Still on Facebook, “a truly horrific painting clearly intended to reawaken age-old hostilities toward the Jewish people”

Posted on March 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

SNAPSHOTS, A CAMERA BLOG
Italian Artist Posts Image of Jewish Ritual Murder on Facebook Page
March 25, 2020

Giovanni Gasparro, a popular artist in Italy, has posted images of a painting of a Jewish ritual murder on his Facebook page. The title of the painting, which appears to have been produced by Gasparro during the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, is “The Martyrdom of Saint Simon of Trent, For Jewish Ritual Murder.” Images of this painting can be found on Images of this painting can be found on Gasparro’s Facebook page [feel free to report the posts if you find offensive]. Gasparro has been commissioned by Catholic officials in Italy to adorn their basilicas and churches with his work. The painting (which CAMERA will not show) depicts numerous hook-nosed Jews of varying ages looking on in glee as one of their fellows prepares to plunge a dagger into the baby’s chest. READ MORE

For those of you with the stomach to see the entire painting, click here.

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“This bunker is another tool for managing, controlling, oversight and tracking” the coronavirus, said an Israeli official who requested anonymity”

Posted on March 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Israeli leaders open up nuclear bunker in war on coronavirus
March 26, 2020

The Israeli government has opened up a war bunker in the Jerusalem hills to help coordinate its campaign against the spread of the coronavirus, Israeli officials said on Thursday. The bunker, called the “National Management Centre”, was built more than a decade ago because of concern about Iran’s nuclear program and missile exchanges with Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah or Palestinian militant group Hamas. According to Israeli officials, it includes living quarters and command facilities and can be accessed from the government complex in Jerusalem and the western foothills leading to Tel Aviv. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Mossad’s Yossi Cohen goes to war with coronavirus and Iran When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced late Tuesday night that Mossad Director Yossi Cohen was taking over the country’s efforts to purchase medical equipment abroad, it was not a huge surprise. Already last week, Cohen succeeded in bringing to Israel 100,000 test kits, with an estimated four million more on the way. The Jerusalem Post learned at the time that the kits were obtained from countries which Israel does not have diplomatic relations with…

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“Foremost authorities on Arabs in Israel, Professor Raphael Israeli”: The anti-Zionist Arab leadership honestly represents the views of their constituency

Posted on March 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
‘Arab Israelis are pulling away from society, not integrating’
by Nadav Shragai
March 23, 2020

…”Let’s put our cards on the table: They say that Arab Israelis, who are 20% of the population, want to integrate, but they vote for a confederation of parties that define Israel as a state that commits theft and robbery. Arab MKs, including a few who are currently in the Knesset, supported the “Vision Document” for the Arabs of Israel back in 2006-7, and have never gone back on their support. People have forgotten, but these documents, whose representatives justify the right of return for Arabs even now, reject the idea of Arab Israeli identity and cling to the idea of the Palestinian people and the Arab nation. READ MORE

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Former white supremacist leader Arno Michaelis ultimately saved by his baby daughter

Posted on March 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

CLARION PROJECT
Arno Michaelis – Former White Supremacist – I was Radicalized
March 24, 2020

Arno Michaelis was a white supremacist, in his own words, addicted to disrupting the world. He’d beat you and leave you for dead just for wearing the wrong T-shirt. He drew power from offending people whether he believed it or not. He fell into a cycle of drugs and crime and was faced with death or prison. It was his baby daughter who ultimately saved him.

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Gordis: “Why are so many of us – rabbis, backpackers, politicians, with their recklessness during a pandemic – willing to endanger the extraordinary Jewish life we’ve built here?”

Posted on March 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘We will guard and protect you’: Our forgotten promise to Israel
by Daniel Gordis
March 23, 2020

Twenty-something years ago, after a year’s sabbatical in Israel, when we had decided that we were going to stay and make Aliyah, it came time to tell my colleagues in the States. One of them, a committed Zionist, sounded perplexed and said, “You know, Israel’s about to go into a recession.” Of all their responses, that’s the only one that I still recall, because it struck me as so utterly absurd. Israel was actually not about to go into a recession, but that was the least of it. What left me speechless was the implication that people move to Israel because Israel should serve them. READ MORE

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A way for Highland Parkers to pitch in

Posted on March 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

As all kinds of businesses across America struggle with our new normal (for now anyway) many of us are looking for ways to help. Here’s an idea for my community of Highland Parkers. The list below contains links to many of Highland Park’s locally-owned restaurants. We want them to be around when our present situation resolves. In the meantime, consider taking out food and purchasing gift cards that you can use down the road. 

