Attorneys for Jonathan Pollard said on Friday that the US Parole Commission has issued a certificate terminating parole and the restrictions that were imposed on him.
A such, Pollard “is free to travel anywhere, including Israel, for temporary or permanent residence, as he wishes,” said attorneys Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman.
Pollard expressed “appreciation and gratitude” to Israel’s Ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer, for his help in bringing about the end to his parole.
When Pollard was released from prison in 2015 after serving 30 years of his life sentence for transmitting classified information to Israel, his parole commission imposed strict parole guidelines for a period of five years.
As part of those restrictions, Pollard was not allowed to leave his home between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., was monitored by a GPS device and was not permitted to leave the US. Friday marked the end of that five-year period.
It has been speculated that Pollard will move to Israel once the restrictions are lifted, though Rabbi Pesach Lerner, who has been Pollard's rabbi for the past 25 years, said on Friday that no one really knows what will happen to Pollard in the future.
"He wants to come to Israel, but his wife is currently undergoing chemotherapy so even if he were permitted, he wouldn't be able to leave right away. It's going to take time," Rabbi Lerner told Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) in an interview.
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Warning: Though this is fascinating ... they do talk about "Yoshkeh" for a couple of minutes ....so if you somehow can ignore it .. you will really enjoy this tour ..
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French President Emmanuel Macron has issued an ultimatum to French Muslim leaders, as part of his bid to clamp down on radical Islam following a string of terrorist attacks.
On Wednesday, Macron issued a “charter of republican values”, giving the French Council of the Muslim Faith 15 days to sign on to the document.
The charter establishes a national council of imams, which would be empowered to accredit religious Muslim leaders, or, conversely to strip leaders of accreditation.
In addition, the charter defines Islam in France as a religion and not a political movement, and bars “foreign interference” in Muslim groups.
Macron has promoted French secularism, following a string of terrorist attacks by Islamists in France, including the beheading of a teacher over cartoons of Muhammad shown to a class last month.
In addition to the charter on Islam, Macron proposed a number of policy changes Wednesday aimed at curbing religious radicalization.
Among the new steps are tightened restrictions on home-schooling and stricter enforcement of anti-truancy regulations. Under the plan, children would be given a unique identification number to help schools ensure their attendance, with parents being subject to up to six months in jail for their children’s truancy.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to an Israeli winery in Samaria Thursday was a “historical” movement for Israel, one of the winery’s owners said, hailing US recognition of Israeli businesses in Judea and Samaria.
Jana Falic, a businesswoman and philanthropist who is co-owner of the Psagot Winery north of Jerusalem, spoke with Arutz Sheva about the implications of Pompeo’s visit Thursday and the decision by the US to recognize products made in Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria as being “Made in Israel”.
“This is a historical day. We are very, very happy, because we had Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, wonderful people, friendly to Israel. They understand the historical value of Judea and Samaria.”
“For 2,000 years we were expatriates, and finally we’re in our country.”
“Today, they said that everything that is produced in Judea and Samaria is considered made in Israel. For us, that is very important because we always felt that we were legal, but it is very important for the US to accept this. It doesn’t matter what Europe says; the truth is, Europe was very bad to us.”
“Israel considers the US our friend, and we thank our friend.”
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After networks projected that Joe Biden would win the presidential election, hepledgedto the American public: “I promise you this:
I will be a president for all Americans—whether you voted for me or not.” Biden made the same promise as his central election campaign theme; he reiterated this promise intown halls, debates andsocial media. Keeping this promise will be essential for America’s well-being.
In order to fulfill his sacred pledge to the country, Biden must appoint administration officials who are amenable to all Americans. Personnel is policy. It was thus deeply concerning to read reports that George Soros-supporting, radical, cancel-culture promoter Karine Jean-Pierre has emerged as the leading contender to serve as Biden’s press secretary. Appointing former Soros’s MoveOn.org spokesperson Jean-Pierre would violate Biden’s repeated key promise to the American people.
When Biden appointed her to serve as chief of staff for California Sen. Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential campaign in August, ZOA described how she advances the “dangerous, Orwellian ‘cancel destruction culture’ ” that falsely condemns and seeks to ostracize pro-Israel groups, even left-leaning ones, as “Islamophobic,” “against human rights” and unfit to meet with.
