Israeli opposition leader Naftali Bennett says he's ready to join parties on the Left to form a new unity coalition government that could unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. CNN's Hadas Gold reports.
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Bennett announces plan to form gov't with Lapid that will oust Netanyahu
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/yesh-atid-new-hope-teams-to-meet-669589
Yamina leader Naftali Bennett delivered his long-awaited announcement on Sunday that he would join a government with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and seek to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he accused of leading Israel to national suicide for his own personal reasons.
הרבי לנגיד שנכנס לכלא: "אשלח לך קוויטלך"
https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1228069
כינוס נדיר ומיוחד במינו התקיים ביום שלישי השבוע בהיכל ביהמ"ד מרכז חסידי
ויז'ניץ בבני ברק, שם ביקש הרבי להוקיר ולחזק את גדול תומכי המוסדות בכל
הזמנים ר' חיים שטרן שנכנס לכלא למחרת באשמת עבירות מס | הרבי הפתיע בדברים
שטרם נשמעו אי פעם מאדמו"ר על חסיד • 'בחדרי חרדים' עם השיחה המלאה
Forty-five people died at Meron. Why are Haredi parties blocking a probe?
Sunday marks 30 days since the disaster at Mount Meron in which 45 people were killed and 102 wounded as thousands tried to squeeze through a narrow staircase at the annual Lag B’Omer festival.
It was the worst civilian disaster in Israel’s history. Yet 30 days on, as the traditional shloshim mourning period draws to a close, all attempts to establish a formal state investigation into what went wrong have failed.
Perhaps most shocking of all: Though the dead are almost all Haredi, it is the Haredi political parties who have resisted most fiercely a formal probe.
Study finds nearly one-in-five Americans believe QAnon conspiracy theories
Washington, we have a problem — politically, informationally and societally — when 15 percent of Americans agree with the QAnon statement that the U.S. government, media and financial worlds “are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.”
Or when 20 percent agree with this statement: “There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.”
Or when another 15 percent agree that “Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”
Nearly 30% Of Republicans Believe “American Patriots May Have To Resort To Violence” To Save U.S., Study Finds
More than 15% of all Americans—including nearly three in ten Republicans—agree with many of the core tenets of the widely debunked QAnon conspiracy theory, according to a new PRRI-IFYC (study published Thursday, lending credence to the idea that although QAnon’s internet presence is diminishing, support for the conspiracy movement persists.
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Rutgers University chancellor, provost apologize after speaking out against increase in anti-Semitism
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rutgers-university-antisemitism-apologize
The chancellor and provost of a satellite campus of Rutgers University apologized for an email they sent out condemning anti-Semitism as the U.S. sees a dramatic rise in anti-Jewish hate crimes.
On Wednesday, Rutgers University-New Brunswick chancellor Christopher Molloy and provost Francine Conway sent an email to the student body condemning the recent rise in anti-Semitism America is experiencing amid the conflict between Israel and the terror organization Hamas.
A day later, the college leaders apologized for condemning anti-Semitism.
Rutgers University condemns antisemitism, then apologizes for doing so
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rutgers-university-condemns-antisemitism-then-apologizes-for-doing-so/
The chancellor of New Jersey’s flagship public university condemned antisemitism and then, following protest from a pro-Palestinian student group, apologized for the condemnation.
Friday, May 28, 2021
Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press editor who entered Capitol on Jan 6, to be replaced
Resnick assumed the position of editor at The Jewish Press in 2018. He has a long history of using incendiary language and has called the gay rights movement “evil.”
Under Resnick’s editorship, The Jewish Press was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League in 2019 after publishing an op-ed titled “The Pride Parade: What Are They Proud Of” comparing gay marchers in the New York event to animals, adulterers and thieves.
“If blacks resent America’s [sic] so much, let them discard Christianity (which the ‘white man’ gave them) and re-embrace the primitive religions they practiced in Africa,” Resnick wrote in a tweet in 2019.
Da'as Torah and the Legacy of Rabbi Joshua H. Shmidman
Da'as Torah and the Legacy of Rabbi Joshua H. Shmidman
Rabbi Shalom C. Spira earns a living as Editor of Manuscripts and Grants at the Lady Davis Institute of Medical Research [a Pavillion of the Jewish General Hospital] in Montreal, Canada.
AG to indict Litzman for obstruction of justice, breach of trust in Leifer case
Pending charges against Haredi minister tied to allegations he sought to block extradition of accused pedophile Malka Leifer, prevent closure of a deli cited for health violations
Thursday, May 27, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Sleeper cell’ of Christian missionaries who infiltrated Orthodox communities in Jerusalem unmasked
https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/sleeper-cell-of-fake-jews-unmasked-1.517143
Four members of a “sleeper cell” of alleged undercover Christian missionaries who infiltrated Orthodox communities in Jerusalem have been unmasked in dossiers passed to the Israeli government, the JC can reveal.
They are from a group of 10 fake Jews who followed evangelical ringleader Michael Elk — calling himself Rabbi Michael Elkohen — whose Christian upbringing was exposed earlier this month in a special report by the JC.
Elk had set up a seminary in Jerusalem called Yeshivat Yarim Ha’am, teaching a belief in Jesus. He gave students a ‘Messianic’ smicha, making them rabbis.
A rabbi’s accuser wanted me to tell her story. Here’s why it took 20 years.
In March 2005, I was on the verge of publishing an article that I knew would have a major impact. As the editor and publisher of The Jewish Week, I would be describing — for the first time — the true nature of the sexual misconduct that led one of the most prominent Reform rabbis in America to resign from his role as president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the movement’s seminary.
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman had resigned from HUC in 2000 and been suspended for two years from the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the movement’s rabbinic organization. The group had said only that Zimmerman had engaged in unspecified ”personal relationships” that violated its ethical code, and many believed that he had a long-ago consensual affair with an adult woman in his congregation.