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August 2, 2021 at 2:38 pm
A view of Federal Election Commission records indicates New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paid thousands to a former Blackwater contractor for security.
According to the New York Post, Ocasio-Cortez, who has been a vocal proponent of defunding the police, had her campaign pay at least $4,636 for “security services” to Tullis Worldwide Protection.
Since she arrived in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez has insisted that shifting resources out of police departments and into communities is the best way to help those struggling.
“[Suburban] communities have lower crime rates not because they have more police but because they have more resources to support healthy society in a way that reduces crime,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a 2020 social media post.
After New York...
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August 2, 2021 at 2:34 pm
Mayoral candidate Eric Adams — who says he’s running against the far-left socialist “movement” led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York — will actually face off against a socialist foe in the general election.
Queens public-school teacher Cathy Rojas, a daughter of Colombian immigrants, has now officially qualified to run for mayor under the far-left “Party for Socialism and Liberation” banner.
Rojas gathered more than 3,750 valid signatures through independent petitioning to run in Nov. 2’s general election, said a Board of Election rep.
As The Post previously exclusively reported, Adams — the city’s all-but-certain next mayor — told donors at a Queens fundraiser last week, “I&rsquo...
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August 2, 2021 at 2:31 pm
The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed its fiscal year 2022 State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Act, providing funding for America’s overseas interests for the upcoming year.
The bill, which was advised by numerous pro-Israel organizations, includes $3.3 billion in security assistance to Israel as one of its key provisions as outlined in the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two countries.
The bill passed by a vote of 217-212 on partisan lines, opposed unanimously by Republicans.
Three progressive Democrats also opposed the bill, including Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).
AIPAC celebrated the bill’s passage, pointing out that the Israel aid was passed without conditi...
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August 2, 2021 at 2:30 pm
Governor Phil Murphy today announced that all workers in certain state and private health care facilities and high-risk congregate settings will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or be subject to COVID-19 testing at minimum one to two times per week. This requirement will help increase protection against the spread of COVID-19, including the highly transmissible Delta variant, to vulnerable populations who have been hardest hit during the pandemic.
“While reaching our statewide vaccination goal has so far dampened the impact of the Delta variant in New Jersey, some of our most vulnerable populations remain at risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19 primarily due to exposure to unvaccinated individuals,” said Governor Murphy. “We are taking this s...
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August 2, 2021 at 2:21 pm
Iran with highest corona deaths in Middle East was hit hard in early days of pandemic - now facing new spike
Iran on Monday recorded its highest number of infections in a single day since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic – 37,000 new cases – according to state media.
Health workers registered 37,189 new infections since Sunday, state TV said.
An additional 411 Iranians died from the virus, bringing the total fatalities from corona in Iran to 91,407, the highest of any nation in the Middle East, AP reported.
A combination of the increased infectiousness of the delta variant and a lack of compliance with covid measures such as social distancing and mask wearing, which the government says is adhered to by less then 40 percent of people, is being blame...
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August 2, 2021 at 2:18 pm
The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) today condemned an antisemitic incident that occurred at the Young Israel of Bnei Brak in Israel over the weekend. Congregants arriving at the synagogue on Saturday morning found swastikas spray-painted on the walls and doors. In addition, photos of Shira Banki, who was murdered at a pride parade six years ago, were found strewn on the ground near the entrance to the Young Israel synagogue, whose congregants include many Holocaust survivors and their relatives.
“Defacing a synagogue with swastikas is a despicable act of depravity and an abhorrent act of antisemitism,” said NCYI president Rabbi David Warshaw. “Using Nazi imagery to vandalize a Jewish house of worship, particularly one that is home to individuals who surviv...
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August 2, 2021 at 2:16 pm
A 100-year old former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp outside Berlin will go on trial in October, reported German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
76 years after the end of World War II, the Neuruppin district court charged the centenarian with accessory to murder in 3,500 cases.
A court spokesperson told the publication that the court has determined the defendant is strong enough to stand trial for between two and two-and-a-half hours per day.
The former guard’s identity was not revealed in accordance with German media law protecting the privacy rights of suspects.
The man is charged with working as a guard at Sachsenhausen from 1942 to 1945, during which 200,000 people were imprisoned and 20,000 murdered.
