Religious Zionism demands revision of haredi law

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428356

Finance Minister Smotrich announced that his party will oppose any wording that equates yeshiva students with IDF service members. The Government Secretary announced that the clause will be removed from the law.

The proposal seeks to recognize those who dedicate themselves to long-term Torah study as making a significant contribution to the State of Israel and the Jewish people, including in relation to rights and obligations.

Religious Zionism rejected that formulation, stating: “We will not allow the advancement of a law that equates the status and conditions of those who do not serve in the military with the status and conditions of IDF soldiers."

The party said it would only support a version that recognizes Torah study as a fundamental value in Israel, without creating a comparison between yeshiva students and soldiers or reservists.

Philosophy - Rambam

 Rambam (Letter to Chasdai HaLevi): As a general rule, philosophers establish their assertions with clear rational proofs. The philosophers before Plato denied G d’s existence and they brought proof that the world is eternal and not created. Some of the newer philosophers acknowledge G d’s existence and that the world was created - and thus are consistent with the view of Moshe. There are other philosophers who acknowledge G d’s existence but insist that the world is eternal and that G d does not interact with the world. The fact is there is no conclusive logical proof for any of these three viewpoints. Each brings support for their position - but not irrefutable proof… Now obviously one cannot say that the world is both not eternal and not created, however I don’t have irrefutable proof that the world was created. Therefore, the matter is irresolvable purely on the basis of logical proofs and neither position can refute the other. The fact is that man’s intellect is limited and as long as the soul is contained within the body, it is not able to know that which transcends nature. Since it exists within nature, it is impossible to see that which is beyond nature…. It able to see and understand only that which is within nature. A clear proof of the inability to penetrate that which transcends nature is the fact that none of the three theories has an irrefutable proof. However, prophecy is a form of knowledge which is superior to philosophy. Prophecy is a different dimension and requires no proofs or arguments. Once it is established that something is known through prophecy it is unquestionably valid. Thus, we see that a prophet was never required to prove that what he was saying was true  - but only to prove that he was a genuine prophet. Therefore, prophecy is superior to any rational proof and is able to know that which transcends nature. Moshe was the greatest prophet that ever lived and reached the highest level of prophesy. Once we accept that intellect cannot refute that which is learned from prophesy, there is no need to bring proof to that which is learned by prophesy. Thus the only way to refute our beliefs - which come from the prophesy of Moshe - is to deny that Moshe was a prophet. However, if you acknowledge that he was a prophet, then rational proofs are not needed concerning what he said. To try and establish these matters purely on the basis of intellect cannot result in an irrefutable understanding. It is equivalent to trying to gather up all the water in the world into a small jug.

Derech Emunah (2:303): You should know that the majority of philosophy came to us from Aristotle who was a Jew from a Jewish family in Jerusalem from the tribe of Benyamin…He gave us and taught us much more than what he learned from us.

Sefer Hamidos (Introduction): There is a sefer in which it was written that Aristotle embraced the Torah at the end of his days and became a ger.

Rambam (Moreh Nevuchim:2:11): These scientific theories don’t contradict anything which has been taught to us by our Prophets or by our Sages. That is because we are a wise and complete nation as was declared by G d who made us complete through Moshe, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people” (Devarim 4:6). However when the wicked of the foolish nations caused us to lose our possessions, our science and literature and killed our sages - we were reduced to simpletons as punishment for our sins. This had been foretold by Yeshaya (29:14), “The wisdom of their sages shall perish and the understanding of the wise men shall be concealed.” We are now intermingled with the other nations and as a result we have adopted their viewpoints - just as we have mimicked their characteristics and deeds…Because we have been raised on the basis of a primitive understanding – these philosophical and scientific views are perceived as incompatible with our religion  - just as it would appear to any uneducated person. However it is not so! 

Rambam (Letter to Ibn Tibbon): Aristotle reached the highest level of intellect that man is capable of without the aid of the Divine influence which leads to prophecy for which there is no higher stage.

Ribis and Hasgacha Protis

 Alschech (Devarim 23:20) A person charging interest denies that there is Divine Providence and is in effect saying that success and profit is entirely natural or determined by mazzel and thus there is a natural limit to his blessing. That is why it is permissible to charge a goy interest since they are governed by nature or mazzel

How many times has Trump claimed an Iran deal is around the corner?

 How many times has Trump claimed an Iran deal is around the corner?

Trump said on social media on April 7 that they were “very far along” but needed two weeks for “the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.” He concluded by saying that “it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution.”

