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Pro-Trump groups gather in Washington to protest election

Jared and Ivanka are poised to return to a Manhattan social scene that no longer welcomes them

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/14/politics/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-post-white-house/index.html

If the celebrations that spilled into the streets of New York City in the wake of Joe Biden's victory made one thing clear, it's that the Trumps aren't welcome here.

For the President, who changed his primary residency last year to Florida, that's perhaps no major loss, but for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the block parties celebrating the demise of the Trump administration may provide a glimpse of what awaits them once they exit the White House.

Now that their political lives in Washington are over -- the question for this once-golden power couple is what their time in the political spotlight has meant for their brand, particularly in their old Manhattan stomping grounds.

U.S. COVID-19 Numbers Hit New Daily High With More Than 184,000 Cases

 https://time.com/5912184/u-s-covid-19-numbers-hit-new-daily-high-with-more-than-184000-cases/

 The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus has soared to a new daily high in the United States.

Data from Johns Hopkins University indicates the number of confirmed cases reached 184,514 on Friday, as the number of people infected continues to surge.

The Johns Hopkins data shows the seven-day rolling average for virus-related deaths reported daily in the U.S. rose over the past two weeks from about 828 on Oct. 30 to 1,047 on Friday, an increase of about 26%

The seven-day rolling positivity rate also rose over the past two weeks from 6.4 to 9.6, an increase of about 50%, even as the number of tests performed has grown.

Trump's Voter Fraud Claims Are Now Being Debunked by His Own Government

 https://time.com/5912049/trumps-voter-fraud-claims-are-now-being-debunked-by-his-own-government/

In the most direct refutation yet of President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud, his own government declared on Thursday that “the November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.”

The joint statement by a group of federal, state and industry election officials was released Thursday evening by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

Prophets claiming virus would disappear after the election were clearly wrong!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/us/coronavirus-deaths.html

For weeks, as coronavirus cases spiked across the United States, deaths rose far more slowly, staying significantly lower than in the early, deadliest weeks of the nation’s outbreak in the spring. New treatments, many hoped, might slow a new wave of funerals.

But now, signs are shifting: More than 1,000 Americans are dying of the coronavirus every day on average, a 50 percent increase in the last month. Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, Tennessee and Wisconsin have recorded more deaths over the last seven days than in any other week of the pandemic. Twice this past week, there have been more than 1,400 deaths reported in a single day.

“It’s getting bad and it’s potentially going to get a lot worse,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “

 

 

Did Eliezar do something wrong?

תלמוד בבלי מסכת חולין דף צה עמוד

והאמר רב: כל נחש שאינו כאליעזר עבד אברהם וכיונתן בן שאול אינו נחש!  שולחן ערוך יורה דעה הלכות מעונן ומכשף סימן קעט סעיף ד

בתלמוד בבלי מסכת תענית דף ד עמוד א
אמר רבי שמואל בר נחמני אמר רבי יונתן: שלשה שאלו שלא כהוגן, לשנים השיבוהו כהוגן, לאחד השיבוהו שלא כהוגן. ואלו הן: אליעזר עבד אברהם, ושאול בן קיש, ויפתח הגלעדי. אליעזר עבד אברהם - דכתיב והיה הנערה אשר אמר אליה הטי נא כדך וגו', יכול אפילו חיגרת אפילו סומא - השיבו כהוגן, ונזדמנה לו רבקה. 

R. Samuel b. Nahmani said in the name of R. Jonathan: Three [men] made haphazard requests, two of them were fortunate in the reply they received and one was not, namely, Eliezer, the servant of Abraham; Saul, the son of Kish; and Jephtha the Gileadite. Eliezer, the servant of Abraham, as it is written, So let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, ‘Let down thy pitcher etc.’ She might have been lame or blind, but he was fortunate in the answer given to him in that Rebecca chanced to meet him.

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הגה: ט] י"א דאדם מותר לעשות לו סימן בדבר שיבוא לעתיד, כמו שעשה אליעזר עבד אברהם או יהונתן (טור והר"ד קמחי), ו ויש אוסרין (רמב"ם וסמ"ג). יב] וההולך בתום ובוטח בה', חסד יסובבנו (תהילים לב, י).

Trump had a very bad Friday in court with his election cases. They're headed for more action next week

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/14/politics/trump-election-cases-status/index.html

 Legal experts have been saying for a week now that President Donald Trump's court cases to throw out ballots and turn around his election loss were bound to fail.

