Published by DPA Israel warned on Wednesday that its arch-enemy Iran is weeks away from acquiring weapons-grade nuclear material. “Iran has violated all of the guidelines set in the JCPOA and is only around 10 weeks away from acquiring weapons-grade materials necessary for a nuclear weapon,” Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said, using the acronym
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Middle East
Israeli artillery units shelled targets in Lebanon on Wednesday, after three rockets were fired at northern Israel from across the border, according to the Israel Defense Forces. [jns.org]
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Middle East
Israel’s ministerial committee approved new restrictions on fighting the spread of COVID-19, announced the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday. They are set to be instituted on Aug. 8 as a result of the uptick in Delta-variant infection rates in the country, according to the PMO. [jns.org]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food
Published by BANG Showbiz English Jeff Goldblum has joined the cast of ‘The Liar’. The 68-year-old actor has boarded the adaptation of Stephen Fry’s semi-autobiographical novel that will be filmed in the UK next month. Jeff will play Cambridge don Donald Trefusis in the motion picture, which will be written and directed by Tony Hagger.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Published by DPA The German government is to put 35 million euros (42 million dollars) into research into anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism, Research Minister Anja Karliczek said in Berlin on Wednesday. “Jewish life – unfortunately one has to say this – is threatened in Germany to an extent not seen for a long time,” she
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International
Published by InsideHook By Bonnie Stiernberg When The Tragedy of Macbeth makes its debut at the New York Film Festival on Sept. 24, it will mark the first time that Joel Coen (of the Coen Brothers) has released a movie without his brother Ethan. Joel wrote and directed the Shakespeare adaptation, which stars Frances McDormand
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast
To mask or not to mask, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The coughs and dangers of contagious Covid,
Rather than cover nose and mouth, suffocating.
Or by opposing mandates to die—to infect,
Tethered to ventilators, bereft of breath,
The long haul and virulent spikes
That flesh succumbs to, like consumption. … {Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, is urging the United Nations and world leaders to take action against the U.N. Relief Works Agency (UNWRA) after a watchdog report found more than 100 UNRWA educators and staff have publicly promoted violence and anti-Semitism on social media. [JNS.org]
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International, Middle East, USA
A billboard with the photo of New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has been erected outside the newspaper’s headquarters at 620 Eighth Ave. in New York, denouncing the paper’s failure to cover the “full truth” about surging anti-Semitism. It was placed by the media watchdog group CAMERA, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, which has used the platform before to raise awareness of Jewish issues. [JNS.org]
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USA
Team Israel baseball’s hopes of an Olympic medal ended on Tuesday after it lost a game in dramatic fashion to the Dominican Republic. It lost 7-6 to the Dominicans after former MLB All-Star José Bautista drove in a walk-off, RBI single off Israeli pitcher DJ Sharabi in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the game. [JNS.org]
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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions
Published by Reuters By Mica Rosenberg and Go Nakamura ROMA, Texas (Reuters) -The number of migrant children in Border Patrol facilities has been steadily rising, an analysis of U.S. government data shows, as record numbers crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in July, renewing a politically sensitive issue for President Joe Biden. On Aug. 1 there were
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USA
Published by Reuters MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Health authorities in northern Mexico vaccinated hundreds of migrants living in makeshift tents a few meters from a pedestrian crossing bridge to the United States in the border city of Tijuana on Tuesday. The COVID-19 vaccine doses were given to migrants a day after the U.S. Centers for
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USA
Artem Dolgopyat won Israel’s first Olympic gold medal in artistic gymnastics in Tokyo on Sunday, the country’s second-ever Olympic gold. [JNS.org]
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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions
Ecuador’s largest supermarket chain, owned by El Rosado Group, has announced that it will no longer sell ice-cream manufactured by Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry’s. [JNS.org]
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International, Middle East, Travel and Food