Congresswoman Betty McCollum works on legislation with a group linked to terror

Posted on September 27, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
US Rep Betty McCollum – ‘Useful Idiot’ for Hamas
by Joe Kaufman
September 29, 2020

United States Representative Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota) has become one of Israel’s biggest critics in Congress. This is apparent, given the one-sided legislation she has been introducing to Congress targeting the Jewish state. To draft this legislation, she has sought help from American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a group with ties to Hamas and a group she has become very close with. While the Congresswoman has a right to her opinions, her involvement with such an entity undermines US interests abroad and is a threat to national security. READ MORE

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“If religion is opium, Marxism is crystal meth”

Posted on September 27, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

SPECTATOR
Antifa made me Christian
by Chadwick Moore
September 28, 2020

It’s a putrid August night in Brooklyn, with hazy orbs floating around the orange light from streetlamps lining a block of bars and restaurants. A dull murmur drifts up the avenue from young drunks limping along toward last call. For S. and me, chain-smoking over pints at our favorite pub, it’s a night like any other we’ve spent together over the past five years or so. S. is a Black Lives Matter stalwart and budding antifa sympathizer. He’s also burdened with severe angst and around this time of night the gloom really sets in. He becomes angry and only wants to talk about love, or, more accurately, heartache. It’s only in hindsight I realize that, back when I traveled in progressive circles, all my friends were as miserable as S. READ MORE

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Never Apologize to the Mob

Posted on September 27, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

What once was the start of healthy debate is now just as often a catalyst for personal and professional destruction. “The mob” is out to cancel anyone who crosses it. Paris Dennard describes the problem and offers a solution.

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A personal message from ArchitectGuy

Posted on September 27, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

I would prefer to do this personally, but…If I have said or done anything, in the past year, that has offended or hurt you, either by accident or on purpose, I apologize and ask for your forgiveness. I forgive anyone who may have done this to me.

G’mar Chatima Tova. May you all be inscribed in the book for a good life.

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Yom Kippur (the 10th day of the Jewish year) concludes 10 days of soul-searching, atonement and repentance– the holiest Jewish time – which begins on Rosh Hashanah, the first day of the Jewish year, commemorating the creation of the first human-being, Adam

Posted on September 27, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

THE ETTINGER REPORT
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Guide for the Perplexed, 2020
by Yoram Ettinger
September 23, 2020

…Asking forgiveness of fellow human-beings – and not only of God – is a major feature of Yom Kippur. From acrimony and vindictiveness to forgiveness and peace-of-mind. Hence, sinners and criminals are invited to Yom Kippur services. Asking forgiveness is consistent with Leviticus 19:18 (“Love thy neighbor as yourself”), and with the philosophy of Hillel the Elder, a leading 1st century BCE Jewish Sage: “Do not do unto your fellow person that which is hateful to you. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary….” Asking forgiveness of fellow human-beings aims at displaying magnanimity, compassion, consideration, responsibility, optimism and faith. It recognizes one’s fallibilities, learning from one’s mistakes, minimizing future missteps, elevating morality and enhancing family and community cohesion. READ MORE

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Synagogues are shortening the typically long Yom Kippur services to head off Zoom fatigue. Find your service here.

Posted on September 27, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Want to attend a US online Yom Kippur service? Here are some options
by JTA
September 27, 2020

The global pandemic has upended traditional High Holiday services this year, closing synagogues or severely limiting attendance for the most-attended services of the year on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In the United States, it’s also given rise to countless online services, collaborations and innovations that will allow Jews around the world to have diverse, robust holiday experiences online. The options can be overwhelming. But we’ve collected a non-exhaustive list of High Holidays offerings, arranged by the kind of experience you’re seeking. Most of these offerings are free, but a few require a small payment. To prevent unwanted intruders, many require preregistration. READ MORE FOR LINKS TO YOM KIPPUR SERVICES

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“At a time when Jews are supposed to look within and admit fault, too many of us are virtue signaling and delegitimizing our opponents. Can we stop?”

Posted on September 27, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Can we forgive each other?
by Jonathan S. Tobin
September 27, 2020

…The Days of Awe are a moment in time when we should focus on finding the courage and the moral strength to forgive and to apologize. We should remember that none of us are in possession of faultless truth. And we should be able to say we are sorry for offending others, forgiving those who have done the same to us and resolving to conduct ourselves, even on issues we feel the strongest, with more restraint and civility. That doesn’t mean that we should stop voicing our opinions on critical issues. But it should motivate us to recognize that no-holds-barred contemporary political combat is not only coarsening and corrupting our country, but also our souls. READ MORE

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“The PLO era officially began at the White House on Sept. 13, 1993. It officially ended at the White House on Sept. 15, 2020. It is time for Israel, the US and the rest of the world to recognize this truth and act accordingly”

Posted on September 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Time to hold the PLO accountable for its crimes
by Caroline B. Glick
September 25, 2020

Earlier this month, the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government announced that PLO Executive Committee Chairman Saeb Erekat has been hired as a senior fellow for the school’s Future of Diplomacy Project for the 2020-2021 school year. This week, former senior Justice Department official, attorney Neal Sher sent a letter to US Attorney General William Barr and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf asking that Erekat be denied a visa to the United States. Sher noted that Erekat’s long record of supporting terrorism as a senior PLO official includes numerous acts of inciting, facilitating and soliciting terrorism. READ MORE

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“Ginsburg embodied a particular ambivalence in Jewish life that is found in no other faith community”

Posted on September 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
RBG: An American Jewish justice warrior
by Melanie Phillips
September 24, 2020

The obituary in Britain’s Guardian newspaper of the iconic liberal US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last weekend, provoked outrage among a number of Jews. In the piece, Godfrey Hodgson wrote: “Ruth was brought up in a Conservative Jewish tradition and learned Hebrew as a child, but abandoned her religion because she was not allowed to join a minyan (a group of men) to mourn her mother’s death when she was 17.” He also wrote: [In 1993, President Bill] Clinton was anxious to make the supreme court more diverse, so Ginsburg’s Jewish religion, which she had given up 46 years earlier, may have counted for more than a lifetime of commitment.” READ MORE

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University of Illinois student government conflates #BDS and #BLM

Posted on September 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Jewish Students at University of Illinois Decry Passage of Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution During High Holidays
by Benjamin Kerstein
September 24, 2020

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s student government on Wednesday night voted in favor of a pro-BDS resolution calling for divestment from a number of companies over their alleged involvement in human rights abuses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Companies mentioned in the resolution — titled “Human Rights Violations in University Investments and Police Forces” — included Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Company, Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar and Elbit Systems. The issue was complicated by the inclusion of language in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, which placed pro-Israel students in the position of appearing to vote against racial justice, something many saw as a deliberate tactic. READ MORE

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