https://www.bbc.com/news/55955588
The Senate is determining whether to convict Mr Trump based on the president violating his oath of office, rather than if he acted illegally.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Yeshiva deans urge students to get COVID vaccine
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/296502
“In order to protect oneself from harm and to also to avoid harming others…therefore there is a great obligation to take every possible precaution.”
“We are obliged to obey the regulations from our rabbis…and yeshiva deans who instructed married students [Avrechim] to get the vaccine against COVID, in accordance with doctors’ opinions that it is safe to use.”
“Therefore, we call on all married students [Avrechim] who can to follow the doctors’ advice and get vaccinated.”
The letter cites the opinions of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky and Rabbi Gershon Edelstein.
Videos by anti-vaxxer ‘rabbi to the stars’ said fueling vaccine distrust
The claims of a popular, anti-vaccination rabbi are fueling fears of the coronavirus shot in Israel and have reportedly been blamed by health officials for a slowdown in the country’s vaccination campaign.
Rabbi Yuval Hacohen Asherov, who advises numerous Israeli
celebrities, has released videos falsely claiming the vaccines cause
infertility and damage to the immune system, and can even be fatal.
“There are fears that the coronovirus vaccine can be fatal, causes
infertility… and severe allergies that can be fatal,” he said in one
clip. “Scientists are saying this. It’s not me who’s saying this.”
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Fox News cancels Lou Dobbs Tonight
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/05/fox-news-lou-dobbs-tonight-canceled
Fox Business Network has canceled the show of Lou Dobbs, the ardent Donald Trump supporter with a history of espousing misinformation who promoted baseless conspiracy theories of voting fraud after the election.
Dobbs is still considered the highest-rated host on the Fox Business Network, and he has remained under contract even though he is not expected to reappear on a new show. His show’s slot, which airs twice on weeknights, will now be filled with a show called Fox Business Tonight, which will feature Jackie DeAngelis and David Asman as hosts.
News of the cancellation came one day after Dobbs, 75, was named as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by Smartmatic, an election technology company and voting machine maker, which accuses Dobbs and other Fox News anchors of promoting unfounded claims that Smartmatic was involved in a scheme to hand the presidency to Joe Biden.
COVID: Just 0.06% Israelis sick after two shots, no one serious – study
From a segmentation of the infections that did occur, it appears that the immunity increases as the days go by. Among the 254 people who contracted the virus, 76 of them were infected after seven days, 44 on the eight day, and 24 on the ninth day. Between day 22 and 24 – when the test period ended – no one was infected.
According to the studies conducted by Pfizer, the vaccine had an efficacy of about 95%, which is considered very high.
Trump’s Orthodox impeachment lawyer asks for pause if trial runs into Shabbat
Former US president Donald Trump’s lawyer in the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, who is an Orthodox Jew, has asked for the proceedings to be paused from Friday evening due to Shabbat, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is also Jewish, said accommodations would be made.
Fox cancels Lou Dobbs' show
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/296361
Fox News has canceled the show of Lou Dobbs, who is considered the most ardent supporters of former US President Donald Trump, AFP reports.
The decision on Friday came a day after Fox News and Dobbs were sued for defamation by voting technology firm Smartmatic, which is claiming $2.7 billion in losses from the network for promoting false claims that the company was involved in fraud in November's presidential election.
Saturday, February 6, 2021
רה"י מסביר: "צריך שיאמרו - אשרי החרדים"
https://mobile.kikar.co.il/article/384981
בשיחה שמסר הגאון רבי גרשון אדלשטיין, הוא הסביר מדוע חרדי חייב לשמור על ההנחיות ולהתחשב בדעת החילונים; 'שיאמרו אשרי מי שלמד תורה, אשרי מי שהוא חרדי'. צפו (ארץ)
Friday, February 5, 2021
Taylor Greene kicked off US House committees for hateful conspiracy theories
11 Republicans support move as Georgia representative backtracks from support of QAnon and 9/11 trutherism, but fails to apologize for anti-Semitic, racist and violent comments
Addressing her colleagues, Greene tried to dissociate herself from her “words of the past.” Contradicting past social media posts, she said she believes the 9-11 attacks and mass school shootings were real and no longer believes QAnon conspiracy theories, which include lies about Democratic-run pedophile rings.
