The percentage in haredi society of those who officially work has reached a record high of 55.8%

By Kobi Nachshoni, INN 26.8.213

It’s hard to remain unmoved by the findings of a survey publicized earlier this month showing the rapid growth of haredim (sometimes called ultra-orthodox Jews) in Israel’s workforce. The numbers, crunched by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, show that the percentage in haredi society of those who officially work has reached a record high of 55.8%. This is still a far cry from the 63% target set by the government back in 2020, and much further still from the 87% of the general Jewish populace. But the trend is positive and very encouraging: After nearly a decade with no real change in the percentages, the number of gainfully employed haredim is clearly rising, and appears on track to continue to do so.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, JWR

Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that President Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and Hunter Biden — and ultimately Joe Biden himself.

As vice president, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had threatened to cancel the deliverance of American foreign aid to Ukraine unless Shokin was dismissed.

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By Sarah Arnold, TOWNHALL | August 23, 2023 

After three years of Democrats refusing to acknowledge there was some level of election fraud during the 2020 presidential election, the office of the Secretary of State in Georgia that there was faulty while handling the ballots.

The admission came after Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused Floyd County, Georgia, of botching the ballot process after he ex-husband, Perry Greene, showed up to vote and was told he had already voted by absentee ballot despite not ever requesting an absentee ballot.<
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Economic frustration brings out protesters across Syria, including in areas still under the control of al-Assad.

By Ali Haj Suleiman, AL JAZEERA

Latest protests began in Sweida, in Syria’s south, but support has come from protesters in opposition-controlled areas, too [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera]<

Anti-government demonstrations have taken place in several provinces in Syria, as protesters called for an overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, in scenes reminiscent of the beginning of the Syrian uprising in 2011.

Hundreds of protesters gathered on Friday in Sweida and Deraa, both in southern Syria, northern Aleppo and Idlib, in the northwest, and Deir Az Zor, Raqqa and Hassakeh, in the northeast.

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T. Belman.  Given its anti-Israel policies, it can’t happen soon enough for me. Its decline has been fueled by two additional factors; the immigration  of millions of Muslims into France and Germany and the Ukraine War.

As the continent grapples with an ageing population, new centres of power have emerged

By GERARD ARAUD, TELEGRAPH 25 August 2023 

We Europeans are still convinced of the centrality of our small continent not only to the history of mankind but to shaping the world today. We lecture everyone else based on values that we firmly believe are universal. We think of ourselves as noble, powerful and well intentioned.

But the period of true European power was really just a historical blip.

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T. Belman.  I read this book more than 50 years ago and was profoundly influenced by it. The New World Order envisages a world or life without meaning. As such it is doomed to failure.

In Israel, the Right is imbued with meaning and the Left is bereft of it.

By Samuel Kronen, CITY JOURNAL

Viktor Frankl survived the Holocaust and created a new psychology in which the search for meaning—not pleasure or power—is mankind’s central motivational force.

The Austrian psychiatrist, author, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Emil Frankl was a quintessential humanist. His memoir Man’s Search for Meaning, a psychological portrait of life inside the concentration camps, has become a go-to for seekers of every variety since its original German-language publication in 1946. Listed as “one of the ten most influential books in the U.S.” in 1991, it still appears as one of Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime. Having sold more than 10 million copies and having been translated into 24 languages, Man’s Search for Meaning is considered among the most inspiring nonfiction works. This “should be required reading for anyone desiring to live on this planet,” says a YouTube commentator, regarding one of Frankl’s interviews. Frankl’s crowning literary achievement, however—written in nine days and originally published anonymously—is just the capstone on his life and work.

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By Ray DiLorenzo, STAND UP AMERICA

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”  Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

A global war has been declared.  This is not hyperbole, this is not conspiracy.   A violent revolution IS taking place.  It will be the greatest revolution in human history.  It has already begun and too many people are choosing to be oblivious.  It will radically change the lives of billions of people and has already ended the lives of millions.  It is a global WAR on the middle class…a war the enemy intends to win.
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T. Belman. This is a very important analysis. According to Justice Barak, the Declaration of Independence did not have legal validity until the Basic Law Human Dignity and Liberty was passed in 1992. Four years later, Freedom of Occupation [Career] Basic Law  was passed.

That law defined Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state”. UNGA Res 181 called for the creation of a Jewish and an Arab state in Mandatory Palestine. Thus, the UN extended its formal imprimatur to the notion of a Jewish state. But the question arises, are these two values complementary or contradictory? I suggest the latter is the case and being a Jewish State should take precedence.

