John Earle Sullivan,
the left-wing activist who was charged in connection with the Jan. 6
Capitol riot in Washington, is facing three additional charges,
according to reports on Monday.
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Accused left-wing Capitol activist John Sullivan facing new charges
An ‘Apolitical’ Rabble-Rouser Is at the Center of a Right-Wing Campaign to Blame the Capitol Riot on the Left
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/john-sullivan-capitol-riot/
Prominent Trump supporters, including the President’s lawyer Rudy
Giuliani, have seized on Sullivan’s prior involvement in protests for
racial justice to claim that “antifa” and left-wing groups infiltrated
and steered an otherwise peaceful protest toward violence. (The FBI has said there is “no indication” that antifa took part in the U.S. Capitol riot.)
“A known antifa member” dressed as a Donald Trump supporter “and caused the Capitol riot” on Jan. 6.
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Activist John Earle Sullivan, who has often posed as a journalist to record protests, joined supporters of Donald Trump in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and is charged with crimes for his participation.
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Sullivan extensively recorded the riot and he can be heard in his footage cheering on the violent acts as he followed rioters through the Capitol.
We found no evidence that he is a member of antifa, or that he caused the riot.
Fact check: Misleading claim about 'antifa member' at Jan. 6 Capitol riot
The claim: A "known antifa member" was paid $70,000 for his video of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Court documents show news outlets paid about the
listed amount – $90,000 actually – to use Sullivan's footage, which
captured the shooting death of protester Ashli Babbitt. But Sullivan is
not a "known antifa member" – and antifa activists weren't behind the
Capitol insurrection, as the post makes it seem.
Yamina drops to zero seats in latest poll
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316052
Latest poll shows the Likud with wide lead - but still short of a clear path to a 61-seat majority government.
Agunah Allowed To Remarry Without Get, Über Haredi Rabbis Lash Out
But many of the more normative haredi rabbis, especially those living in Israel, are reticent to directly challenge Sternbuch and Edah Haredit’s top rabbi, Moshe Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, for butting into their business, in large part because Edah Haredit followers are notoriously violent and neither of Edah Haredit’s two top rabbis – especially Weiss – has done much to limit that bad behavior, and Weiss is even thought to encourage it.
Supreme Court declines to block Maine vaccine mandate
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/29/supreme-court-maine-vaccine-mandate-block-517746
Dozens of health care workers have opted to quit, and a hospital in Maine’s second-largest city already curtailed some admissions because of an “acute shortage” of nurses.
But most health workers have complied, and Maine residents in general have been supportive of the vaccine. The Maine Hospital Association and other health care groups support the requirement.
Bitachon
R’ Chaim Shmuelevitz (Sichos Mussar 5731 - Bitachon): It is the view of many rishonim that the obligation of bitachon means without any exertion in a natural manner. This is expressed by Yermiyahu (2:2): You followed after me into the unplanted Wilderness. From this we see that the ideal bitachon means that the person should not even lift a finger to accomplish his goal. Similarly we find in Rashi(Shemos 16:32): “In the days of Yermiyahu when Yermiyahu chastised them for not studying Torah - they replied: How can we leave our work and study Torah? What will be the source of our livelihood? He showed them the container of manna from the Wilderness and said: See the word of G‑d. He didn’t tell them to hear the word of G‑d but to see it. With this our ancestors were sustained. G‑d has many messengers to provide sustenance to those who fear Him.” Yermiyahu clearly indicates that the requirement of bitachon is without any effort since he said: G‑d has many messengers. Thus just as our ancestors were provided for in the Wilderness and they lacked nothing - that is the way we need to conduct ourselves and not to worry at all. However this approach is not relevant to everyone. The story of the wagon driver and the Alschich is well known. The Alschich’s students complained that he had told them that one does not need to work but instead should learn full time and have bitachon that G‑d would provide all their needs - but it didn’t work. The only one who succeeded by having bitachon was the simple wagon driver. G‑d had provided him with a trunk full of gold coins. In contrast the Alschich’s students failed to have their livelihood provided by their attempts at bitachon. The Alschich explained to his students that the approach of relying entirely on bitachon works only for those who have total fail without any doubts at all. Only the simple wagon driver had the pure simple faith needed for the bitachon to work. On the other hand even those rishonim who say that bitachon requires effort - do not mean that the effort is the cause of the livelihood. That is obvious since everything is from G‑d. This is particularly true since the key for livelihood is not even given into the