https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-689327
Former US president Donald Trump was met with jeering Sunday when he revealed he had received a COVID-19 booster shot, a video revealed.
A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended after making third-grade children reenact scenes from the Holocaust, including getting them to pretend to dig mass graves and shoot victims, and telling them the Germans were angry “because the Jews ruined Christmas,” parents and officials said Sunday.
The incident occurred Friday at the Watkins Elementary School in the US capital, the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing an email from school principal MScott Berkowitz.
The children had been in a library class working on a self-directed
project, when the staff member, who was not identified, made them
reenact scenes from the Holocaust. It was not clear what prompted her to
do so.
It’s become popular—even knee-jerk—to write off the difficulty businesses face finding workers as people staying at home, probably sitting around in their underwear, enjoying the munificent benefits unemployment brings. The latest jobless claims numbers have provided room to again bring up the trope.
Maybe the labor “shortage” is, in reality, a job “overage.” More businesses, more expansion, more need of workers, and there aren’t enough bodies to go around. Perhaps some are worried about the Delta variant and don’t want to be exposed in those essential jobs that have retired the literal additional hazard pay they had previously offered. Or perhaps the workers, too, are suffering from people who can’t do things for them. There is a childcare worker shortage, so what happens if you don’t have someone to watch the kids so you can go to work? And baby boomers keep retiring as they grow older, with overall slowing population growth and our inability to come to terms with rational immigration policy.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/22/politics/what-matters-labor-shortage/index.html
As for the claim that restaurants can't open because workers would rather stay home, the data isn't really showing that. In April, the hospitality sector added 331,000 jobs, half of which were in restaurants and bars. No other sector even came close to adding that many jobs. Still, the sector is still down 2.8 million jobs compared to pre-pandemic times, so economists expect more jobs to be added over the coming months.
Ministers approved the recommendation to bar travel to the United States, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Canada, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey from midnight on Tuesday night.
Israel has in recent days already added nine countries to the “red” list: the UK, Denmark, France, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, Ireland, Norway, Finland, and Sweden. South Africa and a slew of other African countries were added at the start of the month.
https://www.kikar.co.il/408136.html
הרבנית הוסיפה והעידה כי כל בני משפחתו של הרב התחסנו נגד הנגיף: "הרב אמר לכולם להתחסן, כל הבנים, כל הנכדים, כל הנינים, כולם. רק לא מזמן היו אצלו רופאים בכירים, יחד עם הרופאים שלו שהסבירו לו על החיסונים והוא שוב אמר בדעה צלולה כי על כולם להתחסן".
"ברוך השם שהעולם ניצל מהשקרים האלו. אמרו שרוצים לדלל את הילודה, אבל ברוך השם כולם פרו ורבו, כמעט שישה בכרס אחד. כל הכלות שלי כולן התחסנו לפני הריון, אחרי הריון, או באמצע והכל בסדר".
בסופו של דבר סיפרה הרבנית קולדצקי כי אביה מרן שר התורה
הגר"ח קנייבסקי התוודע לתקרית, ואף ביקש לשמוע את דברי המתנגדים: "הם ישבו
שם זמן רב, עד השעה 02:00 לפנות בוקר. הרב שמע את הכל, ראה את הקלסרים
ולאחר מכן שוחח עם הרופאים ובירר את הטענות, ושוב לאחר מכן אמר שהכל בסדר
וכל הטענות שטויות ולכן צריך להמשיך ולהתחסן".
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/18/business/labor-shortage-boomers-millennials-nightcap/index.html
One of the more insidious myths making the rounds this year was that young people didn't want to work because they were getting by just fine on government aid. People had too much money, went the narrative from a handful of politicians and pundits.
The Hasidic doctor behind an unsubstantiated treatment for coronavirus espoused anti-vaccine and conspiracist views in a video circulating on WhatsApp among Haredi, or Ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Yitzhak, the rabbi who interviewed Zelenko, has made a number of unsubstantiated claims and predictions over the course of his career, including one about an impending global conflict in 2014 that was supposed to wipe out non-Jews.
https://medicallicensuregroup.com/medical-license-misdemeanor/
The purpose of the medical board is to protect the public’s safety. Certain misdemeanors can imply that you may have experienced impaired judgement, substance or alcohol abuse or even financial negligence. Medical boards ask questions about past crimes because they want to know if there is something about your personality or character that could pose a public safety risk. The relationship between a doctor and patient is personal, sacred and built on implicit trust, so the medical board is simply trying to advocate for your future patients by asking about any misdemeanors.
The good doctor - falsely claimed he was a psychiatrist and tried to have his wife committed - even though she wasn't crazy. He apparently was never disciplined for this.
The law changed in the 1960s under the “Lanterman-Petrus-Short” Act which prohibits non-professionals (family, friends) from having another person committed based on their say so. Before the 1960s it was easier to use false accusations to get someone into the system. Presently, involuntary hospitalization must meet a strict criteria of danger to others, self, or gravely disabled (unable to make decisions about self care, resulting in danger to self). The local police are authorized to make an assessment for a “5150” if what they see directly constitutes a danger to self, others, or grave disab
https://www.survivedivorce.com/divorcing-abusive-husband
Few situations in marriage can leave you feeling more powerless and afraid than being in an abusive relationship with your husband.
