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Loan company SoFi pulls ad after criticism that it features an antisemitic stereotype BY ANDREW LAPIN Loan company SoFi pulls ad after criticism that it features an antisemitic stereotype - Jewish Telegraphic Agency (jta.org) When a Grenade Exploded in the Knesset, Israel's Parliament - in 1957 When a stolen Hand-Grenade Exploded in the Knesset. Today it is difficult to comprehend how easy it was. In 1957, a man walked into the Knesset, then located on King George St - in downtown Jerusalem, with a grenade in his pocket. He then threw it into the assembly hall. David Ben-Gurion & Golda Meir were among the 9 injured. "Doctor! Doctor!" – came the yells from the assembly hall. "Get the doctors! Move! Ambulance!", others called out. These 'cries' took place right after an explosion shook the Knesset assembly hall, in the main chamber. Then, in 1957, it was located at Frumin House, on King George Street, in downtown Jerusalem. It was October 29, 1957. The re-born Jewish State was approaching her 10 years anniversary. At the time, the country's parliament held its meetings in a rather ordinary residential building that housed commercial establishments on its ground floor. The building had been renovated to allow the Knesset to convene there. Unlike the current Knesset location, Frumin House was in the center of the city, on a crowded, busy street. Security was handled by two unarmed guards stationed at the entrance. On that day, 24-year-old Moshe HaCohen Dwek, simply walked into the Knesset building & received permission to sit in the visitors' gallery, overlooking the assembly hall. He had a stolen hand-grenade in his pocket that the guards had not noticed. At the time, the 'Chaveri Knesset' were discussing matters relating to international & security affairs in the main hall. Yitzhak Rafael, from the (religious) Mafdal party, had been addressing the assembly, shortly after 6:00 pm, Dwek tossed the grenade into the assembly hall. The explosion was followed by long moments of chaos & confusion. (A recording of the event was later published). The Knesset in 1957.The new Knesset from 1966 on the Givat Ram Hill. Moshe HaCohen Dwek is brought to trial. The grenade thrown by Dwek landed between the dais & the cabinet table. The explosion injured the Minister/ Transportation, Moshe Carmel, & the Minister/ Religion, Haim-Moshe Shapira (who, in fact, adopted the name Haim, which means "life" in Hebrew, after he recovered from his severe injury). PM David Ben-Gurion & FM Golda Meir were both lightly injured by shrapnel.She was then the FM. DBG.Dwek was immediately seized by those that were seated next to him, who saw the throw. During his initial interrogation, he sounded confused & scared, & immediately expressed remorse for his actions. It was subsequently revealed that Dwek had sued the Jewish Agency for alleged damages he had suffered with a head injury, & that his claim was rejected. His response was to threaten the President/ Supreme Court of Israel, & as a result he was sent to a mental hospital. This was apparently his motive for the assassination attempt.Moshe HaCohen Dwek in the Jerusalem Courthouse. Migrash HaRussim Jerusalem: the Capital city. Later-on; just before 9:00 pm that same day, the Knesset again convened. Yosef Sprinzak, who was the first Speaker of the Knesset, gave the members a review of the event. "At 6:35, a grenade was thrown into this hall, injuring the Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, Minister Moshe Shapira, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, Transportation Minister Moshe Carmel. The Prime Minister is in good condition, his injuries are superficial, caused by shrapnel which hit both of his arms as well as his left leg. He is being treated for these wounds." As to the man detained by the police, Sprinzak stated: "The police arrested the man, his name is Moshe Hacohen Dwek, & the police have reason to believe that he was the one that threw the grenade. The man is under investigation & the police are investigating the motives of the crime" Speaker- Josef Sprinzak. Moshe Dwek on the defendant's bench. All those injured eventually recovered. Even though he was claimed by some to be mentally unstable, Dwek was found fit to stand trial & he received a 15-yr prison sentence. In 1988, he returned to the public arena for a brief period & founded the Tarshish political party, which ran in the elections that year. The party took the Hebrew letters זעמ (meaning "rage"), & demanded equal rights for immigrants from the Arab lands, however it did not reach the minimal electoral threshold to enter the Knesset. This event triggered many changes in the usual functioning of the Knesset. In the visitors' gallery, secure partitions were installed that separated the gallery & the assembly hall, while security guards were required to meticulously inspect those entering the building & their items. The event led to the formation of the Knesset Guard in 1958, which is now responsible for the protection of the Knesset building & its members. Steve Sattler Please also see this story: When a Grenade Exploded in the Knesset, Israel's Parliament (nli.org.il) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Quotes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams "I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?" ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can..." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Rooft In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1 it so damn hard for people to talk?" ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)" ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?" ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" "Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is--all--over...." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  silence don't work.... When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?" ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof27  "A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing" ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "I'm not good. I don't know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody's good." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "Big Daddy: What makes you so restless, have you got ants in your britches? Brick: Yes, sir... Big Daddy: Why? Brick: - Something - Hasn't - Happened... Big Daddy: Yeah? What is that? Brick [sadly]: - the click... Big Daddy: Did you say the click? Brick: Yes, click. Big Daddy: What click? Brick: A click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful Big Daddy: I sure in hell don't know what you're talking about, but it disturbs me. Brick: It's just a mechanical thing. Big Daddy: What is a mechanical thing? Brick: This click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful. I got to drink till I get it." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Rooft "The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be...." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into..." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof My head don't work any more and it's hard for me to understand how anybody could care if he lived or died or was dying or cared about anything but whether or not there was liquor left in the bottle and so I said what I said without thinking. In some ways I'm no better than the others, in some ways worse because I'm less alive. Maybe it's being alive that makes them lie, and being almost not alive that makes me sort of accidentally truthful--I don't know but--anyway--we've been friends...And being friends is telling each other the truth..." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death. —Big Daddy" ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof I'm a rich man, Brick, yep, I'm a mighty rich man. Y'know how much I'm worth? Guess, Brick! Guess how much I'm worth! Close to ten million in cash an' blue chip stocks, outside, mind you, of twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile! But a man can't buy his life with it, he can't buy back his life with it when his life has been spent, that's one thing not offered in the Europe fire-sale or in the American markets or any markets on earth, a man can't buy his life with it, he can't buy back his life when his life is finished... Big Daddy: (pp. 65)" ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1 Margaret: Oh you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. What you want is someone to [she turns out the rose-silk lamp] take hold of you. Gently, gently, with love! And I do love you, Brick, I do! Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?" ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant..." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "Big Daddy: Ignorance - of mortality - is a comfort." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant..." ― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Bret to Big Daddy "To you love is just another four letter word" Medieval remains reveal diversity of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA - study Genetic material from medieval Germany tells a greatly expanded origin story of Ashkenazi Jews. By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Medieval remains reveal diversity of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA - study - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) See you tomorrow bli neder We need Mashiach now! Love Yehuda Lave Yehuda Lave, Spirtual Advisor and Counselor Jerusalem, Jerusalem  Israel 972-585043210 YehudaLave@gmail.com You received this email because you signed up on our website or made a purchase from us. Unsubscribe