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Biden said in the September 12, 2019 debate: "We didn't lock people up in cages. We didn't separate families. We didn't do all of those things, number one. They did"
Not true, all those pictures you saw of the cages were taken in 2014 during his time in office.
Joe Biden has repeatedly said he was arrested with Nelson Mandela on the streets of Soweto during a trip to South Africa in the 1970s, when South Africa was under apartheid.
There is absolutely no truth to this, as Biden was later forced to confess
Biden said on May 22, 2020 in an interview on The Breakfast Club radio show: “The NAACP has endorsed me every time I've run.”
Not true. The NAACP has never endorsed any candidate
On September 3, 2019 in an NPR interview, referring to the Iraq War, "immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment."
Not true. Biden fully supported the Iraq war and voted for the resolution to go to war
On August 7, 2019 – Joe Biden claimed that Donald Trump "asserted that immigrants would quote, ‘carve you up with a knife’."
He never said that about immigrants. He said that MS-13 Gang members were doing that
In a famous video confrontation with a critic, Joe Biden shouted:
"I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class who had a full academic scholarship. The first year in law school, I decided I didn’t want to be in law school and ended up in the bottom two-thirds of my class. And then decided I wanted to stay, went back to law school and, in fact, ended up in the top half of my class. I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school."
Every single word, every one of those claims is false.
He was caught cheating in school exams, got caught cheating and plagiarizing in Law School and in his political career there was this huge plagiarism scandal:
One of his greatest lies is that on Charlottesville, President Trump said there were good people on the Nazis/White Nationalists side. He said just the opposite. Here are the actual quotes:
"you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.....I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.
Another quote from PresidentTrump's Charlottesville press conference:
“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
Biden continues to repeat this lie. Here is video of a reporter confronting him about it:
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Steven Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, asked the New York State Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to grant Happy’s release to a sanctuary in Tennessee as the cold winter months approaches.
However, the judges were skeptical in granting “personhood” to the 49-year-old female Asian elephant.
“Isn’t all this better suited for the legislature to act on?” Justice Jeffrey Oing pointed out. “I’m not so sure we’re equipped to handle these kind of matters.”
Wise argued that if Happy was granted freedom by habeas corpus, then that would automatically make her a legal person.
The group compared Happy’s living condition in the Bronx Zoo to “solitary confinement.” She’s lived alone in the zoo for 14 years.
Our daughter has recently started dating. She just went out
with a very fine boy, and the first two dates seemed to go
very well. On the third date the boy told her that he has
never taken ANY vaccinations. He and his family are not anti-vaxxers,
they just do not vaccinate. Our daughter was naturally taken aback.
This information did not come out in our research. Then again, it’s not
a question we even thought we had to address. We are a mainstream
family and this concept does not enter our thought process. He did
mention to her that he was told to reveal this information by the third
date. When she asked him how did the other girls he dated react, he
said, they dropped him like a ‘hot potato.’ Now this must have been
going on for quite some time, as he is in shidduchim about two years.
Why wasn’t this brought up before the shidduch started? What’s the
point of him dating if he will be dropped? We are dropping him like
a “hot potato” as well. Wouldn’t he be better off being transparent?
Have you ever had a scenario like this? By the way he did mention to
her that when he meets the right girl, he would consider getting all his
vaccinations. Don’t know what he is thinking, he will not have a chance
in our community to get that far. What is your take on this?
Never Thought I’d Encounter This….
DEAR NEVER THOUGHT…….,
Yikes! I never thought I’d encounter this question either! Firstly, I must give this young man credit that he
brought it up. He could just as well have kept it to himself,
given that it isn’t an illness nor a condition. These days we
have been very busy and open about vaccinations. I’m sure there were
plenty of people years ago that didn’t vaccinate, and just didn’t talk
about it. He knew he had a situation, he asked when to present it and
was told to reveal it by the third date. He was just following protocol,
as the premise is that there are some people that really won’t mind.
So, we give life a chance!! Since he did say that maybe for the right
girl he would consider getting vaccinated, why don’t you tell him to
get vaccinated and then you can continue dating him. It may take a
few months before he catches up with all his shots, but the wait may
be worthwhile. Then we will surely know that the right time wasn’t
when the shidduch started.
For the rest of Klal Yisrael out there, just add another question to
your shidduch info list.
Does the family vaccinate?
B’Hatzlocho
Chana Rose
P.S. Dor Yeshorim before the first
P.S.S. By the way this is a true scenario that happened this week!!!!
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