Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe was gifted the musical menorah by Arthur Miller’s parents, following her marriage to the playwright and conversion to Judaism

Posted on November 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH NEWS
Marilyn Monroe’s menorah expected to fetch £100K at auction
by Francine Wolfisz
October 31, 2019

Marilyn Monroe’s personal menorah, which features a wind-up mechanism playing Israel’s national anthem, is expected to fetch up to $150,000 (£115,000) when it goes under the hammer in New York, next week. The Hollywood icon was gifted the musical menorah by the parents of Arthur Miller, after she decided to embrace Judaism following her marriage to the famous playwright in 1956. Monroe who had just turned 30, never had a real family of her own and was eager to join the family of her new husband by becoming Jewish. READ MORE

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The Islam Nation of Palestine won’t be what they’re telling us

Posted on November 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

QUILLETTE
Palestine Misunderstood
by Petra Marquardt-Bigman
October 31, 2019

…A Pew survey from 2013 of almost 40,000 Muslims in 39 countries found that Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were often among the Muslim populations with the most extreme views about the role of Islam in society: 89 percent of Palestinians said they wanted sharia law; 66 percent endorsed the death penalty for Muslims who convert to another religion; 76 percent supported mutilation as a punishment for theft, and a shocking 84 percent said they wanted adulterers stoned to death. READ MORE

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U of I “righteous gentile” student leader Jack Langen stands with Israel

Posted on October 31, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
University of Illinois Student Leader Hailed for ‘Courageous’ Stand With Jewish Community in Fight Against Anti-Israel Resolution
by Caleb Galaraga
October 31, 2019

As tensions soared Wednesday night during a student government meeting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where a controversial resolution denying any link between antisemitism and anti-Zionism was set to pass by a landslide, student-body vice president Jack Langen went against the tide. By the time he spoke, hundreds of Jewish students had already walked out of the meeting in protest of not being consulted on the content of the resolution. READ MORE

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Thanks to Jordan Peterson, “Clean Your Room” became a meme

Posted on October 31, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
An Introduction to Jordan Peterson
by Kyle Smith
October 30, 2019

Built around interviews with Peterson, his family, his friends, and his detractors (there is some overlap among these groups), the documentary The Rise of Jordan Peterson is a fair and even-tempered overview of how Peterson became perhaps the most popular professor in North America and the accidental leader of a movement, strongly identified with young men, built around taking responsibility for oneself and carving order out of chaos. But first Peterson became a scourge of those who wish to control other people’s words and maybe their thoughts, the “Professor Against Political Correctness” as he billed himself in his YouTube videos.  READ MORE


In this memorable interview–with over 18 million views–Jordan Peterson successfully challenges Cathy Newman on a number of matters including the “gender pay gap”

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“Israeli Foreign and Defense ministries unite in long-simmering dispute with Treasury over bid to retroactively cut envoys’ expense stipends; no consular services for Israelis abroad”

Posted on October 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israeli embassies around the world shut as diplomats, military attachés strike
by Staff
October 30, 2019

All Israeli embassies and consulates around the world shut down early Wednesday as diplomats and military attachés went on strike in a long-simmering dispute with the Finance Ministry over expense stipends paid to envoys. The move, coordinated by the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry and the Histadrut Labor Federation, came after the Treasury reportedly backtracked on previous understandings and said it would force the envoys to pay back thousands of dollars that they had been reimbursed for expenses. The closure came into effect at 1 a.m on Wednesday morning Israel time. READ MORE

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American Jews aren’t threatened by their synagogues turning into fortresses, they’re threatened by armed anti-Semites walking in through open doors

Posted on October 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
It’s Time to Lock Your Synagogue’s Doors
by Jacob Siegel
October 29, 2019

…Rather than looking for metaphors to express or quell their anxieties, American Jews might stop fetishizing open doors and acknowledge the less dramatic and more practical realities that pertain to public gatherings: Locked and guarded doors make you more secure. Entry points that are clearly secured and protected create the appearance of a “hard target,” which alone can deter attackers who just want to kill defenseless people and would rather run and not have to fight for the chance. In the event an attacker does try to force entry, a secured door buys time to send out alerts and initiate an emergency evacuation plan. READ MORE

