top Minister Netanyahu tweets: "or not it's now not day by day that one receives the probability to satisfy the leading minister. I need to admit i used to be excited. happy Purim!" [Twitter]
"Watch Senator Cory Booker birthday party on Purim at Oxford's Chabad in the Early '90s" with the aid of Yair Rosenberg: "At sunset, the Jewish break of Purim commences, a day all through which Jews rejoi ce their deliverance from a genocidal plot with feasting, dancing, and revelry. And whereas at Oxford, Booker celebrated right along with them. pictures from his time there captures him partying on Purim on the campus Chabad condominium, carrying Boteach—dressed as clown—on his lower back." [TabletMag]
Belgian Jews Soberly celebrate Purim break Following Brussels Terror attacks: "Jewish congregations in Brussels have determined to cancel this yr's Purim festivities in mild of the recent terror attacks on the Belgian capital, each for security causes and out of admire for a national three-day duration of mourning." [ViceNews; WashPost]
Eli Lake: "The Trump-Cruz Police State Exists. it be known as France." [BloombergView]
"Ted Cruz, Day After Brussels assaults, Belittles Donald Trump on foreign coverage" by using Maggie Haberman and Matt Flegenheimer: "Senator Ted Cruz on Wednesday relentlessly belittled the overseas coverage acumen of Donald J. Trump, casting him as unhealthy and sick prepared sooner or later after the terrorist attacks in Brussels refocused the presidential race on concerns of countrywide safety. He mentioned that Mr. Trump betrayed "weak spot and a perilous isolationism" in his foreign policy views. requested if Mr. Trump turned into any distinctive from former consultant Ron Paul and Senator Rand Paul, dominant figures in the Republican party's libertarian wing, Mr. Cruz rejected any evaluation. "Ron Paul and Rand Paul both are recommended and have a neatly-notion-out international coverage position," he spoke of. "I disagree with many facets of that position, but they truly recognize what they're speaking about." [NYTimes] • "Ted Cruz talks to New Yorkers about manhattan values" [CNN]
"regardless of Trump's tight script at AIPAC, Jewish voters still aren't bound" by using Margaret Warner:"I haven't taken a ballot, however I feel speakme to many who at least three-quarters of Jewish voters see him as very frightening," st ated Dennis Ross, a longtime Israeli-Palestinian negotiator who has served presidents of each events. "It's the intolerance, the demagoguery, his seeming advertising of violence, the debasing of the political subculture, the fundamental lack of civility — and he seems to run a content material-free slogan campaign." [PBS]
Michael Koplow: "If anything, this should be the yr of Ahashverosh, as a result of if Donald Trump desired to costume up for Purim, he could not decide upon a truer-to-form costume than that of the Persian king."[IsraelPolicyForum]
Gary Rosenblatt: "seeking Sheldon Adelson: Will he guide Trump? 'Why no longer?' the mega-philanthropist says." [JewishWeek]
"Georgina Bloomberg On Her Father's Aborted Presidential Run" with the aid of Ally Betker: "I undoubtedly feel he would had been super at it, and that i would were very supportive of him getting into it," she talked about. "however as his daughter, i am very grateful he didn't enter it simply as a result of I've been via campaigns and the mud-slinging before on a a good deal smaller degree, and it become not some thing i used to be truly eager for being concerned with on a plenty bigger degree. for those who watch the news, which you can't sit down there and feel, 'Wow I'd love one in every of my parents to be involved in that combat.'"... "Donald Trump and his household have all the time been very shut [to me]. I'm good chums with his children. i used to be no longer looking forward to having to observe our fathers go to wards each other." [WMag]