Throughout Friday, the failures piled up.

In one day, nine cases meant to attack President-elect Joe Biden's win in key states were denied or dropped, adding up to a brutal series of losses for the President, who's already lost and refuses to let go. Many of the cases are built upon a foundational idea that absentee voting and slight mismanagement of elections invite widespread fraud, which is not proven and state leaders have overwhelming said did not happen in 2020.

 

 

The Evangelicalization of Orthodoxy

 https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/evangelicalization-orthodox-jews

 But more important, both camps of Orthodoxy have followed parts of evangelical Christianity in coalescing around an ethnonationalist identity, one that views the political right and its ultranationalist worldview, in America and in Israel, as a religious foundation united against the threat of the cultural left. For these swaths of the Orthodox world, support for Trump and the right generally is no longer a political choice separate from Torah. For many, Orthodoxy has fused with a Christianity that is now less a faith tradition than a nationalist civil religion, deeply connected with the Republican Party in general and now Donald Trump in particular.

 

US security officials: No evidence of deleted or changed votes

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291144

 The Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other groups on Thursday rejected claims of voter fraud in last week’s election, saying in a statement “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”

The members of the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council Executive Committee, which includes CISA’s Assistant Director Bob Kolasky as well as leaders from the independent US Election Assistance Commission and from the National Association of Secretaries of State, the National Association of State Election Directors, and others, pushed back against claims by US President Donald Trump that voting machines had been tampered with to steer votes from Joe Biden to Trump.

 

 

Evidence undermines Trump campaign's claims of dead people voting in Georgia

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/trump-campaign-georgia-dead-voters-fact-check/index.html

 With CNN and other media outlets including Fox News having called the election for former Vice President Joe Biden, President Donald Trump and his allies continue to argue the results were somehow fraudulent.

On Wednesday, the Trump campaign claimed that the identities of four deceased people were used to vote in Georgia.

The campaign tweeted out the names of the four deceased former residents of Georgia, claiming that a ballot was cast in each one's name in the 2020 election. The campaign also put out a news release that day with the same allegations, which were repeated later that evening on Fox News by host Tucker Carlson.

Facts First: County officials debunked two of these allegations, telling CNN that ballots for two of the named individuals were not cast in 2020. Officials are aware of the two other allegations and are looking into those names.

Trump floating multiple unlikely survival scenarios as he weighs political future: report

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-floating-multiple-unlikely-survival-scenarios-as-he-weighs-political-future-report

President Trump has floated multiple unlikely scenarios of political survival to his advisers as he refuses to concede the presidential election to former Vice President Joe Biden, according to a report.

Following a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, Trump reportedly pressed his advisers on whether Republican-controlled state legislatures in states that went for Biden could pick pro-Trump electors in order to sway the vote and give Trump the votes he needs for a second term, people briefed on the discussion told The New York Times.

The sources noted that the conversation was not detailed, serious or reflective of any obsessive desire for Trump to remain in the White House.

“He knows it’s over,” one source told the Times.

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Rabbi Weinberg’s Agony

 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2001/06/rabbi-weinbergs-agony

   Weinberg’s leadership role at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary was cruelly tested during the Nazi era. Shapiro offers the shocking revelation that Weinberg acted as an apologist for Hitler in the period immediately following his appointment as chancellor. In March 1933, Weinberg gave an interview to a newspaper in which, as Shapiro summarizes it, “[Weinberg] played down the anti“Semitic nature of the new regime, denied that Jewish political rights or livelihoods were at risk, and expressed optimism for the Jewish future in Germany, a country based on the rule of law.” Shapiro adds tellingly that “Weinberg’s comments differed from those of other Jewish figures in Germany in that he was not subjected to governmental pressure to portray the regime in a positive light. On the contrary, his opinion was expressed voluntarily.” Shapiro is completely baffled by this, and can only attribute Weinberg’s behavior to extraordinary political naiveté. In any case, as the Nazi assault on German Jewry grew in intensity, Weinberg sobered up and acted responsibly in dealing with a host of matters”from trying to preserve some form of kosher slaughter in the country to finding places of refuge for the scholars and students affiliated with the Seminary. Weinberg himself remained in Germany throughout the decade, turning down an offer to become head of the rabbinical court in London.