GOP Sen. Cassidy calls out Trump DOJ’s $1.8 billion compensation fund as ‘slush fund’

 https://thehill.com/homenews/5884237-cassidy-calls-out-trump-fund/

“I don’t actually see any legal precedent for that. We are a nation of laws, you can’t just make up things whole-piece,” Cassidy told reporters when asked about the legal compensation fund for Trump allies who were prosecuted or investigated by the Biden Justice Department.

The administration announced the creation of the compensation fund after Trump withdrew his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service demanding $10 billion in damages for an IRS contractor leaking his tax returns to media outlets.

“Somebody explained it to me this way, an attorney. … It is as if somebody sued themselves and agreed upon a settlement with themselves that’s going to be funded by the rest of us. If that’s the case: What?!” he said.

The only Iran deal Trump can get is no better than Obama’s ‘horrible’ JCPOA

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-only-iran-deal-trump-can-get-is-no-better-than-obamas-horrible-jcpoa/

The US president pulled out of his predecessor’s 2015 agreement, saying it didn’t address Tehran’s ballistic missiles or proxies. Neither will any conceivable deal, even after weeks of bombing and a month of threats

After over a month of insults, threats, and wildly unrealistic demands from the Iranians, Trump is somehow still telling reporters that Tehran wants to make a deal.

But unlike eight years ago, Trump now seems unbothered by a deal that focuses almost entirely on the nuclear issue, with Tehran still unwilling to give an inch on proxies or missiles

Fake AI ‘rabbis’ spread antisemitism on TikTok

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426641

The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) has released a major new report uncovering a coordinated network of fake, AI-generated "rabbis" flooding TikTok with antisemitic content, in what experts warn is a dangerous escalation in the weaponization of artificial intelligence to spread hate.

The study, conducted by CAM’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC), identified at least 49 TikTok accounts posing as Jewish religious figures while disseminating conspiracy theories and classic antisemitic narratives to a vast global audience. Collectively, these accounts have amassed more than 950,000 followers and generated over 10 million likes, demonstrating both the scale and effectiveness of the operation.

Among the accounts identified were profiles such as @rabbirothstein and @rabbi_silverstein, which presented themselves as authentic rabbis while promoting harmful and misleading claims about Jews. By framing these messages as so-called "insider truths," the network attempts to normalize antisemitism and make it more digestible for mainstream audiences.

The Greatest Threat Facing the Jewish People Isn't Antisemitism

 https://aish.com/the-greatest-threat-facing-the-jewish-people-isnt-antisemitism/

There is a threat far more pernicious than antisemitism, one that is causing greater damage to our people at a faster pace than any external enemy ever could. It's called assimilation.

The real issue is not the Draft

 At this time approaching Shavuos it is time to think about the future of Religious society. I think the real concern is not the draft but the loss of control of the new generation. The post regarding arson caused by frum youth is indicative of the problem. The youth are attatched to Torah not by values and ideology but rather culture and pleasure. Our young students expect to be entertained and to have fun. The army provides a realistic alternative platform. The demonstations have trained a generation to disrespect  authority which is not limited to secular ones. Similarly the tremendous social pressures for wealth collides with the difficult reality of earning a living wage. The failure of rabbis to solve the marriage crisis and other things also caueses disrespect 

There have been a number of historic periods when Jews assimated Such as WWI The Communist takover. America until the 1960's. the reurn to Israel after Babylonian Exile The Golden Age of Spain. In Israel assimilation is a real problem  and explains the resistance to secular and vocational training. Even in fanatic Mea Shearim there is often zero or negative growth due to assimilation. I was told that Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach was the only one of his Cheder that stayed frum. Among the Religious Zionists and Modern Orthodox it is fairly common to lose religion. While in America there was Reform and Conservative and in Europe the Haskala and Reform. The loss of Jewish women before Beis Yakov or the loss of German and Hungarian Jews before Rav Hirsch.  

