‘Einstein’s Jewish Science’ author on State of Belief Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / Brad A. Greenberg ” title=”Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and<br /> Religion” target=”_blank”>Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion</a>,” philosophy professor Steven Gimbel talks about how Jewish thinking laid a foundation for Einstein’s breakthrough Theory of Relativity. The <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/review/einsteins-jewish-science-by-steven-gimbel.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss <view-source:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/books/review/einsteins-jewish-science-by-steven-gimbel.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>” title=”New York Times” target=”_blank”>New York Times</a></i> reviewed Gimbel’s book Friday and summarized it this way:</p> <blockquote> <p>Einstein, Gimbel argues, was especially well put to come upon such insights because he was a Jew. Gimbel is not saying that Einstein was deeply religious. When he talked about “the secrets of the Old One” or God playing dice, he was being a little ironic, using the idea of a deity he didn’t believe in as a metaphor for the laws of the universe. Nor does Gimbel find any particularly Jewish ideas in Einstein’s science or signs that, as the Nazis contended, it was politically motivated. I don’t think many will need convincing on those points. But Gimbel is an engaging writer. In demonstrating the obvious, he takes readers on enlightening excursions through the nature of Judaism, Hegelian philosophy, wherever his curiosity leads.</p> </blockquote> <p>Listen to Gimbel talk about his book in the above video.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/106869/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">‘Einstein’s Jewish Science’ author on State of Belief</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-106870 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-california category-is_featured_20110628 category-mobile_20111212 category-mobile_sections category-news ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-106870" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/mobile_20111212/106870/" rel="bookmark">It’s town hall season for Sherman, Berman</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/mobile_20111212/106870/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/california/" rel="category tag">California</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_20111212/" rel="category tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_sections/" rel="category tag">Mobile Sections</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jonah Lowenfeld" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/jonahl/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jonah Lowenfeld </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Congress is in recess, which means it’s town hall season—especially for voters in the West San Fernando Valley. </p> <p>Rep. Brad Sherman addressed more than 200 of his constituents at The Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies at a town hall on Sunday afternoon, August 5. Six days earlier, Rep. Howard Berman had almost 200 in the auditorium at North Hollywood High School for what he called a “community meeting.” </p> <p>As nearly everyone I spoke with at these town halls already knew, Berman and Sherman, both relatively liberal, Jewish, Democratic incumbents, are running against one another this November, a result of redistricting. </p> <p>Redistricting is also to blame for the disclosure Berman made at the start of his town hall. Berman explained that the invitation to the event had initially gone out to the people he hopes to represent – voters who live in the newly drawn 30th Congressional District – and not to those voters he currently represents. </p> <p>That was, in Berman’s words, “a no-no,” and Berman said he had paid back the treasury the amount of taxpayer dollars he had spent “the moment [he] found out, which was about four days” before the event. That solution wasn’t sufficient for Sherman’s campaign though, which called Berman’s disclosure “half-hearted,” and accused him of also making illegal robo-calls to voters in the new 30th district to promote another public event.</p> <p>Sherman, who currently represents the majority of the new district – and beat Berman by 10 percentage points in the June primary—has held more than 161 town halls over the last 15 years. That’s a rate of almost one every month that he’s been in Congress, and it’s been a central part of his argument to voters as to why he deserves another term.</p> <p>The impending Berman-Sherman runoff was off limits at these events (which isn’t to say it didn’t come up) but even though the public forums are intended as venues for public questions about policy and for individuals to make complaints about what they see as the shortcomings of government, more than a few attendees confessed to feeling unsatisfied. </p> <p>Elisa Merva, a 30-year-old Navy veteran who came to Berman’s community meeting to voice her frustration with the service she’d experienced at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital. Berman responded to her question by talking about his efforts to keep the VA hospital on the Valley-based Sepulveda campus, but Merva said found the congressman’s response to be “vauge.” </p> <p>“To be honest, I feel that this is an issue that he’s completely uneducated on,” Merva said. </p> <p>Berman did have his fair share of fans in the audience on Monday evening. Leila Shiralian spoke immediately after Merva, and she cried while praising the member of Berman’s staff who had been helping her and her husband negotiate and work with the Small Business Administration, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and other governmental agencies. </p> <p>Shiralian, who is in hoping to solve her problem through the court system, said she came to the town hall only to be heard by the congressman. </p> <p>“I wanted him to take [my story] back to D.C.,” she said. </p> <p>On Sunday, meanwhile, Diane and Alan Kimmel, Jewish registered Republicans who live in Tarzana and have lived in Sherman’s district for as long as he’s represented it, came to their first town hall in order to better decide whether to vote for Sherman or Berman. </p> <p>“He’s nice enough, but I guess, I don’t know,” Diane Kimmel said. “We like the fact that I think he’s pretty strong on Israel.”</p> <p>(As a side note, which way the Republicans in the 30th district will go may still be an open question, but I’ve yet to meet a Jewish Republican who’s not solidly backing Sherman, a result, most likely, of his willingness to buck the Obama administration, particularly on the subject of Iranian sanctions.)