We must end educational neglect in ultra-Orthodox schools. Here’s why | Opinion – The Journal News
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EU: Greece-Turkey crisis talks might include other nations – Arab News
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KIEV: Hundreds of Hasidic Jews including children, who have sought to travel to a pilgrimage site in Ukraine, are being held up at the countrys border with Belarus due to coronavirus restrictions.Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews travel every Jewish New Year to the town of Uman in central Ukraine to visit the tomb of Rabbi Nahman, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement.This year the Jewish New Year is celebrated September 18-20.The pilgrims set off even though last month the Ukrainian and Israeli governments called on Hasidic Jews not to travel to Uman, a town of 80,000 people, this year, fearing a spike in coronavirus infections.Kiev has banned foreigners from entering the country until late September.On Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the situation at the border with the head of the state border guard service, Sergiy Deyneko, his office said. Ukraine had full control of the situation, it added.In Belarus, strongman Alexander Lukashenkos office said he had told officials to provide assistance to the pilgrims, accusing Ukraine of shutting its borders and leaving hundreds of people in neutral territory.The Belarus Red Cross Society said the pilgrims did not have enough resources to ensure their basic needs and assistance was being provided, particularly to parents with children, the elderly and people with disabilities.As of Tuesday morning, 690 pilgrims were at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border and hundreds more were expected to arrive, Kiev said.We expect that three charter planes some 600 foreigners will arrive in Minsk, Deyneko said, referring to the capital of Belarus.He said up to 1,000 people were expected to arrive at the border near Ukraines northern Chernigiv region, while in the northwest up to 700 were expected near Zhytomyr region and up to 1,500 people near Volyn region.Officials have put up a roadblock 700 meters from a checkpoint in the Chernigiv region and deployed aircraft and drones to monitor the border, Zelenskys office said in a statement.The Ukrainian authorities have been in touch with the Israeli embassy in Kiev and the pilgrims are receiving water and kosher food from local Jewish organizations.Separately, the border guard service said people waiting at the border were still trying to enter Ukraine even after having received explanations and were fully aware of the entry restrictions for foreigners.Rabbi Nahman is one of the main figures of Hasidism, a mystical branch of Judaism that appeared in the 18th century and which developed in particular in Poland and Ukraine.Ukraine has reported more than 159,000 cases of coronavirus and over 3,200 fatalities.Israel is set to impose a three-week lockdown there from Friday, to try to counter a surge in coronavirus infections.
Seen to the Eye | Kenneth Ryesky | The Blogs – The Times of Israel
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The Rabbis of the Talmud have instructed that a fence be built around the Torah, meaning that we should set for ourselves limits well within the Torahs bare minimums so that people do not inadvertently transgress them. From this has come the concept of Marat Ayin (seen to the eye, whereby certain activities, though technically not in violation of the Torahs commandments, are discouraged because an uninformed observer might conclude mistakenly that such activities are acceptable, or that the person who engages in such activities is transgressing the rules. Marat Ayin is often invoked in the context of a religiously-observant Jew entering a non-kosher restaurant to use the restrooms or some purpose other than to eat treif food
The Hatzav Is Blooming Everywhere in Israel, It Must Be Autumn – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com
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Photo Credit: Aviram Shani / Nature and Parks Authority The hatzav, or drimia, is a deciduous plant, growing from bulbs. Each bulb has one to several leaves that are often dry by the time the flowers open
LA rabbi reminds everyone to focus on beauty that remains amid fires, COVID, 9/11 anniversary – KCRW
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Zionism split the women’s movement in the ’70s. Will it do the same to BLM? – +972 Magazine
admin | September 13, 2020
Three months after George Floyds murder in Minneapolis, thousands are still marching in American cities to decry police brutality and racial injustice. Asymmetric confrontations between heavily armed police officers in protective gear and unarmed civilians particularly Black people and people of color have become an almost daily occurrence
This Is the Time for a ‘Zionist Spring’ – Algemeiner
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Israeli model May Tager, holding an Israeli flag, poses with Dubai-resident model Anastasia Bandarenka, holding an Emirati flag, during a photo shoot for FIXs Princess Collection, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 8, 2020.
Another liberal Zionist is going wobbly Mondoweiss – Mondoweiss
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The political shocker from Israel this week is that Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who ran against Benjamin Netanyahu as the great hope of liberal Zionists in the United States, has now shifted to Netanyahus right urging the prime minister to continue building settlements all over the West Bank. The Jerusalem Post says this puts Gantz on the side of the annexationists against Netanyahu, who has suspended plans to annex. Gantzs move shows once again that the only way to get ahead in Israeli Jewish politics is by going right, backing expanded Jewish settlement of the Jewish homeland
For first time in history, the World Zionist Congress to convene online – The Jerusalem Post
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For the first time in the history of the Zionist movement, the 38th World Zionist Congress (WZC) will convene online via a special broadcast center in Jerusalem.Seven hundred twenty delegates and observers from over 30 countries will participate in the 38th World Zionist Congress that convenes for three days, on October 20-22. The sessions will take place in the afternoons, synchronized with time zones in Israel, North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.During the Congress, whose theme is Mutual Responsibility and Aliyah to Israel, elections will take place for the leadership positions of the National Institutions the World Zionist Organization, Keren Kayemet Le Israel (Jewish National Fund-JNF), and Keren Hayesod.Current issues on the world Jewish agenda will be deliberated, including the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Jewish communities worldwide; preparation for a wave of immigration to Israel as a result of this worldwide crisis; battling growing antisemitism, settlement development in Israel, and more.Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the cessation of air travel, the executive of The World Zionist Organization decided to convene online.
Normalization of relations with Zionist regime evil act – Mehr News Agency – English Version
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All the ruling Arab regimes that have tried or are trying to normalize relations with the Zionist regime know very well that this compromise is against the will of the divine law and the will of the nations of the Islamic Ummah and this is as fulfilling the will of the United States and Israel regime, while they are aware of its great losses for this Ummah and of the enmity of Israel regime and the United States with the Ummah, saidSheikh Isa Qassim. The ruling regimes are never willing to do justice to the nations and want to exercise their dominion fully and seize every privilege and opportunity, he added. They see submission to the United States and Israel, which is contrary to the interests of the Muslim Ummah and the religion of Islam, as a way to further dominate and oppress nations, he noted.