hand of an angel - but G‑d directly controls it. The reason that a person must exert himself in a natural way is solely because of the curse of Adam (Bereishis 3:19): By the sweat of your brow will you eat bread. This idea is expressed in Kiddushin (82b): “I have never seen a deer who works as a fruit harvester or a lion transporting merchandise or a fox who was a shopkeeper - nevertheless their sustenance is provided without suffering. I who was created to serve G‑d should surely be sustained without suffering. But it is because I have sinned and destroyed my livelihood… All the effort for earning a living in only the result of man’s sins and thus he can only obtain it through suffering and great effort. But it is obvious that the suffering and the effort themselves don’t provide the livelihood. Our sages say in Berachos (8a): Greater is the one who obtains his livelihood through his efforts than one who only fears G‑d. That is because the one who works see clearly that his efforts do not produce success. He sees that he exerts himself in one area only to find that his profit is coming from something else. Thus the worker sees Providence more than one who only fears G‑d. Therefore even though the one who fears G‑d believes in Providence but it is not as real to him as the one who works… Concerning Torah study, everyone agrees that success cannot occur without effort. The essence of Torah study is effort. But here also the effort is only a precondition for success but it does not cause it directly. Success even in Torah study is directly from G‑d. Thus Nidah (70a) states that success in Torah study will not happen without prayer in addition to the effort of study.
Shemittah and bitacon
Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz (Sichos Mussar 5731 Bitachon): Concerning the mitzva of Shemitta (leaving land fallow on the seventh year)… It is a very demanding and difficult mitzva. However, it is not just for the sake of spiritual elevation alone - since we see that the sin of neglecting the mitzva is the cause for the Jewish people being exiled from Israel… This is indicative of the greatness of Israel. All are required to being like the angels and if they don’t succeed they are punished severely with exile. But why? Of the different reasons offered for this mitzva - the most important one is that it serves to implant in the heart of every Jew the attribute of bitachon - trusting G‑d. Once in seven years, it is required that all Jews live one whole year in a highly transcendent manner - without any clear material and natural basis. They are required to rely entirely on G‑d to provide for them and to trust Him. This year of Shemitta implants within each Jew bitachon in G‑d. The spiritual flame thus created burns until the next Shemitta year. This attribute is absolutely required for the People of G‑d. That is why its consequences are so severe.
Dutch Reform rabbi says COVID-19 policies remind her of Nazi Germany
https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-reform-rabbi-says-covid-19-policies-remind-her-of-nazi-germany/
Those involved in enforcing COVID-19 public health measures “have the best intentions,” Benima added. “But as a Jew, what happened in Nazi Germany is a warning to me. Those in power all had the best of intentions. Also when they declared Jews a danger to ‘public health.’ Also when they declared a war against the ‘virus’ of those times. So don’t play with fire by setting aside people in our society as ‘a danger to public health,’ as Health Minister Hugo De Jonge regularly does.”
Shaked apologizes to Gantz over leaked recordings
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315986
In the recordings of Shaked, published on Channel 12 News this week, she was heard criticizing Alternate Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, and saying that "Lapid is a superficial person - every week he carries out an attack and Naftali rescues [him], and no one knows [about it].
Democratic lawmakers ask Biden to stop Jerusalem consulate move
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/316013
So far, efforts to prevent the consulate from opening have only been on the Republican side. Last week, 35 senators from the rival party initiated a law to ban the administration from opening a consulate in Jerusalem. Their attempt to recruit Democrats to support the law have failed. This will be the first time senior members of the president's party have spoken out against the opening of the consulate.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Latest Fact-checks of Tucker Carlson
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/tucker-carlson/
"In Texas, the power companies have automatically raised the temperature of people's thermostats in the middle of a heatwave without their permission."
Tucker Carlson Goes Full 1/6 Truther in New Fox Doc
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/tucker-carlson-january-6-truthe
Tucker Carlson faced widespread condemnation from media figures, Republican lawmakers, and even one of his own Fox News colleagues after airing a trailer for his upcoming project that seemingly portrays the January 6 Capitol riot as a “false flag” operation orchestrated by the government. The promo for Carlson’s documentary series, titled Patriot Purge and airing next week on the Fox Nation streaming service, features one voice suggesting the U.S. government is waging a “domestic war on terror” against “half of the country.”
