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Comparing Rand Paul to the Squad is unfair. He doesn’t hate Israel – Haaretz

| October 11, 2021

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has often proved to be a gift that keeps giving for Democrats and a thorn in the side of fellow Republicans. The stubbornly independent Pauls dogmatic advocacy of libertarian ideas about governance has often thrown a monkey wrench into the plans of the Senate leadership.

Most advanced simulation of manned Mars mission is happening in Israel – Haaretz

| October 11, 2021

In 1912, the renowned creator of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, wrote a series of stories about another mind-bending setting. He replaced the jungles of Africa with the wasteland of Mars, to which a Southern gentleman by the name of John Carter had been mysteriously transported. More than a century later, the red planet is still a destination that sets our imagination on fire.

16-year-old Israeli dies from post-COVID complications – The Times of Israel

| October 11, 2021

An Israeli teenager died Saturday of lingering health complications after falling ill with COVID-19. The 16-year-old was unvaccinated and did not have any existing medical conditions

Judaism often thrives on new technologies. That doesnt mean Impossible Pork should be kosher. – JTA News – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| October 11, 2021

(JTA) The Orthodox Union wont certify Impossible Pork as kosher, representing a break from the way that decisions about certifying kosher food are normally made. But as someone who studies Judaisms long relationship with technology, I would argue that it is undoubtedly the right move.

Toward a More Inclusive Orthodox Judaism | JewishBoston – jewishboston.com

| October 11, 2021

Growing up, Reena Zuckerman 23 loved to read from the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. She did it the first time at her bat mitzvah and continues still today.

Writing Hebrew letters creatively is a Jewish tradition. This rabbi sees sacredness in doodles, too. – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

| October 11, 2021

(JTA) When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student doodling.

Jerusalem: A city that gets your head spinning – The New Times

| October 11, 2021

This is Jerusalem. Some people even lose their mind when they come here, says Uri, a guide leading us on a lifetime tour inside the old city. This is my first time here, and my mind is being blown away by what I am seeing and hearing, as I, along with fellow journalists make our way through the stone walls of the city.

The problem with Corbyn, AOC and left-wing antisemitism – opinion – The Jerusalem Post

| October 11, 2021

Many eyebrows were raised when a small group of leftist anti-Israel congressional representatives successfully torpedoed their own presidents initial supplementary Iron Dome funding proposal. As Iron Dome is a defensive system that protects Israels civilian population from rockets fired by terrorists, the progressive Democrats who quashed the proposal were widely accused of not only being fierce opponents of the Jewish state, but of harboring hostile attitudes toward Jews and their words would seem to attest to such prejudice. How can the Left, which proudly champions the equality of all, be bigoted against Jews?

A viral conversion story and the paradox of choosing to leave modernity – The Week Magazine

| October 11, 2021

Tech entrepreneur and author Antonio Garca Martnez made wavesover the weekend with a Substack post about his decision to leave behind "cultural Catholicism" in favor of Judaism. The main reason the post has people talking is Garca Martnez's case for conversion has more to do with his hostility to secular modernity than a positive defense of specifically Jewish scripture or tradition. That makes his conversion story exceedingly modern.

Head and shoulders, knees and toes – The Tablet

| October 11, 2021

God: An AnatomyFRANCESCA STAVRAKOPOULOU(PICADOR, 608 PP, 25)Tablet bookshop price 22.50 tel 020 7799 4064 This scintillating study sets out to recover the body of the God of Israel, which Francesca Stavrakopoulou argues has been lost in religious transit. Modern Judaism, Christianity and Islam, according to Stavrakopoulou, think of God as bodiless: formless, imageless, invisible


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