George Bluth, Sr., MOT? – Gather the News – 10/24

Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to gather we go…

• Rockets and mortars from Gaza have been raining down on southern Israel since Tuesday night.  The IDF has already responded with a counter-strike.  This comes after Netanyahu told Tony Blair on Monday that Israel will continue to attack groups that fire on her citizens, referring to an attack on a routine IDF patrol.

• Jimmy Carter blames Netanyahu and Israel for the diminishing prospects of peace between Palestine and Israel.

• Activist Anat Hoffman was arrested at the Kotel while leading a women’s prayer service.  It is illegal for women to pray at the Wall while wearing a tallit or tefillin, and for women to read from the Torah at the Wall.  Hoffman’s organization, Women of the Wall, organizes a women’s service once a month for Rosh Chodesh at the Kotel.

• DC religious leaders have come together to denounce the pro-Israel, “defeat jihad” ads that have been put in four metro stations.

• Rabbi Freundel of Kesher Israel talks separation of politics and religion in a Tablet article.  Go Rabbi Freundel!

• A new study reports that 97% of US and Canadian college campuses report no anti-Israel or anti-Semitic events…Yay!

• Jewcy writer Max Daniel discusses the conversion of George Bluth, Sr. on Arrested Development (aka possibly the best show of all time).  Bluth’s conversion may not have been sincere, but I’m still counting down the days until the show finally returns.  Spoiler alert: “There’s always money in the banana stand!”

   

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