JEWISH PENOLOGY: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS by AARON KIRSCHENBAUM

 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj3kd7h9Yj0AhXFxIUKHYLDC1IQFnoECAMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.idc.ac.il%2Fen%2F_layouts%2F15%2FElad.SPS.Idc.Sprint4%2FPages%2FHandler.aspx%3Ftype%3Dpublication%26publicationId%3D3903%26userName%3Dkirsch&usg=AOvVaw0btyQnzLXB7dMh_hGypvPR

 We have undertaken a comprehensive study of halakhic penology throughout Jewish history. In the course of our studies we have been stymied by two major problems: the utter impracticality of the criminal law of the Torah as a means of maintaining law and order, and the strangeness of the kippah penalty.

He discusses these fully issues in his major work Jewish Penology Magnes  press 2013

https://www.magnespress.co.il/en/book/Jewish_Penology-3533

We intend to point out that there was more than one system of Jewish penology. We will elaborate upon the existence of a classical system – retributory and expatiatory – related to a self-perfecting society. Only such a society would ordain a painless penalty for death for criminals guilty of the most serious crimes with malice and forethought and a painful punishment with immediate restoration to one's community for criminals guilty of lesser crimes. Criminal penalties for the purposes of deterrence (private or public) or of social rehabilitation are minor considerations.

 In addition to and alongside the classical penological system, we will be detailing other systems of a more practical nature: one governed by the King's law and others emerging from rabbinical ad hoc urisdiction and communal legislation. These systems are less governed by the classical motivations of strict retribution and religious expiation (which continue to play a role – albeit a relatively minor one); deterrence and social rehabilitation, law and order, are their dominant considerations. Moreover the varying degrees of judicial autonomy granted to the Jewish community by the non-Jewish governments resulted invariations in penal practices among the various communities themselves.

Ethiopian PM to Bennett: You let war criminals into Israel

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316524

Ethiopia’s prime minister accused Israel of allowing a number of officers involved in a massacre in their home country to find refuge in Israel, slamming Israel’s handling of a recent wave of immigrants from Ethiopia.

According to a report by Israel’s Channel 13 Monday afternoon, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed slammed his Israeli counterpart, Naftali Bennett, claiming that at least three to four of the recent Ethiopian immigrants brought to Israel were actually officers involved in a massacre.

 

An Eye for An Eye ֠Payment for the injury

 https://torah.etzion.org.il/en/eye-eye-%D6%A0payment-injury

             The Rambam's view regarding injury seems to be a continuation of his aforementioned position that not only would there have been room for corporal punishment, but even the money that is paid expresses the fact that "he deserves to lose a limb" – even the monetary payment is a kenas imposed on the person who caused the injury.  

What Does ‘Eye for an Eye’ Really Mean?

 https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/479511/jewish/What-Does-Eye-for-an-Eye-Really-Mean.htm

“An eye for an eye” may be an idiom, but the Torah always uses precise language, so why use this particular phrase? There is a purposeful subtext here: The perpetrator deserves to be injured or lose a limb in the same manner as the victim, but G‑d is compassionate, so the perpetrator makes financial restitution to the victim instead. It’s therefore important to bear in mind that, as is the case with all interpersonal transgressions, merely giving financial compensation should not be seen as having made amends for what was done, which can never fully be corrected; The best we can do is offer monetary compensation and beg forgiveness from the victim.

 

Fact check: False claims about George Soros

 https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-false-george-soros-claims-idUSKBN23P2XJ

In a 1998 60 Minutes interview (youtu.be/AiqHiQYuoOs) Soros says his father forged his family’s identity to protect them. Soros, as a teenager, was placed under custody of a government official with the premise of being his godson. During this time, Soros witnessed (but did not actively participate in) the confiscation of Jewish property (here). In the interview, Soros says he doesn’t feel guilt looking back at these events, mentioning that he was a child at the time and that he was a “spectator” to something that would have happened regardless of his presence. 

 SOROS DOES NOT “OWN” ANTIFA AND BLACK LIVES MATTER

George Soros does not “own” ANTIFA or Black Lives Matter.

False. Conspiracy theories about George Soros visible in this post are unfounded.

Dozens of Ethiopians brought to Israel accused of scamming way onto airlift

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-of-ethiopians-brought-to-israel-accused-of-scamming-way-onto-airlift/

 Dozens of people smuggled in a secret operation from Ethiopia to Israel recently may have misrepresented their Jewish ancestry and exaggerated the level of danger they were in, according to reports Sunday.

An investigation by the Immigration and Population Authority raised “serious doubts” regarding the vast majority of a group of 61 Ethiopians brought to Israel over the last several months, who may have been part of a conspiracy involving a man who immigrated from Ethiopia over 20 years ago, Haaretz reported.

Members of the community involved in the effort denied the accusations, according to Channel 12 news, which also published an assessment from the National Security Council claiming that there was no urgency to airlift efforts.

