https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325371
Health organizations, doctors, and scientists agree that vaccines are safe and effective. Despite this, there is a growing movement of parents and caregivers choosing not to vaccinate their children. Anti-vaccination myths are almost certainly contributing to this trend.
The convention was organized by members of a profession that has become a major purveyor of vaccine misinformation during the pandemic: chiropractors.
At a time when the surgeon general says misinformation has become an urgent threat to public health, a vocal and influential group of chiropractors has been capitalizing on the pandemic by sowing fear and mistrust of vaccines.
They have touted their supplements as vaccine alternatives, written doctor’s notes to get out of mandates, donated large sums of money to anti-vaccine organizations and sold anti-vaccine ads on Facebook and Instagram. They have been the leading force behind anti-vaccine events like the one in Wisconsin, where hundreds of chiropractors shelled out $299 or more to attend and earn continuing education credits to maintain their licenses in at least 10 states.
ובפרק אין עומדין (ברכות ל"ב ע"ב) אמר ר' חייא בר אבא אמר רבי יוחנן כל המאריך בתפלתו אין תפלתו חוזרת ריקם מנא לן ממשה שנאמר ואתפלל אל ה' וגו' וכתיב וישמע ה' אלי גם בפעם ההיא וגו' והאמר ר' חייא בר אבא אמר ר' יוחנן כל המאריך בתפלתו ומעיין בה סוף בא לידי כאב לב שנאמר תוחלת ממושכה מחלת לב מה תקנתיה יעסוק בתורה שנאמר עץ חיים היא למחזיקים בה לא קשיא הא דמאריך ומעיין בה והא דמאריך ולא מעיין עד כאן. ובפרק הרואה (ברכות נ"ד ע"ב) שלשה דברים מאריכים ימיו של אדם וכו' ופריך למימרא דמעליותא היא והאמר ר' חייא בר אבא אמר ר' יוחנן כל המאריך בתפלה ומעיין בה סוף בא לידי כאב לב ואמר רבי יצחק שלשה דברים מזכירין עונותיו של אדם קיר נטוי ועיון תפלה והמוסר דין על חבירו לא קשיא הא דמאריך ומעיין בה והא דמאריך ולא מעיין בה וה"ד דמפיש ברחמיה עד כאן. פי' רש"י ז"ל ומעיין בה אומר בלבו שיעשה בקשתו לפי שהתפלל בכוונה עכ"ל. וקשיא לפירוש זה כי האיך סלקא דעתך דמקשה שהרי בפירוש אמר שם דלכך לאו מעליותא משום דמעיין בה אבל מאריך בלא מעיין בודאי מעליותא ויצא. ועוד דקאמר דה"ד דמפיש ברחמים ולמה הוצרך לפרש הרי גם כן למקשה אין פירוש דמאריך בתפלה בענין אחר. ולפיכך נראה פשוט כי המאריך בתפלה היינו שאומר המלה בהמשכה ובעיכוב יתירה ומתוך כך הוא מעיין בתפלה, והיה סבור המקשה הא דאמר שלשה דברים מאריכין ימיו של אדם המאריך בתפלה, היינו גם כן שהוא שוהה ומושך במלות ואי אפשר שלא יהיה מעיין בתפלה, ולפיכך מקשה למימרא דמעליותא היא וכו'. ומתרץ הא דמאריך בה ולא עיין הא דמאריך ומעיין בה, והשתא מפרש ה"ד כו', דהא כל שהוא מאריך בה אי אפשר בלא עיון וקאמר דמפיש ברחמי אבל אינו מושך המלות. ובפרק אין עומדין לא קאמר ה"ד דמפיש ברחמים, משום דהתם קאמר אין תפלתו חוזרת ריקם דמסתמא כך הוא דמשום דמפיש ברחמים אין תפלתו חוזרת ריקם ולא הוצרך לפרש. ועיון תפלה דקאמר שמזכיר עונותיו של אדם היינו נמי בהאי גוונא שמעיין בתפלתו על המלות שהוא מוציא, כי מי שמכוין אל המלות שהוא מוציא יראה שאין דבר זה הגון כלל, כי אי אפשר לפרש הסוגיא רק כך. והטעם כי התפלה הוא תוחלת שהוא מקוה ומייחל אל מה שמבקש, והתוחלת שהוא ממושך מחלת לב כי הלב שם החיים שמשים את האדם בפעל והתוחלת היא התקוה שאינו בפעל. ועל זה אמר כי תוחלת ממושכה היא מחלת לב, והתפלה היא החיות של אדם ותוחלת ממושכה היא הפך זה שהוא מחלת לב, ואין ראוי והגון להאריך על ידי עיון להמשיך הלשון או להפסיק בין מלה למלה משום כונה, שדבר זה לא רצו חכמים כלל רק היכא דמפיש ברחמים שדבר זה בודאי הגון וטוב:
https://mishpacha.com/did-facebook-betray-democracy/
While Trump will always bear the lion’s share of the blame for January 6, an exposé aired Sunday night on the CBS News show 60 Minutes shows that the day’s events did not occur in a vacuum. If Trump’s involvement was complicit, the social media’s participation was implicit.