But she didn’t explicitly apologize for supportive online remarks she’s made on other subjects, as when she mulled about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi being assassinated or the possibility of Jewish-controlled space rays causing wildfires. And she portrayed herself as the victim of unscrupulous “big media companies.”
Can you still transmit Covid-19 after vaccination?
There are two main types of immunity you can achieve with vaccines. One is so-called "effective" immunity, which can prevent a pathogen from causing serious disease, but can't stop it from entering the body or making more copies of itself. The other is "sterilising immunity", which can thwart infections entirely, and even prevent asymptomatic cases. The latter is the aspiration of all vaccine research, but surprisingly rarely achieved.
מלמד אצלי נפטר מקורונה -ה' ירחם - אלמנה ו 10 יתומים !
המצב של הקמפיין מאוד קשה, אנו רחוקים מהיעד
של מיליון וחצי שקל ואין אנו יכולים לחשוב שלא יהיה לאלמנה והיתומים את
המוצרים הנצרכים מדי חודש בחודשו זהו החיוב שלנו להציל את המשפחה.
הרב נפתלי ברנשטיין, מלמד אצלנו בחיידר בית אליהו, רמת בית שמש א', נפטר מקורונה, בן 47 בריא ללא מחלות רקע.
השאיר 6 ילדים יתומים לא נשואים!
החסד הגדול ביותר הוא להחזיק ידי אלמנה ויתומים ,
Thursday, February 4, 2021
'Jewish space lasers' funny? Marjorie Taylor's antisemitism is real
You see, this 100% tracks with Greene’s many terrible beliefs that we already knew about: She’s a known supporter of many anti-Semitic and Islamophobic conspiracy theories. A recently resurfaced video shows her verbally abusing Parkland survivor David Hogg and claiming that he is being paid by George Soros — yet another popular modern anti-Semitic canard. Greene believes that the Parkland, Newtown and Las Vegas shootings were staged. She also believes that 9/11 was an inside job, and that “former secretary of state Hillary Clinton murdered a child during a satanic ritual and drank her blood.” She is a supporter of QAnon — another trove of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
'What will the deniers of the pandemic say to the heavenly court?'
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/296193
I do not know what all those people who have spread and are spreading that 'there is no pandemic' and convince others not to take vaccines will say in heaven. How will they stand before the heavenly court and explain why they brought upon the deaths of so many people, when the mortality rate in Israel is skyrocketing?
How dare people still say that there is no pandemic when the mortality rate in some countries has almost doubled. What would have happened if the government had not done all the lockdowns and preventive measures?
Third wave: Increase in rate of infection among babies
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/296186
Recent morbidity data shows an alarming increase in the number of children under the age of two who have become infected with the coronavirus, Channel 12 News reported.
According to the data, in November 377 babies were diagnosed with the coronavirus. In December that number rose to 1,526 and in January it ballooned to 5,780.
It is believed that the sharp rise in infant morbidity is due to the spread of the British variant of the coronavirus, a mutation which is even more contagious than the original strand of the disease.
House Republican leader punts on punishing Marjorie Taylor Greene as Democrats move toward removing her from committees
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/03/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-committee-assignments/index.html
During his meeting with Greene, McCarthy asked if she would apologize for her past comments and views, which she did not agree to, a person with knowledge of the matter told CNN. Another person familiar with their conversation also said that McCarthy provided a slew of options to her, including that she could show remorse and apologize.
