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Daily Archives: August 19, 2020

Amy reading her first bracha. Credit: Courtesy.

‘And your God will be my God’: For one Jewish convert, the wait is...

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“I’m so thrilled to be a part of B’nai Israel and to have finally found my place with the Jewish people, after nearly 30 years of asking and searching.” These are the first words Amy...

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi’s reporting biased against Israel

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When Ali Velshi speaks, change the channel. Better yet, MSNBC could arrange it so that Velshi can only speak at a street corner. Saturday morning, at 9:45, I experienced an absurd, surreal display of Velshi’s...
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Report: Facebook doesn’t ‘recognize Holocaust denial’ as anti-Jewish hate speech

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Facebook, according to an Aug. 10 report, “actively promotes further Holocaust-denial content to that user” and “has been unwilling to recognize Holocaust denial as a form of hate speech against Jews.” “Hosting the Holohoax: A Snapshot...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech regarding the coronavirus outbreak in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 5, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Abbas: UAE ‘turned their backs on everything’

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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said Palestinians were not worried about the “nonsense” peace accord between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, but accused the UAE of betraying the Palestinian people and...
Map of Long Island, N.Y. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

New York man charged with making ‘terroristic threats’ at Jewish summer camp

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A man from Long Island, N.Y., has been charged with making terroristic threats after vocalizing his intention to shoot up a Jewish camp. Nicola Pelle of Inwood called police on Monday to report that people...
Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. Credit: Wikipedia.

Sudan denies statement of possible agreement with Israel in wake of UAE deal

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Sudan’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denied comments made by its own spokesman indicating that an agreement between his government and Israel might be in the works. “The matter of relations with Israel has not been discussed in...
A computer generated representation of COVID-19 virions (SARS-CoV-2) seen under an electron microscope, Feb. 5, 2020. Photo: Felipe Esquivel Reed via Wikimedia Commons.

Israelis and Emiratis to develop COVID-19 stem-cell therapy

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Fast on the heels of the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to establish full diplomatic relations, Haifa-based Pluristem Therapeutics has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Abu Dhabi Stem...
An Israeli Merkava tank takes part in routine manuevers near the "blue line" drawn by the United Nations to mark Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, on June 2, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

IDF chief: Hezbollah ‘terror army’ preventing UNIFIL from fulfilling its mandate

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Tuesday that Hezbollah “has become a terror army operating in Beirut,” preventing UNIFIL, the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, from fulfilling its mandate. “Hezbollah is...
Israeli Coronavirus Project coordinator Ronni Gamzu at a meeting with Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion at City Hall on Aug. 12, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Coronavirus chief: ‘Israel has lowest mortality rate in the world’

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According to Israel’s coronavirus Coronavirus Project coordinator Ronni Gamzu, his main goal right now is to combat and contain the virus “without implementing a full lockdown on the country.” “I am not sure we...
Linda Sarsour Credit: Festival of Faiths via Wikimedia Commons.

Sarsour featured at Muslim delegates assembly at DNC

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Former Women’s March leader and Bernie Sanders surrogate Linda Sarsour was featured on Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention’s Muslim Delegates Assembly, despite her history of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, support for female genital mutilation and other...