Israel is set to approve a ceasefire with Hamas following an announcement by US President Donald Trump that a deal had been reached during talks in Sharm el-Sheikh. According to the agreement, the release of all Israeli hostages held by Hamas is expected to begin on Saturday and conclude by Sunday.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/07/surgeons-general-rfk-jr-robert-kennedy
As former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican and Democratic president since George H.W. Bush, we have collectively spent decades in service as the Nation’s Doctor. We took two sacred oaths in our lifetimes: first, as physicians who swore to care for our patients and, second, as public servants who committed to protecting the health of all Americans.
Today, in keeping with those oaths, we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation. Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.
Rather than combating the rapid spread of health misinformation with facts and clarity, Kennedy is amplifying it. The consequences aren’t abstract. They are measured in lives lost, disease outbreaks and an erosion of public trust that will take years to rebuild.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
These are the top terrorists that Hamas is demanding Israel release
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/415905
Hamas demands the release of six senior terrorists, including Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Sa’adat, in exchange for hostages, alongside requests for aid trucks and easing Gaza movement
'Disgraceful': Goldknopf slammed for comparing arrested haredi draft dodgers to hostages
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-869633
Politicians slammed United Torah Judaism (UTJ) head Yitzhak Goldknopf after he appeared to liken imprisoned haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft evaders to the hostages held in Hamas captivity in a letter penned to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday.
Judge blocks Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland for second time
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/05/national-guard-oregon-california-rurling-00594606
During an unusual Sunday night telephone hearing, Immergut said the Trump administration’s maneuvers appeared to be a deliberate attempt to circumvent her initial decision.
“I am certainly troubled by now hearing that both California and Texas National Guard are being sent into Oregon, which does appear to be in direct contravention of my order,” Immergut said, describing the latest deployments as a violation of federal law and the Tenth Amendment, which protects state sovereignty.
Immergut agreed with attorneys for California and Oregon, who said the new deployments appeared to be intended to outrun the court. She repeatedly pressed Justice Department attorney Eric Hamilton about whether he believed the administration had complied with her order.
Monday, October 6, 2025
400 Texas National Guard headed to Illinois, Oregon
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) on Sunday said that hundreds of Texas National Guard members were headed to his state and Oregon and labeled it “Trump’s Invasion.”
In recent months, Trump has sent the National Guard to multiple cities, including Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., angering local residents and Democrats.
Spike in coronavirus cases: 'I was sure I was going to die'
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/sytkc91plg#google_vignette
“We’ve seen a slightly more significant wave of COVID-19 over the past three months, and we are now in the midst of that wave,” said Professor Tal Brosh, head of infectious diseases at the Assuta Ashdod public hospital and head of the Health Ministry’s epidemic response team. He sought to reassure the public: “These are not the huge waves we saw in 2021-22 when hundreds of thousands of Israelis were infected one after another and hospital wards filled. Since the start of COVID there has always been ongoing illness, sometimes a bit more and sometimes a bit less. It comes in waves, and most of the time it simply doesn’t interest the public.”
Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard deployment to Portland amid constitutional challenge
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut ruled the action was unlawful and unconstitutional, issuing an emergency temporary restraining order to halt the deployment of California’s National Guard. The order also bars the use of troops from any other state or Washington, D.C. in Oregon.
"It appears to violate both 10 U.S.C. §12406 and the Tenth Amendment," Immergut said during the proceeding, according to reporting from Adam Klasfeld of AllRise News.
Immergut also pressed Justice Department attorney Eric Hamilton on why the DOJ continued to pursue troop movements.
"How could bringing in federalized National Guard from California not be in direct contravention of the TRO that I issued yesterday?" she asked.
"You’re an officer of the court. Aren’t defendants circumventing my order?"
DOJ representatives requested a stay, but Immergut denied both the stay and the administrative delay, saying it was an "emergency" and there were no new facts to justify the request to change her previous ruling.
White House Responds to Trump Judge Stopping National Guard in Portland
https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-trump-judge-national-guard-oregon-portland-california-10831824
Senior White House official Stephen Miller accused the federal judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's deployment of any National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, of "one of the most egregious and thunderous violations of constitutional order we have ever seen."
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, who is a Trump appointee, granted a temporary restraining order Sunday sought by California and Oregon, blocking Trump's attempt to deploy California National Guard troops to Oregon. It was a day after she had blocked his previous move to deploy Oregon's National Guard.
Miracles, Nature and what Lies Between: Ramban on Hashgacha
In the past few shiurim I have investigated the Rambam's understanding of hashgacha at length. As I mentioned at the end of the last shiur, this position, though very important in creating space for a conception of nature that matches our modern sensibilities, also tends to leave us with the sense that it goes too far. In protecting his conception of God as a transcendent Being, the Rambam runs the risk of propounding what amounts to a nearly secular theology. The living God of the Bible who is passionately concerned with His people is replaced by a remote First Cause about whom “concern” is at best a metaphor stretched to the limit.
your disgusting blog
It is important to note that there are many who don't understand that a massive earthquake has happened that needs to be addressed. I have been getting a significant amount of letters like this and personal confrontations with people who have very strong opinions against what I am doing as well as Rav Sternbuch. I am simply waiting for the rabbinic leadership to assume responsibility for investigating this mess and making changes that will prevent it from happening again. This scandal is not simply that one Jew had strong appetites - he was given too much power and his deviations were ignored by too many who should have done something about it. Also contrary to what is asserted in this letter it is clear that those in power either read or are informed of what I say on my blog and thus there is clearly a to'eles
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It is a disgrace and abomination that you invoke the name or any other reference to the gedolei hador who are domeh lemalachim Rav Moshe ZT”L and the Chofetz Chaim ZT”L anywhere on this disgusting blog of yours.
While I don’t disagree with your views per se, we as laymen can just talk and right about anything as long as we long as we are entertained and then stop when we are bored with it. The rabbonim whoever they may be or however much you or I hold of them actually have to deal with the matters at hand until there is a resolution. So lets not be throwing around our opinions that nobody else besides for ourselves particularly values. Because however on the mark you are about the case you are championing currently or any other nobody who carries any weight on these issues lemaaseh are reading any silly blogs. It is of no toeles to have a blog unless it is purely informational (not current events) for whatever use.
Also I am sure we both agree that there are extreme dangers on the internet and even if one must use it, it must be recognized that the internet is shiflius and tamei while our gedolim such as mentioned above are kadosh v’tahor and their names and likenesses should be kept off this lowly tool.
As you can obviously see I am not trying to talk down to you or trying to be “better than thou” because it is apparent that I too am not using the internet purely for work and I am no stranger to loshon horah myself.
However I am just trying to be meorrer a point that hopefully will have an impact on both of us and many others as well.
Respectfully,
xxx
P.S. I must tell you that I appreciate your work on both maftechos and if I were you I would be satisfied having my name associated solely with those great works instead of also with something as looked down upon as a blog.
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