Israel strikes kill senior Hamas commander, Palestinians fire rockets

JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS, OTHERS, RESPOND (SEE COMMENT SECTION BELOW ARTICLE)   By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel said it killed 16 members of the Hamas armed wing in Gaza in a barrage on Wednesday and Palestinian militants rained rockets into Israel as Washington said it would send an envoy to try to calm

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Middle East

Truth about the Book of Ruth

During the holiday of Shavuot, the practice in many synagogues is to read the beautiful biblical book Ruth. Various reasons attempt to explain the practice including that Ruth is said to have converted to Judaism around the time of Shavuot and so did the Israelites when they accepted the Torah; Ruth was an ancestress of King David who died on Shavuot; the harvest in Israel is described in the book, and Shavuot is the time of the Harvest. This is unlikely. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

Dozens dead as Israel and Hamas escalate aerial bombardments

Published by Reuters By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group that runs Gaza escalated on Tuesday as each side attacked the other with aerial bombardments that recalled their last major conflict in 2014. A 13-story residential block in Gaza collapsed after one of several dozen

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Ossoff introduces bill to roll back Georgia law on giving voters water

Published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA — Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff introduced a bill Monday to prohibit states like Georgia from banning volunteers from distributing food and water to voters waiting in line. The legislation is a response to Georgia’s new voting law, which makes it a crime for volunteers and organizations to give

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USA

US ship fires warning shots at Iranian boats in Strait of Hormuz: Pentagon

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – A US vessel fired warning shots at more than a dozen Iranian fast attack boats which buzzed close to a US Navy submarine and escort ships in the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the Pentagon said. In the second such incident in two weeks, 13 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

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Israel airstrikes kill 20 in Gaza, Palestinians say, after militants fire rockets at Jerusalem

Published by Reuters By Jeffrey Heller and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – Violent clashes over Jerusalem escalated dramatically on Monday with Gaza health officials saying at least 20 people, including nine children, were killed by Israeli air strikes launched after Palestinian militant groups fired rockets close to Jerusalem Israel’s military said it carried out strikes

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Satire: Tucker Carlson, Medina Spirit and Joe Biden

Tucker Carlson’s outlandish conspiracy theories have earned him the highest ratings for a cable news commentator. After he heard about Medina Spirit’s disqualification from winning the Kentucky Derby for using the drug betamethasone, here’s what we imagine could be the advance text of his editorial on this matter. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire