Ethiopian Jews Migrating to Israel Accompanied by 1st Ethiopian-Israeli Minister

 

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Seattle social worker stabbed to death by her client as city pushes to replace police with social workers

 “Horrifying” and “terrifying” are the words a prosecutor used to describe a deadly attack on a Seattle social worker. 

Just before 11 a.m. on November 23, a public housing resident showed up at an apartment complex in the Belltown neighborhood of the city. 

The Seattle Times reports that security footage shows the man walk into the building carrying grocery bags and then pull out a large knife. Carrying the weapon, he walked into the office of 42-year-old social worker Kristin Benson. 

A co-worker soon heard Benson screaming and she ran to help. 

Court documents say that the woman recognized her co-worker’s attacker. 

She identified the man as 58-year-old Hans Dewey Van-Belkum, and told investigators that he was making “punching/stabbing” motions at the victim as she was face down on the floor. 

The co-worker ran out of the office, later reporting that Van-Belkum chased her toward her office with knife in hand. 

The crime has rocked the liberal city, where residents and city leaders adamantly pushed to defund the police just months ago. 

Earlier this month, Law Enforcement Today reported on the fall out of that decision: 

“Nearly 120 officers have left the police force since the end of September.  Most were patrol officers, and either retired or transferred to other agencies.  

Seattle now maintains only 1,200 officers that are deployable for contingencies, the lowest number since 1990, when the city’s population was 516,000. Now the population has grown to 783,000, not to mention the explosion of the surrounding suburban areas increasing the number of citizens routinely inside the city limits.” 

Now, with security footage showing the beginnings of the savage attack on a public servant, people are questioning that decision and their own safety in the Pacific Northwest city. 

A woman who goes by “Laura T” on Twitter, posted: 

“So, there was this social worker in Seattle. She tried to de-escalate a homeless person. He stabbed her and killed her. No police, no guns, trained social worker. Seattle mayor and council are proud of their changes, am sure @AOC is too. Kristin Benson mattered too.”

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Biden raises concerns with resignation joke in joint interview with Kamala Harris

Joe Biden is asked about his disagreements with Kamala Harris on certain issues:

"Like I told Barack, if I reach something where there's a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I'll develop some disease and say I have to resign." pic.twitter.com/SLcvrwaPCA

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 4, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden will be "taking the backseat" to his vice president, Kamala Harris, during his term, Fox Nation host Lawrence Jones said Friday. 

“This is why he doesn’t do interviews because he is so incoherent; this is why they kept him in the basement for the majority of the campaign,” Jones told "Fox & Friends," reacting to a statement by Biden in which he appeared to joke about resigning.

Jones highlighted that Biden campaigned as a “moderate” and Harris campaigned as a “progressive," so policy disagreements are likely to arise.

“She disagrees with him on virtually every single issue,” Jones said.

Meanwhile, CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Don Lemon appeared giddy after Tapper wrapped up his exclusive interview with Biden and Harris, their first joint sit-down since the 2020 presidential election. 

Toward the end of the prime-time special, Lemon provided some commentary of Tapper's sit-down, showering Biden with praise over what he described as a "normal" and "sane" interview. 

"We heard no fake news. We heard no conspiracy theories. We heard no personal grievances," Lemon said. "We heard a president-elect and a vice president who want to work with the other side."

Jones said that Biden is a “retail politician” who won’t “be running” the White House as most people assume. 

“I’m going to be interested to see how this is going to play out, but, again there are some philosophy issues going into the White House immediately on day one."

Jones went on to say, “By the way, that’s such a dishonest thing to do to the American people. Instead of coming out and saying, look, I disagree with the president, and, I am resigning because of that. You want to fake some kind of illness?”

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Earthquake felt in Northern Region of Israel

 

An earthquake was felt today (on Shabbos) in the northern part of the country.

According to the Geological Survey, the source of the tremor was northwest of Cyprus, 436 kilometers from Nahariya, where the quake was felt at 14:45 on a magnitude 5.2.

The earthquake sent tremors through buildings in multiple places across Israel including Jerusalem and the north of the country.

The quake was also felt in Turkey, where a magnitude 5.5 earthquake was reported off the coast of Antalya. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage to buildings.

The last earthquake felt in the Israeli area occurred in June. Then, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake occurred in the Red Sea, about 220 km southwest of Eilat.

