Saturday, January 31, 2026
השיטה הקדושה (שיטת ה"שוואנצונעס")
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/מנחם_מנדל_הגר_(בני_ברק)#השיטה_הקדושה_(שיטת_ה"שוואנצונעס")
החצר בראשותו מחנכת לפולחן אישיות ומדגישה את חשיבות ההתבטלות המוחלטת כלפיו[11]. בעלונים שמתפרסמים בחצרו מרבים לעסוק בנושא ההתבטלות המוחלטת לצדיק[12], כך לדוגמה באחד המקורות שפורסמו נכתב: "שהרבי הקדוש אינו גוף ולא ישיגוהו משיגי הגוף, נערץ ונקדש מעל לכל דמות ודמיון […] לבדו ימלוך מלך ונשגב רבינו הקדוש לבדו, כי המלכות שלך הוא, ואנו קרוצי חומר זוכים בזכייה נשגבה ומתנת חינם ממש לעבדו בלבב שלם". עוד נכתב כי על הצעיר החסידי לשנן בכל עת "שיויתי הייליגער רבי לנגדי תמיד" (בתרגום לעברית: "שיויתי את הרבי הקדוש לנגדי תמיד"), משפט שבמקורו נאמר על אלוהים: שִׁוִּיתִי ה' לְנֶגְדִּי תָמִיד[13]. בשעת תפילת שמונה עשרה מתפללים לכיוונו ומביטים עליו, ואת ספריו יש להניח מעל שאר ספרי הקודש, ואף מעל החומש[14]. יש הטוענים כי החסיד מחונך שהאדמו"ר הוא מעל הכל, ואם יורה לאכול חזיר יש לעשות זאת.[15]
‘Melania’ promises to take us behind the scenes. There’s nothing to see.
‘Melania’ promises to take us behind the scenes. There’s nothing to see.
There is a controversial new Amazon documentary about Melania Trump released this weekend and every single review I’ve read has been terrible, but babe, if you suspect I have come here today to trash a movie about the wife of a notoriously thin-skinned, anti-journalist president, which was bankrolled by the company owned by the man who also pays my salary — NOT TODAY, SATAN. Do you think I’m a moron? (Don’t answer that). This house is clean.
What I ended up wondering throughout this documentary, while I kept waiting in vain for director Brett Ratner to peel back another layer on Melania, is if we were dealing with a situation that was not an onion but a potato. Yes, there’s a thin protective skin. But after you breach that, no matter how many times you go after it with a peeler, you’re dealing with pretty much the same pulp.
Her worldview seems based on optics more than reality: that what things look like is as important as what things are like. She carries on about redecorating the White House tennis pavilion not because she is dim but because, in her view, her highest calling is not to give the American public something they can identify with but rather something they can aspire to.
What is she thinking? It doesn’t really matter, honestly. The fact that she is disciplined enough to hide her true personality from the public is, in fact, her personality.
Epstein Survivors Slam Trump’s DOJ Over Shoddy Release of Files
https://newrepublic.com/post/204717/epstein-survivors-trump-justice-department-files
All those redactions and somehow the Department of Justice still didn’t redact survivors’ names.
Tulsi Gabbard’s appearance at Fulton County FBI raid raises questions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/30/tulsi-gabbard-fulton-county-fbi-raid/
There are “only two explanations” for why Gabbard was in Fulton County on Wednesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia) said at the hearing.
One is that she believes there’s a “legitimate foreign intelligence nexus,” he said, in which case Gabbard “violated her legal obligation to keep the intelligence committees fully and currently informed,” or she is attempting to insert the intelligence community into what Warner called “a domestic political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.’’
Former senior U.S. intelligence officials called Gabbard’s participation in the FBI action unprecedented, and out of line with her office’s legal authorities.
Trump has long maintained that the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was rigged. U.S. national security officials at the time said they found no evidence of widespread fraud and numerous courts rejected claims of election irregularities as unfounded.
Kosher Blackmail
https://mishpacha.com/the-fur-coat/
The fur coat, they noted, wasn’t there — and my father-in-law was intrigued. He launched an investigation. I don’t know how he found this out, but he determined that the lawyer had stolen the coat and given it to his mother.
He sent him the photo he had taken of my mother-in-law wearing the coat and told him he knew that he had stolen it.
“I have no interest in sending this photo to the police and ruining your career,” he wrote, “even though you deserve it for stealing from your client. But you need to do one simple thing — release the $300,000 for my grandson. My son-in-law will use it to further his son’s education in any way that he sees fit, without your involvement. You will make the transfer as soon as you receive this email.”
Why did G-d tell Moshe to stop praying?
Shemos (14:15) Then G-d said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
Rashi ( Shemos (14:15)) WHEREFORE CRIEST THOU UNTO ME? — there is no mention that he prayed to God concerning this, but this teaches us that Moses stood in prayer. Whereupon the Holy One, blessed be He, said to him, “It is no time now to pray at length, when Israel is placed in trouble”.
Friday, January 30, 2026
How two federal agents escalated an encounter with Alex Pretti into a deadly shooting
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/29/politics/video/immigration-agents-shooting-alex-pretti-vid-invs
In the chaotic moments leading up to Alex Pretti’s death on Saturday, the aggressive actions of two federal agents transformed the encounter into a deadly shooting, a CNN analysis of video has found.
The conduct of those two agents, from the earliest moments interacting with demonstrators up through their decision to pull weapons and fire at Pretti, illustrate the dangers of flooding American cities with officers ill-equipped to deal with protesters in urban environments, experts told CNN.
While major city police departments have embraced a philosophy of cooling down heated encounters with the public, the immigration officers in Minneapolis did the opposite – right up to the moment of Pretti’s death.
Law enforcement experts who reviewed the videos for CNN said the officers’ use of deadly force likely stemmed from lack of training or a failure by the agents to follow it during the heated encounter.
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Fuel tanker overturned, flooding section of Highway 60 in Jerusalem with flammable material
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/wwecwhp07
A gasoline tanker rolled down a hill onto Highway 60 in Jerusalem, between the neighborhoods of Beit Hanina and Neve Yaakov, flooding the road with flammable material. Firefighting teams and a hazardous materials unit are working at the scene in coordination with police to prevent ignition.