</p> <p>Town halls are always a good place to spot gadflies – you know the type – the ones who show up, often with a pad of paper in hand, to ask questions that almost always are met with a salvo of boos or, better yet, elicit the kind of applause designed to drown out even the most insistent speaker. </p> <p>Berman was faced last Monday evening with someone asking for “answers on President Obama’s citizenship. </p> <p>Berman’s quick retort: “I thought a birth certificate was a pretty good answer.”</p> <p>Sherman, meanwhile, has perfected the art of giving answers that are simultaneously polite and dismissive. </p> <p>On Sunday, a white man with a halo of white hair complained that the Democratic party’s policy on immigration was “changing our demographics,” and asked Congressman Sherman to “admonish the immigrants not to have children” until they can afford to pay to support those children. </p> <p>When the audience’s laughter died down, Sherman answered the question semi-seriously. First, he talked about the 1960s, when the United States had a policy of racial quotas for the numbers of legal immigrants who could enter the country. Then, after declaring that he thought, “the cultural diversity of this country is a fine thing,” Sherman said he couldn’t tell immigrants not to have children. </p> <p>“I’ve had three in the last three years so I’d be really terrible as a poster child for that,” he said. </p> <p><i>On Monday, Aug. 6, Berman is scheduled to hold a public hearing in coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration on helicopter noise in the Valley at Millikan Middle School in Sherman Oaks. The hearing begins at 6:30 p.m., and is expected to last two hours. </p> <p>On Sunday, Aug 26, Sherman will hold a second general town hall meeting at Birmingham High School (17000 Haynes St., Lake Balboa, CA), from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.</i></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/mobile_20111212/106870/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">It’s town hall season for Sherman, Berman</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-106871 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-israel category-must_reads category-news category-rosners_domain-mobile category-worldwide tag-rosners-domain ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-106871" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106871/august-6-2012/" rel="bookmark">August 6, 2012</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106871/august-6-2012/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/united-states/must_reads/" rel="category tag">Must Reads</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/rosners_domain-mobile/" rel="category tag">Rosners Domain-mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/worldwide/" rel="category tag">Worldwide</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Shmuel Rosner" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/shmuel-rosner/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Shmuel Rosner </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p><b>In-depth</b></p> <p><a href="http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=6999" title="Whither Syria? Recommendations for Israeli Policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Whither Syria? Recommendations for Israeli Policy</a> </p> <p>Fears that Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands is changing Israel’s approach to its war-torn neighbor, writes Udi Dekel for <b>the Institute for National Security Studies</b>.</p> <p><b></p> <blockquote> <p>Israel’s interests regarding the Syrian crisis include quiet and a stable security situation; a new Syrian regime that is responsible, stable, functional, and not hostile to Israel; Syria’s removal from the Iranian camp and increased Western influence in the country; reduced negative consequences for Syria’s neighbors, particularly Jordan and Lebanon, and for the region at large; prevention of leakage of strategic weapons to hostile elements likely to use them against Israel.</p> <p></p></blockquote> <p></b></p> <p><a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/05/3102696/educate-israeli-leaders-on-the-nuances-of-diaspora-life" title="Educate Israeli leaders on the nuances of Diaspora life" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Educate Israeli leaders on the nuances of Diaspora life</a></p> <p>Israel’s leaders must appreciate the realities of Jewish life around the world to better strengthen Jewish ties to the country, writes MK Faina Kirshenbaum of Yisrael Beiteinu in an opinion piece for <b>JTA</b>.</p> <blockquote> <p><b>Among the most difficult questions is the very future of those Jewish communities—their ability to withstand assimilation and intermarriage; the strength to maintain the Jewish identity of the next generation. Perhaps the strict legal standards that we apply in Israel regarding who is a Jew are problematic and serve to create a wider gap between Israel and the Diaspora. Out of pain and concern, I believe we must strive not to become the enemy, not to alienate or reject the rainbow of Jews who today make up our multicultural Jewish world. </b></p> <p></p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/08/05/exclusive-secret-iranian-art-collection-features-work-from-iconic-israeli-artist-yaacov-agam/" title="Secret Iranian Art Collection Features Work from Iconic Israeli Artist " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Secret Iranian Art Collection Features Work from Iconic Israeli Artist </a></p> <p>There are up to 10 pieces by Yaacov Agam in an exhibit on partial display at Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the artist’s son tells <b>the Algemeiner</b>. </p> <blockquote> <p><b>The modern art collection which is considered to be the finest of its kind anywhere outside of Europe and the US, boasts works by Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Edvard Munch and others, and was brought before the revolution by the late Shah’s wife, Empress Farah Pahlavi.</b></p> <p></p></blockquote> <p><b>Daily Digest</b></p> <li> <p>Times of Israel:<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-us-ambassador-tweets-iran-behind-egyptian-cross-border-attack/" title=" Ambassador to US points to Iran on Egyptian cross-border attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Ambassador to US points to Iran on Egyptian cross-border attack</a></p> <li> <p>Haaretz: <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/barak-attack-on-israel-sinai-border-is-wake-up-call-for-egypt-government-1.456298" title="Barak: Attack on Israel-Sinai border is wake-up call for Egypt government" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Barak: Attack on Israel-Sinai border is ‘wake-up call’ for Egypt government</a></p> <li> <p>Jerusalem Post: <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=280178" title="Has time come for Egypt to retake Sinai?" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Has time come for Egypt to retake Sinai?