Bizarrely Mishpacha ran no article criticizing Trump but only Facebook for facilitating Trump's actions
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314659
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314699
Jewish heritage sites in Judea and Samaria are being systematically vandalized and destroyed by local Arabs, according to a watchdog group which monitors archeological sites in the area.
Adi Shragai, operations organizer for the Shomrim Al HaNetzach organization, said in an interview with Arutz Sheva that the phenomenon of Arab vandals targeting archeological sites in Judea and Samaria has grown worse in recent years.
“Unfortunately, in the last few years we’ve received more and more reports from hikers and people in the field regarding the destruction of antiquities in Judea and Samaria, with no law enforcement. We understood immediately that something significant – and terrible – is happening here.”
https://www.kikar.co.il/402686.html
https://news.yahoo.com/qanon-circles-spreading-conspiracy-theory-025401501.html
Followers of QAnon are spreading a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden is a "fake president."
Images of a staging area at the White House prompted QAnon followers to call it a "movie set."
However, this location is merely a venue for photo ops at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was triggered by the Sars-CoV-2 virus being leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China was recently given new life following an explosive article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in which the authors claimed “the most compelling reason to favor the lab leak hypothesis is firmly based in science.” But does the science really support the claim that the virus was engineered in a laboratory?
Man On Respirator: “I Thought Corona Was Over”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/314650
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned a ruling by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court allowing, for the first time, Jews to pray silently on the Temple Mount.
"The Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemns the decision by the Israeli court allowing extremists to pray in the plazas of Al Aqsa Mosque," the Ministry said in a statement.
Haitham Abu Al Foul, the Ministry's official spokesperson, said, "This decision is worthless, and it has no legal standing under international law, which does not recognize the legal jurisdiction of Israel in territories occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725190044.htm
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the “lab leak” theory gained little traction. Sure, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested SARS-CoV-2 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China—and called it “the China virus”—but he never presented evidence, and few in the scientific community took him seriously. In fact, early in the pandemic, a group of prominent researchers dismissed lab-origin notions as “conspiracy theories” in a letter in The Lancet. A report from a World Health Organization (WHO) “joint mission,” which sent a scientific team to China in January to explore possible origins with Chinese colleagues, described a lab accident as “extremely unlikely.”
But this spring, views began to shift. Suddenly it seemed that the lab-leak hypothesis had been too blithely dismissed. In a widely read piece, fueled by a “smoking gun” quote from a Nobel laureate, a veteran science journalist accused scientists and the mainstream media of ignoring “substantial evidence” for the scenario. The head of WHO openly pushed back against the joint mission’s conclusion, and U.S. President Joe Biden ordered the intelligence community to reassess the lab-leak possibility. Eighteen scientists, including leaders in virology and evolutionary biology, signed a letter published in Science in May that called for a more balanced appraisal of the “laboratory incident” hypothesis.
