Psychology's tall tales

 https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2012/09/tall-tales

"Psychology, unlike many of the other sciences, doesn't have a canon of uncontested facts," says Mark Levine, PhD, of the University of Exeter, who co-authored the American Psychologist article. "Because of this, psychology textbooks are not made up of facts students must learn. Instead, they are full of experiments and research techniques. Parables like the Kitty Genovese story serve to link the experiments to the real world. There is thus a strong incentive not to abandon the stories in the textbooks, even if the stories themselves are on shaky ground." 

New Study Disavows Marshmallow Test’s Predictive Powers

 https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/new-study-disavows-marshmallow-tests-predictive-powers/

The new study may be a final blow to destiny implications formed in marshmallow test research, which like many findings from earlier psychology studies, have been questioned in recent years.

Shadowy "modesty squads" police ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn

 https://www.salon.com/2013/01/30/shadowy_modesty_squads_police_ultra_orthodox_brooklyn/

The Central Rabbinical Congress of the United States and Canada, housed on the second floor of a Williamsburg row house, issues guidelines on modesty, but says it does not explicitly enforce any code.

“We give out proclamations,” Rabbi Yitzchok Glick, its executive director, told the Times. “We don’t enforce. It’s like people can decide to keep Shabbos or not. If someone wants to turn on the light on Shabbos, we cannot put him in jail for that.”

But others, community members say, have used force and coercion to enforce the code.

“There are quite a few men, especially in Williamsburg, who consider themselves Gut’s polizei,” Yosef Rapaport, a Hasidic journalist, using the words for “God’s police,” told the Times.

“It’s somebody who is a busybody, and there are quite a few of them — zealots who take it upon themselves and they just enforce. They’re considered crazy, but people don’t want to confront them.”

The Mod (read modesty) Squad Gets Aggressive

 https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/israel/the-mod-read-modesty-squad-gets-aggressive

THE CLASHES BETWEEN THE two communities are about control of public space and turf, activists say. According to Dr. Benjamin Brown, senior lecturer in the department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University and an expert on ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel, Beit Shemesh is a “bastion of zealots.”

Many of these people have moved to Beit Shemesh, Brown says, not merely because of the available housing, but also because they want to escape their rabbis, who have tried to restrain their extremism. These zealots, Brown says, will listen to no one but their own. “Even the most venerable rabbis and leaders hesitate to issue rulings,” says Brown, “for fear that they will be publicly disobeyed by the extremists.”

What Happened to the Jews of Arabia?

 https://aish.com/what_happened_to_the_jews_of_arabia/

Did you know that Saudi Arabia once hosted a thriving Jewish community? For almost a thousand years (three times longer than the Jews have been in America), Jews lived in the oases of Teyma, Khaybar, and Yathrib (later known as Medina), in the northern Arabian Peninsula. According to Dr. Hagai Mazuz, an Orientalist specializing in Arabic language, Islam, and Islamic culture, “The Jewish community of northern Arabia was one of the largest ancient Jewish communities in the history of the Jewish people.”1

They were powerful and wealthy. They were respected by the local Arabian tribes for their religion, culture, erudition, and literacy. They built castles on mountaintops and developed productive plantations. They had military prowess, horses, and advanced weaponry. And they were almost totally annihilated in the short span of a few years.

The 7th-Century Massacre of Arabian Jews, and Its Legacy

 https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2021/07/the-7th-century-massacre-of-arabian-jews-and-its-legacy/

The turning point came after one of those tribes, the Banu Nadir, chose to sit out a battle rather than fight alongside the prophet—because they didn’t want to fight on Shabbat. When he was defeated, he took out his rage on these Jews:

Muhammad’s atrocity against the Qurayza Jews

 https://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/qurayza_jews.htm

In AD 627, Muhammad committed an atrocity against the last remaining major tribe of Jews in Medina: the Qurayza.

He beheaded the men and the pubescent boys and enslaved the women and children. In doing this, he wiped an entire tribe "off the map" to use the language of the President of Iran, recently.

The purpose of this article is full disclosure and straightforward analysis about early Islam. How and why did this atrocity unfold?

Herschel Walker's 'Baggage' Becoming 'Unbearable': Georgia GOP Lt. Governor

 https://www.newsweek.com/herschel-walker-baggage-unbearable-geoff-duncan-1749512

"And if we're being intellectually honest, Herschel Walker won the primary because he scored a bunch of touchdowns back in the '80s, and he was Donald Trump's friend. And now we've moved forward several months on the calendar and that's no longer a recipe to win."

What Jewish-free zones mean on campus

 https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/what-berkeleys-jewish-free-zones-mean/

Anti-Zionism is flatly anti-Semitic. Using "Zionist" as a euphemism for "Jew" is nothing more than a confidence trick. Like other forms of Judeophobia, it is an ideology of hate, treating Israel as the "collective Jew" and smearing the Jewish state with defamations similar to those used for centuries to vilify individual Jews. This ideology establishes a conspiratorial worldview, sometimes including replacement theory, which has occasionally erupted in violence, including mass shootings. Moreover, Zionism is an integral aspect of the identity of many Jews. Its derogation is analogous, in this way, to other forms of hate and bigotry.

DeSantis Warned by Fox's Rivera He Will 'Feel the Wrath' of Latino Voters

 https://www.newsweek.com/desantis-warned-foxs-rivera-he-will-feel-wrath-latino-voters-1749268

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera warned that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will suffer losses at the polls from Latino voters upset with the governor for transporting migrants to Martha's Vineyard last month.

"Governor DeSantis will soon feel the wrath of Florida's Latino voters outraged by his toying with the lives of those Venezuelan refugees he exploited," Rivera wrote in a tweet Wednesday.

Jerusalem Haredi phone store destroyed in fire; owner claims foul play

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-haredi-phone-store-destroyed-in-fire-owner-claims-foul-play/

A cellphone store in Jerusalem was gutted by fire overnight Sunday, with the shop’s owner claiming it was a deliberate attack over for his refusal to stop selling a certain device considered by some to be “non-kosher.”

העדה החרדית במכתב לציבור: התפללו לרפואת הראב"ד

 https://www.kikar.co.il/haredim-news/428577

בית הדין של העדה החרדית בירושלים במכתב קריאה לציבור להעתיר בתפילה לרפואת הגר"מ שטרנבוך, עקב חולשה ומצבו הבריאותי • בפנים: שמו המלא לתפילה

Wall Street Journal rips Trump’s ‘death wish’ rhetoric

 https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3671632-wall-street-journal-rips-trumps-death-wish-rhetoric/

The Journal’s editors wrote on Sunday that “Trump could be working and spending money to elect a GOP Congress, or to help his home state of Florida recover from Hurricane Ian.”

“Instead he’s attacking Mr. McConnell and his wife as part of a personal political vendetta, and putting every Republican candidate on the spot to respond to questions about the Trump rant,” they added. “Mr. Trump always puts himself first, and with this rhetoric he may put others at genuine risk of harm.”

Bennett has reservations about Lebanon deal: It's different from what I knew

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/360751

Channel 13 News reported that Bennett held several discussions on Monday in which he examined the agreement on a security and political level, and he is expected to formulate a clearer position before the discussion in the cabinet on the agreement. Bennett believes that it is very important to settle the matter and allow continuous activity of gas production. He has not yet decided whether to exercise his right to veto the agreement, although it is not certain that it is at all relevant, because of the ongoing legal proceedings against the agreement.