https://www.marketwatch.com/story/my-mother-asked-my-father-for-a-divorce-he-replaced-her-with-my-grandmother-as-beneficiary-on-his-pension-then-took-his-own-life-what-should-they-do-2020-02-08?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=mw&cx_artPos=7#cxrecs_s\\\
Sunday, February 9, 2020
Michael Bloomberg goes full Trump troll in his new golf ad
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/31/politics/michael-bloomberg-trump-golf-ad/index.html
Trump, as Bloomberg well knows, is decidedly vain and appearance focused. There is nothing that will bother Trump more than seeing an ad like this that is clearly intended to make Trump look out of shape and sort of bumbling. (One image shows Trump climbing up a hill at a golf course on all fours.)
Trump, as Bloomberg well knows, is decidedly vain and appearance focused. There is nothing that will bother Trump more than seeing an ad like this that is clearly intended to make Trump look out of shape and sort of bumbling. (One image shows Trump climbing up a hill at a golf course on all fours.)
Did Pastor Rick Wiles Call Trump Impeachment a ‘Jew Coup’?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rick-wiles-trump-impeachment/
In late 2019, we received multiple inquiries from readers about
reports that Rick Wiles, a controversial right-wing pastor, had launched
a virulently anti-Semitic attack on leading congressional Democrats,
claiming that impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald
Trump amounted to a “Jew coup.”
Such reports were published by the Times of Israel, and the websites BoingBoing.net and RightWingWatch.org, among others.
Those articles were accurate. On Nov. 22, Wiles dedicated an entire
97-minute episode on his online channel TruNews to what the episode
billed as “Jew Coup: Seditious Jews Orchestrating Trump Impeachment
Lynching.”
Trump ousts Jewish officer, ambassador who testified in impeachment inquiry
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-officer-who-testified-against-trump-escorted-out-of-white-house/
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served on National Security Council, and Gordon Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the EU, both fired two days after president’s acquittal by Senate
'Campaign of intimidation': Vindman's lawyer responds to new attacks by Trump
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/08/alexander-vindman-trump-attacks-112512
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s attorney
vigorously pushed back Saturday on President Donald Trump publicly tying
the impeachment witness’ ouster to insubordination and leaking
information.
In a statement, attorney David
Pressman said Trump’s claims “conflict with the clear personnel record
and the entirety of the impeachment record of which the President is
well aware.”
The Trump administration went back on its promise to protect whistleblowers' safety
https://www.businessinsider.com/vindman-firing-us-government-protecting-whistleblowers-2020-2
In a Friday night segment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow
pointed to a November 2019 tweet from Marcus Weisgerber, an editor at
military and defense outlet Defense One, which contained a transcript of
an exchange with Esper, where the secretary said there was "no
retaliation" allowed under the law against whistleblowers.
"All
I'm saying is that if you come forward with information that you feel
is, that you feel you are a whistleblower, then you are protected,"
Esper said, according to the transcript.
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Despite his impeachment trial acquittal, Trump clearly guilty of a high crime
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-andrew-napolitano-despite-his-impeachment-trial-acquittal-trump-clearly-guilty-of-a-high-crime
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." – George Orwell, "1984"
The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump ended not with a bang but a whimper. What different outcome could one expect from a trial without so much as a single witness, a single document, any cross-examination or a defendant respectful enough to show up?
Law students are taught early on that a trial is not a grudge match or an ordeal; it is a search for the truth. Trial lawyers know that cross-examination is the most effective truth-testing tool available to them.
But the search for the truth requires witnesses, and when the command from Senate Republican leaders came down that there shall be no witnesses, the truth-telling mission of Trump's trial was radically transformed into a steamroller of political power
Prominent sex offender rabbi Berland arrested in Jerusalem
https://www.timesofisrael.com/prominent-sex-offender-rabbi-berland-reportedly-arrested-in-jerusalem/
Police investigating over 200 complaints alleging
systematic exploitation of the desperately ill; protesters clash with
police during arrest of leader of cult-like sect
Saturday, February 8, 2020
Six MONTHS In Jail -- for WHAT??!
BS"D
Six MONTHS In Jail -- for WHAT??!
The Crusade to Terrorize Girls Into Army Enlistment Escalates Dramatically
12 Shvat, 5780 °° Feb. 7, '20
(This update is a revised version of http://
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
~~~~~~~~~~~
To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week, please visit https://saveHischildren.
or/and see updates for month of Shvat '80:
https://drive.google.com/open?
