Donald Trump launched an extraordinary attack on his own top infectious disease expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, arguing against the doctor’s claim that high rates of infection in the US stem from a less aggressive reaction to the virus in terms of economic shutdowns and stay-at-home orders.
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.
Despite some personal turmoil, I remain hopeful for the future for both my family and for our nation. Impeachment exposed Trump’s corruption, but the confluence of a pandemic, a financial crisis and the stoking of societal divisions has roused the soul of the American people. A groundswell is building that will issue a mandate to reject hate and bigotry and a return to the ideals that set the United States apart from the rest of the world. I look forward to contributing to that effort.
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Rav Kaminetsky thinks Trump presidency increases respect for religion
- “You see the matzav, the anarchy… it’s frightening. G-d has become a dirty word in much of America, religion and religious institutions are their enemy – we need Rachamei Shamayim [heavenly mercy]. If Trump doesn’t win in November, it’s worrisome," he told Mishpacha magazine.
It is obvious that Rav Shmuel is right! Trump continually does or says things that elicit exclamations of "G-d help us" as per the famous assertion there are no atheists in a foxhole. Trump views himself as G-d's messenger and even is willing to destroy democracy for the sake of a photo op with a borrowed Bible in front of a church. Definitely raised the status of religion and G-d has become less of a dirty word in America!
'Nobody likes me,' Trump complains, as even his allies fade
Lamenting his plunging popularity this week, a self-pitying President Donald Trump wondered how it all went wrong.
"Nobody
likes me," he said, confounded at how his administration's health
experts could be receiving accolades while he is accused of ignoring and
denying the raging public health crisis.
"It can only be my personality," Trump said, "that's all."
That's one answer.
The Coronavirus Infected Hundreds at a Georgia Summer Camp
The camp took precautions but did not require campers to wear masks, the C.D.C. reported. Singing and cheering may have helped spread the virus.
Friday, July 31, 2020
Trump revisits his playbook for disastrous news: An explosive spectacle
As is often the case, Trump dashed off his attention-hoovering tweet at an opportune moment Thursday morning. The worst economic decline ever recorded in U.S. history had just been announced. An aid package to save tens of millions of consumers was stuck in a deadlock. The rampant pandemic at the core of the problem was spiraling further out of control. And his poll numbers were floundering just three months away from the election.
Trump defends tweet on possible Election Day delay at contentious press conference
Claiming at Thursday's White House briefing that the 2020 elections could be "fixed" and "rigged," President Trump again highlighted the risks of nationwide, universal mail-in balloting in stark terms -- including by citing news articles and experts who have raised similar concerns.
Before taking questions, Trump honored former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, noting that "unfortunately, he passed away from a thing called the China virus." Trump also hit Democrats' plans to keep schools and businesses closed, saying they would cause "probably more death" and economic destruction than coronavirus itself.
Within seconds, Trump was pressed on his tweet earlier in the day that suggested the election could be delayed due to mail-in ballot fraud. He responded that delays in mail-in ballot results, including lost ballots, could mean the election winner isn't clear for weeks or even months after Election Day.
Thursday, July 30, 2020
שיימינג נוסף בחסות בית הדין: נחשף האיש שאחראי לסרבנות הגט של בנו
כבר 15 שנה מעגן איש את אשתו שהפכה לנכה לאחר שלקתה באירוע מוחי. במרכזה של הפרשה הקשה עומד יעקב הופמן, אביו של הבעל, אדם אמיד תושב ארה"ב, שעל פי בית הדין הרבני הוא העומד מאחורי החלטת בנו להתנגד לגירושים. לאחר שצווי עיכוב יציאה מהארץ וקנס בסך כמיליון ש"ח שאושר בבג"ץ לא השפיעו על האב - הוחלט לפרסם את שמו ותמונתו
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky: 'Worrisome' if Trump not elected
Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Philadelphia and member of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah of Agudas Yisroel of America, said the prospect of Trump not winning in the presidential election was "worrisome."
Contested Flynn dismissal to go before full appeals court as legal saga drags on
The dispute over the
The order was issued Thursday by the court. Called an "en banc" hearing, all 11 judges on the appeals court will sit in on a rehash of arguments that were made before a three-judge panel in June, which led to a 2-1 ruling in favor of Flynn. The former Trump aide had requested the appeals court to order the judge in the case to approve of a Department of Justice (DOJ) motion to dismiss charges against him.