Yet behind the clamor, little had changed. No breakthrough studies have been published. The highly anticipated U.S. intelligence review, delivered to Biden on 24 August, reached no firm conclusions, but leaned toward the theory that the virus has a natural origin.
Fresh evidence that would resolve the question may not emerge anytime soon. China remains the best place to hunt for clues, but its relative openness to collaboration during the joint mission seems to have evaporated. Chinese officials have scoffed at calls from Biden and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for an independent audit of key Wuhan labs, which some say should include an investigation of notebooks, computers, and freezers. Chinese vice health minister Zeng Yixin said such demands show “disrespect toward common sense and arrogance toward science.” In response to the increasing pressure, China has also blocked the “phase 2” studies outlined in the joint mission’s March report, which could reveal a natural jump between species.
Despite the impasse, many scientists say the existing evidence—including early epidemiological patterns, SARS-CoV-2’s genomic makeup, and a recent paper about animal markets in Wuhan—makes it far more probable that the virus, like many emerging pathogens, made a natural “zoonotic” jump from animals to humans.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-28/evidence-against-a-lab-leak-as-covid-source
When it comes to the pandemic, pseudoscience has outweighed real science at almost every turn. One of the best examples of that is the unsupported assertion that the virus causing COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
Despite mounting evidence that the virus reached humans through natural pathways — from infected animals such as bats — the lab-leak hypothesis recently jumped back into the news, thanks to CNN, the investigative news site the Intercept, and the Atlantic.
All treat the idea that the virus escaped from a lab credulously. They downplay or entirely ignore the latest scientific findings that support the theory that the virus’ origin can be found in the animal kingdom — the view accepted by a preponderance of experts in virology.
Here’s the true state of the discussion. There is no evidence that the virus leaked from the Wuhan laboratory or any other lab. There is no evidence that the Wuhan lab was working with a bat virus that had anything but a very distant resemblance to SARS-CoV-2. Viruses that resemble it much more closely have been found in natural settings a thousand miles from Wuhan, as the crow, or bat, flies.
The Health Ministry released a public warning on Sunday against Rabbi Yuval Hacohen Asherov, asserting that his statements against the coronavirus vaccine are dangerous.
Asherov, who says he deals in “the wisdom of the Kabbalah and natural heath,” recently posted a video clip where he falsely claims that the COVID-19 vaccine damages fertility and can be fatal. The clip has gotten hundreds of thousands of hits and a great deal of attention, although it negates scientific knowledge about the vaccine.
the public, the Health Ministry notes that Asherov is not licensed to practice medicine or any other health profession, nor is he licensed to practice physical therapy, as was reported in some media outlets.
“The misleading information given by him or in his publications cannot guide the public in anything having to do with the coronavirus and cannot be taken as a recommendation or instruction with medical value,” the committee wrote.
Who am I?
I grew up in (what seemed to be) the best of homes. We always had many guests over on Shabbos, and people would always say to me, "you are so lucky that you have such an amazing family - your parents are such incredible people..." on and on. My friends would love coming to my home. My father is a dynamic talmid chacham who is a rabbi in a prominent shul. He is humble, wise and loving. My mother is a loving and sensitive person who is widely respected for her concern for others and her piety. My parents are leaders of a Jewish community whose counsel is sought for people with shalom bayis problems. They receive many calls asking for advice about how to raise children. They give chanson and kallah classes, and they deal with helping couples that were separated get back together. No one would ever dream that they themselves had significant sick psychological problems.
Everything looked so perfect from the outside. But what was really confusing to me was that in my childish eyes, everything looked so perfect from the inside as well. As children we all think that our parents are perfect. We copy everything that they do because we are programmed to trust that everything they do is right. I also thought whatever my parents do must be good. This discrepancy - between the fact that my father was doing something seriously wrong to me and the fact that it was my wonderful father who was doing it – was so terrifying that it led me not to trust my judgment. Even though I sensed that what my father was doing was weird, I just assumed that I was oversensitive. I thought I was crazy. One would have to be crazy to believe that a couple who counsels other couples and gives many people in the community advice on child raising could be themselves be hurting each other and their children.