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Jewish law says: If science shows COVID-19 vaccine is helpful, you should take it

 By Rabbi Avi Weiss

Last month, I joined the tens, even hundreds, of thousands of people who volunteered to be part of the COVID-19 vaccine trials. Scientists are especially looking for participants like myself: I’m a senior, closer to 80 years old than 70, with a medical history of heart disease.

I’m not telling you this to impress you. I was in the third wave of volunteers. The trial — in which there is a 1-in-3 chance that one receives a placebo — had little risk. I’m no COVID-19 hero.

Rather, my purpose is to encourage the larger community, including my own Jewish community — and especially those of older age and medical challenges — after consulting their doctor, to eagerly be inoculated once the COVID vaccines receive final approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

As a rabbi, I am a student of Jewish law, which underscores the importance of seeking out experts in their particular fields to help communities navigate worldly challenges. If the science says it’s helpful to take the vaccine, we should do so.

Indeed, for me, participation in the trial was nothing less than a spiritual high. The personal care shown by the AstraZeneca team at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx was exceptional. Only after meticulously taking my medical history was the injection administered.

Just before, I asked if I could offer a meditation. The healers stood respectfully as I recited a prayer that some Jews say daily: “Blessed are you, Lord, healer of all flesh, who does wondrous deeds.”

The last words of the blessing may refer to God’s wondrous act of giving human beings the capacity to partner with Him to cure and make others well. Human beings are cooperators in divine wonders in this biblical vision.

Turning to those around me, I offered gratitude to the medical team for partaking in the partnership with God to fix the world, to bring cure to illness.

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Jewish Woman Charts 8 years of Oppression Under Iran Regime

 

Jacqueline Saper at age 16 in 1977, before the 1979 Iranian Revolution (left), and at age 23 in 1982. (right).

On January 6, 2020, Jacqueline Saper appeared on a PBS Newshour broadcast to comment on the assassination of Quassim Suleimani, military commander of Iranian forces, by a US drone strike. Now, as if to bookend the year, Mohsen Fakhrizdeh, the senior Iranian nuclear scientist, was eliminated (reportedly by Israel) outside Tehran on November 27.

“The assassinations of these two influential men are a massive blow to the regime. Iran can retaliate in many fashions, but it would possibly get more gains by not taking any action,” Saper said.

A writer and speaker, Saper is not a military or political expert. However, she is often called upon to provide her opinion of Iran’s actions based on her unique life experiences that enable her to “hear between the lines of what Iran’s leaders say.”

When Saper was in her last year of high school in Tehran in 1979, almost all her friends and classmates left the country at the advent of the Iranian Revolution. Within months of the overthrow of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi by Islamic revolutionaries, the vast majority of Iran’s 80,000 Jews fled to Israel, the United States and Europe.

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Bahrain minister says he took a stroll around Jerusalem, felt its holy ‘spirit’

 

The Abraham Accords have brought to Israel a steady stream of dignitaries from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, visiting the country to hammer out diplomatic agreements or advance trade ties. While they always emphasize their respective countries’ respect for religious tolerance, they usually steer away from discussing in public their personal feelings about being in the Holy Land.

Not so Zayed R. Alzayani, Bahrain’s minister for industry, commerce and tourism, who spent three days in Israel this week — including a stroll through Jerusalem’s Old City, which he described as a spiritual highlight.

“I’ve always spoken to people who’ve been to Jerusalem. And they always told me: It’s probably the most spiritual city in the world. I felt it last night. I felt it,” he told The Times of Israel on Thursday during a briefing for Israeli journalists. “And the closer you get to the holy sites — I don’t know, maybe it was a weird feeling, maybe it’s just me — I felt there’s more spirit.”

Alzayani walked through the Old City’s Armenian, Jewish and Muslim quarters. He saw the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock atop the Temple Mount — the third-holiest site in Islam — from afar, though his schedule didn’t allow for a visit to these holy sites.

“When I got to the balcony where you can see the Wall and Haram al-Sharif [Temple Mount], you could feel — the air was different,” he said. “It was a nice feeling. Probably the closest I felt to that was being in Mecca and Medina, as a Muslim.”

