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A 30-year-old mother of three was viciously stabbed to death in front of her two young children in Salinas, California, on Sunday, June 25. The perpetrator, Rodrigo Bravo, 32, had an active restraining order placed against him and was accused of violating it multiple times in the past.
The children that witnessed the tragic murder of their mother were a two-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl.
By the time police responded to the residence on Natividad Road, Eleni Tavau had already suffered multiple stab wounds. Officers attempted to revive her, but she was ultimately transported to a local hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.
Unable to outrun justice, the accused turned himself in at the county jail Sunday afternoon. He then appeared in court to face six felony charges, including second-degree murder and two counts of causing great bodily harm to minor children. Court documents stated that he used a knife to kill the mother of two of his children and that Bravo had previously been found guilty of assaulting Tavau and violating court orders in the past 12 months.
The Tavau family has now set up a GoFundMe page to cover the costs of bringing Eleni’s remains back to her native Samoa for a proper burial. Any donations from the public will be greatly appreciated and will honor her memory.
Bravo remains in custody with his bail set at more than 1 million dollars, and he was scheduled to stand trial on July 26. This tragic event serves as a reminder of domestic violence’s severe consequences and stresses the importance of court orders. Though the Tavau family is left to pick up the pieces of their lives without Eleni, their grief is seen, and we send them our heartfelt condolences.
The PM cited concerns the technology could fall into Iranian hands.
By JNS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out providing the Iron Dome aerial-defense system to Ukraine.
“I think it’s important to understand that we’re concerned also with the possibility that systems that we would give to Ukraine would fall into Iranian hands and could be reverse-engineered and we would find ourselves facing Israeli systems used against Israel,” the premier said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published on Wednesday.
Kyiv has requested Iron Dome batteries to defend itself against Russian aerial threats, including Iranian-made drones.
Israel is also preventing the United States from transferring to Ukraine two Iron Dome batteries in its possession.
“We can save more Ukrainian lives today if we transfer those batteries. However, due to serious concerns, the government of Israel has blocked the United States from transferring these batteries,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen said in a letter sent to the Senate Armed Services Committee last Friday.
Israel developed Iron Dome and initially funded it. While subsequent rounds of funding were provided by the United States, Israel has veto power over any foreign transfers or sales.
Netanyahu also pushed back against accusations that Israel is not doing enough to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. He noted that Israel has provided Kyiv with a rocket and drone alert system.
“We are also helping Ukraine. We’re helping them in civilian defense, a civilian alert system that will obviate the need to get half the country in shelters for every missile fired. So we’re helping them with that.”
The prime minister also addressed accusations by the Ukrainian embassy in Israel that Jerusalem is actually taking a “pro-Russian stance” in the conflict by maintaining a neutral position.
“We’re not neutral. We’ve expressed our sympathy and position with Ukraine, but I am saying there is a limit, limitations that we have and concerns and interests that we have,” Netanyahu said.
“My first interest, regardless of sympathy and the steps that we take, is to ensure the security of the one and only Jewish state. We have the concerns that I told you. Also, our pilots are flying right next to Russian pilots in the skies over Syria in order to block the attempts of Iran to establish a second Hezbollah front in Syria.”
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem summoned Ukraine’s ambassador after he accused Israel of taking a pro-Russia stance.
The dressing down is scheduled for July 3. Ambassador Yevgen Korniychuk will meet with Aliza Ben-Nun, the head of the ministry’s Strategic Affairs Directorate.
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Still from Elemental. (Pixar)
Pixar’s new film Elemental is so boring and unmemorable that it seems like a new low for the famed animation company. That’s impressive, considering that Pixar has already had quite a fall from it’s early glory days, slavishly following Disney Studios down the money-grubbing rathole, ruining its sterling reputation through bad sequels, cynical merchandizing, and a general anything-for-a-buck mentality.
I’m no fan of the Pixar style myself — too much ideologically poisoned Disneyfied nostalgia and sentimental slop weighing down fantastically talented animators — but even I can appreciate the more dazzling aspects of Toy Story (1995), The Incredibles (2004) Ratatouille (2007), and Coco (2017).
But Elemental, directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur), is shockingly formulaic. It seems Sohn based the film’s premise on his own experience as the son of Korean immigrants, who ran a store in the Bronx in the 1970s. But even so, it’s impossible not to recognize that the Elemental narrative is a tired, retreaded variation on Inside/Out (2015). That Pixar film portrayed the basic emotions as contending characters representing Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. Their tech job is to manage via computer consoles the emotional life of a young girl, within the complex social system of her being.
In the Elemental variation of this idea, the basic natural elements of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air are anthropomorphized as characters trying to live harmoniously together in Element City. Fire beings are the newest immigrants, and they’re not fully accepted in society, especially by the richest class of Water beings.
There’s a cross-class romance involving fiery Ember Lumen (Leah Lewis) with lugubrious Wade Ripple (Mamoudou Athie). Her big trouble is her immigrant father, Bernie (Ronnie del Carmen), and his legacy of hardship in leaving his overheated home country and running a store in the rough working-class neighborhood of Element City. His dream is that Ember will eventually inherit the store and run it. And though she works maniacally hard, she can never quite measure up.