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
~~~~~~~~~~~
To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week, please visit https://saveHischildren.
or/and see updates for month of Shvat '80:
https://drive.google.com/open?
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Refusenik Updates:
*********************
LITAL BAS MIRIAM:
1. We've reported several times on Lital
bas Miriam, a religious bas-Cohen from Tel-Aviv. She has been literally
persecuted in Military Prison Four for almost four weeks, in the wake
of her arrest (or ambush) at the airport on Jan. 13, '20. See:
https://daattorah.blogspot.
https://savehischildren.
http://firstamendmentactivist.
https://daattorah.blogspot.
https://savehischildren.
http://firstamendmentactivist.
http://firstamendmentactivist.
{* Rivka No'ah bas Yehudis is the name of the religious French immigrant girl in Prison Six.}
{* Rivka No'ah bas Yehudis is the name of the religious French immigrant girl in Prison Six.}
There was even a recent appeal to Russian President Putin to help save her (http://
photos: https://drive.google.com/open?
photos: https://drive.google.com/open?
~~~
2. On this past Tuesday, Feb. 4, Lital
had yet another military court hearing. Chillingly, the prosecution
(i.e., the Army) wanted to hit her with an extraordinarily brutal
sentence. Just how long? Judging from the "compromise" that the Judge
reportedly directed the prosecution to consider, the Army wanted to
imprison Lital not - G-d forbid - for days, weeks, or even months -- but
for YEARS! We are informed by someone in the know that this is no
ploy; the Army is apparently "out for blood." It is our duty to ensure
that it's not her blood - or that of any innocent person - that they
get.
3. An important question here is:
why is the Israeli Army trying to impose such a draconian punishment on
this non-violent, 26 y/o "threat to national security?" Granted,
according to the Army, Lital is long-term "draft-dodger," [sic] -- being
"absent for years" from the military - in which enlistment is strictly
prohibited by Jewish Law. But why a sentence so extraordinary brutal?
4.
Clearly, the extraordinary length of the desired sentence appears to
be indicative of the Army motivation operative here. It's not that
they're prosecuting and persecuting this young lady IN SPITE OF of her
religious beliefs. In that case, they would temper their bloodlust with a
veneer of token lucidity. Rather, it's precisely BECAUSE of her
steadfast dedication to safeguarding her purity and her religious values
that the Israeli Army is persecuting Lital. They want to break her, and
terrorize all of the other girls and women standing up to the Army's
antireligious crusade to force women into the immoral, exploitative
military. G-d willing, that attempt will fail, and ultimately backfire.
5.
Clearly, this young lady, a daughter of Kohanim, has been branded for
serving as the "Korban" to "Maitav" (the Draft Office), a sacrificial
lamb, in order to strike terror into the hearts of even some of the
strongest, most devoted religious girls and women avoiding the Army.
6.
That's not all. On Tuesday, the Judge directed the prosecution to
strike a "compromise" with the defense. That "compromise" reportedly
involves imposing a "settlement" on Lital - that requires she agree to a
staggering SIX MONTHS in Military Prison, without even allowing her a
chance to fight for her religious and human rights in a court.
Plea
deals often make sense - for guilty people. But this is plain judicial
tyranny, being employed to advance the religious persecution of an
innocent Orthodox Jewess.
7. In essence, this
"compromise offer" itself is judicial blackmail: either agree to a half a
year without fighting for your rights, or else face the tyranny of
years in Military Prison, all without the chance to a fair fight in
court (see posts above). Moreover, the litany of illicit and illegal
actions of the Draft Office, and the Prison System, all provide
additional clarification as to why the government is blackmailing Lital
into giving up before even beginning her legal battle in earnest: they
don't want all of their illegalities and corruption to be exposed to the
Free World.
8. Above all, this travesty is a
clear case of the Army terrorizing an innocent religious woman for
remaining steadfast in her adherence to the Torah prohibition against
enlistment in the immoral, exploitative military. If this abomination
would be perpetrated anywhere else in the world, we'd call it what it
is: Jew-Hatred, of the worst sort.
9. As
explained in previous posts, all of this torment struck Lital in the
wake of her naively submitting to an Religiosity Interview ("Rayon Dat")
over seven years ago, around the the time she finished school. At that
time, the (female) Draft Officer tripped Lital up on a question about
the Reading of the Torah, something from which women are generally
exempt, by Jewish Law. Apparently, under that transparent pretext,
Maitav (the Draft Office) refused to provide Lital the religious
exemption to which she was entitled. (See also:
10.
