Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch sees no future for Reform Judaism without Israel ties  

With rabbinical students accusing Israel of apartheid, this top New York rabbi fears a split over whether or not Jewish peoplehood is a central priority

By Zvika Klein

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch. For one time use in TIMES OF ISRAEL (August 2021). Not for any additional use unless a written permission granted by Shahar Azran. Images are not transferable. (Shahar Azron)
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch (Shahar Azron)

It was, for Israel, a painful awakening, served up by those who are supposed to be its dearest friends. The 100 names at the bottom of the letter published during the latest round of fighting between Israel and Gaza aren’t well known in Israel or the United States, but they are the future leadership of the American Jewish community: Reform and Conservative rabbinical students, those attending seminaries in the hopes of being ordained or becoming a cantor.

“So many of us ignore the day-to-day indignity that the Israeli military and police forces enact on Palestinians, and sit idly by as Israel upholds two separate legal systems for the same region,” the aspiring Jewish leaders wrote in their “Rabbinical and Cantorial Students Appeal to the Heart of the Jewish Community.”

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August 30, 2021 | 7:21 am | 3 Comments »

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OUTRAGEOUS: Virginia Public Schools to Focus on Muslims—As Victims—in Teaching About 9/11 On Attacks’ 20th Anniversary  

BY ROBERT SPENCER, PJ MEDIA AUG 28, 2021 1:41 PM ET

AP Photo/Richard Drew, File

On Thursday, the Virginia Department of Education published a video entitled, “Culturally Responsive and Inclusive 9/11 Commemoration,” detailing how Virginia public school teachers should handle the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 jihad terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. The emphasis on that day and thereafter must not be on the ideology of the attackers or the ongoing jihad terror threat; rather, the focus is entirely on acknowledging and eradicating what the video calls “anti-Muslim racism.”

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August 29, 2021 | 3:45 pm | 2 Comments »

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Bennett’s goals, Israel’s goals  

One has to wonder why the Israeli prime minister insisted on visiting the White House in the midst of the greatest strategic catastrophe to befall the US since the Sept. 11 attacks.

By  Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM

Three weeks ago, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz convened the ambassadors from all the UN Security Council member nations in Jerusalem and told them that if Iran maintains its current pace of uranium enrichment, it will reach military nuclear break-out capacity in 70 days. If their countdown clock is accurate, Iran is now around seven weeks away from becoming a nuclear-capable state.

Given the urgency of the situation, Israel’s prime minister could have been expected to fly to Washington to make clear to the US president that Israel intends to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities Qom, Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, (or any combination of them), in order to stop the clock. The same prime minister could be expected to tell the president that while Israel would appreciate US assistance in carrying out the mission, all Israel asks is for the US not to undermine its operation.

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August 29, 2021 | 3:38 pm | 11 Comments »

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Don’t be taken in by Bennett’s happy talk.  

By Ted Belman

It is sickening to read this. in TOI article.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett touted his “warm” and “successful” meeting with President Joe Biden on Friday, saying all of his goals had been achieved during his trip.

“We’re about to take off from a successful visit to Washington — the peak of which was meeting Biden,” Bennett said in a statement shortly before leaving the US capital. “We had a particularly warm and helpful meeting. Biden and I have developed a direct and personal relationship built on trust.”

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August 29, 2021 | 12:33 pm | 11 Comments »

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Not Incompetence: Afghanistan and Globalism  

By Nonie Darwish, AM THINKER

Is the Biden administration’s messy withdrawal from Afghanistan incompetence, or is it exactly as planned?  Is there a hidden globalist plan aimed at empowering Islamic governments in the Mideast?  If yes, how would empowering the Taliban fit in the larger plan of globalists and believers in the New World Order?

Socialists and globalists, whose home today is in the Democrat party, have been speaking about their lofty plans for decades, constantly testing the waters of public opinion and speaking from both sides of their mouths.  They insert insane ideas in the American psyche, then quickly deny they really said what they said.  After speaking about her dream of an open border, Hillary Clinton denied her comments by saying she meant only to call for reforms but not open borders.  But if we dare take their comments seriously, we are branded conspiracy theorists.

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August 29, 2021 | 7:54 am | 3 Comments »

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The CCP’s COVID-19 Cover Up   

The truth about the CCP’s culpability in the pandemic’s origin and spread would cost too many powerful elitists and institutions too much money; and endanger their self-anointed elite “status.”

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The Biden Administration’s intelligence community has completed its investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Two of three agencies believe the virus originated in animals and was naturally transmitted to humans, and one agency believes the virus originated in a Wuhan laboratory. Thus, as is the swamp’s wont, in an unsurprising denouement to this worldwide whodunit, the investigation’s conclusion was “inconclusive.”<
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This outcome was foreshadowed at the start by a statement from Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines: “We’re hoping to find a smoking gun . . . it’s challenging to do that. It might happen, but it might not.” Why indeed is it so “challenging” to find a “smoking gun” and forge a consensus? Given her criminal metaphor, it is clear she believed the CCP was going to continue its obstinate refusal to assist the investigations of the United States or any international agency, (including ones it dominates, such as the World Health Organization) into the pandemic’s origin.

