Saturday, July 25, 2020
The week when everything changed for Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53532880\\\\\\\\\
I 's as though in January 2017, Donald
Trump was given a shiny, new car. The best, most beautiful car the
world has ever seen. And in July 2020, the president made an important
discovery about it.
It has a reverse gear.
America's Covid response is flawed. But even the gold standard nations are seeing big outbreaks
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/24/world/coronavirus-response-resurgence-wave-intl/index.html
The United States has been widely criticized
for its approach to the coronavirus pandemic, and the lack of strict
nationwide measures to contain the outbreak is reflected in the highest
number of cases and deaths in the world.
Yet
even countries lauded for their fast and effective responses to
Covid-19 are seeing large outbreaks and resurgences of the infection, as
it becomes clear that successes in containing the virus are often only
temporary.
Making BT-Baiting Great Again
BS"D
Making Ba'alas Teshuva-Baiting Great Again
3 Menachem Av, 5780 °° July 24, '20 (Parshas Devarim)
by Binyomin Feinberg
We
received documentation on the latest developments in another case of a
religious female Refusenik, Kasanya Z., a recent Ba'alas Teshuva [newly
Torah-Observant], studying in religious school in Ramot. She is being
terrorized with the spectre of arrest and incarceration in Israeli
Military Prison, over her steadfast resolve to comply with the Torah
obligations of refusal of Israeli military draft directives. Her draft
date is this coming Sunday, July 26. The Draft Office just sent a denial
of the request recently made by an attorney intervening on her behalf.
So, the Army is primed for a confrontation.
The
Chazon Ish is known to have advocated for employment of unusually
strong measures to save girls from the draft. If those of us who are
graced with the capacity to intervene in a civil manner do so
expeditiously, that option generally proves more than sufficient, to
avoid the alternatives.
As we posted yesterday (https:// firstamendmentactivist. blogspot.com/2020/07/ expediting-final-redemption. html),
the stakes are immeasurably high. Noteworthy is the reference there to
Olga Shamilov, another Ba'alas Teshuva being subjected to
discriminatory treatment by Maitav, by virtue of her CHOICE to become a
Ba'alas Teshuva. That appears to be the operative factor here as well.
The
fact that Kasanya initially received a draft deferment apparently is
being leveraged to proffer the veneer of a rationale to persecute her
over her choice to opt for religious observance, as if her deferment was
conditional to shunning repentance.
Of course,
the Draft Office, the bastions of timeless truth that they are, are
ever vigilant for girls faking religiosity. However, personal reference
is the standard protocol to vet such girls. Rayon Dat is utterly
unnecessary and counterproductive.
Speaking
about faking Judaism, see the quote in the aforementioned post of
yesterday, in a somewhat different context, from a member of the CJV.
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In commemoration of the release of the esteemed b'nos Beruria sisters one year ago, we repost this:
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"... And if someone, like Pinchos, is one among a multitude, and every man is against him when he dares to speak out for truth and to fight for the Law -- the more lonely his stand, the greater the number of his adversaries, the more powerful is his word, the mightier his deed."
-- Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch OB"M (1808-1888), (in "Judaism Eternal," vol. 2, p. 293)
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Friday, July 24, 2020
New study finds hydroxychloroquine is ineffective against COVID-19
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284106
A new study has found that antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine is
not effective at treating COVID-19 and may cause adverse effects, The Hill reported Thursday.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine,
found that hydroxychloroquine did not improve outcomes for the 667
COVID-19 patients participating in a randomized trial at 55 Brazilian
hospitals.
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