**decent Thursday Morning! having fun with the each day Kickoff? Please share us together with your pals & tell them to check in at [JI]. Have a tip, scoop, or op-ed? we'd love to hear from you. anything from challenging news and punditry to the lighter stuff, together with event coverage, job transitions, and even special birthdays, is plenty liked. e mail editor@jewishinsider.com** business BRIEFS: "Steelers' Antonio Brown pays $6.6 million for Hollywood home with synagogue"[SunSentinel] • "Leon H. Charney, Investor, Cable television Host and Peace broker, Is useless at seventy seven"[NYTimes] • "Lew Wasserman: nevertheless Remembered as Hollywood's most suitable Mover and Shaker"[variety] • "The CEO and COO of Elite each day, the millennial news web site got via The daily Mail closing year, are leaving the company" [BusinessInsider] • "Kopelman-backed fund taps new leader"[BizJournals] • "Rubashkin says new proof should still shorten sentence" [DesMoinesRegister]"How true estate Billionaire David Lichtenstein Bounced lower back From A $7.5 Billion lodge chapter" by Chloe Sorvino: "Framed head shots of some noted faces ring David Lichtenstein's office—including the mugs of Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos. those two and Lichtenstein have some thing in common: They rose from modest beginnings to amass ten-digit fortunes. "I'm simply a standard man," insists the bespectacled Lichtenstein, 55, in his thick Brooklyn accent. Lichtenstein, considered one of seven kids born to teacher folks,.. graduated from the identical public excessive school, James Madison, as Bernie Sanders and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (He's keen on Hillary Clinton, though, and has hosted three fundraisers for her)."[Forbes]
"The wolves of Tel Aviv: Israel's substantial, amoral binary alternate options scam uncovered" by Simona Weinglass: "An business turning over a whole bunch of tens of millions of greenbacks, using hundreds of americans, is cynically cheating naive would-be buyers international by the use of a variety of corrupt practices. it's doing awful harm to its victims, and it risk s doing the equal to Israel's recognition." [ToI]
"FBI enlists Israeli company to unencumber encrypted iPhone" by using Tova Cohen: "Israel's Cellebrite, a company of cell forensic software, is assisting the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's try and liberate an iPhone used with the aid of some of the San Bernardino, California shooters, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Wednesday." [VentureBeat]
"How Ashton Kutcher And guy Oseary developed A $250 Million Portfolio With Startups Like Uber And Airbnb" by means of Zack O'Malley Greenburg: "it will also be handy to put in writing off Kutcher, 38, and Oseary, the 43-year-historic supervisor of U2 and Madonna, as amateurs who change cooln ess for deal move. except that a slew of self-made billionaires–including Ron Burkle, Eric Schmidt, Mark Cuban, David Geffen and Marc Benioff–gave them hundreds of thousands from their personal stashes to invest... Born in Israel, he moved to la at 8 and ended up at Beverly Hills excessive faculty, the place he begun managing small-time hip-hop acts and mingling with the babies of Hollywood energy brokers like Freddie DeMann... Kutcher and Oseary joined with Burkle to kind A-Grade Investments in 2010 (the first three letters of the fund characterize each and every founder's first identify)." [Forbes]
speak OF OUR NATION: "Outfitting Hasidic girls With stylish, Yet Modest, Fashions" through Sarah Maslin Nir: "Tznius, or modesty, has taken on a renewed focu s in recent years, Hasidic Jews and non secular experts say, as the wider world encroaches on their insular neighborhood. In response, some Jews have ratcheted up their observance of tznius as a method to draw a brighter line and to unfold their beliefs."[NYTimes]
sports BLINK: "as the Sabbath Nears in Israel, Soccer becomes a verify of faith" by using Sam Borden: "The halftime whistle blew, and Shimon Levy gathered his belongings. whereas most lovers at Teddy Kollek Stadium converged on the concession stand for a soda or a espresso, Levy walked past the road and towards the exit. It did not remember that this second-division soccer game between Hapoel Jerusalem and Maccabi Herzliya on a Friday afternoon turned into delicately poised — tied at 0-0 after a h andful of chances for each side — and it didn't matter that Levy had come to monitor his son, who performs for the domestic group. He stated he had no option however to go away." [NYTimes]
"Shirtless Goober Roams Israel Profanely challenging pros, as a result of Ball Is lifestyles" with the aid of Tom Ley: "some thing unbelievable came about all through an Israeli tv station's interview with former NBA megastar Nate Robinson, who now plays for Hapoel Tel Aviv. correct in the core of the interview, a extremely healthy, shirtless man rolled up on his bike and challenged Robinson to a game of one-on-one." [Deadspin]
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