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** Volume 13, Issue 44:
This quote by Alex de Tocqueville has never been truer that it is today:
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the functions performed by private citizens.'"
----- Alex de Tocqueville
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** Love and Hatred in the Days of COVID-19 ([link removed])
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** By Sarah Stern / March 25, 2020 / JNS ([link removed])
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If you were to take a wider perspective on this current pandemic, you would immediately realize that the earth is like one giant petri dish facing a universal contagion, where we are all in this together. In this dish, both the best and the worst microbes are virulently reproducing.
Among the best qualities: a renewal of looking inward; a quest for understanding and for spirituality; time to reach out to family and friends; compassion for the most vulnerable; an awareness of the fragility of life, and that our time here is limited, for all of us; and a renewed awareness of how we are inextricably linked in a chain that effects one another.
Unfortunately, we also see that there many who are predisposed to hatred and paranoia, and who seek a scapegoat. And the time-proven victims have been the Jews.
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** Israel
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** Whirlwind week ends with unity government in Israel, Netanyahu remaining at the helm ([link removed]) - Jewish News Syndicate
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** Blue and White splits as unity deal with Likud approaches ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Joint Arab List gets chairmanship of Committee dealing with compensating terror victims ([link removed]) - Jewish Press
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** IDF shoots down drone from Lebanon, says it was flown by Hezbollah ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** Iran's new guided rocket kit is certain to raise tensions with Israel ([link removed]) - The National Interest
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** Israel's critics distort the country's coronavirus response ([link removed]) - The Algemeiner
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** Pandemic's impact on Israel's national security cannot be ignored ([link removed]) - Israel Hayom
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** First coronavirus death in Israel: an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Middle East
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** Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who vanished in 2007, died in Iranian custody, his family says ([link removed]) - The Washington Post
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** Turkish-occupied Syria cuts off water to 400,000 during pandemic ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Is Tehran exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to continue its nuclear pursuit? ([link removed]) - Israel Hayom
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** Iran rejects international humanitarian aid despite coronavirus death toll ([link removed]) - Fox News
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** Hit Ayatollah Khamenei in his pocketbook ([link removed]) - The Wall Street Journal
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** Power struggle hampers Iran's coronavirus response ([link removed]) - NY Times
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** Imam in Hamas TV Friday sermon a day before coronavirus cases confirmed in Gaza: this virus is a soldier of Allah; Muslims are the least ([link removed]) - Memri
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** In long letter to Americans Iran's Rouhani blames sanctions for coronavirus deaths ([link removed]) - Radio Farda
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** Egyptian major general dies due to coronavirus, cases rise to 327 ([link removed]) - Egyptian Streets
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** Don't fall for Hezbollah's coronavirus con ([link removed]) - Schanzer Pundicity
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** Anti-Semitism
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** Turkey and coronavirus: devout Muslims will defeat the "Jewish Plot" ([link removed]) - BESA
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** Classic antisemitic allegations arise over coronavirus, says gov't report ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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