Thursday, July 30, 2020

Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky: 'Worrisome' if Trump not elected


Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Philadelphia and member of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah of Agudas Yisroel of America, said the prospect of Trump not winning in the presidential election was "worrisome."

Contested Flynn dismissal to go before full appeals court as legal saga drags on


The dispute over the

The order was issued Thursday by the court. Called an "en banc" hearing, all 11 judges on the appeals court will sit in on a rehash of arguments that were made before a three-judge panel in June, which led to a 2-1 ruling in favor of Flynn. The former Trump aide had requested the appeals court to order the judge in the case to approve of a Department of Justice (DOJ) motion to dismiss charges against him.


Swift backlash after Trump suggests delaying election



Members of the media, politicians and others on both sides of the aisle swiftly condemned



Trump promoted a doctor. Watch what she said about demons

Bill Barr Caught Contradicting Himself on Issue of Trump's Criminal Commutation of Stone's Sentence

President Trump doubled down in defense of doctor who promotes hydroxychloroquine

Over This We Mourn

BS"D

"Over This We Mourn"

By Binyomin Feinberg

8 Av, 5780 °° July 29, '20 Erev Tisha B'Av (Parshas Naso)

Communal Protest of Evil:

Firstly, on occasion of the fast day of Tisha B'Av, starting tonight, Wednesday night, we refer our esteemed readers to a previous post, https://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/04/ongoing-idf-religious-persecution-under.html, citing the Talmud, tractate Gittin 58a (in section C).  The incident cited there relates how the absence of communal protest over interpersonal wickedness triggered the Churban Bais HaMikdosh (

We also know that "Middah Tova Merubah," i.e. Divine Reward is far more generous than Divine Retribution is strict.  As much as failure to properly protest persecution could destroy the Bais HaMikdosh, how much more potent is properly speaking out in rebuilding it. In this day and age, despite the multitudinous hazards of technology, we are blessed with the capacity to speak out against rishus (evil) like never before. We cannot force people to listen, but many, many certain would.  (We hope and pray that these posts as well humbly serve as at least a modest example of what can be done by concerned individuals to combat rishus, even on the other side of the world.)

"What can I do?" many ask. It's related from one of the Torah sages of the previous generation that it's not that G-d gives tasks to the capable; rather, he graces those who take the initiative to undertake vital causes with the capacities they'll need to succeed.

In "Kovetz He'oros" on Yevamos, Aggada, chapter 10, the world-renowned disciple of the saintly Chofetz Chaim (d.1933 CE), Rav Elchonon Wasserman (martyred by the Nazis, y.s., in the Holocaust), distinguishes sharply between threats to the Jewish People that endanger our physical survival - as was Nazism, and threats to our spiritual survival - as was Communism. The former are in the category of a "ma'aseh HaShem," demanding our spiritual efforts, including repentance and prayer. The latter -  threats to our spiritual existence - demand our vigorous efforts to resist in the physical plane.

Reb Elchonon relates how the saintly Chofetz Chayim regretted that he didn't actually launch a physical revolution against the virulently anti-Jewish 

What's striking is how nowadays even a few individuals - of average capacity - can access the wherewithal to lauch a global "Awareness Revolution" - all without shooting a single bullet. By identifying potent stories of courageous individuals, and leveraging related current events, one can publicly expose all sorts of evil being perpetrated by powerful abusers, state, corporate, and individual offenders.

We also know that IF we do our small part properly, G-d often - eventually - provides us with the wherewithal to accomplish far beyond what we originally dreamed we could.

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And now, for some of the latest news on innocent girls being targeted for the Israeli military draft: 

On Sunday, we posted these, regarding a Ukrainian immigrant Ba'alas-Teshuva being targeted by Maitav, Kesanya Z.: 
 
Subsequently, we learned that Batsheva D., a religious girl not even 17 years old, was recently targeted 

She had innocently called the Draft Office to learn standard procedure to apply for her religious exemption from the female draft. On the spot, the army recruiter nonchalantly instructed her to come directly to a scheduled religiosity "interview," a "Rayon Dat."

Volunteers who assist girls in these matters over the past couple of years note that this is the first case in which they've seen such blatant and early-stage deception of a 16 year-old religious girl by Maitav; not only had she not stepped into the Draft Office, or even mailed in her religiosity verification affidavit.- she had not even visited the Rabbanut to obtain her religiosity affidavit to begin with - and nevertheless got summoned to a Rayon Dat.

°  Explaining the "Method behind the Madness," one of the senior volunteers observed that by initiating the Rayon Dat process early, the Israeli government places any resistant girls into the "draft-complication" process ("histabchut") earlier on as well.

°  It's important to realize who's being targeted here. It's not the girls who comply with the Rayon Dat, but specifically the most upright - those who don't (reminiscent of the proverbial paradigm: "No good deed shall go unpunished").

°  Additionally, at an earlier age, the Rayon Dat can be administered when girls are more susceptible to being tripped up, duped into enlisting, or intimidated into enlisting.

°  Moreover, this "zerizin mak'dimin" schedule will grant the Army Draft Office more time before draft age (18) to try to emotionally and psychologically wear down the girls and their families, thereby broadcasting to the weaker ones that it's not worthwhile to even bother "fighting City Hall." 

Bear in mind that the Israeli military has a huge amount of funding at their disposal to seek out and identify - and then effectively stalk and traffic - these teenage girls, relentlessly, by virtue of the fungibility of foreign aid obtained under pretext of national security and legitimate defense needs.

°  This "Head Start" headhunter initiative could also be seen as part of the broader Maitav effort to whitewash the Rayon Dat phenomenon.  The very notion of Rayon Dat, in such cases, is actually an extralegal maneuver. It's been put into practice without benefit of due process of law. Otherwise put, If you can't make it Law via legislation, do so by procedural innovation.  This extralegal dexterity also helps avoid conflict with the concern over implementation of procedures against the will of the people, because the people won't even know what hit them until they've already become accustomed to it, and unfortunately resigned themselves to the Rayon Dat directives as a done deal.
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May we soon witness the Final Redemption in the merit of helping expedite it.
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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."


Tisha B'Av: The Destructive Power of Fear - Rabbi YY Jacobson

A message for Tisha B'Av during the coronavirus pandemic

Judaea Capta: The First Roman-Jewish War (Tisha B'Av lecture 5779/2019)

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Tucker Carlson defends doctor who believes in demon sex (July 28, 2020)


Pro-Hydroxychloroquine Doctor Says 'Lying' Fauci Is Playing With Lives

 
 
The physician, who voiced unsubstantiated claims about hydroxychloroquine's impact on COVID-19 earlier this week, targeted NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci on Twitter Wednesday morning.

Trump Pressed On Russian Bounty Intel | Morning Joe | MSNBC


Revenge of the Never Trumpers: Meet the Republican Dissidents Fighting to Push Donald Trump Out of Office

https://time.com/5870475/never-trumpers-2020-election/

 
Jack Spielman has been a Republican his whole life. But over the past four years, he has come to two realizations.
Increasingly upset by President Donald Trump’s “appalling” behavior, his cozy relationships with dictators and the ballooning national debt, Spielman says his first epiphany was that he couldn’t cast a ballot for Trump again. But for the retired Army cybersecurity engineer, the final straw was the President’s retaliation against impeachment witness Lieut. Colonel Alexander Vindman, who retired in July after Trump fired him from the National Security Council in February. Spielman decided he had to do more than just vote for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden; he had to persuade others to do the same. So Spielman filmed a video for a group called Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT), explaining his views. “I want to do some part,” Spielman tells TIME, “to try to correct the wrong that I did in voting for this man.”