by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  September 10, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi hold a meeting in Tehran on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

• In spite of the opposition from US allies in the Middle East as well as many US Congressman — both Democrats and Republicans — the Biden administration appeared determined to reward the ruling mullahs of Iran whose policies and ideology are anchored in “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”.
• The Biden administration seemed to hope that if they could just “contain” Iran with a “deal” — put Iran “in a box” even for a few years — it would “free up” the US to deal other problems, such as China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela and the Indo-Pacific, with one less distraction. If only.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor puts decision by lower court demanding recognition on hold ‘pending further order’; NY university cited 1st Amendment rights in emergency appeal

By LUKE TRESS, AGENCIES and TOI STAFF

The US Supreme Court building in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2022. (AP/Patrick Semansky, File)

The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s ruling requiring Yeshiva University in New York City to recognize a campus LGBTQ pride group.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted an emergency request on Friday filed last week by the modern Orthodox university that cited its rights under the First Amendment, which protects the free exercise of religion. The university argued that such recognition would be contrary to its beliefs.

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“The Jewish community is really in mourning along with the rest of the United Kingdom. We really feel that we have lost, I think someone described her, as the grandmother of the nation,” said Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

BY DMITRIY SHAPIRO

(September 9, 2022 / JNS) Jews around the world are reflecting on the consequential 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II following her death on Thursday and what she meant for the Jewish community.

Shortly after the news was announced, Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis released a video where he expressed condolences from the Jewish community throughout the Commonwealth.

Mirvis said that the queen embodied “the most noble values of British society” and was a “rock of stability” in an ever-changing world, and that she had a warm relationship with the Jewish community.

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by David Mark

According to Alma Education and Research Center, Hezbollah is actively preparing for a direct armed conflict with Israel.

Over the last few months, tensions have risen between Israel and Hezbollah over the Karish Gas Field dispute. So far negotiations between Israel and Lebanon have stalled. Hezbollah has increased its threats against Israel and is threatening armed conflict?

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Why Is Israel Protecting Illegal Palestinian Arab Construction?

Regavim director: ‘This government has drawn a de facto partition map of the country’

Nachala – A new Zionist effort to protect the land

Illegal Arab construction: Will PA Arabs skirt the law by identifying as Bedouin?

Watchdog demands Supreme Court close loophole protecting illegal construction

No more mukhtars: Will illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem now stop?

Will illegal Arab villages be evacuated? ‘They’re trespassers’

Third and final hearing for public comment on the project – called ‘lethal’ for future Palestinian state by critics – pushed off without new date

By JEREMY SHARON, TOI        8 September 2022, 

View of the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumin and the area known as E1, in the West Bank on January 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A hearing in a key settlement planning forum regarding the highly controversial E1 construction project has been postponed for the third time without a future date being set.

The left-wing Ir Amim and Peace Now organizations — which have both submitted objections to the project — said they were informed of the postponement by the Higher Planning Committee of the Civil Administration, which oversees settlement planning in the West Bank.

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Should matters of state in Israel be decided by a Jewish majority or a majority of all its citizens?

By Ted Belman

Current Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, head of the newly created Zionist Spirit party and formerly of the Yamina party, continues to bang this drum:

“But ultimately, we have seen for four election campaigns already, that there was no majority of 61 MKs for a full-fledged right-wing government. Ultimately, we have to consider whether to form – and there’s no such thing according to any poll – a very narrow government that half the country’s residents will feel is not their government, and it is safe to assume will also not be stable, or to form a broader government and fight for what is important for us,”

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_{The U.S. administration is exposing Israel to existential peril.}

by Caroline Glick, ISRAEL UNWIRED  September 8, 2022 

(JNS) For four months, no one could explain the Biden administration’s seeming obsession with forcing Israel to accept responsibility for the death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11. Abu Akleh was killed in Jenin during a gun battle between Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists, with whom she was embedded, and IDF forces. The battle occurred in the aftermath of a spate of murderous terror attacks in Israeli cities that took the lives of 17 Israelis. Nearly all of the attacks were carried out by PIJ terrorists deployed from Jenin.

The U.S. demand that Israel accept the blame for Abu Akleh’s death was strange for several reasons. First, since the Palestinians seized her body and refused to permit Israeli pathologists to examine it or the bullet that killed her, Israel couldn’t conduct a comprehensive investigation.

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By Alex Berenson

Deaths in the Australian state of  Victoria, where 95 percent of adults have received Covid vaccines and most are boosted with mRNA shots, soared to their highest level in at least 13 years in August – far above the five-year average.

Victoria offers almost unique data: near-real-time reporting on death trends in millions of people who are heavily vaccinated but had little exposure to Covid before being jabbed.