Abigail’s Bistro
Arrivadolce Gelato & Coffee Bar
Backyard Grill
Baker Boys
Beelows
Bella Via Ristorante
BBQ Pit
Bluegrass
Breadsmith
Cafe Dacha
Chez Benoit Bistro
Coffee Speaks
Country Kitchen
Goodies Etc
Happi Sushi
Highland Pop
Hot Tamales
Jade Cafe
La Casa de Isaac & Moishe
Little Szechwan
Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria
Love’s Highland Park
Max’s Deli
Michael’s Grill & Salad Bar
New York Slices
Norton’s
Once Upon A Bagel
Panera Bread
Phoenicia
Potbelly Sandwich Works
Piero’s Pizza
Ravinia Brewing Co.
Ruby of Siam
Salt Creek Tacos
Shaevitz Kosher Market
Sushi Badaya
Sushi Kushi Too
Sweet Home Gelato
That Little French Guy
True Juice
Vin Chicago
Walker Brothers
Yummy Bowl

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“If not for the cruel, heartless actions of the Iranian regime, ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson would be alive and home with us today”

Posted on March 22, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
American Robert Levinson, held by Iran, believed to be dead
by Seth J. Frantzman
March 26, 2020

Robert Levinson, an American illegally held by the Iranian regime, is believed to have died, his family wrote in a statement posted Wednesday afternoon. “We received received information from US officials that has led both them and us to conclude that our wonderful husband and father died while in Iranian custody.” His death is not believed to be connected to coronavirus, which has spread in Iran. It apparently took place before the virus threat there in February. “It is impossible to describe our pain. Our family will spend the rest of our lives without the most amazing man we have ever known,” wrote the family in the heart-wrenching letter. READ MORE

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“Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz tells German daily “Bild” that it was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that shook him out of his complacency, urging him to “do something” to contain the epidemic”

Posted on March 22, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Austrian leader ‘thanks God’ for Netanyahu’s advice on coronavirus
by Netta Bar
March 22, 2020

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday during an interview with the German newspaper Bild, saying it was the Israeli leader that had called his attention to the dangers of what would go on to become the global coronavirus pandemic. There was great concern in Austria, said Kurz, because the nation shared a border with Italy and had witnessed the “collapse” of Italy’s health-care system. The Austrian chancellor said he “thanked God” for a conversation he had with Netanyahu, in which the Israeli leader warned him that he was not taking seriously enough the effect that coronavirus would have on Europe, and urged him to “wake up and do something.” READ MORE

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“Netanyahu called the decision to entrust the work of the committee to representatives of the Joint Arab List a “disgrace”

Posted on March 22, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Arab List now heading committee that handles victims of terror
by Zeev Klein , Gideon Allon , Daniel Siryoti , Danielle Roth-Avneri
March 25, 2020

The Joint Arab List has been assigned the temporary Knesset Labor, Welfare, and Health Committee – a committee whose responsibilities include a number of security-related matters having to do with the treatment of wounded Israel Defense Forces veterans and victims of terrorism. In recent years, the committee – in its permanent configuration – has overseen the regulation of compensation for wounded IDF soldiers and veterans; as well as medical and income benefits for IDF soldiers, members of the Israel Police, and the Israeli Prison Service. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL In bombshell, Yuli Edelstein resigns to avoid calling vote on new speaker Likud MK quits rather than adhere to High Court order to hold vote on his replacement, says justices ‘undermining democracy’; move means vote on new speaker delayed to next week

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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”

Posted on March 22, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
America’s Largest Population of Holocaust Survivors Is Endangered by the Coronavirus as Crown Heights and Borough Park Shut Down
by Armin Rosen
March 24, 2020

…Closing a synagogue is no small matter—even in the darkest moments of World War II it was sometimes still possible to find a minyan. Dovid said that locals got over their resistance as soon as they began receiving WhatsApp messages asking them to recite tehilim for COVID-19 patients they personally knew. “This got real very quickly,” he said. “There’s nobody serious saying no, we need to keep the shuls open.” If anything, Chabad Hasidim were looking for precedents that would justify such an extreme step. On WhatsApp, some were recalling Menachem Mendel of Horodok, who recorded the closure of shuls during a plague in Tiberias in the 1700s. READ MORE

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