"Gas is high because they shut down production in the U.S.” under the Biden administration. - false

 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/09/facebook-posts/oil-production-bidens-first-year-par-trump/

Gas prices soared to an average $4.173 per gallon on March 8, according to AAA, breaking a 2008 record.

Oil production in the U.S. in President Joe Biden’s first year was on par with 2020 and higher than in two of the four years Trump was president.

Increased consumer demand, inflation and the war in Ukraine are among the factors in the rising price at the pump, experts say.

Trump and Boebert’s Oil Spin

 https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/trump-and-boeberts-oil-spin/

The average gross exports so far during the Biden administration are higher than the average during the Trump administration, Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Department of Energy’s Office of International Climate and Clean Energy under Obama, told us in an email.

“But the real issue here is way beyond anything either administration did – it’s about global oil prices,” Gross said. “Presidents can’t do much to control those, they are set in the global marketplace, although politicians suffer when gasoline prices rise. As the swing producers, OPEC decisions make a difference here and that’s why presidents often jawbone OPEC to produce more to bring oil prices down. It’s not because we are any more dependent on the Middle East than we were last year.”

Freshly lost suitcases said thrown out amid airport chaos, as hundreds more pile up

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/freshly-lost-suitcases-said-thrown-out-as-hundreds-pile-up-amid-airport-chaos/

With hundreds of lost suitcases piling up amid recent travel snafus at Ben Gurion Airport, some luggage that became separated from travelers flying abroad has been thrown into the garbage, Channel 12 news reported Sunday.

Some members of the airport staff were said to have first rummaged through the contents of the bags that were tossed, looking for valuables.

Trump Avoids Word 'Vaccine' at Alaska Rally After Boos Over It in Alabama

 https://www.newsweek.com/trump-avoids-word-vaccine-alaska-rally-after-boos-over-it-alabama-1723229

"We did so much in terms of therapeutics, and a word that I'm not allowed to mention—but I'm still proud of that word," he said. "We did that in nine months, and it was supposed to take five years to 12 years and nobody else could've done it. But I'm not mentioning it in front of my own people."

Putin Ally Lukashenko Faces Revolt From Officers Against Ukraine War

 https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-lukashenko-faces-revolt-officers-against-ukraine-war-1723224

Senior officers from the fifth brigade of the Special Forces warned in an open letter to Lukashenko, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, against sending troops to fight in Ukraine, describing that such decision is "pure suicide," the Express reported Saturday.

"By entering the war against Ukraine, Belarus will be evicted from the community of civilized states and will be an international outcast for many years to come," the military officers wrote.

Belarus has allowed Russia to station its troops and carry out large-scale military drills in the country since the beginning of the war, which started in late February. Meanwhile in May, Belarus launched large-scale drills of its military forces in order to test its army's combat readiness, according to the Belarusian defense ministry.

4 days in January: Trump push for Capitol coda to 2020 vote

 https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-biden-presidential-elections-election-2020-congress-eb90b5a11a77fe528fa610cccb442c1e

It would have been something never quite before seen in America — a defeated president, Donald Trump, standing at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a mob of supporters, some armed, contesting the election outcome.

Trump intended to go there that day. His allies had been planning for the moment, envisioning the president delivering a speech outside the building or even entering the House chamber amid objections to Congress certifying the 2020 election results for Democrat Joe Biden.

“He’s going to look powerful,” mused Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to a young White House aide four days earlier.

Baruch Lebovits, convicted child abuser whose case shed light on Hasidic justice system, dies at 71

 https://www.jta.org/2022/07/06/obituaries/baruch-lebovits-convicted-child-abuser-whose-case-shed-light-on-hasidic-justice-system-dies-at-71

Both Lebovits and Kellner are household names, according to a source in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn — Lebovits as a serial sex offender, and Kellner as an example of what can happen to those who go outside the community’s legal system to civil authorities.

Nurse reveals how she pranks Covid deniers who call her a crisis actor

Remember the IRS Scandal? It was Fake News All Along

 https://www.newsweek.com/remember-irs-scandal-it-was-fake-news-all-along-681674

Once that news broke, we were off to the races. Despite a complete lack of evidence, Republicans in Congress immediately claimed that this was a political hit job directed from on high in the Obama Administration. Not only was there no evidence to support such claims, but the TIGTA report had made clear that the IRS had already stopped using those filters.