The trailer, which opens with onscreen text that reads, “The true story behind 1/6” and “The War on Terror 2.0 and the plot against the people,” includes interviews with a man who claims “the left is hunting the right” and “sticking [American citizens] in Guantanamo Bay…leaving them there to rot.” Later in the promo, a woman asserts that “false flags have happened in this country. One of which may have been January 6.” A man is then shown firing a rifle at a shooting range as a narrator states “We are dealing with an insurgency in the United States," before the ad cuts to Joe Biden giving a speech in which he describes white supremacy as “the most lethal threat” in America.
Tucker Carlson condemned over ‘false flag’ claim about deadly Capitol attack
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/30/tucker-carlson-condemned-capitol-attack-liz-cheney
The conservative Republican Liz Cheney and the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League led condemnation of Fox News and Tucker Carlson, after the primetime host announced a series about the supposed “true story” of the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January.
They denounced Carlson for spreading dangerous conspiracy theories in the latest scandal to engulf a man whose popularity belies his record of racist and untrue statements on issues from immigration to racial justice.
“Fox News is giving Tucker Carlson a platform to spread the same type of lies that provoked violence on 6 January,” tweeted Cheney, a Wyoming representative on the dwindling anti-Trump wing of the Republican party.
Jonathan Greenblatt, of the ADL, wrote to Lachlan Murdoch, chief executive of Fox Corporation, to demand the series be shelved.
“Clearly Carlson has the right to make outrageous claims,” Greenblatt wrote. “But freedom of speech is not freedom of reach. You have no obligation to validate his views with airtime on your platform and, I would argue, a moral responsibility not to do so.”
Fox News' Tucker Carlson problem
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/30/media/reliable-sources-fox-news-carlson-trutherism/index.html
Fox News is not officially commenting on the record, but it seems the right-wing talk network is quietly trying to distance itself from Tucker Carlson's 1/6 trutherism.
Rav Moshe's psak
There are two different approaches that Rav Moshe presents:
1)In his introduction to the Igros he essentiallly views himself as a teacher who presents data and reasoning for the approval or disapproval of the reader.
2) However in a later discussion [vol 8 y.d. 3 38.1] he acknowledges that not everyone will be able to follow his reasoning on their own and some would simply prefer to accept his conclusions. IIt was written to Rabbi Moshe Goldberger who originally published it his pamphlet on tying knots on Shabbos and personally told me it was real.
The background to the tshuva.
Rabbi Rakefet had written an index to the first 5 volumes. Rav Moshe found out about it and mistakenly thought he was making a summary of the Igros in English or a new shulchan Aruch based on Rav Moshe's teshuvos. R Rakefet's index was never published except for his introduction in his pamphlet for Russian Jews [ Rakafot Aharon page 58-71]. In fact this English introduction briefly summarized the Igros. Later a Sefer on Hilchos Shbbos was published which took the psakim of Rav Moshe summarized in English with those of the Debreciner and it had the written haskoma of Rav Moshe. Rabbi Goldberger wrote Rav Moshe asking him to explain his lenient attitude towards the latter and his extremely harsh attitude to the former (Rav Moshe had stated he was willing to go to court to stop its publication). The resulting tshuva was actually a composite tshuva - according to Tendler. A reply to Rabbi Goldberger's question and a general discussion about psak and in particular his own in the Igros Moshe.
שו"ת אגרות משה יורה דעה חלק ד סימן לח
Terry McAuliffe Seeks to Turn Virginia Governor Election Into Vote on Trump
Youngkin has appeared to keep his distance from Trump. The former president hasn't campaigned with the Republican candidate and Youngkin didn't attend a "Take Back Virginia" rally on October 13 where Trump phoned in.
At that rally, attendees recited the Pledge of Allegiance in front of a U.S. flag that the hosts said had been carried during a Trump rally in Washington, D.C., on January 6. The action was condemned by McAuliffe and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat.
Youngkin issued a statement saying he had "no role" in the event.
"It is weird and wrong to pledge allegiance to a flag connected to January 6. As I have said many times before, the violence that occurred on January 6 was sickening and wrong," Youngkin said.
A Fox News poll conducted from October 10 -13 showed 53 percent of likely Virginia voters had an unfavorable opinion of Trump, while 44 percent took a favorable view of the former president.
