By Judy Maltz, HAARETZ      Oct. 7, 2021

Sometime before the end of this year, the Knesset will begin discussing a new bill designed to encourage more citizens of the state who are not officially recognized as Jewish to undergo conversions. If passed, it would be the first time Israel has ever introduced legislation governing the thorny issue of conversion – though it would not be the first time it has tried.

The bill, being drafted by Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana, is in the final stages of preparation. The plan is to submit it for approval once the budget is passed in mid-November. Because it was part the coalition agreement signed in June by members of Israel’s current government, the bulk of the conversion bill is already public knowledge.
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By Yossi Verter, HAARETZ     Oct. 8, 2021 6:01 AM

Anyone who heard Foreign Minister and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s speech to his Yesh Atid party’s Knesset caucus meeting this week got the message loud and clear: If anything is imperiling the stability of the governing coalition, it’s the coalition. Five weeks before the deadline for approving the state budget, a sense of complacency had overtaken the ruling parties. The coalition lawmakers seemed to feel that everything was fine, the danger had passed. Things have settled down and the delta wave of the coronavirus pandemic is waning, as are the disagreements over the government’s spending shifts. Despite his renewed quarrels with the Health Ministry, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is projecting a sense of satisfaction. His vaccination booster-shot campaign got the job done.
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Standing up to American pressure over Iran.

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has reassured settler leaders in the West Bank that he is willing to stand up to American pressure, describing his three “No’s” to President Biden’s requests made at their meeting on August 26. A report on Bennett’s description of his pushback is here: “Bennett tells settlers he said no 3 times to Biden, on Iran, consulate, building,” by Shalom Yerushalmi, Times of Israel, September 27, 2021:

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett recently told settler leaders that he pushed back against United States President Joe Biden on Iran’s nuclear program, the reopening of the American consulate in East Jerusalem, and Israeli settlement building, during his meeting with the American leader at the White House in August.

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T. Belman. As it turns out I attended U of Toronto at the same time as Barbara did and at one time dated her brilliant room mate. Her first husband was my classmate in Law School.  So it was natural for me to follow the rise and fall of Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel.  Barbara is a brilliant woman in her own right and maintained an independent career as a journalist.  Both she and her husband were staunch supporters of the Jewish people and Israel. I followed his trial closely and felt that he was being railroaded. He was and is a good friend to Pres Trump who gave him a full pardon while in office.

Baroness Barbara Amiel reveals how ‘noble’ husband Conrad Black told her to leave him when he was sent to prison – and insists he’s the most generous and the least intolerant man’, despite appearing ‘pompous’

• Baroness Barbara Amiel, 80, discussed husband Conrad Black’s prison sentence 
• Revealed he told her to leave him before his trial and when he was convicted
• She visited him weekly in Florida and claimed he is a ‘noble’ and ‘generous’ man 

By Chloe Morgan, MAILONLINE        7 October 2021

Baroness Barbara Amiel has revealed how her ‘noble’ husband Conrad Black told her to leave him when he was sent to prison – and insisted he’s the most generous and the least intolerant man’, despite appearing ‘pompous.’

The 80-year-old and the disgraced press mogul, 77 – who was the former owner of the Daily Telegraph – were once the toast of London and New York society, but became social outcasts after Black was jailed by a U.S. court for fraud and obstruction of justice. 

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By Laureen Lipsky, AM THINKER

Democrats claim that “it’s just the Squad,” but it is time to say the quiet part out loud. From remaining silent on the antisemitic Iran Deal to not supporting the U.S. embassy move, to re-instating funding to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, supporting the antisemitic Black Lives Matter — it’s the whole damn party.

In the Democrat party’s latest unsurprising political stab against Israel, on Sept. 21st, House Democrats voted against funding Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system; $6.3 billion for African refugees remained in place.

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By Lynne Lechter, AM THINKER

Some Republicans roll their eyes regarding Trump’s ongoing efforts to prove claims that massive election fraud won Biden the presidential election. They shouldn’t.  Even if Trump never forces accountability, it is imperative to broadcast vast pushback to perceived Democrat political hijinks.  After all, the corporate media’s focus on Trump’s “mean tweets,” ofttimes  crude objectification of women, incessant bragging, refusal to hew to the DC playbook, and Covid gave them the cover to mostly ignore his systemic greatness.

Trump crashed through the bureaucracy and for a while successfully diminished its reach; then the bureaucracy  viciously smashed back.

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Policy makers say massive allocations will go a long way toward solving problems plaguing Arab Israeli communities. But some ask whether throwing money at the issue will be enough

By AARON BOXERMAN, TOI

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When a five-year, NIS 10 billion investment in Arab communities was announced in 2016, Arab Israelis hoped the money, some $3.8 billion in 2016 dollars, would help end the persistent gaps between Arabs and Jews in Israel.

