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Daily Archives: August 7, 2019

Ned Peppers Bar in Dayton, Ohio, on Aug. 5, 2019. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Dayton shooter showed ex-girlfriend ‘play-by-play’ of Pittsburgh shooting

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The gunman who killed nine people on Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, apparently showed his ex-girlfriend, Adelia Johnson, a “play by play” video of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October, Johnson wrote on Monday. According to Johnson, she...
“HMS Montrose,” a Royal Navy Frigate, performs a tight turn during the Marstrike 05 series of exercises on March 22, 2005. Credit: Mick Storey via Wikimedia Commons.

Israel to participate in US ‘Operation Sentinel’ in Strait of Hormuz

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Israel is assisting the U.S.-led naval mission to bolster security for vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday. According to a report by Israel’s Ynet news site, Katz...
A Palestinian man who risked his life to save the wounded children of Rabbi Miki Mark, whose car was attacked near the Judean town of Otniel, is given Israeli residency by Interior Minister Arieh Deri, Aug. 6, 2019. Source: screenshot.

Palestinian hero and family granted Israeli residency for helping terror-attack victims

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A Palestinian man who faced death threats after saving the lives of Israeli children following a terrorist attack that killed their rabbi father was awarded Israeli residency by Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Tuesday. The...
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Dermer encourages rabbinical coalition to improve US-Israel dialogue

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Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer is encouraging a coalition of American rabbis, representing the three major streams of Judaism, to improve deteriorating relations between Israel and American Jews, particularly among the...
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.). Credit: Screenshot.

GOP Rep. Emmer: Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg ‘bought control of Congress’

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Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) accused billionaires George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer of being “left-wing radicals” who have “bought control of Congress for the Democrats.” Soros and Bloomberg, a former mayor of New York,...
View of Ma’aleh Adumim in Judea and Samaria on Jan. 1, 2017. Photo by Yaniv Nadav/Flash90.

Israel approves construction of 2,300 homes in Judea and Samaria

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Israel’s Defense Ministry has authorized plans for the construction of more than 2,300 homes in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, following sessions of the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee on Monday and Tuesday. According...
The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, waves to children at a Lag B'Omer parade in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 17, 1987. Credit: Mordecai Baron via Wikimedia Commons.

Twenty-five years later: Three new books introduce the Lubavitcher Rebbe to a new generation

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When Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—known universally as “the Rebbe”—passed away 25 years ago, skeptics predicted the end of the forward growth and momentum of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement he had led for four decades. It seems...
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog speaks at the March of the Living in Poland on May 2, 2019. Credit: Jewish Agency for Israel.

Isaac Herzog: From the Labor Party to ‘prime minister of the Jews’

The ORT Jewish school in Buenos Aires was looking festive: Israeli flags hung in every corner, the classrooms were pristine and the walls were decorated. The party, held several months ago, was in honor...
Einstein's official 1921 portrait after receiving the Nobel Prize in physics. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Einstein’s written warning to Jews, after Israel declares independence, up for sale

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A signed written warning by legendary physicist and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein to the Jewish people, written just days after Israel’s independence in May 1948, is being offered for sale for the first time at...
Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman speaks during his party's election campaign conference in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2019. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Shameful comparisons in the name of politics

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Is it too much to ask of Israeli politicians that they take a pause before providing priceless ammunition to the Jewish state’s worst enemies? Clearly, the answer is “yes.” In what can only be described as...