In 2011, a precedent setting case that found working in a c...
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August 2, 2021 at 2:14 pm
On Thursday, Rutgers' University Hillel slammed a statement from pro-Palestinian groups that called for defunding Jewish organizations on campus.
The letter posted on Instagram by Rutgers' Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Rutgers Mutual Aid (RMA) came in response to New Jersey rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) who had called in late June for university President Jonathan Holloway to condemn a statement made by the part-time lecturer chapter of the Rutgers faculty union accusing Israel of being a “regime of legalized racial discrimination perpetrated against the Palestinian people” that it targeted with “military actions” that have “killed and maimed civilian populations.”
The letter said, “We, the undersigned, categorical...
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August 2, 2021 at 2:12 pm
B'nai Brith Canada is launching Canada's first hate incident mobile app.
The app allows users to report hate incidents and all the relevant details. It also allows photos of hate incidents to be shared.
The free app will be available for Android and Apple phones and in English and French. It can be found by searched the app store under the term “anti-hate.”
Data from the app will allow B’nai Brith to “take concrete action,” including sharing the information with law enforcement.
Confirmed data from the app will be anonymously compiled by B’nai Brith and included in their Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents published by B’nai Brith’s League for Human Rights.
“One of the consistent themes that have been expressed by peopl...
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August 2, 2021 at 2:07 pm
The meeting forced by the opposition regarding 'failures of the government' has seen accusations directed from both coalition and opposition, each accusing the other of various shortcomings. The debate comes on the background of the recent budget announced by the government, which includes, among other things, a number of new taxes and a 30 billion ILS investment in the Arab population.
Prime Minister Bennett accused the opposition of hypocrisy, saying that "No one here can preach ethics to me - not about heritage, Judaism, or nationalism. We did in 36 hours what you didn't do in 36 months - pass a budget. You should learn from Rabin's "We are all Jews". Being right-wing isn't about hating the left, it is about loving Israel."
Opposition leader Netanyahu used his...
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August 2, 2021 at 1:48 pm
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the Besheva conference in Jerusalem and hinted that sources in the Biden administration could leak information about actions Israel is planning against Iran.
Netanyahu referred to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid's statement according to which he and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed on a policy of “no surprises” regarding Iran.
Netanyahu said: “In his first week in office, the alternate prime minister, Yair Lapid, goes and declares a policy of ‘no surprises’ vis-à-vis Iran. Do you know how many [American] administrations demanded this kind of policy? But I never once agreed to.”
Then the former Prime Minister explained: "The information provided to America will be leaked to the media and ...
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August 2, 2021 at 11:40 am
15th anniversary memorial services for soldiers and civilians killed in the Second Lebanon War have been held in recent days. Today the last of these will take place. It will honor the memory of legendary Lietutenant Colonel Emmanuel Moreno, who was killed at the close of the war. Moreno, a lead officer in Sayeret Matkal, Israel's most elite special forces unit, participated in 165 undercover missions, some of them so delicate that publication of his picture is forbidden until today. But we are allowed to publish his thoughts and here are several of them that his widow Maya Ohana-Moreno previously sent me with her own explanatory comments:"Whatever does not take you forward will automatically take you backward."These words guided Emmanuel in everything he did - whether in the mi...
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August 2, 2021 at 11:36 am
There has been a serious and systemic failure to tackle antisemitism across the five biggest social media platforms, resulting in a “safe space for racists”, according to a new report.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok failed to act on 84% of posts spreading anti-Jewish hatred and propaganda reported via the platforms’ official complaints system.
Researchers from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a UK/US non-profit organisation, flagged hundreds of antisemitic posts over a six-week period earlier this year. The posts, including Nazi, neo-Nazi and white supremacist content, received up to 7.3 million impressions.
Although each of the 714 posts clearly violated the platforms’ policies, fewer than one in six ...
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August 2, 2021 at 10:09 am
Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman on Monday announced updates to the county's COVID-19 vaccination and mask requirements at county facilities.
Effective Sept. 13, county employees who are not vaccinated will be required to provide a negative COVID-19 test result each week in order to report to work.
Additionally, effective Thursday, all county employees and the general public will be required to wear masks inside all county-owned buildings.