</a></p> <li> <p>Ynet: <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4265026,00.html" title="Official: Hezbollah attack more dangerous than Iran missiles" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Official: Hezbollah attack more dangerous than Iran missiles</a></p> <li> <p>New York Times: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/world/middleeast/syrian-state-tv-reportedly-attacked-as-propaganda-war-unfolds.html?_r=1&ref=global-home" title="Syrian State TV Reportedly Attacked as Propaganda War Unfolds" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Syrian State TV Reportedly Attacked as Propaganda War Unfolds</a></p> <li> <p>Washington Post: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mccain-lieberman-and-graham-the-risks-of-inaction-in-syria/2012/08/05/4a63585c-dd91-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?hpid=z2" title="The risks of inaction in Syria" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The risks of inaction in Syria</a></p> <li> <p>Wall Street Journal: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443866404577563151864043044.html?mod=rss_Opinion?mod=hp_opinion" title="Brussels Hezbollah Blinders" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brussels’s Hezbollah Blinders</a></p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106871/august-6-2012/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">August 6, 2012</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-106872 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-is_featured_20110628 category-israel_rosner category-israel category-middle_east category-news category-rosners_domain-mobile tag-rosners-domain ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-106872" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106872/six-comments-following-yet-another-attack-on-the-israeli-egyptian-border-2/" rel="bookmark">Six comments following yet another attack on the Israeli-Egyptian border</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106872/six-comments-following-yet-another-attack-on-the-israeli-egyptian-border-2/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel_rosner/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/middle_east/" rel="category tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/rosners_domain-mobile/" rel="category tag">Rosners Domain-mobile</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Shmuel Rosner" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/shmuel-rosner/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Shmuel Rosner </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>1. </p> <p>The Israelis knew in advance of a looming attack. Hence, the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=279897" title="travel warnings" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">travel warnings</a>, hence the military preparedness, resulting in zero casualties on the Israeli side of the border; zero damage done, zero achievement for the attackers. </p> <p>But the Egyptians also had warning of the looming attack. They did nothing. Publicly, they rejected Israel’s travel advisory as an uncalled for attempt to serve the interests of Israel’s tourism industry, and as for military preparedness – <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-06/guards-killed-in-attack-on-egypt27s-sinai-border/4178758" title="the slaughter of Egyptian soldiers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the slaughter of Egyptian soldiers</a> speaks louder than anything I’m able to write. </p> <p>Israel is hoping that this latest incident will serve as a wake up call to the Egyptian government. There’s good reason to suspect, though, that this will turn out to be false hope. Sinai is far away, and Egyptians don’t much care what happens there (as long as it isn’t Israeli intervention). </p> <p>2. </p> <p>I will make life easy for myself by quoting myself – twice – in the coming paragraphs. Here’s what <a href="http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/trouble-in-sinai/" title="I wrote about Sinai" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I wrote about Sinai</a> back in June. It hasn’t changed much:</p> <blockquote> <p><b>Israel has very little control over this degenerating situation, even though what happens in Egypt will have great impact on Israel’s security. An Egypt governed by the Muslim Brotherhood is unlikely to remain Israel’s ally. At the same time, the Israeli government is wary of making tense relations even tenser by retaliating against attacks from Egyptian territory. It’s left having to protect it citizens with its hands tied.</b></p> <p></p></blockquote> <p>3.</p> <p>And <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2011/02/why_israel_hates_the_egyptian_uprising.html" title="another quote" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">another quote</a>, from February 2011, on why Israel is wary of Egyptian democracy and change:</p> <p><b></p> <blockquote> <p>Mubarak was good for Israel. Not great, mind you. The peace with Egypt was a cold one, and ties between people were rare and strained in many ways. But Israel—with its pragmatic way of prioritizing interests—got a good deal from the Egyptians. The southern border, which was Israel’s main concern in its first 30 years, was quiet and didn’t require much attention. Egyptians agreed to sell gas to Israel and to tighten security in Gaza. They opposed the advancement of Iran and its allies, and they prevented terrorists from infiltrating from the Sinai Peninsula. So, chaos or worse—for example, regime change that strengthens the Muslim Brotherhood or other radical forces—will be a headache for Israel. </p> <p>And for what? So that Egyptians can have their “democracy”?</p> <p></p></blockquote> <p></b></p> <p>4.</p> <p>This talk of Arab democracy turning into chaos brings Syria to mind. It could be weeks or even a few months when the trouble we now see on the unruly Egyptian border becomes even more pronounced along the unruly Syrian border. In Egypt – while the government is both weak and unfriendly – there is still a government on which to lean, in the hope that some day it will do something about Sinai (if not for Israel, then to guard Egyptian pride – it was Egyptians who were massacred yesterday for no apparent provocation, and without any regard to Egyptian sensitivities and possible reaction). But in Syria things could be worse – with no government and more chaos and Iranian meddling and no US ties that could be used for pressuring the regime (if there’s still a regime). Israel will have to bolster security near both borders, adding to its growing cost of defense expenditures and the growing economic burden Israelis will have to bear in the coming years.</p> <p>5.