After taking down Pride flags at request of 2 synagogues, NJ town puts them back up

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-taking-down-pride-flags-at-request-of-2-synagogues-nj-town-puts-them-back-up/

For decades, the Orthodox world has struggled with whether and how to accept LGBTQ people. Nearly all modern interpretations of Orthodox law forbid same-sex relations, though recently a number of Orthodox public figures have come out as queer. On the other side of the coin, some of the most prominent anti-LGBTQ voices on the internet, including Chaya Raichik, creator of the social media account Libs of TikTok, are also Orthodox Jews. Raichik is one of the most prominent purveyors of the slur that LGBTQ people seek to “groom” or otherwise harm children.

IDF launches large-scale op. in Jenin, 7 suspected terrorists killed

 https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-748598

The IDF on Sunday night launched its largest operation in Jenin since the Second Intifada with a series of airstrikes and moving brigade-level forces into the northern West Bank Palestinian city.

GOP’s ‘dereliction of duty’ impeachment argument gets skeptical reviews

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4076596-gops-dereliction-of-duty-impeachment-argument-gets-skeptical-reviews/#:~:text=GOP%27s%20%27dereliction%20of%20duty%27%20impeachment%20argument%20gets%20skeptical%20reviews,-by%20Rebecca%20Beitsch&text=Republicans%20eager%20to%20impeach%20a,of%20“dereliction%20of%20duty.”

“It sounds quasi-official — it has a sort of military ring to it. But it’s not as though high crimes and misdemeanors and dereliction of duty go together. … It’s not traditionally one of the impeachment concepts that you would find in the panoply of presidential mistakes,” said Claire Finkelstein, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in national security law and democratic governance. 

Shame Went to Die at Moms for Liberty’s Philadelphia Summi

 https://ca.style.yahoo.com/shame-went-die-moms-liberty-123420653.html

“I’m telling you these people are sick,” former President Donald Trump said, earning laughter from the audience. “Moms for Liberty is no hate group… You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to America.”

Forget Hunter Biden, what about Jared and Ivanka’s grift?

Prosecutor: Malka Leifer faked mental illness to avoid extradition to Australia

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/prosecutor-malka-leifer-faked-mental-illness-to-avoid-extradition-to-australia/

She is convicted of six charges of rape, each carrying up to 25 years in prison. She was convicted of three charges of sexual penetration of a child, each carrying a potential 10-year sentence, and six charges of indecent assault, which also carries a 10-year sentence. She was convicted of three charges of committing an indecent act with a child, which is punishable by 5 years in prison. There are no minimum sentences.

Demons destroyed before sleeping

 Rashi (Bamidbar 23:24) HE LIES NOT DOWN at night on his bed until he consumes and destroys the demons which come to prey upon him. How so? He reads the Shema at his bedside and commends his spirit into the hands of the G-d 

Parental alienation in frum divorces

 https://mishpacha.com/two-part-harmony-2/

“I’m not saying that breaking apart a family is never an option. It happens, it sometimes has to happen, and Hashem Himself gave us the tool for it in the Torah,” Reb Yonasan clarifies. “But even when it comes to divorce, when there’s no other option, there is no reason for parents to lose their human dignity and turn on each other like predators, and there’s no greater damage to a child than one parent alienating the other.”

The Kishinev Pogrom, Jewish Passivity, and Jewish Self-Defense

 https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2018/04/the-kishinev-pogrom-jewish-passivity-and-jewish-self-defense/

Curiously enough, however, Bialik recorded in the transcripts of the interviews [with pogrom survivors] he conducted during his Kishinev stay, often in copious detail, many efforts at Jewish self-defense, including one so notorious—in the minds of local anti-Semites and their sympathizers, at least—that they would credit it, and not their own actions, as the main cause for [the] violence.

When fifty-seven-year-old Yeḥiel Kiserman fought off four attackers, throwing several of them to the ground, a rumor rapidly spread that a Jew had murdered Christians. This news further enraged the mobs, which now attacked with heightened fury. . . .

House Democrats Have Document That Refutes GOP’s Biden Bribery Claims

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-democrats-have-a-document-that-refutes-gops-biden-bribery-claims?ref=home?ref=home

House Oversight Committee Democrats on Thursday unveiled a document filled out by Mykola Zlochevsky—who their colleagues across the aisle allege may have handed Biden a $5 million kickback—in which the Ukrainian oligarch says he never interacted with Biden when he was vice president.

Jews should not defend themselves

 The following was written in the aftermath of the Chmelnicki massacres, He says the rabbinic leaders felt that resisting the attacks would ultimately lead to  a greater number of Jews being killed.

The author is ר גבריאל בן יהושע שוסברג there are תשובות in halacha from him. He says that that was the  פסק הוראת הגאונים הרבנים that was followed by the people then as a "הוראת שעה" it's not clear if that means כפשוטו that it's not standard halacha or that the circumstances then required it.

The book ‘Shemirat Shabbat Ke’Hilchata’ and the controversy it provoked

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/373402

Despite the enormous virtues of ‘Shemirat Shabbat Ke’Hilchata’, disputes arose in Bnei Brak. Rabbi Yaacov Yisrael Kanievsky (the Steipler) wrote that it was his duty “to write here a great and necessary notice, because in our times of a an orphaned generation, in which everyone does as they please, there is no doubt that there are compositions about which Chazal said ‘for many are those she has struck dead’, who claim to collect and order the laws of the Shulchan Aruch, and it is forbidden to rely on them. Because apart from gathering instructions [to be lenient, of course] from everything they find in essays and journals [many of which have nothing at all to base themelves on], they also add their own disruptions and distortions in the hundreds, knowingly or unknowingly, and all with the aim of introducing leniencies upon leniencies into the laws of our holy Torah, and God forbid, one should rely on such treatises”.

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REPORT: SAUDI ARABIA CONCLUDED JARED KUSHNER’S INVESTMENT FIRM WAS A JOKE, GAVE HIM $2 BILLION ANYWAY

 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/jared-kushner-saudi-arabia-2-billion-investment

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that just six months after leaving the White House, the former first son-in-law’s newly formed private equity firm, Affinity Partners, was awarded a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which is led by MBS. That the kingdom would fork over that kind of cash to Kushner is obviously ridiculously shady and, as Nick Penniman, the founder and chief executive of good-government organization Issue One, told The Times, “swampy and seemingly hypocritical.” But the cash alone is not even the funniest part, and by funniest we mean insanely unethical and wildly corrupt. No, the unethical and corrupt part is that the people who perform due diligence for the Saudis’ Public Investment Fund concluded Kushner’s firm was a joke and that he might make them look bad…and then the board, headed by MBS, gave him the money anyway. Because…y’know.