That is why I lived as a victim of abuse for a decade without realizing what was going on. The abuse that I suffered just did not fit in with my belief that I had a "perfect" family. Yes, I knew that my Father touched me in ways that made me uncomfortable. Yes, I knew that he took off my clothing at night and fondled me. Yes, I eventually learned that this is considered molestation. Yet I unconsciously refused to put two and two together to avoid arriving at the rotten truth that I was actually being molested by my wonderful father.
What happened?
When I hit puberty as a pre-teen, my father was always extremely interested in my physical development. He would make all sorts of inappropriate comments and even would outright tell me that he enjoys watching my body change etc. He told me that he likes when I wear lycra shirts. He’d ask me why I wouldn’t let him see me in my bathing suit. I remember once when I was eleven, that I had fallen asleep in bed in my towel after coming out of the shower. I woke up to feel a breeze of air on my body and though surprised, I pretended to still be sleeping as I heard my father say "Isn’t she beautiful..." and heard my mother saying "Oh sweetie, put the towel back on her- she’ll be so embarrassed if she wakes up." Although at this young age I was physically very developed, I was not mature enough emotionally to know that this was wrong. As a young girl I just took it for granted that this was normal behavior, and instead of being annoyed at my father I was just ashamed of myself and held all the embarrassment inside.
Because I eventually got used to the idea that his comments were okay, I did not resist when he undressed me for the first time. He continued to sexually harass me every so often through out my teenage years by very inappropriate fondling. When I was about 15 I think I started to wonder if this was considered appropriate behavior, and I thought to call up a different rav and ask him, but I was afraid of exposing my father and the shame that would cause my father. So I didn’t, and I figured, ‘my father is a talmid chacham, he probably would know if this is prohibited,’ so I just let him continue doing it.
How it affected me:
The sexual abuse that I experienced affected me in numerous ways. I will try to explain a few of the basic effects that suffering abuse had on me. First and foremost having this history made me feel dirty and inferior. It also caused me not to trust my judgment, as I explained above. It may be hard to understand, but the experience also caused me to want to be taken advantage of again. It caused me to need that kind of attention. To want someone to be obsessed with me to the extent that they don’t care to break rules in order to have me. I will attempt to clarify how the abuse messed with my mind and affected me in the ways that I have listed.
I felt guilty because I was sure my heart was twisted. I thought it was my fault that I was attacked. I judged myself to be no better than a prostitute and concluded that therefore I’m bad. In retrospect the logic of this thought process is hard to understand, but that is exactly how I thought at the time. (It took over a year in therapy to understand identify and understand where my feeling of "I’m bad" was coming from.)
This feeling of "I’m bad" painted the way I saw everything about myself. I realize now that having a low self esteem negatively affected my academic performance, my confidence to perform in high school productions and in in just about every situation and relationship. My relationship with myself, my friends, my teachers and G‑d all had to overcome barriers as a result.
Having a low self esteem made me want to listen to gross music because the noise kept me company when I was in my low moods and emotionally crazy mess. Listening to Jewish music just made me feel bad about myself, because it seemed much more pure and holy than I felt I was.
The void of positive self regard was filled instead with feeling good about myself for being glamorous and because I was able to be pleasing others by giving them gratification. I recall my father starring me down and saying "Do you realize that you are like a big delicious walking ice cream scoop?" He would come home from a hard day and say "I don’t feel good- if you would come hug me in bed that would make me feel better" and then beg me "don’t leave!" Usually I’d listen, but if I disobeyed sometimes he’s lock his strong arms around me and not let me go. But even when I struggled to go free I wanted him to keep me. Being abused is kind of addictive as will be furthur explained in my journal entries below.
It also made shidduchim much more difficult then it should have been for me. I was a charming girl and many guys wanted to marry me but I found it very hard to say yes. I was afraid to trust. I remember passing up one particular guy that I realy liked ... I just couldn’t get the yes out of my mouth. I remembered I cried after I broke up with him. I was so sad that I missed out. I remember desperately wishing that I could just trust someone.