But much of the funding remained trapped under red tape, or worse, in the hands of organized crime rackets. Now, the government — spurred by the first Arab Israeli party to ever sit in a coalition — is pushing ahead with a plan that will more than triple that once unprecedented sum.
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Opening a PA Consulate in Jerusalem is intended to undue Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

By Eugene Kontorovich, ISRAEL HAYOM

The Biden administration is trying to partially undo one of Israel’s greatest diplomatic achievements of recent decades — the recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over all of Jerusalem by the United States, followed by numerous other countries. The good news is unlike with many diplomatic attacks, the Israeli government has the power to stop this one. The United States is pushing to open up a new diplomatic office in Jerusalem — one that would be directed to the Palestinian Authority. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem already provides consular services to the Palestinians. It is unheard of for a country to have an independent consulate in the same city where it already has an embassy. The point of creating a separate consulate is to undermine former U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem. But under international law, the United States would need Israel’s permission for this move.
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Roughly three hundred organizations in Israel are dedicated to converting Jews to a belief in Jesus.

By Don Uslan, VisionMag.org

“Antisemitism.” We are almost numb to the word.Volumes of books, news and social media, headlines and talking heads have informed us about the Oldest Hatred. For me, simply put, anti-Semitism is the effort to prevent Jews from being Jews, in whatever shape or form we come in. Prevention of Jewish peoplehood and Jewish identity by intimidation, exclusion, physical violence, politically correct speech, threats of death, murder and by confusion and seduction.

“Confusion and Seduction”?
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THE DESERT REVIEW

Calling out the lie

“Merck stock surged 10% Friday after it said its investigational pill cuts the risk of hospitalization and death in COVID-19 patients…The pill reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by about 50%,” Merck and its partner, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, said in a statement Friday.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/merck-stock-price-antiviral-pill-cuts-covid-19-hospitalizations-and-deaths-2021-10

“This is a phenomenal result. This is a profound game-changer to have an oral pill that had this kind of effect, this magnitude of effect in patients who are at high risk who are already symptomatic,” former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Friday on CNBC about results of the interim analysis.

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There are lines that are not crossed. Civilized humans do not cross them. Unless they are “Woke.” Op-ed.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

There is an expression in rabbinic literature: Mitzvah goreret Mitzvah; Aveirah goreret Aveirah. One who habitually does good deeds finds that opportunities arise in his or her life orbit to do even more good deeds. And one who sins with frequency finds that somehow more sins come his or her way.

With each new societal outrage, each breakdown in Western core civilization, yet even newer and more obscene outrages arise. Did you see video of the disgusting animals who recently followed United States Senator Kyrsten Sinema into a bathroom, shouting at her from the other side of her toilet stall? What civilized person does that?
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Pandora papers: Jordanian king amassed $100M in secret

https://www.tierneyrealnewsnetwork.com/post/tierney-s-real-news-10-6-21-1

How does Ali Baba claim that he bought the palaces with his “own money”? He was living on the salary of an officer before taking power.

And his stepmother, Noor, inherited everything that the hypocrite Hussein left.

He says that he does not receive a salary “as a king”.

Where does it all come from? And if his money is halal, then why does he buy real estate through 36 fake companies?

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Biden didn’t withdraw from Afghanistan. He brought Afghanistan to America.

The skies over Sparta have never been as busy as when the Biden administration decided to dispatch 13,000 Afghans, including at least one pedophile, to Wisconsin.

Sparta, a small town of less than ten thousand souls, whose claim to fame is being the “Bicycling Capital of America”, could only watch as a population of Afghans outnumbering its own population created a new Afghanistan on the premises of Fort McCoy.

None of the Afghans at Fort McCoy have a Special Immigrant Visa. Biden left the SIV visa holders behind in Afghanistan. The Afghans who have overrun the Wisconsin base are the ones whom the Taliban, for their own reasons, decided to allow through their checkpoints.

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By Barry Shaw

Can an Israeli public health official tell us what went wrong with the 3rd vaccination?

EUROPEAN COALITION FOR ISRAEL

Brussels, October 7th, 2021 – The European Commission has presented its first ever comprehensive EU strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life. In a press conference in Brussels on Tuesday, Commission president Ursula von der Leyen noted that “Europe can only prosper when its Jewish communities feel safe and prosper”. Vice-President Margaritis Schinas commented on the strategy by saying: “We owe this to those who perished in the Holocaust, we owe it to the survivors, and we owe it to future generations.”

In a separate statement on Wednesday, ECI Founding Director Tomas Sandell commended the European Commission for its unprecedented commitment towards a Europe free of antisemitism.

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