https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/01/new-york-polio-measles-outbreak-00059258
Many of those cases were reported in the state’s Orthodox Jewish communities, though some were also found in Wyoming County’s Mennonite community and among other groups that often oppose vaccines.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukrainian-forces-close-in-on-lyman-in-donetsk-region-kyiv-says/
Russia withdrew its troops from the strategic city of Lyman in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Saturday, a day after President Vladimir Putin hailed the annexation of Donetsk.
The retreat, announced by the Defense Ministry in Moscow, comes as Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russia’s invasion makes further gains and presents a big setback for Putin.
Due to “a threat of encirclement, allied troops were withdrawn” from Lyman “to more advantageous lines,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday in a Telegram post.
Putin on Friday proclaimed the annexation of Donetsk along with three other regions, following referendums that Western countries declared a “sham.”
Below is a google translated letter I received recently
What is the thing that disturbs the rest of the ultra-orthodox public, and makes his life more difficult than anything else?
He has nowhere to live.
A simple, basic thing like a roof has become unattainable.
The general public still has these options. Our public simply does not have it.
An apartment in the farthest periphery currently costs NIS 800,000, as of the time of writing. Public opinion is skyrocketing.
The burden is heavy on the shoulders of parents who are failing. Look left and right, follow those who started marrying girls - and you will see. People lose the joy of life, become a shadow of themselves, busy and preoccupied all day long with the wheel of fortune, dodging creditors, chasing Arabs.
The distress is not only of the parents, but also of the couples themselves. People live in underground warehouses called "housing units" for some reason, with three and four pitzkaleach, without any outlook on the future.
The ultra-orthodox public is a huge public of about a million people, which is growing all the time. The broadest cross-section of this public belongs to the Lithuanian sector (even if the Knesset does not express this, the things are known and painful and so on). This sector is the most diligent in Torah on the one hand, and the poorest on the other hand.
Is there any housing program on the horizon?
Does anyone have an idea where to house the thousands of couples currently stuck in warehouses and parking lots and attics in all the ultra-orthodox cities? And does anyone have an idea where to house the tens of thousands of couples on the way, those who are now en masse populating Wolfson and Farah, Wolf and the old seminary, Hebron and Ponivage, the Elisheva and Feuerstein girls?
What do you think someone would do here? Should they build more shriveled units on top of the towers in the ultra-orthodox cities?
The electoral power of the ultra-orthodox sector, in the Knesset - equals between seven and eight mandates. With seven mandates, you can do a lot: you can demand the housing portfolio, you can set up committees and chair them, you can make the marketing of tens of thousands of apartments to the ultra-Orthodox public a threshold condition for entering the coalition.
But this is not happening, because our people are not in the positions of power relevant to this issue, which is in our very soul. From reading the Yatad Na'am newspaper on Tuesday, it can be concluded that the representatives are busy with burning issues such as the conscription decree and the conversion decree. But the time has come to understand that the housing decree is no less serious, and threatens the continued establishment of the Torah world. It hurts the bridegrooms who marry children, and it hurts the peace of mind of young couples. This is a decree on the Torah world in the full sense of the word.
We have reached a mental health check.
What was is not what will be.
We heard with our ears in a tearful and tearful conversation from one of the great leaders of the Yeshivas of Israel, that the treatment of this issue is as urgent and important as, and even much, much more than the treatment of the kashrut reform of the giving of this or that priest. The world of the Torah. The headlines in the party newspaper should deal with the issue of housing, which keeps sleepless nights away from the eyes of the wealthy, and not with struggles and skirmishes with this or that member of the Knesset.
The Council's decision reads: "The Council of Torah Elders strengthens the hands of the representatives of the Torah flag in the Knesset and the local authorities to continue to do as much as they can to find a solution to the housing crisis in the ultra-Orthodox public, so that the young couples can purchase a roof over their heads without sorrow and anguish."
The issue of housing is a complex and complicated issue, which even many good people who tried to deal with it did not succeed. We are not satisfied with random and occasional treatment of this or that public representative. Even a flattering headline in the newspaper about negotiations to release agricultural land for construction will not solve the problem. The Elders of Israel were instructed to establish a professional committee in their delegation that would be composed of people who are experts in the field of housing and would concentrate exclusively on this issue, and the members of the Knesset would act according to the committee's instructions.
