Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade Tells Donald Trump: 'Learn To Lose'

 https://www.newsweek.com/brian-kilmeade-learn-lose-donald-trump-fox-1667391

Kilmeade said that Trump has still not proven his claims more than 14 months since the last election took place.

"If you did, in fact, get screwed out of this election, put together an A-team list of lawyers, not the ones we witnessed, show us the districts and show us how," Kilmeade said.

Suicide in Judaism

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4372311/jewish/Suicide-in-Judaism.htm 

Rabbi Yechiel Epstein, one of the renowned halachic experts (poskim) of the 19th century, elaborates on this definition of suicide in his classic work Aruch HaShulchan. Rabbi Epstein writes that essentially only one who kills himself while being of clear and sound mind, free from internal or external coercion, is considered to have committed suicide. If, however, it’s possible that there is another factor at play, such as extremes of fear, pain, distress or mental illness, then it’s almost as though this person were “coerced” into suicide, and it’s not considered a suicide of clear and sound mind. This does not mean that misery is a valid excuse for suicide, only that, post facto, we do not treat the deceased as a suicide.

What arises from the writings of Rabbi Epstein and others is that essentially we latch onto any rationale we can to avoid considering it a deliberate suicide in the halachic sense. In other words, it is not considered a true halachic suicide as far as mourning and burial are concerned unless there is no other theoretical alternative.

Rav Sternbuch's Opaque letter

 

This letter is apparently a continuation of the war against secular influences and makes no reference to the allegations of abuse or that the author committed suicide. It simply says his books are a bad influence apparently because he supposedly didn't get a proper yeshiva education. He says that rabbis have already prohibited them - but there is no mention of which rabbis I assume he is referring to the Eidah's ban. [see letter below which appeared in the summer.] 

Israel rolls out fourth jab for over 60s as cases reach 10,000 a day

 https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/israel-rolls-out-fourth-jab-for-over-60s-as-cases-reach-10-000-a-day-4kj8Pd2WWxrRuEI80JiUiC

Israel has become the first country in the world to widely distribute a fourth dose of the vaccine as it grapples with a surge in cases caused by the Omicron variant. It was also one of the first countries to officially recommend a third dose, a policy that has been adopted by countries all over the world this winter in response to the new, highly transmissible variant.

Child Abuse-Rav Aaron Feldman

 

Fake news from Tucker Carlson

COVID-19: Israel records 32,000 infected, green pass in malls canceled

 https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/article-692057

Israel registered around 32,000 new cases on Sunday, internal Health Ministry data showed on Monday, with over 21,500 virus carriers identified among those who underwent a PCR test and another 10,000 among individuals who took an antigen test.

Heart inflammation risk rises dramatically for young with booster shots

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320052

A rare side-effect of the mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines may be more common than previously believed, according to a new study conducted in Oregon, with additional research suggesting the risk for the side-effect increases dramatically among males under 40 with each additional dose of the vaccine.

The first study, conducted by doctors in Portland from the Kaiser Permanente healthcare provider network, examined incidents of two kinds of heart inflammation - myocarditis and pericarditis -from the Kaiser Permanente database.

Both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccines have been linked in a number of cases to heart inflammation, particularly in younger male recipients of the vaccine.

Ted Cruz Mocked by CNN Hosts for 'Groveling' to Tucker Carlson

 https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-mocked-cnn-hosts-tucker-carlson-fox-anderson-cooper-brianna-keilar-1667197

The network's anchors took aim at the Texas Republican after he appeared on the Fox News host's show to backtrack on remarks, which he has made several times before, following criticism from Carlson.

Cruz has referred to January 6 as a terrorist incident at least 17 times on social media, statements or public hearings over the past year, according to CNN, but never apologized for them—until Carlson took issue.

Health Ministry: Significant increase in serious cases

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320109

The Ministry of Health announced Sunday morning that 17,521 new COVID diagnoses were made in the last day - out of about 151,000 tests. The percentage of positives was 11.71%.

Over 115,000 Israelis are considered "active," and 523 of them are hospitalized.

The number of people considered seriously sick has increased significantly and stands at 208, with the condition of 68 of them defined as critical. 16 patients are connected to ECMO machines and 48 to respirators.

For comparison, yesterday there were 172 were considered in serious condition and last weekend, 103 were.

Antigen tests miss nearly half of COVID-19 cases

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320084

New data published Saturday night on Hadashot Sof Hashavua showed that rapid tests miss approximately half of COVID-19 diagnoses.

The Defense Ministry's Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure took all of the antigen tests conducted this week by the various testing companies, and discovered that just 1.8% of those who underwent official antigen tests received a positive result - a rate far below that of the PCR tests.

The rate of those testing negative on antigen tests despite testing positive on PCR tests was 47%. At the same time, the percentage of those testing positive on antigen tests but negative on PCR tests was 37%

Rabbi Tau: ‘We Have Become Involved In Mob Justice Towards Any Person Accused Of Intimate Crimes’

 https://vinnews.com/2022/01/05/rabbi-tau-we-have-become-involved-in-mob-justice-towards-any-person-accused-of-intimate-crimes/

 In a long letter published after his meeting with Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi Tzvi Tau, head of the Har Hamor yeshiva and the most prominent student of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, presented his opinion about the Walder affair.

CDC: Children who had COVID-19 at increased risk for diabetes

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320075

A new research by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that children who contracted COVID-19 and recovered are at significantly increased risk of developing diabetes than children who did not contract COVID-19.

The research, published Friday, also showed that children who recovered from COVID-19 were at significantly increased risk of diabetes even when compared to children who had recovered from another respiratory virus.

"SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with worsening of diabetes symptoms, and persons with diabetes are at increased risk for severe COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2 infection might also induce newly diagnosed diabetes," CDC said in its release.

Sexual Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community

 https://www.academia.edu/11345186/Sexual_Abuse_in_the_Orthodox_Jewish_Community

Critique of an academic paper about the frequency of sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community, and discussion of the defensiveness and reluctance to address this issue in this particular ethnic-religious group.