However, Lital reportedly never got a conclusive picture of her final
draft status. Like thousands of other girls, she never got any
documentation to clarify her draft status one way or the other.
Additionally, Lital was apparently misled by Border Police. Her family
claims that immediately prior to her surprise-arrest at the airport in mid-January, she repeatedly checked with Israeli Border Police. They
told her that she's ok to travel, without concern of her name being on
the list of non-exempted girls. When she arrived at the airport, they
arrested her, to the shock of her parents.
Did Israeli Border Police intentionally
give Lital misinformation to ambush her? If so, that would explain why
the Army consistently refuses to comply with the government requirement
that the Army notify the girls shortly after they submit their
religiosity certification. This way, they can entrap girls anytime the
opportunity presents itself, and then use the threat of extended
incarceration in the brutal military prison environment as blackmail -
to force religious girls into the Army, all in flagrant violation of the
Torah.
11. Lital's next hearing is set
to be held this coming Monday, Feb. 10 (Parshas Yisro). Prior to that,
Lital is expected to make a THIRD visit to an Army officer who could
potentially help arrange for a military-service exemption. The previous
two visits failed to help her, however. It's quite apparent that
they're all playing games, with her life on the line.
12.
In addition, it was reported that her right of communication (already
severely limited) has been [illegally] impeded by the prison
authorities, on multiple occasions. How can Lital possibly ensure a
semblance of a fair hearing and a proper arrangement of an exemption -
especially when the stakes are so monumental - without the ability to
communicate with whomever she needs to?
13.
This barbaric, anti-Jewish abuse of an innocent young lady cannot be
allowed to pass quietly. For instance, Gedolim in the past had helped
organize womens' demonstrations against the government, over the
drafting of girls. It is so much more necessary, and so much more
technically feasible nowadays.
~~~
14.
As of approximately two weeks ago, there were an estimated TWENTY
girls and women imprisoned in Military Prison Four alone, in addition to
all of those languishing in Prison Six (where Refuseniks are sometimes
intentionally tormented by exposure to the winter cold without
sufficient clothing). True, not every imprisoned girl is necessarily in
jail for refusing to serve in the Army. There may be some incarcerated
for other reasons. But, regardless, the Israeli government has no right
to enlist females; therefore they has no right to impose Army regimen on
them. All the more so, they have no right to impose military
incarceration.
15. Ta'i ["Ta-ee"] bas Oshrah has been imprisoned in Military Prison Six in the North for at least a week for her refusal to enlist in the Army.
15. Ta'i ["Ta-ee"] bas Oshrah has been imprisoned in Military Prison Six in the North for at least a week for her refusal to enlist in the Army.
16. Another girl, Mai, was reportedly just released from Military Prison Four several days ago, B"H.
17.
Another religious girl, Tal-Yah bas Rus /Liz, continues to languish in
Military Prison Four, reportedly enduring an insane 33-day sentence,
for her refusal to serve in the Army. So far, she's been suffering there
for about SEVEN weeks total.
18. Another
religious girl, an immigrant from France, Rivka No'a bas Yehudis, who
has been incarcerated for over TWO MONTHS in Military Prison Six, was
notified that she will get an exemption from Army service, BE"H.
However, despite that exemption, they insist on keeping her imprisoned
until she completes the 12 day punitive sentence handed up last
Thursday.
~~~
19. One of the outstanding questions here is:
Where
are the ostensibly rightwing and religious Knesset members? Even just
prior to a high-stakes election (a third consecutive election at that),
they cannot muster the self-interest-impelled gumption to raise a
massive (or even a minor) alarm over these blatant and unrelenting
evils, assaults against Jewish girls that threaten the very future of
the Jewish People?
20. Another is: Is this
barbaric anti-religious persecution of righteous Jewish women the price
of religious "representatives" sitting in the Knesset?
~~~
21. Also see:
CREEP STATE: Sexual Exploitation - Via Escalation of Religiosity-Interrogations
http://firstamendmentactivist.
Impeachment witnesses ousted amid fears of Trump revenge campaign
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/07/donald-trump-pressure-impeachment-witness-alexander-vindman-111997
Sondland,
the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union — "effective immediately,"
the ambassador noted in a statement. Hours earlier, the White House
escorted out Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine policy officer
on the National Security Counsel — along with his twin brother Yevgeny,
who was not an impeachment witness.
