https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59138213
In the US, people can justify their use of deadly force against another when it reasonably appears necessary.
Wisconsinites may not be prosecuted if their methods of self-defence were "necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm". The legal standard comes with a two-part test.
Jurors must decide whether or not the use of deadly force was objectively reasonable under the circumstances.
https://time.com/6112491/supply-chain-shopping/
But the supply chain is also broken because of the sheer volume of stuff that Americans are buying, especially online. To keep up with demand for two-day shipping, companies like Amazon and Walmart have built warehouses around the country, and are importing even more containers of goods to fill them. These warehouses are getting a lot more action now that even the most reluctant online shopper was pushed to embrace e-commerce during the pandemic to comply with shelter in place orders.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316992
The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Congress have joined numerous groups and individuals in condemning the call by Michael Flynn, former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, for the United States to have one religion.
“If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion,” Flynn said Saturday at a rally in Texas for ReAwaken America, a Christian-themed speaking tour backed by the Christian news network America Faith. “One nation under God, and one religion under God.”
The ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, and the American Jewish Congress both took to Twitter to call Flynn’s statement “anti-American.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/317001
Rav Moshe Feinstein holds that when a patient is gripped by unbearable pain and suffering, nature should be allowed to take its course. Thus when a patient is on a respirator and the machine is temporarily removed for servicing, if the patient shows no signs of life the machine need not be restored.
https://www.kikar.co.il/405496.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58771927
US radio host and prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost another legal case after falsely calling a mass school shooting a "hoax".
Twenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in 2012.
But Mr Jones claimed the event had been made up by supporters of gun controls and the mainstream media.
He will now have to pay legal costs to the parents of two six-year-old boys killed in the attack.
Mr Jones has long claimed on his radio show and right-wing Infowars website that the attack at Sandy Hook was "completely fake" and a "giant hoax".
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/food/articles/is-it-kosher-to-eat-fake-pork
The Orthodox Union took a different stance, deciding not to grant kosher certification to Impossible Pork as long as it had the word “pork” in the product name. (The organization’s seal does appear on other products that mimic treyf foods, including mock crab.) Rabbi Menachem Genack, who is CEO of the OU’s kosher division, said the decision was made to avoid consumer confusion and provocation. “We still get deluged with calls,” he said in a recent JTA article about the OU’s decision to certify a “bacon” that was meat, but not pork-based.
Analogies to the Holocaust have become commonplace at anti-vaccine protests around the US and the world.
But protesters displaying swastikas and a yellow star especially stung on Sunday, when they deployed the symbols outside the office of a Jewish politician, Bronx Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, whose district includes the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Riverdale.
The crowd, including a Republican candidate for governor, was demonstrating against vaccine mandates in New York.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59295723
Lead prosecutor Thomas Binger told the court on Monday in his closing statement: "You cannot claim self-defence against a danger that you create."
Mr Binger - the assistant district attorney for Kenosha - questioned why Mr Rittenhouse broke curfew in a city he did not live in and "pretended to guard" people and property he was not familiar with.
"Consider whether or not it's reasonable for a criminal to be able to shoot himself out of a crime scene," he said. "If someone comes up to that person and tries to disarm them, do they forfeit their life?"
"He ran around with an AR-15 all night and lied about being an EMT [emergency responder]. Does that suggest to you that he is genuinely there to help?" asked the prosecutor.
https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1300333
לאחר שגדולי הדיינים והפוסקים וכן רבני לונדון יצאו במחאה נגד פסק דין תקדימי של דייני בית הדין הרבני בתל אביב שקבע על ביטול קידושין במקרה סבוך במיוחד כעת מתפרסם מכתבם של הגר"ח קנייבסקי והגרי"ג אדלשטיין נגד פריצת גדרי ההלכה להתיר אשת איש לעלמא שלא כדין
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/kyle-rittenhouse-american-vigilante
Many people in Wisconsin expect the jury to determine
that the D.A. overreached when he imposed the charge of intentional
homicide. Yet Rittenhouse could still go to prison if jurors hold him
accountable for the deaths. The Harvard law professor Noah Feldman
recently wrote
that, though Rittenhouse presumably will claim that he feared having
his gun wrested away and used against him, it’s only “the presence of
Rittenhouse’s own weapon” that gives him “the opportunity to claim that
he was in fear of bodily harm.” Thomas told me that if Rittenhouse
hadn’t concluded that it was his responsibility to venture, armed, into a
“hot environment,” he “wouldn’t have been in harm’s way, and he
certainly wouldn’t have hurt anyone else.”
The case has come to symbolize different things for different slices of America. Many see Rittenhouse’s popularity on the right as a racist affront to the protests against police brutality and note how he and other armed white vigilantes were treated very differently by police when compared with protesters. Meanwhile, conservatives have raised huge amounts of money for Rittenhouse’s legal defense and see him as a hero.
