Sunday, December 22, 2019
Speak Truth to Trump
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/october-web-only/speak-truth-to-trump.html
Most Christians who support Trump have done so with
reluctant strategic calculation, largely based on the president’s power
to appoint members of the Supreme Court. Important issues are indeed at
stake, including the right of Christians and adherents of other
religions to uphold their vision of sexual integrity and marriage even
if they are in the cultural minority.
But there is a point at which strategy becomes its own
form of idolatry—an attempt to manipulate the levers of history in favor
of the causes we support. Strategy becomes idolatry, for ancient Israel
and for us today, when we make alliances with those who seem to offer
strength—the chariots of Egypt, the vassal kings of Rome—at the expense
of our dependence on God who judges all nations, and in defiance of
God’s manifest concern for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, and the
oppressed. Strategy becomes idolatry when we betray our deepest values
in pursuit of earthly influence. And because such strategy requires
capitulating to idols and princes and denying the true God, it
ultimately always fails.
Christianity Today made a moral case that Trump needs to go. He responded by proving its point.
https://www.vox.com/2019/12/20/21031611/christianity-today-trump-removal-editorial-response-mark-galli
Trump began by falsely describing Christianity Today,
which has a mainstream audience, as “far left” and “very ‘progressive.’”
(Although it’s true the publication has been critical of Trump for years,
that’s very different from being far left.) He claimed, without
evidence, that the magazine “has been doing poorly.” He took gratuitous
shots at the Democratic presidential candidates, comparing their faith
unfavorably with his own — and ignoring the fact that if the Senate
removes him from office, Vice President Mike Pence, not a Democrat, will
take his place.
Christianity Today “knows nothing about reading a perfect
transcript of a routine phone call and would rather have a Radical Left
nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than
Donald Trump as your President,” Trump tweeted. “No President has done
more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not
get anything from those Dems on stage.”
רבני ב"ב נגד ההפגנות בשבת: "הדבר מוסיף חילול שבת לכוחות הביטחון"
https://www.jdn.co.il/j_world/1246512/
גדולי רבני בני ברק יוצאים במכתב נגד ההפגנות המתקיימות לאחרונה בשבתות
בפאתי העיר כנגד חילולי השבת המתרבים באזור גוש דן: ''אך דא עקא שבמחאות
אלו כרוכה סכנה של פיקוח נפש, כי הדרך מובילה לכמה וכמה בתי חולים ראשיים"
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Orthodox Jews Raise $1.5 Million For Family That Owned Jersey City Grocery Store
https://forward.com/news/national/436927/hasidic-fundraising-jersey-city-shooting/
The shooting last Tuesday devastated this growing Hasidic community
of about 100 families. Two gunmen, a man and a women, fueled by
anti-Semitic beliefs, charged into the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin
Luther King, Jr. Drive in Jersey City. Though a quick police response
may have saved the lives of the dozens of children in the Jewish school
next door, it took hours — and hundreds of bullets — before the
assailants were killed and the stand-off ended. Five people, including
the assailants, lost their lives. A police officer also died in an
earlier confrontation with the shooters.
Paris appeals court agrees: Killer of Jewish woman 'too high' to be guilty
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/Paris-appeals-court-agrees-Killer-of-Jewish-woman-too-high-to-be-guilty-611546
The Paris Appeals Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling
that a Muslim man who killed his Jewish neighbor will not face trial
because he was too high on marijuana to control his actions.
Friday, December 20, 2019
American Jewry and the Trump impeachment
https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/American-Jewry-and-the-Trump-impeachment-611504
Many were the Jews in America who certainly applauded the decision to impeach Trump on Wednesday. Many, as well, are the Jews concerned – as Jews have been throughout history in times of crisis and change – about how this will impact on antisemitism and on the Jewish community.
And, as the Ami poll showed, there are also Jews in the US – an integral part of the fabric of the American Jewish community – who think differently. American and Israeli Jews are not the only ones divided on Trump. There is a split – though by no means an equal one – on the matter within the US Jewish community as well.
Israeli-American backpacker loses appeal in Russian drug smuggling case
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-american-backpacker-loses-appeal-in-russian-drug-smuggling-case/
A Russian court on Thursday rejected the appeal of Naama Issachar, a US-Israeli woman who was sentenced to over seven years in prison in the country for a minor drug offense.
Issachar, who has been held in Russia since April, was arrested after a small quantity of marijuana, some 9 grams, was found in her luggage during a layover in Moscow.
The judges discussed the decision for roughly 20 minutes and ruled against the appeal in a one-sentence statement, Channel 12 reported. The rejected appeal means her years-long punishment will be upheld.
URGENT: danger of govt sponsored service - for both genders - Last Call: Submit a Public Comment by December 31
Kislev 5780 / December '19
URGENT: Danger of gov't mandated "national service" etc. - for both genders - potentially becoming obligatory, that too for boys and girls.
° Imagine the leftist influence over what types of policies volunteers will need abide by.... even hospital volunteers could eventually be compelled to somehow participate in assisted killing, for example.
° Imagine the LGBTQ Tolerant Tyranny regime at work within National Service...
See below: Last Call: Submit a Public Comment by December 31.
THANK YOU all,
Follow Up Alert Re National Service
BS"D
21 Kislev, 5780
[Follow-Up] Alert:
Public comments are urgently needed by Dec. 31, addressing, among other things, "Should all Americans be required to serve?"
The "National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service" is taking public comments addressing questions about whether America should encourage or even require various types of public service, including Military, National, and Public Service.
The moral hazards are formidable, see a previous post: https://daattorah.blogspot.
This is from their email of about a month ago:
"One month left to share your thoughts on the following:
Does service have inherent value?
If so, what is it?
How does the U.S. increase the desire for Americans, particularly young Americans, to serve?
What are the barriers to participation in military, national or public service?
How can the U.S. increase participation in military, national, and public service by individuals with critical skills to address national security and other public service needs of the nation?
Is the military draft or draft contingency still a necessary component of U.S. national security?
Are modifications to the selective service system needed?
Is a mandatory service requirement for all Americans necessary, valuable, and feasible?
Submit a public comment by the December 31, 2019 deadline via:
mail your comment or any material you see fit to 2530 Crystal Drive, Suite 1000, Box #63, Arlington, Virginia 22202,
or email your response to:
The national conversation on these important issues begins with you. ..."
It's important our voices be heard. We're all for serving the country, but only in a manner consistent with serving G-d.
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