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Daily Archives: April 5, 2018

Humoring the headlines

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SAN DIEGO−President Trump plans to send the National Guard to patrol the Southern border.  If that works out, he will deploy the Navy to blockade the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts.  The ships will...

Bibi zig-zags on African refugees

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JERUSALEM — Amotz Aza-El, a respected Israeli journalist, writing in Thursday’s Jerusalem Post has compared the current prime minister of Israel to the biblical Aaron, the brother of Moses, who yielded to popular demand and built...

Counting of the Omer

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Counting of the Omer (Hebrew: ספירת העומר‎, Sefirat HaOmer, sometimes abbreviated as Sefira or the Omer) is an important verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between the Jewish holidays of Passover and Shavuot as stated in the Hebrew Bible: Leviticus 23:15–16. This mitzvah ("commandment") derives from the Torah commandment to count...

Harvard’s Jewish students flunk ‘Israeli History 101’

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Radical Jewish students at Harvard University are planning to hold a late “Liberation Seder” to “protest the continuing occupation by Israel.” On Thursday, April 5—six days after all other Jews around the world held their...

נאָך אַלץ גילטיק דער גירוש-באַפֿעל קעגן ייִדן אין ענגלאַנד

דער גירוש-באַפֿעל, װעלכן דער קעניג עדװאַרד דער ערשטער האָט אַרויסגעגעבן קעגן די ייִדן פֿון בריטאַניע אין יאָר 1290, איז נאָך אַלץ נישט גילטיק. כּדי אים אָפּצושאַפֿן, איז נייטיק די חתימה פֿון דער ענגלישער קעניגין. װעגן...

Pro-Palestinian hacker targets dozens of Israeli websites

Dozens of Israeli websites were breached Tuesday by a pro-Palestinian hacker known by his Twitter handle “Darkcoder.” The hacker launched a distributed-denial-of-service attack to disrupt access to the websites of the Israeli cities of Eilat, Acre,...
Likud suporters at a Likud party rally for the jewish holiday of Passover in Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Likud continues to climb in polls, projected to win 32 seats

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision on Tuesday to revoke a compromise that would have prevented the mass deportation of illegal African migrants in Israel appears to have benefited his Likud Party. According to a poll...

Bayard Rustin (1912 – 1987)

One of the most important leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Bayard Rustin was a consistent advocate for Israel and a determined opponent of anti-Semitism. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Rustin moved to Harlem in...

Passover isn’t Passover without food and (Israeli) wine pairings

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Nearly every Jewish holiday puts food and wine at the center of the celebration. There is a common phrase that describes Jewish holidays thus: “They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat.” A...

Jordan blasts Israel for letting Jews pray at Temple Mount

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The government of King Abdullah Hussein of Jordan has filed an official complaint with Israel’s Foreign Ministry for allowing members of the Jewish faith to utter Jewish prayers outside the entrance to the Temple...