Exploring ancient Israelite fortress: Biblical Tamar - Ir Ovot

 

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CNN Reporting Live in Jerusalem Midst Rocket Attack

 

Air-raid sirens go off in Jerusalem during a Hamas rocket attack while CNN is reporting live
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DOJ Hires Top Russia Hoaxer Who Justified Illegal FISA Warrants

 

The Department of Justice has hired former NSA attorney and top Russia hoaxer Susan Hennessey to work in the National Security Division. She announced the news on her Twitter feed Monday morning after deleting a number of tweets. 

In her previous writing and media appearances, Hennessey pushed the Steele dossier, which was used by the FBI to illegally spy on the Trump campaign in 2016. Steele is a foreign spy who was paid by the Clinton campaign to put the dossier together, during which he used Russian and other elicit sources. 

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State Department Walks Back Criticism of Israel

 

The State Department walked back comments from controversy-prone deputy spokeswoman Jalina Porter, who last week singled out Israel for criticism and blamed the Jewish State for inflaming tensions with the Palestinians.

The State Department distanced itself Friday from Porter's remarks, noting that "we have consistently called on both Israel and the Palestinians to avoid unilateral steps that exacerbate tensions and make it more difficult to preserve the viability of a two-state solution."

The dust-up comes after Porter was asked at a press briefing about unverified and later discredited reports claiming Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian farmlands. Porter said Wednesday that it is "critical for Israel to refrain from any unilateral steps that certainly would exacerbate tensions or take us further away from peace"—a statement that seemed to break with longstanding U.S. policy calling on all sides in the conflict to move toward peace.

Asked whether the State Department believes the Palestinians should refrain from actions that hinder peace, Porter dug in. "My response [to the question] is correct as it stands," she said.

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Hamas fires rockets at the very city they claim to consider as holy and as their capital.

 

Hamas fires imprecise rockets at the very city they claim to consider as holy and as their capital.

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Former Amb. Friedman: Anyone defending Hamas rockets is despicable

 

Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman responded to the rocket fire at central and southern Israel Monday.

"Hamas now firing rockets at civilians in Jerusalem, Mevaseret, Beit Shemesh and the Gaza periphery. Watching children running for cover. Anyone defending this despicable behavior is contributing to the barbarism," Friedman wrote.

The Hamas terrorist organization launched seven rockets at Israel's capital after 6 pm Monday evening. Shortly afterwards, the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization launched dozens of rockets at southern Israel.

One Israeli citizen has been reported wounded so far.

Earlier, Ambassador Friedman criticized US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for accusing Israel of attacking the Al Aqsa Mosque during riots on the Temple Mount.

"Unlike you, I have never prayed on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, because Israel limits prayer there to Muslims - no Jewish or Christian prayer is allowed. Israel bends over backwards to secure Muslim worship at Muslim holy sites. You are way off on the facts," Friedman wrote.

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OUR Holy Jewish Soldiers

 

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Rabbi of Adass Israel in Australia That Harbored and Supported a Pedophile Knows Why 45 Got Killed in Meron ...Shaitlach!

I have to laugh... this is a rabbi of a congregations that paid for the tickets of the convicted pedophile Malka Leifer to escape without supporting the victims, he knows why 45 people were killed in Meron...

Yes, he says that "Hashem's ways are hidden" but then he goes on to say "Everyone feels in his heart that Hashem is calling out to him from above, to awaken himself to a cheshbon hanefesh, and everyone knows themselves what matter needs to be corrected in one's Avodas Hashem" 

Hey Rabbi..did you make a "cheshban hanefesh? 

Listen to this irony...

 The gist of the letter to the congregation that supported a pedophile and allowed her to escape and paid for her and her families tickets is that  "tzneeies"is the major issue .....for Klall Yisrael...

Is this guy kidding me? There were tens of thousands of women that attended the Meron Hadlaka...not one was killed or even hurt..all those killed were male ....

