https://www.thedailybeast.com/snitch-ghislaines-prison-move-was-due-to-death-threats/
Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell secured a secret prison transfer after the Bureau of Prisons waived a rule designated to punish sex offenders.
Maxwell, alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein‘s accomplice, has spent the last three years serving a 20-year sentence at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5434438-trump-defends-firing-labor-statistics-chief
Trump’s decision to fire the labor statistics head over the jobs report sparked immediate blowback on Capitol Hill, with Democrats accusing the White House of going after the messenger and attempting to silence those detailing a weak labor market during his tenure.
The Gaza aid crunch is starting to abate, as local prices fall. Why are Gazans paying for aid at all? Well, the United Nations says 87% of the aid trucks that it and its partners have tried to deliver since May 19 have been “intercepted” by mobs or “armed actors.” Much of the food ends up sold at market, with Hamas taking a cut. The U.N. rejects Israeli security escorts.
The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which gives free aid to Gazans at large distribution sites, has been shunned by the established aid groups. This has hindered GHF efforts to scale up—the best way to shrink the crowds at each site. For now, large masses must trek past Israel Defense Forces lines to reach these sites, while Hamas instigates stampedes. Much hunger in Gaza has been concentrated in the north, where there are no GHF sites.
Igros Moshe (O. C. IV #80) Question: A volunteer in the Hatzala organization who leaves his home to save a life on Shabbos when can he return home? Answer: It is a great thing that they do and there is no need to delay and have a non Jew do this. The main question is if he goes by car to minimize delay. If we require that he wait to the end of Shabbos to return by car, there is concern that it reduces the likelihood he will be available to save another person on Shabbos Tosfos has a principle that we allow things sometimes to avoid an undersirable consequence of prohibition regarding saving life. Rambam also rules that someone who goes to rescue his fellow Jew from attack on Shabbos is permitted to return home afterwards with his weapons on Shabbos in order to ensure that in the future people will be willing to help on Shabbos.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5429516-trump-confabulation-dementia-signs
For Trump, the day we could no longer pretend everything is fine came on July 15, when he told a lengthy story about his uncle, John Trump, who he claimed taught at MIT and held three degrees in “nuclear, chemical, and math.” His uncle, according to Trump, once told him how he had taught Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and how very smart Kaczynski was.
Trump’s uncle was indeed a professor at MIT, but everything else in this story is pure confabulation. Trump’s uncle didn’t have degrees in “nuclear, chemical, and math” — he had degrees in electrical engineering and physics. And Kaczynski did not go to MIT at all — he went to Harvard.
Difficulty with mathematical concepts is another early warning sign of dementia. Now watch Trump attempting to explain how he is going to make drug prices go down by “1,000 percent, 600 percent, 500 percent, 1,500 percent.” That’s complete nonsense, unless drug companies will be paying patients to accept prescriptions, since reducing drug prices by 100 percent would mean they were free. Certainly, someone who got a business degree from Wharton and has spent his life running a company would know how percentages work.
Or take his insistence that former President Obama and his FBI director, James Comey, made up the Epstein files, even though they were long out of office by the time Epstein was most recently arrested in 2019. Again, that’s very troubling, because being unable to correctly process when past events took place is a common feature in confabulation. The same goes for being unable to remember that he himself appointed Jerome Powell as the chair of the federal reserve. And then, of course, there are all the little lapses in judgment that Trump has been displaying recently.
Donald Trump is showing all the signs of suffering from dementia. If this were a neighbor, a parent, or a family friend, you would have no trouble seeing it. We should not turn our heads just because it is the president.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412654
British journalist Piers Morgan caused an uproar on Saturday after publishing a controversial post on X in the aftermath of the video of hostage Evyatar David which was published by Hamas.
“It’s interesting that all the prominent pro-Israeli voices on here who refuse to believe any Gazan casualty numbers published by the Hamas-run Palestinian health ministry, accept the veracity of hostage pix/videos posted by Hamas without hesitation,” Morgan wrote.
https://mishpacha.com/a-fraught-legacy/#:~:text=Yoni’s%20Adventures%20on,more%20than%20that
Yoni’s Adventures on October the 7th by Ricky Boles
A comic series about a boy named Yoni. The story opens on Simchas Torah morning. Yoni is still asleep when Hamas terrorists infiltrate his kibbutz. In a heart-pounding sequence of panels, he hatches a daring plan to rescue his baby sister before he’s taken hostage to Gaza. Through a mix of brilliance, bravery, and sheer mazel, Yoni escapes his captors, saves other children from the tunnels along the way, and returns to Eretz Yisrael as a hero.
Of course no such comic exists.
That would be outrageous.
And yet, in the car on my way to Brooklyn last week, I found myself sitting through a different outrageous tale — one that is in circulation, is widely consumed, and is proudly marketed as frum entertainment.
This story was about a clever boy outwitting KGB agents with a series of tricks and deceptions. My kids were cackling at the slapstick dialogue and exaggerated villains, while I sat there thinking: What would those who lived through this say? So many Yidden spent years, terrified, under Communist rule. Would they smile as they listened to this story? Or would they marvel at how far removed we are from the actual fear, brutality, and helplessness that defined those years?
The storytellers, the publishers, the creative directors are shaping our children’s historical knowledge — and in some cases, they’re distorting it. When we hand our kids a beautifully illustrated comic book, or CDs with suspenseful music, and illiterate-sounding Nazis, we rob them of the truth.
We blunt their sense of empathy. And we risk raising a generation that confuses gezeiros Shamayim with entertainment.
We owe our children, and our grandparents, more than that.
https://mishpacha.com/who-is-starving-for-the-truth
It’s hard to protest your innocence when you act guilty.
That’s Israel’s dilemma. It half-heartedly denies accusations from a coordinated international campaign that Israel is starving Gazans instead of forcefully refuting these claims, many of which are based on staged scenes, AI-generated images, or unrelated file photos. Then, Israel rewards Hamas’s intransigence by declaring a unilateral ceasefire for ten hours a day to allow in humanitarian aid. Meanwhile, the terrorist group still holds 20 Jewish hostages, who are subject to deprivation far worse than what any Gazan is experiencing.
While it fights Iran, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and groups in the West Bank, Syria and Iraq, Israel is also engaged in an information war — and on that battlefield, it is losing.
Major international news outlets have increasingly portrayed Israel as a heartless aggressor in Gaza, running front-page images of skeletal children suffering starvation in the Strip.
Evidence showing that some of them were misleading or staged has done little to repair Israel’s image.
On Monday alone, US President Donald Trump, his deputy JD Vance, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer all cited these viral images in their calls for drastic policy changes in Gaza.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-asked-why-jeffrey-epstein-stole-girls-mar-lago-2107297
Earlier this week, Trump was asked on board Air Force One whether one of the workers "stolen" from Mar-a-Lago was Giuffre. Trump responded, "I don't know. I think she worked at the spa. I think so, I think that was one of the people, yep. He stole her, and by the way she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever."
Giuffre's family reacted to Trump's comment on Wednesday, calling his remarks "shocking."
"It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been 'stolen' from Mar-a-Lago," the family said in the statement.
"We would like to clarify that it was convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell who targeted and preyed upon our then 16-year-old sister, Virginia, from Mar-a-Lago, where she was working in 2000, several years before Epstein and President Trump had their falling out," Giuffre's family said.
"The government and the President should never consider giving Ghislaine Maxwell any leniency," the family added.