On the mission of the elders of Israel, we went out to the public, to shout and cheer about the terrible plight, and to sign the masses of members of the ultra-Orthodox sector on a petition calling on the representatives of our public to act in a real way, to make a change, here and now.
https://hamodia.com/2022/09/29/brooklyn-roads-become-available-for-kohanim/
Kohanim can now travel by car on several roads bordering Washington and Greenwood cemeteries in Brooklyn, as overhanging trees have been trimmed and no longer protrude onto the street. Due to the years-long advocacy efforts of Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein, New York City agreed to trim the trees, which until now had forced kohanim to seek alternative routes in Boro Park and Midwood. The initiative was carried out under the guidance of Harav Yitzchok Stein, Supervisor of Va’ad Mishmeres Kahuna.
In court, the Israeli government argued that despite the official Utah license, these weddings were in fact held in Israel, not in Utah, and that they therefore did not meet the state’s requirement for religious marriages.
The Qatari government-funded media network’s exposé, seen by many as an attempt to discredit those who called out antisemitism in Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, which seemed timed to coincide with Labour conference, provoked threats of libel action.
Trump’s participation is equally transactional. The PGA, which was going to play its 2022 championship at Trump’s Bedminster course, dumped the event from its schedule days after the Jan. 6 riots. Trump retaliated by imploring golfers to switch from the PGA to LIV. Why the Saudis would think an association with Trump, who helped sink the upstart USFL decades ago, would help their cause is anybody’s guess. Have they never heard of Trump University, Trump Water, Trump Mortgages or any of his other failed businesses? That LIV has tied up with Trump is a measurement of how desperate they are to crack the sport. Further evidence of their desperation can be found in the report from Sports Business Journal that Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who received $2 billion of funding for his private equity firm from the same Saudi fund in 2021, went to work last month trying to secure LIV a TV deal.
In court documents obtained by FOX 5 Atlanta, Perry Greene reportedly stated his 27-year-long marriage with Rep. Greene is "irretrievably broken." The couple married in August 1995 and share three adult children together.
The filing in the Floyd County Superior Court showed the couple had previously been separated and continue to be separated.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/28/politics/donald-trump-confidence-man-haberman/index.html
In “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” Haberman chronicles the chaos of the Trump White House, with new details about how Trump resisted denouncing White supremacists and made light of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s declining health before her death in 2020 gave him a third justice on the Supreme Court.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday agreed to dismiss a lawsuit that pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell filed against Dominion Voting Systems as the voting machine company pursues a $1.3 billion defamation claim against her.
In a three-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols granted Dominion’s request to toss the case after finding Powell failed to show that Dominion’s defamation suit against her constituted an abuse of justice.
“Powell’s complaint fails to link her abuse-of-process claim to any act that Dominion has taken other than filing and pursuing its lawsuit,” wrote Nichols, who was appointed to the federal district court in D.C. by former President Trump. “She has thus failed to state a claim for abuse of process.”
https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-greg-abbott-need-read-bible-1746804
If I had to boil the Bible down to 10 consistently repeated principles and lessons that are unmistakably clear throughout scripture, one of them would have to be the compassionate, generous, and ethical treatment of immigrants. It's not a riddle in scripture. You don't need a theologian to interpret those verses. They are about as plain any ancient text could ever be. And the Bible says it over and over and over again. Why? Well, the folksy way I was taught was that the Bible only repeats the same lesson over and over again for one key reason that is still clearly relevant today... the authors, whether you believe them to be divinely inspired or not, knew that this lesson would be so frequently ignored that telling it once, twice, or even ten times simply wouldn't be enough.
https://baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-detail.php?SECTION_ID=1&ARTICLE_ID=157115
Rabbi Pesach Lerner, called upon the Israeli Supreme Court to place an immediate hold on the transfer of NIS 30 million to the Reform movement.
Rabbi Lerner, on behalf of the Eretz HaKodesh organization, recently filed an urgent petition to the Israeli Supreme Court for an immediate freeze of the transfer of funds to a joint venture of the Ministry of Diaspora and the Panim organization to establish a so-called “Office of Jewish Renewal,” which was approved from coalition funds of the Labor Party.
In Israel, Al-Qaradawi was mourned by Safwat Frij, chair of the Shura Council of the Islamic Movement’s Southern Branch, the religious council behind the Ra’am party that is currently a member of the outgoing Israeli government.
Right-wing opposition parties have long sought to delegitimize the party and the government by accusing the faction of supporting terrorism.
“Al-Qaradawi dedicated his life for the benefit of the defense of Islam and Muslims,” Frij said, and expressed hope he would be rewarded in the afterlife.
Al-Qaradawi was a major religious proponent of terror against Israelis.