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Jerusalem - A love story

1. Have you ever met anyone embracing seventy names? Have you ever tried searching for an item that has seventy names? Have you ever heard of a city with seventy names? If you haven't journeyed to that elusive city connected to seventy identities, then a plane, train, bus, or the light rail can transport you to that spiritual center, an ancient modern city, evoking weird and wonderful reactions from devotees and detesters. There is no other location with seventy exquisite names reflecting seventy characteristics, among them Ohaliba, Gila, Yedidut, Shalem — names that express sentiments of love and joy, of friendship and peace — seventy choice callings found in Tanach and Talmudic texts, known foremost as Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is not my birth city. Jerusalem is my home. Sacred and ancestral, it is the city of kings and prophets, a city that has known wars, and total destruction. Yet our generation, citizens, residents, and visitors alike, have merited a renewed Jerusalem, a thriving city atop layers of antiquity, known as Israel's captivating capital.

Modern-day Jerusalem is nothing short of a miracle, and the day for celebration is on the 28th of Iyar. Not everyone revels in that joyous day. The defeated abhor Jewish expansion, scorn Jewish presence, and envy Israeli success. Some fools prefer life as it was behind barbed wire, our tiny country mapped in green and sporting a belted waistline, as it was pre-1967. Yet for those of us who lived in a divided Jerusalem, ruptured by ugly concrete walls and twisted piercing wire, where Jordanian Legionnaires on rooftops at the “border” by Mamilla Street, shelled and fired at Jews below, and nearly all of us who have lived here continuously since those difficult years, as I have for sixty years, cannot ignore the miraculous fulfillment of prophecies worthy of celebration.

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Rabbi Dov Lipman sues 2 women amid sexual harassment accusations

 The American-born former Israeli politician Dov Lipman was once a rising star of Yesh Atid, the political party whose leader was tasked last week with forming a new government.

Now Lipman is being sued for sexual harassment, according to a report in Haaretz.

Two women from his Modern Orthodox community in Beit Shemesh made specific accusations about Lipman, a rabbi originally from Washington, D.C. Commenting on a post in a #MeToo-themed Facebook group written by a moderator that warned communities not to hire Lipman as a scholar-in-residence, one of the women said that Lipman had inappropriately propositioned her. The second woman wrote that Lipman had engaged in abusive and bullying behavior.

Lipman sued the two women in a libel lawsuit last July, Haaretz reported.

He claimed the women’s accusations were false and made with “evil intent” and “the goal of humiliating, deriding and destroying the chances of the complainant to be chosen for public roles, to damage his ability to support his family, with the goal of destroying his life.”

In response, the women filed a counter-lawsuit that accuses Lipman of trying to silence them and “damage their right to express their truth and their positions.”

Both women had worked with Lipman on the activism that helped kickstart his political run, which involved pushing back against harassment of women and girls over modesty and other perceived religious infractions in Beit Shemesh, a city that includes a community of extremist haredi Jews.

Lipman, who was elected to Israel’s parliament in 2013, lost his Knesset seat in 2015 when his party did not win enough seats to reelect him. Lipman continued to work on behalf of the party as an English-language spokesperson but broke with the party in 2018, citing “personal reasons” at the time. In text messages cited in the woman’s lawsuit against Lipman, he said the allegations of sexual harassment were the reason for his split from Yesh Atid.

Lipman currently serves as secretary-general of the World Confederation of United Zionists, part of the World Zionist Organization.

Lipman has denied the allegations and on Sunday blasted Haaretz, accusing it of writing a one-sided "smear story".

"A newspaper wrote a smear story about me without even asking for my side of the story," Lipman wrote in a Facebook post.

"I sued a woman who wrote false and defamatory words about me about something which in her words allegedly took place in 2014."

"There was, of course, no criminal complaint against me as I was never even alone with this woman at any time. Now it is in the hands of the civil court and I am confident that the decision in my law suit against her will bring the truth to light. In the meantime I will continue to work day and night to help olim and to tell Israel’s story to the world."

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