</p> <p>A lot of talk will be dedicated in the coming days to the need to alter past Israeli-Egyptian agreements regarding <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-allows-egypt-troops-in-sinai-for-first-time-since-1979-peace-treaty-1.340405" title="the number of troops" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the number of troops</a> the Egyptians can have in the Sinai Peninsula. If Israel wants Egypt to take care of the growing problem, it will have to let it have more boots on the ground. Three things need to be said about this issue:</p> <p></p> <li> <p> Israel has already allowed Egypt to deploy more troops in Sinai, but the Egyptians were reluctant to make use of this new Israeli tolerance. They have Israel’s blessing, but not the troops.</p> <p></p> <li> <p>No number of soldiers will be sufficient unless Egypt is ready to walk the walk and truly take on Sinai extremists. As we saw yesterday, these extremists, jihadists, terrorists – call them whatever you want – are very serious when it comes to killing.</p> <p></p> <li> <p>With Morsi and Islamic Brotherhood legislators in power, Israel may be right to be extra careful about breach of the peace agreement. Letting Mubarak have more forces in Sinai is different to letting Morsi have more forces in Sinai.</p> <p>6. </p> <p>Barak Obama began his term as president with his optimistic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaxZPiiKyMw" title="Cairo speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cairo speech</a>, and is ending the term with President Morsi and global Jihad in the Sinai. Do you see an opening here for his Republican rival?</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106872/six-comments-following-yet-another-attack-on-the-israeli-egyptian-border-2/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Six comments following yet another attack on the Israeli-Egyptian border</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-106875 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-is_featured_20110628 category-lead_story category-mobile_20111212 category-news category-worldwide tag-attack tag-benjamin-netanyahu tag-egypt tag-ehud-barak tag-islamist tag-sinai tag-world ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-106875" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/106875/" rel="bookmark">Barak calls Sinai attack, border infiltration a ‘wake-up call’ for Egypt</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/106875/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/lead_story/" rel="category tag">Lead Story</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_20111212/" rel="category tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/worldwide/" rel="category tag">Worldwide</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called a terrorist attack in the Sinai that killed at least 15 Egyptian soldiers a “wake-up call” for Egypt.</p> <p>“We hope this will be a fitting wake-up call for the Egyptians to take matters into their own hands on their side more forcefully,” Barak told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Aug. 6, a day after the attack.</p> <p>Armed attackers in the Sinai Peninsula killed the soldiers at the Rafah security checkpoint before attempting to infiltrate the Israeli border.</p> <p>The attackers, who Barak identified as members of the Global Jihadi terror group, also kidnapped several Egyptian soldiers on the evening of Aug. 5, according to reports. Two of the vehicles used in the attack then crossed the border into Israel. The first was blown up by the terrorists to breach the fence, and the second was targeted and hit by Israeli forces, according to the Israeli military.</p> <p>The six terrorists in the vehicle were killed in the blast. Barak said they were all wearing suicide bomber belts.</p> <p>Israeli intelligence had information on the planned attack, which allowed the military to have helicopters in the area to strike the vehicle, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman said Monday.</p> <p>Israel and Egypt remained in close contact during the attack, Barak said, according to reports.</p> <p>Barak and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the area of the attack on Aug. 6. Netanyahu met with commanders and soldiers who were involved in the operation, and praised them for their actions. He also expressed regret over the killing of the Egyptian soldiers.</p> <p>“I think that it is clear that Israel and Egypt have a common interest in maintaining a quiet border,” Netanyahu said. “However, as has been made clear on numerous occasions, when it comes to the security of the citizens of Israel, the State of Israel must and can rely only on itself. Nobody can fulfill this role other than the IDF and the security services of the State of Israel, and this is how we will continue to act.”</p> <p>Also on Aug. 6, Israel’s Foreign Ministry denied accusations by the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist party in Egypt that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was behind the attack in an attempt to disrupt the new Islamist government of President Mohammed Morsi. The Muslim Brotherhood statement also reportedly called for a review of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, according to reports.</p> <p>On Aug. 3, the U.S. Embassy in Israel called on American citizens to “take precautions” in traveling to the Sinai. The warning came a day after Israel’s National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau called on “all Israelis in the Sinai to leave the area immediately and return home.”</p> <p>The embassy’s security message pointed out that there have been multiple kidnappings in the Sinai of U.S. citizens over the past four years and that kidnappings of foreign tourists in the Sinai have increased since January 2012.</p> <p>U.S. government personnel are prohibited from traveling to the Sinai, except by air to Sharm el Sheik.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/106875/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Barak calls Sinai attack, border infiltration a ‘wake-up call’ for Egypt</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article 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Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_20111212/" rel="category tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Dozens of rockets and mortar shells were fired into southern Israel after Israel’s Air Force struck a terrorist squad in Gaza, killing one.</p> <p>Residents of southern Israel’s Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, located at the border of Israel, Gaza and Egypt, were instructed to stay indoors after the start of the barrage on Sunday night.</p> <p>Israeli tanks reportedly returned fire, aiming at launching areas inside Gaza, Palestinian sources reported, according to Israeli media.</p> <p>The strike against the terrorist squad, announced by the Israel Defense Forces in a statement Sunday afternoon, targeted Global Jihad-affiliated terrorists.</p> <p>The dead man was identified by Haaretz as Eyad Okel Hijazi, 22.</p> <p>One of the squad members, Ahmed Sai’d Isma’il, was among those responsible for the execution of the June 18 terror attack adjacent to the Israel-Egypt border in which an Israeli civilian was killed, according to the IDF.