Sunday, November 8, 2026
Trump Shares Posts Questioning Midterm Election Results
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-midterm-election-results-truth-social-12681983
President Donald Trump repeatedly shared social media posts Saturday questioning the scale and credibility of Democrats’ midterm election gains, days after saying he was “absolutely willing” to accept the results of an election that cost Republicans control of Congress.
Trump reposted material on Truth Social questioning Democratic vote totals nationally and in Texas, including a post describing Gina Hinojosa’s performance in the Texas governor’s race as “Looney Tunes numbers.”
The activity marks a shift in tone from election night, when Trump acknowledged Republicans’ losses and said he would accept the results
Stop Telling Children How Good They Are
https://aish.com/stop-telling-children-how-good-they-are/
Instead of teaching our children to develop and maintain a positive opinion of themselves, we should teach them to accept their inherent worth—and then turn their attention away from judging themselves and toward evaluating their actions.
Because once feeling good about myself becomes the focus, I now have something I need to protect. When I fail, what does that say about me? When someone criticizes me, I need to defend myself. When someone else succeeds, perhaps his success somehow diminishes me.
Let’s spend a little less time convincing our children how good they are and more time teaching them how much good they can do. They don’t need to spend their lives proving to themselves how good they are. They need to know how important they are—and live accordingly.
Saturday, November 7, 2026
Who is Stephen Miller? The Jewish hardliner even Trump finds too extreme, now running the White House
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjjkt3i6fe
Born into a wealthy Jewish family descended from refugees, Miller became the driving force behind Trump's immigration crackdown and one of his most trusted advisers; now, as White House chief of staff, the 41-year-old hardliner faces his biggest test yet
Pro-Israel conservatives blast JD Vance for blaming Israel after GOP midterm losses
Conservative pro-Israel voices are lashing out at Vice President JD Vance after he linked the Republican Party’s massive midterm losses to the country’s relationship with Israel and the war in Iran.
Vance on Wednesday said that “the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.” Citing an unidentified pollster, he alleged the top demands of voters who had left the Republican side were: end the war in Iran; focus on the cost of living and inflation; put America first and “change our relationship to Israel.”
Eric Levine, a board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he doesn’t “recall seeing a single exit poll in which any voter identified ‘change our relationship with Israel’ as a factor in their voting decision.”
Stephen Miller’s promotion angers industries reeling from immigration enforcement
President Donald Trump’s naming of deportation architect as his chief of staff unleashed anger, fear and astonishment among leaders of industries that depend on immigrant labor.
“When I got a text message, ‘Hey, have you heard about Stephen Miller?,’ my first thought was: Thank goodness he was let go,” said Chris Herr, president of PennAg Industries Association, which represents farmers and pork and poultry producers. Many of his members helped propel Trump to victory in 2024 but have soured on the president, as some farmers reel from the loss of workers to immigration enforcement, he said.
“Time will tell if Stephen Miller continues to wreck the economy, destroy families, tarnish the Republican political coalition and obliterate Trump’s legacy,” said Rebecca Shi, chief executive of the American Business Immigration Coalition, a bipartisan group that lobbies for immigration reform on Capitol Hill, which organized the letter
Is the Trump era over?
A day after their crushing midterm defeat, Republicans are already engaged in a bitter blame game. Members of Congress are demanding a leadership shake-up, while Sen. Ted Cruz acknowledges the party failed to address Americans' financial struggles: "Food is too high, gas is too high, diesel is too high, insurance is too high, life is too high." The war with Iran is also drawing fierce criticism: "We should have never done the war before the midterms." Meanwhile, CNN reports that Trump has no intention of becoming a lame-duck president and is exploring ways to expand his powers.
House GOP erupts at Stephen Miller as Trump elevates him after midterm massacre: 'Megalomaniac'
Several Republican lawmakers are fuming over President Donald Trump’s elevation of Stephen Miller to be his chief of staff.
"Horrible decision," Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital on Friday after Trump announced his decision.
"I think he's greatly hurt the administration and cost us many seats on Tuesday," retiring Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., told Fox News Digital before news of Miller’s promotion broke. "He took an immigration policy that favored the president 2:1 in the public, over-reached and made it 2:1 unfavorable."
Friday, November 6, 2026
Discipline and Punishments in Yeshiva and Mosdos
When Is Physical Discipline Technically Permitted? According to Halacha a teacher may, in limited circumstances, administer disciplinary punishment to a student as part of the educational process.[10] This permission exists only when the discipline is genuinely necessary for the child’s education or to correct inappropriate behavior.[11] The purpose must be entirely educational and for the benefit of the child, not an expression of anger or frustration. Furthermore, the teacher should only punish a student when he knows with certainty that the student engaged in conduct that warrants discipline, and not based merely on suspicion or assumption.[12] Furthermore, one is to always first try to discipline the child through other methods prior to hitting him, and only if these methods do not work may the child be hit.[13] There are many disciplinary philosophies in practice today which substitute hitting for other more useful and harmless methods.[14] It is incumbent upon teachers to train themselves to become effective disciplinarians so their children are disciplined, but not in an abusive manner.
