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
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.
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
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.
