B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin presented the award to Haley at an event at the United States Mission to the United Nations located in New York.
Source: Haley receives award for ‘excellence in diplomacy’ from B’nai B’rith – Diaspora – Jerusalem Post
Two Russian TU-160 supersonic bombers landed in Caracas, Venezuela U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed the move on Twitter He called the deployment ‘two corrupt governments squandering public funds’ Moscow hit back, calling him ‘highly undiplomatic’ and ‘inappropriate’ Rejected criticism fro…
The linchpin of Roe v. Wade is the judicial determination that the baby in the womb is not a person.
Israel is not the only developed county to subsidize parenthood, so why is its birthrate an outlier? The centrality of the family is one reason, as are tribalism, nationalism, and the fulfillment of a historic imperative.
Israel is not the only developed county to subsidize parenthood, so why is its birthrate an outlier? The centrality of the family is one reason, as are tribalism, nationalism, and the fulfillment of a historic imperative.
A federal judge threw out a suit against Broward County ruling that there is no constitutional duty for the police to protect people.
The Sheriff’s office (and Office Scot Peterson in particular) came under fire last year for the woefully inadequate response to the Parkland high school shooting last year. Instead of intervening, Peterson sought cover, and hid until more help arrived.
Apparently, that was his Constitutional right
I learned two things from the New York Times’ interview last week with author Alice Walker.
Source: Super anti-Semitic literature can get an uncritical shout-out in the New York Times
Outright calls to murder Jews have become a pattern among European Muslim clergy, but western politicians are bent on hiding it. They know why. Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld The massive immigration of Muslims into Western European countries has also brought with it major whitewashing efforts to keep resul…
It appears that the two newly elected Muslim Congresswomen are already bringing anti-Christian hate into our federal government with a broadside directed against Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian religion.
Source: Newly Elected Muslim Congresswomen Ridicule VP Pence’s Christian Faith – JEWSNEWS
United Nations urges donor states to provide $350 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority in 2019. Elad Benari, The United Nations on Monday urged donor states to provide $350 million in aid for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2019, saying it needed more but had to be realistic following US…
The announcement of President Donald Trump’s selection of Dr. Maureen Condic for his administration’s science advisory board sparked outrage among abortion activists.
Source: Medical Expert Confirms Unborn Children Feel Excruciating Pain During Abortions – JEWSNEWS
UN watchdog’s report raises questions over Pyongyang’s position on denuclearisation
Source: North Korea is still developing nuclear weapons, says IAEA | World news | The Guardian
Turkey’s top religious authority has decreed that Muslims may use toilet paper – though water is still preferable for cleansing. “If water cannot be found for cleansing, other cleaning materials can be used.
Source: Muslims can NOW use toilet paper says Turkey’s top Islamic religious authority – JEWSNEWS
Pennsylvania authorities have joined with their counterparts across the U.S., helping craft search warrant applications and grand jury subpoenas.
Source: ‘More horrors’ coming as 45 states aim to pursue Catholic priest abuse
YEHUD, Israel (AP) — An Israeli nonprofit on Monday said it has pushed back the launch of what it hopes will be the first private spacecraft to land on the moon until February. Officials from SpaceIL and its project partner, the state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries, announced that the landing craft, dubbed “Beresheet,” or Genesis, will ship in February to Florida. Propelled by a SpaceX Falcon rocket launch, the robotic lander will then commence its months-long voyage to the moon. It had been slated to launch this month.
Source: First private Israeli lunar mission will launch in February
Le parlement néerlandais a adopté une sanction financière symbolique contre l’Autorité palestinienne en raison des salaires versés aux terroristes détenus en Israël ou aux familles de “martyrs”. Le texte, adopté avec 94 voix pour et 54 contre, prévoit une réduction de 7% de l’aide financière accordée par les Pays-Bas aux Palestiniens, et ce jusqu’à ce …
The Israeli media reported that the government is set to establish a special body for the absorption of French immigrants whose numbers have increased amid a wave of anti-Semitism in Europe.
President Trump says the nuclear threat from North Korea is over. New satellite images of 16 hidden ballistic missile bases suggest that it has worsened since his summit meeting.
More than a dozen North Korean missile bases could accommodate all types of missiles, which means the nuclear negotiation process cannot be deemed a success.
Source: North Korean Missile Bases are a Violation, but Not a ‘Deception’ | The National Interest
Anti-Semitism ‘disturbingly normalized,’ says EU rights chief, after massive survey of 12 EU states finds 85% of Jews rate it the biggest social problem in their countries
Source: Unprecedented EU poll finds 90% of European Jews feel anti-Semitism increasing | The Times of Israel
Anti-Semitism ‘disturbingly normalized,’ says EU rights chief, after massive survey of 12 EU states finds 85% of Jews rate it the biggest social problem in their countries
Source: Unprecedented EU poll finds 90% of European Jews feel anti-Semitism increasing | The Times of Israel
U.S. intelligence officials said they believe the U.S. is being “deceived” by North Korea, stating the hermit kingdom was increasing nuclear production.
Source: North Korea believed to be ‘deceiving’ US, increasing nuclear production: report | Fox News
North Korea has stopped its test launches, but it’s still adding to its stockpiles of missiles and nuclear materials.
President Trump says the nuclear threat from North Korea is over. New satellite images of 16 hidden ballistic missile bases suggest that it has worsened since his summit meeting.