The
succession of personnel moves came amid a promise of "payback" by White
House officials against those who testified or played a role in the
impeachment of the president. Trump has spent the two days since his
acquittal by the Senate railing against his perceived enemies. He
slammed Sens. Mitt Romney and Joe Manchin earlier Friday for their votes
to convict him, and he retweeted calls by his allies to exact revenge
on his opponents, including the Democratic lawmakers who led the drive
against him.
After
voting to acquit Trump, some GOP senators said they believed Trump would
be chastened and exercise caution in the future — a notion he quickly
refuted, insisting that he had acted "perfectly" in every respect. Sen.
Susan Collins (R-Maine), one of those lawmakers, said she would oppose
any retaliation against witnesses who cooperated with the House.
Trump defends firing of key impeachment witness Vindman
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/08/politics/trump-alexander-vindman-firing-ukraine-impeachment/index.html
President Donald Trump on Saturday defended the firing of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council.
The President complained about news coverage of the firing in a tweet,
saying reporting was done "as though I should think only how wonderful
he was. Actually, I don't know him, never spoke to him, or met him (I
don't believe!)."
On Friday, Trump fired two key impeachment witnesses,
dismissing Vindman, the top Ukraine expert at the council, and US
Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. An adviser to Trump
told CNN the firings of the major impeachment witnesses was meant to send a message that siding against the President will not be tolerated.
Trump Gave a Scholarship to a 4th Grader ‘Trapped’ in a ‘Failing’ Public Education at the State of the Union. She Reportedly Attends a Top Charter School
https://time.com/5780459/state-of-the-union-school-choice-charter-school/
During Tuesday’s State of the Union
address, President Donald Trump introduced Philadelphian 4th grader
Janiyah Davis and said she would receive an “opportunity scholarship” to
attend whatever school she wanted. He pointed to her experience as an
argument for expanding school choice.
However, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday that Davis already attends a competitive charter school, Math Science and Technology Community Charter School III (MaST III).
Friday, February 7, 2020
Mitt Romney’s Honorable Stand Reaffirmed the Wisdom of Impeaching Trump
https://time.com/5779360/romneys-wisdom-impeaching-trump/
Wednesday, February 6 was supposed to be a moment of pure triumph for Donald Trump. The day after he delivered the State of the Union
– and the same week that Democrats struggled to announce the results of
their Iowa caucus – a united Republican Party was set to deliver a
stern rebuke to the House of Representatives. It would end the
“impeachment hoax” and march into 2020 firmly united behind a leader who
brooks no dissent.
Two young ladies that desperately need to get to seminary in Israel for next year
Dear Reader,
Although for many young people, seminary or Yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel is a luxury, there are some people whose situation is such that they really need to be there - for their own well-being and future.
There are two young ladies that desperately need to get to seminary in Israel for next year. Both are seniors in high school.
Young lady A is a yesoma - whose mother remarried but the marriage was disastrous, ended in divorce, and the mother is destitute.
Young lady B's parents are going through a divorce and her mother, her, and her siblings, are being evicted.
If you are able to assist it would be a big Mitzvah and a remarkable zchus.
Young lady B's parents are going through a divorce and her mother, her, and her siblings, are being evicted.
If you are able to assist it would be a big Mitzvah and a remarkable zchus.
Please contact Rabbi Yair Hoffman at yairhoffman2@gmail.com to find out how to help them. Tizku l'Mitzvos
Thursday, February 6, 2020
8 unanswered questions about Trump and Ukraine that will live on after impeachment
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/06/politics/ukraine-impeachment-unanswered-questions/index.html
Impeachment is over. President Donald Trump has been acquitted. One bruising chapter has ended, but another phase of the Ukraine affair is only now beginning.
Because Senate Republicans blocked all efforts to
hear from new witnesses and subpoena documents, the complete story of
what happened between Trump and Ukraine still hasn't been told. They
calculated that it was better to acquit and move on, even if a smoking
gun comes out later.
A dozen soldiers wounded in Jerusalem terror attack, 1 critical
https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Three-injured-in-Jerusalem-ramming-attack-report-616681
At least 12 Golani Brigade soldiers were wounded overnight in what Israel Police are investigating as a terror attack.
Preliminary
reports said that the soldiers were returning from their
IDF inauguration when a car rammed into them on David Remez St. near Jerusalem's
First Station and then drove away. Security forces found the suspect's
vehicle parked in a driveway in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem.
Pelosi Says She Tore Up Trump's 'Manifesto of Mistruths' as Dems Label His Speech a 'Right-Wing Reality Show'
https://www.newsweek.com/manifesto-mistruths-pelosi-trump-spotlight-right-wing-reality-show-1485776
In a closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday morning, Pelosi received a
standing ovation, according to a Democratic aide in the room.