</p> <p>Sai’d was among several Global Jihad members who were planning to execute a terror attack against Israeli civilians via the Israel-Egypt border, the IDF said.</p> <p>“Whoever intends to attack us must know that our long arm will find him,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement praising the operation.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106876/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Dozens of rockets, mortars fired into Israel after Israeli strike on terror squad</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-106877 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-arts category-hollywood category-is_featured_20110628 category-mobile_20111212 category-news tag-aleph tag-benjamin-millepied tag-big-sur tag-california tag-hollywood tag-jewish tag-natalie-portman tag-wedding ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-106877" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb 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rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_20111212/" rel="category tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Actress Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied reportedly were married in a Jewish ceremony.</p> <p>The wedding took place Saturday night at a private home in Big Sur, Calif., People magazine reported.</p> <p>The couple have a 14-month-old son named Aleph and have been engaged for two years. They met on the set of the 2010 movie “Black Swan,” for which Portman won an Academy Award for best actress.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/106877/natalie-portman-married-in-jewish-ceremony/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Natalie Portman married in Jewish ceremony</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-106867 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-is_featured_20110628 category-judaism category-mobile_20111212 category-news ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-106867" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/106867/" rel="bookmark">Day 2711 – Siyum HaShas: The Talmud Ends, The Talmud Begins</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/106867/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/judaism/" rel="category tag">Judaism</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_20111212/" rel="category tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Salvador Litvak" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/salvadorl/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Salvador Litvak </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p> <b>Whoever learns halachos every day is assured that he will be a citizen of the World to Come. For it is stated: The ways (halichos) of the world are His. Do not read halichos, but halachos. (Niddah 73a)</b></p> <p> After seven and a half years of daily study, my voyage through the sea of Talmud ended with these words, as 92,000 Jews filled every seat of Metlife Stadium in New Jersey to celebrate the completion of <i>Daf Yomi</i> in an event called The 12th Siyum HaShas. My voyage began with a miracle, and ended in transformation.</p> <p> On March 2, 2005, I ventured into 613 The Mitzvah Store on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. I’d been there a few times, but it was not a regular stop. I grew up proud to be Jewish, I had a Bar Mitzvah, and I always considered myself a spiritual person with a rational belief in G-d, i.e. it made more sense to me that G-d created the world than that it just happened.</p> <p> I sought out spirituality in many places and traditions, but I was never satisfied. Then my grandmother of blessed memory, Magdalena Miselbach, passed away in September 1997, and I felt a deep pull to explore my own backyard. I did not realize then, nor until the very moment of writing this paragraph, that her passing coincided with the 10th completion of the Daf Yomi cycle.</p> <p> In 1997, I simply started going to synagogue, not because I was supposed to, but because I wanted to. I soon became a student of Rabbi Mordecai Finley – a brilliant teacher of Chassidus and the transformative power of our tradition. Learning from him and other great teachers like Rabbis Shlomo Schwartz, David Wolpe, Mark Blazer, David Seidenberg, and Jonathan Omer-Man, I drank in all the Torah I could, and I embarked upon the path described by Reb Springsteen: a time comes when you need to start being the man you aim to become.</p> <p> Along the way, I often heard about the Talmud. I knew the word, but I never attended a Yeshiva, and I had no real sense of what it meant. On previous visits to the bookstore on Pico, I would look over at the long shelves of Talmud and shake my head. Those volumes seemed like bricks in a wall separating the super-religious from everyone else.</p> <p> After seven and a half years of learning, however, I had a new thought. Why be intimidated? OK, so each set of Talmud looks like three Encyclopedia Britannicas. But I was an English major in college, and they’re just books! There must be a book one. I’ll get that and see what it’s like. I found Berachos 1, and took it to the counter.</p> <p> The kid at the register said, “So, you’re doing Daf Yomi.”</p> <p> I said, “What’s Daf Yomi?”</p> <p> Looking at me strangely, he answered, “It’s a worldwide program for learning Talmud. Everyone reads one page a day on the same schedule, it takes seven and a half years to read the whole thing, and <i>today</i> is day one.”</p> <p> There are 2,711 pages in the Talmud. I could’ve bought that book on any one of those days. As a spiritual rationalist, the odds against this “coincidence” did not escape me.</p> <p> “OK, G-d, I get the message. I’m doing Daf Yomi.”</p> <p> Many times I thought I would fail. It has been called the world’s longest marathon. I have a family and a high-pressure occupation. Could there be enough hours in the day? Well, if G-d was so generous as to arrange a miracle for me to commence Daf Yomi, I figured He would also give me the strength to finish.</p> <p> After seven and a half years of learning Talmud, much of it under the wise and gentle guidance of Rabbi Mechie Blau, I reached the long awaited day at Metlife Stadium. Metlife Stadium? Are you kidding me? I grew up in New York. I’m a rabid Giants fan. And last Wednesday I joined 92,000 Jews to fill every seat of Giants Stadium for a Talmud event? Unbelievable!</p> <p> Accompanying me were my son, Avi, 7, my brother David and my old friend, Lionel Leventhal. Avi has never known me not to be a Talmud student. David is a cardiologist in Boston who pulled multiple favors to attend. Lionel says he was inspired by me to commence the Daf Yomi in the new cycle. My father unfortunately could not attend due to a knee surgery, but his ticket went to Bryan Bridges, whom I met through my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/accidentaltalmudist <view-source:http://www.facebook.com/accidentaltalmudist>” target=”_blank” title=”Accidental Talmudist page”>Accidental Talmudist page</a> on facebook. He too is now embarking upon the Daf. I was prepared for a wonderful night, but the reality exceeded the expectation.