Synagogue security group urges Elon Musk to stop boosting Jew-hatred, advice for families fighting over Israel, and watch the trailer for Adam Sandler's Netflix bat mitzvah comedy. |
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Joe Biden and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. (Getty) |
Ballerina Mia Slavenska performs as Salome in the summer of 1950. (Getty) |
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The evacuees were all flown to Addis Ababa, and some continued on to Israel. (Israel Embassy in Addis Ababa) |
🛫 Israel said it rescued and evacuated more than 200 Israeli citizens and Jews on Thursday from a conflict region in Ethiopia where a militia is fighting government forces. (JTA) 💬 The Secure Community Network, which works with Jewish institutions across the U.S., sent a letter to Elon Musk, urging him to de-verify prevalent antisemitic accounts that incite violence. (Twitter) ⚖️ A man accused of tossing antisemitic flyers onto Palm Beach County properties in Florida earlier this year pleaded guilty this week to three criminal charges. He was sentenced to 12 months probation. (CBS 12) 🇮🇱 Hundreds of American Jewish academics and other public figures, in two letters published in the past week, are calling for U.S. Jewish groups and President Joe Biden to draw a closer link between Israel’s judicial overhaul and its treatment of Palestinians. (JTA) 🇮🇷 The U.S. secured a prisoner exchange deal with Iran that includes the release of five Americans and unfreezes $6 billion in Iranian assets. Mike Pence, a GOP presidential contender, assailed Biden for “the largest ransom payment” in history to the mullahs. (New York Times, Twitter) ⚽ The German Cup is an annual soccer competition started under the Nazis in 1935. This Sunday, a Jewish team founded by Holocaust survivors will take part. (AP) Shiva call ➤ Robert Beren, an oil magnate, Republican donor and philanthropist to Jewish causes, died at 97.
Long weekend reads ➤ In Budapest, a “guerrilla-like” group is mobilizing against the alleged takeover of a historic synagogue … A German man is accused of posing as a Jew and peddling a fake, antisemitism-laced Holocaust story … The time Oppenheimer met Ben-Gurion to discuss Israel’s nuclear quest.
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On this day in history (1942): Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr received a patent for developing a frequency-hopping system to keep radio systems from jamming. The technology, which Lamarr invented alongside the avant-garde composer George Antheil, was later crucial in developing GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems. Although Lamarr, a Jewish immigrant from Vienna, hid her religious identity in Hollywood, she privately helped seek reparations for Jews.
Sunday is the third anniversary of the announcement of the Abraham Accords.
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Forget Barbie and Oppenheimer. The new movie everyone will be talking about is Adam Sandler’s comedy, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, which debuts Aug. 25 on Netflix. Based on a popular 2005 novel, the film stars Sandler’s real-life daughter Sunny as the bat mitzvah girl and was shot over six weeks last summer at Congregation Beth Tzedec in Toronto. Watch the trailer above. --- Thanks to Laura E. Adkins, PJ Grisar, Beth Harpaz, Jacob Kornbluh, Rebecca Salzhauer and Talya Zax for contributing to today’s newsletter. You can reach the “Forwarding” team at [email protected]. |
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