Angels? Abarbanel to Bereishis 6:2
אברבנאל פרשת בראשית
(א) ויהי כי החל האדם לרוב וגומר עד וירא ה' כי רבה רעת האדם בארץ. כבר ידעת מה שכתבו במדרש ושנו בפרקי רבי אליעזר ומשולש בגמרא בענין בני האלהים שהיו מלאכים ואם באנו למלות הכתוב אין ספק שיתישב בו הדעת הזה היטב אבל לא יתיחס לענין הפרשה כלה שאמר וירא ה' כי רבה רעת האדם בארץ וינחם ה' כי עשה את האדם ויאמר ה' אמחה את האדם שכל זה א"א שיתישב במלאכים גם כי הדעת ההוא מהנמנע שיש להם טבע קיים רוצה לומר שישוב טבע הנבדל להיות חמרי. ודברי חכמינו זכרונם לברכה באמת יש להם סוד ואינן כמשמעותן כמו שלקחום האומות. ולכן ראוי שיפורשו הפסוקים האלו באופן מסכים עם המושכל לא באופן אחר.
The Abarbanel says thes verses can not be talking about fallen angels - despite citing three sources from Chazal that say it does mean angels
Most of the classic commentators also say it is taking about man not angels. However Non Jewish sources strongly claim this is about fallen angels also this is also the view of the Zohar even though the medrash quotes the Rashbi as cursing those who say these verses are not referring to man
Bereishis Rabbah (26:5) 5. THAT THE SONS OF GOD (BENE ELOHIM) SAW THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN, etc. (VI, 2). R. Simeon b.Yohai called them the sons of nobles; [furthermore], R. Simeon b. Yohai cursed all who called them the sons of God. R. Simeon b. Yohai said: If demoralisation does not proceed from the leaders, it is not real demoralisation.
Devarim Rabbah (10:11) Thereupon the soul replied: ‘Master of the Universe, two angels, Uzah and Azael, came down from near Thy divine Presence and coveted the daughters of the earth and they corrupted their way upon the earth until Thou didst suspend them between earth and heaven.
Yoma (67b) Another [Baraitha] taught: Azazel, i.e., the hardest of mountains, thus also does it say: And the mighty [ele] of the land he took away. The School of R. Ishmael taught: Azazel — [it was so called] because it obtains atonement for the affair of Uza and13 Aza'el.[(13) This is a reference to the legend of fallen angels, based partly on Gen. VI, 4 and also on foreign lore. V. Jung, L. ‘Fallen Angels in Jewish, Christian and Mohammedan literature’.]
Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer (22:4-9) Rabbi said: The angels who fell from their holy place in heaven saw the daughters of the generations of Cain walking about naked, with their eyes painted like harlots, and they went astray after them, and took wives from amongst them, as it is said, "And the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose" (Gen. 6:2). Rabbi Joshua said: The angels are flaming fire, as it is said, "His servants are a flaming fire" (Ps. 104:4), and fire came with the coition of flesh and blood, but did not burn the body; but when they fell from heaven, from their holy place, their strength and stature (became) like that of the sons of men, and their frame was (made of) clods of dust, as it is said, "My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust" (Job 7:5). Rabbi Zadok said: From them were born the giants (Anakim), who walked with pride in their heart, and who stretched forth their hand to all (kinds of) robbery and violence, and shedding of blood, as it is said, "And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak" (Num. 13:33); and it says, "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days" (Gen. 6:4). Rabbi Joshua said: || The Israelites are called "Sons of God," as it is said, "Ye are the sons of the Lord your God" (Deut. 14:1). The angels are called "Sons of God," as it is said, "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy" (Job 38:7); and whilst they were still in their holy place in heaven, these were called "Sons of God," as it is said, "And also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them; the same became the mighty men, which were of old, men of renown" (Gen. 6:4). Rabbi Levi said: They bare their sons and increased and multiplied like a great reptile, six children at each birth. In that very hour they stood on their feet, and spoke the holy language, and danced before them like sheep, as it is said, "They cast their young like sheep, and their children danced" (Job 21:11). Noah said to them: Turn from your ways and evil deeds, so that He bring not upon you the waters of the Flood, and destroy all the seed of the children of men. They said to him: Behold, we will restrain ourselves from multiplying and increasing, so as not to produce the offspring of the children of men. What did they do? When they came to their wives they spilled the issue of their seed upon the earth so as not to produce offspring of the children of men, as it is said, "And God saw the earth, and behold it was spilled" (Gen. 6:12). They said: If He bring from heaven the waters of the Flood upon us, behold, we are of high stature, and the waters will not reach || up to our necks; and if He bring the waters of the depths against us, behold, the soles of our feet can close up all the depths. What did they do? They put forth the soles of their feet, and closed up all the depths. What did the Holy One, blessed be He, do? He heated the waters of the deep, and they arose and burnt their flesh, and peeled off their skin from them, as it is said, "What time they wax warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place" (Job 6:17). Do not read thus ("When it is hot," בחֻמו), but (read) "in his hot waters" (בחמימיו).