Israelis rally behind teen brutally bullied at school for viral video

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1upmpbwt#autoplay

Hundreds gathered Sunday night in central Israel to show support for an eighth-grade student from the city of Rishon Lezion, who was filmed being brutally bullied by his classmates at a local school.

New Jersey GOP senator-elect Ed Durr apologizes for Islamophobic tweet

 https://www.inquirer.com/politics/new-jersey/ed-durr-twitter-racist-tweets-20211105.html

 In a 2019 tweet resurfaced by WNYC, Durr attacked the prophet Muhammad by name, denigrated Muslims as “fools,” and referred to Islam as a “false religion.”

Durr, 58, had made other incendiary claims on social media. He also downplayed the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and touted other right-wing conspiracy theories and referred to all undocumented immigrants as “criminals,” among other comments that have gained scrutiny.

In 1st for Conservative movement, women rabbis tie knot in same-sex wedding

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-1st-for-conservative-movement-women-rabbis-tie-knot-in-same-sex-wedding/

  You could call it bashert: 15 years after a landmark decision in Judaism’s Conservative movement that paved the way for gay and lesbian students to enter its rabbinical schools and for rabbis to perform same-sex weddings, it would seem like destiny that two Conservative rabbis would wed.

Of course, it happened at Camp Ramah.

Rabbi Ariella Rosen and Rabbi Becca Walker tied the knot at the Conservative movement’s camp in Palmer, Massachusetts, last month, with yet another queer woman rabbi, Megan GoldMarche, officiating. Rosen’s father, Rabbi Jim Rosen, also played a role.

4 cops hurt in Jerusalem riot over settler’s death in police chase last year

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/4-cops-hurt-in-jerusalem-riot-over-settlers-death-in-police-chase-last-year/

 Sandak, a resident of the Bat Ayin settlement, was fleeing Border Police in a car with three other so-called hilltop youth on December 21, 2020, when the car flipped over, killing him. According to police, Sandak’s group fled from police before losing control of their vehicle. Sandak’s defenders view his death as a police killing; they allege that the police car hit his vehicle from behind, causing it to run off the road.

COVID-19 vaccine for kids like Hitler Youth, child predators - pundit

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/covid-19-vaccine-for-kids-like-hitler-youth-child-predators-pundit-684236

Conservative political commentator Candace Ownes slammed the recent push in the US to vaccinate children aged five-11 against COVID-19 as being "sinister" and compared it to child predators and Nazi and Soviet youth programs.

Speaking to Fox News, Ownes directly responded to incentives recently pushed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who offered $100 for children getting their first vaccine dose at public schools or municipal-run sites.

Owens slammed it as "not a good incentive" and told the news outlet that "there's something about this that feels like a child predator."

Attacks on Jewish people rising on Instagram and Twitter, researchers say

 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/attacks-jewish-people-rising-instagram-twitter-researchers-say-n925086

 Researchers who study social media say that they are seeing an increase in anti-Semitic posts from far-right users of Instagram and Twitter and that the services aren't doing enough about it.

Separate researchers who were independently looking at the two social networks said attacks on Jewish people had spiked on both services ahead of the midterm elections on Nov. 6, similar to a rise in harassment before the 2016 presidential election.

Many but not all of the posts mention billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, the researchers said. Soros is frequently the subject of unfounded conspiracy theories, and his home was among the targets in a series of attempted bombings this month.

Which Jews are criticizing Jewish philanthropist George Soros?

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/the-jews-who-are-openly-criticizing-jewish-philanthropist-george-soros-641565

 It’s not just people in power who are calling attention to Soros: This spring, there were half a million negative tweets about him in one day, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which says the Soros theories “can serve as a gateway to the antisemitic subculture that blames Jews” for unrest in the US Many of the tweets, according to the ADL, blamed Soros for fomenting violence in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.

This all creates a dilemma for Jews who oppose Soros’ actual activism but feel uneasy about the antisemitism against him. How can you criticize his billions of dollars in international philanthropy, for example, without the criticism fueling those who accuse him of masterminding a global conspiracy to destroy the American government? If you believe Soros is fundamentally opposed to what you believe are Jewish interests, such as support for Israel, what do you do when he’s the victim of Jew-hatred?

 

Blinding is alternative to capitol punishment

Sanhedrin (27a) ] in the case of Bar Hama, who committed murder. The Resh Galutha said to R. Abba b. Jacob: Go and investigate the matter, if he is definitely the murderer, dim his eyes.[ Perhaps, ‘blind him,’ ‘put out his eyes.’] 

