Monday, May 6, 2024

Trump’s deportation plan is modeled on ‘inhumane’ 1950s program, experts say

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/02/26/trump-immigration-deportation-eisenhower-operation/

But when describing the operation on which Trump’s plan is built, experts commonly land on the same word: “inhumane.” The Eisenhower-era operation has been referred to as such by think tanks, scholars and historians, who also said the policy was not as successful as Swing and others claimed.

Wife should be pious

 Sefer Chasidim (1015) A pious person should pray that G-d provide him a pious wife and he should not be concerned with her wealth but only her piety. That is because wealth comes from good deeds. Therefore if he marries for wealth he will eventually lose it and only benefit from it in this World, while if he marries a good person he will become wealthy but the principal reward is in the future World

Kilmeade says Biden went ‘full Hitler’ attacking Trump during Valley Forge speech

 https://thehill.com/media/4395082-kilmeade-biden-full-hitler-trump-speech/

“What’s resonating is Trump is unelectable. He is not worthy of the seat. Hence the speech on Friday where the president went full Hitler that Trump is the worst thing ever, will destroy the country,” Kilmeade said Monday morning on “Fox and Friends.”

Trump admires Hitler, is infatuated with Putin, former staff claim in new book

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-admires-hitler-is-infatuated-with-putin-former-staff-claim-in-new-book/

In an excerpt from his new book “The Return of Great Powers,” published  Tuesday, CNN anchor Jim Sciutto recounted speaking to multiple members of Trump’s former staff, all of whom corroborated that they frequently heard him commend the likes of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and, one more than one occasion, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

White House: Trump Gestapo comment echoes ‘appalling rhetoric of fascists’

 https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4645186-white-house-trump-gestapo-comment-echoes-appalling-rhetoric-of-fascists/

“These people are running a Gestapo administration,” Trump said, according to audio obtained by The New York Times. “And it’s the only thing they have. And it’s the only way they’re going to win, in their opinion, and it’s actually killing them. But it doesn’t bother me.”

Sunday, May 5, 2024

Is Bari Weiss Embarrassed by the Intellectual Dark Web?

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-bari-weiss-embarrassed-by-the-intellectual-dark-web

If Weiss intends to build a new alternative media with the same commitment to credibility and speaking truth to power as the old institutions, it’s on her to call out the “cranks, grifters and bigots” who claim to be in the same anti-establishment trench as her. (The Daily Beast made multiple attempts to reach Weiss for comment, but received no response.)

Rav Yechiel Perr zt”l: The SIgnificance of the Loss

 https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/2280986/rav-yechiel-perr-ztl-the-significance-of-the-loss.html

Aside from his deep mehalech haLimmud and his unique Musaar insights, Rav Perr cared deeply for Klal Yisroel, helping Agunos throughout his life, standing up for the downtrodden, the poor, Baalei teshuvah, Geirim, and he stood strongly for Kiruv. He stood for Yashrus in every aspect of it.  Whenever a danger to Klal Yisroel arose, he stood at the forefront to stop it.  Rav Perr was one of the first to stand strong against molesters in Jewish education.  He challenged others in yashrus – backing the nusach below when others did not.  We, the undersigned, affirm that any individual with firsthand knowledge or reasonable basis to suspect child abuse has a religious obligation to promptly notify the secular law enforcement of that information. These individuals have the experience, expertise and training to thoroughly and responsibly investigate the matter. Furthermore, those deemed “mandated reporters” under secular law must obey their State’s reporting requirements.

Saturday, May 4, 2024

‘The Republicans Are Being Total Hypocrites

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/04/jerry-nadler-antisemitism-bill-00156105

Well, there are three extant definitions. One is by IHRA. One is the Nexus definition and the other is the Jerusalem definition. They’re all equally valid. They all give different examples for perceptions of antisemitism, and none of them should be enshrined into law. The chief author of the IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern, said don’t codify this. Don’t make it part of any law because these are examples that may indicate antisemitism but don’t necessarily in every case, and to enshrine it into law — he thought and a lot of other people think — would be destructive of free speech. It could make criticism, under certain circumstances, of Israeli government policy antisemitic, which it clearly isn’t.

Friday, May 3, 2024

Joe Biden, Top Democrats Turn on Pro-Palestinian Protesters

 https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-palestinian-protests-israel-campuses-1896841

A number of leading Democratic figures are now regularly speaking out against the student pro-Palestinian protests across the country, including President Joe Biden decrying the "vandalism" and "violence" breaking out.

How an Ordinary Guy Took a $3,000 Case to the Supreme Court

 https://www.wsj.com/us-news/small-claims-case-goes-to-supreme-court-b24ac380?mod=wknd_pos1

The Department of Defense employee is waiting to find out whether a missed email spells an end to his 11-year quest to get $3,000 of pay (and interest) he says was wrongly withheld during 2013 budget cuts that briefly forced him out of work.

His case would feel right at home in small-claims court. But in March, the nine justices of the highest court in the land heard oral arguments about whether the government should let him continue his fight for six days of back pay.

Now Republicans Are Blaming George Soros for Campus Protests

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/now-republicans-are-blaming-george-soros-for-campus-protests

A number of Republicans are now suggesting—or in some cases, flat-out declaring—that George Soros, often the target of right-wing conspiracy theories, is funding the pro-Palestine protests on college campuses.

The dishonest — and ironic — push to blame campus protests on George Soros

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/26/dishonest-ironic-push-blame-campus-protests-george-soros/

But back to that “cash from Soros and his acolytes.” At no point does the Post article demonstrate how this purported cash has been critical, instead simply listing organizations that have been involved in the protests to some extent and tracing their funding back to OSF.

Reported Soros funding of anti-Israel encampments sparks antisemitic conspiracy theories

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-799583

In a post reaching almost 120,000 views, fringe conspiracy theorist David Icke similarly accused Soros of being “Israel’s man,” accusing “Ultra Zionist Sabbatian Cultists” of ‘funding both sides’ in an attempt to stir civil war in the US, all the while controlling both Biden and Trump, pointing at the ethno-religious background of high ranking members in the US administration.