But my lack of trust was not simply that I was afraid that my husband might betray or hurt me. It was much more complex and unhealthy than that. As a result of the excessive and unnatural attention that I got from my father, I became almost addicted to the need for arousing and emotionally intense attention. I wanted and needed that type of intense experience again and I was worried that the man I would marry would not be as obsessed with me as my father. Thank G‑d after much therapy this issue has been resolved.
A Catholic leader in France has described the "shame" of revelations that those working for the church had abused hundreds of thousands of children over more than seven decades.
The findings of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) detailed widespread abuse that stretched back to 1950.
In presenting the commission's findings which followed an investigation lasting two-and-a-half years, CIASE president Jean-Marc Sauvé said on Tuesday that 216,000 people had been abused by priests and other members of the clergy.
When taking into account the abuse by lay people working for Church missions, that number could amount to an estimated 330,000 people.
https://mishpacha.com/your-map-to-a-better-marriage-part-1/
But the bigger picture is to accept is that you did not choose your husband. Hashem chose him for you. Out of every possible prospect in the entire world, Hashem determined that this person is the perfect match for you. Hashem knows you far better than you know you, and Hashem knows far better than you what is for your best. In His infinite wisdom, He determined that this is the ideal spouse for you. When you focus on the issue from this perspective, I think you’ll find it much easier to accept your husband for who he is.
You write that your disappointment nags at you and makes you unhappy. Those thoughts are a trick of the Satan. He wants you to be miserable and resentful. He doesn’t want your marriage to reach its potential. Whenever that notion pops up, try to replace it with another thought: “Hashem runs the world. Hashem knows better than I what is for my best. He alone made my shidduch. We are a perfect match.”
The numbers are staggering: Arab-Israelis account for nearly 40% of new coronavirus cases and constitute almost 50% of COVID-19 patients in serious condition, but they comprise about 21% of the population.
New research has found that FDA-approved artificial sweeteners can cause previously healthy gut bacteria to become diseased, leading to discomfort and digestive issues, according to Ben-Gurion University scientists.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-claims-about-hunter-biden-in-china/
President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused Hunter Biden, without evidence, of making millions of dollars in a “payoff” from China, after accompanying his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on a 2013 diplomatic trip to Beijing.
The claim involves a cross-border private equity fund involving some state-owned financial companies in China. Biden served on the management company’s board while his father was vice president, but his attorney says that was an unpaid position, that he did not create the company and has not yet received any money, let alone millions. The attorney says Hunter Biden only acquired a minority stake in the investment management company after his father left office.
We have found no evidence to contradict that, and Trump hasn’t provided any. We also found no evidence that Joe Biden used his position as vice president to enrich his son.
Trump would tolerate no more nonsense about a “war of ideas.” Brutality would be defeated by greater brutality. The euphemism of the War on Terror had been an attempt to conceal such disreputable behavior, but Trump brought it unapologetically into the open. He lied that “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in Jersey City had cheered the fall of the Twin Towers. As vengeance, Trump would “bomb the shit out of ISIS” and stop fighting “a politically correct war,” by which he meant one that distinguished between guerrillas and civilians. “You have to take out their families,” he told Fox. Torture “absolutely” works, Trump asserted, showing faith in the CIA’s 15-year-old narrative. He pledged to bring back “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding” and stock Guantanamo Bay full of “bad dudes.” ISIS’s assault on Paris meant there was “no choice” but to close mosques within the United States. Before 2015 had ended, Trump delivered his ultimate response to ISIS: calling for a ban on all Muslim immigration. “We can’t take a chance,” he said, denying that ISIS fighters were meaningfully distinct from the Muslim civilians they raped, terrorized, and turned into refugees. It was Cheney’s one-percent doctrine applied civilizationally. Stephen Miller was so excited by these promises that the following month he joined Trump’s campaign. His old boss, Jeff Sessions, the first senator to endorse Trump, helmed the candidate’s foreign policy and national security working group.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/29/frank-mckenzie-doha-agreement-trump-taliban
The collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces can be traced to a 2020 agreement between the Taliban and the Trump administration that promised a complete US troop withdrawal, senior Pentagon officials have told Congress.