There was no resolution, of course. But Trump has nonetheless spent the two months since then continuing to suggest a deal was right around the corner. A lot.

Including the period before the ceasefire, he’s done it at least 37 times. That’s the number of times he’s said directly — in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media — that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate to cut one.

'Israel will be alone' | Trump reveals dramatic call with Netanyahu over Iran

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428328

President Donald Trump said he urged Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid escalating the conflict with Iran and claimed he helped limit an Israeli strike.

US President Donald Trump said he cautioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a conversation over the past day that a broader conflict with Iran could leave Israel facing Tehran without American backing.

Speaking to Channel 12, Trump said he told Netanyahu to be careful about further military action, warning that Israel could soon find itself confronting Iran on its own if the situation escalated.

Donald Trump Issues Veiled Threat to Netanyahu After Iran Strikes

 https://mobileapp.newsweek.com/story/12045871/content.html

President Donald Trump gave a new warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the Iran war.

The United States and Israel have been close allies for decades, and the Trump administration has been supportive of the Israeli government amid the Iran war. But there is growing public tension between the two governments over Israel’s military actions in Lebanon.

Trump provided new details of his conversation with Netanyahu with the Israeli Channel 12 news outlet on Thursday.

“I told Bibi, you better be very careful what you do, because you could be left alone against Iran very soon,” he said, according to the news outlet.

Trump says he never promised ‘no new wars’

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/07/trump-says-never-promised-no-new-wars-00952870

“First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Trump said. “I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. When you say I promised, I didn’t promise anything.”

Trump said he doesn’t like “endless wars” but added that the current conflict with Iran “is not an endless war,” asserting that the Vietnam War lasted for 19 years “because of stupid people.”

While campaigning in Pennsylvania in 2024, Trump told rallygoers: “I will not send you to fight and die in stupid foreign wars that never end.” He reiterated the promise in his 2024 victory speech, stating at the time: “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”

And Trump’s official White House biography also states that one of the president’s top priorities is “putting a stop to endless wars.”

Trump on Sunday denied that the U.S. is at war with Iran, telling Welker he does not “consider” the current situation a war.

Cognitive test Trump took screens for dementia, not intelligence - Trump Brags about being only President passing Test for Senility Multiple Times

 https://www.wisn.com/article/cognitive-test-trump-screens-signs-dementia-intelligence/71506967

In a May 31 Truth Social post, Trump wrote:

"The results of my Physical Examination, taken at Walter Reed Military Medical Center, and just released, were extremely good. Unlike other U.S. Presidents, none of whom have ever taken an approved, high difficulty, Cognitive Test, I scored a perfect 30 out of 30, considered ‘extreme intelligence.’ Are the Dumocrats really surprised? In fact, this is my fourth such test, all PERFECT or, 120 correct answers out of 120 questions asked! It is very rare that anyone gets a Perfect Score, especially when achieved four times in a row. All people running for President and Vice President should be forced to take high difficulty Cognitive Tests. Congress, and the Dumocrats, should demand it! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

We will have to take Trump’s word for it that he scored a 30 out of 30 on the test, which medical experts believe — based on Trump’s own descriptions — is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. (When we asked the White House whether that was the test Trump took, a spokesperson did not dispute it.) Trump reportedly also took the test in 2018 and twice in 2025.

But medical experts said Trump inaccurately described the test as measuring intelligence. Instead, it aims to detect signs of cognitive impairment; if the score is low enough, then further testing is recommended.

"The test measures cognition," including attention, concentration, language, memory, abstract thinking and calculation skills, said Ziad Nasreddine, a Quebec-based neurologist who created the 10-minute Montreal Cognitive Assessment in 2005. "Cognitive function is correlated with IQ. But the test was not designed to detect the genius-level of cognitive performance. It's meant to reassure that cognitive functions are normal."

How LGBTQ+ Pride Month Has Changed in the Era of MAGA and Donald Trump

 https://mobileapp.newsweek.com/story/12038256/content.html

Not long ago, June meant rainbow logos. Major retailers stocked Pride merchandise on front-page displays, big brands changed their social media avatars and corporations competed for visibility at parades from New York to San Francisco.

Things have changed.

Two years into President Donald Trump‘s second term, many of those same companies have quietly stepped back. Retailers that once centered Pride collections in their June marketing have shifted focus to Father’s Day and other summer merchandise. Major corporations have withdrawn sponsorships from Pride events around the country, leaving some organizers facing significant funding shortfalls. NYC Pride told Gothamist it was more than $500,000 short of its fundraising goal after already lowering its target by $1.1 million from 2024.

