T. Belman. As I read this article I noted much loose talk about fundemental values etc but no arguments grounded in the constitution or our law. The women failed to make their case. They just whined.

National Council of Jewish Women says Supreme Court will no longer be a place where vulnerable people can hope for justice

By TOI STAFF

National groups representing US Jewish women decried the Senate’s confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Saturday, calling it a “devastating blow” to women and survivors of sexual assault.

Kavanaugh was swiftly sworn in Saturday after a deeply polarized Senate narrowly voted to add him to the bench of the highest court in the land.

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By Steven Bernstein, AMERICAN THINKER

Lt. Colonel Avigdor Kahalani, commander of the IDF’s 77th tank battalion, stared eastward into the growing darkness from the turret of his Centurion tank, on the evening of the Day of Atonement, October 6, 1973.  Atop the northern Golan Heights, he had ordered his men to turn off their headlights and locate, by moonlight, advancing Syrian tanks, coming across the frontier, destination: Israel.

Rebuffed in their daylight assault on Israeli forces, the Syrians opted for a night attack, making use of their Soviet-made night fighting equipment.  Israeli tank telescopes worked well during daylight, or on illuminated targets at night, but couldn’t locate and target tanks using infrared lights.  The advancing Syrian T-55 tanks were using infrared scopes to locate Israeli tanks; few Centurions had them.

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Barkat announced that the city is in the process of removing the Palestinians’ UN agency from the municipality for “creating a false sovereignty.”

By: JNS.org

“We are putting an end to the lie of the ‘Palestinian refugee problem’ and the attempts at creating a false sovereignty within a sovereignty,” says Mayor Nir Barkat.

The city of Jerusalem will evict the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) in light of the organization’s illegal activities and incitement of Palestinians against Israel, according to Mayor Nir Barkat on Thursday.

In a statement, Barkat said the new U.S. policy cutting $300 million to the controversial organization inspired the move, which will see unlicensed UNRWA-run schools, medical centers and sports facilities transferred to Israeli authorities.
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Excerpt: In Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption, the former PM argues the ‘deplorables’ have something important to tell us

By Stephen Harper, NATIONAL POST

The rise of populism — on this continent and beyond — has drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum. But as former prime minister Stephen J. Harper argues in this exclusive excerpt from his new book, Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption, the so-called “deplorables” who have voted establishment figures out of office deserve a careful hearing. Their concerns point to deep problems with globalization — and they aren’t going away. 

If you are interested in politics, you will remember where you were on November 8, 2016. I was watching the U.S. presidential vote in my basement living room. My (interim) successor as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, the Hon. Rona Ambrose, was with me. So was the leader of the United Conservative Party of Alberta, the Hon. Jason Kenney. I did not expect Donald J. Trump to be elected president that evening.

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THIS SPEECH IS THE TALK OF THE TOWN

By Charlie Kirk, FOX NEWS

T BELMAN. Kavanaugh’s nomination is all but assured. Senators Collins and Mancin haver declared for him.

By John Podhoretz, COMMENTARY

By Steve Sailor, TAKIMAG

Israel is one of the intellectually freer nations, which helps explain how an Israeli political philosopher, Yoram Hazony, has suddenly established himself as perhaps the most interesting thinker of the post–Merkel’s Mistake era with his spectacular new book, The Virtue of Nationalism.

With Israel being nationalism’s prime success story in recent decades, this Israeli nationalist is well positioned to offer a resounding intellectual justification to his fellow nationalists in America, Britain, and the Netherlands. Israel is one of the rare nation-states where nationalism is not demonized by elites, so its defense attracts more elite talent than in the West. Hazony explains:
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Sweden’s Islamic invasion catalyzed by the death of free speech.

By Bruce Bawer, FPM

A few prefatory words: I was invited to give a talk in Gothenburg, Sweden, on Saturday, September 29, as part of an “Alternative Book Fair.” The Gothenburg Book Fair was being held that weekend, and the point of the alternative event was to highlight books – mostly about Islam, I gathered – that the official fair had rejected. I was asked to talk about freedom of speech, a freedom that is in increasingly short supply in Sweden, as elsewhere in Western Europe. As if to prove the point, civic officials – at the urging of police, who were spooked by Antifa threats – banned the “Alternative Book Fair.” Here’s what I planned to say.

