US for 1st time votes with Israel against annual UN resolution. Calling for Israel to give Golan to Syria; Australia voted for resolution in 2017, abstained this year.
Source: Netanyahu: Golan will stay forever a part of Israel – Israel News – Jerusalem Post
The American military’s superiority “has eroded to a dangerous degree,” and U.S. ability to win a war against adversaries like China and Russia “is increasingly in doubt,” a bipartisan report commissioned by Congress to evaluate U.S.
While Netanyahu is known for cleverly playing the security card in the past, there’s no guarantee that it will be enough to hold his crumbling coalition together this time. The crisis was sparked by the resignation of hawkish Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, due to his outrage with the ceasefire deal agreed by Israel and Palestinian armed group Hamas.
I would like to say that now when we are witnessing one of the most difficult periods in terms of security, we cannot topple the government and hold an early election. That is irresponsible.
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Anti-Semitic tropes — both “old” and “new” — have gained new political life across America’s political spectrum during the 2018 campaign.
Source: Synagogue Massacre, Anti-Semitic Candidates Shake American Jewry | Newsmax.com
The recent mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue is a devastating reminder that anti-Semitism is flourishing around the world.
Source: How anti-Semitism still flourishes – Chicago Tribune
Until recent years, many Jews in America believed that the worst of anti-Semitism was over there, in Europe, a vestige of the old country.
American Jews were welcome in universities, country clubs and corporate boards that once excluded their grandparents. They married non-Jews, moved into mixed neighborhoods and by 2000, the first Jew ran for vice president on a major party ticket.
So the massacre on Saturday of 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, by a man who told the police when he surrendered that he “wanted all Jews to die,” was for many a shocking wake-up call.
“This kind of evil makes me think of the Holocaust and how people can be so cruel, that there is so much evil in the world, still,” said Moshe Taube, 91, a retired cantor from Congregation Beth Shalom in Pittsburgh and a survivor of the Holocaust.
The total debt shouldered by Americans has hit another record high, rising to $13.5 trillion in the last quarter.
Source: Household debt hit a record high of $13.5 trillion last quarter
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Defense Secretary James Mattis has nearly wiped ISIS off the face of the earth.
He is one of the best military minds in history.
And he just arrived at the border with a plan to stop the caravan.
It is the job of the military to protect against all enemies,both foreign and domestic.
And it’s becoming clear that one of those enemies is the caravan coming from South America.
There are criminals and gang members in the caravan.
They are using women and children seeking asylum as a shield to gain sympathy.
And that’s why President Trump is calling it an invasion.
Like any other invasion, it is the job of the military to defend the country.
So the military is on the border ready to fight back.
They are placing barbed wire and setting up perimeters.
To lead this operation, Defense Secretary James Mattis has arrived at the border.
He is running a full-scale military operation to prevent the caravan from entering.
Upwards of 12,000 people will arrive at the border as soon as this weekend.
They are both walking across the country and taking shuttle busses.
Already, small segments of the caravan are arriving.
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Friday voted for the first time against a United Nations resolution that condemned Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights.
While the resolution passed easily through the UN General Assembly, with 151 “yes” votes and only 2 “no” votes, the American position represented a policy shift that could also have implications for the future. The U.S. has previously abstained from voting on the move.
The only other country other than the U.S. who voted against the resolution was Israel itself. Israel has been lobbying the Trump administration and Congress to recognize its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which were captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War. So far the administration has stated it is not considering such a move, but the UN vote on Friday could hint at a change on that front.
A man shocked theatergoers and alarmed members of Baltimore’s Jewish community when he shouted a pro-Nazi and pro-Trump salute during a performance at the Hippodrome Theatre on Wednesday night.
The incident, during which the man shouted “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump,” was especially notable because it took place during intermission of a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof,” a musical about a Jewish community in tsarist Russia.
The Hippodrome is hosting the national touring production of the Broadway revival, directed by Bartlett Sherr, through Nov. 18.
“Fiddler on the Roof” tells the story of a milkman Tevye, his wife and five daughters. The musical is based on series of stories by Sholom Aleichem and was adapted for Broadway in 1964.
Throughout the show Tevye often breaks into songs and monologues, sharing his thoughts on love, tradition, wealth and faith. Russia becomes increasingly hostile toward Jews as the story progresses, prompting the family to leave for other countries by the end of the musical.
The show — notable at the time for focusing completely on a Jewish community — was a hit and nabbed nine Tony Awards, including best musical.