</p> <p> If one attends a college for four years, takes all the required classes, and hands in her assignments, has she not completed the endeavor? Does the graduation itself really matter? One possible answer may be found in the Talmud.</p> <p> Tractate Shabbos lists 39 categories of work from which we must abstain on the Sabbath. These laws are derived from the kinds of work needed to build the Tabernacle. Examples include planting, plowing, grinding, kneading, slaughtering, tanning, writing, etc. The 38th category, however, is a bit surprising: <i>makeh b’patish</i>, or striking the final blow.</p> <p> Writing a story is work. Writing the last word of the story ought to be the same sort of work, but it’s not. When you strike the final blow, the story becomes a story, the brisket becomes a brisket, and in my case, the talmudist becomes a talmudist. Not an expert. Not even a competent talmudist. But at least a person who can be described as such without speaking falsely.</p> <p> The final blow was not what I thought it would be. Our Team Siyum arrived early – very early. Along with my partners, Eric Chaikin and Nat Rubin, I am producing a documentary about the Talmud and the people who learn it. The idea only came up in the last few months as the Siyum approached, and my role in it thus far has been mostly as a participant because I am so busy completing my film, Saving Lincoln.</p> <p> We reached the stadium at 3. It rained all day. The afternoon prayers, or <i>Mincha</i>, began at 7:30. As the lights came up, the rain went away, and the stadium became silent: a roaring silence of people focused on G-d. When we reached <i>Kaddish</i>, and the prayer leader completed the first section, 92,000 answered in unison: <i>Y’hay shmay rabbah m’varach l’olam ul’al’may al’mayah!</i> (May His great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity!) May we all merit to hear such a great gathering of Jews praying together again and again. There is nothing like it.</p> <p> The Daf Yomi cycle was proposed in 1923 my R’ Meir Shapiro. Could he have imagined such a realization of his dream? Giants Stadium became a temple, linked to dozens of venues around the world, including the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in LA, where the Oscars are held, all for the sake of Talmud.</p> <p> Butchers once filled stadiums to celebrate their plans for annihilating our people. Now we filled the stadium.</p> <p> Speeches followed, praising the teachers and students who made this moment possible. During one of them, Lionel turned to me and said, “More than the 2,711 pages, I’m proud of you for the person you’ve become.”</p> <p> “The person I’ve become?”</p> <p> “Sal, I’ve known you for 29 years. You’re different now. Not that you weren’t a nice guy before, but I would now hold you up against anyone in terms of respectfulness and kindness to others. It’s in the way you speak to you wife and kids, and everyone. It has to be because of this.”</p> <p> I was speechless. I knew I was doing a good thing learning for all those years. I felt the hours of study would bring me closer to G-d, as I strove to understand His laws and the wisdom of my people. But there were SO many days when I was just slogging through complex ideas, and retaining precious little. In what way could that change me? And do I really treat people differently?</p> <p> The night reached its apex: I pulled out Tractate Niddah. All his life Avi watched me proceed from one volume to the next, and this was the moment of reading the final words of the final book. We read them, and then the stadium erupted! Dancing, jumping, singing at the top of our lungs. Avi, David, Lionel, Bryan, Eric, Nat – we were all exhilarated! Avi said, “Now that’s a Jewish party!”</p> <p> There was more to the night, including commencing the Talmud again with Berachos 1, as I had so many years and pages ago. Yet it was neither the last page nor the first page that constituted the final blow.</p> <p> Two days later, Avi and I drove up to a family reunion. This particular branch of the family had often suffered from painful arguments because every member had a different approach to religion. All were dreading the next Shabbat, when the final eruption was sure to occur, thanks to an argument that happened while Avi and I were away. Hearing about it during the drive back, I remembered what Lionel had said to me, and I remembered a phrase we often read in the Talmud: Torah scholars increase peace in the world.</p> <p> I approached each family member individually. I asked them what the argument was really about. So much of Talmud study is just that: piercing the veil of words to decipher exactly where viewpoints differ. What is at stake, and is there really a contradiction? I explained to each what I had heard the others say, and proposed a way, a <i>halicha</i>, by which we might navigate this fragile situation.</p> <p> And it worked! Shabbat was a joy! That is why we study <i>halachos</i>, per the final words of the Talmud. So we can find a <i>halicha</i>.</p> <p> The 39th and final category of work is <i>hotza’ah:</i> carrying from domain to domain. May we all merit to learn and to teach, to come nearer to G-d than we were a moment ago, and to carry that knowledge to another domain.</p> <hr /> <p> Sal shares a bit of Jewish wisdom at <a href="http://facebook.com/accidentaltalmudist <view-source:http://facebook.com/accidentaltalmudist>“>facebook.com/accidentaltalmudist</a>. More pieces like this at <a href="http://accidentaltalmudist.org <view-source:http://accidentaltalmudist.org/>“>accidentaltalmudist.org</a>.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/judaism/106867/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Day 2711 – Siyum HaShas: The Talmud Ends, The Talmud Begins</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-106880 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-is_featured_20110628 category-israel category-mobile_20111212 category-news tag-attack tag-benjamin-netanyahu tag-egypt tag-ehud-barak tag-idf tag-iran tag-israel tag-israel-defense-force tag-israel-defense-forces tag-middle-east tag-sinai tag-storyblog tag-world ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-106880" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106880/" rel="bookmark">Israel ‘can only rely on itself,’ Netanyahu says after Sinai attack</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106880/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/is_featured_20110628/" rel="category tag">Is Featured?