What shifted in the intervening years was part of a national trend toward emphasizing college and the knowledge industry. This emphasis on college turned out to be little more than a sleight-of-hand to disguise the devastating impact globalization was having on the American working class. The message to working-class Americans wasn't just that they had missed the boat, but that it was their own stupidity and lack of education that resulted in the widening chasm separating them from the college educated, and that the college educated deserved their good fortune, for they had earned it.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Marrying for Money
Does this apply to a guy who marries a rich girl so he can stay in learning?
Kiddushin (70a) He who takes a wife for the sake of money will have unworthy children, as it is said: They have dealt treacherously against the Lord; for they have borne strange children. And should you think, their money is saved to them, — therefore it is stated: Now shall the new moon devour them with their portions. And should you say, his portion, but not hers: therefore it is stated: ‘their portions’. And should you say only after a long time — therefore it is said: ‘the new moon’. What does this imply? — Said R. Nahman b. Isaac: A month comes and a month goes and their money is lost.
Donald Trump Stung in Primary As Huge Number of Republicans Vote Against Him
https://www.newsweek.com/how-left-fell-love-militant-islam-vice-versa-opinion-1885741
Although Trump comfortably won four primary votes on Tuesday, in Wisconsin, Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island, it is significant that in all of those states, a proportion of Republicans voted for politicians no longer in the race, showing anti-Trump feeling among the GOP is alive and well. This dissent could prove difficult in swing states when the Republican faces Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the November election.
Tzadikim their money is dearer than their body
Sotah (12a) Yocheved took for Moses an ark of bulrushes why just bulrushes? R. Eleazar said: Hence it is learnt that to the righteous their money is dearer than their body; and why so? That they should not stretch out their hand to robbery.
Rabbeini Bachya (Bereishis (35:25)“when Yaakov had remained alone, etc.” Our sages in Bereshit Rabbah 77,3 state that these words should be read as if Yaakov returned for his jug (read לכדו instead of לבדו). This teaches that Yaakov went back across the river to retrieve small vessels which had been overlooked. This teaches that the righteous are very meticulous even with relatively low-cost items seeing that when you acquire things by making certain none of them has been tainted by being stolen or otherwise illegally acquired, one does treasure what one has more than do other people who do not mind to acquire things less honestly. This is Rashi’s approach to our verse.
How the Left Fell in Love With Militant Islam | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/how-left-fell-love-militant-islam-vice-versa-opinion-1885741
But following their failure to conquer Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, secular Arab revolutionary movements needed to reinvent themselves. They then turned to Islam. The idea was to use religion as a motivator to stir up the population, while ridding it of its moral restraints. In essence, they used Islam as a tool to spread their ideology.
Chief of Staff: WCK incident was a misidentification, it shouldn’t have happened
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/387828
Halevi noted that the IDF completed a preliminary debrief and added, “I want to be very clear—the strike was not carried out with the intention of harming WCK aid workers. It was a mistake that followed a misidentification–at night during a war in very complex conditions. It shouldn’t have happened.”
He continued, “We will continue taking immediate actions to ensure that more is done to protect humanitarian aid workers.”
“This incident was a grave mistake,” Halevi stressed. “Israel is at war with Hamas, not with the people of Gaza. We are sorry for the unintentional harm to the members of WCK. We share in the grief of their families, as well as the entire World Central Kitchen organization, from the bottom of our hearts.”
Among Friends
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2010/01_02/2010_01_19_Hoffman_AmongFriends.htm
If the silence of the ultra-Orthodox rabbinate is meant to keep members of their community in the dark, and shield the authority of the rabbinate from shame, it has been countered by outraged discussion on ultra-Orthodox blogs, whose commenters have been following the money that passed through Tropper's organization—and venting their anger at the ongoing silence from the halachic establishment. One anonymously written blog, The Unorthodox Jew, called on Feinstein to shut down "this house of prostitution." A commenter on the blog called for a letter-writing campaign to "as many Orthodox-affiliated Jews as possible, alerting them to the unworthiness of our so-called 'gedolim'"—a Hebrew term used by ultra-Orthodox Jews to refer to their leaders. "King Lear should be obligatory reading in the ultra-Orthodox world, along with All the King's Men," wrote another person. At another highly critical blog, Daas Torah, a commenter wrote: "The chillul hashem"—insult to God—"of Tropper's scandals is only getting worse with time like a festering untreated cancer."