I think a significant reason for the long time ignoring of abuse was the feeling that the resolution would undermine religious authority the same for marital problems and feministic issues

Eastern European Jews were told to stay in Europe and starve or face the Nazis rather than possibly assimilate in America or Israel

Bottom line the draft is resisted primarily because of the real concern that the 'youth will give up observance

Mass DC prayer event with top White House officials seeks to reclaim US Christian roots

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/mass-dc-prayer-event-with-top-white-house-officials-seeks-to-reclaim-us-christian-roots/

Thousands of people gathered Sunday in downtown Washington DC, for a mass prayer festival featuring speeches by top Trump administration officials — an event critics see as an overt display of Christian nationalism undermining the US’s separation of church and state.

Attendees sang and swayed to Christian music blared out on the National Mall, along with addresses by Christian pastors. One rabbi is also included in the lineup for the event, called “Rededicate 250,” which came one day after a “Shabbat 250” that was promoted by US President Donald Trump and received mixed reactions from Jewish leaders.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson were listed as guest speakers. Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio were set to address the crowd via video.

The gathering was organized by the White House as part of a program of celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary and, in a video message inviting Americans to attend, Hegseth said it was an opportunity to “rededicate this republic to God and country.”

גל הצתות של ילדים חרדים ברחבי ירושלים; מפקד הכיבוי פונה במכתב מיוחד: "זה שובר אותי לעמוד שם"Wave of arson attacks by ultra-Orthodox children across Jerusalem;

 https://www.kikar.co.il/haredim-news/jerusalem-forest-arson-haredi-children

ירושלים מתמודדת בתקופה האחרונה עם גל של הצתות, בשכונות פסגת זאב ונווה יעקב, כשלמרבה הבושה מתברר כי האחראים לכך - הם דווקא ילדים חרדים, שאחדים מהם אף מתנכלים לכבאים שבאים ומחרפים את נפשם | אחד המפקדים בכיבוי אש, דוד סרור, פונה במכתב להורים ולילדים בניסיון לעצור את הגל המסוכן שעלול חלילה לעלות בחיי אדם: "יום אחד", הוא כותב, "חס ושלום, כבאי לא יחזור הביתה - ואתם תדעו למה" | המכתב המלא (אקטואליה)

Thom Tillis Warns Pete Hegseth Against Ousting Another Top US General

 https://www.newsweek.com/thom-tillis-warns-pete-hegseth-ousting-top-us-general-11960084

Republican Senator Thom Tillis issued a warning to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over reports that he plans to sideline another top general.

Tillis, who is retiring after his tenure in the Senate ends in January 2027, posted a lengthy statement on X, warning that Hegseth continues to "disrespect our greatest allies and some of our best military professionals with impulsive decisions not grounded in reality or good judgment."

"Hegseth would do well to surround himself with more patriots like General Donahue and to get his henchmen, who are not qualified to carry Donahue's bag, out of the Pentagon," the senator added. "Keep your word, Mr. Secretary: choose meritocracy over your mediocre yes-men."

Women with this condition are often misdiagnosed. Its new name could help.

 Women with this condition are often misdiagnosed. Its new name could help.

A global panel of experts and patient advocates published a paper in the Lancet to announce that PCOS has been renamed to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS, to more accurately reflect that it’s a whole-body endocrine and metabolic condition and that many people who have it never develop ovarian cysts.

PMOS is more comprehensive. “The new name, PMOS, highlights the complex nature of this syndrome and the involvement of multiple systems, including metabolic, reproductive, psychological and dermatological concerns,” said Nair, of OSU.

Bill Cassidy and America’s increasingly broken primary system

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/17/bill-cassidy-defeat-highlights-decline-open-primary-elections/

Sen. Bill Cassidy’s defeat in Saturday’s Republican primary in Louisiana will be covered as evidence of President Donald Trump’s grip over the party. Cassidy voted to convict Trump after his second impeachment following Jan. 6, 2021, and this was payback.

But the state legislature voted to get rid of that “jungle” system, partly to get rid of Cassidy. And it worked. In a state as red as Louisiana, the GOP primary is tantamount to the general election.

Bosses in both parties have been working to change the rules the last few years to make it harder for more moderate politicians like Cassidy to survive.

