Study: Coronavirus spreads quickly throughout body, can linger in organs for months

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-finds-covid-spreads-quickly-throughout-body-can-linger-in-organs-for-months/

New research has found that not only can the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spread throughout the body to a range of organs outside the respiratory system, but it can also remain there for months after the initial infection.

The US National Institutes of Health study found that the virus can “disseminate early during infection and infect cells throughout the entire body.”

Organs in danger of infection include the brain, ocular tissue, muscles, skin, peripheral nerves as well as tissue in the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, reproductive, endocrine and lymphoid systems.

First Flurona Case Reported in LA As Omicron Variant Drives COVID Case Surge

 https://www.newsweek.com/flurona-los-angeles-la-county-first-omicron-variant-covid-case-surge-california-1666200

A Los Angeles County COVID-19 testing site has detected its first case of flurona, a coinfection of influenza and COVID-19, as Omicron drives a surge in COVID-19 infections across the United States.

Doctors have been concerned about the possibility of a "twindemic" of these two respiratory viruses since two young pregnant women in Israel tested positive for both.

Though the first official case of the coinfection was reported in Israel in late December, reports of people suffering from flu and coronavirus in the United States date back as far as 2020, according to the Times of Israel.

False allegation of child sexual abuse

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_allegation_of_child_sexual_abuse

Denial of child sexual abuse by the accused, or by others, is common and its reality is not easily accepted (though such a denial should never be interpreted as evidence of guilt).^[19][20] Reporting rates may also be substantially below actual rates of abuse as many victims do not disclose their abuse,^[21][22] which may result in an overrepresentation of false allegations due to the inaccurate estimation of actual cases of abuse.^[23] Of the millions of reports of child sexual abuse each year to state protective agencies in the US (including both substantiated and unsubstantiated reports), there is no formal determination as to what portion of those represent false allegations.

Findings of multiple studies performed between 1987 and 1995 suggested that the rate of false allegations ranged from a low of 6% to a high of 35% of reported child sexual abuse cases.^[8] Experts have argued that the reason for the wide range of differences in the rates resulted from different criteria used in various studies. In particular, a lower rate was found in studies that considered false allegations to be based on intentional lying, whereas the higher rates were reported in studies that also added unintentional false allegations resulting from suggestive questioning.^[8] A 1992 meta-analysis suggests that false allegations represent between two and ten percent of all allegations.^[6]

False reports are more common in custody disputes.^[24][25][26] Children appear to rarely make up false allegations of their own accord^[25][26][27] but will make false allegations if coercively questioned by individuals who believe abuse has occurred but refuse to accept children's statements that they were not abused (as was common practice during the satanic ritual abuse moral panic).^[7] False allegations can also arise as a consequence of false memories, sometimes implanted by questionable therapeutic practices.^[28]

Revealed: Jerusalem Foundation renting office to missionaries

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319977

The organization "Jews for J," one of the main preaching arms of the "Messianic Jews" cult, recently opened an office in the heart of Jerusalem, aimed at convincing Jews in the capital to convert out of their religion.

Information on the office reached Yad L'Achim by way of classified documents from the cult, together with intensive field work on the part of Yad L'Achim's counter-missionary department. This information led to the precise location of the office, whose address was not publicized even in internal missionary publications.

In material obtained by Yad L'Achim, Yoel Ben David, one of the leading missionaries in the country who was chosen to head the office, is seen declaring that throughout all his years in Tel Aviv, one thing bothered him: "When will we get to Jerusalem? When will we bring the Christian gospel here… We all wanted to reach Jerusalem. And throughout my seventeen-and-a-half years of service in the organization, this is something we talked about a lot."

Cycle of child sexual abuse: links between being a victim and becoming a perpetrator

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11731348/

Results: Among 747 males the risk of being a perpetrator was positively correlated with reported sexual abuse victim experiences. The overall rate of having been a victim was 35% for perpetrators and 11% for non-perpetrators. Of the 96 females, 43% had been victims but only one was a perpetrator. A high percentage of male subjects abused in childhood by a female relative became perpetrators. Having been a victim was a strong predictor of becoming a perpetrator, as was an index of parental loss in childhood.