A Gallup poll published at the start of June found that about 65 percent of U.S. adults now say same-sex marriage should be legal, down from a peak of 71 percent in 2022 and 2023. Nationwide, 62 percent say gay and lesbian relationships are “morally acceptable,” the lowest level since 2016. The decline is driven primarily by Republicans, whose support has fallen to about 37 percent, though the downward movement is evident across all political groups.

The shift is significant because it suggests a potential turning point in one of the most dramatic shifts in opinion in modern U.S. history. Gallup’s previous surveys found support for same-sex marriage rose from 27 percent in 1996 to roughly 7 in 10 Americans in recent years.

But the political picture is not straightforward. Trump appointed Richard Grenell as acting Director of National Intelligence—the first openly gay person to serve in a Cabinet-level role. Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is the highest-ranking openly gay official in U.S. history. During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump held up a rainbow flag at a rally and pledged to protect gay Americans.

Record turnout for Toronto pro-Israel march as violent antisemitism spikes across Canada

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/record-turnout-for-toronto-pro-israel-march-as-violent-antisemitism-spikes-across-canada/

 The streets of central Toronto pulsed with Israeli and Persian tunes on Sunday as 60,000 people converged to demonstrate solidarity with Israel and Canada’s Jewish community.

In response to surging Jew-hatred that has darkened Toronto over the last several months, a diverse crowd chose to march with the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s 57th Walk with Israel. Despite sometimes violent counter-protests on the march’s sidelines, this year’s walk attracted 4,000 more participants than last year, making it one of the largest public demonstrations of support for Israel in the world.

“We’re not afraid of anything, in spite of all the antisemitism that’s been going down, specifically here in Toronto,” said participant Shai Klein. “It gives us that much more reason to be here today and show that we’re not going to back down in the face of hatred, and that we’re going to show our pride. And we’re not leaving Toronto and Canada. We’re going to be proud Jews here and support the State of Israel no matter what.”

Israel and Iran say they’re halting attacks on each other, after Trump pressure

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-and-iran-say-theyre-halting-attacks-on-each-other-after-trump-pressure/

Israeli official says ‘the sense is that this round of fighting is behind us,’ stresses IDF operations against Hezbollah to continue; PM to hold full security cabinet meeting tonight

Israel has decided to halt its strikes against Iran, an Israeli official said Monday afternoon, after US President Donald Trump declared on social media earlier in the day that Israel and Iran “must immediately stop ‘shooting’,” and Tehran announced it would hold its fire unless the IDF kept up attacks on Lebanon.

Iran later announced it was halting attacks on Israel, but threatened a further response if Israel continued its “aggression” in Lebanon, where the IDF has targeted Hezbollah as the Iranian-backed terror group has battered northern Israel.

Israelis push Netanyahu to resist U.S. pressure and keep fighting in Lebanon

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/06/08/israelis-push-netanyahu-keep-fighting-lebanon-signalling-long-occupation/

“We need to let the generals do what they need to do and eliminate Hezbollah,” Ben Dov said, as the sound of shelling punctured the hot summer air. “We can’t just leave.”

The sentiment is pervasive. In war-weary border villages, on prime time talk shows, within the political opposition and among Netanyahu’s supporters, Israelis are pushing their prime minister to fight — and stay — in Lebanon, which could undermine U.S. efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war against Iran.

Anger is particularly high among Israelis in the north, who were targeted and displaced by a barrage of missiles launched by Hezbollah beginning in October 2023, shortly after its partner, Hamas, launched the surprise attack on southern Israel.

Israel Strikes Iran Despite Trump’s Call to Netanyahu

 https://www.newsweek.com/iran-missiles-israel-first-strike-since-ceasefire-12042022

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said early Monday that they had carried out strikes on Iran, after Iranian state media reported explosions in at least three cities. Israel's attacks came despite President Donald Trump telling journalists on Sunday that he did not want escalation and spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone.

"The Israeli Air Force struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran a short while ago," the IDF said in a statement posted to X after the attacks

Trump insists Israel’s Netanyahu ‘won’t have any choice’ in accepting Iran peace deal after fresh strikes: ‘I call the shots’

 https://nypost.com/2026/06/07/us-news/trump-tells-the-post-things-are-going-very-well-advises-netanyahu-not-to-fire-back-at-iran/

President Trump said Israel’s prime minister would be forced to play ball with Iran after the Islamic Republic launched a missile attack on the Jewish State Sunday — and insisted that he is still the one who “calls the shots.” 

