Bar-Ilan U. Archaeologist Discovers Two Rare Coins Dating Back to Jewish Revolts Against Rome and Judge Rules Victims of Chabad of Poway Shooting Attack Can Sue Gunmaker and Why Did the NY Times Deliberately Hide News Of Anti-Semitic Attacks?By Bennett Ruda and What's My Line? - Doris Day (Jun 20, 1954)
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Bar-Ilan U. Archaeologist Discovers Two Rare Coins Dating Back to Jewish Revolts Against Rome
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Two rare coins dating to Jewish revolts against Rome.
Coins bearing the inscriptions "Herut Zion" (Freedom for Zion) and "LeHerut Yerushalayim" (To the Freedom of Jerusalem) were recently discovered during an archeological survey conducted in Wadi er-Rashash in eastern Binyamin by the Institute of Archeology at Bar-Ilan University.
One coin, from the Great Revolt, was discovered on the ground at Hirbet Jib'it and the second, from the Bar-Kokhba Revolt, was found in a cave on the nearby Wadi er-Rashash cliffs about a kilometer north, according to Dr. Dvir Raviv, who heads the survey on behalf of the Bar-Ilan Institute.
The coin from the Hirbet Jib'it ruins was minted around 67-68 CE and bears a vine leaf and Hebrew inscription "Herut Zion" (the freedom of Zion) on one side, as well as a vase with two handles (amphora) and the inscription "Year Two" on the other.
The second coin from Wadi er-Rashash was minted around 134-135 CE. On one side appears a palm branch, probably a lulav (symbol from the Jewish holiday of Succot) inside a wreath surrounded by the inscription "LeHerut Yerushalayim" (for the freedom of Jerusalem), and on the other side appears a musical instrument, likely a lyre, and the inscription "Shimon", the first name of the rebel leader Shimon Ben Kosiva, better known as Bar-Kokhva.
Symbols and slogans on Jewish coins during the two Roman wars declared the rebels' goals: political freedom, the liberation of Jerusalem from the Roman conqueror, and the renewal of worship in the Temple.
The coin from Hirbet Jib'it is one of the additional finds from the Second Temple period and the revolts against the Romans that have been discovered at the site, including mikvaot (ritual baths), hiding complexes, chalkstone vessels, and burial caves, all of which belonged to a Jewish settlement that existed at the site until the Bar-Kokhba revolt.
Alongside the Wadi er-Rashash coin, many ceramic shards that were brought to the cave by Jewish refugees during the Bar-Kokhba revolt were discovered. In this way, the cave has come to be considered one of the dozens of natural caves that were used by the rebels in the Judean Desert.
According to Dr. Raviv, the cave in Wadi er-Rashash, where the coin was discovered, is located about six kilometers north of the 'Araq en-Na'asaneh Cave in Wadi a-Daliyeh which, since its discovery in the 1960s, was considered the northernmost refuge cave of the Bar-Kokhba revolt in the Judean Desert.
"The Bar-Kokhba coin from Wadi er-Rashash indicates the presence of a Jewish population in the region up to 134-5 CE, in contrast to a previous claim that Jewish settlement in the highlands north of Jerusalem was destroyed during the Great Revolt and not inhabited afterward. This coin is also the first evidence that the Acrabatta region, the northernmost of the districts of Judea during the Roman period, was controlled by the Bar-Kokhba administration," Raviv explained.
Judge Rules Victims of Chabad of Poway Shooting Attack Can Sue Gunmaker
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A California judge ruled that victims of the April 2019 shooting at Chabad of Poway outside of San Diego can sue the manufacturer of a semiautomatic rifle and the gun shop that sold it to the murderer, reported The San Francisco Chronicle.
Superior Court Judge Kenneth Medel said on Wednesday that the victims and families have a case against Smith & Wesson, the largest gunmaker in the United States, for knowing its AR-15 rifle could be easily made into an assault weapon, which is against state law.
Medel said the gunmaker negligently marketed its rifle to youth on social media.
The judge also said the gun shop in San Diego could be sued for selling the weapon to John Earnest, the man who used the rifle to shoot at worshippers during Passover morning services in 2019 since he was 19 at the time and did not meet the 21-year minimum age requirement for ownership.
Earnest was charged last year with murder for killing congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, and wounding three people, including senior Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein.
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Why Did the NY Times Deliberately Hide News Of Anti-Semitic Attacks?
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Some in the Mainstream Media are trying to figure out how to deal with the growing issue of violent antisemitic attacks against Jews.
Not that they are necessarily working on how to help bring such incidents to light and help fight antisemitism. No Instead, there are those in the media trying to figure out how best to framethese attacks, or to omit altogether.
A Jewish man subjected to antisemitic abuse twice in an hour in central London was physically threatened because of his appearance, his family have said.
The man, named only as Yosef, was on his way home when he was subjected to a "torrent of abuse", with threats made to his life.
Footage showed the researcher from north London travelling on a bus to Oxford Street just before midnight on 3 July when another passenger got up and began to verbally assault him.