IRS targeting controversy

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

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, the FBI is also a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence.^[3] A leading U.S. counter-terrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, the FBI has jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes.^[4][5]

Lauren Boebert 'Genocide Squad' Abortion Comments 'Disgraceful': Dershowitz

 https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-genocide-squad-abortion-comments-disgraceful-alan-dershowitz-1723146

Dershowitz said that the way Kavanaugh was treated was "absolutely disgraceful," but he also responded to Boebert's remarks.

"Look, I oppose the reversal of Roe v. Wade," Dershowitz said. "I think, by the way, what Congresswoman Boebert said—calling people on my side of the issue the 'genocide squad' and saying that we are prepared for babies already born to be killed—is even more disgraceful than anything that happened to the justice.

LGBTQ couples to take advantage of ZOOM civil marriages ruling

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356239

The Central District Court ruled in a precedent-setting decision that the State will be required to register as married Israeli citizens who married 'abroad' in a civil ceremony via ZOOM, even if they never physically leave Israel's borders, Reshet Bet reported.

According to the report, the State has the option of appealing to the Supreme Court. Should the Supreme Court uphold the ruling, the State will have no choice but to recognize these ZOOM marriages.

Israel Grants Residency Status to Rabbi Convicted of Child Sex Abuse

 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-07-07/ty-article/.premium/israel-grants-residency-status-to-rabbi-convicted-of-child-sex-abuse/00000181-d80b-d9a3-a3e1-fdbb8dc00000

In 2002, Lanner was convicted of sexually abusing two teenage girls who were students in the 1990s at the Hillel Yeshiva High School in Ocean Township, New Jersey, where he was principal [https://www.jta.org/2002/10/11/ny/lanner-gets-7-year-prison-term]. An appeals court later dismissed one of two child endangerment charges against him [https://www.jta.org/2005/02/18/ny/split-ruling-on-lanner-appeal]. He was sentenced to seven years in prison, served nearly three years and was released on parole in early 2008.

US probes rare, intensive audits of Trump critics

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62088872

The US is to investigate how two ex-FBI heads - both critics of Donald Trump - were subjected to rare, intensive tax audits during his presidency.

The request to check James Comey and Andrew McCabe's cases was made by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the Department of the Treasury.

The news that both men were selected for an uncommon type of audit was first reported in the New York Times.

Individuals are supposed to be selected at random for the audit.

The Times calculated the odds of an individual being selected for the IRS's National Research Program in 2017 at about one in 30,000.

The Militant Conservative Who Played the Long Game on Abortion

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/07/leo-brent-bozell-abortion-game-00044246

Joe McCarthy, for one, was impressed, hiring Bozell as his adviser and speechwriter. So was Arizona GOP Sen. Barry Goldwater, who had Bozell ghostwrite his best-selling The Conscience of a Conservative. Some conscience. In it, Goldwater explained that he was not “impressed by the claim that the Supreme Court’s decision on school integration is the law of the land.”

Pantheism

https://mikyab.net/en/Co/פננתיאיזם

Hello Rabbi, I remember a week's lesson you talked about Rabbi Kook's teachings and claimed that his perception of Gd is not fundamentally different from Spinoza. (Pantheism versus Pantheism). Can you explain to me exactly what you meant or refer me to where you wrote about it? And do you actually define Rabbi Kook's conception as heresy?

I do not remember. I am not knowledgeable enough in his teaching to state this. I know that there are interpretations of his doctrine that see him as a pantheist (everything is divine), and in fact a continuation of the Hasidic approach that believes that reduction is not as simple. Others try to explain subtleties in this difference, thus defining pantheism (all in divinity) versus pantheism (all divinity). This distinction is not clear to me (and I suspect neither are those who raise it). If we are part of it or its organs, then again we are back to pantheism and reduction not literally. And if the intent is that it works in us and revives us or something like that, then I do not understand what is new in this approach. Perhaps the meaning is that the relationship between him and the world is like between soul and body (like the gemara known in blessings), it may be different but in my opinion those who bring it up will not really stand behind the consequences (e.g. he chooses and thinks and not us).