She’s always causing inadvertent chaos when her angry emotions get the best of her, setting inconvenient fires. This turns out to be because running the store is the wrong kind of work for her. She’s really meant to create glassmaking artworks, channeling her ability to concentrate heat. It’s Wade and his rich Water family whose upper-class connections provide her that opportunity with a fancy glassmaking internship.
Still from Elemental. (Pixar)
But the overall lack of inventiveness in Elemental means that these heavy ideological themes come across clumsy and didactic. The characters themselves are less engaging than in many other Pixar films. There’s a total absence of any truly dazzling visual effects, and the script isn’t particularly funny or moving, so you’re free to notice what a weird-ass story this is for an animated film. What do Fire and Water, Earth and Air, have to do with another tale of work and professional advancement?
But Pixar films are so often about characters’ working lives in complex social systems resembling human communities (mainly cities) that it seems like the studio’s storytelling talent veers automatically toward those narratives. Not only are they exhaustingly plotty but they normalize the idea of work as the essential fact of all life, supposedly what every entity on earth does all the time. Toy Story began it all the way back in 1995, with a plot about the way toys work at being the playthings of human children, and attend corporate-style meetings run by busy managers bearing clipboards, cautioning employees about their performance levels. In Monsters, Inc., all the monsters work in a factory trying to hit peak performance levels as “Top Scarers” by terrifying children at night, because kids’ screams power the city of Monstropolis.
I love Ratatouille, directed by Brad Bird — it’s my favorite Pixar film — but I gotta admit it’s all about work and achievement and professional success. In this story, it’s not enough for Remy the Rat (Patton Oswalt) to overcome intense prejudices against him as he tries to become a chef in Paris — he needs to become a top chef, with his own restaurant, and a big rep. And the human characters of Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano) and Colette Tatou (Janeane Garofalo) have to find their own levels of work proportionate to their talents — Alfredo can’t cook at all, so he becomes a waiter in Remy’s new restaurant, and Colette becomes Remy’s sous-chef.
And the food critic Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole) is despised as a villain because critics don’t work, see, they just critique the work of others. Anton Ego is only redeemed when he’s converted by Remy’s brilliantly inventive cooking and strives to serve that talent. He invests in Remy’s new restaurant, as both a great business opportunity and a recognition of truly worthy work done at the highest level.
Propaganda much, Pixar? That’s a plot turn worthy of mad right-wing novelist Ayn Rand. Pixar also inherits the pro-work mania from Disney itself, of course. In Disney films — imbued with the old Uncle Walt’s punitive Protestant work ethic that made him such a bitter enemy of labor unions and his own suffering workforce — not working obsessively hard is regarded as morally dangerous. That’s even if (especially if) animated characters find themselves living in paradise where the weather is perfect and the food falls off the trees and there’s no sane reason to work. A straight line can be drawn from the siren song “Bare Necessities” in Disney’s The Jungle Book (1967) to “Hakuna Matata” in The Lion King (1994). In both cases, the young male protagonist is temporarily swayed by likable but lazy sidekicks who want them to ignore their responsibilities, which involve huge, generally life-endangering, effort.
If you don’t think animated films can work any other way than the Disney/Pixar narrative models, just throw your mind back to the hugely popular Bugs Bunny cartoons that played before feature films in theaters in the 1930s through the ’50s. Guess how those tend to start? With Bugs Bunny happily living in his hole in the ground, probably reclining luxuriously while eating a carrot, or possibly strolling in the greenery singing an amusing song, until hunter Elmer Fudd or some other malefactor comes bothering and chasing and threatening him. Then the battle begins for Bugs’ freedom to do nothing but enjoy himself in nature.
It doesn’t have to be all work all the time, but nobody’s told the top talent at Pixar.
The first was his father, more than 35 years ago.
By JNS
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will address a joint session of Congress on July 19, U.S. lawmakers announced on Thursday.
The speech is meant to “commemorate the 75th anniversary of the statehood of Israel and reaffirm the special relationship between our two nations,” said a statement issued by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
The only other Israeli president to address both chambers of Congress was Herzog’s father, Chaim, in November 1987.
“The world is better off when America and Israel work together,” McCarthy said in the statement, noting that the United States was the first nation to recognize Israel, 11 minutes after it declared independence in 1948.
“Today, we continue to strengthen the unbreakable bond between our two democracies,” he added.
McCarthy traveled to Israel in May and addressed the Knesset, becoming only the second-ever person in his post to address the legislature in Jerusalem.
Schumer said in the statement: “I am pleased Congress will have the opportunity to hear from President Herzog, who has always been a great leader and is particularly influential at this time, to commemorate 75 years of the success of the State of Israel and the strong, enduring U.S.-Israel alliance.”
During his trip, Herzog will meet with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington and visit with Jewish community leaders in New York City.
Herzog met with the U.S. president at the White House last October under the previous Israeli government.
Biden has yet to extend an invitation to Washington to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since he took office again for the sixth time in December. The U.S. president said in March that he has no plans to invite Netanyahu in the “near term.”