Trump told the Financial Times that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have to accept any ceasefire deal that the US brokers because he “doesn’t call the shots.”

Trump ties Israel’s hands, as the partnership that went to war 100 days ago collapses

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-ties-israels-hands-as-the-partnership-that-went-to-war-100-days-ago-collapses/

Telling Israel it had better not respond to an Iranian missile attack, the US president, desperate for a deal with the devilish regime, presents Netanyahu with a terrible dilemma

One hundred days after they went to war together to thwart Iran’s rogue nuclear weapons program, radically degrade its ballistic missile industry, end its support for the Hezbollah and Hamas terror armies, and create the conditions for the fall of the regime, the US-Israel alliance against the Islamic Republic on Sunday reached its nadir.

Trump has repeatedly denied claims that Netanyahu dragged him and the United States into the war. But he has made it increasingly clear that he is desperate to end it, even with none of the declared US-Israeli goals achieved. He’s still insisting that he is holding out for terms that will ensure the regime never gets nuclear weapons, but there’s no guarantee of that in the leaked drafts of the Memorandum of Understanding he’s been working toward. And his overt priority is to get the Strait of Hormuz dependably open again, and alleviate the global energy chaos that Tehran has proved so adept at creating.

President Trump: A second Obama?

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/428223

For the Iranian regime, the purpose of negotiations is to force America to surrender.

In an article in Foreign Affairs, two pro-Islamic regime analysts, Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr, gloat over what they see as an Iranian victory over America. They write: “The war has given rise to a new Iran, one that will reshape the [Middle East] and influence the course of geopolitics for years to come."

No surprise there: the pattern has set in of Trump making bellicose statements, Iran dangling concessions, Trump backing off, Iran repackaging those concessions as further threats and demands, Iran renewing its attacks and America declaring that negotiations are resuming.

Trump could have used Israel as leverage to weaken Iran by crippling Hezbollah. Instead, by holding Israel back from delivering the decisive blow against Iran’s proxy army, he has enabled Iran to use Hezbollah as leverage against Israel.

Behind Trump’s strategic errors, however, lies a more profound-and profoundly worrying-issue. The Iran war is deeply unpopular with the American people. In part, that’s because Trump has never made the case to them that it’s being waged because Iran poses a mortal threat to America itself.

What started as the United States finally grasping that it had no option but to neutralize Iran, because it was getting perilously close to obtaining nuclear weapons to hit the “Great Satan," now threatens to turn into a repeat of the 2015 nuclear deal debacle.

Alzheimer’s patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in groundbreaking drug trial

 https://nypost.com/2026/06/04/health/alzheimers-patient-recovers-speech-continence-and-memory-with-this-drug/

In this case study, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, researchers focused on an 80-year-old Japanese-American woman with Alzheimer’s. Her condition had declined over the last decade and was reduced to urinary incontinence, speaking in single syllables and dependence on caregivers for mobility support.

She was then given a 5 g dose of magic mushrooms.

During the initial phase, she was agitated, sweated profusely and entered a prolonged sleep state that suggested unconsciousness. But around hour 19, she began speaking in full sentences, recalling life events she had been unable to articulate for years.

In the days and weeks that followed, more incredible changes emerged. She regained urinary continence, even in the evenings, and began dressing herself. She was able to make and maintain eye contact, remember social interactions, emotionally respond to others and hold lucid conversations.

Esther was considered a Godess

Megila (13a) She is called Hadassah and she is called Esther. It has been taught: Esther was her proper name. Why then was she called Hadassah?Hadassah was her name. Why then was she called Esther? All peoples called her so after Istahar.

Rashi notes she was named after a beautiful moon others say after Venus. She was clearly being called Esther or godess of Avoda Zara! Why is that being concealed?

LevinAt11: Schnall-Vote NO on A2218

 June 5, '26

Linked below is this week's LevinAt11 radio broadcast, of June 5, '26, Parshas Beha'aloscha.

