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July 29, 2021 at 10:54 am
Israelis will be required to present vaccination certificate to participate in certain events
The Israeli Health Ministry's "Green Passport" project, which was approved last week, went into effect Thursday morning.
The measure provides that any citizen over 12 years old must present a vaccination certificate in order to take part in events welcoming 100 or more people in a closed space.
This primarily concerns sporting events, hotels, tourist attractions, conference and prayer rooms, sports halls, concerts, plays, and restaurants and bars accommodating more than 100 people.
Unvaccinated adults who have not been infected will be required to test negative to participate in these gatherings.
The green passport was in effect for several months, before being abolished at t...
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July 29, 2021 at 10:47 am
State law prohibits investments in companies that refuse doing business with Israel
Illinois could become the first US state to divest from Unilever over the decision of its subsidiary Ben & Jerry's to stop ice cream sales in the West Bank.
The Israeli Boycott Restrictions Committee of the Illinois Investment Policy Board is planning to schedule a meeting to approve setting a 90-day deadline for Unilever to reverse the decision by the Vermont-based company, committee chairman Andy Lappin told the Associated Press.
If found non-compliant with state law against companies that boycott the Jewish state, then Unilever and Ben & Jerry's will face divestment. State-run pension systems are already looking at their portfolios for Unilever-related interests.
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July 29, 2021 at 10:45 am
Still no agreement has been reached between the different parties
Palestinian terrorist factions in Gaza threatened to escalate violence again, and could even fire rockets at the Jewish state, if Jerusalem continues to impose conditions on the transfer of Qatari redevelopment money and the full opening of border crossings, according to the Hamas-affliiated Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
The newspaper reported that "the factions have given the occupying power until the end of this week [July 31] to bring in Qatari subsidies, open passages and bring in reconstruction materials," otherwise, "tensions will be intensify along the borders, and they will take other larger and broader forms."
At the same time, Palestinian media have reported in recent days that negotiations regarding the ...
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July 29, 2021 at 10:44 am
Tzedaka, charity, is one of the foundations of the Jewish people. Our ancestor Avraham was the paragon of doing for others and imbued his descendants with social responsibility and concern.
Jews, despite being a miniscule representation of the world population, are disproportionate in their charitable giving. Wherever they find themselves around the globe, the Chosen People have either created or strongly supported social causes.
All of this raises an interesting observation on this week’s Parsha. In retelling their journeys in the desert, Moshe says:
"שמלתך לא בלתה מעליך ורגלך לא בצקה זה ארבעים שנה"
“Your clothing did not whither from upon you and feet didn’t swell these 40 years”
Moshe reminds the Jewish nation that ALL o...
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July 29, 2021 at 10:35 am
Trump's son-in-law and ex-White House senior adviser plans to establish money manager as soon as this fall
Jared Kushner, ex-adviser and son-in-law of former President Donald Trump announced that he will leave politics to create an investment firm that will focus, in particular, on companies that advance Arab-Israeli peace, according to numerous media outlets.
Kushner, who was a real estate executive before joining his father-in-law's team, will be founding a company called Infinity Partners. It will be based in Miami, where he lives with and his wife, Ivanka.
The former president's son-in-law will also open an office in Israel that will promote trade ties between Israel, India, the Persian Gulf states, and North Africa.
As Trump's adviser, Kushner led negot...
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July 29, 2021 at 10:20 am
Trio imprisoned on suspicion of coming into contact with Biafran separatists while making documentary
Three Israeli filmmakers landed back in Israel Thursday morning after spending 20 days in a Nigerian prison.
Pro-Israel activist Rudy Rochman, filmmaker Noam Leibman and French-Israeli journalist E. David Benaym were released from prison Tuesday night with the assistance of the Israeli Embassy in Abuja and handed over to US custody. They were then escorted to a Chabad center where they spent the night.
They departed Nigeria on Wednesday night for Istanbul and arrived to Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday morning.
Rochman, Liebman and Benaym were arrested while making a documentary on the Igbo Jewish community who consider themselves a lost tribe of Israel but are not reco...
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July 29, 2021 at 10:20 am
At least one Ben & Jerry’s store owner is not down with the company’s decision to boycott Israel.
Joel Gasman runs a Ben & Jerry’s location on West 104th Street and Broadway in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and he isn’t hiding his distaste with the company’s recent announcement.
“We couldn’t sit back and watch without speaking up,” said Gasman on Thursday in an interview with the New York Post.
“It has definitely hurt our bottom line and our overall store value. We did fear boycotts from customers. We still do,” Gasman said.
Gasman added, “We’ve lost some foot traffic as well as bigger catering jobs that usually help us during the summer. We’re getting bad reviews online that have nothing to...
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July 28, 2021 at 10:08 pm
The Israeli Defense Forces’ National Rescue Unit recovered 81 of the 97 victims from the Champlain Towers South condo collapse site in Surfside.
When Lt. Col. Golan Vach, commander of the Israeli Defense Forces’ National Rescue Unit, located a man’s ring while searching the debris field of the collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, he knew immediately to whom it belonged.
He knew, because he had met with families of the scores of missing people. He had studied photographs of the missing, learned about their possessions — a necklace with a heart pendant, a gold watch, a blue table.
He had learned about the habits of each potential victim and even knew in which room each likely would have been during t...
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July 28, 2021 at 9:54 pm
A Maryland man was arrested for repeatedly threatening to harm Dr. Anthony Fauci and his family, along with another top doctor.
