מה קורה בקהילה של הרב שמואל טל? - מקור ראשון

https://www.makorrishon.co.il/magazine/150085/

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2. "כחצי שנה לאחר שעברנו מצפת ליד־בנימין, יצרתי קשר עם הרב בשאלה משפחתית. בפגישה הרב התוודע לכך שאני מטפלת באנרגיות, ומאוד התעניין בתחום, שאל וחקר. הוא התעניין גם בי והציע לי ללמוד בבית הספר שלו לי​י​עוץ. (…) אחרי הפסקה של חודשיים הקשר התחדש בעקבות שיחה משמעותית ומקשרת שהייתה בינינו. חווינו חוויו​ת רוחניות חזקות אחד לגבי השני, והיה שדה אנרגטי מאוד חזק בינינו כל הזמן.
3. "ואז הרב קיבל 'מסר' שבו הוא רואה שהוא עתיד להתאלמן ואני עומדת להתגרש. הוא אמר שהוא נשמת דוד המלך, אני נשמת בת־שבע ואשתו היא נשמת מיכל. התפתח בינינו קשר עמוק וחזק, נפגשנו פגישות ארוכות כמה פעמים בשבוע, דיברנו בטלפון והסתמסנו המון. הייתה אהבה גדולה. כל הזמן היינו בחוסר ודאות: האם להאמין למה שאנחנו מקבלים? למה נראה לנו שהשם משתף פעולה עם הסיפור הזה? אבל לא יכולנו לנתק את הקשר בגלל המשיכה העצומה והמִגנוט החזק. 

Abusive daycare worker: I was a devil

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265601

Carmel Mauda, the daycare worker suspected of abusing toddlers in the home where she worked, initially denied an investigation into the allegations, Yediot Aharonot reported Sunday morning.

However, after being confronted by police investigators with photographs of the security videos documenting the abuse, she changed her version of the events.

"Here I had a black day," she said in response to one video and when the researchers showed her another video in which she appeared to hurt one of the children, she said: "On this day I was a devil."

Yesterday morning, Mauda's house was set on fire. apparently as the result of arson.

Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Sex Trafficking of Minors

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-of-minors-source

Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for allegedly sex trafficking dozens of minors in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005, and will appear in court in New York on Monday, according to three law enforcement sources. Saturday's arrest by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force comes about 12 years after the 66-year-old financier essentially got a slap on the wrist for allegedly molesting dozens of underage girls in Florida.

For more than a decade, Epstein’s alleged abuse of minors has been the subject of lawsuits brought by victims, investigations by local and federal authorities, and exposés in the press. But despite the attention cast on his alleged sex crimes, the hedge-funder has managed to avoid any meaningful jail time, let alone federal charges.

Trump administration is 'inept and insecure', says UK ambassador

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48898231

The Trump administration has been labelled "inept", insecure and incompetent in leaked emails from the UK ambassador to Washington.

Sir Kim Darroch said that the White House was "uniquely dysfunctional" and "divided" under Donald Trump.

But he also warned that the US president should not be written off.

The Foreign Office said the leak of the memos to the Mail on Sunday was "mischievous" but did not deny their accuracy.

The White House has not yet responded to the revelation of the contents of the memos, but it could test the so-called "special relationship" between the US and UK.

In the messages, Sir Kim said: "We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept."

He questioned whether this White House "will ever look competent".

Top rabbi blows lid off rabbinic scandal, rocking national religious public

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-rabbi-blows-lid-off-rabbinic-scandal-rocking-national-religious-public/

In consultations with Rabbi Asher Weiss — a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi whose rulings have been accepted by members in the national religious camp as well — Eliyahu said that it was decided that a special rabbinic court be assembled in order to rule on the allegations made against Tal.

In the meantime, Weiss issued a ruling of his own stating that Tal could continue functioning as head of Torat HaChaim before the court of three rabbis debated his fate. In addition, he called on members of the Yad Binyamin community to come forward before this coming Friday if they had any allegations against Tal.

President Trump Said Revolutionary War Troops 'Took Over the Airports' in His Fourth of July Speech

https://time.com/5620936/donald-trump-revolutionary-war-airports/
President Trump made a bit of a historical blunder during his Fourth of July “Salute to America” speech Thursday when he said that the Continental Army “took over the airports” from the British during the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s.

During his hour-long speech at the grounds of Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., Trump stayed largely off politics.

Trump praised the Americans’ military efforts in the war against Great Britain. “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory,” he said.

Rabbi Sacks on the 25th yartzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Rabbi Shmuel Tal - Update

Israel Reader	3:33 PM (46 minutes ago)

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2019/05/top-rabbi-blows-lid-off-rabbinic.html

Top rabbi blows lid off rabbinic scandal, rocking national religious public

Update:

בית הדין הרבני שהוקם בעקבות הסערה סביב הרב שמואל טל קבע כי הרב טל יוכל להמשיך לכהן כראש ישיבת תורת החיים, אולם לא יוכל להעניק ייעוץ בנושאי זוגיות ומשפחה, ויצטרך להתרכז בלימוד תורה.

https://www.inn.co.il/News/Flash.aspx/682750

Translation:

The rabbinical court established in the wake of the storm surrounding Rabbi Shmuel Tal, ruled that Rabbi Tal could continue to serve as head of Yeshivat Torat Hayyim, but would not be able to provide counseling on matters pertaining to relationships and family matters, and will need to concentrate on studying Torah.

Please find attached a copy of the Beis Din's ruling.

Note:

The rabbinical court was appointed by Rabbi Asher Weiss, and consisted of Rabbis Michael Bleicher, Tzvi Gartner, and Ovadiah Yosef Toledano.

Without denying that there was problematic behavior on the part of Rabbi Tal, they were able to forensically determine that the were was never any pornography on his computer, and he never had any inappropriate physical contact with any woman.

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Trump incoherently claims homelessness “started 2 years ago”

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'SICK OF USING US AS PROPS': VETERAN CALLS TRUMP'S JULY 4 MILITARY-STYLE CELEBRATION 'INSANELY INAPPROPRIATE'

https://www.newsweek.com/veterans-trump-july-4-parade-inappropriate-1447480

.Trump is being criticized for ordering a military-style celebration with stationed tanks on display and Air Force One and Blue Angels flyovers while he delivers a speech at Lincoln Memorial in the evening

Having military personnel transport tanks from distant bases to Washington, D.C., over Fourth of July week is "insanely inappropriate," Marine Corps veteran Kyle Bibby told Newsweek on Wednesday, "And flies in the face of everything that I understood about training as Marines."

"We just don't do that," Bibby, 33, said. "We just don't do parades, there's no tactical training value in that."

Bibby, who was a captain and had a deployment in Afghanistan in 2010, acknowledged that military equipment is used for events like Fleet Week "but it's never about an individual person, they don't have a political party handing out tickets."

Trump's celebration is public but the Republican National Committee received prime seating tickets to pass out, turning it into a campaign rally of sorts.