Gen
Frank McKenzie, the head of central command, told the House armed
services committee that once the US troop presence was pushed below
2,500 as part of President Joe Biden’s decision in April to complete a
total withdrawal by September, the unraveling of the US-backed Afghan
government accelerated.
ICYMI: ‘You are not a horse. You are not a cow’: FDA issues blunt warning on taking drug promoted by Ron Johnson to treat COVID-19
MADISON, Wis. — Despite constant and fierce warnings from the medical community, Ron Johnson continues to push dangerous and unproven COVID-19 treatments like Ivermectin, which has endangered numerous people in Wisconsin and across the country.
— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), in an interview on “Hannity” on Fox News, July 14
Johnson has emerged as the leading vaccine skeptic in Congress this year.
For months, the senator has been peddling misinformation about coronavirus vaccines, undeterred by fact checkers, federal health agencies, medical experts and a growing body of scientific research.
We previously dug into two Johnson claims that resurfaced in this interview on Fox News, a network whose right-wing personalities consistently bash the Biden administration’s vaccination efforts.
The incident involving Harris took place on Wednesday, when a student attending an event with the VP to promote voting, said that Israel was conducting an “ethnic genocide” in Palestine and felt that the U.S. was ignoring protests even though Harris had been discussing the power of demonstrating. Harris responded: “Your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth cannot be suppressed, and it must be heard.”
Israeli news outlets jumped on the comments. “VP Harris to student who accused Israel of 'genocide': Your truth must be heard,” went the headline in The Jerusalem Post. The Times of Israel also chimed in: “Kamala Harris doesn’t reject US student’s ‘ethnic genocide’ claim against Israel.”
Mellman quoted Harris’ senior staff as reassuring them that the vice president “strongly disagrees with the George Mason student’s characterization of Israel.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-and-the-shameful-dangerous-final-days-of-donald-trump/
Few if any national leaders were more closely allied with the disgraced US President Donald Trump, inciter of last week’s assault on the Capitol in Washington, on American democracy, than Benjamin Netanyahu.
Few if any nations would consider themselves to have been greater beneficiaries of Trump-backed policies than Israel, even though Israelis were deeply conflicted over the man now nearing the end of his White House term in such ignominy.
The implications of these two facts are already being felt, and will continue to resonate in the coming days, weeks, months and years. And not for the good.
In this paradigm, God rewards you with health, wealth and happiness if only you have the right kind of faith. As the pandemic has demonstrated, scientific facts and common sense fall to the wayside as people declare they will "trust God" to protect them from a deadly virus that is befalling people all around them who God apparently doesn't care about. (Weirdly, many of these same people own guns rather than trusting God to protect them.)
https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-30-2021/rands-iron-dome-opposition/
What happened: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected to swift passage of a bill to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, five congressional sources told POLITICO.
The bill, which cleared the House overwhelmingly last week with more than 400 votes in favor, would appropriate $1 billion for the Iron Dome, a state-of-the-art system that prevents rockets from striking inside Israel’s borders.
The House-passed bill was brought up as a “hotline” for both parties — a process that requires the consent of all 100 senators in order for the bill to hit the Senate floor immediately for a vote. Democrats cleared the hotline unanimously, three people said, but the GOP hotline didn’t go through due to Paul’s concerns that the new funding for the Iron Dome was not offset with spending cuts elsewhere.
An effort — supported by Republicans — to hotline an amendment to the funding bill that would add the Iron Dome money also fell apart this week.
Paul's perspect: “He proposed that we pay for the House bill with money that is going to go to the Taliban,” a spokeswoman for the Kentucky senator said. A Senate GOP staffer confirmed that Paul held the measure over Afghanistan aid.
