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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Chris Christie, appearing with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, slams Iran deal
(JTA) — Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie at a news conference alongside Jewish leaders including Rabbi Shmuley Boteach urged Congress to block the Iran nuclear deal.
Christie, the governor of New Jersey, at the Rutgers University Chabad House in New Brunswick, New Jersey, called on Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and his state’s congressional delegation to vote against the deal.
Booker has not announced his position on the deal, which lifts economic sanctions in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear program. New Jersey’s other senator, Robert Menendez, announced on Aug. 18 that he opposes the deal.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
U.N.: South Sudan army using Israeli weapons
(JTA) — The South Sudanese army is using Israeli weapons to fight its civil war, according to a United Nations report.
A U.N. Security Council report about the conflict said that photographs showed South Sudanese officers and soldiers using the Ace, an advanced version of the Galil assault rifle, Haaretz reported Wednesday. The rifle is produced by Israel Weapon Industries.
Israel would not confirm that it has sold weapons to South Sudan, according to Haaretz.
The war has gone on for 18 months amid allegations of human rights violations, including the use of child soldiers. According to the report, all branches of South Sudan’s security forces are using the Ace.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
IDF arrests 31 Palestinian suspects in nighttime raid
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces detained 31 Palestinians suspected of involvement in terror operations or violent protests.
The arrest raids also uncovered illegally held weapons, including six rifles, a pistol, gun sights and ammunition magazines, according to the Times of Israel. The number of suspects detained was significantly higher than average in the IDF’s nightly West Bank raids.
Fourteen of the suspects were captured near Nablus in the northern West Bank. The IDF will interrogate all of the detainees.
During the search, the IDF also uncovered four captured deer. Two will be released into the wild and two will be transferred t0 animal care.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
White House: Obama didn’t call Iran deal opponents ‘crazies’
(JTA) — The president was not referring to opponents of the agreement over Iran’s nuclear program when he used the term “crazies,” a White House spokesman said.
At a fundraising event in Nevada Monday, President Obama told Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid he would “deal with the crazies in terms of managing some problems.” Some interpreted the remark as referring to opponents of the agreement recently finalized between Iran and six world powers over the Iranian nuclear program. Congress will vote on the agreement next month.
White House spokesman Peter Schultz said the president was referring to other proposed Republican legislation, not the campaign against the Iran deal.
“He may have been a little flip,” Schultz said, according to Politico. “But his bottom line is that if you take a step back, as he was during vacation, and take a look at what some Republicans float in Washington, he thinks those are reckless steps.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Most Orthodox Jews are Republicans and 11 other findings from Pew
NEW YORK (JTA) – Ever since the Pew Research Center released its landmark 2013 survey of U.S. Jewry, the study has become central to debates about everything from intermarriage to Jewish education. Now comes a new treasure trove of data from Pew about Orthodox Jews, extrapolated from the data amassed for the 2013 study (from 3,475 interviews with Jews conducted that year).
Though Orthodox Jews comprise only 10 percent of all American Jews, their share of the U.S. Jewish population is growing rapidly. And the implications are profound. “If the Orthodox grow as a share of U.S. Jews, they gradually could shift the profile of American Jews in several areas, including religious beliefs and practices, social and political views and demographic characteristics,” the new study says.
Here are some of the top findings in Pew’s new report, “A Portrait of American Orthodox Jews.”
About two-thirds of Orthodox Jews identify as haredi. About 62 percent identify as haredi Orthodox (Hasidic or non-Hasidic), and 31 percent identify as modern Orthodox. Seventy percent of Orthodox Jews say they were raised Orthodox, 12 percent were raised Conservative and 5 percent Reform.
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From PressTV
Aid groups urge removal of Israeli blockade on Gaza
Some 35 aid agencies have launched a petition calling for an end to Israel’s inhumane siege on the Gaza Strip, which is grappling with the repercussions of the Tel Aviv regime’s deadly military aggression last summer.
“One year on from the Israeli military operation in Gaza, we are calling on you (world leaders) to press Israel to end the blockade and to immediately remove wood, steel bars, cement, aggregates, and other essential construction materials from the list of items restricted from entering the Gaza Strip,” read the petition, which was posted on the website of the Avaaz campaigning group on Wednesday.
The aid groups said in a statement that Israel’s siege on the coastal sliver is resulting in incalculable delays in reconstruction efforts in the Palestinian territory.
They further went on to say that approximately 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza are still homeless, while none of the 19,000 homes demolished during Tel Aviv’s latest onslaught against the blockaded enclave have been fully rebuilt.
It could take 17 years to reconstruct Gaza as just five percent of the 6.7 million tons of steel bars, cement and aggregates required to rebuild the region have been permitted entry, the aid agencies added.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish congressmen call for civil Iran debate; another senator supports
(JTA) — Three New York Democratic congressmen called for more substance and fewer personal attacks in the debate on the agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.
On Tuesday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) announced she would support the accord, bringing the total number of Democrats backing the deal to 29.
Reps. Eliot Engel, Nita Lowey and Steve Israel released a statement Tuesday supporting a “serious debate” over the agreement. The statement criticized comparisons between the deal and the Holocaust, as well as accusations of dual loyalty or insufficient support of Israel.