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The Obama/Biden Agenda that Undermines America’s Bond with the Jews

Among those who understood the depth of former U.S. President Barack Obama’s hostility to Israel, there’s understandable anxiety about the Obama retreads and acolytes among the foreign policy and security nominees being chosen by the prospective president-elect, Joe Biden.

Obama’s hostility is assumed to derive from his left-wing mindset which regards Israel, falsely and ahistorically, as a colonialist occupying power. He demonstrates this in his new memoir, A Promised Land, in his profoundly distorted account of the origins of the modern State of Israel.

There is, however, a deeper reason why both Obama and the left find Israel so intensely problematic, and why a Biden presidency will once again have Israel in its cross-hairs. This isn’t about foreign policy. It’s about the program for America itself.

The core of the left’s agenda is to remake the Western world; and the agenda of Obama and the American left is to remake America.

Their target is the Western nation-state and its culture. The core precepts of that culture are articulated and enshrined within the different histories, laws, religions, institutions and traditions of individual Western nations.

The left, however, deems the Western nation-state to be evil because it declares itself superior to cultures that don’t share its values while excluding those who don’t belong to it.

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Trump Will Not Allow His Peace Plan Be Buried

Trump, being Trump, will not let the UN, PLO and Biden bury his Peace Plan.

The Trump-haters are circling Trump’s liferaft promising a comprehensive Middle East peace – but Trump can repel their determined efforts to sink it if he is not nominated as President when the Electoral College votes on 14 December.

United Nations Secretary-General Guterres is not remotely interested in pursuing Trump’s Peace to Prosperity Vision - which calls for Israeli sovereignty to be extended to about 30% of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) - with an independent demilitarized Palestinian Arab State being established in the remaining 70% and Gaza (Peace Plan).

Guterres remains committed to supporting Palestinian Arabs and Israelis resolving the conflict:

"in line with relevant UN resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements in pursuit of the vision of two states."

Guterres will be exhorting international support for UNSC Resolution 2334 – which Obama and Biden shamefully failed to veto on 23 December 2016 – abstaining instead - as they were departing the White House.

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) seemingly does not have any interest in Trump’s Peace Plan - a PLO official recently declaring:

“We have received many positive messages from the Biden team in the past few days. We are looking forward to opening a new page with the Biden administration after the damage caused by the Trump administration.”

The PLO refused to negotiate with Israel on Trump’s Peace Plan even before its details were published last January.

Biden also seems certain to trash Trump’s Peace Plan if elected America’s next President.

The Times of Israel reports:

“According to Israeli political sources, Biden’s team intends to reinstate negotiations between Israel and the PLO on the basis of the long-mordant Oslo accords. The sources claim Biden is even taking Oslo mediator Dennis Ross out of cold storage for that purpose. Ross’s longtime deputy Aaron David Miller penned an op-ed in Canada’s National Post this week where he argued that President Trump has been bad for Israel and good for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”

Another Biden favourite presently in cold storage – failed negotiator Martin Indyk – wrote this week:

“The first priority is to repair the damage wrought by the Trump administration. Trump's "deal" should be taken off the table when he departs the White House. Relations should be restored with the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, which were severed in the wake of Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. U.S. aid to projects that provide vital support to the Palestinian people should be revived. The U.S. Embassy should stay in Jerusalem, Israel's designated capital, but Biden should declare that he also recognizes that Palestinians aspire to have the capital of their state in East Jerusalem”

Replacing negotiations on Trump’s detailed territorial plan of proposed subdivision with failed negotiations that have gone nowhere over the last 25 years is a recipe for disaster.

Trump’s options for progressing his Peace Plan and thwarting its detractors could include:Releasing the map that has been prepared by the joint American-Israel Mapping Committee showing the precise areas set aside for Israel and a Palestinian Arab state

-Declaring Israel is entitled to extend sovereignty in the Israel-designated area of the map at any time Israel deems appropriate

-Asserting that if the area designated for a Palestinian Arab state on the map is not accepted – then that area should remain as an Arab enclave to be administered by Hamas and the PLO as presently exists – or administered by Jordan and Egypt as the last sovereign Arab States to occupy Gaza and Judea and Samaria between 1948 and 1967.

Trump – being Trump – is not going to let his Peace Plan be buried by the UN, PLO and Biden.

