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However already during the filming there were scuffles and violent demonstrations near the shul, forcing the producers to stop the filming and search for a shul in another neighborhood in order to continue shooting the clip.
The Badatz (Beis Din Tzedek of Jerusalem) issued a strong protest against the filming inside a shul, calling its producers mockers and scorners, who make fun of holy Jewish minhagim of a kiddush, a shalom zachar and the birth of a daughter and even dressed in the garb of Yerushalmim with the shtreimels, caftans, etc. The Badatz notes the inappropriate level of consumption of alcohol and meat and wine while singing Shabbos songs – and says that the actors look like the Reform who sang in shul and did things of pleasure there. They call this an unprecedented disgrace and desecration of the holiness of Shabbos, besides the general issue of producing “kosher” movies and videos.
The Badatz also called the producer before the beis din warned him about this and he promised he would not spread his merchandise, but the clip has now been published and therefore the Badatz issued a strong protest against the producer.
The Democrats had a lousy week. It began with former President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate.
Trump’s acquittal was a major blow to the Democrats. It isn’t that anyone believed Trump would be convicted. Whether Republicans love or hate the former president, the fact is that it is unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a former officeholder. And for that reason alone, there was no chance that more than a smattering of Republicans would support the move.
But once the farcical trial ended, public focus moved to the Democrats—who now control both houses of Congress and the White House. True, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is already planning to drag Trump back to center stage with her “January 6 Truth Commission.” But that won’t happen for several months. And in the meantime, for the first time in five years, the Democrats find themselves, and their actions, the focus of public attention.
After a nearly a year of Cuomo being lavished with adulation for his leadership of the coronavirus pandemic in New York, upheld as the future of the Democratic Party, touted as a possible candidate for Attorney General and even winning an Emmy for his press conferences, the truth has caught up with “America’s governor.”
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| An aerial view of what is likely the biblical city of Ziklag. |
While surveying the Elah Valley in 2007, archaeologist Saar Ganor looked around and saw something strange protruding from the ground. On further examination, he wondered if it could be part of an ancient city. His guess was right, and the resulting excavations carried out by Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University and Ganor, Ashkelon District archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, revealed what appeared to be a Judean city.
Located on the southern border of Judah, and with two notable gates, the site — now known as the Qeiyafa Fortress — was very possibly the Shaaraim (“Two Gates”) mentioned in the Bible, dating back to the 10th century BCE when David reigned as king.
For years afterward, Ganor hoped he might one day come across another settlement from the time of David. And in 2013, striding along a hill while involved in a major survey of the 1,000 acres between Kiryat Gat and Beit Guvrin, a piece of clay caught his eye. Excited, he showed it to Garfinkel. To their delight, it belonged to the exact same era as Qeiyafa. An added bonus: the hill, when excavated, also revealed findings from a Philistine town mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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| At the site of the Ziklag dig with Saar Ganor |
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| The Israeli woman who crossed into Syria and was returned in a deal brokered by Russia, in a picture shown by Channel 12 on February 20, 2021 |
Hebrew media on Saturday showed the first images of the Israeli woman who crossed into Syria two weeks ago, and was returned under a murky deal brokered by Russia. Her Facebook posts had her defiantly vowing that “No fence will stop me.”
The images were shown as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that no Israeli vaccine doses have been sent to Syria as part of the deal to secure her freedom.
The release of the young woman was secured in recent days after over a week of diplomatic wrangling. She landed at Ben Gurion International Airport on a flight from Russia in the early hours of Friday morning.
On Saturday evening, Channel 12 and Channel 13 published several images of the woman that were blurred, to prevent her from being identified.
The pictures, as well as video clips, taken from her Facebook page, show the woman out and about in glorious natural surroundings.
“No fence will stop me,” she writes in one post cited by Channel 13.
The woman, whose name has not been released for publication, is said to be a 25-year-old from Modiin Illit.
The woman’s crossing into Syria earlier this month was not her first time attempting to cross Israel’s borders. According to Israeli authorities, she had twice tried to enter the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip — once by land and once on a makeshift raft — and once attempted to cross into Jordan. All three times she was captured by either the military or the police.
A 32-year-old woman diagnosed with Covid-19, pregnant at week 30, died last night in the intensive care unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. Efforts to revive the fetus were also unsuccessful.
The woman has been identified as Osnat Ben Shitrit of Givat Zeev near Jerusalem. She leaves behind a husband and 4 children.
The young woman in advanced pregnancy was hospitalized due to respiratory distress in the intensive care unit for corona patients at Hadassah Ein Kerem last Tuesday, when she was in critical condition.
Last night her condition deteriorated and she developed a multi-system failure. A senior multidisciplinary team was called to the unit, including intensive care and anesthesia specialists, obstetricians and gynecologists, an ECMO team and heart and chest surgeons.
The hospital notes that the team began immediate treatment and performed very prolonged resuscitation, and even performed a caesarean section (at week 30) in order to try and save the fetus.
However, the condition of the mother and the fetus was critical and the mother and baby ultimately passed away.
"The staff at the Corona Intensive Care Unit and the specialists who were called to treat the woman and baby are in emotional turmoil. The rescue efforts involved many partners from all over the hospital who fought for the mother and baby's lives. All of Hadassah shares in the deep grief of the family. The social service staff at the hospital is accompanying them in their time of distress," the hospital said.
Canada is poised to take on Facebook, following the example set by Australia, which began a war with the tech giant when the country’s publishers backed proposed legislation demanding payment for their content.
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault condemned Facebook’s actions as “highly irresponsible” last week when the social media giant removed all Australian news content from its sites in retaliation.
Guilbeault warned that Canada would be next in making sure Facebook paid for news content from Canadian publishers. Guilbeault is charged with drafting legislation in the next few months that would require Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay up.
“Canada is at the forefront of this battle … we are really among the first group of countries around the world that are doing this,” Guilbeault told reporters.
Guilbeault said he recently met with government ministers from Australia, Finland, France and Germany to hammer out a common front with respect to Google and Facebook, the Globe and Mail reported.
As winners never fail to remind losers, elections have consequences. But rarely is there a single day where consequences pack as much wallop as Friday, where the irrationality of Joe Biden’s policies came into full view.
From the border with Mexico, where the new administration started opening the doors to at least 25,000 migrants seeking asylum, to the Mideast tinderbox, where it moved to rejoin the misbegotten Iran nuke deal, the new president appears fixated by the desire to turn back the clock to 2016.
It’s as if Biden has been seized by a sentimental longing to try to make the world like it was when the Obama-Biden administration left office. Unfortunately, “The Way We Were” is a nice song but not much of a guide to the future.
Still, trying to recapture the past would be reasonable if those years had created prosperity at home and peace abroad. In fact, the world Donald Trump inherited was bristling with trouble and America’s economy was moving forward at a snail’s pace.
Despite revisionist efforts by the media and the left to erase the achievements of the president they hated, Trump had major policy successes that benefited all Americans. It’s especially unnerving, then, that Biden is choosing to reverse the very policies that produced those benefits.
Trump Derangement Syndrome leads people to do weird things, but Biden’s attempt to cancel Trump’s biggest victories is among the weirdest.
