MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and more pan ‘asinine’ Durham probe after Sussmann verdict: ‘A flop’

 https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-cnn-abc-asinine-durham-probe-sussmann-verdict

Left-leaning media personalities, reporters and guests of MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC and The Washington Post gloated after Michael Sussmann was acquitted, and cast doubt on the Justice Department-backed Durham probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

On Tuesday, Sussmann, a former Hillary Clinton lawyer, was found not guilty of a charge brought by Special Prosecutor John Durham, who believed Sussmann made a false statement to the FBI. The false statement allegedly occurred about presenting information about possible communications between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.

STANDING TALL

 https://mishpacha.com/standing-tall/

Throughout his life, Rav Shlomo exhorted his talmidim to “Be big!” His goal was to raise people out of the confines of their smallness, inspiring them to grow by helping them touch their latent potential. From his rebbi, Rav Hutner, he absorbed the Slabodka approach of emphasizing man’s inherent greatness.

He lived by the motto encapsulated by a phrase in Yeshayahu, “l’hachayos ruach shefalim, v’l’hachayos lev nidkaim — to revive the spirits of the lowly, and to revive the hearts of the oppressed,” words which were engraved on his matzeivah. He did not rebuke; he inspired growth, so that the erstwhile struggle was no longer relevant to the elevated neshamah he had cultivated.

The Path to Nazi Genocide

How Jews in Germany live with anti-Semitism | Focus on Europe

THE CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT RABBI MOSHE FEINSTEIN

Einstein escaped the Nazis because he was so smart - more nonsense from KA

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Einstein/Nazi-backlash-and-coming-to-America

In December 1932 Einstein decided to leave Germany forever (he would never go back). It became obvious to Einstein that his life was in danger. A Nazi organization published a magazine with Einstein’s picture and the caption “Not Yet Hanged” on the cover. There was even a price on his head. So great was the threat that Einstein split with his pacifist friends and said that it was justified to defend yourself with arms against Nazi aggression. To Einstein, pacifism was not an absolute concept but one that had to be re-examined depending on the magnitude of the threat.

Freud left Austria because of his profound knowledge of human nature - nonsense from KA

 https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/09/freuds-last-days-in-vienna-as-nazis-approached/

In 1923, when diagnosed (with cancer), all Freud asked of his physician was help to “disappear from this world with decency,” according to Peter Gay’s 1988 biography, “Freud: A Life for Our Time.” He was determined to be in Vienna when that time came. The intensity of his resolve matched the urgency with which colleagues and friends begged him to leave as the Nazi threat began to grow. In March 1933, Hitler assumed broad dictatorial powers as chancellor of Germany. That same month, Austria was in political turmoil, following the suspension of its parliament. In May, Nazis burned Freud’s books in Berlin. Freud’s sons, Oliver and Ernst, decided it was time to leave Berlin where they had established careers and settled their families. Oliver relocated to France and Ernst to England.

Yet their father remained rooted in Vienna.

“The only thing I can say,” Freud wrote to his nephew Sam in July 1933, “is that we are determined to stick it out here to the last. Perhaps it may not come out too bad.”

Hillel Kook

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

Initially the Bergson Group largely limited its activities to Irgun fundraising and various propaganda campaigns. The outbreak of World War II saw a dramatic transformation in the group's focus. As information about the Holocaust began to reach the United States, Kook and his fellow activists became more involved in trying to raise awareness about the fate of the Jews in Europe. This included putting full-page advertisements in leading newspapers, such as "Jews Fight for the Right to Fight", published in The New York Times in 1942, and "For Sale to Humanity 70,000 Jews, Guaranteed Human Beings at $50 a Piece", in response to an offer by Romania to send their Jews to safety if the travel expenses would be provided. On March 9, 1943, the Group produced a huge pageant in Madison Square Garden written by Ben Hecht, titled "We Will Never Die", memorializing the 2,000,000 European Jews who had already been murdered. Forty thousand people saw the pageant that first night, and it went on to play in five other major cities including Washington, D.C., where First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, six Supreme Court Justices, and some 300 senators and congressmen watched it.

Your walking speed could indicate dementia

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/31/health/walk-speed-dementia-wellness/index.html

Now, a large, new study of nearly 17,000 adults over age 65 finds people who walk about 5% slower or more each year while also exhibiting signs of slower mental processing were most likely to develop dementia. The study was published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open.

Judge: No ‘speck’ of proof in Sarah Palin’s libel case against NYT

 https://www.fox8live.com/2022/05/31/judge-no-speck-proof-sarah-palins-libel-case-against-nyt/

The judge who presided over Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times denied her request Tuesday for a new trial, saying she failed to introduce “even a speck” of evidence necessary to prove actual malice by the newspaper.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff made the assertion in a written decision as he rejected post-trial claims from Palin’s lawyers.

After Sussmann trial defeat, what's next for the John Durham probe?

 https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/31/politics/durham-whats-next/index.html

Special counsel John Durham, the Donald Trump-era prosecutor hunting for wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia investigations, came up empty Tuesday after a federal jury returned a not guilty verdict in his first major case against a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer.

The verdict is a significant blow to the Durham probe. After more than three years, Durham has racked up one guilty plea, one acquittal at trial and has one more trial scheduled for this fall.

Since Durham began his work in 2019, he has been accused by critics of running a politicized operation that is essentially chasing down right-wing conspiracies about the Russia probe. The outcome of the Sussmann case is sure to fuel these criticisms.

Shaked pushes back on Liberman's plan to cut yeshiva subsidies

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/328523

Two coalition lawmakers vowed to block plans by Finance Minister Avidgor Liberman to cut funding to yeshiva students.

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and Mk Nir Orbach, both members of the Yamina party, toured Zichron Ya’akov Tuesday, visiting local state religious schools.

During their visit, Shaked and Orbach said they would not permit Liberman to cut payments to married yeshiva students in the 2023 budget.

“This coalition government is built on agreements, and we will do our job to care for Torah scholars and ensure that they won’t be harmed,” Shaked declared.

“We, in Yamina, recognize the value of Torah study,” Orbach said, “and we know that Torah scholars dedicate their lives to the people of Israel and do so with great self-sacrifice. Together, we will God-willing protect the Torah world.”

On Monday, Liberman mocked haredi yeshiva students, accusing them of “idleness,” and urged the government to cut stipends to yeshiva students.

Shul supporting Tamar is Rav Schacter also supporting her?

 

Hallel Rosh Chodesh

 Taanis (28b) Rav happened to come to Babylonia, where he saw that they were reciting hallel on a New Moon. Unfamiliar with this practice, he thought to stop them, as he assumed that they were reciting hallel unnecessarily. Once he saw that they were omitting portions, he said: I can learn from this that they are maintaining the custom of their forefathers, i.e., they know that it is a custom, not an obligation.