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Dutch Headwear Ban Sparks Vigilantism Fears

Dutch rights activists and Muslim groups fear nativist vigilantes will try to enforce a controversial headwear ban that took effect last week. By: Jamie Dettmer Dutch police, transport companies and municipal authorities have expressed a reluctance to enforce the ban on face-covering clothing. The new law criminalizes Muslim women for wearing either the all-covering burqa […]

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A National Day of Mourning

The first nine days of the Hebrew month of Av, and also the morning of the tenth, are days of acute mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Holy Temples in Jerusalem. The Sages teach that the Temples were destroyed due to the sin of Sinas Chinam; baseless hatred of one another. This […]

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G-d Doesn’t Go To Ibiza

I have to admit that I stopped in my tracks when I first heard a brilliant young woman make the statement. It encapsulated so much of what has become a growing disassociation we have with the period between the 17 of Tamuz and the 9 of Ab where we are to focus more clearly on […]

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Trump Visits Ohio, Texas Cities Where Gunmen Killed 31

By: Steve Herman President Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, visited shooting victims in hospitals in Ohio and Texas on Wednesday but stayed away from an entertainment district in Dayton and a Walmart in El Paso where gunmen killed 31 people last weekend. Both locations attracted demonstrators who opposed Trump’s visit while calling for […]

PM Netanyahu with Efrat Mayor Oded Ravivi and Gush Etzion Mayor Shlomo Neeman Photo credit Amos Ben-Gershom GPO
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Netanyahu Visits Site of Terror Attack in Gush Etzion

Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today toured the scene of the terrorist attack in the Etzion Bloc and received a security briefing by GOC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Nadav Padan. Following is an excerpt from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s remarks: “I said this morning that the Land of Israel is acquired through tribulations. Today we […]

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Ron Perelman Hosts Last Hamptons Fundraiser for Apollo Theater

By Ilana Siyance Billionaire Ron Perelman is ending his annual Apollo in the Hamptons bash. For the past decade, the 76-year-old business man, investor and philanthropist has hosted the star-studded event at his East Hamptons estate, the Creeks, to raise funds for the famed Harlem theater. Every year since 2009, in August he has hosted […]

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Terror Attack at Efrat

19-yr-old Dvir Sorek was murdered last night by terrorists. An off duty soldier and Yeshiva student, he was stabbed to death while unarmed and not in uniform. Dvir went missing last night and was found stabbed to death early this morning. Dvir was a grandson of Rabbi Binyamin Harling who was killed in a terror […]

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