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Daily Archives: May 18, 2021

Tikkun Olam- Adventures in Tijuana

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Saturday, May 15th is Teacher’s Day in Mexico. Teachers are celebrated all over the country.  As a retired teacher, it was the perfect day to go to Tijuana on a delivery run to a migrant shelter built...

Film Review: Holocaust Survivor on a Mission of Revenge

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In the 2016 film Remember, streaming on Netflix, Christopher Plummer plays Zev Guttman, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor who lost his family in World War II to a sadistic Blockführer known as Kurlander. Zev and his...

A Jewish Odyssey from Ethiopia to Israel and Back

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From Africa to Zion: The Shepherd Boy Who Became Israel’s First Ethiopian-born Journalist; a memoir by Danny Adeno Abebe; Yedioth Ahronoth, Chemed Books; © 2021, translated from Hebrew; ISBN 9789652-012869; 404 pages. This is a...
European Union flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons.

Tell us, Europe, what should Israel do?

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So tell me, what should Israel do? You, who march through the streets of Italy, the U.K. or Germany with Palestinian flags and shout slogans accusing Israel of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing,...
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Gaza and the war between the Democrats

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The current conflagration between Israel and Hamas has many old and new features. Among the most novel is the outspoken opposition of progressives within the Democratic Party. Another is the full racialization of the...
The synagogue in Givat Ze'ev, where collapsed bleachers left two worshipers dead and nearly 200 injured on the eve of Shavuot, May 16, 2021. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Two dead, 184 injured in bleacher collapse at Givat Ze’ev synagogue

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Two people were killed on Sunday evening during prayers at an unfinished synagogue in the town of Givat Ze’ev, near Jerusalem. Binyamin Rubinstein, 23, and 13-year-old Meir Globerman, whose funerals were held in Jerusalem late...
Workers on the Israeli Tamar gas processing rig off the coast of Ashkelon. Noble Energy and Delek are the main partners in the Tamar gas field, estimated to contain 10 trillion cubic feet of gas. June 23, 2014. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

IDF foils attacks on offshore gas rig, eliminates top Hamas naval commander

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The Israeli military has thwarted several attempts by Hamas to target Israel’s Tamar offshore gas installation over the past week of fighting between the Jewish state and the terrorist group controlling the Gaza Strip The...
A car burns during violent riots in Acre, May 12, 2021. Photo by Roni Ofer/Flash90.

Arab-Israeli suspect arrested in Jaffa firebombing

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The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and Israel Police announced on Monday the arrest of an Arab Israeli man in his 20s on suspicion of hurling a firebomb that seriously injured an Arab Israeli...
Police at the scene of a vehicular assault in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Several police officers were wounded in the incident, two moderately. May 16, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Seven Israel Police officers wounded in eastern Jerusalem vehicular assault

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Seven Israeli police officers were injured on Sunday afternoon when a Palestinian man attempted to run them over at a police checkpoint in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The assailant, a resident of...
Yigal Yehoshua, the 56-year-old Lod resident who died on May 17, 2021, after being attacked by an Arab mob six days earlier. Credit: Courtesy.

Victim of Lod lynch mob dies of wounds

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Fifty-six-year-old Lod resident Yigal Yehoshua died on Monday, less than a week after being critically wounded by a mob of Arab rioters in the central Israeli city. Yehoshua was struck in the head by a brick while...