In 2018, the Supreme Court approved the demolition of the village, which is located not far from Ma’ale Adumim and is believed to be home to fewer than 200 Bedouin residents. Since 2018, the government led by then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a series of delays in the demolition, the latest of which came in November 2020 in response to the Regavim petition.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/28/economy/debt-ceiling-deadline-yellen/index.html
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned lawmakers that the federal government will likely run out of cash and extraordinary measures by October 18 unless Congress raises the debt ceiling.
Arizona state Senate Republicans ordered a review of 2 million ballots in Maricopa County. The review found that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in Maricopa County by about 45,000 votes. That number was virtually the same as the county’s official canvass.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/28/dhs-pentagon-jan-6-capitol-riot-514527
On Jan. 6, more than 30 minutes after the first attackers breached barricades erected to protect the Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security sent an incongruous update to the Pentagon.
“There are no major incidents of illegal activity at this time," read an internal Army email sent to senior leaders at 1:40 p.m. that day, referring to an update the service had just received from DHS’s National Operations Center (NOC).
https://mishpacha.com/kiddush-club-is-not-the-problem/
How are we still discussing banning alcohol when edibles are getting hechshers? A communal event without alcohol is unheard of. Rabbis ply congregants with alcohol, high school rebbeim knowingly look the other way (at best) as their students drink and vape. Can we afford not to counter these confusing messages in our communal spaces?
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1055341/jewish/Can-Angels-Sin.htm
At first glance the answer seems simple enough. After all, did we not receive the Torah precisely because angels cannot sin? As Moses retorted in his winning argument to the angels during his epic debate in heaven over who should receive the Torah. "It is written in the Torah 'Thou shall not murder,' 'Thou shall not commit adultery,' 'Thou shall not steal.'" Moses said. "Is there jealousy among you!? Do you have an evil inclination!? Obviously the Torah is not meant for you."
Bereishis Rabbah (50:9) 9. AND THE MEN SAID TO LOT... FOR WE WILL DESTROY THIS PLACE (XIX, 13). R. Levi said in R. Nahman's name: Because the ministering angels revealed God's secret, they were banished from their precincts a hundred and thirty-eight years. R. Tanhuma expressed it in the word .kelah. R. Hama b. Hanina said: [They were punished] because they expressed themselves boastfully,
That prompted Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, to take the rare step of calling for Carlson’s removal in a letter to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott.
“At ADL, we believe in dialogue and giving people a chance to redeem themselves, but Carlson’s full-on embrace of the white supremacist replacement theory on yesterday’s show and his repeated allusions to racist themes in past segments are a bridge too far,” Greenblatt wrote.
Carlson’s comments are far from original. His invocation of “importing a brand-new electorate” was originally “le grand remplacement,” the title of a 2011 book by Renaud Camus—no relation to Albert Camus.
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/313954
Children under 11 years of age constituted 40% of this week's new coronavirus cases, and on Thursday it was reported that the positivity rate among students is 6.1% - higher than that of the general population.
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/313892
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5998-fall-of-angels
But it is especially Samḥazai and Azael of whom the fall is narrated. In Targ. Pseudo-Jonathan to Gen. vi. 4 they appear as the "nefilim" (A. V. "giants"), undoubtedly in consequence of an incorrect interpretation of this word as "those that fell from heaven." The story of these two angels is found in brief form in Yalḳ., Gen. 44; it has been published by Jellinek ("B. H." iv. 127; originally in Midrash Abkir; comp. Rashi, Yoma 67b; Geiger, "Was Hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthume Aufgenommen?" p. 107).
Rambam 13 Principles
The fifth principle That He is the One that is fitting to serve and to exalt and to make His greatness known and to do His commandments; and not to do this to that which is below Him in existence - from the angels and the stars and the spheres and the elements and what which is composed of them. As they are all designed and there is no judgement and no free choice in their actions - only to Him, may He be blessed. And so [too], it is not fitting to serve them in order that they be intermediaries to bring them closer to Him, but rather to Him alone should they direct their thoughts and leave everything besides Him. And this fifth principle is that idolatry (worship of others) is prohibited, and most of the Torah prohibits this.