Pittman said 70% of the county's eligible residents have received the vaccine.
"Anne Arundel County has the third-highest rate among Maryland's 24 counties," Pittman said.
As of Sunday, there have been nearly 44,682 confirmed cases in Anne Arundel County and 654 deaths as a result of the virus since the pandemic started.
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August 2, 2021 at 9:58 am
In a little publicized development, the United States Embassy has announced a special service to make available additional appointments for passport services. These appointments will be held during the month of August, on Sundays, when the Embassy is generally closed. Citizens have only been allowed to apply for this service over the past few days, and registration will close TODAY, Monday, August 2. Click here to register.
To participate, you must meet all of the following conditions:
You currently possess a U.S. passport (even an expired one), but NO FIRST TIME PASSPORTS
You are NOT eligible to renew using Form DS-82 or Form DS-5504
Your current/most recent passport was a five-year passport, or was issued more than fifteen years ago, or your child&rsq...
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August 2, 2021 at 8:52 am
Square Inc. has agreed to an all-stock deal valued at around $29 billion to acquire Australia’s Afterpay Ltd., an installment-payment company that positions its service as a cheaper and more responsible alternative to a credit card.
Square said it plans to integrate Afterpay into its Seller and Cash App business units, which would allow more retailers to offer so-called buy now, pay later services at checkout.
Afterpay’s technology allows users to pay for goods in four interest-free installments, while receiving the goods immediately. Customers pay a fee only if they miss an automated payment, a transgression that also locks their account until the balance is repaid. Afterpay says this limits bad debts, particularly in a downturn when job security is shaky and househ...
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August 2, 2021 at 8:41 am
Parshas Re’eih includes the commandment that instructs us how to prepare our meat for our table (Devorim 12:15).
Question #1:
Sheis, the son of Adom Harishon, was traveling one day and realized that he had not packed enough peanut butter sandwiches for the trip. Now hungry, he witnessed a travel accident, which resulted in an animal being killed. Was he permitted to cook the carcass for lunch?
Question #2:
Sheis’ descendant, Linda, lives in the modern era and is Jewish. While traveling in an unfamiliar area, she hunts for kosher meat, discovering some with an unfamiliar supervision, and calls her rabbi to ask whether he recommends it. What factors does he consider in advising her whether to use this product?
Question #3:
In a previous position, I was responsible for...
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August 2, 2021 at 8:29 am
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday warned that the country’s latest COVID-19 surge is “going to get worse” — but insisted he doesn’t expect the climbing case numbers to trigger any new lockdown orders.
The White House chief medical adviser acknowledged that the US has yet to turn the corner in the recent outbreak driven by the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.
“Things are going to get worse,” Fauci told ABC co-anchor Jonathan Karl on “This Week.”
But Fauci said he still doesn’t expect the nation to shut down again.
“I don’t think we’re gonna see lockdowns. I think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country — not enough to crush the outbreak — but I believe enough to ...
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August 2, 2021 at 8:26 am
Israel’s Health Ministry is quietly drawing up plans for yet another nation-wide lockdown, a senior ministry official said, as the number of new cases of the coronavirus in Israel continuing to rise.
A report by Yediot Aharanot Monday morning cited a top Health Ministry official who warned that unless the outbreaks of the Delta Variant are contained in the near future and the trends in infection rates reversed, a new lockdown is all but guaranteed.
“It is obvious to everyone that if we don’t succeed in getting control of this thing, then we’re heading for a lockdown,” the official said.
Health Ministry officials estimate that if the government does move to impose a new lockdown, the fourth since March 2020, it will be put into effect during the up...
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August 2, 2021 at 8:26 am
Positive test rate decreases slightly as country ramps up booster campaign for older adults
The number of daily COVID-19 cases in Israel climbed to 2,114 on Monday, including three new deaths reported in the previous 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data.
The percentage of positive tests stood at 2.95 percent out of 72,220 tests administered, representing a slight decrease from Sunday's tally of 3.17 percent.
Of those infected, 212 were in serious condition with 46 of these patients listed as critical and 42 people on respirators.
The three new fatalities brought the overall death toll to 6,477 since the pandemic entered Israel.
On Sunday, Israel began vaccinating eligible older adults above the age of 60 with the booster shot with high demand, according th...