מצורף: תכנית ראדיו רב יהודה לעוין, שליט"א, פרשת בהעלותך, תשפו

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Tefillah request, for expeditious recovery of:

• Rav Yehuda Ben Masha HaLevi (Levin);

• Shimon Ben Masha; and

• Lea Bas Freeda

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This week's LevinAt11 broadcast closed with a very brief update regarding the antireligious abortion/transgender-tyranny edict looming in NJ Assembly, S2260/ A2218. See our letter (edited) in this week's MonseyMevaser.com, page 12. Also see the very nicely-done alert ad in the Lakewood Vivaser. We thank the Coalition for Jewish Values as well, for including a post on the topic last Friday in their Rabbi's Roundup.

Please share this with anyone living in NJ, today.

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Selected Topic Highlights:

• Simcha Felder voted for increasingly dangerous ERA legislation;

• background on ERA;

• why it's so much more dangerous in today's transgender-tyranny environment;

• Da'as Torah on ERA:

https://agudah.org/wp-content/uploads/1988/02/JO1988-V21-N01.pdf

From HoRav Shimon Schwab O.B.M. (who, FYI, was not actually a member of the Rabbinic board of Agudath Israel)

"... Even in a Malchus shel

chessed we can face grave

dangers to our existence, in

the spiritual sense. When we face the

prospects of a Gay Rights Bill, or the

Equal Rights Amendment, it is a

matter of pikuach nefesh - spiritual survival. Such issues call for

vigorous action to protect our very

existence. As time goes on, new

areas of contention can arise,

wherein the Jaw of the land can

interfere with leading a Torah existence. ..."

• More on Distortion of Torah, masquerading as Psak Halacha, especially in cases of reputed "heterim" for individual politicians to vote for rebellion against G-d;

• from our listeners, in NYS:

https://restorechildhood.substack.com/p/breaking-theyre-erasing-mother-and

• More on the true, hidden agenda behind the Chareidi draft crisis; their ultimate goal is clearly not drafting all of the Chareidim, but something else...

• Partisanism, as we mentioned last week, begets blindness to critique of associates, and also impedes success in combating anti-Torah edicts. On this point, this week we read a selection of my paternal great- grandfather Rav Nosson Nota Leiter זצ"ל, HY"D, from his highly-acclaimed Kuntrus Divrei Chaim Ve'Emes, pg. 85.

57 min.:

• Update on S2260/A2218*: a virulent, antireligious abortion/transgender-tyranny edict looming in NJ Assembly, with Appropriations Committee** action scheduled for Monday June 8, prior to a full ("floor") vote.  The legislators must understand that we consider this wicked bill to be similar to the evil decrees of the Greeks - against which the Maccabees and their Torah-adherent followers fought to the death.  They know who the Maccabees were.

* addressed on last week's broadcast (Parshas Naso)

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/abortiontransgender-tyranny-in-nj.html, and on our pre-Shavous broadcast: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/nj-amalekism-looming-levinat11.html, and updated here prior to passage in the NJ Senate: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/05/antireligious-edict-in-nj-senate.html.

** Passaic residents are urged to urge Assemblyman Schaer to expose this bill in the Appropriations Committee this Monday.

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We post this here for NJ residents to circulate:

BS"D

June 5, '26/ Parshas Beha'aloscha, 5786

Antireligious Abortion/Transgender-Enforcement edict S2260/ A2218 looming in NJ, threatening to Criminalize "Lo Sa'amod Al Dam Rai'echah"

Every NJ resident, especially in the environs of Lakewood and Bergen County, is urged to immediately call /email their own Assemblymen (both), and State Senator, to do two things:

 (1) Actively vote against any version of the gender-/ body-morphing-enforcement bill S2260/ A2218.

 (2) And expose the fact that it would criminalize Torah-mandated efforts to save youth - and others - from committing - or from collaboration with - transgender transgressions and self-harm, including the murder of preborn infants.

Fact: The bill prohibits not only physical force, but also "coercion," as liberally interpreted -- in favor of the abortion-at-whim/ transgender-tyranny advocates.  And that's before we get to the fact that these cases are likely to go in front of pro-transgender, pro-abortion, antireligious judges. A bad judge can ruin the best case, even against the best attorney.

Translation: A Rebbe, Rabbi, Rosh Yeshiva, Principal, Teacher/Morah, Mashgiach, doctor, nurse, EMT, Hatzolah volunteer, paralegal, counselor, Social Worker, mental health professional, therapist, sports coach, neighbor, chevrusa, mentor, community advocate - perhaps even a parent or grandparent - could potentially face massive fines - and hefty jail time - for merely trying to fulfill the mitzvah of saving others - "Lo Sa'amod Al Dam Rai'echah" - provided that a wicked judge would deem that "coercion," or intimidation - even if all that was done was merely verbally attempting to convince a girl or boy out of getting drugs or surgery to "become" (sic) that which they are not -- or even just saving her/him from remaining under the influence/ grooming of a transgender mentor-advocate.