Getting rid of Bennet through vetoing buget
Friday, October 29, 2021
ADL Asks Lachlan Murdoch to Cancel Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Documentary on Fox Nation
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is the latest entity to slam Tucker Carlson's new Fox Nation series Patriot Purge for statements made in the documentary.
The documentary series, which is available for streaming on November 1, focuses on the January 6 Capitol Riot. In an October 28 letter to Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch, Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO and national director of the ADL, encouraged Murdoch to cancel the show over claims about the insurrection.
The letter argues that Carlson and a number of other "disinformation artists" who were interviewed for the piece made suggestions that the insurrection was a "false flag" and that the "Left is hunting the Right, sticking them in Guantanamo Bay ... leaving them there to rot."
"G-d does miracles even for the irreligious" - Criticism of the views of the Satmar Rebbe
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Igros Moshe(Y.D. 4:8.2):Concerning the matter of the Jews who were hijacked in Uganda and then were saved by [Israeli] soldiers who went to Uganda. It is reasonable that this should be considered an open miracle. That is because in the normal course of events it would not be possible that such a thing be successful. Whatever is done in the world is only by the hand of G‑d – whether it is for the good or whether it is – G‑d forbid - ! the opposite. He causes the blow and the cure. He caused that these Jews be captured. But He also caused that they were rescued by means of giving these soldiers special courage and motivation so that they were able to save the captives. He also arranged circumstances so the soldiers in fact were successful. Nevertheless the reasons that G‑d did a miracle through sinners are hidden from us. Furthermore it is prohibited for any man to be “wise” and raise question against G‑d’s actions. Rather it is necessary for us to be innocent and accepting whatever G‑d does as it explicity says in the Torah (Devarim 18:13)
Israel's President asks forgiveness
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315964
On Friday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the Arab-Israeli village of Kafr Qassem and addressed a memorial to the victims of the Kafr Qassem Massacre.
In that event, which took place on October 29, 1956, on the first day of the Suez Campaign, forty-nine people were killed.
Speaking at the memorial ceremony, Herzog said, "I am standing here before you today with my head bowed and my heart pained, on the sixty-fifth anniversary of one of the saddest events in the history of our country - an event whose gravity has never been in question. For it is clear to all of us: the killing and injury of innocents are absolutely forbidden. They must remain beyond all political arguments!"
Israel to ban unvaccinated US tourists, even if they had COVID-19
Individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 in the last six months and wish to enter Israel under the government’s new tourism outline will not be allowed to unless they have a digital recovery certificate, the Health Ministry said Thursday.
Biden administration won’t prevent settlement expansion, says source close to PM
Official says Americans ‘don’t care that much’ about recent move to approve 3,000 West Bank homes; Bennett government doesn’t believe the US will reopen consulate to Palestinians
Thursday, October 28, 2021
What is a Tree?
https://www.yeshiva.co/midrash/6863
The Chazon Ish (Orlah 12:3) is dissatisfied with both of these approaches because there is no source in Chazal for this definition of a tree. However, he agrees that eggplants are not prohibited because of orlah for a very different reason. He contends that orlah can only ban the produce of a tree for its first three years but cannot ban the species completely. Therefore, a species that produces fruit for no more than three years cannot be a tree whose fruit is orlah. Instead, we must conclude that this plant is not a tree and therefore its fruit is not orlah.
Israeli military court convicts French-Israeli settler's killer
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjg6mmvut
An Israeli military court on Wednesday convicted a Palestinian man of the December killing of a French-Israeli citizen in the north of the West Bank.
Pfizer Vax Immunity Waned in Israel, Regardless of Age
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/95288
Immunity against the Delta variant from Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine waned after a few months across age groups, Israeli researchers found.
Not surprisingly, rates of infection in July were higher among adults ages 60 and up who were fully vaccinated in January compared with those who were fully vaccinated in March (rate ratio [RR] 1.6, 95% CI 1.3-2.0), reported Yair Goldberg, PhD, of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and colleagues.