Teacher who beats his Beats Students and they die - Good Teacher?
Bechoros (46a) a certain teacher of children, upon whom Rav Aḥa administered a vow to cease teaching based on the consent of the public, as he was negligent with regard to the children by hitting them too much; and Ravina had his vow nullified and reinstated him, as they did not find another teacher who was as meticulous as he was.
Rashi (Bechoros 46a) פשע בינוקי - מלקה אותן ומתים:
Orthodox vs. Sellout Bloc-Voting voting
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Hegseth’s ‘fight, fight, fight’ video pours fuel on impeachment flames
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/11/06/politics/iran-pete-hegseth-impeachment-midterms
In an ardent social media video Thursday, Hegseth vowed, “We Stand, We Fight” amid rising speculation he may become a scapegoat for the Republican disaster in midterm elections shaped by the unpopular Iran war.
Apart from Trump, few in Washington are willing to publicly defend Hegseth, especially after an electoral rout which showed the public’s disdain for a war the defense secretary has enthusiastically waged. So Hegseth took matters into his own hands with a video seemingly aimed at a single viewer: Trump.
Hegseth’s speech was accompanied by a blitz of supportive social media posts by aides in what increasingly looks like an orchestrated campaign to save his job. The message to Trump and the MAGA movement is clear — if Hegseth walks the plank, it will mean an enormous defeat for the president. A senior administration official told CNN’s Haley Britzky on Thursday that “the Pentagon and White House made their positions crystal clear tonight. They are coming out swinging in support of Hegseth and that should tell you everything you need to know.”
Michael Oren: The midterms ended the US-Israel special relationship
https://www.timesofisrael.com/michael-oren-the-midterms-ended-the-us-israel-special-relationship/
The midterms were a disaster for US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
To analyze the implications of the 2026 midterms, we are joined once again by Michael Oren, a scholar of the Middle East, Israel’s former ambassador to Washington, and an expert on the US-Israel relationship.
He said that the 50-year special relationship between Israel and the US ended on Tuesday, and the implications will be felt beyond the issue of military aid.
Even though Israel wasn’t responsible for many of the processes driving US politics, it is on the receiving end of them. MAGA isolationism and the rise of the Democratic Socialists might have their roots in domestic politics, but they have profound implications for Israel.
Israel, said Oren, accelerated those processes by failing to curb West Bank violence and avoiding any mention of peace with the Palestinians or Syria.
Jerusalem can mitigate some of the fallout and soften some of the blows, he said. Still, it should start diversifying its military and economic partners, and make clear that it will not be bound by any deal between the US and Iran.
Welcome to Trump’s Lame-Duck Era
https://time.com/article/2026/11/04/trump-lame-duck-era/
On the eve of an election that threatened to upend his presidency, Donald Trump went to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, where he had overseen a multimillion-dollar renovation that went awry when its new coating peeled and algae turned the water green. Aides hoped the President would focus on the concerns weighing on ordinary Americans: soaring gas prices, expensive groceries, a new war in the Middle East. Instead, Trump spent much of his 53-minute speech talking about construction projects rather than the struggles of the nation he had been elected to serve.
It was a bewildering capstone to a strange campaign. Allies marveled at Trump’s inability to stay on message as he crisscrossed the country. He boasted that oil companies were making a fortune as Americans struggled with energy costs. He claimed New Yorkers were no longer allowed to call their mothers “mom,” suggested renaming New Mexico “New America,” and repeatedly mimicked a Democratic Senate candidate vomiting at the sight of meat. Time and again, he veered into bizarre digressions about men's physiques. As one Trump aide put: “It’s hard to reach voters who can’t afford gas when your candidate keeps talking about Arnold Palmer’s endowment and Jon Husted’s ass.”
Trump’s confidantes often remarked that he cared little about the outcome of the midterms. He regarded his party's loss of seats in Congress as an inescapable historical pattern. He had a point: Barack Obama's Democrats took a beating in consecutive midterms, and George W. Bush's Republicans were drubbed in 2006. Trump himself oversaw the loss of dozens of House seats in 2018. Advisers tried convincing the President that he had some agency over the election’s trajectory, but “he had trouble getting past the history,” one of Trump's top advisers says. He grew resigned to the gridlocked slugfest ahead and dismissive of the investigations and potential impeachment proceedings Democrats could embark upon. “They’ll probably go after me,” he told TIME in late September, “and I’ll go after them.”
Aides are bracing for a wave of staff turnover, a combination of attrition and Trump dispensing with officials who have frustrated him. The result could be a further retreat into an insular circle of loyalists who are unable or unwilling to deliver bad news or curb his impulses. Inside the White House, advisers have been contemplating the implications of divided government. “His natural inclination is to work with Democrats or Independents or whatever,” says another senior aide. “But he’s aware of the investigations and the games the other side will play, and he’s prepared to fight back.” Already, the Democratic wave had already emboldened the party’s leaders. The expected incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee delivered a succinct warning on X: “LAWYER UP.”