The Thought of Rav Kook- Lesson 17 Heresy

 https://www.etzion.org.il/en/philosophy/great-thinkers/rav-kook/heresy

In a volume of eulogies -"Eder Ha-Yakar" - written for his father-in-law, Rav David Rabinowicz, Rav Kook has a pamphlet - "Ikvei HaTzon." In this collection of articles there is an article entitled "Da'at Elokim." Here Rav Kook discusses a metaphysical paradigm diametrically opposed to that of Transcendental Monotheism: Pantheism - an approach associated with Baruch Spinoza in the seventeenth century. Pantheism has as its central dogma "Deus sive natura" - God is nature.

Having rejected Transcendence and Pantheism as problematic theological models, Rav Kook favors a third alternative, panentheism, meaning the world is in God. (Pantheism = all is God; Panentheism = all is in God.)

Coping with Modernity: An interview with Rabbi Emanuel Rackman

 https://thejewishreview.org/articles/?id=184

Jewish Review: There are those who regard your openness to secular thought and your call for halakhic sensitivity to contemporary life as evidence that you are closer to a Conservative approach to Judaism than you are to Orthodoxy.? What would you say differentiates your views from those, for example, who form the so‑called traditional, right‑wing at the Jewish Theological Seminary?

A Call For The End Of Dishonest Jewish Outreach

 https://www.jta.org/2012/06/07/ny/a-call-for-the-end-of-dishonest-jewish-outreach

Orthodox groups engaged in kiruv include the National Jewish Outreach Program, with events at 3,700 locations throughout North America (and nearly 40 nations); Chabad, with its more than 3,000 emissaries (shluchim) in 70 countries; and groups such as Aish HaTorah, JAM, Maimonides, and Ohr Somayach. Of course there are thousands of other professionals (across the ideological spectrum) at Kollels, Hillels, shuls, and schools also doing significant outreach work. There are so many responsible and ethical Orthodox outreach professionals in the field that we cannot let those who are more narrow and deceptive ruin the perception of the rest. Outreach professionals are often courageous leaving their comfort zone to engage others in the tradition in inconvenient ways. However, many have been very critical of some kiruv tactics, especially among the Hareidi, for refusing to acknowledge any opinion but their own and for not answering difficult questions. One critical blog quoted Rabbi Emanuel Rackman’s critique of this closed, fundamentalist mindset that can be found:

We are gradually becoming majority Charedi

 https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/all/we-are-gradually-becoming-majority-charedi-6CLtk8IzZnHFOb79OJ0Wt9

The data are in. There are 2.1 million Charedi Jews in the world today, comprising one in seven of the global Jewish population. By 2040 they are projected to reach about four million and comprise at least one in five. That’s not speculation; it’s as certain as any demographic projection ever gets.

The figures in the UK are even more striking. 80,000 Charedi Jews live here, constituting one in four of the whole. In fact, Charedi Jews comprise a larger fraction of the total Jewish population here than in any other country in the world, bar Belgium. And by 2040, the proportion here will be somewhere between one in every two or three.

The Kabbalah and Pantheism

 https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/judaism/judaism/kabbalah#The_Kabbalah_and_Pantheism

It is evident, therefore, that while not a single kabbalist school of thought ever claimed that God has no existence apart from created beings, the position most commonly held was that He was nevertheless to be found within them in variously definable ways. Hence, too, the neoplatonic assertion frequently encountered in kabbalistic literature that God is "the soul of souls," a claim which is not entirely free of pantheistic nuances although it lends itself to other interpretations as well

How Is Chassidic Thought Distinct from Pantheism?

 https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/512437/jewish/How-Is-Chassidic-Thought-Distinct-from-Pantheism.htm

Rabbi Tzvi Freeman,

I have read many of your articles about soul matters. You often explain that G‑d is somehow “divided” into “sparks,” and those “sparks” are present in everything, including non-animated objects such as sand. How can this idea be reconciled with G‑d’s absolute unity? And what then is the difference between this way of thought and pantheism?

Doctors Warn of Vitamin D Supplement “Overdosing” – Man Hospitalized After Losing 28 Pounds

 https://scitechdaily.com/doctors-warn-of-vitamin-d-supplement-overdosing-man-hospitalized-after-losing-28-pounds/

Doctors are warning that ‘Overdosing’ on vitamin D supplements is both possible and harmful after they treated a man who needed hospital admission for his excessive vitamin D intake. They reported their concerns in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

They point out that ‘hypervitaminosis D,’ as the condition is formally known, is on the rise and has been linked to a wide variety of potentially serious health conditions.

