The parasha hints at something quite illuminating. While we built the Mishkan, the process of doing so, the unity we experienced, our undistracted singular focus and purpose, our following Hashem’s plan, actually built us, says the Malbim. By building something, the builder changes. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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Published by City AM By Bella Wallersteiner Defacing a portrait of a former Prime Minister, as pro-Palestine activists did last week, is an attack on democracy itself, argues Bella Wallersteiner When a protestor drenched a portrait of former Prime Minister Lord Balfour in red paint and slashed it to pieces she didn’t just attack a
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Published by DPA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed his intention to lead the country to “total victory” in the war against the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, despite efforts to organize a ceasefire. “We are on the way to total victory. On the way to this victory, we already eliminated
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According to DoD, JLOTS will include a floating pier, an approximately 1,800-foot-long modular causeway, assembled offshore and then attached to the shore, and a group of logistic support vessels and barges that will transport the aid from the pier to the causeway where the cargo would be offloaded and transported to the land and distributed to Gaza. [Dorian de Wind, The Moderate Voice]
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A group of Orthodox women are participating in a “mikveh strike” for what reason? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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He had become an expert on the use of a Louma crane, which can twist and turn its long arm and get shots from angles otherwise unavailable to movie producers. Steven Spielberg utilized the Louma in the movie 1941, but as production was coming to an end, Spielberg learned that Romanoff was nicknamed “Captain Gas” because he liked to party with nitrous oxide. After a night of excess with similarly inclined crew and cast members, a wasted Romanoff nursed a hangover inside the Louma control booth. [Donald H. Harrison]
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In 1930 Lessing published his major book Der jüdische Selbsthaß (Jewish Self-Hatred), a historical and psychological study of Jewry as a minority in the Diaspora. [Alex Gordon]
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Published by Mirror By Laura Harding, PA Deputy Entertainment Editor & Zoe Delaney British director Jonathan Glazer has condemned Israel’s ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip as he accepted an Oscar for his film about the banality of evil during the Holocaust. The Zone Of Interest won the best international feature Oscar for the United
Published by AFP Hollywood (United States) (AFP) – “Oppenheimer” swept the board on Sunday at the Oscars, Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, with seven awards including best picture and best director, crowning a triumphant year for filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Nolan’s masterful drama about the father of the atomic bomb, half of last summer’s massive
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Using AI and deep fakes, FOX’s coverage of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech would have looked totally different than the version of it aired on CNN and MSNBC. [Laurie Baron]
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“My office will be open at all hours of the day and night, on weekdays, and weekends, to all students who do not feel safe or who have been subjected to antisemitic abuse, or who wish to chat. I will also leave a light on in my office window at all times so that all students walking by on Bancroft Ave. can see that at least one faculty members is sleeping as badly at night as they are.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Graphic artists found out that by coloring the curved part of the B, in the initials BR, and the straight line of the R, they would have a bright number 31 within the initials – 31 being Baskin Robbins’ initial concept of having a separate flavor for every day of the month. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Carol Burnett was “so close” to Steve Lawrence that she thought of him as family. The 90-year-old comedienne took to social media to mourn the passing of her friend Steve – who died on Thursday (08.03.24) at the age of 88 – as she recalled that he had appeared on
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Yareli Carrillo, mother of a 9-month-old baby, was one of two people injured when a gunman opened fire on Feb. 29 at the Smile Plus Dentistry & Orthodontics clinic in El Cajon where she works as an administrative assistant. The shooter, a former patient, killed Dr. Benjamin Harouni. [Miriam Raftery, East County Magazine]