Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Rabbi Zalman Nehemiah Goldberg, leading Israeli rabbi, hospitalized after stroke

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285318

Over more than 50 years, Rabbi Goldberg has given hundreds of Torah lectures at Religious Zionist institutions, and he served as president of dozens of Religious Zionist institutions.

Rabbi Goldberg also served as the yeshiva dean of the Lev Academic Center, and the head of the Shevet Mechokek yeshiva for rabbinic judges.

The public is asked to pray for the complete recovery of Rabbi Zalman Nehemiah, the son of Freidel.

It’s time for the Harvey Weinstein scandal to refocus attention on Donald Trump

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/16/is-it-time-for-the-harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault-scandal-to-refocus-attention-donald-trump/

 As Donald Jr. asserts that Weinstein must clearly be guilty, given the number of accusers, and that Hollywood and Democrats are somehow complicit, he of course is engaging in President Trump’s habit of projecting his own questionable behavior on other people.

After all, Donald Jr.’s arguments could just as easily apply to his father’s own multiple sexual harassment allegations and the way that Republicans have stood by him, Blake and Helderman said.

 Weinstein has become a pariah in Hollywood and pretty much everywhere else.

Meanwhile, Trump is president of the United States, and leading Republicans rarely say anything negative about him. It is true that many in the Republican establishment haven’t actually jumped to use the Weinstein scandal against liberals, not like Donald Jr.

But in the end, liberals have taken action over their alleged predator — however belated and imperfect. And they aren’t done with the soul searching. But leading Republicans have done what with Trump over this issue?

 

Did Michelle Obama Praise Harvey Weinstein as a ‘Wonderful Human Being’ in 2013?

 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/michelle-obama-harvey-weinstein/

 The former first lady thanked Weinstein for his role in a White House student film event — four years before dozens of women first publicly accused him of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment.

 

Michelle Obama delivers keynote speech from first night of the Democratic National Convention

Fox News Says Michelle Obama 'Flayed' Trump As Hosts Praise DNC Speech

 https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-praises-michelle-obama-dnc-speech-1525752

"When you talk about authenticity, she has it in spades. She has that voice, she has clarity, and she knows what she is out there wanting to do. She was trying to get everybody to really focus and then she had a call to action—ask for your ballot tonight. I think that the DNC, if they look over the course of the night, the first virtual convention of our history, they would say that Michelle Obama stuck the landing."

 Wallace agreed. "Michelle Obama, as she said, doesn't like politics and she said that this speech was her main contribution to the Biden campaign," he said.

 "It was a heck of a contribution. She really flayed, sliced and diced Donald Trump, talking about the chaos and confusion and lack of empathy, especially, coming from this president and from this White House."

Trump warns of 'rigged election' as he uses conspiracy and fear to counter Biden's convention week

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/donald-trump-campaign-swing/index.html 

Elsewhere in his speech, Trump said he should be granted a "redo" on his first term, alleging falsely that his first campaign was spied upon by the previous administration. And at another point, he joked that he may remain in office for "16, 20" years.
Though made in jest, those remarks only fuel the impression that Trump is preparing, at a minimum, to challenge November's results if they do not show him winning. Taken together, the remarks suggest Trump is actively working to undermine the results of an election that polls currently show him losing.

Trump: If I Lose It Means The Election Is 'Rigged' | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

Kushner On 170,000+ Deaths: COVID-19 Response Is A Success | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

Wolf presses Kushner: 1,000 deaths a day isn't success, right?

Ukraine bans pilgrimage to Uman over COVID-19 fears

 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/israelis-will-not-be-let-into-uman-this-year-639032

 The Ukraianian interior minister said the annual mass pilgrimage of hassidim and others to the grave site of Rabbi Nachman of Uman would have caused the mass spread of COVID-19.

 

 

לקיים בנו חכמי ישראל - אנא עוררו רחמי שמים לכ"ק אדמו"ר מפיטסבורג שליט"א‎

 

לקיים בנו חכמי ישראל - אנא עוררו רחמי שמים לכ"ק אדמו"ר מפיטסבורג שליט"א‎

 

Dear Jared…Never…Okay?...Never!

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285429

 That’s all I needed to read from this dispatch to feel utterly betrayed.

The passage runs like this: Addressing Israeli reporters, Kushner said that "Israel has made a very generous proposal for the establishment of a Palestinian state, including an exchange of territories. The understanding that this is the situation has enabled the breakthrough that led to the current agreement."

If it was Benjamin Netanyahu, then we’ve been misled…misled to believe in the prime minister’s own words.

Yesterday he said that the UAE peace arrangement “signals the end to land for peace.”

Sounds good.

But something must have happened between yesterday and today. Today, Jared, you tell us something quite the opposite.

I quote: “The understanding that this is the situation has enabled the breakthrough that led to the current agreement.”

In other words, to achieve peace with the UAE, Israel first had to agree to “an exchange of territories” for “the establishment of a Palestinian state.”

Sounds like “land for peace” to me.

Trump says he moved US embassy to Jerusalem ‘for the evangelicals’

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-says-he-moved-us-embassy-to-jerusalem-for-the-evangelicals/

 “And we moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem,” Trump said speaking at a rally held at an airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, apparently referring to his decision move the embassy from Tel Aviv. “That’s for the evangelicals.”

“You know, it’s amazing with that, the evangelicals are more excited by that than Jewish people,” he said to cheers from the crowd. “That’s right, it’s incredible.”