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T. Belman. ADL admitted “there is content among our curricular materials that is misaligned with ADL’s values and strategy”. Au contrar. It is fully aligned their their present values.

From inception, their purpose was to “ to ‘stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all” . ’Their mission compels them “to fight antisemitism and all forms of bigotry and prejudice, from virulent anti-Zionism to vicious xenophobia.”  Except they don’t.

Their primary purpose is to fight antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Instead they focus on Islamophobia and the leftist agenda.

Antisemitic incidents hit a record high in 2021

After the ADL gets caught spreading woke ideology, Greenblatt must go

ADL admitted how some of their curriculum materials are “misaligned” with their values:

By Hannah Grossman | Fox News

Jonathan Greenblatt, Anti-Defamation League CEO and national director, speaks at the Anti-Defamation League National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2019. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

 The Anti-Defamation League announced in a statement that the organization is reviewing its education content after a Fox News Digital investigation into the curriculum it offers to teachers and students.

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For seven decades, she gave Britain a constant, even as her kingdom was transformed.

The first elizabethan era ended on March 24, 1603, when 69-year-old Queen Elizabeth I died in her sleep at Richmond Palace. “This morning, about three o’clock, her Majesty departed from this life, mildly like a lamb, easily like a ripe apple from the tree,” the lawyer John Manningham wrote in his diary. Elizabeth I’s 45-year reign was a “golden age,” a course of events that no one would have predicted at her birth. She had survived her mother’s execution, her half-sister’s jealousy, her cousin Mary’s plotting, and the antagonism of Europe’s great Catholic powers.

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Princess Elizabeth will be eighteen on her next birthday. How does her education compare with that of an American girl of the same age? And how does it compare with that of Victoria, who was also educated to be a queen?

By Wilson Harris, Atlantic

Princess Elizabeth pictured at age sixteen in 1942 (Associated Press)DECEMBER 1943 ISSUE

The people of Britain are beginning to take a growing interest in the personality of their future Queen — only beginning, because so far Princess Elizabeth’s life has most rightly been spent in her home rather than in the public eye, and her future subjects know relatively little of her, apart from the admirable broadcast talk she gave some three years ago to the children of the Empire, at home and overseas, when she was only fourteen. Now that the Princess stands on the threshold of public life, both they and persons in other lands who watch the fortunes of the British Royal House may feel some natural desire to know how she is being prepared for the high office that will one day be hers; and the Queen has shown a gracious readiness to make available such information as is requisite for that purpose.

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T. Belman. He’s right about the TSS reaching a dead end but wrong on what the alternative should be. The Jordan Option anybody?

The Jordanian government must adjust its approach from solely promoting a Palestinian state to advocating for Palestinian rights within a unified country, one of the architects of the Israeli-Jordanian peace deal says

By Sam Sokol, HAARETZ

Jordan’s former foreign minister, Marwan Muasher, addressing the 59th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Israel and the Palestinians have “reached a dead end with regard to everything related to the two-state solution,” and the Jordanian government must adjust its approach from solely promoting a Palestinian state to advocating for Palestinian rights within a unified country, one of the architects of the Israeli-Jordanian peace deal declared this week.

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By  Victor Davis Hanson, JWR

The United States obsesses over whether biological men can compete in women’s sports as transgender females.

Crime is spiking at levels not seen in 40 years. But some consider it racist to suggest that arrests, indictments, convictions, and incarcerations deter crime.

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An Israel Hayom analysis reveals that the six German foundations in Israel, which are affiliated with political factions back home, may lack necessary approvals by Israeli authorities and possibly failed to properly file reports. This could have implications on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

By  Yifat Erlich, ISRAEL HAYOM

The German federal parliament | File photo: Getty Images

Law, order, and bureaucracy have always been sacred in Germany, both in its good and bad days. So if that is the case, how is it possible that millions of dollars are flowing into Israel from the German government in what may be a direct violation of Israeli law? 

Based on information collected by the right-wing watchdog group Im Tirtzu, Israel Hayom conducted an analysis that revealed how German political foundations operate in Israel, getting involved in national matters and attempting to influence public opinion. 

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 75th Anniversary Event of the Nuremberg Code in Nuremberg, Germany, on August 20, 2022.

Peer-reviewed finding is ‘the cherry on top’ for vaccines, which have already been shown to reduce infection and lower seriousness of illness, says researcher

By NATHAN JEFFAY, TOI

An Israeli man receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, at Maccabi vaccination center in Modi’in, on January 6, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Coronavirus vaccines dramatically reduce the occurrence of long COVID, new Israeli research has shown.

All ten of the most common long COVID symptoms were reduced by at least 50 percent among people who had at least two vaccine shots, the peer-reviewed study found. The reduction in shortness of breath, for example, was 80%.

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