Greene
told the Examiner Democrats are "stupid" for moving toward stripping
her of her committee assignments, adding, "I'm pretty amazed at how dumb
they are." She said she's not worried about losing her assignments.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Fact check: Trump's official response to impeachment includes obvious lies
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/03/politics/fact-check-trump-impeachment-response-senate/index.html
Former President Donald Trump continues to defend the ludicrous lie that led him down the road to a second impeachment -- even in his legal team's official response to that impeachment.
The
legal team's initial written response to the House's article of
impeachment against Trump, submitted to the Senate on Tuesday, focuses
on debatable constitutional arguments, particularly the claim that
someone who is no longer in office can't be convicted by the Senate.
(Many legal scholars disagree.)
But the response also includes defenses of some Trump claims that are
very obviously not true -- including the bonkers claim that he actually
won the election.
Trump lashes out at 'squad': 'They hate Jewish people'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/476737-trump-lashes-out-at-squad-they-hate-jewish-people
President Trump lashed out at a group of progressive lawmakers at a rally with evangelical supporters Friday, accusing the freshmen congresswomen of being anti-Semitic.
“These people hate Israel. They hate Jewish people,” Trump said at a campaign event in Miami launching his “Evangelicals for Trump” coalition.
“I won’t name them. I won’t bring up the name of Omar, Tlaib, AOC. I won’t bring that name up. Won’t bring it up. I will not bring it up,” he added, referring to Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Trump’s and Miller’s Attacks on ‘The Squad’
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/trumps-and-millers-attacks-on-the-squad/
President Donald Trump and his top immigration adviser continue to criticize four progressive Democratic congresswomen known as “the squad,” but some of their claims twist the women’s words.
We’ve dealt with a couple of these assertions before, including a false claim that Rep. Ilhan Omar has expressed pride for al Qaeda. But Trump and senior adviser Stephen Miller have pointed to other instances in which they claim the lawmakers expressed anti-American or anti-Semitic remarks. Below, we present some of these claims and a fuller context of the comments made by the congresswomen.
The claim: “They can’t talk about ‘evil Jews,’ which is what they say: ‘evil Jews.'” — Trump, July 19
What Omar said: “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” — via Twitter in November 2012. It has since been deleted.
To be clear, we could find no evidence that any of the four congresswomen have ever uttered the phrase “evil Jews.”
Ilhan Omar apologizes after Pelosi denounces tweet as anti-Semitic
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/11/house-democrats-ilhan-omar-antisemitism-1163728
Rep. Ilhan Omar apologized for anti-Semitic comments Monday after coming under pressure from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats.
Republicans are accusing Democrats of hypocrisy, because they were quick to punish Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) last month after he defended white nationalism and white supremacy, which McCarthy said recently were equivalent, or even “more so,” to the rhetoric of Omar and Tlaib. The full House rebuked King on the House floor, while the GOP stripped King of his committee assignments.
“When a member on our side of the aisle said something, they were
very clear about what they thought should happen,” McCarthy said. “We
took action on our own side. When they stay silent, they are just as
guilty.”
The Ilhan Omar anti-Semitism controversy, explained
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/6/18251639/ilhan-omar-israel-anti-semitism-jews
It’s true that Omar’s comments on Israel keep falling into well-worn anti-Semitic tropes — and her defenders often prove too willing to paper this over and dismiss criticism from even progressive Jews as “smears.”
It’s also the case that Republican officials frequently call on anti-Semitic tropes and say worse about other minority groups without nearly so much bipartisan condemnation. Pushing for a House vote on anti-Semitism really did feel like unfairly singling out Omar — and whitewashing the GOP’s record in the process. That’s why progressives rallied to Omar’s defense, and why the Democratic leadership has been forced to reconsider its initial resolution.
Omar deleted the original tweet and said she “unequivocally” apologized. And for a few weeks, that seemed to settle the matter. But then, at the panel with Tlaib last Wednesday, Omar tried to address her anti-Semitism problem again. And that’s when things went south.
