Amazon workers at a Minnesota warehouse are temporarily going on strike Monday, the first of two Prime Day summer sales, The Daily Beast reported.
Employees at the Shakopee, Minn., Amazon fulfillment center said they will walk out out for a six-hour period overlapping with the morning and evening shifts.
The workers argue Amazon has failed to meet their demands, including converting more temp positions to Amazon employees and permanently easing productivity quotas that workers say make their jobs unsafe.
Prime Day, a global two-day discount of hundreds of products, is one of Amazon’s busiest promotions.
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A Jordanian member of parliament who has referred to Israel as a “Jewish tumor” and expressed approval of the religiously motivated murder of Jews was feted last week by a UK Labour shadow minister at the British Houses of Parliament.
According to The Daily Mail, Yahya al-Saud, a strong supporter of Palestinian terrorism, was welcomed to Portcullis House in the Palace of Westminster by Fabian Hamilton, currently Labour’s shadow minister for peace and disarmament. Hamilton is Jewish.
Al-Saud’s antisemitic statements were documented and conveyed by the Jordanian writer and dissident Mudar Zahran to Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who was also asked why the MP had been permitted entry to Britain.

Two brand new F-35 “Adir” jet fighters touched down at Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel on Sunday, raising the number of advanced stealth aircraft in Israel’s arsenal to 16.
Israel was the second country after the United States to receive the state-of-the-art fighter jet.
“The ongoing procurement of the Adir [the Israeli designation for the F-35] is another expression of the long-term military cooperation between Israel and the U.S., which continues to produce exceptional results in the process of strengthening and streamlining [the F-35],” the IDF said in a statement.

Rav Moshe Rivkash (Rivka’s), author of Be’er Hagolah on Shulchan Aruch (1684). He was one of four great tzadikim of Vilna who lived at the tragic time of the massacres at the hands of the Cossacks in 1655,  along with Rav Ephraim (the Shaar Ephraim), Rav Shabbsai Cohen (the Shach), and Rav Shmuel Koidenaver. Approximately 25,000 Jews were killed in and around Vilna.

New York City mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio was campaigning in Iowa as 72,000 of his city’s residents experienced a massive blackout that left the West Side of Manhattan in the dark Saturday. During and after the blackout, the presidential contender faced criticism from his constituents and fellow politicians for being out of town during a major emergency.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who led the city’s response and outreach efforts in de Blasio’s absence alongside New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, was particularly pointed in his criticism.

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As previously reported on Matzav.com, the Lakewood, NJ School District has filed a federal lawsuit against state officials after they failed to approve a proposed $30 million aid increase to the district and instead issued a loan.
The lawsuit, which names the New Jersey State Legislature, State Senate President Steve Sweeny, Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, the NJ Department of Education, and NJ Education Commissioner Lamont O. Repollet as defendants, claims that they illegally discriminated against minorities when they failed to supply the needed aid.
“Lakewood’s student population consists almost entirely of minority students,” the lawsuit reads. “86.1% of Lakewood’s students are Hispanic, 7.2% are Black, 5.6% are White, and 1.2% are other.”

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
The posuk says, “Al kein yomru hamoshlim, ‘Bo’u cheshbon.’”  The Gemora in Bava Basra [78b] interprets this verse homiletically as referring to hamoshlim b’yitzram, those who rule over their evil inclination.  The Medrash in Esther Rabbah teaches us, Resha-im br’shus libom – The wicked are controlled by their hearts.”  On the other hand, “Tzadikim libom b’reshusom – The righteous control their hearts.”  One rules over their yeitzer when they know how to say no to temptation, when they stop short from revealing someone’s secret, from talking about a neighbor, when they are able to avert their gaze from immodesty, when they have the conviction to avoid distraction during their prayers.

The Hamas terrorist organization attempted to distance itself on Monday from comments by a senior official in the group last week, who called for members of the Palestinian diaspora to kill Jews around the world.
The Islamist terror group sworn to Israel’s destruction made the move following a flurry of condemnations of its senior official Fathi Hammad, including by a top Palestine Liberation Organization official, a United Nations envoy, and a number of Palestinian activists.