Rav Avraham ben HaRambam (Discourse on Agada): We are not obligated to accept the views of the sages of the Talmud on matters concerning medicine, natural science or astronomy - simply because of their greatness and authority - as we are concerning their explanations of the Torah. That is because concerning Torah, they were the ultimate experts and they had the exclusive authority to teach it as it says in the Torah, “You should do according to the Torah that they teach.”
Monday, July 15, 2024
Why Many Leaders Are Suggesting Trump Is Ordained by God After the Assassination Attempt
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/trump-assassination-texas-christians/
Many evangelical supporters and far-right Christian leaders now have come to see Trump as their ordained champion in the fight for the country they believe is rightfully theirs. Any resistance—a legal challenge, an electoral loss, a bullet of still-mysterious origin, caught in the early stages of investigation—only further sanctifies the cause and its vessel. God’s ways are not mysterious to them. His ways, they believe, are their own.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Pro-Trump Christian extremists use scripture to justify violent goals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/13/trump-christian-nationalist-violent-rhetoric/
Democrats aren’t opponents, but enemies to be “smited.” Vice President Harris is depicted as Jezebel, the epitome of womanly wickedness who meets a grisly end. Teachers, librarians, drag queens — all perceived as introducing dangerous ideas to children — are condemned to drowning with millstones around their necks, a la Matthew 18:6.
Friday, July 12, 2024
Trump gets away with dodging the key questions
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-809813
Trump may see the media as his permanent enemy but in reality they are his greatest ally. He is a skilled performer and his rage and rants at his rallies have been rewarded with more airtime and ink than his opponents, and with minimal scrutiny. He’s been more entertaining than any of his opponents, Republican and Democratic, and that attracts the viewers and advertisers.
Economists Say Inflation Would Be Worse Under Trump Than Biden
In a Wall Street Journal survey, economists see Trump’s plans to raise tariffs and crack down on illegal immigration as putting upward pressure on prices
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Americans Aren't Abandoning Joe Biden
"I spent time in Pennsylvania the weekend after the debate. Not a lot of folks were worried," Democratic Senator Chris Coons told Newsweek.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Joe Biden Starts to Turn the Tide on Rebel Democrats Published Jul 09, 2024 at 9:28 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-starts-turn-tide-rebel-democrats-1923058.
New York Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler, who on Sunday reportedly argued in favor of Biden stepping aside during a private call with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, appeared to reverse course in comments to reporters.
MAGA Senator Josh Hawley Advocates for Being a Christian Nationalist
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-senator-josh-hawley-goes-mask-off-on-being-a-christian-nationalist-at-national-conservatism-conference?ref=home?ref=home
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) assured the National Conservatism conference on Monday that he is a “Christian Nationalist.”
Hawley has previously written that “America as we know it cannot survive without biblical Christianity,” reiterated his Christian nationalist bona fides for the conservative conference.
“Some will say now that I am calling America a Christian nation. And so I am,” Hawley told the crowd. “And some will say that I am advocating Christian nationalism. And so I do.”
'186,000 Gazans dead’: Lancet magazine publishes new blood libel
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-809632
The Lancet magazine, an esteemed medical journal founded in 1823, published a piece earlier this week authored by doctors Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf, which claimed that “it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186,000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.”
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Health Ministry says 153 diagnosed with West Nile fever since start of outbreak, 11 have died
The Health Ministry reports that 153 patients have been diagnosed with West Nile fever in an ongoing outbreak, and a total of eleven people diagnosed with the virus have died.
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