One of the few religious authorities to speak out publicly on the Tropper case has been Aba Dunner, the executive director of the Conference of European Rabbis, a group that publicly opposed Tropper's incursion onto its turf even before the scandal; last week, Dunner published an op-ed in the Five Towns Jewish Times, a New York-area paper catering to Orthodox readers, in which he accused Eternal Jewish Family of conducting a "bounty hunt" for new Jews, by allegedly paying local rabbis to funnel intermarried couples into its fledgling conversion courts. "Tropper is a fraud," Dunner wrote. "The organization he created is in his image and is therefore a fraud too. The creators of that image are fraudsters and hucksters who are trying desperately to keep the line to Mr. Kaplan's millions open."
We Should Thank Trump for Saying Horrible Things
Trump’s diarrhetic dialectics have shrunken the nation’s lofty ideals of presidential races as elevated contests between rival statesmen into a closer approximation to what they actually are—billion-dollar prison yard shankings.
Trump crudely bloodies anybody who looks at him sideways without any regard for the potential consequences, other than blithely offering to pay the legal fees for those who commit political violence in his name.
Biden’s Approach to Israel-Gaza Conflict Angers Both Sides
In a statement Tuesday evening, Biden said the deaths were a tragedy, and called on Israel to make public the findings of its investigation. “Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians,” Biden said. “Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen.”
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Megyn Kelly Confronts Ben Shapiro on Candace Owens Ouster and ‘Free Speech’
A week after The Daily Wire parted ways with far-right pundit Candace Owens amid her lengthy public feud with the site’s co-founder Ben Shapiro, Megyn Kelly asked Shapiro if the ouster of the MAGA provocateur was proof that his publication is only about free speech “until it comes to Israel.”
Owens’ exit from the right-wing media empire came after months of increasing tension between her and Shapiro over the war in Gaza. The animosity between the two began heating up in November when Shapiro tore into Owens’ “disgraceful” comments on Israel committing “genocide,” prompting her to traffic in antisemitic “dual loyalty” tropes about Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew.
Days before her ouster, Owens liked a social-media post accusing a famous rabbi of being “drunk on Christian blood,” an overt reference to the antisemitic “blood libel” canard—generating even more controversy. She also peddled other antisemitic tropes when she complained about a Jewish “gang” in Hollywood.
The Real Reason Trump Hates ‘Windmills’ QUIXOTIC CRUSADE
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-reason-trump-hates-windmills?ref=home?ref=home
His obsession with wind turbines—which he blames for a variety of domestic and foreign policy ills—originates from a dispute he had with the Scottish Parliament over windmills near his golf course outside Aberdeen, Scotland, two decades ago.
Trump has floated many conspiracies and criticisms of “windmills,” most of them completely inane. He also does this even though it typically doesn’t provoke a strong reaction from his MAGA rally crowds—which is a bit unusual.
Vaping May Cause 'Substantial' Heart Failure Risk Increase
https://www.newsweek.com/vaping-cause-substantial-heart-failure-risk-1885920
While vaping may be a safer alternative to smoking tobacco, previous studies have associated e-cigarette use with an increased risk for lung disease, asthma, damaged blood vessels and heart disease, particularly among those with preexisting health conditions. Now, a large study lead by MedStar Health in Baltimore has shown that e-cigarette users may be 19 percent more likely to develop heart failure compared to those who have never vaped.
TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF "PSAK"
file:///C:/Users/Daniel/Downloads/Toward-a-Sociology.pdf
This article is entitled, "Toward a Sociology of Psak," for several reasons. One is to emphasize its tentative nature. Rather than definitive, it is intended to be suggestive, both in terms of the realm of the subject matter and any and all specific issues which the article raises.
Secondly, it is by no means exhaustive. Rather, it points to a variety of areas and issues which might well belong in a sociology of psak, butclearly there are many others which have not even touched upon. Hopefully, this article wil stimulate further deliberation which will lead tobroader and deeper analyses of the entire area. Ideally, a sociology of psak should include, as a beginning, an analysis of the role of the social in psak,such as the role of social conditions in the determination of halakhah; the social factors which influence who is viewed as the posek, in general and in particular; and an analysis of which segments in the community are likely to seek out psak and from whom
Money purifies Mamzerim
Kiddushin (71a) Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi says: Money purifies mamzerim. Money causes rich mamzerim to become assimilated with Jews of unflawed lineage, since other families marry them despite their flawed lineage. In the future, God will not single them out as mamzerim, as it is stated: “And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver,” which teaches that money, i.e., silver, purifies them. What, then, is the connection to the next part of the verse: “They that shall offer to the Lord offerings in righteousness”? Rabbi Yitzḥak says: The Holy One, Blessed be He, performed an act of righteousness with the Jewish people by establishing that a family that has become assimilated with Jews of unflawed lineage remains assimilated. They are not removed from their tribe despite their flawed lineage. With regard to the matter itself that was discussed earlier, the lineage of the Jews in various lands,
Koheles (10:19) For laughter bread is made, and wine gladdens life, and money answers all things.
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