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“There is no case we can find anywhere in the democratic world where positive coverage has ever been considered a potential bribe”

Posted on October 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
Netanyahu Won’t Be The Only Victim
by Caroline B. Glick
October 27, 2019

The ongoing criminal probes against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are reaching their climax. By the end of the month, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit will reportedly decide whether or not to end Netanyahu’s political career by indicting him on corruption charges. If Israel’s attorney general does indict Netanyahu, however, he will have done far more than overthrow a political leader. He will have embraced a legal doctrine that rejects the very essence of democracy. This truth has been largely ignored till now. It was only sounded in a significant way during the final half-hour of Netanyahu’s four-day, 15-hour-a-day hearing two weeks ago. READ MORE

JNS Alex Traiman: Attorney for Netanyahu: What if the prime minister never received a bribe? Professor Avi Bell, a member of the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan and the University of San Diego School of Law, and one of the lawyers who submitted the brief challenging the tentative charges against Netanyahu, told JNS that “prosecuting a bribery charge in these cases is a mistake. Pursuing these charges is unprecedented in the democratic world, dangerous to the fabric of Israeli democracy and ill-advised.” 

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ADL: “Yet another example of SJP’s antisemitic practice of marginalizing Jews and reducing their identity to their connection to Israel”

Posted on October 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
ADL Condemns Benedictine SJP Member for Urging Holocaust Survivor to Denounce Israel
by Aaron Bandler

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt condemned a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Benedictine University for asking a Holocaust survivor to denounce the Israeli government’s “ethnic cleansing.” The member Ayah Ali asked Grinnell College Religious Studies Professor Dr. Harold Kasimow during his Oct. 24 speech on campus, “Do you support or do you condemn the establishment of the Zionist Israeli state, and whether it’s okay to exile and completely — the complete ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, the way that the Jewish people were exiled and ethnically cleansed?” READ MORE

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Nikki Haley: Just when you thought Bernie Sanders couldn’t get any more radical, he outdid himself

Posted on October 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Haley: Sanders wants to give Israel’s money to terrorists
by Elad Benari
October 29, 2019

Nikki Haley, the former US Ambassador to the UN, on Monday fired back after Senator Bernie Sanders called the Israeli government “racist” and suggested that the US should redirect its aid to Israel and give it to Gaza instead. “Just when you thought Bernie Sanders couldn’t get any more radical, he outdid himself. He wants to take money we give to Israel to defend itself from terrorists, and give it to Gaza, which is run by terrorists?? Unreal. Why isn’t every other Dem pres candidate saying he’s wrong?” tweeted Haley…He also addressed the close friendship between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and ridiculed the two, saying, “One is on the way to being ousted and the other may be sent to prison.” READ MORE

JNS Jonathan S. Tobin: Bernie’s Gaza aid farce exposes J Street’s false front In a competition to see which Democratic candidate can pander more to the far left by undermining Israel, the Vermont Socialist wins by a landslide…The Vermont Socialist has always used his Jewish identity and his stay on a kibbutz more than half a century ago as a license to attack Israel with impunity. 

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“Iran’s Islamic Penal Code allows girls as young as 9 and boys as young as 15 to be executed”

Posted on October 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
EU Supports Iran – World’s Leading Executioner of Children
by Majid Rafizadeh
October 28, 2019

…European leaders, of course, who seem never to tire of sanctimoniously posturing on behalf of human rights, are meanwhile pursuing appeasement policies with a government that is the world’s leading executioner and torturer of children — and others. Some of the children who have been executed are as young as 12. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, recently pointed to the alarming issue of executions of children and adolescents…Two 17-year-old boys, who apparently did not even did not even know about their death sentences, were flogged before being executed. READ MORE

NATIONAL INTEREST Ilan Berman: The New Faces Of Iranian Protest In the summer of 2009, tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran and other major cities in what became months of sustained demonstrations against the Iranian regime…A decade later, that dissatisfaction runs deeper than ever. For nearly two years now, renewed grassroots protests have taken place throughout Iran. While more modest in size and scope than those that characterized the Green Movement, these demonstrations have proven to be more diverse and more enduring

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