Trump’s TV stars pose problems for the GOP

 https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3588823-the-memo-trumps-tv-stars-pose-problems-for-the-gop/

Trump “believes in the power of TV,” Zelizer said. “I do think at some level Trump believes that there’s no-one as powerful in American culture as The Celebrity.”

But, he added, “the reality is that politics isn’t television and many TV people can fall apart quickly entering the political arena.”

Did we all believe a myth about depression?

 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62286093

A study showing depression isn't caused by low levels of the "happy hormone" serotonin has become one of the most widely shared medical articles.

Josh Hawley's Speech Rejecting Sweden, Finland's NATO Bids Goes Viral

 https://www.newsweek.com/josh-hawley-speech-sweden-finland-nato-membership-viral-video-russia-1730765

The Senate voted 95-1 on Wednesday to ratify the Scandinavian countries' bid for membership. Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, was the sole "no" vote.

Hawley delivered a speech in the chamber, explaining his opposition to NATO expansion. A snippet from his comments, posted on Twitter, has been watched more than 775,000 times in less than 24 hours.

Greeting strangers at night

Sanhedrin (44a) Rabbi Yoḥanan say: It is prohibited for a person to greet another whom he does not recognize at night, as we are concerned that perhaps the one he doesn’t recognize is a demon?

‘We’re all human’: Rabbis, commanders defend officer who raped 70-year-old cleaner

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/were-all-human-rabbis-commanders-defend-officer-who-raped-70-year-old-cleaner/

Court records show support for officer Priel Klimi, 33, sentenced last week; rabbi casts doubt on his guilt, saying he’d managed to withstand ‘greater temptations’

Fight him, shun him ... embrace him? Mastriano's relationship with GOP leaders mirrors Trump's rise.

 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/04/mastriano-trump-gop-leaders-00049879

In an election season in which inflation and high gas prices have given most Republicans an edge, Mastriano has spent the past few weeks under fire for his ties to a far-right social media platform. He had an account this year on Gab, the site where Robert Bowers made violent antisemitic comments before the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Mastriano also told Gab CEO Andrew Torba in an interview, “Thank God for what you’ve done,” and paid the site $5,000 for “consulting” services.

Alex Jones Defamation Trial: Key Takeaways on Sandy Hook, Infowars and More

 https://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-defamation-trial-key-takeaways-sandy-hook-infowars-more-1730679

During the same episode, Jones also suggested that Judge Maya Guerra Gamble and attorneys for the Lewis family were "demonically possessed" and claimed that they were adherents to "the new world order."

"It's demonic," said Jones. "They all act demonically possessed. The judge, the lawyers. It's surreal to be around them. And it makes you feel sorry for them because these people are committed to occult ideology of the new world order."

Mark Bankston, a lawyer for the family, played an additional clip of Jones blasting the jury in court on Wednesday. In the video clip, which Bankston said aired last Friday, Jones accused the jury of being full of people who "don't know what planet they're on."

Herschel Walker, Science Talker | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Herschel Walker Says There Are 52 U.S. States While Slamming Stacey Abrams

https://www.newsweek.com/herschel-walker-says-there-are-52-us-states-while-slamming-stacey-abrams-1718306

"If you don't believe in the country, leave and go somewhere else," he added. "If it's the worst state, why are you here? Why don't you leave? Go to another—there's what, 51 more other states you can go to, you don't have to be here."

Why Did It Take the GOP So Long to Panic About Herschel Walker?

 https://www.newsweek.com/why-did-it-take-gop-so-long-panic-about-herschel-walker-1709248

Part of the reluctance is that Walker's troubled past is central to what his friends and political allies call his "transformation story." Walker doesn't deny the allegations about his past. Some, after all, are a matter of public record. He also brought some of them to the public's attention himself, in a 2008 book entitled "Breaking Free: my life with Dissociative Identity Disorder." In the book he discussed his history of mental illness, dealing with multiple personalities that he developed as a coping mechanism to deal with the teasing and bullying he endured as a young child with a stutter. The National Alliance on Mental Illness describes the disorder as "alternating between multiple identities, leaving a person with gaps in memory of everyday events." It notes men with the disorder "can occasionally exhibit more violent behavior rather than amnesia."

אחרי המעצרים: אחד החשודים בהיעדרות קליינרמן שוחרר

 https://www.kikar.co.il/424400.html

שעות אחרי המעצרים, הורה בית המשפט לשחרר את אחד החשודים במעורבות בהיעדרות מוישי קליינרמן בן ה-16 שנעדר לפני 130 יום. עורך דינו: "אין לו כל קשר לפרשה"

Aligning Jewish Values With Philanthropy and Investing

 https://www.morganstanley.com/articles/jewish-values-philanthropy-and-investing

While faith-based philanthropy may seem more familiar given its prevalence in Judaism and other faith traditions, faith-based investing can require more explanation.

The Torah offers guidance on aligning capital with Jewish values through a number of commandments and mitzvot, the Hebrew word for good deeds. Below are four ways investors can bring their faith to investing:

Three American Companies that Shamelessly Supported Nazi Germany

 https://historyofyesterday.com/three-american-companies-that-shamelessly-supported-nazi-germany-58fe33910303

During World War II, Germany was largely viewed by the American public as a pariah on the world stage — but that didn’t stop American companies from doing business with the Nazi regime. Perhaps American companies should have known better, but the German economy presented a business opportunity some corporations saw as too good to pass up. As a result, several American companies did business in Germany and some actually assisted the German war effort, at least until America itself was engaged in war with Germany.

How Nazi Germany benefitted America’s corporations

 https://www.globalvillagespace.com/how-nazi-germany-benefitted-americas-corporations/

In October 1936, the US Ambassador to Nazi Germany, William Dodd, who was previously a history professor, wrote a letter to president Franklin Roosevelt elaborating on US-Nazi business collaboration. In the letter, Ambassador Dodd revealed that “more than a hundred American corporations have subsidiaries here [in Nazi Germany] or cooperative understandings”. Dodd noted that the US chemical corporation, DuPont, has links to German companies “that are aiding in the armament business”. DuPont’s chief partner was the German chemical corporation IG Farben, which was centrally involved in strengthening the Nazi war machine. IG Farben was later implicated in slave labour practices and the Holocaust.