Thomas Patrick Connally Jr., 56, allegedly sent multiple emails that repeatedly threatened acts of gun violence, physical beatings, torture and arson, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.
The profanity-laced missives were sent from an encrypted Swiss-based email account between December and last week, and were filled with conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic and homophobic comments, documents allege.
He faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted, according to prosecutors who said the charges stemmed from stepped up security around top medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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July 28, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams declared his opposition to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist “movement” — which includes defunding the police and shuttering prisons — during a fundraiser co-hosted by a Republican member of the City Council, The Post has learned.
A video recording of Adams’ speech shows him telling supporters that the battle he faced wasn’t with his political rivals in the Nov. 2 election, but with the Democratic Socialists of America.
“I’m no longer running against candidates. I’m running against a movement. All across the country, the DSA socialists are mobilizing to stop Eric Adams,” he said.
“They realize that if I’m successful, we’re going to start...
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July 28, 2021 at 9:45 pm
Baltimore, MD - July 28, 2021 - 8:30 PM - A very complicated forecast is what we are discussing tonight for Thursday. There is the potential for a significant severe weather event on Thursday with all modes of severe weather possible. That being said, there is much uncertainty regarding severe weather parameters (discussed below). There will be lots of shear, possibly over 40kts, and plenty of lift. The question is how much instability will develop. Residual cloud cover from overnight showers and storms to our west may substantially limit our instability, in turn substantially reducing the threat of severe weather. However, IF the sun shines for portions of the day, especially in the morning and early afternoon, we are game on for a significant severe weather event. The a...
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July 28, 2021 at 5:58 pm
Israel will start giving a third shot of a COVID-19 vaccine to the elderly population as soon as next week, after the expert forum advising the Ministry of Health decided to recommend giving a booster dose of a vaccine against the virus.
During the discussion, a worrying figure was presented that indicates a decrease in the effectiveness of the vaccine in people aged 60 and over, from 97% in April, to 81% during the month of July.
The question brought up among the experts was whether to change the vaccine threshold and raise it to a later age, but the decision on the matter will be made by the director general of the Ministry of Health.
The Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported on Wednesday that the Ministry of Health is intensively preparing to start providing the thir...
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July 28, 2021 at 5:57 pm
Esther Jungreis was a young Holocaust survivor who became a friend, advisor, confidante, Torah teacher and often even a surrogate mother to thousands: singles and families, prime ministers, presidents and prisoners, and soldiers and spiritual seekers throughout the world. A pioneer in Jewish outreach, she ignited the “pintele Yid” that lies within every Jew. In this uplifting Inside ArtScroll interview, her daughter, Mrs. Slovie Jungreis-Wolff, speaks about the Rebbetzin’s passion for Torah and Jewish continuity that enriched the lives of millions throughout the world, a story captured in The Rebbetzin, the bestselling biography authored by Rabbi Nachman Seltzer. Watch and be inspired as you learn more about the life of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating...
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July 28, 2021 at 5:54 pm
Medical centers were spun down due to initial success of vaccination program earlier in year
Several hospitals in Israel reopened their coronavirus specialist wards Wednesday, on the back of a sustained increase in the number of patients in serious condition from the virus since mid-June.
Currently there are 258 Covid patients hospitalized, including 153 in serious condition and 28 on ventilators, according to official figures released Wednesday by the Health Ministry.
New cases numbered 2,260 recorded in 24 hours out of 95,624 screening tests conducted, amounting to a positive test rate of 2.38 percent.
Medical centers had closed Covid wards several months ago following Israel’s vast vaccination campaign and a drop in the number of serious cases nationwide.
Th...
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July 28, 2021 at 5:48 pm
Babysitter Terry McKirchy got a light sentence 36 years ago after pleading no contest to attempted murder for shaking 5-month-old Benjamin Dowling so severely that he suffered permanent brain damage — weekends in jail for three months and three years probation.
But now McKirchy is facing a possible life sentence after a Florida medical examiner says Dowling succumbed to those injuries when he died in 2019 at the age of 35 after a life with severe mental and physical disabilities.
A Broward County grand jury recently indicted McKirchy, 59, with first-degree murder and she is now jailed near her home in Sugar Land, Texas, pending her return to Florida. McKirchy, who has previously denied injuring the boy, has waived extradition, the Broward State Attorney’s Office said. The Sou...
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July 28, 2021 at 5:48 pm
New Yorkers who receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a city-run site will, starting Friday, be given $100 — the latest desperate measure in City Hall’s ramped-up effort to get more residents inoculated as a highly contagious coronavirus variant spreads, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.
“It does not get better than that,” de Blasio said during his daily remote press briefing of the $100 reward for agreeing to a jab.
“Incentives help immensely,” the mayor said. “I think it’s going to be very, very appealing to New Yorkers.”
De Blasio predicted the chance to pocket a Benjamin will “move a lot of people” to get vaccinated.
“I personally believe the guarantee that, right then and there, you’r...
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July 28, 2021 at 5:42 pm
Hourly wages rose 3.6% this June from last, but inflation has ostensibly delivered a nearly 2% pay cut, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
The June wage increase to an average of $30.40 is the largest since 2009, the Economic Policy Institute reported, but 5.6% inflation in the consumer price index has put a negative drag on “real wages,” a figure that measures income while accounting for the cost of goods and services.
“The staples of American life are increasing exponentially,” Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., told CNBC, citing higher prices for gasoline, laundry, airfare, moving costs, hotels, bacon and TVs.
Many economists agree with congressional Republicans who denounce the ills of inflation as the Biden admini...
