Google’s head of diversity has been slammed for writing that Jews have an ‘insatiable appetite for war and killing’ and arguing they should have more ‘compassion’ because of the Holocaust. Kamau Bobb, who is also an ‘Equity in Computing’ don at Georgia Tech, wrote a 2007 blog post, which remains on his website, titled: ‘If I Were A Jew.’ Bobb writes: “If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself.

In the past month, rumors have been circulating in the halls of the Chief Rabbinate about a large slaughterhouse in Europe that imported treif meat with a Badatz hechsher. However, until now, despite the rumors, no one knew if the story was actually true. The rumors were finally confirmed on Monday night by Kikar H’Shabbat as told by the Rishon L’Tzion, HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, who oversees kashrus in Israel. “A few weeks we discovered that something was going on,” Rav Yosef said. “We sent a special inspector to all the slaughterhouses in Poland, the Netherlands, and he secretly installed hidden cameras.” “In one of the slaughterhouses, the inspector saw that the non-Jewish owners arrived at the slaughterhouse at 3 a.m.

The man who randomly punched an Asian American woman in the face in NYC had been arrested 17 times in the past – 8 of them in the past year. Alexander Wright, 48, was charged with assault as a hate crime, misdemeanor assault and criminal possession of a controlled substance – a synthetic form of marijuana called K2 – in connection with the Monday evening attack, a New York Police Department (NYPD) spokesperson said Tuesday. Speaking to Spectrum NY1 on Tuesday morning, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea mentioned a previous incident, in which a 65-year-old Asian woman was pushed down the stairs of a New York City subway station on Friday. “What’s the common denominator?” he asked during the interview.

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid was unable to fulfill his goal of informing President Reuven Rivlin that he succeeded in forming a government by Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. Instead, negotiations have stalled, with the Wednesday at midnight deadline for Lapid’s mandate to form a government swiftly approaching. The major snag had been the demand of Yamina No. 2 Ayelet Shaked to be given a spot on the Judicial Appointments Committee which has already been promised to Labor chairman Merav Michaeli.

The replacement ceremony for the head of the Mossad took place on Tuesday morning and was attended by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, ministers, senior security officials, and other senior officials. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is currently visiting Israel, also attended the ceremony. “It has to be said loud and clear – Iran is working, even at this very moment, to actualize its nuclear vision under an international protective cloak,” the new head of the Mossad, Dovid Barnes, said at the ceremony.

Israel lifted almost all of its remaining coronavirus restrictions as of Tuesday morning, six months after the initiation of its vaccination drive which drastically reduced the infection rate in the Jewish state to almost zero. There are now no restrictions on gatherings, and restaurants and stores no longer have to limit the number of customers or impose social distancing. The Green Passport system has been dropped, which means that Israelis are no longer required to present proof of vaccination to enter events and halls. Israelis are still required to wear masks indoors but it’s likely that this requirement will also be dropped in the near future, with the Health Ministry expected to reevaluate its position on the issue later this month.

An anti-Israel Jewish American group recited Kaddish for Gazan terrorists killed during Operation Guardian of the Walls at a demonstration in Los Angeles on Thursday, The Jerusalem Post reported. IfNotNow, a movement founded during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza and “to end the Israeli occupation,” displayed a banner at the demonstration with the names of the Palestinian and Israeli victims of the conflict and recited Kaddish for them.

A local council in northern Israel is closing the site of the kever of Reb Yonasan ben Uziel at Amuka from Thursday through Sunday due to the unsafe infrastructure and access roads. The kever at Amuka, located in the Mevo’ot HaChermon Regional Council, is widely known as mesugal for tefillos and large crowds of people usually flock to the kever on the yartzheit, which falls out on Sunday this year. Police and fire officials told local authorities that Amuka, which was named due to its location in a deep ravine, does not meet safety standards, Channel 12 reported. The regional council said that the buildings by the site were erected without a permit and are legally prohibited for use as the retaining walls are at risk of collapse.

The Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah signed a letter fiercely attacking the Yamina party for its plan to establish a unity government with Yair Lapid which will include left-wing parties. “We are greatly saddened to hear of the intention to form a new government, of which a central and significant part will consist of those who, chalilah, seek to harm the foundation of religion, to carry out severe breaches in Yiddishkeit, and destroy the heritage of generations on which Beis Yisrael rests,” the letter states.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday accused President Joe Biden of being soft on Israel’s foes and inviting further violence during a deadly 11-day war that left Israelis rattled and turned parts of the Gaza Strip to rubble. One of four prominent Republicans in Israel in the conflict’s aftermath, Cruz told The Associated Press in an interview that the Democratic president’s policies, including a call for Israel to wind down the war, had “emboldened” Hamas’ terrorist rulers. He said the U.S. owes Palestinians no humanitarian aid as long as there’s a danger of that money flowing to Hamas.