So Glenn Beck Calls George Soros a Nazi Collaborator? Marty Peretz Said It First

 https://forward.com/opinion/133132/so-glenn-beck-calls-george-soros-a-nazi-collaborat/

The part that’s gotten the most attention is a reference, repeated several times, to Soros’s childhood in Nazi-occupied Budapest, when Soros’s father hid him and his siblings with Christian families as their “godchildren.” As Soros describes in his own 2003 authorized biography, he went out at times with his godfather-protector to deliver Nazi orders to Jewish residents and — once, apparently — to inventory some property confiscated from Jews. Here’s how Beck tells it:

 

So when George Soros was 14, his father basically bribed a government official to take his son in and let him pretend to be a Christian. His father was just trying to keep him alive. He even had to go around confiscating property of Jewish people.Now, imagine you are Jewish and you have to go and confiscate the property of your fellow Jews. And you are pretending to not be a Jew and if anybody finds out, you’re dead. He actually had to endure watching people send off to their eventual murders, watching people gathering their stuff, sending them off knowing that they were going to go to their death.

 

As Beck tells it, Soros

used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then ship them off. And George Soros was part of it. He would help confiscate the stuff. It was frightening. Here’s a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps.When he had to go over and take the lands from the people, his fellow Jewish friends and neighbors who were being sent to the gas chambers, I can’t imagine what that would do to a teenager, or anybody, to an adult. Well what did it do to George Soros?In an interview with Steve Croft, Soros was asked if he felt guilt at all about taking the property from the Jews as a teenager. He responded — no. He also said, quote, I don’t deny the Jews their national existence but I don’t want to be a part of it.

Congressman: Holocaust Survivor Is a Nazi Collaborator Who Organized Charlottesville Rallies

 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/congressman-george-soros-is-a-nazi-collaborator-organized-the-charlottesville-rallies.html

“George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and he has spent his life supporting efforts to ensure that such terrifying authoritarianism never takes root again,” his foundation said in a statement to Vice. “He was 14 years old when the war ended. He did not collaborate with the Nazis. He did not help round up people. He did not confiscate anybody’s property.”

“Such baseless allegations are insulting to the victims of the Holocaust, to all Jewish people, and to anyone who honors the truth. It is an affront to Mr. Soros and his family, who against the odds managed to survive one of the darkest moments in our history. He abhors violence in any form and has never funded it. Never has. Never will.” 

Why did Yitzchok want to give the berachos to Esav?

 אמת ליעקב בראשית פרק כז פסוק ד
(ד) בעבור תברכך נפשי בטרם אמות.
עיין במלבי"ם כאן שביאר בטוב טעם שכוונת יצחק בזה היתה לעשות מעין שותפות יששכר וזבולון בין יעקב ועשו, והינו שיעקב יקדיש את חייו לעבודת ה' ועשו ימציא לו מזונו, ועיי"ש32.
ועוד נראה בביאור ענין זה שרצה יצחק שהברכות יהיו לעשו, דהנה סוד הברכות שנתברכו בו האבות בעולם הזה - במעין עולם הבא - הוא משום שחייהם היו חיי קדוש השם והמלכת הבורא גם בארץ, וכמו שהביא רש"י [לעיל כ"ד פ"ז] בשם רז"ל וז"ל: עכשיו הוא אלקי השמים ואלקי הארץ שהרגלתיו בפי הבריות אבל כשלקחני מבית אבי היה אלקי השמים ולא אלקי הארץ שלא היו באי עולם מכירים בו ושמו לא היה רגיל בארץ עכ"ל. ולפיכך יצחק אבינו, בראותו כי יעקב איש תם יושב אהלים חשב כי הנהו כולו לד' ולא בזה בחר ה', כי לא למלאכים ניתנה התורה, וכן ארץ ישראל שנבחרה למדינה שעל ידי עבודתה יקיימו חלקים חשובים שבתורה כחיי עם שכולו עובד ד', ולא בזה חלק יעקב שאין לו הכשרה להיות עוסק בישובו של עולם, ולפיכך בחר לברך את עשו ולמסור לו טל השמים ומשמני הארץ33, כי משם תצא תורה ואורה לעולם כולו וליושביו, אבל מכיון שזכה בברכת משמני הארץ34 נתן לו כבר ברכת אברהם כי הוא כבר המושל בארץ, ודו"ק

Hearing Delayed in Complaint Against Andrew Cuomo Due to 'Potentially Defective' Filing

 https://www.newsweek.com/hearing-delayed-complaint-against-andrew-cuomo-due-potentially-defective-filing-1646578

Apple has previously been criticized for his handling of the case. Cuomo's attorney, Rita Glavin, said that the sheriff of Albany County "didn't even tell the District Attorney what he was doing."

"But Apple's behavior is no surprise given (1) his August 7 press conference where he essentially pronounced the Governor guilty before doing an investigation, and (2) his Office's leaking of grand jury information," she continued in a statement. "This is not professional law enforcement; this is politics."

