| Saudi model reveals she married a Jew, upsetting Muslims, but claims he converted for her and hates Jewsnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 15 Aug 04:45 A | | A Saudi model named Jojo who has apparently lived in America for a while announced her engagement to a boyfriend of a different religion on Instagram in 2019. No one seemed to care.
They got married last October. No one seemed to care.
But last week, she published some of her wedding photos - and he was wearing a kippah. Now people seem to care a lot.
Sites say that his wearing the kippah "indicates his religiosity and extremist." The same Jordanian site says "Wearing this beanie is one of the teachings of ultra-Orthodox Judaism as it says in the Talmud: 'Cover your head so that the wrath of heaven is not over you.' (according to their claim)." This is a made up Talmud quote, from what I can tell.
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From Ian: The American Jewish Establishment Has Failed, It's Time to Replace It Over the last few months, American Jews have been the target of a pogrom. Beatings, intimidation, and the stabbing of a rabbi have been only the most prominent atrocities in a frenzy of racist violence, mostly committed by Muslim antisemites backed by members of the far-left, who used Israel's recent conflict with Hamas as an excuse. An excuse by and large accepted and endorsed by the non-Jewish establishment. One of the most astonishing things about this pogrom, however, was the fact that it took the American Jewish establishment almost entirely by surprise. Indeed, they were so shocked that their reaction was almost non-existent during the pogrom and its immediate aftermath. Recently, I saw one of the most prominent leaders of the American Jewish establishment acknowledge, at long last, that antisemitism on the left actually exists, and something probably ought to be done about it. My immediate reaction to reading this missive was twofold. The first was the intense desire to say, "if you'd done your job, we wouldn't be in this mess!" The second was to wonder, "where have you been for the past 20 years?" Regarding the latter, it is a simple fact that, for some of us, the recent pogrom came as neither a shock nor a surprise. We have been aware — and shouting at the top of our...Read More |
From Ian: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: In praise of the Abraham Accords, one year on Two weeks ago, at the end of a fairly standard meeting in City Hall with a group of East Jerusalem businessmen, Mahmoud, a local entrepreneur, pulled me aside. He told me that as the result of his attendance at one of the webinars organized by the UAE-Israel Business Council, an organization I co-founded over one year ago, he now has a promising new business with an Emirati investor which utilizes Israeli technology and Moroccan raw materials. At that very moment I truly understood the power of people-to-people peace. This is the new model of peace and co-existence we are building every day. Up until now, Israel was a lone player in the region and we were not part of any regional cultural, sporting or business alliances. Our network faced west rather than to our own neighborhood, where we share much in common. This past year has changed everything. In June 2020, my co-founder Dorian Barak and I saw that a shift was taking place, but we did not know just how quickly it would boom. The minute the Abraham Accords normalization agreement was announced, we created an online platform for people to connect, the first of its kind for the accords. Within weeks thousands of Israelis and Emiratis had joined in order to interact with each other, to talk, to do business and to become friends. This is embarrassing. Un-grit your teeth and show some damn...Read More |
I was just sent this, and it is a nice thought for this week's parasha. -------------------------------------- Justice In America Rabbi Reuven Mann This week's Parsha, Shoftim, takes up the rules of engagement pertaining to warfare. It should be noted that some religions are entirely pacifistic, believing that their exclusive vocation is to be dedicated to matters of peace. War, they believe, entails destruction of human lives and the uprooting of societies not to mention the harmful effects on the environment. However, what troubles the Christian conscience the most is the notion of killing, which they regard as murder. For they ask, what right do we have to take anyone's life in order to preserve our own interests? Judaism takes a different view of these matters. The Torah makes it clear that there are times when it is man's moral responsibility to take up arms. In Bereishit it depicts the heroic midnight "commando" raid launched by Avraham and his 318 men to rescue his nephew Lot from captivity. Subsequently we read in Shemot that Moshe slew the Egyptian taskmaster who was beating a "Jew from his brothers." He was operating on the principle that innocent life must be protected even at the cost of the existence of the aggressor. Judaism takes a very practical stand on issues of self defense and the protection of innocent life. Our religion is also very committed to the importance of maintaining societal order as our Parsha proclaims, "Shoftim v'Shotrim teeten lecha bechal...Read More |
This week, a married couple went to the new luxury Bianco hotel in Gaza and rented a private villa with a pool.
The husband took video that showed a fraction of a second of his wife swimming in the nude and posted it to Facebook.
He is now under arrest in Gaza.
Hamas police issued a statement saying that the husband had "obscenely" photographed his wife at a resort "in a scandalous manner and in violation of the law, religion and morals."
For its part, the Bianco resort issued a statement that thanked the security services in the Gaza Strip for their swift response to the incident and the arrest of the perpetrator of this "heinous act." The statement said the resort operates around the clock in accordance with the law and according to the customs and morals of our conservative people, and "there is no legal error on our part." * * * * * *
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From Ian: Bernard Henri Levy: Why Durban IV must be boycotted - opinion Something shameful is in the works. It's the UN General Assembly's plan to mark the 20th anniversary of the Durban Conference, on September 22. What was the Durban Conference? On paper, it was the name of a UNESCO conference held in the eponymous city in South Africa, at which the world was supposed to recommit to the fight against "racism, xenophobia and intolerance." But in reality, it was the occasion of an inexcusable three-faceted failure. First, as soon as the Palestinian question took center stage (which was very early on), the stigmatization of Israel became the leitmotif of the proceedings. Yasser Arafat denounced "apartheid." Fidel Castro feigned alarm at a "genocide." The sinister 1974 resolution equating Zionism with "racism" was resurrected, despite having been repealed in 1991. The struggle against "occupation" was turned into the mother of all present and future political battles. And some of the six thousand NGO representatives invited to the event slid easily from rabid anti-Zionism to good old-fashioned antisemitism. Jewish delegates were insulted. People wearing yarmulkes were threatened, harried by cries that they "didn't belong to the human race." Stands sprang up selling The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in various languages. Demonstrations led by groups of radical...Read More |
From The Times of London: The ghost of antisemitism has returned to haunt France, prompting criminal action against a website that claimed Jews control the country and the prosecution of a teacher who allegedly suggested that President Macron was part of a Jewish plot. The government ordered the crackdown after incidents that showed how much the pandemic has fuelled a return of the old ugly currents that have stained French history. On Wednesday a monument in Brittany to Simone Veil, the feminist, former minister and Holocaust survivor, was daubed with swastikas. It was the third time that monument was desecrated in a week. Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister, sent in prosecutors after a site called IlsSontPartout.com [They Are Everywhere] laid out the names and profiles of Jewish politicians, media owners, financiers and arts figures who supposedly connive to control the country. The site's name is an allusion to Je Suis Partout [I Am Everywhere], an anti-semitic newspaper during the Nazi occupation of 1940-44. The site attracted government attention after Cassandre Fristot, 34, a schoolteacher and councillor for Marine Le Pen's National Rally, marched in an anti-vaccine protest in the eastern city of Metz with a placard police said was...Read More |
Richard Pollack writes in JNS: I recently stumbled upon a photography book shot by the acclaimed Life magazine wartime photographer John Phillips. The large, innocuous-looking book was simply titled, A Will to Survive. After flipping through the pages, I realized I entered a time capsule that memorializes the Arab destruction of Jerusalem's ancient Jewish Quarter in 1948. Not only is it a dramatic firsthand account of the fall of the Jewish Quarter in 1948, but it documents the Arab Legion's scorched-earth tactics that razed and burned to the ground every structure there, including all its synagogues and yeshivahs. The Arabs expelled all of the city's residents, mainly defenseless, old Orthodox Jews. They were given about an hour to vacate homes that most extended families had lived in for centuries. And there never has been a reckoning by any international body about the Arab Legion's barbaric actions after it captured the Quarter. To get his shots in May 1948, Phillips posed undercover in Jerusalem as a British officer in the Arab Legion. He also smuggled out his photos to avoid Arab censors who were eager to keep the sacking of the Jewish Quarter secret. Phillips faced personal danger to do the shoot. He entered the Middle East undercover and wore the uniform of the Arab Legion, a British-created Arab army led by British officers, many of whom stayed on with their...Read More |
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