U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced last month that she is giving $9,000 to Israeli schools teaching Hebrew and Arabic.
The grant went to schools run by Hand in Hand, which seeks to enable “integration and equality in Israel through a growing network of Jewish-Arab public schools and shared communities,” according to the organization’s website.
The Stockholm-based group Jewish Culture in Sweden awarded Ginsburg, 86, with its 2019 Gilel Storch Award, worth around $27,000, which Ginsburg said she’ll divide evenly between Hand and Hand and several other organizations that also strive to encourage tolerance.

Police officer Gary Bendit, who offered Michael Saudino, then-sheriff of Bergen County, N.J., the chance to meet with Jewish organizations back in 2010 only to get the reply of “I don’t need any votes from them,” claims that he was laid off in 2017 because he’s Jewish, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
“Plaintiff suffered adverse employment actions as a direct result of his religion in the form of a wrongful separation of employment and failure to retain Plaintiff as an employee,” per the suit.

Following Wednesday’s announcement by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak that he would return to politics as head of a new party, a poll showed that he could help the center-left win a narrow victory in the upcoming September elections.
Barak swept back into politics on Wednesday with a strong criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying, “This is not time to be on the fence. … Netanyahu’s regime, with its radical messianic zealots and its corrupt leadership must be toppled.”
The new poll conducted by Israel’s Channel 13 showed that with Barak in the running, a center-left bloc led by the Blue and White party could win 61 seats in the Knesset, one seat more than required for a majority.

European efforts to persuade Iran to stick within the limits of the nuclear deal have been insufficient and the country will breach uranium stockpile limits “soon,” Tehran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency reported Saturday, a move that could further escalate tensions with the United States.
Iran has been threatening to surpass the limit of 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of low-enriched uranium that the country is allowed to possess under the nuclear agreement, unless it receives the sanctions relief that the deal promised in return.

A few hours before the start of the Shabbos, swimmera at the separate beach in Tel Aviv noticed an older avreich drowning in the sea. Among the bathers was Avi Sussia, the spokesman of the Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau, who performed CPR and saved the man’s life.
After continuous resuscitation efforts with the help of additional forces called to the beach, the elderly man was evacuated to the hospital in serious condition.
Avi Suissa, who is a volunteer at Ichud Hatzolah, later described the incident to reporters:
“While I was at the beach, there were cries of help from someone who drowned, and with the help of a lifeguard we pullecd a 70-year-old man without a pulse  from the surf.”

93-year-old Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg from Morris Plains, NJ, has no time for Rep. ­Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statements last week, when she called the southern border’s migrant detention centers “concentration camps.”
“She should be removed from Congress. She’s spreading anti-Semitism, hatred and stupidity,” Mosberg told The Post. “The people on the border aren’t forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn’t know the difference, either they’re playing stupid or they just don’t care.”
“She should be taught a lesson,” he said. “If you’re not there, you will never know what happened. She doesn’t want to learn — she’s looking for excuses. I would like to nominate her for the Nobel Prize in stupidity.”

President Trump claimed Saturday that if his border wall had been built, the immigrant father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande trying to get to the U.S. “would be saved.”
“We can have that number go way down if we stop people from coming up,” Trump said during a press conference at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
“If we had walls up, and if we had it hard, the father and the beautiful daughter who drowned … if they thought it was hard to get in, they wouldn’t be coming up. So many lives would be saved,” he said.
Read more at The Hill.
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On Shabbos afternoon, police forces were summoned to Shimon Hatzadik Street in Yerushalayim, where a demonstration against was taking place againt the chillul Shabbos in the city.
The protesters left the intersection of Shmuel Hanavi and Yechezkel towards the intersection of Shimon HaTzadik Street and Bar Lev Road. During the demonstration, the road leading to the neighborhood of Shmuel Hanavi was blocked.
According to the police, a riot broke out, including violence against the police. Five protesters were arrested on suspicion of disturbing the peace and attacking police officers.
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Bracha and Yaakov Guberman were another ‘aliyah’ success story – the couple moved from Russia to Israel in 2007, elated to begin their lives in the Jewish homeland. They settled in the peaceful suburb of Ramat Beit Shemesh, Yaakov found work as a silver engraver, and they were blessed with three beautiful children. Bracha dedicated to her life to her childrens’ needs, including the many daily tasks associated with caring for their daughter Chana Liba, who was born with both Downs syndrome and Turner syndrome. Despite their challenges, they remained grateful and optimistic.