The Israeli military says it has exposed a fourth Hezbollah attack tunnel dug from Lebanon
Source: Israeli military finds 4th Hezbollah tunnel from Lebanon – The Washington Post
Terror chiefs warned that a chemical weapons attack is ‘more likely than not’ The assessment follows ‘chatter’ between IS senior figures was intercepted Islamic State has been inspired by the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal By MARK NICOL Terror chiefs believe a devastating chemical weapons att…
Anti-Semitic graffiti calling for a “Jexit” was found spray-painted on a teachers’ union building on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Source: Anti-Semitic Graffiti Sprayed on Teachers’ Union Building in D.C.
A ceremony has taken place at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France where 37 gravestones and a monument to Holocaust victims were sprayed with anti-Semitic graffiti.
Source: French Jewish cemetery desecrated with swastikas | Idaho Statesman
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.
But it did not come out of nowhere, said experts in anti-Semitism. At the same time that Jews were feeling unprecedented acceptance in the United States, the climate was growing increasingly hostile, intensifying in the two years since President Trump was elected. And it comes at a time when attacks on Jews are on the rise in Europe as well, with frequent anti-Semitic episodes in France and Germany.
The hate in the United States came into full view last year as white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Va., with lines of men carrying torches and chanting, “Jews will not replace us.”Swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti have been cropping up on synagogues and Jewish homes around the country. Jews online are subjected to vicious slurs and threats. Many synagogues and Jewish day schools have been amping up security measures.
A spokesman for the Anti-Defamation League said that before Saturday’s shooting, the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent United States history was in 1985, when a man killed a family of four in Seattle. He had mistakenly thought they were Jewish.
The 11 people killed in Pittsburgh were remembered as guardians of their faith. Read more about their lives here.]
There was also an attack by a white supremacist on a Jewish Community Center filled with children in Los Angeles in 1999 that injured five. More recently, in 2014, a white supremacist opened fire outside a Jewish Community Center in a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., killing three people.
“I’m not a Chicken Little who’s always yelling, ‘It’s worse than it’s ever been!’ But now I think it’s worse than it’s ever been,” said Deborah E. Lipstadt, a professor of Holocaust history at Emory University in Atlanta and the author of a planned book on anti-Semitism.
Ms. Lipstadt said she did not wish to be seen as alarmist, because in some ways “things have never been better” for Jews in America.
But she likened anti-Semitism to a herpes infection that lies dormant and re-emerges at times of stress. It does not go away, no matter how “acculturated” Jews have become in America, because “it’s a conspiracy theory,” said Ms. Lipstadt, whose win at trial against a Holocaust denier in England was portrayed in the 2016 movie “Denial.”
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Prominent recent examples include unfounded conspiracy theories about George Soros, a wealthy donor to Democratic Party causes and a Jewish émigré from Hungary who survived the Nazis.
On Oct. 5, Mr. Trump asserted on Twitter that the women who stopped Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator to plead with him to vote against advancing the nomination of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court were “paid for by Soros and others.” In a rally in Missoula, Mont., on Oct. 19, the president told the crowd that the news media prefers to interview protesters who were paid by “Soros or somebody.”
Mr. Soros has also been accused of financing the caravan of Hondurans and Guatemalans fleeing north on foot through Mexico — another claim with no factual basis.
A day after a pipe bomb was discovered at Mr. Soros’s home in Westchester, Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, wrote on Twitter, “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg to BUY this election! Get out and vote Republican Nov. 6.”
Tom Steyer is an Episcopalian and is of Jewish descent. Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is Jewish. After more explosive devices were found in the homes and offices of other Democratic leaders and supporters, Mr. McCarthy deleted the tweet.
Anti-Semitism has also become a charged topic on many American college campuses, with Israel as the detonator.
[The rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue has revealed the Jewish rifts in Israel and America.]
Activists on the left — sometimes including young Jews — call for boycotts and divestments from companies doing business in Israel, or the occupied territories. Mainstream Jewish groups are now branding such campaigns as anti-Semitism. Where to draw the line between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism is a growing source of friction in many colleges and state capitals.
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In France, Jews have increasingly faced attacks and insults from members of the country’s large Muslim community. In March, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, Mireille Knoll, was knifed to death in her apartment by a young man who shouted “Allahu akbar.” Prosecutors classified it as an anti-Semitic hate crime.
In a 2015 study, 42 percent of French Jews surveyed said that they had suffered insults or aggressive acts at the hands of Muslims.
In Germany, anti-Semitism remains a daily occurrence, sometimes taking on the form of criminal attacks on Jews or Jewish institutions, but often in more casual insults or the questioning of the country’s post-World War II commitment to “never again” repeat the Nazi Holocaust.
One of the most prominent anti-Semitic attacks this year, in which a young Syrian struck a man wearing a skullcap on the street of a trendy Berlin neighborhood, prompted the head of Germany’s main Jewish organization to warn Jews against openly wearing skullcaps, or other public displays of their religion.
A demonstration in support of the country’s Jews drew thousands of people to the streets, but months later, in the midst of violent demonstrations by neo-Nazis in the eastern city of Chemnitz, masked assailants threw rocks and bottles at a local Jewish restaurant and shouted anti-Semitic insults, the owner told the police.
Nadine Epstein, editor in chief of Moment, an independent Jewish magazine in the United States, said that in 2014 the magazine did a special section on anti-Semitism, interviewing a wide range of scholars and leaders in the field. She said that her conclusion was that anti-Semitism, while persistent, was mostly a problem in Europe. But “it wasn’t really an issue in the U.S.,” she said.
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