When I was twenty years old, there was a famous free-speech case in the state of Illinois. Nazis wanted to march in a Chicago suburb called Skokie, which had a large population of Jews, many of them Holocaust survivors. Skokie sued successfully in county court to prevent the march. The Nazis, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, took the case to the state appellate court and the Illinois Supreme Court. Long story short, after the case had gone to the United States Supreme Court, the Nazis were allowed to march.
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By Eldad Beck, ISRAEL HAYOM

“This is the happiest moment of my life!”

•  Israel’s Ashram sets world record in rhythmic gymnastics, grabs gold
•  Israel’s Linoy Ashram continues to rack up rhythmic gymnastics medals

By Tamar Beeri, JPOST

The winning exercise of the Israeli acrobatic trio that won in the Budapest Acro Cup, 2018. (photo credit: PUBLIC RELATIONS GAL COMMUNICATIONS)

Three 15-year-old Israeli acrobats won the gold in the Budapest Acro Cup for trio pyramid acrobatics at the advanced level between ages 12-18 on Monday.

Shai Horesh from Moshav Hatsev, Shir Edri from Rehovot and Leah Curcus from Rehovot competed against and eventually defeated some of the most renowned teams in the world such as China, Russia, and Great Britain.
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Once a student filed a police complaint against those who disrupted a panel including israeli Reservists on Duty, the ball began to roll.

By Edwin Black, INN

Campus police at University of California, Irvine will in the near future refer anti-Israeli event disruptors of a May 3, 2018 pro-Israel event to Orange County prosecutors, according to a UCI spokesperson. Referral will occur, says the spokesperson, as soon as the campus police investigation concludes.

If so, UCI will be the second UC campus, after UCLA, to refer loud and raucous anti-Israel disruptors to prosecutors for violation of California’s statutes prohibiting disruption of public meetings, disturbing the peace, and conspiracy to do either.
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The New Israel Fund supports assistance to terrorists, this time funneling its funds through Hamoked.

By Ronn Torossian, INN

On January 4, 2017, a Palestinian-Arab terrorist drove a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers, killing four and injuring 17 others. The attack was immediately identified as terrorism, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the scene of the attack and said the perpetrator was “by all indications a supporter of the Islamic State.”

Fast forward to October 2018, Israel decided to expel the terrorist’s family from Israel, as they have links to ISIS, are not citizens and present a security concern.  Opposing the state in court is Hamoked, an organization supported by the New Israel Fund, which assisted the relatives of the terrorist to petition against their deportation from Israel.
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Newspaper report claims US president’s family avoided paying tens of millions of dollars by undervaluing properties and creating a sham corporation

By AP, TOI

NEW YORK — The New York Times reported Tuesday that US President Donald Trump received at least $413 million from his father over the decades, much of that through dubious tax dodges, including outright fraud.

The 15,000-word Times report contradicts Trump’s portrayal of himself as a self-made billionaire who started with just a $1 million loan from his father.

The Times said Trump and his father, Fred, avoided gift and inheritance taxes by setting up a sham corporation and undervaluing assets to tax authorities. The Times said its report is based on more than 100,000 pages of financial documents, including confidential tax returns from the father and his companies.
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To avoid that fate, rabbis and synagogues might begin by acknowledging where and how Judaism differs, and proceed from there.

By Jack Wertheimer, MOSAIC

My thanks to Lawrence A. Hoffman, Elliot Cosgrove, and Christine Rosen for their thoughtful responses to my essay, “The New High Holy Days.” My comments here proceed in reverse order of the responses’ sequential appearance in Mosaic.

Writing as an outsider, albeit one who has attended Jewish High Holy Day services and has written extensively on religious life in America, Christine Rosen offers a valuable comparative framework. As she notes at the outset, the phenomenon of once-a-year Jews has its counterparts among so-called “C&E Christians” or “Chreasters.”
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