A potent talking point - that legislative reps need to publicize - is that "this bill is an antireligious edict, not much different than that which the Maccabees fought to the death to defeat."

The focus needs to be on getting Assemblyman Avi Schnall to actively vote NO, (all the more so, since, if he refuses, then Assemblyman Schaer from Passaic may use that as a basis to do even worse).

From Anti-Biological To Anti-Torah:

In the Definitions of S2260, [the to-be-protected] "Reproductive Health Care Services" is defined to include abortion and "medication, to support a person’s alignment with their gender identity or expression."  Thus, all references to criminalizing efforts against people involved in "Reproductive Health Care Services" include that self-mutilating sin. Of course, though they don't want the average citizen to realize precisely what it is that they're criminalizing.  That's why its' proponents mask its true nature by restricting mention of the mutilation procedures to the definitions.

Action Needed Today:

Please call today, and about once a week thereafter, for as long as the session lasts:

Contact Info for Lakewood:

Call & email Assemblyman Avi Schnall today at: 848-245-9486 / Asmschnall@njleg.org.

Assemblyman Sean Kean:

732-974-0400/ asmkean@njleg.org.

[If the Assembly makes changes, it will return to the Senate. If so, call state Senator Bob Singer: 732-987-5669/ sensinger@njleg.org.]

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Passaic residents, and others, are asked to urge Assemblyman Gary Schaer to vote NO - and to use his influence to lead on this issue:

973-249-3665 / asmschaer@njleg.org,

As well as Assemblyman Clinton Calabrese:

201-943-0615.

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To identify or call your legislative reps: 

NJ Legislative Info For Senate & Assembly:

v: 609-847-3905 or (800) 792-8630 

e: LegInfo@NJLeg.org 

w: www.NJLeg.state.nj.us 

For more information, you may email torahjewsfordecency@gmail.com.

Please share this information immediately with any NJ residents receptive to it.

Even if the bill would pass regardless of what we do, our silence - and worse - provides it a degree of moral cover sought by advocates.

We need immediate and ongoing protest against this from the entire spectrum of Orthodox Jewry.  If legislators representing the Torah community vote for this, it implies that it's not that objectionable to the Torah community.  This mirage is precisely what advocates need to push it as "acceptable" legislation.

Rav Ahron Kotler ZT"L states that the gravest existential threat facing Klal Yisroel is not Jew-hatred, assimilation, or loss of Torah knowledge - but rather distortion of the Torah." (Mishnas Reb Ahron 1:2:3:6.)

We cannot afford to convey any ambiguity.

[Some legislators may be responsive to the fact that, in wake of Memorial Day - and approaching the 250th anniversary of what used to be a blessed nation that celebrated moral values - those who vote for this bill spit on the graves of those who fought and died for America.  Those heroes certainly didn't make the ultimate sacrifice to enable domestic abuse of children and infanticide in the name of the Law.]

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An important item we didn't get to cover:

Parading Pederastic Perversion Pride Posts - Again: Rep. Mike Lawler (NY17/ Log-Cabin) is posting in celebration of LGBT Pride Month, when the LGBTQ mob outreaches to the public to gain acceptance of their disgusting, predatory, anti-child, anti-woman movement.

https://x.com/RepMikeLawler/status/2061555862032752755

https://www.threads.com/@repmikelawler/post/DZDs34hGly2/june-is-pride-month-a-time-to-celebrate-love-acceptance-and-the-freedom-to-be

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=988642184088018&set=pb.100088267377581.-2207520000

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKmwWiuuTm_/

and from his official campaign account:

https://x.com/lawler4ny/status/2061555559170544062

What is Peace with Celestial Family?

 Berachos (16b) R. Safra on concluding his prayer added the following: May it be Thy will, O Lord our God, to establish peace among the celestial family, and among the earthly family, and among the disciples who occupy themselves with Thy Torah whether for its own sake or for other motives; and may it please Thee that all who do so for other motives may come to study it for its own sake!

Rashi (Berachos 17b) In the heavenly entourage — in the cohort of the minister angels of the nations. For when the supernal ministers have a conflict amongst them, there is immediately a dispute amongst the nations, as it is written, but now I must go back to fight the minister angel of Persia.

