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From The Independent
From Ynet News
Kerry to visit region to discuss Iran deal, but skip Israel
US secretary of state to travel to Egypt and Qatar and meet with allies in attempt to alleviate concerns over nuclear agreement signed with Tehran; State Dept. says Kerry has been in constant contact with Netanyahu over deal.
WASHINGTON – In what appears to be a new low in US-Israel relations, US Secretary of State John Kerry, who will visit the Middle East next week to alleviate concerns among Washington’s Gulf allies over the Iranian nuclear deal, will not visit Israel.
US State Department spokesman John Kirby announced Kerry’s planned visit to Egypt on Sunday and to Qatar the next day to meet with senior Gulf officials over the nuclear deal.
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From The Times of Israel
Huckabee hits back at Obama for ignoring Iran’s ‘Big Holocaust’ threat
Republican candidate defends remarks after hailstorm of criticism follows his accusation US president leading Israelis ‘into the oven’
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee stood by widely criticized comments accusing US President Barack Obama of “marching Israelis to the door of the oven,” accusing Iran of planning a “Big Holocaust.”
The comments came hours after Obama himself swiped Huckabee. In the latest volley of an ongoing and increasingly personal argument over the Iran nuclear deal, the president described the comments by Huckabee — in addition to those of other Republican candidates — as “ridiculous if it weren’t so sad.”
Earlier this week, Huckabee likened the nuclear agreement to “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven,” a clear reference to the Holocaust.
Huckabee defended his remark, accusing Obama of ignoring threats from Tehran.
“What’s ‘ridiculous and sad’ is that President Obama does not take Iran’s repeated threats seriously. For decades, Iranian leaders have pledged to ‘destroy,’ ‘annihilate,’ and ‘wipe Israel off the map’ with a ‘big Holocaust,’” he said in a statement.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
5 ex-U.S. ambassadors to Israel back Iran deal
(JTA) — Five former U.S. ambassadors to Israel sent a letter to Congress in favor of the Iran nuclear deal.
James Cunningham, William Harrop, Daniel Kurtzer, Thomas Pickering and Edward Walker Jr. signed the letter, along with R. Nicholas Burns, former undersecretary of state for political affairs and ambassador to NATO, and Frank Wisner, former undersecretary of state for international security affairs and undersecretary of defense for policy, the Times of Israel reported.
“No agreement between multiple parties can be perfect or without risks,” the letter states. “We believe that without this agreement, however, the risks will be much higher for the United States and Israel. We see no fatal flaws that should call for the rejection of this agreement and have not heard any viable alternatives from those who oppose the implementation” of the deal.
Congress has started its 60-day review of the agreement reached by Iran and six world powers led by the United States. The Israeli government and several Jewish-American groups oppose the deal.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
ICC prosecutor rejects court’s request to reconsider flotilla case
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has rejected a panel of judges’ request to reconsider her decision not to investigate war crimes allegations in the Mavi Marmara flotilla case.
The office of Fatou Bensouda has appealed to the ICC appeals court regarding its decision on July 16 to order her by a vote of 2-1 to reconsider the decision to close the case “as soon as possible,” the Israeli media reported Monday evening.
In the appeal, Bensouda said the judges did not consider “the unique context of violent resistance aboard the Mavi Marmara,” Israel’s i24 news reported. The ship was trying to evade Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Last November, Bensouda closed a preliminary investigation into the incident in which nine Turkish passengers, including one U.S. citizen, were killed in clashes with Israeli commandos who had boarded the Mavi Marmara. She said at the time that any cases relating to Israel’s boarding of the ship “would not be of sufficient gravity to justify further action by the ICC.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Safed rabbi charged in sexual assault of women who sought his counsel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Safed rabbi was indicted on 13 counts of grave sexual crimes against women who had turned to him with religious questions.
Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg, 46, was charged Monday in the Nazareth District Court, Israel Radio reported. The charges include rape, indecent assault, sexual harassment, fraud and obstructing an investigation, Ynet reported.