No, George Soros wasn’t a Nazi soldier

 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/10/facebook-posts/no-george-soros-wasnt-nazi-soldier/

 We’ve fact-checked a version of the same photo before, as have reporters at Snopes and the Associated Press. The photo isn’t fake or doctored, but it also doesn’t show Soros, despite what the text attached to it says. A quick reverse image search reveals that much.

In reality, the photo is of Oskar Gröning, a former SS soldier who was sentenced to four years in prison in 2015 for being complicit in the murder of 300,000 people during the Holocaust.

The Vilification of George Soros In Israel

 https://momentmag.com/the-vilification-of-george-soros-in-israel/

 There are many reasons why Soros is vilified in Israel, and one of them is clearly the liberal focus of his philanthropy. Largely through his charitable organization, the OSF, Soros gives nearly $1 billion a year to organizations worldwide that support democracy and civil society. Only a tiny fraction of this annual largesse goes to Israel: From 2006 to 2016, OSF gave an average of around $3 million a year, an amount that pales in comparison to funds provided by other American mega-donors.

Debunking the George Soros-was-a-Jew-killing-Nazi conspiracy theory

 https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/tribune/article_popover.aspx?guid=9a79dc19-674b-4126-a805-f1ba9c57d15c

  Glenn Beck’s three-part Fox News series about George Soros in 2010: “The Puppet Master.”

Soros was very rich and world-famous before the series aired. He had been sometimes portrayed as a hero, such as for spending billions of dollars on foundations promoting democracy in Eastern Europe. And he had been sometimes portrayed as a villain, as when he earned a fortune by speculating against the British pound in the 1990s.

But Beck turned Soros into a cartoon nightmare — using actual puppets as props as he told Fox News viewers that Soros was funding a vast web of liberal organizations and trying to “form a shadow government, using humanitarian aid as a cover.”

Beck’s treatment of Soros’ childhood was bizarre. In the second episode of the series, Soros was called “the son of Orthodox Jews.” In the third, Beck said, “his mother was wildly anti-Semitic” — a Nazi sympathizer who had perverted her son.

“He was a Nazi collaborator,” Jones told his viewers a few weeks after Election Day. “He went around and helped round up thousands of people, stole hundreds of millions of dollars, reportedly. ... He got off on it. The guy is fundamentally evil.”

From Alex Jones to actor James Woods. From James Woods to anonymous underground forums, where someone pasted George Soros’ names onto an old photo of a Nazi S.S. officer and sent it out for viral distribution.

 

George Soros is not a Nazi, explained

 https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17405784/george-soros-not-a-nazi-trump

Donald Trump Jr. is more than his father’s right-hand man — he’s his most important link to the conspiratorial far right.

He tweets constantly about the “deep state” to more than 2 million followers, continually sending them the signal: Trump hears you.

And as the 2018 election heats up, many of Trump Jr.’s tweets center on billionaire and longtime progressive donor George Soros. Specifically, they focus on a conspiracy theory regarding the Hungarian-born Jewish investor: that he’s a Nazi. 

 

So yes, George Soros is a billionaire with ties to progressive causes. But he is not a Nazi. Or a Nazi sympathizer. At all. Despite what one might see on Twitter (or Reddit or Facebook) — or even hear from members of Congress. When one Republican Congress member suggested to Vice News that Soros had funded the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VIrginia, last summer in an effort to discredit the right, he made sure to add that Soros ”turned in his own people to the Nazis.” 

Why Do So Many Hate George Soros?

 https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium.MAGAZINE-why-do-so-many-hate-george-soros-1.9904284

 Filmmaker Jesse Dylan, the eldest son of Bob Dylan, tells Haaretz how he tried to get the real story on the Jewish billionaire philanthropist who’s loathed by far-right forces around the world

NJ governor, backed by spectrum of Jewish voters, narrowly wins reelection

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/nj-governor-backed-by-spectrum-of-jewish-voters-narrowly-wins-reelection/

 New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, the Democrat who cultivated relations across the political spectrum with his state’s substantial Jewish community, defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli in a tight reelection.

The election Tuesday was closer than anticipated, with Murphy winning barely 50 percent of the vote in a low-turnout election in which Republicans focused on extended school closures and other unpopular coronavirus prevention measures.

Exonerated Man Who Spent 37 Years in Prison Denied Compensation for Wrongful Conviction

 https://www.newsweek.com/exonerated-man-who-spent-37-years-prison-denied-compensation-wrongful-conviction-1646195

 A Florida man who was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder has been denied compensation for the 37 years he spent in prison.

Robert Duboise, 55, was released from prison in August 2020 after being behind bars since 1985.

However, Duboise had previously been to prison for non-violent offenses, and according to Florida state law, anyone applying for prison compensation is required to have a clean record.