The Iran-Backed Militia Behind a Terror Plot Against American Jews

 https://time.com/article/2026/05/16/kataib-hezbollah-terror-plot-synagogue/

Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi national, is accused of having “directed and urged others to attack U.S. and Israeli interests, including by killing Americans and Jews” on behalf of Kata'ib Hezbollah, a powerful Iraqi Shiite militia backed by Iran, according to the criminal complaint. 

Federal authorities say Al-Saadi, a Kata'ib Hezbollah commander, planned to attack a New York City synagogue and two Jewish centers in Los Angeles, California, and Scottsdale, Arizona. The complaint alleges that Al-Saadi provided an undercover law enforcement officer, who was posing as a Mexican cartel member, with photographs and maps showing the locations of his targets. He is also charged with conducting attacks in Canada and Europe.

New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Friday that Al-Saadi was “targeting the heart of our Jewish community.” 

Al-Saadi, who was transferred into United States custody overseas before being brought to the U.S., appeared in Manhattan federal court on Friday, as his arrest was announced to the public. He faces charges including conspiracy to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations, conspiracy to bomb a place of public use, and attempted destruction of property by means of fire or explosives. He was arrested in Turkey and brought to the United States to face charges.

This is VERY dangerous': Ex-Trump staffer SOUNDS ALARM on Trump's new 'counterterrorism' strategy

My love song to Jerusalem by Mordechai Schiller

 In June 1967, I sat in a makeshift bomb shelter in Talpiot, Jerusalem, listening to mortar shells whiz overhead and explode all around us.

A few days later, on the holiday of Shavuos, I stood in awe by the Western Wall.

Nothing would ever be the same again.

One day, I was walking along the street in Jerusalem and the first line of this song came to me. Later that night, I wrote the rest. You can listen to the song or download it (free) here.

NJ Amalekism Looming-LevinAt11

 Fri, May 15, '26:

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Tefillah request, for expeditious recovery of:

Rav Yehuda Ben Masha HaLevi;

Shimon Ben Masha; &

Lea Bas Freeda

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Linked below is this week's LevinAt11 radio broadcast, May 14, '26

מצורף: תכנית ראדיו רב לעוין שליט"א, פרשת במדבר תשפו

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Programming Note: No broadcast next week, due to the Shavuos Holiday.

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Clarification regarding Terminology:

When we employ the term "satanic" - e.g. as in describing the wicked legislation looming in NJ, we do so exclusively in the Jewish sense of the word.  The "Sotton" is an angel.  As such, he has no ability whatsoever to harm or help any person on the basis of his own will.  He operates exclusively as a Divine agent, charged with the task of fulfilling the Will of G-d -- by testing Man.

When we describe a bill or agitator as "satanic," we mean that they embody evil in the extreme, especially when they seek Evil for the sake of Evil, in the spirit of the nation of Amalek.

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Primary Topic:

The Threat of Passage of NJ bill S2260/ A2218 - specifically, undisclosed variants thereof:

Action Needed:

Please share this crucial information ASAP with your NJ associates, especially those with influence, e.g. Rabbonim and media. This bill could be voted on by the entire Legislature as early as next week, before Shavuos, R"L.

All NJ residents are asked to urge both of their assemblymen and their state senator to actively combat this legislation - whatever form it takes.  Citizens must demand they not only vote NO, but also unapologetically expose this bill as an antireligious edict, inasmuch as it criminalizes efforts to act on the Torah directives to save the innocent from abortion-at-whim and transgender-barbarism. See our letter to the NJ Senate Health Committee, copied below.

Subtopics:

1. Introduction of our special guest, veteran profamily leader Bill Eames: (excerpts)

Bill Eames graduated from Kent State University in 1972 with a B.A. in Journalism News.

* News Director for several regional radio stations, over a 10-year period

* Executive Director of the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce, 1976-1982

* V.P. of Public Affairs for the Newark (NJ) Chamber of Commerce

* Executive Director, NJ Tooling & Manufacturing Association

* Bill has worked in public policy and government affairs in all of these positions, and later in the field of public relations

* After concluding his corporate careers, he was certified and taught middle school English and Social Studies.