"I
tried to find one page I could spare that didn't have a lie on it," she
said, according to the aide. "About a quarter through it, I thought,
'You know, he's selling a bill of goods like a snake oil salesman. We
cannot let this stand.' So, somewhere along the way, realizing what was
coming, I started to stack my papers in a way that were tear-able."
Susan Collins' beyond-laughable explanation for her impeachment vote
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/05/politics/susan-collins-trump-impeachment/index.html
Had Collins left it there, she would have been fine. But she didn't leave it there. In an interview with CBS' Norah O'Donnell,
Collins said "I believe that the President has learned from this case"
and that Trump "will be much more cautious in the future."
All of which makes Collins' feeble
attempt to defend her vote for acquittal frankly laughable. She has
every right to say that she doesn't think that Trump committed
impeachable crimes. And that convicting him would set a dangerous
precedent for future presidents.
But
attempting to suggest that this whole impeachment investigation has
been some sort of teachable moment for Trump and that he "has learned
from this case"? Give me a break. No one -- including Collins --
believes that.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Religious Exemption Without Religious Capitulation
BS"D
Encouraging News for Religious Girls in Israel: Another Religious Exemption Without Religious Capitulation
10 Shvat, 5780 °° Wed., Feb. 5, '20
By Binyomin Feinberg
feinbergbinyomin@gmail.com
~~~~~~~~~~~
1. B"H, this Sunday, sources involved in the case of a female Refusenik seeking to avoid the Israeli military draft received notification of the approval of her religious exemption. This success occurred despite - rather, probably precisely because of - her refusal to submit to a Rayon Dat, despite complications of her case. (Details of her identity are not being published at this time, to protect her privacy.)
2. One organization that had been involved in discussions about the case initially suggested that, in her specific situation - in which her previous religious certification was disqualified - she may need to opt to submit to a Rayon Dat. However, another organization, Irgun Shomrei Torah, was insistent that a Rayon Dat is not an option. As per the advice of the latter organization, this young lady, from a Chareidi family, persued her religious exemption without submitting to a Rayon Dat. BE"H, she prevailed.
3. She is just one of many female Refuseniks who, despite clearly disadvantaged situations, persist in fighting for their exemptions without sacrificing Halacha by submitting to a Rayon Dat.
~~~
Rayon Dat Interviews:
4. Religious girls who learn in nonreligious schools are generally told by the Army, and even by some Chareidi askonim - that they must (or should) submit to a Rayon Dat. A Rayon Dat is an interview, or interrogation, to determine eligibility for a religious exemption.
5. However, in reality, even if a girls studied in a non-religious school, she not only need not do so - a clear understanding of what's involved leads to the inescapable conclusion that a girl definitely should not submit to any such meeting - or even enter the Draft Offices.
6. Merely entering the Draft Office is prohibited on more than one basis. Firstly, most people don't grasp the extent to which the entire setup in those offices is geared towards drafting the girls into the military (see further, and Talmud Avoda Zorah 17a, 27b).
7. Secondly, the girls enter into a serious Yichud situation there, another reality which similarly evades public scrutiny (for some odd reason).
8. Practically speaking, entering the Draft Offices is downright dangerous. Professional, seasoned draft officers confine the girls or women in intimidating isolation (sometimes disabling even phone communication), sometimes for hours on end. They meticulously analyze each religious girl. They seek out and identify any susceptibilities to pressure, threats, deception, or incentives. The draft officials then exploit those weaknesses to their fullest, often employing a blended "Carrot-and-Stick" strategy. Their aim is to ensure that no (targeted) girl is "left out" of the Army, the societal melting pot.
9. In addition, the draft officers possess both the authority and the ability to have the girls on premises arrested on the spot, almost at whim. These officers also have ample opportunity to exploit their positions to pressure these females (often teenagers) into illicit conduct. For that reason alone, there is a formidable "Yichud" (seclusion between the genders, prohibited by Jewish Law) objection to merely entering the premises.
~~~
"New Halacha:" (sic)
"Going where no man dare go..."
10. Somewhat surprisingly, there are some activists who actually encourage ostensibly "weaker" girls to enter the Draft Offices. They argue that if the girls don't cooperate with Army directives to submit to a Rayon Dat, then the Army will play "hardball," denying the girl the legal right to apply for a religious exemption. Then the girl will need to employ diligent resistance, perhaps even civil disobedience in ignoring Army directives to enlist. These activists express the pronounced, perhaps hyperinflated fear that girls whom they somehow deem to be "weaker" will be unable to withstand the challenge over time, and may eventually succumb to enlist in the military.