This particular case concerns a middle-aged man who was referred to the hospital by his family doctor after complaining of recurrent vomiting, nausea, leg cramps, abdominal pain, increased thirst, dry mouth, tinnitus (ringing in the ear), diarrhea, and weight loss (28 lbs or 12.7 kg).

Marjorie Taylor Greene Pushes Link Between Medication and Mass Shootings

 https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-pushes-link-medication-mass-shootings-highland-park-1721631

Marjorie Taylor Greene has suggested—without evidence—a link between shootings and medication, following mass shooting in Highland Park, Chicago, on July 4.

Post Misleadingly Equates 2016 Democratic Effort to Trump’s 2020 ‘Alternate Electors’

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/06/post-misleadingly-equates-2016-democratic-effort-to-trumps-2020-alternate-electors/

In a snapshot of a tweet shared on Instagram, Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative political commentator, equated the two efforts and said the 2016 bid probably inspired then-President Trump in 2020 to pursue the alternate electors’ route. The scheme has become a focus of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

“I’m chuckling about the fake outrage over Trump seeking alternate electors for the 2020 election,” tweeted D’Souza. He then misleadingly claimed, “The Left and the Democrats were calling for alternate electors after the 2016 election. Trump most likely got the idea FROM THEM.”

First, the Democrats were not calling for “alternate electors” in 2016 but “faithless electors” who were duly chosen to represent their states in the Electoral College. Most of those who did switch their votes broke their own states’ laws by not voting for the candidate to whom they were pledged.

‘Let’s Move On’: Republicans Prove Once Again They’re Beyond Caring About Mass Shootings

 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/highland-park-shooting-republican-response-1377962/

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday night pushed a dubious claim that antidepressant medications and SSRI’s are responsible for mass shootings. The Georgia congresswoman said she was “done with the political plays on this BS” and accused people of “covering for Big Pharma.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene shared edited image of Highland Park shooting suspect

 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jul/05/marjorie-taylor-greene/marjorie-taylor-greene-shared-edited-image-highlan/

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared an image featuring the Highland Park shooting suspect, falsely claiming it was a photo that showed him “in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center.”

Tucker Carlson Suggests Shootings Are Result of Lectures on Male Privilege

 https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-mass-shooting-male-privilege-fourth-july-parade-robert-crimo-1722071

Tucker Carlson suggested on his Tuesday show that women lecturing men about male privilege is a contributing factor to mass shootings in the United States.

Why did Illinois 'red flag' law fail to stop Highland Park massacre?

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/356065

State police added that without formal criminal complaints or warnings regarding his mental health filed by those who knew Crimo directly or by healthcare providers, the agency was unable to “take additional action”.

Matti Friedman - The Aleppo Codex

Spies of no Country | Matti Friedman & Benjamin Balint | 3.12.2020

Trump campaign doubles down on election fraud claims

 https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/12/politics/donald-trump-pennsylvania-cheating/index.html

In an interview with CNN's Victor Blackwell, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said the campaign was concerned with potential election fraud, particularly over electronic voting machines, which security researchers have warned are vulnerable to hacking.

Trump has offered no evidence to back up his claims that the elections would be "rigged" against him, and asked about making an unjustified assertion, Pierson said it was a concern over a hypothetical scenario.

"There is no evidence because the election hasn't occurred yet." Pierson said. "This is not far-fetched. Election fraud has been a concern for a very long time."The Trump campaign went still further, calling on its website for supporters to volunteer to be Trump election observers.

Trump sues Hillary Clinton, alleging ‘plot’ to rig 2016 election against him

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/trump-hillary-clinton-russia-lawsuit-2016-election

Donald Trump has sued Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and other people and entities tied to the investigation of Russian election interference in 2016, claiming that in a bid to rig the election they orchestrated a conspiracy which made Watergate “pale in comparison”.