Ben Gurion rejected the notion of Western Democracy and chose instead Jewish democracy “as envisaged by the prophets of Israel.”

In 2018, Basic Law: The Nation State of the Jewish People was passed. It is short. Read it carefully.

Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation provides “This Basic Law shall not be varied except by a Basic Law passed by a majority of the members of the Knesset.” This principle applies to all Basic Laws unless otherwise stipulated.

By RABBI ALAN SILVERSTEIN, JEWISH STANDARD    May 24, 2023, 

I recently returned from a month-long stay in Israel, visiting family and attending the “Extraordinary Session” of the World Zionist Congress. The body’s deliberations included debates between proponents and opponents of the proposed changes in the Israeli judicial system. Often at issue was the meaning of Israel’s “foundational document,” the May 14, 1948, Declaration of Independence — the Megillat Ha’Atzmaut. Seeing the Declaration as a statement containing checks and balances for the securing of human rights, the World Zionist Congress issued a resolution calling for “anchoring the position of the Declaration of Independence in the Zionist movement.”
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The danger of the anti-government protest movement is that it has introduced a form of paganism into its political goals.

Dr. Moshe Dann, INN      Aug 25, 2023, 

The protest movement in Israel has succeeded in mobilizing many thousands of people against the current government. It claims to be “protecting democracy” by trying to stop judicial reforms. Its agenda, however, includes a wide range of issues and seeks to implement “liberal and Progressive” policies that are often in conflict with traditional Jewish values and Zionism. The struggle, therefore, is not only about judicial reforms, but Israel’s identity as a Jewish state.

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Parents argued the inclusion of LGBTQ+ books indoctrinated their kids

By Chris Pandolfo Fox News

A federal court in Maryland decided Thursday that parents can’t opt their kids out of reading books with LGBTQ+ content in Montgomery County Schools.

In Tamer Mahmoud v. Monica B. McKnight, parents sought to reinstate a MCPS policy that would allow them to opt their children out of reading and discussing books with LGBTQ+ characters in elementary schools. The parents argued the content in these books was a form of indoctrination that violated their families’ religious beliefs.

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The fundamental question isn’t whether Israel should be a democracy. It’s whether it should be like everywhere else.

By Antonio Garcia Martinez, TABLET

I’m jet lagged and jostled, in the back of a Maserati SUV driven maniacally by a guy named “Shay” on Israel’s Highway 1 between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Next to me, also crammed between shrink-wrapped cases of drinking water, is Maya Zehavi, a member of the Israeli crypto community and the reason why I’m here. Riding shotgun is Sarit Radman, the mother of Moshe Radman, one of the handful of ad hoc leaders of Israel’s protest movement around a judicial reform bill that has divided the nation. The goal is to deliver ima Radman to her son at the head of the procession for the big photo op as they enter Jerusalem.
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By David Lanza, AM THINKER

On August 1, 2023, it became “illegal” to manufacture or sell incandescent light bulbs anywhere in the United States, and consumers are left with no choice but to purchase LED bulbs. Incandescent bulbs were a previously legal product about which no public outcry had arisen.  No law was actually passed anywhere. The decision was made solely by the executive branch of the federal government. Congress did not vote.  There was no consensus for any such thing. A staple consumer item has disappeared from store shelves everywhere.
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Why Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project would fail today.

by Lloyd Billingsley, FPM

As the three-hour Oppenheimer shows, to build the first atomic bomb required the best scientific minds, the finest facilities, and the construction of an entire community. Today, a project of that magnitude would be doomed to failure.

The Manhattan Project scientists were pale males of European extraction. Such men are no longer acceptable, regardless of scientific merit and proven experience. Biden’s diversity forces would demand “scientists of color” and LGBTQ activists without regard to experience. This would be only one of the hurdles.

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By MARTIN SHERMAN 

Past deeds of heroism are no justification for present acts of subversion

 Thy destroyers and thy demolishers shall emerge from within thee. – Isaiah 49:17

A situation has been created with centers of power with authority without responsibility…this is not democratic…the Supreme Court is one of those centers— Lt-Gen (res.) Moshe “Bogey” Yaalon, in an address to “Jewish Leadership” faction in Likud, 19 August, 2009.

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Japan Dumps Radioactive Water from Fukushima

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