Sunday, April 16, 2023

Teen dies after ‘disconnecting himself’ from ECMO for lung collapse said due to vape

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/16-year-old-dies-after-lung-collapse-apparently-caused-by-vaping/

Yariv Keller called on parents to make sure their children don’t use electronic cigarettes, saying that there had been dozens of similar cases of lung collapse in the United States.

Potential Alzheimer’s treatment discovered by MIT - study

 https://www.jpost.com/science/article-739262

The new treatment has been detailed in a peer-reviewed study, which has been published on Wednesday in the journal PNAS.  

The new treatment, using peptides, interacts with the CDK5 enzyme. The CDK5 enzyme is overactive in Alzheimer’s patient’s brains. Fortunately, the peptide has not shown signs of reacting with the essential CDK1 enzyme which shares structural similarities with CDK5.

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Pentagon leaker filmed himself in antisemitic rant at gun range

https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-739238 

“No, it makes him an enemy to America. Leaking classified documents, especially this sensitive in nature, is a crime and he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, replied to Greene on Twitter. “His conduct is indefensible and should be universally condemned.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Trying to Make the Alleged Pentagon Leaker Into a Martyr

 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-pentagon-leaker-martyr

Greene’s theory of oppression, in this case, has not been adopted by her Republican colleagues. However, she did find a friend in Tucker Carlson, who shared a similar view during his Thursday night Fox News broadcast. “Tonight, the news media are celebrating the capture of the kid who told Americans what’s actually happening in Ukraine,” Carlson told his viewers, before lashing out at news outlets for reporting on the reportedly racist and antisemitic content shared in Teixeira’s Discord server. “They are treating him like Osama bin Laden, maybe a little worse actually, because, unlike al-Qaida, apparently, this kid is a racist.”

Friday, April 14, 2023

In rare move, ultra-Orthodox Jewish magazine publishes photo of a woman

 https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-739002

But Orthodox feminists took notice of the photo, which depicts Miller wearing a hat and is shaded in blue. The cover of Safier’s book features the same image and design. The print version of the article also included a photograph with the face of another woman — Rebbetzin Temi Kamenetsky, the late wife of Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, a prominent Lithuanian haredi rabbi who lives in Philadelphia.

CNN's selective problem with who did what

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/369963

According toCNN International, while Israelis shoot and kill Palestinians, Israeli cars “receive” bullets and the occupants die in a “crash.” That is how, at least, two separate incidents were described during a single segment on Isa Soares Tonight on April 10.

Greene defends accused Ukraine documents leaker

 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3949488-greene-defends-accused-ukraine-documents-leaker/

“Jake Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime,” Greene said on Twitter.

Greek crowds attack Israeli fans, players in Athens Basketball game

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1ytctvg2#autoplay

Israeli basketball players and their fans came under attack from Greek crowds in Athens during the FIBA Champions League quarterfinal series in Athens on Wednesday, burning the Israeli flag and throwing firecrackers onto the court, and hurling rocks at the Israeli fans in the stands. 


Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Tennessee Democrats see a ‘once in a lifetime’ shot at relevance

 https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/12/tennessee-democrats-justin-jones-pearson-00091631

While Republicans intended their ouster of two progressive lawmakers last week to be a punishment, the move has turned into one of the Democratic Party’s best chances in years to boost their organization in the South. Democrats are dreaming up ways to claw back some power from the GOP, fueled by an influx of out-of-state dollars and new commitments from Tennesseans to get involved with politics.

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Gun deaths among children are soaring

 https://www.axios.com/2023/04/10/gun-deaths-among-children-are-soaring

While the majority of adult gun deaths are by suicide, children and teens killed by gunfire are more likely to die by homicide (60%).

Resurrection with clothing

 Sanhedrin (90b)  Queen Cleopatra asked R. Meir, ‘I know that the dead will revive, for it is written, And the righteous] shall in the distant future blossom forth out of Jerusalem like the grass of the earth. But when they arise, shall they arise nude or in their garments?’ He replied, ‘Thou mayest deduce by an a fortiori argument the answer from a wheat grain: if a grain of wheat, which is buried naked, sprouteth forth in many robes, how much more so the righteous, who are buried in their raiment!’

Justin Jones, one of the two expelled Tennessee lawmakers, reinstated by Nashville council

 https://nypost.com/2023/04/10/justin-jones-one-of-the-two-expelled-tennessee-lawmakers-reinstated-by-nashville-council/

The Nashville Metro Council on Monday unanimously voted in favor of reinstating Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones back into office just days after he was ousted for calling for gun reform on the chamber floor. 

Jones, 27, was one of the two black Democratic lawmakers expelled by the Republican-controlled Tennessee General Assembly after a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. 

Fox News Pundit Admits ‘We Have to Talk About Guns’ After Louisville Massacre

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-pundit-admits-we-have-to-talk-about-guns-after-louisville-shooting?ref=home

After yet another mass shooting featuring an assault-style weapon, Fox News contributor Ted Williams told the conservative channel’s audience that “we have to talk about guns” because AR-15s “are killing our babies.”

He continued: “Just two weeks ago, I stood in front of a camera—when you had some kids, some babies, shot in Nashville, Tennessee—where a person that had an AR-15! And from what we have been told here, Neil, this individual had that same kind of a weapon.”

Monday, April 10, 2023

Resurrection - Why not explicit in Torah?

 Rabbeinu Bachya (Devarim 32:43)  There are many people who are wondering why such an important concept as that of the resurrection has not been spelled out in the written Torah in detail. Seeing that the Torah has spelled out in detail many less important concepts, sometimes repeating them several times, the failure to spell out the concept of resurrection of the dead is considered especially puzzling. The fact is that Torah addresses first and foremost terrestrial matters of concern to us. 

Rabbeinu Bachya (Devarim 32:43) The life of disembodied souls in the celestial regions while awaiting the resurrection, has similarly been alluded to only in the vaguest manner. The average reader may not even notice these allusions whereas the elite may notice their significance. The truth is that the written Torah was given to and for the multitude who do not concern themselves overly with abstract matters, matters of interest primarily to the intellect rather than to the senses.