The book of the angel Raziel

 Zohar (1:055b) When Adam was in the Garden of Eden, G-d sent down to him a book by the hand of Raziel, the angel in charge of the holy mysteries. In this book were supernal inscriptions containing the sacred wisdom, and seventy-two branches of wisdom expounded so as to show the formation of six hundred and seventy inscriptions of higher mysteries. In the middle of the book was a secret writing explaining the thousand and five hundred keys which were not revealed even to the holy angels, and all of which were locked up in this book until it came into the hands of Adam. When Adam obtained it, all the holy angels gathered round him to hear him read it, and when he began they exclaimed: “Be thou exalted, O Lord, above the heavens, let thy glory be above all the earth. Thereupon the holy angel Hadarniel was secretly sent to say to him: “Adam, Adam, reveal not the glory of the Master, for to thee alone and not to the angels is the privilege given to know the glory of thy Master.” Therefore he kept it by him secretly until he left the Garden of Eden. While he was there he studied it diligently, and utilised constantly the gift of his Master until he discovered sublime mysteries which were not known even to the celestial ministers. When, however, he transgressed the command of his Master, the book flew away from him. Adam then beat his breast and wept, and entered the river Gihon up to his neck, so that his body became all wrinkled and his face haggard. God thereupon made a sign to Raphael to return to him the book, which he then studied for the rest of his life.

Ramban's source

 Zohar (1:081b) R. Judah said : ‘Consider this. Because Abram went down to Egypt without first obtaining God's consent, therefore his descendants were enslaved to the Egyptians four hundred years.’

On Conservative Radio, Misleading Message Is Clear: ‘Democrats Cheat’

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/business/media/conservative-radio-democrats-cheat.html

Republican politicians and cable outlets like Fox News have carried the torch for Mr. Trump’s conspiracy theories ever since. But the loudest and most consistent booster of these unfounded claims has been talk radio, where conservative hosts reduce the jumble of false voter fraud theories into a two-word mantra: “Democrats cheat.”

Shireen Abu Akleh probe could harm Biden-Abbas meeting - analysis

 https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-711290

This week’s harsh denunciations of the US by the PA leadership are part of Ramallah’s effort to stave off the widespread criticism from its own people. However, the anti-US statements are also seen by some Palestinians as part of an attempt by the PA to extract concessions from the US administration on the eve of the Biden-Abbas meeting.

The Hasidic Underground

 https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/the-hasidic-underground

In those days (the late 1970s) Aryeh Kaplan, who was already well known as an Orthodox writer, lived on the outskirts of Boro Park. His books on Kabbalah had been published by Samuel Weiser, who owned a New Age press from Maine. This bothered some of the more conformist Haredim in Boro Park, and thus I think Kaplan’s decision to live on the margins of Boro Park was more than symbolic. An ultra-Orthodox Jew of Sephardic descent, who was a baal teshuvah himself and once served as a rabbi in a Conservative synagogue (which in Boro Park is basically the same as a church), Kaplan decided to stay on the margins of that world. A deeply pious man, he would have an open house after Friday night dinner, and we sometimes walked there to listen to him. The neighborhood was not safe at night, and thus going to Kaplan’s home itself required a modicum of emunah (faith). His dining room was adorned with a series of bizarre oil paintings. At some point, with no training as an artist, Kaplan decided to refrain from study for a year and devote himself to painting. After the year he stopped and never painted again. Those paintings were the product of his experiment.

He would gesture to someone to ask him a question about the weekly Torah portion and then he would just spin off of that for what seemed like hours (it probably wasn’t). In any event, Kaplan emphatically did not like Dovid Din. It was a kind of fissure in the scene because there was a lot of overlap in those years between Dovid and Aryeh Kaplan. Kaplan saw something in Dovid he didn’t trust, but he didn’t know what. We just never mentioned Dovid in Kaplan’s presence. Many years later Kaplan’s intuitions about Dovid turned out to be right. He was hiding something.