Anti-vaxxer nonsense

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DR. ZEV ZELENKO TELLS MIKE ADAMS COVID VACCINES ARE A DEPOPULATION WEAPON AGAINST HUMANITY

UPSET MAN BLAMES THE PFIZER VACCINE AS ANOTHER YOUNG WOMAN IS INCAPACITATED (JERUSALEM, ISRAEL)

HEADS UP! - HYDRAS AND PARASITES IN VAXX, TRANSFECTING HUMANS INTO NEW SPECIES - STEW PETERS

GLOBALISTS ARE BETTING ON 90% OF HUMANITY BEING EASY TO KILL

Many doctors report:

GENE DECODE & DR. NORTHRUP DISCUSSES DETOX FOR VACCINATED & UNVACCINATED WITH NICHOLAS VENIAMIN

32 YEAR OLD ANONYMOUS MILITARY MAN HAS PFIZER VAXXX INDUCED TESTICULAR CANCER

TRASH PILING IN STREETS, NYC'S CRAZY MANDATE TIDAL WAVE OF PROBLEMS, HUGE PROTESTS & MORE

DR. JOEL WALLSKOG, DIAGNOSED WITH TRANSVERSE MYELITIS FOLLOWING his  MODERNA VACCINATION ending his career

GENE DECODE & DR. NORTHRUP DISCUSSES DETOX methods FOR VACCINATED & UNVACCINATED WITH NICHOLAS VENIAMIN

DOCTOR FIRED FOR GIVING COVID PATIENTS IVERMECTIN

NEWS ANCHOR'S SKULL SPLIT IN HALF, TORTURED AND KILLED BY PFIZER

LIEUTENANT COLONEL LONG " I HAD TO GROUND 3 OUT OF 3 PILOTS DUE TO VACCINE JAB INJURIES"

THOSE INOCULATED AGAINST COVID-19 WILL BE MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP AIDS

MEDICAL DOCTOR EXPLAINS BLOOD CLOTTING IN THE VACCINATED.

 VACCINATED PEOPLE WILL DIE WITHIN 3 YEARS!

RAMOLA D REPORTS: NEWSBREAK 134 - DR. ROBERT YOUNG CALLS FOR HALT ON VACCINES, REVEALS NEW FINDINGS

DR. ELIZABETH EADS SAYS ONE MODERNA BATCH WAS SO DEADLY is PULLED OFF THE MARKET IN CALIFORNIA

After passing budget, gov't eyes bringing haredim into coalition

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316370

After long nights of voting and debates, the coalition finally passed the budget last night (Thursday night). Now they will try to test its expansion. One such topic: cooperation with the haredi parties.

In recent months, the question of the haredi factions joining the government has received an unequivocal answer - Lieberman said "it is either me or them", and the haredi have made it clear that they are not interested in joining the government at all.

But senior government officials point to the new post-budgetary political situation as an opportunity to bring back the issue of cooperation to the table.

 

זקן הדיינים: "אין מקום להפקעת הקידושין"

https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1295205 

 במכתב ששלח זקן הדיינים הגר"צ בוארון לדיינים שחתמו על הפסק התקדימי, הוא כותב כי "אין מקום להפקעת הקידושין - וכי אין להיתר זה כל בסיס הלכתי והוא בטל כעפרא דארעא, והאשה הינה אשת איש גמורה" | שניים מהדיינים חזרו בהם מהפסק, אך הגר"צ לא הסתפק בכך

 

Shufersal sued after secret haredi discounts revealed

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/shufersal-sued-after-secret-haredi-discounts-revealed-683999

 A lawsuit was filed against the Shufersal supermarket chain on Thursday after it was revealed by Channel 12 that the chain was providing discounted prices on a special site for haredi shoppers.

Channel 12's "Tochnit Chisachon" (Saving Plan) program revealed that Yashir L'Mehadrin, a site run by the Shufersal chain, was providing products for cheaper than the chain's main website, with 2,000 identical products found to be cheaper on Yashir L'Mehadrin.

 

The website doesn't deliver to some major cities in Israel, including Haifa, Rishon Lezion, Ramat Gan and Ashkelon.

Georgia Congresswoman: 'Vaccine Nazis ruining our country'

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316300

 Marjorie Taylor Greene made another comparison between America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and the Holocaust in an interview on Steve Bannon’s podcast on Tuesday, months after apologizing for making such comparisons at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

“They’re ruining our country, these vaccine Nazis,” she said, according to NBC News, noting that she is still not vaccinated.

She added later: “I’m sorry. I know I’m using the word Nazi and everybody gets mad when I say it, but that’s exactly what they are

Pulsa diNura

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsa_diNura

On 1 June 2021, The Times of Israel reported that a member of the Health Ministry panel that had been advising on COVID-19 vaccinations received death threats including the Pulsa DiNura during the process of approval for the inoculation of children.^[18]

On 10 June 2021, Naftali Bennett, leader of the Yamina party and prime minister designate in the incoming national unity government, reportedly received a letter stating that the Pulsa DiNura had been invoked against him. The letter was unsigned but reportedly referenced ultra-Orthodox rabbis.^[19

Israel passes first budget in 3.5 years

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-passes-first-budget-in-35-years-683981

 The Knesset passed the 2021 state budget into law in a 61-59 vote at 5:30 a.m. Thursday morning, giving Israel a new budget for the first time since March 15, 2018.