Audience members told The Sun the man who shouted the anti-Semitic salutes did so during intermission, immediately following a scene that depicted a wedding interrupted by a pogrom — an attack on Jewish people which can range from destruction of homes or property to outright massacre.
The word pogrom is Russian, meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently,” according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia published on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Anti-Semitism is currently at an all-time high in the United States.
Source: Anti-Semitism incidents resurge in the US – The Daily Universe
HORTONVILLE, Wis. (CBSDFW.COM) – A Wisconsin-based company is giving each of its employees a handgun for Christmas, the Appleton Post-Crescent reports. According to the newspaper, the company called BenShot is gifting the guns in order to promote safety and team building.
Source: Liberals Fume as Wisconsin Company Will Give Employees Handguns For Christmas – JEWSNEWS
Thousands of young European Jews applied to Hebrew University in the 1930s and 1940s in hopes that acceptance would entitle them to a permit to move to pre-state Israel, then controlled by the British, and thereby save their lives
Source: Life-or-death applications to Hebrew University exhibited – Israel News – Haaretz.com
A Texas prosecutor says a man convicted in three California murders but long suspected in dozens of deaths now claims he was involved in about 90 killings nationwide _ about a third of which investigators have corroborated.
Source: Inmate confesses to 90 deaths; investigators corroborate 30 | The Kansas City Star
Prosecutors have accused a federal prison chaplain in New Hampshire of providing cellphones, tobacco, drugs, and other contraband to inmates in exchange for money.
Source: Prison Chaplain Accused Of Bribery, Giving Inmates Contraband « CBS Boston
The worst scandals of Clinton’s time at the State Department are back.
Source: Federal Judge Orders Hillary To Submit to Interrogation. Disaster for 2020 Ambitions
Three esteemed professors turned Dartmouth College into a “21st century Animal House” by treating female students like “sex objects,” hosting late-night hot tub parties and boasting about who had the “hottest lab,” according to an explosive lawsuit filed Thursday.
Seven women — including two who say they were raped — are suing the exclusive Ivy League school in New Hampshire over a mountain of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Todd Heatherton, William Kelley and Paul Whalen. The plaintiffs say the school has known about their behaviors since 2002 but chose to do nothing about it.
The trio of professors was part of a “predatory club” in Dartmouth’s Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences who routinely preyed on young women and retaliated against those who spurned their unwanted advances, the New Hampshire federal court suit says.
Japan has a shrinking population as its birth rates are low and Japanese tend to leave the country to find jobs elsewhere. A projection shows that the country’s population could shrink by tens of millions by 2065. To counter the population decrease, some suggest immigration could be a solution.
U.N.’s top body fails to agree on any action on fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza • Security Council must condemn Hamas for its aggressive assault on civilians and finally, finally designate it a terrorist organization, says envoy Danny Danon. News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff The U.
It stands for much more than you think.
Source: What the Israeli flag really represents – Israel Unwired
U.N.’s top body fails to agree on any action on fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza • Security Council must condemn Hamas for its aggressive assault on civilians and finally, finally designate it a terrorist organization, says envoy Danny Danon. News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff The U.
The resolution honors “the memory of the victims of the attack, and offering condolences to and expressing support for their families, friends, and community.”
“Islamophobia? Under Islam I was raped, I was put in prison, I was lashed, I was beaten, I was sold into marriage, I was literally broken down into pieces and I had to build myself back up. Do you really think my fear is irrational? I have every single right and reason to fear this ideology.
Source: Muslim child bride warns women about life under Islam: no equality, no rights, no mercy – JEWSNEWS
POCATELLO — Dan Clark had never stepped foot inside a Jewish synagogue before Nov. 9, when he brought his family to Temple Emanuel to mourn with a diverse group of Eastern Idaho residents.
The local Jewish community invited the general public to attend its regularly scheduled Shabbat service, which also included a memorial service for the 11 Jewish people who a gunman killed Oct. 28 at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Pocatello’s interfaith community came out en masse to stand with Temple Emanuel against the senseless act of violence. The man charged with the crime, Robert Bowers, reportedly justified his actions with anti-semetic statements.
Acts of hate and violence and a festering political divide have dominated the national spotlight lately. Many of the more than 100 people, representing several faiths, who attended the memorial service, however, say they witnessed a refreshing display of unity.
For Clark, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the service presented an opportunity to show his sons, ages 11 and 5, the beauty of people from different backgrounds coming together for a common purpose.
“I decided I wanted my children to see what people coming together to mourn a great tragedy was like,” said Clark, who read about the service on Facebook. “I wanted them to experience that — to experience the faiths that were going to be there and to meet the people.”