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August 29, 2021 | 1:55 am | Comments »

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Biden raised reopening of Jerusalem consulate, opposition to evictions, with PM  

US president notes importance of ‘refraining from actions that could exacerbate tensions,’ indicates plans to reopen de facto mission to Palestinians
Biden pledges to Bennett that Iran will ‘never’ get nukes

By JACOB MAGID, TOI     Today, 2:03 am

WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden reaffirmed his plan to reopen the US consulate in Jerusalem and expressed his opposition to Israeli evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood during a closed Oval Office meeting with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, a senior White House aide in the room told American Jewish leaders in a subsequent phone call on Friday.

Asked by Americans for Peace Now CEO Hadar Susskind whether Biden raised the two issues during his meeting with Bennett, US National Security Council director for the Middle East Barbara Leaf responded, “Yes and Yes,” according to two participants on the call.

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August 28, 2021 | 5:38 pm | 9 Comments »

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Landmark mass study finds vaccinated people 13 times more likely to catch Covid-19 than those who have recovered and have natural immunity  

By Thomas Lifson, AM THINKER

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A study of 800,000 people in Israel has found that natural immunity in people who have recovered from an earlier COVID-10 infection is vastly superior to the immunity acquired by vaccination using two of the major vaccines in use. The conclusion:

“This analysis demonstrated that natural immunity affords longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization due to the delta variant.”

Bloomberg summarizes:
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August 28, 2021 | 11:36 am | 18 Comments »

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New study solves the mystery of Dead Sea Scrolls site  

By Nir Hasson, HAARETZ      

Among the tens of thousands of documents that were found in the 19th century in the Cairo Geniza, a collection of ancient Hebrew manuscripts, the largest and most important of their kind were two copies of a puzzling, handwritten manuscript that was labeled the Damascus Document.

This manuscript was believed to have been written in the 10th century C.E. and includes divine warnings, apocalyptic descriptions and religious rites. Some of the fog around this manuscript was dispersed 70 years later with the finding of . One of the scrolls that was found in the Qumran caves was the Damascus Document. In other words, this text originated with the sect that lived beside the Dead Sea.

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August 28, 2021 | 11:22 am | 3 Comments »

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Parsing the ‘Antisemitism/Anti-Israel Phenomenon’  

by David Fine, ALGEMEINER

An anti-Israel ‘apartheid wall’ on display at Columbia University during Apartheid Week in 2017. Photo: Facebook.

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) recently released a study on the attitudes regarding antisemitism and anti-Israel activism on US college campuses. It concluded that that we “may need to confront the notion, common among liberal Jewish Americans, that right-wing sources are mostly responsible for antisemitism.”

Citing perceptions of Israeli Jewish campus professionals from early 2021 (before the Gaza war) and correlating them with the findings of a survey of Hillel directors in 2015, the JCPA study argued that the significant antisemitic and anti-Israel pressures on campus are driven by “the progressive left,” and that it is these attitudes which must be confronted.

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August 28, 2021 | 11:16 am | 1 Comment »

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POLAND ACCUSES EU OF ‘HYBRID WAR’, WHILE HUNGARY CLAIMS VICTORY  

The failure of the European Commission to activate the rule-of-law mechanism and prevent Poland and Hungary from benefiting from EU funds is being hailed as a victory in Budapest. Warsaw is still mad about being forced to reverse its judicial reforms.

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The pro-government daily Magyar Nemzet was celebrating as a victory for Viktor Orban’s government the fact that the European Commission has so far refrained from deploying the rule-of-law conditionality against Hungary and Poland, despite pressure from the European Parliament.

This week the European Commission missed the two-month deadline to trigger a new rule-of-law mechanism that makes receiving billions in EU funds conditional on a country’s respect for the EU’s core values. Initially seen targeting the bloc’s two worst culprits, Hungary and Poland, potential punitive measures would include a suspension of payments and early repayment of loans. The measures can be later lifted if the disciplined country corrects the situation.

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August 27, 2021 | 2:13 pm | 2 Comments »

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The west’s delusional fifth column  

Biden is merely the boil that has now burst on a diseased body politic

By Melanie Phillips

Man with Delusions of Military Command; The?odore Ge?ricault, c 1819-22

The sickening if utterly predictable atrocities at Kabul airport have brought yet more calls for US President Joe Biden to be removed from office in disgrace.

There’s no doubt that he owns this lethal catastrophe. Yes, it’s true that the misbegotten policy of withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan was laid down by President Donald Trump last year.

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August 27, 2021 | 12:50 pm | 7 Comments »

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Sharia Survivor’s Message to Maryam Monsef  

DONT MISS THIS

Anni Cyrus calls out the Canadian Islamic operative who named the Taliban her “brothers.” Human society should not allow minds like hers that are “fascinated” by a cult that is killing, raping, torturing, innocent people.

August 27, 2021 | 11:50 am | 1 Comment »

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13 Americans Killed in Kabul  

Biden’s Benghazi  By Daniel Greenfield

Muslim feelings were more important than American lives.

“More American soldiers died in one week of Biden’s retreat than in the last two years of war. “

“We did it, Joe!”

By Robert Spencer, FPM


The nominal president of the United States looked even more tired and defeated than usual in his remarks about the jihad-martyrdom suicide bombings in which thirteen Americans were killed at what is still called Hamid Karzai International Airport, but which the Taliban should soon rename the Joe Biden International Airport, in honor of the man who has done so very much for their cause.

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August 27, 2021 | 11:10 am | 5 Comments »

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