When the vote was announced, coalition MKs applauded and embraced each other in joy. Following the vote, the MKs went to sleep for a few hours and will resume voting later Thursday on the Economic Arrangements Law and afterward the 2022 budget.

The Chofetz Chaim Hated Russian Communist Leaders

 https://60ribo.org.il/the-chafetz-chaim-hated-russian-communist-leaders/

It was told in the biography of Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman (in the English Artscroll edition, page 59) what the Chafetz Chaim (who usually has the final say on what is Jewish Law) did to the Communist, Trotsky.

That the Chafetz Chaim agreed to curse this wicked man with a curse , special for wicked Jews and within a short time thereafter, Trotsky fell from power (one should add that after a few years later , Stalin also murdered him). And see also the Be’ur Halacha, siman 329 the words beginning with Eleh L-fi ”that it is permissible to curse a wicked Jew”….for it is written ” and a leader of your nation do not curse” -when he does the action of your nation.

 

 “But if he is standing in a place that has Apikorsim (heretics) that rise up against the Torah and wish to enact some regulations in the matters of the city, and by means of this they will bring the people to transgress the will of G-d; and he opened in peace, and his words were not obeyed. In such a situation the Beit Yosef did not speak of at all. And it is a mitzvah to hate them and quarrel with them and nullify their plotting with all that he has the ability to do. And King David, peace be unto him said, ”Do I not hate, Hashem, those that hate you and with those that rise up against you , I shall quarrel ! I hate them with an utmost hatred: I count them as my enemies”. (Psalms 139:21,22)"

 

However the story is not likely true

 

 

Berachos (7a)

A certain heretic who was in Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi’s neighborhood would upset him by incessantly challenging the legitimacy of verses. One day, Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi took a rooster and placed it between the legs of the bed upon which he sat and looked at it. He thought: When the moment of God’s anger arrives, I will curse him and be rid of him. When the moment of God’s anger arrived, Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi slept. When he woke up, he said to himself: Conclude from the fact that I nodded off that it is not proper conduct to do so, to curse people, even if they are wicked. “His mercy is over all His creations” (Psalms 145:9) is written even with regard to sinners.

Moreover, it is inappropriate to cause the punishment of another, as it is written: “Punishment, even for the righteous, is not good” (Proverbs 17:26), even for a righteous person, it is improper to punish another.

 Berachos (19a)

There were these hooligans in Rabbi Meir’s neighborhood who caused him a great deal of anguish. Rabbi Meir prayed for God to have mercy on them, that they should die. Rabbi Meir’s wife, Berurya, said to him: What is your thinking? On what basis do you pray for the death of these hooligans? Do you base yourself on the verse, as it is written: “Let sins cease from the land” (Psalms 104:35), which you interpret to mean that the world would be better if the wicked were destroyed? But is it written, let sinners cease?” Let sins cease, is written. One should pray for an end to their transgressions, not for the demise of the transgressors themselves.

Moreover, go to the end of the verse, where it says: “And the wicked will be no more.” If, as you suggest, transgressions shall cease refers to the demise of the evildoers, how is it possible that the wicked will be no more, i.e., that they will no longer be evil? Rather, pray for God to have mercy on them, that they should repent, as if they repent, then the wicked will be no more, as they will have repented.

Rabbi Meir saw that Berurya was correct and he prayed for God to have mercy on them, and they repented.

Youngkin accused of antisemitism after claiming allies of Jewish donor George Soros ‘inserted’ operatives into Virginia school boards

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/10/21/soros-youngkin-antisemitism-school-board-crt-racism-mcauliffe/

GOP gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin is facing allegations of antisemitism after accusing allies of Jewish philanthropist George Soros of a shadowy campaign to place secret political operatives onto Virginia school boards.

In an appearance Tuesday night at a rally at the Burke Volunteer Fire Department, Youngkin tried to link Soros, his Democratic opponent Terry McAuliffe and cultural debates roiling some suburban Northern Virginia public school systems. In particular, some parents are protesting equity initiatives they associate with critical race theory, an intellectual movement that examines the way policies and laws perpetuate systemic racism.

What Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia win means for Democrats

 https://www.vox.com/2021/11/3/22752593/virginia-governor-results-youngkin-wins

 Many on the right and in the national media have framed Youngkin’s attacks on the purported use of “critical race theory” in Virginia’s public school system as crucial to his success. It isn’t so clear that was what made the difference, though, since conservative candidates focusing on that issue in local races in New Hampshire and Connecticut lost.

