Israeli Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton’s Arab affairs adviser was gunned down in his car on Sunday outside his home in the Galilee village of Rameh. Sahar Ismail, 50, a member of the Druze community, also served as an adviser to New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar, currently Israel’s justice minister. [JNS.org]
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Middle East
Published by Reuters WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s president has decided to sign a bill that would set limits on the ability of Jews to recover property seized by Nazi German occupiers and retained by post-war communist rulers, drawing fury from Israel which branded the law anti-Semitic. “I made a decision today on the act, which in
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International
Rosh Hashanah is not a biblical holiday, although it replaced a biblical one. It is notably different from the holiday it replaced. The biblical holiday, Yom Teruah, had a totally different purpose than Rosh Hashanah, which focuses on the onset of a new year, repentance, and commitment to live the next year properly. Yom Teruah concentrated on months and the number seven. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
In the August 15, 2021 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
–Huge positive results from Israel’s mass anti-Covid vaccination boosters.
–An Israeli startup can predict and prevent allergies in babies.
–Israelis are helping Greece fight its devastating forest fires.
–A new Israeli low-cost drip-irrigation system is a game-changer.
–Two endangered species have found safe harbor in Israeli waters. [Michael Ordman]
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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, Lifestyles, Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, The World We Share, Travel and Food, USA
The bulk of the book is about Rachael’s grandmother Hana, who as a young teenager during the Nazi era was sent by her parents from Czechoslovakia to safety in Denmark, where for a while at least she could live unmolested as a farm girl. When Denmark’s German Nazi conquerors decided to round up the Jews, she was among the thousands who were helped by the Danes to escape to neutral Sweden. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
What is important? Important to whom? In terms of what? In terms of people’s philosophy of life? In terms of one’s needs? In terms of one’s strengths? In terms of policy? Or in terms of one’s mental health? [Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D]
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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz
A new report released on Thursday by the Alma Center, which researches security challenges to Israel from Lebanon and Syria, exposed what it described as a large-scale inter-regional Hezbollah tunnel system in different parts of Lebanon. The tunnel system is designed to move personnel and weapons around and out of the sight of the Israel Defense Forces. [JNS.org]
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Middle East
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid inaugurated the Israeli liaison office in Rabat, Morocco, on Thursday, formally re-establishing ties between the two nations. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lapid was joined by Moroccan Deputy Foreign Minister Mohcine Jazouli for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, which also included affixing a mezuzah at the entrance of the office. [JNS.org]
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International, Middle East, USA
The Jewish watchdog group StandWithUs called on the University of North Carolina to take action regarding a recurring class on Israel to be taught in the fall by an anti-Israel activist. Kylie Broderick, a Ph.D. student, is scheduled to teach a class titled “The Conflict Over Israel/Palestine.” Broderick has a history of making anti-Israel remarks, including a May 2021 tweet that said “Palestinians are being murdered for just being alive & bc [because] they’re inconvenient to Israel & its patron, the US imperialist death cult.” [JNS.org]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Despite major corporations investing significant time and funds to address traditional gaps in “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies, many of them—most notably, Google, Unilever and Cigna—have fallen short when it comes to addressing the needs of Jewish employees. [JNS.org]
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Business & Finance, International, Middle East, USA
Published by Al-Araby The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has once again been accused of mounting an Islamophobic advert campaigns against Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib. Omar’s communications director Jeremy Slevin, took to Twitter and accused the pro-Israel lobbying group of putting the lawmaker’s life at risk with the language it
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USA
Published by BANG Showbiz English Barbra Streisand ridiculed her husband’s hair style on their first date. The 79-year-old Hollywood icon has been married to actor-and-director James Brolin, 81, since 1998 and the pair first met on a blind date two years earlier. The bare-faced and short-haired look was not exactly what Barbra was expecting at
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Jewish Celebrities
In the context of the Middle East, to which they traveled by way of a tortuous, yet exhilarating bike safari through Europe, the Jewish Michael Tobin and his Lebanese-Christian girlfriend Deborah were problematic candidates for a lasting romance. Religion, nationalism, and past romantic attachments seemed to militate against their permanence as a couple However, these two American psychologists were open to new experiences and to each other, and their time on the road meeting people for intensive discussions about life, love, and loss, impacted each of them differently and profoundly. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food
These extracted Grade B (to me) mixed ‘poetic’ and prose passages, from the Book of Isaiah, are attributed to Isaiah II. Though strong on dramatic images, they are scarce in metaphor and other literary devices. They are also heavily ambiguous in messaging. [Irv Jacobs, M.D.]
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion