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Sheldon and Miriam Adelson donated some $70 million this year alone to Taglit-Birthright Israel, the organization providing free ten-day trips to Israel for tens of thousands of young Jews each year, the group said.
The organization thanked the couple, who have given some $410 million in total over the years, at a gala event Wednesday marking 18 years since Birthright’s founding. Continue reading “Birthright celebrates $70 million in donations from the Adelsons this year”
There’s disturbing news to report surrounding the Los Angeles County, California Department of Children’s and Family Services, where Hollywood resident and adoption manager Carlos Castillo was busted as part of a child pornography circuit sting.
54-year-old Carlos Castillo is a 30-year veteran of the Department of Children’s and Family Services in Los Angeles County. Continue reading “Liberal Hollywood Children’s Services Adoption Manager Busted in Child Pornography Circuit”
SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Breaking religious barriers is nothing new for Rabbi Daniel Lehmann.
Ordained at New York’s Yeshiva University, the flagship of Modern Orthodoxy, he most recently was president of Hebrew College near Boston, which is devoted to pluralistic Jewish education. During his tenure, Hebrew College became the first non-Christian member of the Boston Theological Institute, a consortium of nine graduate schools of theology. Continue reading “Orthodox-trained rabbi makes history as head of a mostly Christian theology center”
Re: The Kabbalistic Zohar
Is the word “Satan” actually used? Can’t find any translation online. Send me the Hebrew word.
“Israel must make sacrifices to Satan so that he will leave Israel unmolested” Continue reading “Satan in the Kabbalah”
“Think about trying to live today on the income you had 15 years ago.” That’s how agriculture expert Chris Hurt describes the plight facing U.S. farmers today.
The unequal economy that’s emerged over the past decade, combined with patchy access to health care in rural areas, have had a severe impact on the people growing America’s food. Recent data shows just how much. Farmers are dying by suicide at a higher rate than any other occupational group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Continue reading “Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers”
It was the American Jewish Committee (AJC) which first vigorously advocated for open immigration in America beginning in 1914 until the great watershed in 1965. Continue reading “The Open Immigration Law Of 1965 – A bit of back-story”
A public swimming pool in southern Israel has “separate hours” for Jewish and Palestinian citizens, “a practice that is undeclared but nevertheless familiar to visitors”, reported Haaretz.
The pool in question is located in Mabu’im, a community settlement operated by the Merhavim Regional Council. According to Haaretz, citing an employee, the pool has activities for the local Bedouin Palestinians during the week after 6pm, and on Friday night. Continue reading “Israeli public swimming pool separates Jewish and Palestinian citizens”
What started as a fun day out with friends, ended with a violent arrest, caught on cell phone camera, with five officers trying to subdue a 20 year-old woman.
Samantha Luna, 20, of Arcata, California posted five videos on Facebook that document her run-in with Humboldt State University police officers on June 17. In the account she posts with the video she says that she and her friends were initially stopped ‘for my friend sticking her head out of the sun roof.’ Continue reading “Disturbing video shows cops dragging a US college student, 20, out of a car by her hair”
AlterNet – by Jessica Sutherland
Addiction profiteer and OxyContin creator Purdue Pharma just can’t get a break. The privately held pill-pusher palace faces myriad lawsuits for being a driving force in the addiction crisis currently gripping the nation, most recently coming from the state of Massachusetts on June 12. Then, the opiate factory announced massive layoffs this week, the second such move of 2018, along with a focus shift to drugs that actually help people rather than kill them. Continue reading “600-Pound Heroin Spoon Sculpture Placed Outside OxyContin Creator’s Corporate Headquarters by Protesters”
“Occupy” protesters have been camping outside an ICE office in Portland, Oregon, leading the facility to temporarily shut down. The occupiers say that they won’t leave until the Trump administration revokes its “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
Since Sunday the agitators, whose numbers are increasing, have been engaged in activities such as blocking the entrance to the building… Continue reading “Portland Occupiers Shut Down ICE Office, Replace American Flag with ‘Refugees Welcome’ Flag”
Conservative Tribune – by Benjamin Arie
The story is all too familiar: America is facing a historic crime wave, and guns are to blame. With shootings and school violence near all-time highs, it’s time to have a serious talk about the Second Amendment and gun ownership in the modern world.
Did that opening get your attention? It should, but mainly because it’s blatantly false.
You wouldn’t know it by listening to the mainstream media, however. That false appraisal of crime in the U.S. is often spread by voices on the left, but the actual facts paint a very different picture. Continue reading “Don’t Believe the Media — Gun Homicide Rates Dropped by 40% as Ownership Skyrocketed”
Big League Politics – by Patrick Howley
Ben Szemkus details an experience he had at a 2007 NXIVM party in Hamden, Connecticut. Szemkus, an independent citizen, testifies that he saw porn star Stormy Daniels, and Clinton adviser Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner.
NXIVM is a Satanist sex cult that sees its leaders Keith Raniere and Allison Mack standing trial for human trafficking and child sex trafficking. Continue reading “Sex Cult Party Guest: Stormy Daniels, Schneiderman, Huma, and Weiner Were All There”