Sanhedrin (98b) And what is the meaning of ‘and all faces are turned into paleness? R. Johanan said: This refers to God's heavenly family i..e., the angels and his earthly family i.e., Israel, when God says, Tthe Gentiles are my handiwork, and so are the Jews; how shall I destroy the former on account of the latter? R. Papa said: Thus men say, When the ox runs and falls, the horse is put into his stall.

Killing Angels

 Nedarim (32a) When Moses was lax in the performance of circumcision, Af and Hemah came and swallowed him up, leaving nought but his legs. Thereupon immediately Zipporah ‘took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son’; straightway he let him alone. In that moment Moses desired to slay them, as it is written, Cease from Af and forsake Hemah. Some say that he did slay Hemah, as it is written, I have not Hemah. But is it not written, for I was afraid of Af and Hemah? There were two angels named Hemah. An alternative answer is this: he slew the troop commanded by Hemah, but not Hemah himself.

Majority of Israelis say Trump should not determine the nature of IDF operations

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-898468

A majority of Israelis (62%) think that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not allow US President Donald Trump to dictate the nature of Israel's military actions, a poll published by Maariv on Friday found.

The breakdown shows that there is general agreement on the issue across the political aisle, with 66% of coalition voters and 62% opposition voters holding the view that Netanyahu should not agree to Trump's demands to halt planned IDF attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Meanwhile, 25% think that Netanyahu has no choice but to concede to Trump's demands, while 13% say they do not know.

Israel and Hezbollah Trade Fresh Strikes as Militant Group Rejects Cease-Fire Plan

 https://time.com/article/2026/06/04/hezbollah-rejects-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-agreement-strikes/

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Thursday rejected the cease-fire proposal agreed upon by Israel and Lebanon after U.S.-led negotiations. 

The cease-fire was contingent on Hezbollah halting all fire and withdrawing its fighters from parts of southern Lebanon, but Qassem in a written statement read on TV rejected the proposed action as fulfilling “the enemy’s objectives.”

Hezbollah’s staunch rejection of the agreement comes amid reports of continued strikes being traded by the militant group and Israeli forces Thursday morning, just hours after the cease-fire was announced. 

Rabbinical court to sanction alienating parents

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/686969

New protocol for rabbinical courts requires urgent handling of cases involving children’s safety and parental alienation, including rapid hearings, court oversight, and sanctions against alienating parents.

* Considering transfer of custody: The protocol states that alienation occurs under the custody and responsibility of the parent with whom the child resides, and that this failure constitutes a substantive deficiency in that parent’s fitness to have custody of the child. Accordingly, solutions will be considered, including immediate transfer of the child to the alienated parent, or temporary placement with a third party or therapeutic center for the purpose of preparing the child and renewing the relationship.

"These proposals are intended to eradicate or reduce the harm to the tender souls of children who, sadly, experience parental alienation, and the severe future consequences this has for those children, who have no rescuer and who turn their eyes to us," Rabbi David Yosef said.

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America’s 250th birthday celebration increasingly centers on Trump

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/03/americas-250th-birthday-celebration-increasingly-centers-trump/

Trump’s face will be stamped on a celebratory gold coin marking the semiquincentennial. His stern visage will peer from commemorative passports. Administration officials are pushing for a $250 bill featuring the president’s portrait. On Trump’s 80th birthday, June 14, the White House lawn will transform into a ring for a “Freedom 250” UFC fight.

Historians, political leaders and others worry that America’s 250th birthday, which might have been an opportunity to pull a divided country together, is becoming so much about Trump that it will instead be just one more polarizing event on the national landscape.

Trump is not the first president who has attempted to align a national commemoration with his political agenda. As he sought reelection in 1972, President Richard M. Nixon renamed his election campaign “The road to 1976” and was accused of trying to “steal” the bicentennial celebration.

Researchers Suspected Brain Inflammation in Long COVID but Found Something Else

 https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-suspected-brain-inflammation-in-long-covid-but-found-something-else/

Scientists in Finland used advanced imaging techniques to examine the brains of people experiencing long-lasting symptoms after COVID-19 infection. While long COVID has often been linked to lingering inflammation in the brain, the researchers found no evidence of widespread neuroinflammation when comparing patients with long COVID to healthy individuals.

“We did not observe evidence of widespread brain inflammation in patients with long COVID when compared to healthy controls,” says Professor of Neuroimmunology and InFLAMES Research Flagship group leader Laura Airas, who led the study.