“At the event last week, Rep. Omar reiterated the remorse she feels for her comments last month—and the pain she knows they caused. As she said in her apology, we must distinguish between criticism of a particular faith and fair critiques of lobbying groups,” Slevin said. “She has consistently spoken out about the undue influence of lobbying groups for foreign interests of all kinds and her comments were about just that. To suggest otherwise is an inaccurate reading of her remarks.”
Trump's speech is probably defensible in every court — except, perhaps, the Senate
Even if there is proof that Trump "intended" to cause violence with his speech, and even if there is proof that the violence he intended to cause was the storming of the Capitol, there could be an issue of whether the violence was "imminent" enough to be criminal.
Some will conclude that words like "fight" and "strength" gave the crowd the detailed instructions to violently enter the Capitol. The Senate can still convict even if reasonable minds can differ over those factual conclusions. A criminal jury must be unanimous.
A criminal jury is bound by the reasonable doubt standard. The Senate is not. It is bound by the two-thirds supermajority vote standard — and not much else.
‘We will never concede’: How Donald Trump incited an attack on America
Many top political figures are converging on a stunning consensus: President Donald Trump personally incited a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, leaving four dead and an indelible scar on American democracy. Those assessments are coming not just from Trump’s political opponents, but also from members of his own party and even former members of his administration.
They include Gen. James Mattis, Trump’s first secretary of defense, who said last night that the “effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule…was fomented by Mr. Trump.” Gen. Joseph Dunford, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, also laid blame on the President. Republican Sen. Mitt Romney directly blamed Trump for last night’s events, and Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois this morning called for the invocation of the 25th Amendment, which gives the Vice President and the cabinet the power to remove an unfit President.
Trump’s statements leading up to and during the storming of the Capitol building, however, did not include explicit calls for a violent attack on America’s democratic institutions. Instead, those laying blame on Trump are pointing in part to rhetoric that agitated his followers with conspiratorial lies and instilled a sense of imminent doom—while relying on them to make the final decision to act. This is a version of the “stochastic terrorism” tactics common to authoritarian leaders around the world.
Capitol riots: Did Trump's words at rally incite violence?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437
Thousands gathered at a "Save America" rally organised to challenge the election result and they listened as Mr Trump spoke to them near the White House.
In a 70-minute address, he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians had met to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The attack began moments after he took the applause.
Those words have now played a central part in his second impeachment, which happened after a day of debate in Congress.
So what did he say? Here are five key quotes, followed by some legal analysis from Professor Garrett Epps of the University of Baltimore.
'We are lost:' Fox News suffers ratings slump while staffers fret about post-Trump future
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/02/media/fox-news-future-reliable-sources/index.html
Here's how The Daily Beast's team described
Fox's "nosedive" on Tuesday: "Signaling a seismic shift in the media
landscape as defeated former president Donald Trump hibernates in
strangely silent exile at Mar-a-Lago, Fox News' two-decade-long winning
streak came to an abrupt end Tuesday while rivals CNN and MSNBC claimed
the No. 1 and No. 2 rankings, respectively, in all of cable television.
Fox News' embarrassing third-place showing is the continuation of a
downward trend in which the right-leaning outlet lost 2020's fourth
quarter to CNN and alienated Trump-supporting loyal viewers by calling
Arizona early for Joe Biden during its election-night coverage."
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Trump's legal team argues Senate can't convict him, his speech protected by 1st Amendment
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/02/politics/democratic-impeachment-filing/index.html
"The First Amendment protects private citizens from the government; it does not protect government officials from accountability for their own abuses in office," they wrote.
Daniel Rosenthal=Gropen Orthodox
Daniel Rosenthal = Woken Orthodox"
Rosenthal Is Multi-Sponsor of Streetwalker bill A3355, Expected For a Vote in the N.Y. Legislature THIS week.