The prosecution asked that the rabbi remain in custody until the end of legal proceedings against him, and for a gag order to be placed on the indictment and any details that could identify the complainants.
Sheinberg, who headed the Orot HaAri yeshiva he founded in 1999, is married with eight children. He was arrested at Ben Gurion Airport on July 2 as he reportedly waited to catch a flight to Brazil.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Huckabee tweets Iran, Hezbollah threats in continued assault on Iran deal
(JTA) — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee cited threats from Israel’s enemies in his continued assault on the Iran nuclear deal.
A series of Twitter posts on Sunday night followed a day after Huckabee said that President Barack Obama will march Israelis “to the door of the oven.”
Bolstering his argument of the potential harm the agreement signed by Iran and world powers earlier this month would do to Israel, Huckabee tweeted quotes from Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, among others.
“It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region,” read one of the posts attributed to Khamenei.
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From PressTV
Israel forces fire on 1000s at West Bank funeral, injure 14
Israeli regime forces have used live fire against thousands of Palestinians taking part in the West Bank funeral of a Palestinian teenager, injuring several people.
Clashes between the regime forces and funeral participants erupted Monday afternoon after 18-year-old Muhammad Abu Latifa was shot dead by Israeli forces in an early morning raid into the Qalandia refugee camp.
Six Palestinians were injured by live rounds while eight others were wounded after the Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullet at the crowd, the Ma’an news agency reported.
According to the report, the massive funeral procession began at Ramallah’s Palestine Medical Complex, and continued towards the mosque at the refugee camp where thousands prayed before the Palestinian teenager was buried at the Qalandia cemetery.
Clashes broke out as funeral participants hoisted Palestinian flags while chanting national songs and calling for revenge with youth in the crowd throwing stones and empty bottles at Israeli regime forces surrounding the site who responded by firing at the angry protesters.
There were conflicting reports on how Abu Latifa was killed. While the Tel Aviv regime claims he fell to his death while shot in his lower extremities as he attempted to escape arrest, the teen’s father insists that the Israeli forces killed his son in “cold blood” on the roof of the family’s home, leaving him to bleed to death after attempting several times to arrest him without success.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces assault Palestinian prisoners in Nafha jail
Israeli troops have raided a detention facility in southern occupied territories, assaulted dozens of Palestinian inmates and then forcibly transferred many of them to other sections of the jail.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee reported that Israeli troopers stormed Ward 10 of Nafha Prison in the Israeli town of Mitzpe Ramon, located 164 kilometers (102 miles) south of Tel Aviv, on Monday, and broke into the rooms, where Palestinian prisoners from the impoverished Gaza Strip are being held.
Prisoners set fire to a number of rooms in the old section of jail in a show of protest against the crackdown by Israeli prison officials.
The Israeli authorities cancelled family visits for Gazan inmates, and transferred the prisoners to other wards of Nafha Prison by force.
The development came a day after Palestinian media outlets reported that the Israeli regime is currently holding 391 Palestinians in administrative detention, a two-fold increase compared to similar figures released in the summer of 2014.
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From PressTV
Palestinian dies fleeing Israeli forces
A Palestinian man has been killed while struggling to escape Israeli troopers who were trying to arrest him in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police say.
Israeli forces entered the Qalandia refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday to detain two suspected Palestinian activists, police said, adding that one of the Palestinians was shot in the leg as he was running away across a roof and then was killed as he tried to leap to another roof.
The victim, killed in Israel’s third deadly arrest attempt in less than a week, was later identified as Mohammad Abu Latifa, 18.
On Thursday, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in southern West Bank while detaining his son.
Another Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces during clashes near the northern West Bank city of Jenin last Wednesday.
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From The Independent
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
NYC education officials urged to investigate quality of yeshivas
(JTA) — Fifty-two people — former yeshiva students, parents of current yeshiva students and former teachers from schools — reportedly signed a letter sent to New York City education officials expressing “deep concern” about “the poor quality and scant amount of secular education” at the 39 schools with which they say they are affiliated.
