose, or lose the so-called green pass that al­lows them more free­dom. “We are up­dat­ing what it means to be vac­ci­nated,” said Is­rael’s coro­n­avirus czar, Salman Zarka, at a press con­fer­ence Sun­day un­veil­ing the new pol­icy. READ MORE

DAILY MAIL Israel is now the world’s Covid hotspot: Cases soar despite country’s trail-blazing vaccine roll-out – sparking fears other highly-vaccinated countries will be hit by another wave due to jabs’ waning immunity Israel recorded 1,892 cases per million people on Wednesday — nearly 0.2% of entire population in single day. Despite being one of the most vaccinated nations in world, country is in midst of an unprecedented new wave. 

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“The Hebrew spelling for Shofar שופר)) is a derivative of the verb to enhance שפר)), enticing people to persist in the eternal voyage of improved behavior”

Posted on August 27, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ETTINGER REPORT
Rosh Hashanah Guide for the Perplexed
by Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger
September 1, 2021

The evening of September 6, 2021 will launch the 5782th Jewish New Year. The Hebrew word Rosh (ראש) means first/head/beginning and Hashanah (השנה) means the year. The root of the Hebrew word Shanah is both “repeat” and “change.” Rosh Hashanah constitutes an annual reminder of the need to enhance one’s behavior through a systematic study of moral values, learning from experience and avoiding past errors. Rosh Hashanah ushers-in the Ten Days of Repentance, which are concluded on Yom Kippur. The New Jewish (lunar) Year is the only Jewish holiday, which is celebrated upon the appearance of a new moon, proceeding from relative-darkness to a fully-illuminated moon in the middle of the month. READ MORE

TABLET MAG Liel Leibovitz: Our Bodies, Our Shuls Any congregation that takes any measure (eg requiring vaccination cards) that bars any Jew from praying in communion on the Days of Awe is divesting itself from the very core of Jewish life

ISRAEL 21C 10 great reasons to love the pomegranate The main reason it’s worth risking stained fingers and countertops: Pomegranates have almost unbelievable healing and health-protective properties.

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One of the earliest Palestinian acts of terror occurred on US soil in 1968: “I did it for my country,” said the Palestinian terrorist who, on the one-year anniversary of the Six-Day War, murdered U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy over his support for Israel”

Posted on August 27, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Parole recommended for RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan
by Staff
August 29, 2021

Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian terrorist who murdered U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) 53 years ago over his support for Israel, could be released from prison within a few months, multiple media outlets reported over the weekend. Sirhan, a Christian, Jerusalem-born Jordanian citizen and naturalized American, shot the 42-year-old brother of the late President John F. Kennedy—assassinated four and a half years earlier in Texas—at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. RFK had just delivered a victory speech after winning the California Democratic Party primary. READ MORE

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“Why do college administrators ignore the threats to the Jewish students entrusted to their care?”

Posted on August 27, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH
It’s Time to Protect Jewish Students on College Campuses
by Lauri B. Regan
September 1, 2021

…Almost a century after Hitler employed youth groups to begin his campaign to marginalize, then silence, and finally annihilate European Jewry, antisemitic student groups are once again given carte blanche to physically assault, intimidate and ostracize Jewish students who are the one demographic in today’s woke world who are not considered a protected minority notwithstanding the amount of discrimination and vitriol directed at them. For instance, on campuses with a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, there is a 70% greater likelihood of antisemitic incidents taking place; SJP has over 200 chapters across the country. READ MORE

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“This regime will soon collapse and we the patriots of Iran have a responsibility to reach out to Israel, our only true friend in the region”

Posted on August 27, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Iranian Americans motivated to build new bridges with Israelis
by Karmel Melamed and JNS
August 31, 2021

After a visit to Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in late July, Khosrow Beitollahi, a former Iranian air force pilot and activist against Iran’s current regime, said he was devastated to learn of the magnitude of the Nazi genocide but also inspired by the spirit of the Jewish people to rebuild new lives in their ancestral homeland. Beitollahi is one of the hundreds of Iranian non-Jewish activists in the US – a number that is growing – who are openly supporting Israel because of their desire to help rebuild Iran’s neglected and devastated landscape under the current ruling Islamic regime. READ MORE

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A Palestinian Explains Hamas

Posted on August 27, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

How do we make life better for those who live in Gaza? According to Palestinian political analyst Bassem Eid, we start by recognizing who is really responsible for the suffering that happens there.

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