Thursday, August 3, 2023

After synagogue gunman’s death sentence, Pittsburgh’s Jews feel relief and gratitude BY RON KAMPEAS (JTA)..A war between Hezbollah and Israel ‘in Iran’s interests’..

 

THE DAILY EDITION
Thursday, August 3, 2023
 
‘It’s like Lord of the Flies’: Children sent home from summer camps for vandalism
BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG
Youth movement FZY apologises for “issues which have given you as parents cause for concern” as disruptive participants asked to leave and several parents collect their children early
 
Community ‘deeply appreciative’ of mayor’s £3.50 kosher school meal pledge
BY LEE HARPIN
25 Jewish stare-run primary schools in London to receive funding for £3.50 kosher lunches, Sadiq Khan confirms
 
‘Dishonest and deceitful’ rape suspect Nicholas Rossi can be extradited
BY LAUREN GILMOUR (PA SCOTLAND)
Nicholas Rossi is wanted by authorities in Utah for allegedly raping a woman in 2008. He also faces multiple complaints against him in Rhode Island for alleged domestic violence.
 
After synagogue gunman’s death sentence, Pittsburgh’s Jews feel relief and gratitude
BY RON KAMPEAS (JTA)
“The only thing positive about the sentencing of a criminal is that this long slog is over,” said Audrey Glickman, who hid in the synagogue on the day of the attack.
 
Pittsburgh synagogue shooter sentenced to death
BY RON KAMPEAS (JTA)
 
Breathtaking unseen footage of Holocaust ‘miracle’ unveiled for first time
BY JN REPORTER
Three-minute footage shows Holocaust survivors, who were heading by train to Theresienstadt on 13 April 1945, after they were rescued by American troops.


 
Man whose house had Nazi flags, fridge magnets and Adolf Hitler portrait jailed
BY JEWISH NEWS REPORTER
Samuel Doyle also called for the killing of members of the LGBT+ community and the extermination of Jewish people in a range of online posts.
 
OPINION: Diplomatic cold war in a Berlin ice cream shop
BY JENNI FRAZER
While owner Avi Berg’s objection was not over Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor’s presence as an individual but rather what he represented, Jenni Frazer says it was a “missed opportunity on both sides”
 
A war between Hezbollah and Israel ‘in Iran’s interests’
BY JOTAM CONFINO IN ISRAEL
Israeli security official tells Jewish News that Iran ordered Hezbollah to provoke Israel on its northern border, thereby pushing Tehran’s conflict with Israel far away from home
 
OPINION: Kisharon Langdon represents a brave new vision in learning disability and autism
BY RICHARD FRANKLIN
With the potential for 13.5% more of donor monies for frontline services, Kisharon Langdon CEO Richard Franklin writes about the largest communal merger in almost 30 years
 
Children’s literature comes of age with Ivor Baddiel’s bonkers new book
BY CANDICE KRIEGER
Everything that could possibly go wrong at a bar mitzvah does go wrong in the author’s madcap new novel.
 
Far-right lawmakers rage against IDF, demand West Bank annexation
BY JOTAM CONFINO IN ISRAEL
Defence Minister Gallant ‘knowingly endangers the lives of (West Bank) residents. I would prefer a different defense minister who will care for the settlers,’ claimed one far-right MK
 
Jewish groups condemn Trump’s comparison of indictment to Nazi persecution
BY RON KAMPEAS (JTA)
“The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s,” Trump’s campaign said.
 
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ORTHODOX JUDAISM / Making Sense of the Sedra: Eikev
BY LAURIE MAURER
 
PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM / Leap of Faith: leaving and learning
BY RABBI MIRIAM BERGER
 

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