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Faith and Freedom: My Life as a Jewish American Leader, An Evening with Senator Joe Lieberman

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11x17_Poster_TemplateFaith and Freedom: My Life as a Jewish America Leader
An Evening with Senator Joe Lieberman

Partners In Torah of Cleveland
3rd Annual Fundraising Event
Sunday February 12

Dinner with the Senator 6:30 PM
(Mininum $1,800 Sponsorship)
Dessert Reception 7:30 PM

6111 Landerhaven Drive
Tickets Starting At $36

www.TorahCleveland.com • 216-307-PITC
Partners@TorahCleveland.com

Kantina Open After the Fast on Sunday

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Kantina will be open this Sunday night after the fast for Asarah BeTevet concludes. Reservations are now being taken for Sunday night. If you wish delivery, please place your orders early and Uber will deliver right to your home!

Call today: (216) 231-1079

We wish you an easy and meaningful fast!

Kantina Open After the Fast on Sunday

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Kantina will be open this Sunday night after the fast for Asarah BeTevet concludes. Reservations are now being taken for Sunday night. If you wish delivery, please place your orders early and Uber will deliver right to your home!

Call today: (216) 231-1079

We wish you an easy and meaningful fast!

House Passes Bipartisan Objection to UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and United States’ Failure to Block It

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Wall Street Journal Article

The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a measure disavowing a United Nations resolution that condemned Israel’s settlement activities, in a rare show of bipartisan force that doubled as a rebuke to President Barack Obama’s approach to the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Roll call of vote

Full text of Resolution HR11

Excerpts from Resolution:

(1)(G): the United States Government should oppose and veto future United Nations Security Council resolutions that seek to impose solutions to final status issues, or are one-sided and anti-Israel;…
(2) the House of Representatives opposes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 and will work to strengthen the United States-Israel relationship, and calls for United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 to be repealed or fundamentally altered…

Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the resolutions lead Democrat co-sponsor’s, speech from the floor debate (Video and text).

Excerpts from Engel’s speech:

“Mr. Speaker, throughout its entire history, the state of Israel has never gotten a fair shake from the United Nations.  Year after year after year, member states manipulate the UN to bully our ally Israel, to pile on with one-sided resolutions placing all of the blame for the ongoing conflict on Israel.

“We saw a resolution like this come before the Security Council a few weeks ago, and today the House of Representatives will go on record saying that that UN resolution is wrong, plain and simple.  And frankly we should not have voted for that.

“The Security Council resolution is highly critical of Israel, yet asks nothing directly of the Palestinians.  That’s biased, that’s unfair, that’s not balanced and, again, we should have opposed it.  We should have vetoed it.

“And the language about Jerusalem is not new, but it remains deeply offensive to Jews whose holiest site lies on the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem.  The Kotel, the holy Western Wall, is simply not occupied territory, and it’s offensive to hear that.

Petition for Kosher Dunkin Donuts

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Some community members have created a petition to encourage Dunkin Donuts at Cedar Center to become kosher. No word on whether the expectation is for cholov yisroel or not but first steps first.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/kosherdunkindonutsforcleveland/

From David Farkas:

Thank you for posting. The petition, which has been enthusiastically supported since it was put up on Friday, is the first phase of our efforts. Once we have a suitable amount of signatures, we will IYH meet with the franchise owners to discuss possibilities, potential obstacles, and solutions. We will do everything we can to make it a reality. But the first and most important step is demonstrating to the owners the market share they can capture by going Kosher.
Signing the petition takes about 15 seconds. Please click the link to sign the petition today (if you haven’t already done so) and get your friends and spouses to do so as well. Even those who live out of town, but would appreciate a Kosher D & D for when they visit, should sign.

Som Center Road Closed Between Miles and Cannon in Solon

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SOM Center Road is closed between Miles Road and Cannon Road at Hawthorne Parkway due to an accident with live wires in the roadway.  Hawthorne Parkway is also closed.  It is expected that this closure will be in excess of six hours while CEI replaces a pole and removes the live wires.  Please avoid the area.  Please drive safely.

Tomer Brand Meat at Costco is NOT Glatt Kosher

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From kashrut.com quoting CRC, COR Detroit, and Kosher Miami.

From Star-K (click on “November”):

There is a new line of meat from Tomer, which is certified by Triangle K and Rabbi Elimelech Lebowitz. Please note that this meat is non-glatt and is not on STAR-K’s list of recommended meat products. It is sold at various outlets including Costco and Wegmans. At Wegmans in the Baltimore area it is displayed next to glatt Kosher meat, and it is very easy to confuse the two products.
For more information contact info@star-k.org or call 410-484-4110.