RABBI ARYEH KAPLAN – THE MAN BEHIND THE BOOKS:

 https://www.kotzkblog.com/2019/10/247-rabbi-aryeh-kaplan-man-behind-books.html

R. Kaplan wrote that some medieval Kabbalists may have used psychedelic drugs[8] to achieve lofty states. Also, cannabis, known as k’nei bosem (sounds similar) was used in the anointing oil.[9]

Drugs in Judaism

https://ohr.edu/ask_db/ask_main.php/89/Q1/ 

In general, using drugs is unhealthy. But even if no harm is done to the body, drugs lead to a lack of concentration needed to pray, fulfill mitzvot and learn Torah properly.

https://mobile.twitter.com/kann_news/status/1544037373750681600

The Prohibition of Geneivas Daas

 https://dinonline.org/2016/06/30/beware-of-deception-the-prohibition-of-geneivas-daas/

The Semag (Negative Prohibition 155) and the Shulchan Aruch Harav (Onaah 11) likewise state that the prohibition of deception is a Torah law. The Semak (262), however, writes that the prohibition is rabbinic, and this is also the opinion of the Bach (Choshen Mishpat 228).

Some authorities make a distinction between commerce and other matters, writing that the Torah prohibition applies only to sales and commerce (see Sefer Ha-Kovetz, De’os 2:6; see also Shulchan Aruch Ha-Rav, who makes special mention of deception that results in financial gain). Certainly, if a merchant purposely conceals a flaw in the goods he sells, it will be a full transgression of the prohibition (and be classified as monetary theft as well).

The Pet Rock Fad - As Crazy as It Sounds?

Sending Anti-Semitic Vaccine Conspiracy Email

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2022/01/04/entrata-chairman-david-bateman-resigns-hours-after-sending-anti-semitic-vaccine-conspiracy-email/?sh=5ed2e5103ab5

David “Dave” Bateman, who cofounded the Utah-based property management software company in 2003 and stepped down as CEO last year as the company raised more than $500 million from private investors, had emailed a group including some of Utah’s leading tech CEOs, investors and other public figures—including its governor, Spencer Cox, calling upon them to “stop the vaccination drive” due to an unfounded conspiracy theory blaming the Jews for “a sadistic effort underway to euthanize the American people.”

AZ alert from Binah Magazine

 

Will IDF kitchens become no-go areas for religious soldiers?

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/355912

Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, the rosh yeshivah (dean) of the Elon Moreh yeshivah and the rabbi of Samaria, has written another letter to his students currently serving in the IDF warning them that if the new initiative regarding dairy cooking in the IDF is implemented, they will no longer be able to eat from the IDF kitchens.

Post-Nekadesh Event: Activists Ask for No More Advertising on Frum News Sites and Social Media Platforms

 https://matzav.com/post-nekadesh-event-activists-ask-for-no-more-advertising-on-frum-news-sites-and-social-media-platforms/

The paper, given out at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, says, “We, the undersigned, ask of all our mosdos and businesses to preserve the kedusha of our community and Klal Yisroel and not advertise on any news sites and social media platform.”

It is not yet confirmed which mosdos or businesses have signed on to this commitment.

TAKING THE HIGH GROUND

 https://mishpacha.com/taking-the-high-ground/

’ll be honest, I was nervous about attending the asifah. I know how deeply phones — any phones — steal our presence, and this happens right under our noses. I have plenty of guilt around this topic. But I knew I needed to push myself to go because I needed and wanted to be part of a revolution of 40,000 women gathering to make a significant change in this area. I was expecting chizuk and a strong reminder to make this nisayon a priority, instead of leaving it on the back burner. I was just hoping I wouldn’t walk out with any extra guilt.

'She's 10': Child Rape Victim's Abortion Denial Sparks Outrage on Twitter

 https://www.newsweek.com/shes-10-child-rape-victims-abortion-denial-sparks-outrage-twitter-1721248

A10-year-old rape victim in Ohio was denied an abortion, sparking outrage online as many Republican-led states strip away reproductive rights following the Supreme Court's overruling of Roe v. Wade.

Democrats Stage Prime-Time “Get Trump” Tv Circus As A Diversion = Yated goes down Right wing rabbit hole

 https://yated.com/democrats-stage-prime-time-get-trump-tv-circus-as-a-diversion/

Washington Times opinion editor Charles Hurt described the televised hearing as a third attempt by frustrated Democrats to impeach Donald Trump in the court of public opinion.

Man who invented first cellphone says users need to 'get a life'

 https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-711031

Martin Cooper, who is credited with the invention of the first cellular phone, on Thursday said that people who spend too much time on their phones need to "get a life," the New York Post reported.