And while Youngkin used the specter of critical race theory to appeal to the base, his TV ads aimed at swing voters had a wider focus. In those, Youngkin conveyed concern about the state of the economy and the state’s education system more broadly. He falsely claimed McAuliffe planned to raise taxes by over $5,000 per family, and argued that the state’s public schools were increasingly poorly run and unsafe.

Virginia governor-elect Youngkin was accused of using antisemitic tropes

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/virginia-governor-elect-youngkin-was-accused-of-using-antisemitic-tropes/

Republican Glenn Youngkin, a businessman, has defeated former governor Terry McAuliffe to become Virginia’s governor in a race that was fraught with charges of antisemitism.

Local and national media organizations called the race, which was widely viewed as a barometer for Republican electoral strategy in the post-Trump era, early Wednesday morning.

Youngkin embraced former US President Donald Trump in the primary but distanced himself from Trump in the general campaign, while still managing to retain the support of Trump’s core constituencies.

25 years later, man sues bar mitzvah tutor, synagogue and day school for abuse

 https://forward.com/news/477521/lawsuit-sexual-abuse-akiva-roth-bar-mitzvah-tutor-synagogue-day-school/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_3130732

 Nearly 25 years after his bar mitzvah tutor pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct, a 40-year-old New Jersey native has sued the former tutor as well as the synagogue and day school that employed him.

The tutor, Akiva Roth, pleaded guilty in 1997 to four counts of lewdness, and lost his jobs at the East Brunswick Jewish Center, the former Solomon Schechter School of Essex and Union counties and Camp Ramah in the Berkshires. But the plaintiff in the lawsuit and two other former students of Roth who were interviewed over the past month contend that the three institutions failed to properly inform their communities of the situation, allowing Roth to continue teaching in other Jewish organizations for years.

LGBTQ+ activist accused of sexual misconduct against minors

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/lgbtq-activist-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-against-minors-683894

 Just days after LGBTQ+ personality Gal Uchovsky was accused of sexual assault, prominent LGBTQ+ activist Etai Pinkas-Arad has been accused of sexual misconduct by two men who say they had relations with Pinkas-Arad over ten years ago when they were 17, Ynet reported on Wednesday.

The two, identified as A. and Y. in the report, were both 17 and members of the Israel Gay Youth (IGY) youth group at the time of the incidents and met Pinkas-Arad, who was over 30 at the time, at lectures he gave to the group. The two underwent and passed a polygraph test.

Pinkas-Arad serves as a Tel Aviv city council member in charge of the issues concerning the LGBTQ+ community and was at the center of the battle in the High Court of Justice to make surrogacy for same-sex couples and single fathers legal.

‘It’s the Jews’: An antisemitic tirade at an Arizona school board meeting spurs debate

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316219

 An antisemitic tirade at a school board meeting in suburban Phoenix last week has spurred an extensive response among local officials and Jewish leaders — some of whom say they were distressed that board members did not rebut the comment at the time.

During the public comment portion of the meeting of the Chandler Unified School District board, a woman who identified herself as Melanie Rettler spoke for over a minute about critical race theory and vaccines — topics not listed on the meeting agenda but at the center of heated public debate nationwide.

Her comment crescendoed with an antisemitic claim drenched in the language of right-wing conspiracy theories.

5 Takeaways: How Youngkin’s Win Makes Democrats Squirm About 2022

 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/02/us/election-news#election-takeaways

Mr. Youngkin had campaigned heavily on education and seized on Mr. McAuliffe’s remark that he didn’t “believe parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Mr. Youngkin used the comment, made during a debate, as an entryway to hammer his rival on issues like race and transgender rights in schools. The issues simultaneously motivated the G.O.P. base while casting the matter to moderates as an issue of parental rights.

“This is no longer a campaign,” Mr. Youngkin said. “It is a movement being led by Virginia’s parents.”

Republican strategists were downright gleeful about the possibility of repackaging Mr. Trump’s policies without his personality.

Tucker Carlson Is Stirring Up Hatred of America

 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/patriot-purge-tucker-carlson-documentary/620589/

To comprehend the full scope of the conspiracy, viewers will have to watch all three episodes. But even in the first episode, the goals of this project are already clear. The point is to describe the events of January 6 as a false-flag operation cooked up inside the deepest layers of the American deep state—and thus to cast doubt on everything that will come out of Congress’s January 6 hearings, everything revealed by every Washington Post or network-television investigation, everything turned up by the FBI. For Fox viewers, this will come as an enormous relief. If all the disturbing facts can be ignored, then no lessons need be learned. Republicans in Congress and the Trump White House need never be blamed for their assault on the Constitution. The people who supported them need never question that support.

 

Black Shadow hackers leak medical records of 290,000 Israeli patients

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rye2poyvt

 The Iran-linked Black Shadow hacking group on Tuesday night leaked what claimed was the full database of Machon Mor medical institute, including medical records of some 290,000 patients.