The letter, sent to seven district superintendents in Queens and Brooklyn and New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina, allege that the yeshivas are failing to meet New York state law requiring all nonpublic schools to provide an education that is “substantially equivalent” to what is offered in public schools. The letter urges the superintendents to “investigate the quality of secular education and, in particular English instruction, at the listed Yeshivas and to take steps to ensure that pupils at these Yeshivas receive the essential and substantially equivalent education to which they are entitled.”
The letter-writing campaign was organized by Yaffed, a 3-year-old advocacy group that seeks to improve the quality of secular education in haredi Orthodox schools in New York state. Haredi Orthodox schools devote far greater time and resources to religious instruction than to secular instruction, particularly in boys’ schools. As a result, some graduates complain that they are unprepared for careers and unable to support themselves financially.
Yaffed shared a copy of the letter in a news release, but is withholding the names of the signatories and is asking the letter’s recipients not to release them in order to protect the letter-writers’ “safety.” The group also did not release the names of the 39 schools it said were identified in the letter.
From Ynet News
Breslov rabbi: A rabbi must never receive women
Following senior rabbis’ alleged sex offenses, Rabbi Shalom Arush slams fellow religious leaders who meet with women seeking their advice or blessing: ‘How can a rabbi receive women? Doesn’t he desire? Doesn’t he crave? His evil inclination is much bigger than an ordinary person’s.’
According to Arush, it is also women’s responsibility not to meet with rabbis.
Last Thursday, it was cleared for publication that Ezra Sheinberg of Safed is the kabbalist rabbi suspected of raping some of his female followers.
In a lesson he delivered last week in his yeshiva, Chut Shel Chessed (“a touch of grace”), Rabbi Arush said: “You can’t twist the Torah. Our Sages of Blessed Memory said: ‘There is no guardian for promiscuity’ (i.e., person cannot trust himself not to engage in forbidden sex, and should therefore impose commands on himself to prevent it).”
Rabbi Sahlom Arush. ‘If a woman wants a blessing or advice, she can write, and the rabbis will answer her’ (Archive photo: Shlomi Cohen)
From The Times of Israel
Muslim school in UK bans contact with outsiders
Institute in Dewsbury, highly rated by authorities, also bars students from the media, follows stringent Sharia code
A Muslim school in the northern UK has forbidden its students from mixing with outsiders, Sky News reported Saturday.
Despite its isolationist policies, the boarding school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire has received a ‘good’ rating from the nation’s school inspection services.
The Institute of Islamic Education is run by a local, strict Muslim sect that enforces Sharia law on pupils. Students are reportedly threatened with expulsion if they mix with children from outside the community.
Pupils are also forbidden from following any media outlets or speaking to the press. Mobile phones, cameras and music players are all prohibited.
Ofsted, the British government agency that monitors education quality, praised the institution in the past and said it “provides a good quality of education and meets its stated aims very well.”
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From The Times of Israel
Jon Stewart reviews his Jewish bent
Senator Chuck Schumer helps departing Daily Show host remember his most Hebrewish moments
For years, it has been written about and on Thursday night it was sealed: Jon Stewart is proud to be Jewish.
With just two weeks left before he leaves “The Daily Show” after a 16-year run as host — and well ahead of the High Holidays — he appears to be tying up loose ends. Stewart made his Jewish pride clear in a segment titled “A Look Back: Let His People Laugh.”
Senator Chuck Schumer made a surprise appearance as a follow-up to his inclusion on the previous night’s show, which poked fun at the lawmaker’s preference for talking about diner food rather than addressing the Iran deal. (“What have you done?” Stewart asked MSNBC, about its choice of location for its interview with Schumer last weekend. “You brought an old New York Jewish man to a diner!”)
Conversation about diner breakfast food inevitably led to a Jewish joke, with Stewart quipping to the audience:
“How did you know I was Jewish? For years, I have gone out of my way to avoid displaying any of the stereotypical characteristics of our shared heritage.”