</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/israel/" rel="category tag">Israel</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_20111212/" rel="category tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Israel and Egypt have a common interest in keeping the border between them safe, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday during a tour of the site of Sunday’s deadly attack in which Sinai-based gunmen killed at least 15 Egyptian police officers and injured at least seven.</p> <p>Quoting Egyptian media sources, Israel Radio has since reported that the death toll had reached 17.</p> <p>In the Sunday incident, the jihadist terrorists took control over an Egyptian checkpointand and commandeered two Egyptian armored vehicles with which they charged toward the border crossing with Israel. The vehicles were destroyed and the terrorists killed as they attempted to infiltrate the Israeli border.</p> <p>The incident began around 8 p.m., when Israeli soldiers heard shooting coming from the Philadelphia Route, a narrow strip of land situated along the border between Gaza and Egypt. Five minutes later, Sinai terrorists took control of the Egyptian checkpoint, shot the soldiers and charged the commandeered vehicles toward the border, firing in all directions.</p> <p>Around 8:10 p.m., one of the armored vehicles exploded at the border crossing, blowing a hole through the fence that allowed the other vehicle to cross into Israel. However, the second vehicle was quickly targeted from the air by waiting Israel Air Force aircraft, and was destroyed. Several terrorists were identified trying to flee from the burning vehicles, but they, too, were killed. </p> <p>According to Israeli intelligence officials, the attack was orchestrated by a Salafi organization. Israeli intelligence services also had previous reports of an impending attack from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and were able to thwart the assault.</p> <p>“We were prepared for it, so there was a hit,” IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai said.</p> <p>“I wish to express sorrow over the killing of the Egyptian soldiers,” Netanyahu said. “I think its clear that Israel and Egypt have a common interest in maintaining a peaceful border between them. However, when it comes to the security of Israeli citizens, it seems time and again that Israel must and can only rely on itself.”</p> <p>Egyptian army helicopters, with the help of army rangers, have since been attempting to apprehend suspects in the attack, an Egyptian security source reported Monday. An Egyptian source, speaking to Ahram Online, said that early on Monday army units surrounded the city of Rafah, on the Egyptian side of the Egypt-Gaza border, to prevent suspects from escaping. A television journalist in the northern Sinai said the area had been sealed off by security forces, who blocked the road from the main town of Arish in the direction of the Gaza border crossing at Rafah. Egyptian state television reported that the Rafah border crossing would be sealed indefinitely.</p> <p>The attack was the deadliest such event that Egypt’s tense Sinai border region has seen in decades. Earlier Monday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak urged the Egyptian authorities to “wake up” and take decisive action to prevent terror activity in the lawless Sinai Peninsula. Addressing a parliamentary committee, Barak also praised the work of Israeli forces in thwarting the attack, saying, “vigilant IDF troops foiled an attack that could have produced many casualties.”</p> <p>Israel has repeatedly complained about poor security in Sinai following the overthrow of Egypt’s former president, Hosni Mubarak, last year. For the past year there has been growing lawlessness in the vast desert expanse, as Bedouin bandits, jihadists and Palestinian terrorists from the adjoining Gaza Strip fill the vacuum, tearing at already frayed relations between Egypt and Israel.</p> <p>Former Deputy IDF Chief of General Staff and former GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. (res.) Dan Harel told Army Radio that, “Egypt either does not want or does not have the power to stop Islamist terror in Sinai.”</p> <p>Nitzan Nuriel, former director of the Counterterrorism Bureau, also told Army Radio on Monday that the attack constituted a definite escalation by terrorist organizations. “There is no doubt that the perpetrators who carried out this attack took a huge risk in involving Egyptian security personnel,” he said. </p> <p>Egyptian security had reportedly ignored Israeli warnings of an impending attack. Last week, an Egyptian security source accused Israeli travel agencies of being behind Israeli authorities’ warnings to Israeli tourists in Sinai, urging them to leave.</p> <p>“It has become common in Israel for travel agencies to spread these rumors to keep Israeli tourists inside Israel instead of going to Sinai, which causes losses for these agencies,” the source told the German news agency DPA.</p> <p>The terrorists were armed with explosives belts, guns, bombs and other weapons, and were apparently planning a large demonstration of power, the initial investigation into the incident suggested.</p> <p>“Considering the explosives that the terrorists brought in the small vehicle that exploded at the start, and the explosives belts fitted on six or eight terrorists inside that armored vehicle, there is no doubt that their entry into an Israeli town or a military base by surprise could have incurred extensive damage,” Barak said.</p> <p>“This was an extremely successful joint operation of the IAF and Armored Corps. The speed of the cooperation between the various forces enabled us to thwart a terror attack within 15 minutes, according to the assessments. I would like to express my appreciation for the troops’ vigilance, specifically that of the intelligence personnel, and the determination of the soldiers operating in the field,” said IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz.</p> <p>Meanwhile, an initial investigation into the incident revealed that the second vehicle had penetrated a full 2 kilometers into Israeli territory before it was destroyed, and that military troops had pursued the vehicle at high speed, complete with gunfire, on a civilian road alongside civilian vehicles.</p> <p>In Egypt, President Mohammed Morsi addressed his nation on television shortly after the attack, following an emergency meeting at the presidential palace in Cairo, and declared that the perpetrators of the attack would “pay a high price.”</p> <p>“What happened [Sunday] is a criminal attack by our enemies upon our sons from the armed forces at a border point, the sons of whom were martyred at that place, while they were taking part in a fast-breaking Ramadan meal. These martyrs’ blood will not be shed in vain,” he said. “My deepest condolences go out to the families of these martyrs, and our condolences to the Egyptian people.”