Responding to the allegations against him, Walder's attorneys Miki Hova and Guy Shemer released the following statement: "Mr. Walder is a writer and educational consultant who founded the Child and Family Center in Bnei Brak and has been devoting his life for decades and works to promote, nurture and protect the welfare of children and their rights in general and the ultra-Orthodox sector in particular.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316856
As early as next week, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote for the massive military bill, the "National Defense Authorization Act" (NDAA). [The House version has already passed and is awaiting resolution with the Senate version.] If this "must-pass" legislation passes without significant change, women will be legally required to register with the Selective Service, with all of the penalties that entails. Moreover, if there would ever be an actual Draft, women would be drafted into the military, in the name of "Equality."
https://mishpacha.com/for-eric-adams-steady-wins-the-race/
If you do the math, 1993 was 28 years ago. If anyone ever had a question, is Eric anti-Semitic? Look at my 20-year run. I am not anti-Semitic and I don’t subscribe to the philosophy of the Nation of Islam. We were part of using the local members here as part of the crime-fighting initiative — we were in a different city back then, with 2,000 homicides a year, 98,000 robberies. They had a security program that was like the crisis management of today.
Eric is not anti-Semitic, Eric is a friend of the Jewish community.
Yes, I do.
https://mishpacha.com/under-the-illusion/
Let’s look at last week’s mayoral election in New York City, pitting Democrat Eric Adams against Republican Curtis Sliwa. Adams won in a landslide, but according to news reports, the largest frum community outside of Eretz Yisrael voted 55 percent to 39 percent for his opponent.
His opponent is a walking caricature and has been for the last four decades: a bloviating attention hound — with an actual red beret. He belongs nowhere near Gracie Mansion, but in the studio apartment he shares with his fourth wife and 16 cats. More than all that, though, he’s the candidate who, at a public meeting of residents of Rockland and Orange counties, railed about
able-bodied men who study… Talmud all day… and then all they do is [have children] like there’s no tomorrow and who’s subsidizing that? We are…. They don’t vote the way normal Americans vote… They’re being told by the rebbe or rabbi this is who you vote for…. If somebody comes in and tries to take over your community lock, stock, and barrel and break all the rules and expect the tax dollars to go to their community, and they’re taking away from you,… then you got to righteously stand up and say no, it ends right here.”
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld went off Thursday defending Kyle Rittenhouse and arguing his vigilantism was the result of the government not stepping up.
In response to all the commentary that Rittenhouse should not have gone to Kenosha in the first place, Gutfeld said, “The dead guys shouldn’t have gone there either. One was a convicted pedophile who again had anally raped a child. Another was a serial domestic abuser. They should not have been anywhere on a street, right?”
https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/11/rittenhouse-victims-records/
In attempt to justify the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse — the 17-year-old accused of shooting three people, killing two, with a semi-automatic rifle during a protest on Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin — Americans on the political right launched a grassroots effort to uncover any evidence to deny the shooting victims martyrdom among opponents.
The makeshift investigations revealed what hardline conservatives believed to be proof of criminal wrongdoing by the deceased — Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36 —as well as by Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, who shot was shot in the arm and survived. One blog post alleged:
For example, yes, at age 19, Rosenbaum was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing five children — all boys between the ages of 9 and 11 — in Arizona’s Pima County in early 2002, according to his case file obtained via a public records request by Snopes.
The documents said Rosenbaum was temporarily living with the boys’ parents after his mother had kicked him out for disobeying her rules about one month earlier. Over the course of his weeks-long stay, Rosenbaum molested the boys, showed them porn, and performed oral sex on them, among other offenses, the documents showed. He was sentenced to prison for roughly 15 years, and authorities believed at the time “his risk to recidivate being of great concern to the community” considering the victims’ gender and age. (Let us note here: The records included an interview with Rosenbaum in which he said his stepfather sexually abused him and his brother on an almost daily basis when he was a preteen.)
Considering that evidence, the claim that Rosenbaum at one point was convicted of sexually abusing at least one child before his death was true.
Former US president Donald Trump defended his supporters who during the January 6 Capitol riot threatened to hang then-vice president Mike Pence, Axios reported on Friday.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/10/us/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-wednesday/index.html
Kyle Rittenhouse testified Wednesday that he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot a man who had thrown a plastic bag at him and chased him last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in what is likely to be the pivotal testimony of his homicide trial.
Ohr HaChaim (Devarim 10:17): Because the L‑rd your G‑d is G‑d of gods and L‑rd of lords. The explanation of this verse is that G‑d is the master of the angels which are also referred to as god (Job 1:6). The expression L‑rd of lords is referring to His ruling over the world…and in particular that the lords of the world do not have free will to do as they chose and wish. Rather G‑d controls them to direct them as He wishes. This principle is expressed in Mishlei (21:1) that “The heart of the king is in G‑d’s hand.”