Swift backlash after Trump suggests delaying election
Members of the media, politicians and others on both sides of the aisle swiftly condemned
Over This We Mourn
BS"D
"Over This We Mourn"
By Binyomin Feinberg
8 Av, 5780 °° July 29, '20 Erev Tisha B'Av (Parshas Naso)
Communal Protest of Evil:
Firstly,
on occasion of the fast day of Tisha B'Av, starting tonight, Wednesday
night, we refer our esteemed readers to a previous post, https://
We
also know that "Middah Tova Merubah," i.e. Divine Reward is far more
generous than Divine Retribution is strict. As much as failure to
properly protest persecution could destroy the Bais HaMikdosh, how much
more potent is properly speaking out in rebuilding it. In this day and
age, despite the multitudinous hazards of technology, we are blessed
with the capacity to speak out against rishus (evil) like never before.
We cannot force people to listen, but many, many certain would. (We
hope and pray that these posts as well humbly serve as at least a modest
example of what can be done by concerned individuals to combat rishus,
even on the other side of the world.)
"What
can I do?" many ask. It's related from one of the Torah sages of the
previous generation that it's not that G-d gives tasks to the capable;
rather, he graces those who take the initiative to undertake vital
causes with the capacities they'll need to succeed.
In
"Kovetz He'oros" on Yevamos, Aggada, chapter 10, the world-renowned
disciple of the saintly Chofetz Chaim (d.1933 CE), Rav Elchonon
Wasserman (martyred by the Nazis, y.s., in the Holocaust), distinguishes
sharply between threats to the Jewish People that endanger our physical
survival - as was Nazism, and threats to our spiritual survival - as
was Communism. The former are in the category of a "ma'aseh HaShem,"
demanding our spiritual efforts, including repentance and prayer. The
latter - threats to our spiritual existence - demand our vigorous
efforts to resist in the physical plane.
Reb
Elchonon relates how the saintly Chofetz Chayim regretted that he
didn't actually launch a physical revolution against the virulently
anti-Jewish
What's
striking is how nowadays even a few individuals - of average capacity -
can access the wherewithal to lauch a global "Awareness Revolution" -
all without shooting a single bullet. By identifying potent stories of
courageous individuals, and leveraging related current events, one can
publicly expose all sorts of evil being perpetrated by powerful abusers,
state, corporate, and individual offenders.
We
also know that IF we do our small part properly, G-d often - eventually
- provides us with the wherewithal to accomplish far beyond what we
originally dreamed we could.
°°°
And now, for some of the latest news on innocent girls being targeted for the Israeli military draft:
On Sunday, we posted these, regarding a Ukrainian immigrant Ba'alas-Teshuva being targeted by Maitav, Kesanya Z.:
Subsequently, we learned that Batsheva D., a religious girl not even 17 years old, was recently targeted
She had innocently called the Draft Office to learn standard procedure to apply for her religious exemption from the female draft. On the spot, the army recruiter nonchalantly instructed her to come directly to a scheduled religiosity "interview," a "Rayon Dat."
Volunteers who assist girls in these matters over the past couple of years note that this is the first case in which they've seen such blatant and early-stage deception of a 16 year-old religious girl by Maitav; not only had she not stepped into the Draft Office, or even mailed in her religiosity verification affidavit.- she had not even visited the Rabbanut to obtain her religiosity affidavit to begin with - and nevertheless got summoned to a Rayon Dat.
° Explaining the "Method behind the Madness," one of the senior volunteers observed that by initiating the Rayon Dat process early, the Israeli government places any resistant girls into the "draft-complication" process ("histabchut") earlier on as well.
° It's important to realize who's being targeted here. It's not the girls who comply with the Rayon Dat, but specifically the most upright - those who don't (reminiscent of the proverbial paradigm: "No good deed shall go unpunished").
° Additionally, at an earlier age, the Rayon Dat can be administered when girls are more susceptible to being tripped up, duped into enlisting, or intimidated into enlisting.
°
Moreover, this "zerizin mak'dimin" schedule will grant the Army Draft
Office more time before draft age (18) to try to emotionally and
psychologically wear down the girls and their families, thereby
broadcasting to the weaker ones that it's not worthwhile to even bother
"fighting City Hall."
Bear
in mind that the Israeli military has a huge amount of funding at their
disposal to seek out and identify - and then effectively stalk and
traffic - these teenage girls, relentlessly, by virtue of the
fungibility of foreign aid obtained under pretext of national security
and legitimate defense needs.
°
This "Head Start" headhunter initiative could also be seen as part of
the broader Maitav effort to whitewash the Rayon Dat phenomenon. The
very notion of Rayon Dat, in such cases, is actually an extralegal
maneuver. It's been put into practice without benefit of due process of
law. Otherwise put, If you can't make it Law via legislation, do so by
procedural innovation. This extralegal dexterity also helps avoid
conflict with the concern over implementation of procedures against the
will of the people, because the people won't even know what hit them
until they've already become accustomed to it, and unfortunately
resigned themselves to the Rayon Dat directives as a done deal.
°°°
May we soon witness the Final Redemption in the merit of helping expedite it.
~~~
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