https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307190
In the meeting, it was emphasized that alongside the war on domestic violence, the police are also faced with a phenomenon of false allegations, the exact scope of which is unclear. These allegations are filed against normative individuals who are in the process of separation or divorce.
Tosfos Sanhedrin (20a): Women go before the coffin at a funeral. Since this is a time of suffering there is no concern for producing sexual thoughts. In the Yerushalmi there is a dispute. One view is that this practice is because women are the cause of death while others say that women should follow the coffin because it is degrading for the women to be stared at by the men.
Bereishis Rabbah (017:08) Why do the women walk in front of the corpse at a funeral?’ Because they brought death into the world, they therefore walk in front of the corpse, as it is written], For he is borne to the grave... and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him’ (Job 21:32 f).
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/S1Al2Wb5d
Israeli opposition leader Naftali Bennett says he's ready to join parties on the Left to form a new unity coalition government that could unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. CNN's Hadas Gold reports.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/yesh-atid-new-hope-teams-to-meet-669589
Yamina leader Naftali Bennett delivered his long-awaited announcement on Sunday that he would join a government with Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and seek to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he accused of leading Israel to national suicide for his own personal reasons.
https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1228069
כינוס נדיר ומיוחד במינו התקיים ביום שלישי השבוע בהיכל ביהמ"ד מרכז חסידי
ויז'ניץ בבני ברק, שם ביקש הרבי להוקיר ולחזק את גדול תומכי המוסדות בכל
הזמנים ר' חיים שטרן שנכנס לכלא למחרת באשמת עבירות מס | הרבי הפתיע בדברים
שטרם נשמעו אי פעם מאדמו"ר על חסיד • 'בחדרי חרדים' עם השיחה המלאה
Sunday marks 30 days since the disaster at Mount Meron in which 45 people were killed and 102 wounded as thousands tried to squeeze through a narrow staircase at the annual Lag B’Omer festival.
It was the worst civilian disaster in Israel’s history. Yet 30 days on, as the traditional shloshim mourning period draws to a close, all attempts to establish a formal state investigation into what went wrong have failed.
Perhaps most shocking of all: Though the dead are almost all Haredi, it is the Haredi political parties who have resisted most fiercely a formal probe.
Washington, we have a problem — politically, informationally and societally — when 15 percent of Americans agree with the QAnon statement that the U.S. government, media and financial worlds “are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.”
Or when 20 percent agree with this statement: “There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.”
Or when another 15 percent agree that “Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”
More than 15% of all Americans—including nearly three in ten Republicans—agree with many of the core tenets of the widely debunked QAnon conspiracy theory, according to a new PRRI-IFYC (study published Thursday, lending credence to the idea that although QAnon’s internet presence is diminishing, support for the conspiracy movement persists.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rutgers-university-antisemitism-apologize
The chancellor and provost of a satellite campus of Rutgers University apologized for an email they sent out condemning anti-Semitism as the U.S. sees a dramatic rise in anti-Jewish hate crimes.
On Wednesday, Rutgers University-New Brunswick chancellor Christopher Molloy and provost Francine Conway sent an email to the student body condemning the recent rise in anti-Semitism America is experiencing amid the conflict between Israel and the terror organization Hamas.
A day later, the college leaders apologized for condemning anti-Semitism.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rutgers-university-condemns-antisemitism-then-apologizes-for-doing-so/
The chancellor of New Jersey’s flagship public university condemned antisemitism and then, following protest from a pro-Palestinian student group, apologized for the condemnation.
One of the punishments that Eve received was tzar gidal banim
Eiruvin (100b): Rav Yitzchok bar Avdimi said, Eve was cursed with 10 curses as it says Bereishis (3:16), “To the woman, He said, and I will greatly multiply.” That is referring to two drops of blood – one being that of nidda and the other that of virginity. your pain, refers to the pain of raising children. “And your travail”, refers to the pain of pregnancy. “and in your pain you shall give birth to children” is literally birth pains. “And your desire shall before for your husband” teaches that a woman has a desire for her husband when he is about to go on a journey. ”And he shall rule over you” teaches that while the wife expresses her desire for her husband with her heart, the husband does expresses his desire for her with his mouth. But this is a fine character trait of women? What it meant is that she needs to ingratiate herself with him. But these are only seven? When Rav Dimi came to Bavel he explained, She is wrapped up like a mourner, she is banished from the company of all men and she is confined within a prison.
However Tosfos (Sanhedrin 19b) describes it as simcha (joy)
תוספות הרא"ש מסכת סנהדרין דף יט עמוד ב
שפדאו מצער גדול בנים. אין הבנים צער לאדם אלא שמחה כדאמר גבי עובד אדום שברכו הקדוש ברוך הוא וילדו ששה בכרס אחד ולאברהם היו הרבה בנים, אלא צער יוסף ודינה ושמעון וגלגול ירידת מצרים היה ראוי לבוא בימי אברהם ופדאו יעקבResnick assumed the position of editor at The Jewish Press in 2018. He has a long history of using incendiary language and has called the gay rights movement “evil.”
Under Resnick’s editorship, The Jewish Press was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League in 2019 after publishing an op-ed titled “The Pride Parade: What Are They Proud Of” comparing gay marchers in the New York event to animals, adulterers and thieves.
“If blacks resent America’s [sic] so much, let them discard Christianity (which the ‘white man’ gave them) and re-embrace the primitive religions they practiced in Africa,” Resnick wrote in a tweet in 2019.
Da'as Torah and the Legacy of Rabbi Joshua H. Shmidman
Rabbi Shalom C. Spira earns a living as Editor of Manuscripts and Grants at the Lady Davis Institute of Medical Research [a Pavillion of the Jewish General Hospital] in Montreal, Canada.
Pending charges against Haredi minister tied to allegations he sought to block extradition of accused pedophile Malka Leifer, prevent closure of a deli cited for health violations
https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/sleeper-cell-of-fake-jews-unmasked-1.517143
Four members of a “sleeper cell” of alleged undercover Christian missionaries who infiltrated Orthodox communities in Jerusalem have been unmasked in dossiers passed to the Israeli government, the JC can reveal.
They are from a group of 10 fake Jews who followed evangelical ringleader Michael Elk — calling himself Rabbi Michael Elkohen — whose Christian upbringing was exposed earlier this month in a special report by the JC.
Elk had set up a seminary in Jerusalem called Yeshivat Yarim Ha’am, teaching a belief in Jesus. He gave students a ‘Messianic’ smicha, making them rabbis.
In March 2005, I was on the verge of publishing an article that I knew would have a major impact. As the editor and publisher of The Jewish Week, I would be describing — for the first time — the true nature of the sexual misconduct that led one of the most prominent Reform rabbis in America to resign from his role as president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the movement’s seminary.
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman had resigned from HUC in 2000 and been suspended for two years from the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the movement’s rabbinic organization. The group had said only that Zimmerman had engaged in unspecified ”personal relationships” that violated its ethical code, and many believed that he had a long-ago consensual affair with an adult woman in his congregation.