* and since 2009, he has led citizen organizations and coalitions, and currently is co-founder (with his wife, Barbara) of Working Together for New Jersey:

TogetherNJ.org/ info@TogetherNJ.org.

2. A possible insight from this week's Haftora, Hoshea 2:20:

{הושע ב:כ}

וְכָרַתִּ֨י לָהֶ֤ם בְּרִית֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא עִם־חַיַּ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ וְעִם־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽאֲדָמָ֑ה וְקֶ֨שֶׁת וְחֶ֤רֶב וּמִלְחָמָה֙ אֶשְׁבּ֣וֹר מִן־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְהִשְׁכַּבְתִּ֖ים לָבֶֽטַח׃

ע' מצודת דוד:

וכרתי וגו' . ר''ל חית השדה וכו' לא ישחיתו בהם כאלו כרתו עמהם ברית שלום : אשבור . ר''ל אבטל כלי מלחמה והמלחמה עצמה :

Perhaps one could suggest an allusion based on the position of the term "Keshes" ("bow", but also used elsewhere to refer to the rainbow) preceding "sword and war."  Perhaps this alludes to the causation of war (an increasingly timely topic lately) - via tolerance of the LGBTQ "Rainbow-Rebellion" against G-d, a movement which takes Divine Compassion for "weakness" (sic, עפר לפיהם).  This rebellion is being mainstreamed in our society -- due to - and via - legislation like S2260/ A2218, and its' proponents.

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Additional Observations:

This lesson is urgently needed as America, approaching its' 250th anniversary, is facing formidable, escalating military threats (arguably largely self-inflicted, pursuant to foreign policy decisions of multiple administrations, pertaining to Russia, Ukraine, Iran, and beyond).

The federal government passed the Marriage De-Definition Rubicon in June 2015 and December 2022, thereby posing an existential threat to the remnants of what used to be the Constitutional Republic.  Having ceded its spiritual right to exist (as we've addressed previously, based on VaYikra Rabbah 23:9 and Talmud tractate Chullin 92b) to the LGBTQ mafia, American political leadership is ill-advised to be overconfident in maintaining its global hegemony without very heavy losses, if even then.*

(* This is all the more true given the fact that the DC-led proxy-war against Russia is a war against a nation who's policies criminalizing LGBTQ agitation are far more in line with the Torah position than what's being supported by the ostensibly right flank of the Republican Party.  (Trump celebrated with hundreds of gay agitators just a few days after Biden signed national Marriage De-definition legislation in December '22, as reported by Politico then: http://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/16/celebration-same-sex-marriage-mar-a-lago-00074441 .  He also pledged that he's "fighting hard" for the S'domite community -- again, just after they attained their Marriage De-definition goal.)

Make America "Get-it" Again:

When a country's adversaries possess that type of spiritual merit, extreme caution is necessary. The heavy US losses in the Gulf have evidently not been sufficient to reverse US policy in either the aforementioned moral or geopolitical arena.)

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Additionally, perhaps the term Keshes alludes to the far-reaching impact of the Rainbow rebellion, undermining every foundation of a decent society, and even the very foundations of a viable human society. See further Nedarim 51a, which (as co-host R' Yonoson suggested, in a our Achrei-Mos Kedoshim broadcast) may allude to the fact that the widespread practice of abomination leads to introduction of a broad ideological worldview seeking to vindicate it:

הכי אמר רחמנא תועבה תועה אתה בה. (נדרים נא•)

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S2260/ A2218 serves as a eye-opening sample of how the LGBTQ-Agitator Community premeditatedly subverts the values of the Aseres HaDibros (aka the Decalogue, the Ten Directives ("Commandments")) given by G-d at Mount Sinai over 33 centuries ago.  It would be all the more inexcusable to allow such legislation to pass without a robust Jewish protest, as we approach the Shavuos Holiday.