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The explainer video, released by the Public Diplomacy Ministry, cites examples from CNN, BBC and other outlets.
“You’d think a bunch of innocent people died for some mysterious reason,” the video charged. “The network later apologized for the incorrect reporting but the damage was done.”
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The terrorist, Youssef Shahbazi Abbasalilo, was captured and interrogated by the Mossad in Iran. In a video released by the spy agency, Abbasalilo describes details of the plot to kill Israelis in Cyprus.
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“Now that they have been exposed, they should do the only decent thing they can do: issue a public apology to the yeshiva community.”
By World Israel News Staff
A spate of recent reports in The New York Times on the Orthodox Jewish school system in New York have ignited widespread criticism due to allegations of inaccuracies, a lack of context, and outright falsehoods, the most recent of which was an email which proves the so-called newspaper of record was aware that data it was citing was incorrect.
At the heart of the controversy is a NYT article published on December 29, 2022, authored by Brian Rosenthal, which claimed an unusually high percentage of students at Brooklyn yeshivas were recipients of special education services. The Times ignored appeals from numerous yeshivas about the inaccuracy of the figures before the story went to print.
Adding fuel to the fire is an email, reportedly sent by Rosenthal to the State Education Department, which suggests he was aware that the data underpinning his claims were flawed. In the email, he purportedly pointed out inconsistencies in the state’s data, where the recorded number of special education students exceeded total enrollment for several schools.
The revelation of this email has amplified the controversy, with many within the yeshiva community viewing it as evidence of the newspaper’s lack of journalistic integrity in this matter. Rabbi Moshe Dovid Niederman, a member of Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools (PEARLS) executive board, has called for the Times to issue a public apology to the yeshiva community.
“This proves what we and the Orthodox community have been saying all along,” Niederman said. “The Times wasn’t objectively reporting facts about yeshivas but was pushing its anti-yeshiva narrative. Now that they have been exposed, they should do the only decent thing they can do: issue a public apology to yeshivas and the yeshiva community.”
Education experts consulted by Yeshiva World News (YWN) suggested that the state’s data, which the NYT relied on, likely represented cumulative figures rather than annual student numbers – which explains the reason why, as Rosenthal’s own clarifying email to the state asked, the number students “classified as special ed is higher than their overall enrollment.” The experts argued that the data may have included students who had received services in previous years but had since graduated or left the school.
As Attorney Avi Schick told YWN, the incident could potentially lead to legal scrutiny of the Times, highlighting the serious implications of this ongoing situation.
“It is normally very difficult to establish that a journalist acted with actual malice. But the revelation of this email demonstrates that Rosenthal knew the data he was relying on wasn’t accurate,” Schick said. “That is the kind of thing that can give a lawsuit legs and allow it it get to the discovery phase where the Times would have to disclose its own internal communications.”
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Robert Stuhlmann’s win on Sunday marked the first time an Alternative for Germany candidate won a county-wide election in Germany.
By Dion J. Pierre, The Algemeiner
German police have launched a search for a suspected neo-Nazi who distributed to children balloons left over from an election night celebration held by the extremist far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on Sunday in the southern region of the state of Thuringia.
Footage of the incident posted on social media shows a man dressed in black, red, and white shorts and a shirt that says, “Wehrmacht wieder mit?,” a far-right slogan meaning “Who’s going to join again?,” according to The Associated Press. Additionally, the car in which he transported the balloons said, “volunteer deportation helper,” an allusion to AfD’s anti-immigration ideology.
“The fact that a neo-Nazi apparently targets our youngest children without being asked and takes aim at kindergarten children is a serious assault,” Thuringia education minister Helmut Holter said on Tuesday in a Twitter post. “Election campaigns have no place in kindergarten. Even more so, kindergartens must be protected from anti-constitutional messages.”
Robert Stuhlmann’s win on Sunday marked the first time an AfD candidate won a county-wide election in Germany and has caused worry about the allure of far right extremism among the country’s electorate.
Several AfD leaders have attempted to play down or whitewash the systemic brutality of Germany’s 12-year period under Nazi rule. In 2017, one the AfD’s most outspoken regional leaders, Björn Höcke, sparked outrage when he declared himself disgusted by Berlin’s memorial to the Nazi Holocaust. “We Germans are the only people in the world to have planted a monument of shame in the heart of their capital,” Höcke said. Similar sentiments were also expressed by Alexander Gauland, the leader of the AfD’s parliamentary faction, who dismissed the Nazi era as a “speck of bird poop” on Germany’s “glorious history” in a speech in 2018.
When a neo-Nazi murdered two people outside a synagogue in the German city of Halle in 2019, several party officials described it as a “false flag” operation. One MP, Stephan Brandner, accused lawmakers who attended a vigil commemorating victims of antisemitism of “lounging in front of synagogues.”
Voters for AfD have been increasing steadily since it formed in 2013. In a 2019 state election in Thuringia, it knocked the Christian Democratic Union into third place and finished second in two other regional elections in Brandenburg and Saxony. It has, however, lost seats in the Bundestag. In 2019, it had 91 seats in the body. Today, according to the German government, it has 78.
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