https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-july-08-2021/
Justices rule there are no grounds to throw out the 2018 legislation, say it anchors Israel’s identify as a Jewish state without undermining its democratic character
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Child-abusing daycare provider sentenced to 9.5 years in prison
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309504
The operator of a daycare center in central Israel who was convicted of abusing nearly a dozen infants and toddlers was sentenced Thursday to nine-and-a-half years in prison.
Carmel Mauda, 28, the operator of the ‘Baby Love’ daycare center in Rosh Ha’ayin, received the sentence at the Central District in Lod Thursday afternoon, after arriving accompanied by her father.
Bezalel Smotrich: 'Insane' that divorced fathers shouldn't have anything to eat
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309500
MK Bezalel Smotrich, who heads the Knesset's Religious Zionism party, has called on Welfare Minister Meir Cohen (Yesh Atid) to eliminate the discrimination against divorced fathers.
"One of the worst crimes happening today in the State of Israel is the discrimination against divorced fathers," Smotrich said. "It's a complex and complicated issue. It has a lot of facets and small letters."
Smotrich recalled his pre-election promise to change how the issue is managed, prevent parental alienation, and prevent abuse of false allegations as a way of managing divorce.
MK Ahmad Tibi decries cuts to daycare subsidies for haredim
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309483
Joining the mostly haredi voices condemning the recent decision of Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman to cancel daycare subsidies to families where the father is in full-time Torah learning, was, perhaps unexpectedly, Joint Arab List MK Ahmad Tibi.
Tibi was interviewed on Radio 103FM, where he criticized Liberman’s decision, calling it “inappropriate.”
“This decision weakens the weak even further,” he said. “I am familiar with the conditions in which these families live, and this decision should be reconsidered.”
MK Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionism party also decried Liberman’s decision.
Fact-checking claims bail reform is driving increase in violent crime
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/07/politics/bail-reform-violent-crime-fact-check/index.html
Violent crime in the United States shot up last year as the pandemic raged. Major cities across the country saw a more than 30% jump in homicides as well as increases in aggravated assaults, according to a January report from the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice.
Bail reforms -- which generally focus on removing or limiting the use of cash bail against defendants who are accused of misdemeanors or nonviolent offenses -- aim at making sure most defendants are not held in jail while awaiting trial solely because they cannot afford cash bail.
During
a congressional hearing in late June, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South
Carolina Republican, suggested reforms eliminating cash bail could
partially be to blame for the recent spike in crime. Graham asked FBI
Director Christopher Wray if he believed "one of the reasons crime is on
the rise is that certain jurisdictions have basically eliminated bail?"
"You catch them on Monday morning and they're out on the streets Monday afternoon," Graham said.
Facts First: There's
no clear evidence linking bail reforms -- which have been in place for
years in some cities -- to the recent rise in violent crimes. In fact,
the majority of cities that have seen increases in crime have not
eliminated cash bail. Many variables have contributed to the increases
Graham is referencing but CNN has seen no evidence to suggest that bail
reform is a major factor.
Trump reportedly saw Netanyahu’s congratulations to Biden as ‘ultimate betrayal’
New book by Michale Wolff says that even though Netanyahu waited 12 hours to acknowledge Biden’s election win, Trump felt that the Israeli leader ‘owed’ him and had now ‘sold out’
Liberman ends yeshiva students' childcare subsidies, haredim outraged
The subsidies comprise a significant portion of an ultra-Orthodox family’s household income, and canceling them will cause immediate financial problems for such families.
Liberman hopes that the cancellation of these subsidies will push ultra-Orthodox men to find employment.
The changes go into effect at the beginning of the coming school year.
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Liberman cancels daycare subsidies for kids of full-time yeshiva students
Families in which the father does not work at least 24 hours a week but is involved in academic or vocational studies will still be eligible for the subsidies, which will end for yeshiva students only.
4th Of July Shootings Across The Country Killed More Than 180 People
More than 180 people were killed in shootings across the country over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive and reviewed by NPR.
By 11:30 p.m. on Monday, the Gun Violence Archive reported 189 people killed and 516 injured in shootings over the course of a 72-hour period starting Friday. In total, there were more than 540 shootings over the holiday weekend, the organization reported.
Those numbers may increase as the organization continues to collect statistics from the weekend.
News of major shootings in Chicago, Texas, Virginia and Ohio comes as many of the nation's largest cities are struggling to contain a continued rise in violent crimes. Officials from across the country had spoken of serious fears of a bloody summer earlier this year.
Albany, N.Y., Mayor Kathy M. Sheehan told The Washington Post in May that her city was experiencing a rise in gun violence. At the time, she said she was "really worried" about the approaching summer months.
Some major cities faced concerns about violent crime last summer similar to what they do this year. In 2020, nearly 90 people were shot in Chicago over Independence Day weekend and 17 of them died.
Eric Adams declared winner of NYC Democratic mayoral race
Eric Adams declared victory in the city’s Democratic mayoral race Tuesday after holding on to a razor-thin lead in a pivotal new tally of votes, putting him on track to become just the second Black mayor in Big Apple history after running a centrist campaign heavily focused on crime-fighting.
Adams, Brooklyn’s current borough president and a retired NYPD captain, led former sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia by just 8,426 ballots — or 1% of the total — after more than 120,000 absentee votes were added to the Board of Elections’ unofficial tally of ranked-choice results.
US, Guatemalan forces raid extremist haredi Lev Tahor cult compound
US and local Guatemalan police have begun raiding the compound of the extremist ultra-Orthodox (haredi) cult, Lev Tahor, arresting at least three top officials in the cult, Globes reported on Tuesday evening.
Another reporter for Globes reported that cult-members Yoel and Shmuel Weingarten have been arrested.
Forget about who catches COVID-19, the serious cases matter - analysis
What is understood is that as of now, the vaccine is at least 90%-95% effective against stopping hospitalization or serious disease – the metric that at least these health professionals believe should be used in determining policy.
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
The Rebbe on the Jewish Woman's Hair Covering
The Rebbe went so far as to state that wigs might even be more
attractive than one's own hair. At the time, it was meant to encourage
and educate women who were of the opinion that all wigs were
aesthetically lacking. In comparison to what women might have worn in
earlier generations, the new wigs, the Rebbe said, were attractive.
Mitzvah to Live in Israel
https://www.aish.com/atr/Mitzvah_to_Live_in_Israel.html
The general approach today is that if both places (Israel and the
Diaspora) are equally "livable," one should make the effort to live in
Israel. Every year, approximately 3,000 Jews make aliyah from North
America – 90 percent of them religious.
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