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3. The Transgender-tyranny and abortion-at-whim tyranny bill S2260/ A2218:

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 A few highlights of what occurred this week:

• The NJ Assembly Health Committee voted to Release the amended/substitute for S2260 and A2218.   Within 48 hours, the adopted version will be posted on the Legislature's website, here.
• Next:  These bills, at the discretion of each house leader, could be directly posted for final votes before the Senate and Assembly, as amended - This could happen next week, or not - we don't yet know
• The Assembly Health Committee vote was predictably 9-3 along party lines (Democrats for, Republicans against)
• You can listen to all or part of the 4-1/2 hour hearing - Click Here - by selecting the loudspeaker icon (far right) for "May 14"

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Important Links:

The "Summary" and the full revised bill:

1.  Here is the 4-page "Statement" released by the Senate Health Committee May 11th to "explain" the substitute for S2260 (our explanation is below)
2. Here is the 11- page "substitute bill" released in the Senate on Monday, May 11

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Dates to watch for potential full house ("floor") votes in the Legislature {subject to change on very short notice}:

May 18, May 21, May 28, and June 11.

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Recent LevinAt11 Radio Broadcasts:

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Parshas Behar Bechukosai, '86:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/authentic-torah-priorities-levinat11.html

Parshas Emor, '86:*

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/chillul-hashem-root-causes.html

 (* Also see: https://vinnews.com/2026/04/29/religious-zionist-rabbis-warn-if-tank-corps-has-females-yeshiva-students-wont-serve-there/ )

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Pertaining to the Haftora, Hoshea 2:19, 

והסירותי שמות הבעלים מפיה, ולא יזכרו עוד בשמם:

See, for example, among related posts:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2025/02/pervasive-paganism.html

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Have a good Shabbos, and good Chodesh, and an uplifting Shavuos.

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director,

Help Rescue Our Children

845.642.1679

Direct: 771.215.8892

Israeli Helpline: 03.721.3337

torahjewsfordecency@gmail.com

Tomim Tih'yeh [countering "New-Age" infiltration]: 

Tomim1679@gmail.com

Presentations on New-Age dangers: 605-313-6831 ext. 2

Heard weekly on New Jersey's WSNR Radio 620AM, co-hosting the renowned Levin-At-Eleven program, every Thursday evening, 11pm to midnight (ET).

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Here is a letter we sent to members of the NJ Senate Health Committee - before they passed a modified, 11-page variant of S2260 on Monday:

BS"D

May 11, '26

Re: opposition to S2260/A2218

Hon. Senators,

This legislation, S2260/A2218*, is abusive and exploitive of children, falling far below any standard of a civilized society.

* https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2026/S2260/bill-text?f=S2500&n=2260_I1

In antiquity, barbarians sacrificed children in serving pagan gods. Their contemporary heirs have instead opted to murder preborn infants and brutally exploit youth to service the Medical-Industrial complex.

As such, this legislation falls beyond the realm of legitimate governmental authority.

Moreover, this legislation is a direct attack against Judaism - and its adherents. Even according to the most peripheral, lenient extremes on the Halachic spectrum, abortion-on-demand is unequivocally prohibited - for all Mankind.  And facilitating sexual-mutilation is similarly unequivocally and diametrically against the Torah.  Moreover, efforts to impede these iniquities must not risk suffering government infringement.

S2260/A2218 - by proscribing and penalizing certain efforts to discharge one's Torah obligations to save preborn babies from death, and youth from sexual mutilation and manipulation - constitutes an anti-religious edict. Indeed, it's arguably competitive in both word and spirit with those ancient anti-Torah decrees against which the Maccabees fought -- to the death.

Those who vote for S2260/A2218 - either in Committee or on the floor - will be remembered for their role in advancing authentic anti-Jewish persecution.  No amount of throwing money at Jewish causes, or grandstanding about ostensibly "fighting anti-semitism," can undo that reality.

We urge each of you, independent of your views on related matters, to kill this draconian bill, before it kills New Jersey.

Feel invited to reach out if you'd like any Torah sources supporting the aforementioned points.

Thank you in advance,

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director,

Help Rescue Our Children

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