Ramban Bereishis (28:12) AND BEHOLD A LADDER SET UP ON THE EARTH AND THE TOP OF IT REACHED TO HEAVEN; AND BEHOLD THE ANGELS OF G-D ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON IT. In a prophetic dream, He showed Jacob that whatever is done on earth is effected by means of the angels, and everything is by decree given to them by the Supreme One. The angels of G-d, whom the Eternal hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth,Zechariah 1:10. would not do anything minor or major until they return to present themselves before the Master of the whole earth, saying before Him, “We have traversed the earth,See ibid., Verse 11. and behold it dwells in peace, or is steeped in war and blood,” and He commands them to return, to descend to the earth and fulfill His charge. And He further showed him [Jacob] that He, blessed be He, stands above the ladder, and promises Jacob with supreme assurance to inform him that he will not be under the power of the angels, but he will be G-d’s portion,Deuteronomy 32:9. and that He will be with him always, as He said, And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee wherever thou goest4Verse 15 here. for his [Jacob’s] excellence is superior to that of the other righteous ones of whom it is said, For He will give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.Psalms 91:11And in the opinion of Rabbi Eliezer the Great6Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer, 35. this vision was akin to the one seen by Abram at the time of the covenant “between the parts”7Above, 15:9-18. for He also showed Jacob the dominion of the Four Kingdoms,See Ramban above, 14:1 and 15:12. The Four Kingdoms represent the great world powers seen in a vision by Daniel (Chapter 7), who in succession will subject Israel until such time when Israel’s final and complete deliverance will be effected by the Messiah. The power of the fourth kingdom, that of Rome, is still in sway. See Ramban further at the beginning of Seder Vayechi. Jacob, like Abraham, was thus shown the events that will happen to his descendants during all the generations of their exiles. their ascent and descent. This is the meaning of angels of G-d (mentioned here), just as it is said in the visions of Daniel: the prince of the kingdom of Greece,9Daniel 10:20. and the prince of the kingdom of Persia.10Ibid., Verse 13. Similarly, the angels mentioned in the verse before us are to be understood as the representatives of the various nations. And He promised him that He, exalted be He, will be with him wherever he will go among the nations, and He will guard him and rescue him from them. Thus the Rabbis have said: Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer, 35. “The Holy One, blessed be He, showed him the Four Kingdoms, their dominion and their destruction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier
The dossier played a central role in the seeking of FISA warrants on Carter Page[38] in terms of establishing probable cause.[39][40] It did not play any significant role in the intelligence community's assessment about Russian actions in the 2016 election,[41] nor was it the trigger for the opening of the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" counterintelligence investigation into whether the Trump campaign was coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.[38][42][43] The dossier is also a factor in several conspiracy theories promoted by Trump[44] and many of Trump's supporters in the media[45] and congress.[38][42][43]
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-special-counsel-john-durham-indictments
Former President Trump
is touting Special Counsel John Durham's probe, predicting that the
early indictments in his yearslong investigation into the origins of the
Trump-Russia probe are "just the early building blocks," saying he
anticipates the findings are "only going to get deeper and deeper," and
that it "all leads back to the Democrats."
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316772
The Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday evening rejected the appeal filed by Shmuel Peleg, grandfather of Eitan Biran whose parents were killed in the cable car crash in Italy, and ordered that the child be returned to Italy to his aunt Aya Biran within 15 days.
The court also ruled that until the child is returned to Italy, he will stay with the Peleg family in Israel and that farewell meetings will be held in accordance with the decision of a social worker.
"Although the appellant unlawfully removed the minor, the minor will also be allowed to meet his grandfather in Italy," ruled the judges, who delayed the execution of the decision for a week in order to allow the grandfather to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Dozens of protesters are gathered near the String Bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem in yet another rally against the death last year of settler teen Ahuvia Sandak.
The entrance to the city has reportedly been closed off, and police and Border Police officers are at the scene.
Sandak, 16, was killed in a car crash last year while fleeing from
police, allegedly after throwing rocks at Palestinians. Over the past
couple weeks, repeated protests over Sandak’s death have escalated into
violence and arrests.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jordan-durham-indictments-we-told-you-so
"Those of us who were in this, you know, back when no one else was, it's sort of like, we told you so," Jordan said. "That sounds arrogant, and I don’t mean to be, but this is what we said. This is what they were doing – what they were accusing President Trump of doing, they were actually doing – they were working with the Russians and it goes right to the Clinton campaign."
At the conclusion of Mueller’s probe in 2019, Barr appointed Durham,
who at the time served as the U.S. attorney from Connecticut, to
investigate the origins of the FBI’s original Russia probe, also known
as Crossfire Hurricane, which began in July 2016. Durham was instructed
to review that probe through the appointment of Mueller in May 2017.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/where-john-durhams-investigation-is-heading/
Last week’s indictment of Igor Danchenko has the commentariat buzzing. If special counsel John Durham has cracked the core of the Russiagate case, if he has established that the Steele dossier on which the FBI substantially based its spy warrants was fraudulent, does that mean he is nearing a sweeping conspiracy indictment? Will there be criminal charges that target the real 2016 collusion — not between the Trump campaign and Russia, but between the Clinton campaign and U.S. officials who abused government investigative powers for political purposes?
Almost certainly not.
All signs are that Durham will end his investigation with a narrative report. It has looked that way for a long time. There are reasons why then-attorney general Bill Barr appointed then-Connecticut U.S. attorney Durham as a special counsel shortly before the Trump administration ended.