20 Shvat, Yisro 5781 °° Feb. 2, '21
by Binyomin Feinberg
Our
sages exhort us: "Gadol HaMachti'oh Min HaHorg'oh." A New York State
bill, A3355, legalizing street-walking (specifically designed for
transgenders) is expected to be voted on this week in Albany, any day
now. Please call your N.Y. state legislators ASAP to oppose this and
any similar legislation, in any way possible, including speaking out
against it on the floor.
(Senate version: )
NY State Senate Bill S1351
https://www.nysenate.gov//
https://www.nysenate.gov//
Williamsburg,
Riverdale and Five Towns state senators voted for it in committee last
week (Jan. 25), a clear result of the dereliction of many communal
leaders on this family of issues.
~~~
This
corrosive legislation is sponsored by a variety of leftists, including
"Open Orthodox" Assemblyman Daniel Rosenthal of Queens.
Multi-Sponsor
Daniel Rosenthal has a long history of voting with those who wage war
against G-d Almighty. A few sample bills should suffice here:
1.
Daniel Rosenthal voted for a bill that would require every single
person who works with seniors to get an LGBT propaganda education. This
is identical to the Open Orthodox agenda:
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?
~~~
2. In his voting for ninth month abortion he is similarly channeling the Open Orthodox agenda:
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?
~~~
3. If
Yisocher Katz allows a transgender (a woman who purports to be a man)
into Chovevy - and that is Open Orthodoxy -- then how much more so ("kal
vichomer") is forcing every Yeshiva, Bais Yaakov, and religious school
in the state to do - Open Orthodoxy on steroids (or "Woken Orthodoxy").
Daniel Rosenthal voted for just such a bill, and the bill's sponsor
explicitly stated so on the floor:
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?
http://www2.assembly.state.ny.
MR. RA:
"I JUST HAVE ONE QUICK QUESTION. AND I -- I
KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, AMONGST THE PROVISIONS THIS IS AMENDING, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY RELATE TO HOW DIFFERENT PRACTICES ARE -- ARE CONSIDERED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF OUR LAW, INCLUDING THE EDUCATION LAW, SO -- SO THE QUESTION IS, I THINK, PRETTY SPECIFIC. WOULD A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION LIKE A, YOU KNOW, ALL GIRLS RELIGIOUS HIGH SCHOOL, BE REQUIRED UNDER THIS TO ADMIT A STUDENT WHO IDENTIFIES AS FEMALE, BUT WAS, YOU KNOW, BORN MALE?"
KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, AMONGST THE PROVISIONS THIS IS AMENDING, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY RELATE TO HOW DIFFERENT PRACTICES ARE -- ARE CONSIDERED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF OUR LAW, INCLUDING THE EDUCATION LAW, SO -- SO THE QUESTION IS, I THINK, PRETTY SPECIFIC. WOULD A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION LIKE A, YOU KNOW, ALL GIRLS RELIGIOUS HIGH SCHOOL, BE REQUIRED UNDER THIS TO ADMIT A STUDENT WHO IDENTIFIES AS FEMALE, BUT WAS, YOU KNOW, BORN MALE?"
MR. GOTTFRIED: "AS THEY DO IN NEW YORK CITY AND ALBANY COUNTY AND WESTCHESTER AND ROCHESTER AND SALT CITY, YES."
~~~
4. Rosenthal voted for the ERA (see link below) and many bills giving brazen practitioners of sodomy fictive "rights."
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?
~~~
5. Daniel Rosenthal also voted to increase abortion for women in prison:
~~~
6.
Approximately 200 Rabbis say to go to therapy if need be to address
LGBT issues with which an individual is struggling. However, Daniel
Rosenthal voted to ban it for those who need it the most:
https://web.archive.org/web/
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?
https://web.archive.org/web/
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?
So
much for "choice." That's only for women who want to kill their babies
- and have the government cover up and even enable their crime, with
the veneer of "Law."
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