</p> <p>The attack was an early diplomatic test for Morsi, an Islamist who assumed office at the end of June after staunch U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was overthrown last year in a popular uprising. The attack may also complicate Egypt’s relations with Hamas, the Islamist party that rules the Gaza Strip and is close to Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, if it emerges that Palestinian gunmen were involved.</p> <p>In a statement posted on the website of Gaza’s Hamas leaders, Hamas also condemned “the ugly crime committed today against the Egyptian soldiers, and sent its condolences to the families of the victims, to Egypt’s president and to his government.”</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/israel/106880/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Israel ‘can only rely on itself,’ Netanyahu says after Sinai attack</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> <article class="post-106881 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-mobile_20111212 category-news category-worldwide tag-circumcision tag-jewish tag-muslim tag-norway tag-norwegian tag-religion tag-symbol ast-grid-common-col ast-full-width ast-article-post" id="post-106881" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> <div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb blog-layout-1 ast-article-inner"> <div class="post-content ast-grid-common-col" > <div class="ast-blog-featured-section post-thumb ast-blog-single-element"></div><h2 class="entry-title ast-blog-single-element" itemprop="headline"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/106881/" rel="bookmark">Norwegian official: Jews, Muslims should replace circumcision with ‘symbolic’ ritual</a></h2> <header class="entry-header ast-blog-single-element ast-blog-meta-container"> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="comments-link"> <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/106881/#respond">Leave a Comment</a> </span> / <span class="ast-taxonomy-container cat-links default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/mobile_20111212/" rel="category tag">Mobile</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/category/news/worldwide/" rel="category tag">Worldwide</a></span> / <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Jewish Journal" href="https://jewishjournal.com/author/aanoauthor/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url" > <span class="author-name" itemprop="name" > Jewish Journal </span> </a> </span> </div> </header><!-- .entry-header --> <div class="ast-excerpt-container ast-blog-single-element"> <p>Norway’s ombudsman for children’s rights has proposed that Jews and Muslim replace male circumcision with a symbolic, nonsurgical ritual.</p> <p>Dr. Anne Lindboe told the newspaper Vart Land last month that circumcision in boys was a violation of a person’s right to decide over his own body.</p> <p>“Muslim and Jewish children are entitled to the same protection as all other children,“ she said, adding that the practice caused unnecessary pain and was medically unbeneficial.</p> <p>Lindboe, a pediatrician, was appointed ombudsman in June. Her predecessor, Reidar Hjermann, proposed setting 15 as the minimum age for circumcision. According to Jewish religious law, Jewish babies must be circumcised when they are eight days old.</p> <p>The children’s ombudsman is an independent governmental institution entrusted with safeguarding the rights of minors. </p> <p>Ervin Kohn, president of the Jewish Community of Oslo, said that Norwegian Jews “will not be able to live in a society where circumcision is forbidden.” He noted that the mandate of Norway’s children’s ombudsman did not extend to devising Jewish rituals. Norway has a Jewish community of about 700.</p> <p>In June, a spokesperson for Norway’s Centre Party, which has 11 out of 169 seats in parliament, proposed a ban on circumcising babies.</p> </div> <p class="ast-blog-single-element ast-read-more-container read-more"> <a class="" href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide/106881/"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Norwegian official: Jews, Muslims should replace circumcision with ‘symbolic’ ritual</span> Read More »</a></p> <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text" > </div><!-- .entry-content .clear --> </div><!-- .post-content --> </div> <!-- .blog-layout-1 --> </article><!-- #post-## --> </div> </main><!-- #main --> <div class='ast-pagination'> <nav class="navigation pagination" aria-label="Post pagination"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Post pagination</span> <div class="nav-links"><a class="prev page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2012/08/06/page/2/"><span class="ast-left-arrow">←</span> Previous</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2012/08/06/">1</a> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2012/08/06/page/2/">2</a> <span aria-current="page" class="page-numbers current">3</span> <a class="page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2012/08/06/page/4/">4</a> <a class="next page-numbers" href="https://jewishjournal.com/date/2012/08/06/page/4/">Next <span class="ast-right-arrow">→</span></a></div> </nav></div> </div><!-- #primary --> </div> <!-- ast-container --> </div><!-- #content --> <footer data-elementor-type="footer" data-elementor-id="354962" class="elementor elementor-354962 elementor-location-footer" data-elementor-post-type="elementor_library"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-16ff2513 elementor-section-full_width printhide elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="16ff2513" data-element_type="section" data-e-type="section" data-settings="{"background_background":"classic"}"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-306cf8ff" data-id="306cf8ff" data-element_type="column" data-e-type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <section class="elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-73c841ca elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default" data-id="73c841ca" data-element_type="section" data-e-type="section"> <div class="elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default"> <div class="elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-41944ee6" data-id="41944ee6" data-element_type="column" data-e-type="column"> <div class="elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated"> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-58f0ac64 rm20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-site-title elementor-widget-heading" data-id="58f0ac64" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="theme-site-title.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <h2 class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default"><a href="https://jewishjournal.com">Jewish Journal</a></h2> </div> </div> <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-29de7e30 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor" data-id="29de7e30" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> Connect. 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