It is not a situation that happens overnight. Abuse is a gradual process that goes down a long and dangerous slope and creates far-reaching emotional, physical and financial consequences.
There are steps an abused wife can take to escape, but these take planning and effort while still trying to manage the day-to-day minefields of an abusive marriage.
Recognizing the signs of abuse, understanding the motivations of the abuser and why an abused wife continues to stay in a marriage are all keys to a greater awareness that must be reckoned with as part of the process.
I’m a domestic violence advocate not a therapist but if I can put my therapist hat on for a moment, let’s go back to an abuser being a little boy and maybe at some point in his life finding that he felt totally powerless.
Perhaps he had one parent or another or both of them that were abusive, and he felt that the world was not a safe place and he felt that a loss of control threatened his very existence.
This may have been followed at some point in his life where he decided he was never going to feel powerless again. The stage is now set as an adult for him to decide he is never going to feel powerless or a loss of control again.
I said before, that abuse is a learned behavior. They often learn at the master’s knee. If you talk to any one of the 1,400 women I worked with, in most cases, you’ll find that with their partners, one of their parents was incredibly abusive growing up. Sometimes he is born different—with an apparent lack of empathy. More often it gets drummed out of him.
Writing about the Church in Middle Ages
Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim . A Distant Mirror . Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Despite changing norms and perceptions, premarital cohabitation still appears to be a risk factor for divorce (Rosenfeld & Roesler, 2019). This does not mean that every couple that lives together prior to marriage later divorces; nor does it suggest that not living together first guarantees stability. It simply looks at the group data at large and shows a trend between living together prior to marriage and subsequent separations. Across all years examined in this study, the odds of divorce were 1.31 times higher for women who cohabitated prior to marriage.
You decide to daven in the Ezras Nashim to avoid the mass of unvaccinated and unmasked people
Someone who is obviously sick - sneezing and coughing - decides to daven there to avoid transmitting his sickness.
Question - what should you do?
1. do you object to his presence? He will likely join the main minyan and thus you are causing people to get sick
2. You conclude that your health is paramount and tell him to leave
3.You say nothing and simply leave
4. You tell him to go home and not to endanger others ?
Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who was once tapped as a possibility to serve on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, was one of the Congress members who texted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows the day before the insurrection, it was revealed on Wednesday.
Originally attributed by the January 6 committee only to an unnamed "lawmaker," Jordan's office confirmed in a statement that he had sent at least one text to Meadows, the former top aide to ex-President Donald Trump who was charged with obstruction of Congress on Tuesday.
The text was not an original composition by Jordan, according to the statement, but was a forwarded message containing a legal argument from former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz.
A Miami activist Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office handpicked to amplify his criticism of critical race theory has espoused views aligned with QAnon conspiracy theories and appears to support those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Eulalia Maria Jimenez, the chair of the Miami chapter of Moms for Liberty, stood with DeSantis earlier this week as he touted legislation to combat critical race theory. During the press conference, Jimenez described last year’s demonstrations after George Floyd’s killing as “race wars” and railed against critical race theory teachings.
But on Instagram, Jimenez echoed QAnon conspiracy theories by writing about “children being smuggled through underground tunnels for the enjoyment of demons” and posting a picture from the Jan. 6 riots with a caption that said “the storm is upon us. Trust the process.” She also called Covid vaccines “poison.”
The IDF, Border Police and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) arrested the two Palestinian terrorists behind Thursday's shooting attack in Homesh early Sunday morning, just two days after they killed 25-year-old Yehuda Dimentman and injured two other yeshiva students.
According to data compiled by the New York Times, Florida — the third largest state — has the third most COVID-19 deaths and cases in the nation, with more than 3.6 million cases and more than 59,000 deaths since February 2020. When adjusted for population, Florida’s COVID-19 death rate also ranks 10th among the 50 states, with 278 deaths per 100,000 people.
The steady decline in cases has led to sunny social media posts proclaiming Florida has the “lowest Covid rates in the country without having to institute communist mandates & lockdowns.”
Florida’s recent rise and decline of cases fit a pattern that health experts have seen with other variants, where cases peak and decline over a two-month cycle.
“There’s this weird two-month thing that goes on. We all picked it up,” Michael Sweat, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina and a leader of its COVID-19 tracking team, said in a university blog post. “I mean, it’s like every time when you get a wave, it goes up, peaks and declines in about two months.”
Florida’s summer of suffering was also a summer of silence for Ron DeSantis.
The governor had nearly nothing to say about his state’s lengthy run as No. 1 in the nation in COVID cases, No. 1 in hospitalizations and No. 1 in deaths.
Instead, the governor held almost daily news conferences intended to burnish his presidential bona fides among the MAGA crowd, and boost his presidential ambitions.
Through it all, the governor pointedly ignored the elephant in the room: That Florida — his state, his responsibility — was the epicenter for a deadly new COVID outbreak caused by the delta variant.
Florida led the nation in case rates for much of the summer, and our governor was silent. Well, not totally silent. He did rail against mask and vaccine mandates, measures intended to prevent people from falling ill.
As others have already noted, it’s like a firefighter tossing a bucket of water on a house that’s already been burned to the ground and then declaring victory.
What a fraud. What a phony.
It’s so transparent, but far too many gullible Floridians and complicit politicians are going to buy and echo DeSantis’ savior rubbish. Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez already has.
