Shin Bet Receives Three Week Extension to Tap Personal Cell Phones – JerusalemOnline
admin | May 8, 2020
The Subcommittee on Intelligence, Secret Services and Captive and Missing Persons, chaired by Lt.-Gen.
Chris Coons has the inside track to be Biden’s secretary of state – Jewish Insider
admin | May 8, 2020
On a Friday evening in February, former Sen. Joe Lieberman stepped out of his hotel in Germany en route to the second annual presentation of the John McCain Dissertation Award, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. The destination was a restaurant more than a mile away, and Lieberman, who is Shabbat-observant, was planning to set off on foot for the long walk when he ran into his former colleague, Chris Coons, the junior senator from Delaware who was also attending the dinner.
A Seat at the Table: Jewish Chefs, Writers Share Recipes, Stories, History of Ashkenazi Cooking – NBC Bay Area
admin | May 1, 2020
Since Russ & Daughters opened in Manhattan in 1914, the family-run store has weathered the Spanish flu, two world wars, recessions and the Great Depression. With the new coronavirus pandemic sweeping the country, the current generation, Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, is doing what the family has always done: deliver bagels and cream cheese, lox and herring to people craving the emotional sustenance that the traditional Jewish favorites bring. At Katzs Delicatessen, Jake Dell begins his mornings making matzoh balls to keep up with the spike in orders for matzoh ball soup as his customers seek comfort in uncertain times.
Ashkenazi: This is hard for us, for me, the coalition comes with a price – The Jerusalem Post
admin | May 1, 2020
MK Gabi Ashkenzai was interviewed on Saturday by Channel 12, regarding the coalition talks leading up to the establishment of the government.
It’s the perfect time to get into pickling – JTA News
admin | May 1, 2020
This story originally appeared on The Nosher.
Israel MPs give govt more time to use spy agency against virus – The News International
admin | May 1, 2020
JERUSALEM: Israels parliament on Thursday extended a deadline set by the Supreme Court for the government to put forward a bill authorising its controversial use of the domestic security agency to track coronavirus infections. In a ruling on Sunday, Israels top court had given the government until Thursday to begin a primary legislative process that would authorise the Shin Bets coronavirus surveillance or discontinue it.
With Gantz out of the way, Netanyahu marks a new target – Haaretz
admin | May 1, 2020
After Independence Day ended Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined a conference call with a bevy of Likud officials.
Hassidim and the 1786 plague in Tiberias: We’ve been here before – The Jerusalem Post
admin | May 1, 2020
In the year 1777, a group of hassidim made the journey to the Land of Israel. The convoy was headed by two hassidic masters, Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk (1730-1788) and Rabbi Avraham of Kalisk (1741-1810).The group comprised 300 people a sizable crowd for such a journey. Indeed, previous groups that had come to the Land of Israel had been significantly smaller.The size of the group was also noteworthy considering how many Jews lived in the Land of Israel at that time.
Spy agencies and human rights in the era of coronavirus – The Jerusalem Post
admin | May 1, 2020
The Shin Bet tells you when to go to the doctor, the Mossad brings you your medical equipment and NSO Group or some other private organization may hold on to your private information until you are coronavirus-free (and maybe even after?).Do you recognize this world? It is a world in which government spy agencies and private organizations with alumni of those agencies are far more deeply involved in Israeli citizens lives and internal issues than ever before. It is a corona world where spying meets human rights.Former Shin Bet chief Yaakov Perry told the Magazine this week that there must be parliamentary oversight.
Disagreement can be the basis of Jewish unity even during a pandemic – The Jerusalem Post
admin | April 22, 2020
During the coronavirus outbreak, we have witnessed a stubborn resistance among some of the most insular and ultra-Orthodox pockets of the Jewish community regarding compliance with critical pleas for social distancing and shelter-in-place orders, both in the United States and Israel. These developments have been a source of concern and frustration among a wide swath of the Jewish community, including other Orthodox Jews.