Conclusions: The data support the notion of a victim-to-victimiser cycle in a minority of male perpetrators but not among the female victims studied. Sexual abuse by a female in childhood may be a risk factor for a cycle of abuse in males.

Do victims of sexual abuse turn into abusers?

 https://lifestyle.livemint.com/news/talking-point/do-all-victims-of-sexual-abuse-turn-into-abusers-111601554413281.html

It is a widespread belief that people who were sexually abused in childhood often participate in abusive relationships as adults— either as victimizers of children and adults, or as victims. Some people call this a dangerous myth, which can be used to explain or excuse the behaviour of those who sexually abuse children. It is offensive and unhelpful to demonize adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, the vast majority of who will never perpetrate sexual violence against others. There is, however, some empirical evidence for belief in this ‘cycle’, and the results of the few studies that explore this issue support this hypothesis. In an incisive study called ‘Cycle of Child Sexual Abuse: Links Between Being a Victim and Becoming a Perpetrator’, the authors found that, among 747 men studied, “the risk of being a perpetrator was positively correlated with reported sexual abuse victim experiences. The overall rate of having been a victim was 35 per cent for perpetrators and 11 per cent for non-perpetrators. A high percentage of male subjects abused in childhood by a female relative became perpetrators. Having been a victim was a strong predictor of becoming a perpetrator…” Other studies on sexually abused boys have shown that around one in five continue in later life to molest children themselves.

The Myth of the Abused Becoming Abusers

 https://defendinnocence.org/child-sexual-abuse-risk-reduction/sexual-development-at-all-ages/concerning-behavior/myth-abused-becoming-abusers/

This is relatively harmless compared to some myths—like the one that most perpetrators of child sexual abuse were once abused themselves. Or, in other words, that if someone is sexually abused as a child they are more likely to become an abuser when they grow up.

Of course, there are sexual abusers who were abused as children, but it isn’t as frequent or common as most people, even therapists, believe. In her book Predators, Anna C. Salter talks about how most men convicted of child sexual abuse will simply say that they were abused as children because it affords them more sympathy. In reality, fewer than 10% of them actually were.

Adults physically abused as children not more likely to physically abuse their children

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/newsroom/releases/042115-podcast-child-abuse

 Barrett Whitener: Contrary to conventional wisdom, adults who were physically abused as children were no more likely to abuse their own children than were other adults their age. That’s the conclusion of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health. Their study, which was published in the journal Science, relied on public records to identify children who had been physically abused back in the 1960s and ‘70s. In one of the longest-running studies of its kind, the researchers followed up several times, not only with the original abused children, now in their late 40s and early 50s, but also with their children. The adult children of the originally physically-abused parents were no more likely to have been physically abused than others their age. However, the children of the abused parents were more likely to have been neglected and to have been sexually abused.

Chief Rabbi’s secret mission for mother in twins custody battle

 https://www.thejc.com/news/news/chief-rabbi's-secret-mission-for-mother-in-twins-custody-battle-2ldgLDbeBCSiLqYuHhOZIE

The Chief Rabbi secretly flew to Austria in an unprecedented mercy mission help a British mother at the centre of a decade-long custody battle, the JC can reveal.

Moved by the plight of Cambridge graduate Beth Alexander, 37, who has seen her 12-year-old twin sons just once in person in the past five years, Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis led an unpublicised delegation to Vienna to directly appeal to her former husband and local Jewish leaders.

Desperate to try to effect change on her behalf, the Chief Rabbi vowed that if what it took was him getting on a plane and going in person, he would do so.

Her message to her sons is this: “Mama loves you so, so much, I’ll never stop fighting for you. I’m waiting to bring you home.”

Meretz minister: 'Settlers in Homesh are subhuman'

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319980

Deputy Economy Minister Yair Golan (Meretz) on Thursday morning said that the "settlers" in the Jewish town of Homesh are "subhuman."