Later the same evening while walking down an escalator at Oxford Circus tube station, he was subjected to further antisemitic abuse by another male.
The article goes on to note that according to the brother, Yosef received "ugly racist remarks and death threats" and that there British Jewish groups reported a "horrific surge" in antisemitic attacks:
The Community Security Trust (CST) recorded 351 antisemitic incidents between 8 and 31 May, more than for any single month since records began in 1986.
The CST said the rise was fuelled by antisemitic reactions to the escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza. It called the situation "utterly predictable and completely disgraceful".
So from the article, we can tease out:
o A Jew was attacked verbally and almost physically o There were death threats o The attack followed the Israel-Hamas war the previous month
o One of the things the perpetrator yelled was "Free Palestine" o According to the recording, this person threatened "I'll slit your throat for Palestine" o The journalist mentioned the CST reportwithout noting that CST pointed out that there were "several incidents of individuals shouting 'Free Palestine' with abusive or threatening language or gestures at random Jewish people, who are selected for abuse because they are Jewish"
The CAMERA article concludes:
So, the reporter had the information to properly contextualise the antisemitic incident in question by noting that it fits a pattern of racist behavior – as well as attitudes – towards Jews by pro-Palestinian activists in the UK. But, by omitting this crucial information about the perpetrator's Palestine-related verbal abuse, she failed to do so.
While the media has not been shy to describe attacks on Jews when they can be tied to "right-wing" racists, when the perpetrators are left-wing or Muslim, the attackers are often faceless and vague.
Enter The New York Times, which has discovered an easy way to get around this problem!Just don't report those kinds of attacks on Jews.
Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was stabbed repeatedly on July 1 outside a Jewish school building in Boston. A rally the next day organized by Boston Jewish community groups drew Boston's acting mayor, the district attorney, and a member of Congress. An individual, Khaled Awad, was arrested in connection with the attack and pleaded not guilty to assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer. People who knew Awad in Florida described him as violent and "antisemitic."
A national, even international news story? Plenty of news organization thought so.
…But for the New York Times, the news wasn't fit to print.
Stoll's claim that the Times has not covered the story is easy to check: And the New York Times omission may be part of a growing pattern of the Times's blindness to Jew-hatred:
It's at least the second time recently that the Times has skipped covering news of an attack on a Jewish target. In May, rock-throwing attacks against four synagogues in the Bronx attracted coverage from CNN, the Daily Mail, the Washington Post, the Arizona Republic, and the Wall Street Journal. Then, too, the Times apparently found the news not fit to print, and the metro editor failed to respond to an Algemeiner inquiry about why the Times thought the attacks weren't newsworthy. [emphasis added]
Yet the New York Times — which has as part of its name "New York," the city where the attacks happened — hasn't found the news fit to print.
A search on the Times website for the name "Jordan Burnette," the person arrested and charged on 42 counts, including hate crimes, for the attacks, produces no results from 2021. A search for "Riverdale," the Bronx neighborhood where the synagogues were targeted, turns up no results about these synagogue attacks, either. [emphasis added]
Since the NYPD regularly updates hate crime data, let's review New York's statistics. Of the 238 hate crimes reported in the nation's largest city from Jan. 1 through May 30 of this year, 86 targeted Jews. This marked a 37% increase over January to May 2020.
So why is The New York Times burying these stories?Stoll considers some possibilities.One possibility is The New York Times's bias against Orthodox Jews, a pattern we have written about before.
Another possibility is that the Times does not want to consider its own role in the increase in antisemitism and anti-Jewish attacks:
Perhaps at least part of the reason the Times can't bear to share the news of violent attacks on synagogues in New York or a rabbi in Boston is because a fair-minded, thorough investigation into such attacks might eventually force the newspaper to examine unflinchingly the role that the Times' own coverage has played in inciting the violence. For anyone who makes the mistake of actually believing what the Times writes about the Jews — killing innocent children in Gaza in a possible war crime, spreading the coronavirus via skullcaps — attacking Jews might actually be a logical step. That's not a legal or moral excuse for the perpetrators of violent antisemitic acts. But it is a call for the Times to reckon honestly with its own role in stoking hatred of Jews. Or, if that's asking too much, at least to stop suppressing the news of such violent attacks from the newspaper's readers. [emphasis added]
A final consideration, according to Stoll, is that while The New York Times was ready to report on antisemitic attacks and even saturate its pages with such stories while Trump was president ( Trump's Big Achievement: Making the New York Times Care About Antisemitism) — now, "the Times has abandoned interest just as rapidly as it had acquired it."While any or all of these possibilities may explain The New York Times's self-imposed editorial lobotomy, the merging of their anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bias into a full-fledged news blackoutis a new development in its agenda.The well-known motto of the Times — All The News That's Fit To Print— is a promise to the reader that the paper will be the go-to destination for reporting on everything that is going on in the world that people want to know about.But it also implies a promise of honesty, that The New York Times will not hide important news from its readers — news and information that its readers need to know and be aware of.The New York Times has broken this promise.