According to Airas, the findings indicate that inflammation may be more prominent during the earlier stages of the disease and gradually decline over time.

The researchers say the results add to a growing understanding of long COVID and challenge the idea that persistent brain inflammation is the main cause of prolonged symptoms in all patients.

In a first, House votes to block Trump from ordering more strikes on Iran

 https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7309929059139673041/979928964203745378

The 215-208 vote marked the first time such a measure has cleared the House or the Senate on a final vote since the start of the conflict more than three months ago. The Senate advanced a similar resolution last month on a procedural vote, reflecting growing impatience with a war Congress hasn’t authorized.

In the House, four Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie (Kentucky), Tom Barrett (Michigan), Warren Davidson (Ohio) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pennsylvania) — joined Democrats in voting to force Trump to end the war.

“We are trapped in a war that won’t end because an incompetent president launched it thinking of only his own ego while failing to prepare for the consequences,” Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (New York), the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said during debate on the House floor. “Diplomacy is the only exit from this, not more bombing, not more bluster.”

Is Bill Pulte Trump’s least-experienced Cabinet pick? He’s got lots of competition

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/03/politics/bill-pulte-trump-cabinet-picks-experience

President Donald Trump appears to have chosen one of his diciest Cabinet picks yet, with the elevation of 38-year-old Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte to the job of acting director of national intelligence.

Even many Republicans have questioned or criticized the selection, often pointing to his lack of any discernible intelligence experience.

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said he had “no evidence” that Pulte was qualified. Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said she was perplexed by Pulte’s selection. Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana cited Pulte’s “absence of apparent qualifications.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune more subtly cited how, in the role of DNI, “we need professionals there.” And both Thune and Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton on Tuesday declined to vouch for Pulte’s level of experience.

Before joining the Trump administration last year, Pulte spent a career in the finance sector and various other pursuits, including an air conditioning company and a nonprofit that cleared abandoned homes.

Trump Confirms Clash With Netanyahu, Here’s Why Tensions Are High

 https://mobileapp.newsweek.com/story/12027103/content.html

President Donald Trump said he maintains a strong working relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even after confirming he criticized him during a recent phone call.

Trump acknowledged an earlier Axios report that he called Netanyahu “f—ing crazy” in a Monday conversation, saying he was “a little bit perturbed” that Israel’s fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon was hindering U.S.-led efforts to revive peace talks with Iran.

The president has yet to show significant progress toward his goal of securing an agreement in which Iran abandons its nuclear weapons development and reopens the Strait of Hormuz to oil and natural gas shipments.

Tensions are escalating amid a collision between U.S. diplomatic efforts and Israel’s military campaign, with Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon threatening to derail fragile U.S.-Iran peace talks that hinge on a ceasefire on that front.

Trump: 'I started Iran war, would be no Israel without me'

 https://www.jpost.com/international/article-898221

US President Donald Trump confirmed that he called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "f****ing crazy" and told him that Trump kept him out of jail during a call on Monday, in an interview on the New York Post's "Pod Force One" with Miranda Devine, released on Wednesday. 

Reports of Trump's language were first released on Monday, with an Israeli source later disputing the account. 

In his interview, Trump clarified that he wasn't angry but that he "was a little perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon."

Trump confirms profanity-laced Netanyahu call over Lebanon

 https://www.axios.com/2026/06/03/trump-netanyahu-call-lebanon-iran-ny-post

President Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Lebanon during a tense call, as Axios first reported.

Trump's confirmation signals a widening divide between the two leaders, over both the fighting in Lebanon and the war with Iran.

Donald Trump confirms he called Benjamin Netanyahu ‘crazy’ amid Iran peace talks

 https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/donald-trump-confirms-he-called-benjamin-netanyahu-crazy-amid-iran-peace-talks-1908710.html

Donald Trump has confirmed a report that he criticised Benjamin Netanyahu as “crazy”, saying he was “a little bit perturbed” that Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon was holding back peace talks with Iran.

But the US president insisted his relationship with the Israeli Prime Minister is solid and they connect in part because they are both “wartime” leaders.

“We’ve worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him,” Mr Trump told the New York Post’s Pod Force One in an interview released on Wednesday.

Mr Netanyahu responded that he and Mr Trump sometimes have “tactical disagreements” but have “common goals” and “agree on the main things”.

“He respects me. I respect him. We always find a way to work out our differences,” the Israeli leader said in an interview on CNBC.