In an interview with the Knesset Channel, Golan claimed, "People who come and settle a place which was evacuated under the law, and where no one should be, and when I was commander of the Judea and Samaria Brigade I did not allow anyone to settle there. Now they cry their cries, 'Oy vey, how can this be conceivable? This is shameful and an embarrassment.' Those same people who come to settle there riot in Kafr Burqa, smash headstones, and make pogroms."

"These are not people - they are subhuman. These are despicable people and the most rotten part of the Jewish nation. We must not provide them with any backing, and we must forcefully remove them from this place and bring back law and order to the area. This nationalist insanity will bring disaster upon us."

In a tweet, Golan wrote, "In my words, I referred to those who destroy graves, attack innocent people, destroy property which is not theirs. How should we be treating these people? How should we be referring to these people? It's time to speak the truth: This is not our Judaism."

Migdal Emunah

https://migdalemunah.org.uk

4. Migdal Emunah is made up of professionals. Most of our clients have had no previסus support or counselling for their trauma. Our inquiries are from victims' family members or their friends, professionals and lay leaders with concerns or difficulties in handling disclosures. It is our experience that there is great need fסr services to bסth groups.

Our relationship with religious organisations and settings

13. Migdal Emunah provides services exclusively for those from the Jewish community. A significant percentage of our clients self identify as 'chareidi' or 'ex-chareidi'. The majסrity are affiliated with the Orthodox Jewish community (of which the chareidi community is a subsection) and its various religious institutions. A significant number of our clients have been sexually abused during religious sleep away camps, at boarding schools, סח synagogue premises, and in rabbis' homes. The majority of our clients will have reported their abuse to their Rabbi and/or Beth Din (religious court). 

40. ln the minority, Rabbi Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, currently Rabbi of Gateshead community and shortly to assume a new positiסn as head of the Federation Beth Din, has advised that a 'rodef' (lit 'pursuer', i.e., someone who presents a current risk) - and there will be different opinions as to who fits that description - must be reported to the police without delay, but he has stopped short of issuing a formal ruling saying this. 

Rabbinical court rules divorced dad can vaccinate kids despite mom’s objection

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbinical-court-rules-divorced-dad-can-vaccinate-kids-despite-moms-objection/

A rabbinical court has ruled that a divorced father may vaccinate his young twins against the coronavirus despite the objections of their mother, it was reported on Wednesday.

“It was clear to me that I wanted to vaccinate the children — for health and also so they don’t infect those around them,” 6, a father of six-year-old twins, told Channel 13 news.

Guy, whose identity was obscured, also said that it was hard for children so young to wear masks all the time, indicating that without vaccination they could be more likely to catch the coronavirus or pass it on.

Israel Reports First Case of ‘Flurona’

 https://hamodia.com/2021/12/30/israel-reports-first-case-of-flurona/

Israel has documented its first case of the so-called “flurona” — a simultaneous coronavirus and influenza virus infection, Yediot reported on Thursday.

The double infection was first identified in a woman this week at Rabin Medical Center (Ichilov) in Petach Tikva. According to the hospital, the new mother, who is not vaccinated against either pathogen, is feeling well and is expected to be discharged from the hospital later Thursday.

The Health Ministry is still examining the case, which was relatively mild, and has yet to determine whether a combination of the two viruses causes more severe illness.

Health officials estimate many other patients have also come down with both bugs but have not been diagnosed.

Outrage as Israel’s Political Elite Test Positive for COVID After Lavish New Year’s Eve Rave

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/outrage-as-israels-political-elite-test-positive-for-covid-19-after-lavish-new-years-eve-rave

The most visible official whose flouting of the rules was disclosed by Instagram—in this case the account of his own husband, pop star Harel Skaat—is Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll.

Roll, 37, a former model and a centrist liberal, and one of the most prominent gay public figures in the country, and Litzman, 73, a stern ultra-orthodox Jew and uncompromising champion of right-wing causes, have little in common but for the fact of finding themselves in hot water after flouting COVID-19 guidelines.

Roll and Skaat have both been found positive for corona after the New Year’s Eve bash in a Caesarea club, in which Roll was filmed languidly dancing as Skaat crooned at the crowd from onstage—with nary a face mask in sight.