Author’s note: The cartoon – commissioned exclusively for this article—is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators – whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades. His cartoons can be viewed at Drybonesblog

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Zera Shimshon Parshas Va'Yishlach

 

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Ye'chee Adoneinu VeRa'beinu Melech Ha'Moshiach Le'Olom Vaed

 

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Harav Hagoen Shalam Ber Sorotzkin the Litvisher Rosh Yeshiva Having a great time in Dubai

 

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Watch the big "balagan" by the Levayah of the Mir Mashgiach Harav Chadash z"l

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Shulem Leeizer Son of Pshesvorker Rebbe Explains Why He left Chareidie Jewry

 בנו של האדמו"ר מפשעסווארק

 מספר מדוע פרש מחיי תורה ומצוות

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Nordstrom Selling $750.00 "Murder Dress"

 

It’s 2020, the surgical look is in.

Twitter users are mocking a targeted ad from Nordstrom that features a pair of $740 satin elbow-length gloves paired with an evening gown.

The accessories, dubbed the “Gloved Double Satin Bolero,” are made by the high-end designer Meryll Rogge.

“Saturated in a head-turning red hue, this double-satin bolero fitted with lambskin-leather gloves evokes the golden era of Hollywood,” the item’s description reads.

“I keep getting this ad, It wouldn’t faze me if it were from like, Wish, but Nordstrom?,” joked tweeter @lynnirene. “I am just so, so confused.”

The blue dress worn with the gloves also turned heads.

“What’s with the $740 murder dress @Nordstrom? Odd ad targeting,” said @_RogueMermaid.

“every single day of 2020 is a competition for ‘worst s–t ive ever seen in my life’ and this dress just took first place,” said @macaroon1.

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Why Are Israeli Jewish Doctors Treating People that want to Annihilate US?

It’s ironic, if not “weird,” that Saeb Erekat, a top Palestinian official who “did his best to destroy” Israel before his death last month, looked to ­Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem to treat his coronavirus, snarks Reuven Berko at The Investigative Project on Terrorism. 

Then again, Sheik Ikrima Sabri called for the “annihilation of the Zionists” yet had Jewish doctors at Hadassah perform heart surgery, saving his life. 

Hamas’ leader’s daughter went to Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital after complications suffered in a Gaza hospital — just two months after Hamas started a war with Israel. 

“The parade of Hamas murderers, kidnappers and genocidal Jew-hating terrorists who find no moral contradiction in seeking medical help from the very people they are sworn to wipe out boggles the mind.” 

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Adolf Hitler Wins a local election — in Namibia.

RESULTS: Uunona Adolf Hitler of the SWAPO party is the duly elected councilor of the Ompundja Constituency.#NamVotes2020 #NamibiaVotes2020 #EagleFM pic.twitter.com/6ZQqaNctZx

— Eagle FM Namibia (@EagleFMNam) November 26, 2020

Adolf Hitler Uunona, who goes by Adolf Uunona, insists that unlike his namesake, he has no plans to conquer the world after his election win.

“My father named me after this man. He probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for,” he tells German tabloid Bild.

He adds: “It was a very normal name for me as a child. It was not until I was growing up that I realized that this man wanted to subjugate the whole world. I have nothing to do with any of these things.”

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Damaging CNN Recordings Reveal How They Buried The Hunter Biden Theft and Bribery Story

 

Leaked recordings reveal #CNN buried the Hunter Biden story: ‘Obviously, we’re not going with the New York Post story right now on Hunter Biden’https://t.co/A0I9F8E3ag

— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) December 3, 2020

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McEnany Schools Journo: "If You Can Burn Businesses in Protest - You Can Go to a Christmas Party"

Kayleigh McEnany shuts down the fake news media once again 🔥🔥🔥👇https://t.co/6E2SDA2CJy

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) December 3, 2020

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NEW CNN TAPE: CNN Senior Vice President Says She's TERRIFIED That Cubans Support Trump

 

NEW CNN TAPE: @CNN Senior Vice President @cynthiacnn Demeans Marginalized Community; States She's TERRIFIED That Cubans Support Trump

"The Cubans are going to vote for Trump, and that's terrifying"

"I have to say, there a population that's very attracted to bullies"#CNNTapes pic.twitter.com/s3Tl3u8rIe

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) December 2, 2020

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