The database includes information regarding medical tests and treatments, and the leak comes mere hours after the group also hacked the entire online database of popular LGBTQ dating site Atraf, which is hosted by the Israeli internet company Cyberserve.

Disposable plasticware prices soar as new tax introduced

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/disposable-plasticware-prices-soar-as-new-tax-introduced/

 In a bid to drive down Israel’s plastic waste, the government on Monday introduced a new tax on disposable plasticware aimed at doubling the price of plastic cutlery and crockery for Israeli consumers.

The Environmental Protection Ministry said that the new tax — an increase of 11 shekels per kilogram of single-use plastics — would “double the final price for the consumer and thus reduce the consumption of these polluting products.”

The tax will apply to plastic plates, bowls, cups, and straws.

This is exactly how dumb our politics have gotten

 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/02/politics/critical-race-theory-virginia-governor-youngkin-mcauliffe/index.html

 In the final days of the Virginia governor's race, Republican Glenn Youngkin did everything he could to suggest the contest was a referendum on what is being taught to the commonwealth's schoolchildren.

"There's no place for critical race theory in our school system, and why, on day one, I'm going to ban it," Youngkin told Fox News' Mark Levin over the weekend, adding that critical race theory "teaches children to see everything through a lens of race and then to divide them into buckets and have children [who] are called privileged and others [who] are victims."

Internal Haredi criticism against Yaakov Litzman

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316184

MK Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) caused a stir in the political system last night when, prior to the opening of discussions on the state budget, he compared the coalition members to dogs.

"This is the first time I see dogs giving something to cats," Litzman said, referring to a section in the coalition funds that allocates NIS 12 million for neutering stray cats.

In the coalition, he was sharply criticized, but it turns out that his colleagues in the haredi parties did not like the "unsuccessful" wording to say the least.

Marathon Knesset debate begins ahead of critical budget votes

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/marathon-knesset-budget-debate-begins-683788

 The Knesset began what is set to be a 33-hour debate on the 2021 and 2022 state budgets on Tuesday morning. 

On Wednesday night, the MKs will begin voting on some 600 items relating to the 2021 state budget, its accompanying economic arrangements bill and then the 2022 state budget. 

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly violated coalition agreements and refused to pass a budget, leaving Israel without a state budget for over three years.

Forest Hills Jewish Center, a fixture in Queens, NY, will sell its building and relocate

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316152

 Congregants at the Forest Hills Jewish Center, a fixture in Queens since the late 1940s, approved the sale Thursday evening of their block-long building. They will now begin the process of finding a new home in the same area.

“The vote was overwhelmingly for the sale,” said Carl Koerner, chair of the building committee.

The 400-family unit Conservative congregation’s synagogue at 106-06 Queens Boulevard has been on the market for about a year. The asking price was $50 million, but Koerner said the terms of the sale to a developer would not be made public until it is approved by the state attorney general.

The 70-year-old building “doesn’t serve the needs of our congregation,” explained Rabbi Gerald Skolnik, the congregation’s spiritual leader since 1982.

Mansour Abbas: 'United Arab List needs haredim in the coalition'

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316166

The chairman of the United Arab List declared his support for expanding the ruling coalition to include Israel’s two haredi parties, after making a last-minute request to include increased funding for the haredi sector before the state budget was brought to the Knesset Tuesday morning.

Just before the state spending plan was brought to the Knesset Tuesday, MK Mansour Abbas approached government officials and asked for an allocation of 100 million shekels from his party's coalition funds for the benefit of the haredi sector, Kan 11 News reported on Monday.

Assisted dying: British Medical Association drops opposition to euthanasia

 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/assisted-dying-british-medical-association-drops-opposition-vqb7xsmvq

 The British Medical Association has dropped its opposition to assisted dying in a narrow vote at its annual representative meeting.

Doctors and medical students voted for the union to “move to a position of neutrality on assisted dying, including physician-assisted dying”.

The BMA, which represents 150,000 doctors, has opposed legalising assisted dying since 2006. However, a survey of its members in February last year found that the proportion in favour of a change in law now outnumbered those against.

 

Covid-19: Concern over 'do not resuscitate' decisions during pandemic

 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56435428

 Individuals' human rights may have been breached in more than 500 cases where "do not resuscitate" decisions were made during the Covid pandemic, the care watchdog for England has said.

Some 508 'do not attempt resuscitation' (DNAR) decisions made since March 2020 were not agreed in discussion with the person or their family, a report found.

The Care Quality Commission is calling for improvements to care planning.

An NHS spokesman said decisions should be made in consultation with families.

The CQC has recommended that a ministerial oversight group be created to work with health and care providers, local government and the voluntary sector to deliver improvements.

It wants to see a consistent national approach to advance care planning, with staff training, accessible information for families and records of conversations and decisions agreed.