“We remain concerned that individuals on both sides of the debate have resorted to ad hominem attacks and threats against those who don’t share their opinions,” the statement read. “This is unacceptable. It is especially egregious to attribute malicious intent to decision makers who are thoughtfully debating the details and effects of the agreement.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Reinstate prof who lost job offer over anti-Israel tweets, U. of Illinois officers demand
(JTA) — Executive officers at the University of Illinois called for the reinstatement of a professor whose job offer was rescinded over his anti-Israel tweets.
The 41 department heads, chairs and directors in an open letter published Sunday said Acting Chancellor Barbara Wilson and President Timothy Killeen should call for the reinstatement of Steven Salaita at the next board meeting, on Sept. 10, the Daily Illini student newspaper reported.
Phyllis Wise resigned as chancellor about two weeks ago after being implicated in a scandal over hidden emails involving the rescinding of the job offer.
Last summer, the university announced that Salaita would be joining the faculty. Wise revoked the appointment, however, after being made aware of Twitter posts by Salaita attacking Israel and its U.S. supporters in harsh language during Israel’s operation in Gaza last summer. The tweets appeared on Salaita’s personal account.
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From Russia Today
1,100 migrants banned from Tel Aviv, Eilat after spending 12+ months in desert detention center
A fortnight ago, a court ruled that 20-month temporary detention for migrants is “disproportionate,” shortening that to a year – thus, the first 750 inmates left the Holot facility on Tuesday in small groups, according to AFP. More of them are scheduled to go Wednesday.
After the ruling, dozens took to the streets to demonstrate against the decision, saying that it will cause the influx of migrants.
“If the High Court lived among us, it would know about all the attacks here, all the crime, that people here have no sense of personal security,” Yigal Ben-David, a protester at the demonstration told The Times of Israel.
The bail terms included banning the migrants from Tel Aviv or the southern city Eilat – places where the migrant population is already quite big. Also, the released inmates are set to get a $156-dollar stipend, plus water, food, and medicine, The Times of Israel reported.
“We don’t know where to go, where we’re going to sleep tonight,” Salah, a 33-year-old Sudanese man, told AFP. Salah has been in Israel for nine years, including 20 months at the detention center.
“They gave us a paper that says ‘prohibited from going to Eilat or Tel Aviv,’ but that’s where we know people. I don’t have money to rent an apartment. Where do I go now?”
The cities where the migrants will go are Arad, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Rishon LeZion, Yavneh and Haifa, according to Channel 2. If they go to Tel Aviv or Eilat, migrants will be transferred to other allowed cities.
Around 47,000 African migrants now reside in Israel, most of them having an asylum seeker status. Over 90 percent of them are from Eritrea, Sudan and the Congo. Most of those are in Israel illegally and live in poor areas of southern Tel Aviv.
Since 2009, Israel has accepted less 0.15 percent of asylum claims, the lowest rate in the Western world.
From Russia Today
Harrowing images show ISIS ‘demolishing’ Syria’s ancient Palmyra temple (PHOTOS)
The militants on Tuesday published images purporting to show men carrying barrels with what seemed to be explosives into the Baal Shamin temple in Syria’s Palmyra. The series of photos also depicted barrels tied to the columns of the temple and a large explosion which razed the building to the ground. The images were presumably screenshots from a video.
The Baal Shamin temple, which used to be the best preserved building at Palmyra, was blown up on Sunday, according to officials. UNESCO said that its inner part – or cella – was “severely damaged” and the surrounding pillars collapsed after the explosion.
The temple dedicated to a Semitic deity was built nearly 2,000 years ago and further enlarged by Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD.
From Ynet News
Tel Aviv Municipality site: Israeli male ‘was born to protect you’, women ‘live for attention’
Site for foreigners interested in studying in Israel gave advice on how to approach and understand men and women, including that the former ‘need to be put in their place’ and the latter ‘will eat you alive’.
The Israeli male “has no problem undressing you with their (sic) eyes” and “was born to protect you”, while the women are “fragile and live for attention”, according to studyintelaviv.com, which is run on behalf of the Tel Aviv Municipality.
The site is part of Tel Aviv Global, described as an initiative started by the Mayor’s Office “dedicated to elevating the city’s global positioning.” The site containing the text quoted above is intended to provide information for those interested in coming to study in Israel and for tourists.
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From The Times of Israel
After Duma firebombing, a child’s tragedy becomes his grandfather’s life
‘I won’t let him suffer alone,’ says grandfather of Ahmed Dawabsha, 5-year-old badly burned in attack that killed his father and baby brother
Sixteen years after Hussein Dawabsha was employed as a construction worker at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer, he returned for the first time under tragic circumstances he never imagined possible.
For the past three weeks, Dawabsha has been spending every day in Israel’s largest hospital with his five-year-old grandson, Ahmed, whose entire body is wrapped in bandages with 90 percent burns.
“I have no choice,” Dawabsha told The Times of Israel, standing next to the boy sleeping on a gurney. “I have to be here for Ahmed. He lost his father. He lost his brother. His mother is unconscious. I won’t let him suffer alone.”
Ahmed’s hospital room has people coming and going – mostly family, but occasionally activists volunteering to help the Dawabshas get through the reality of living in a nightmare.
