Shin Bet foils Hamas plot to assassinate MK Ben Gvir, bomb Jerusalem rail with drone

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-foils-hamas-plot-to-assassinate-mk-ben-gvir-bomb-jerusalem-rail-with-drone/

Israeli security forces uncovered an active Hamas terror cell in East Jerusalem that planned a series of attacks, including against far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir, authorities said Tuesday.

According to the Shin Bet security agency and Israel Police, the five men planned a shooting attack against Ben Gvir and other Israeli targets, as well as kidnappings of Israeli soldiers, and a bombing attack on the Jerusalem light rail using a drone.

Southern Baptist Convention vilified sex abuse survivors - report

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61554996

The seven-month investigation found that survivors had come forward over two decades about abusers within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

But their pleas for intervention were met with "resistance, stonewalling, and even outright hostility" by officials.

With 13 million members, SBC is the largest Protestant body in the US.

Sexual harassment, power abuse allegations rattle Germany’s liberal Jewish community

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/sexual-harassment-power-abuse-allegations-rattle-germanys-liberal-jewish-community/

A law firm that investigated abuse charges within the Catholic church in Germany is now doing the same for the country’s main Jewish organization, in the latest development of a mounting scandal that could topple Germany’s liberal Jewish establishment.

The Gercke Wollschläger firm will examine “allegations of sexualized harassment and abuse of power” at Abraham Geiger College, the Central Council of Jews in Germany announced last week.

It is the second investigation related to allegations against Rabbi Walter Homolka, the seminary’s founder and leader, and his husband that burst into public view May 6 in an explosive article in Die Welt, a German newspaper.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Pushes Bill Gates Monkeypox Conspiracy

 https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-bill-gates-monkeypox-conspiracy-1708789

During the Thursday night edition of her Facebook Live show MTG:Live, Greene baselessly connected the current monkeypox outbreak—which has consisted of fewer than 100 cases globally including at least one confirmed case in Massachusetts and one suspected case in New York—and Gates, the Microsoft founder who has often featured as a central character in right-wing conspiracy theories.

The antisemitic roots of the Great Replacement theory

 https://www.thejc.com/news/world/the-antisemitic-roots-of-the-great-replacement-theory-1vaL2tdeopDe46v2yzpUUI

There are many iterations of the 'Great Replacement Theory', but the most common threads that have been percolating on extremist forums detail a plot to replace 'indigenous white populations' with nonwhite immigrants.

The essence of the theory is that white citizens in Western countries are being replaced by ethnic minority people to the detriment of the societies and in some cases, entrench support for one political party over another.

In many readings of the theory, Jewish 'elites' are attempting to hasten this process and are directing governments to pursue policies that undermine the control of white people over countries.

What is the heresy in this cover?

 

"Who knows what decree that Rabbi Shimon wanted to annul with these holy souls"

Palestinian fatally hurt on Temple Mount wasn’t hit by sponge bullet – report

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-fatally-hurt-on-temple-mount-wasnt-hit-by-sponge-bullet-report/

According to medical findings reported by the Haaretz daily, a-Sharif’s body showed no signs of injury from sponge bullets. Sources at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital said he fell over as a result of a heart attack, which caused extensive brain injury and, ultimately, his death.

Does turmeric’s reputation translate into real health benefits?

 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/may/22/does-turmerics-reputation-translate-into-real-health-benefits

“The problem of curcumin’s absorption has been enthusiastically addressed by a number of supplement companies and researchers,” says Wyatt Brown, a researcher at examine.com. “They typically do this by packaging it in highly absorbable lipids of various types so that more of it gets into the body.”

'No one's paying any attention': The week that Republicans ignored Trump's election lies

 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/22/republicans-ignored-trumps-election-lies-00034242

Ever since the 2020 election, the Republican Party has been transfixed by Trump’s baseless claim that the 2020 election was “rigged,” a falsehood large majorities of Republicans still believe. It’s an obsession that has animated primary campaigns across the country. And it will almost certainly resurface in the general election, when Republicans are running against Democrats, not one another.

Yet in Pennsylvania, Trump’s earliest effort to graft his 2020 complaints onto ballot counting in a midterm primary is falling flat. MAGA hard-liners who’ve lost primaries in other states in recent weeks have not contested the results. And when the primary calendar turns to Georgia on Tuesday, Trump’s election conspiracy crusade is likely to take another hit.

Secrets of the Cave of the Patriarchs

 https://aish.com/secrets-of-the-cave-of-the-patriarchs/

A 600-page doctoral thesis composed over the past eight years by Dr. Noam Arnon, reveals and explores the details of these visits, and much more. Arnon's research covers a period of 2,500 years in the history of the site, and, like his previous works on the Cave of the Patriarchs, deals with a broad complex of geographical, geological, archaeological, and Jewish and historical sources, that were not all available to those researching the cave in the past.

Prayers for Schlesinger Twins and their Mother

 

The rise and rise of the Strictly Orthodox

 https://www.thejc.com/judaism/all/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-strictly-orthodox-6H0fjFJI1wWsbutnRVUOFV

And more internationally, expect Charedi advocates to flex their religious muscles on issues like the egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall. Israel’s fragile coalition has yet again stalled on the long-delayed implementation of an extension of the egalitarian area, which would give it acess from the main Kotel plaza, for fear of provoking an Orthodox backlash.

For many Progressive Jews, this remains a touchstone issue that symbolises a commitment to religious diversity in Judaism. But pluralism remains anathema to the Charedim and they will not accept it quietly.

Trump shares CPAC Hungary platform with notorious racist and antisemite

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/21/trump-shares-cpac-hungary-platform-racist-antisemite

When he was awarded the Hungarian order of merit in 2016 by the country’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, the star speaker on the first day of CPAC Hungary on Thursday, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum protested, saying it “reflects the longstanding refusal of the leadership of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party to distance itself from Bayer, in spite of Bayer’s repeated pattern of racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, and anti-Roma incitement”.

Hungarian journalist who called Jews ‘stinking excrement’ addresses CPAC conference

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/hungarian-journalist-who-called-jews-stinking-excrement-addresses-cpac-conference/

The two-day conference featured speeches from former US president Donald Trump; Fox News host Tucker Carlson; Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows; and Republican lawmakers from Florida and Maryland.