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Daily Archives: May 25, 2020

A Shavuot revelation

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Shavuot is a mysterious holiday. This commemoration of receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai isn’t given a specific date for its celebration; instead we are told in Sefer Sh’mot (the Book of Exodus) to schedule it...

Fighting Wars And Pandemics In Today’s World

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A metaphor that is used quite frequently today in dealing with Covid 19 is that we are fighting a war.  On one level, I can see why such a metaphor would be used.  As...
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Zooming through Jerusalem’s religious sites

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Traditionally, the Memorial Day weekend is one of the busiest of the year for travelers, but not so in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.  However, technology, in the form of a Zoom meeting,...
The start of the trial against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the District Court in Jerusalem. May 24, 2020. Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL.

Netanyahu presumed innocent in Israel’s court of public opinion

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Israeli media and their left-wing anti-Netanyahu allies have been anticipating for years the moment Benjamin Netanyahu would be dragged into a courtroom. Unable to beat Israel’s longest-serving prime minister at the polls, many have...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Kremlin.ru.

Erdoğan: ‘We will not allow Palestinian lands to be offered to anyone’

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a video message posted on social media on Monday that “we will not allow Palestinian lands to be offered to anyone.” In the video, which was addressed to...
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog (center) and Minister of Aliyah and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata welcome 119 Ethiopian immigrants to Israel on My 21, 2020. Photo by Shlomi Amsalem.

Group of 119 Ethiopian new immigrants land in Israel on Jerusalem Day

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Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration and the Jewish Agency for Israel just welcomed 119 Ethiopian immigrants who will begin their new life in Israel. Upon their arrival on May 21, the new immigrants were...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a Likud Party meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on May 25, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Transcript: Netanyahu’s exclusive post-arraignment ‘Channel 20’ interview

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In the wake of his arraignment at the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday afternoon and hours after conducting the first Cabinet meeting of the newly sworn-in government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down...

From Plato To Donald Trump: A Once Unimaginable Declension

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"….till the class of philosophers be invested with the supreme authority in a state, such state and its citizens will find no deliverance from evil….”-Plato, The Republic “I love the poorly educated.”-Donald J. Trump, 2016 It’s hardly...
Researchers working on a COVID-19 vaccine at Israeli vaccine development company MigVax. Photo courtesy of OurCrowd.

In the race for a coronavirus vaccine, first doesn’t mean best

About 120 research groups from various countries are racing to develop vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19). Several formulations have already advanced to human safety trials. Although the frontrunners in this race are American,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's arraignment hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on May 24, 2020. Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL.

Court rules Netanyahu exempt from appearance at next hearing

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not have to attend the next session of his trial on July 19, the Jerusalem District Court ruled on Sunday. The ruling was handed down by Jerusalem District Court...