11. To avoid the possibility (clearly not a certainty) of a few girls eventually breaking and enlisting, these activists propose waiving the long-standing prohibition against entering the Draft Offices, a prohibition stridently articulated by world renowned Torah Sages of the previous and current generations, and articulated without the aforementioned suggested exceptions of "weaker girls." And some activists advocate doing so en masse, for many girls, all ostensibly to save to the individual girls who may not withstand the standoff with the Draft Office, "Maitav."
12. Moreover, some activists have been known to ACTIVELY DIRECT girls into the Draft Offices, and to submit to a Rayon Dat, or even to submit to worse procedures, e.g. military draft "Hearings" and promiscuous military "medical exams" "supervised" by male "staff*."
13. (*Note: In many countries, the latter immodest "medical procedures" would be criminal offences punishable by law, on account of illicit and unnecessary exposure of females to male spectators. However, in the secularist-run Israeli Army, unfortunately, the hedonistic "Mizron Tzahali" male-female military paradigm appears to prevail over basic human decency. Yes, "Equality" is indeed invoked by the Army - but that's to integrate women collectively - while simultaneously denigrating and mistreating women as individuals, individuals who truly deserve protection, privacy, dignity and respect.)
~~~
A Partial Response:
There are multiple arguments against the aforementioned novel Halachic "innovation." Suffice it to present a few points for now.
14. In reality, the LAST girls to send into the Draft Offices are girls that may be susceptible to their deception, pressure, and other conscription techniques, as explained above (#8). Said weaknesses of girls should militate towards strengthening them, over time, enabling them to resist Army intimidation and harassment - not submitting them to those trained and empowered to most efficiently exploit the girls and their weaknesses.
15. Moreover, Gedolim and poskim of the stature to override the decisions of Torah giants like Rav Bengis, the Brisker Rov, the Chazon Ish, Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank, OB"M, etc. are hard to find nowadays, to grandly understate. (Furthermore, we are not aware of one single Gadol or posaik who has posited such a Halachic dispensation for sending girls into the Draft Offices, or to any such military interviews, and by all indications there are none.)
16. There are other arguments against allowing girls into Draft Offices, even "le'shitosom" of those who argue it should be permitted when there is ostensibly "no alternative." One argument was exemplified by Lital bas Miriam, now imprisoned over three weeks in Military Prison Four. In her case, as reported here, she was directed to submit to a Rayon Dat, years ago. Apparently, due to the pervasive ignorance about the prohibition and danger of such interviews, she agreed. This provided the interviewing draft officer an opportunity to trip Lital up on something she had no obligation to know, as we reported last week. Thereby, draft officers fraudulently manufactured a "legal" basis to rob Lital of her entitlement to a Religious Exemption, something they would have been unable to legally perpetrate without subjecting her to a Rayon Dat.
In the wake of succumbing to that Army subterfuge many years ago, she's been languishing in jail for about three weeks now.
17. Speaking of Equality:
A Tale of Two Tyrannies:
As reported last week, a religious girl from France, Rivka Noa bas Yehudis (note correction of name) has been incarcerated for over TWO MONTHS in Military Prison Six, all for a technicality -- allegedly submitting her religiosity cerification late.
But the Draft Office has no such concern over their OWN responsibility to comply with the law, specifically their obligation to RESPOND to girls about their draft exemption status, in wake of their filling for religious exemptions.
~~~~
Recent Posts:
(Parshas Bo)
http://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/01/righteous-outrage-goes-international.html
~~~
http://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/01/from-behind-israeli-iron-curtain.html *
* correction: Rivka No'ah bas Yehudis is the name of the religious girl who came from France, imprisoned over two MONTHS in Military Prison Six, in the North.
~~~
https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2020/01/spiritual-auschwitz.html
Demo Photos:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nTJT9255QwfrfYLMJ3_NaE8woQPF70MC
Pentagon officials stunned by White House decision to block Ukraine aid, new emails show
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/05/politics/emails-pentagon-alarm-ukraine-aid/index.html
The new information underscores how the July 18th decision to hold the military aid stunned officials, who had already assessed Ukraine deserved to receive it and were preparing a Javelin missile order as well. The decision reverberated across the government for weeks. Officials grew so concerned over the deferrals by the Office of Management and Budget that they noted the aid was at "serious risk," and questioned if the move was illegal.
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