'RINOs Stole Election, We Steal Lives': Pennsylvania GOP Commissioner Details Death Threats
Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, the official responsible for overseeing the 2020 election in Pennsylvania's biggest city, made the remarks while testifying at a Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing on Tuesday. He said that supporters of the former president labeled him a "traitor" and a RINO, short for "Republican in name only," for correctly counting the votes.
Schmidt then read a message that demanded he "tell the truth or your three kids will be fatally shot." The threatening message also contained Schmidt's home address, the names of each of his children and a picture of his house.
Other threats included the phrases "heads on spikes, treasonous
Schmidts," "perhaps cuts and bullets will soon arrive at [Schmidt's
address]" and "RINOs stole election, we steal lives." The alleged
threats admonished Schmidt for supposedly having "betrayed" the country
by not backing Trump's false claims and warned that "cops can't help
you."
Hamas head urges Sheikh Jarrah families to reject compromise
US State Dept confirms: Israel would have to authorize Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem
The State Department confirmed that it could not open a consulate to the Palestinians in Jerusalem without Israel’s authorization, in a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Shatnez?
We just had a sweater checked for shatnez in Jerusalem -it was claimed that every fiber was shatnez
We donated it to a Shatnez checker in NY who displays these garments - he checked it and said not a single fiber of Shatnez in garment.
Obviously they both can't be right
I surveyed a number of stores and they claimed never having found shatnez
It seems wool and linen are rarely used together since synthetic fibers are stronger and cheaper.
It would seem that following the concept of rov there should be no need to check? Comments?
U.S. voices opposition to Israel's plans for new West Bank settlement homes
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1hnxaruf
ראש הישיבה הסביר וזעק: זו הסיבה לגזירות של הממשלה
https://www.kikar.co.il/404020.html
ראש הישיבה הגאון רבי גרשון אדלשטיין, התייחס הערב (שלישי) בשיחתו השבועית, בפעם ראשונה, לגזירות ממשלת בנט-לפיד-כהנא על הציבור החרדי וזעק בכאב: "איך יהודי מסוגל לעשות גזירות על יהודים?".
ראש הישיבה דיבר בכאב על הרצון של חברי הממשלה, לגרום ביטול תורה ולהצר את צעדי הציבור החרדי וקרא לציבור להתחזק בדברים הצריכים חיזוק, כדי למנוע את הגזירות.
ל'כיכר השבת' נודע, כי ראש הישיבה הורה בימים האחרונים לחברי הכנסת של דגל התורה, לפעול בכל הכח למנוע את הגזירות וכעת קרא לציבור להתחזק כדי להציל את עם ישראל מהגזירות.
Leading haredi rabbi asks: 'How can Jews make decrees against Jews?'
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315791
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the prestigious Ponovezh yeshiva, on Tuesday evening responded to the Israeli government's new "decrees" on the haredi public, Kikar Hashabbat reported.
In his weekly class, Rabbi Edelstein questioned, "How could a Jew be capable of making decrees on Jews?"
Kikar Hashabbat was informed that Rabbi Edelstein recently instructed MKs from the United Torah Judaism's Degel Hatorah faction to fight the decisions with all their might. Now, he has called on the public to increase their care in order to save the Jewish people from the "decrees."
Contruction on park near Arab graves sparks widespread outrage
Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff
As the House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack heats up, some of the planners of the pro-Trump rallies that took place in Washington, D.C., have begun communicating with congressional investigators and sharing new information about what happened when the former president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Two of these people have spoken to Rolling Stone extensively in recent weeks and detailed explosive allegations that multiple members of Congress were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the Jan. 6 events that turned violent.
Rolling Stone
separately confirmed a third person involved in the main Jan. 6 rally
in D.C. has communicated with the committee. This is the first report
that the committee is hearing major new allegations from potential
cooperating witnesses. While there have been prior indications that
members of Congress were involved, this is also the first account
detailing their purported role and its scope. The two sources also claim
they interacted with members of Trump’s team, including former White
House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who they describe as having had an
opportunity to prevent the violence.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Yeshiva deans ban students from donating blood until 'normal' version of forms is restored
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315741
In Har Hamor Yeshiva, Mitzpe Ramon Yeshiva and several other Zionist yeshivas, students have been told to refrain from donating blood via MDA until the original version of the documents which ask for "name of father" and "name of mother" is restored.
In recent months, several organizations have been altering official documents, replacing "father" with "parent 1" and "mother" with "parent 2."
Usually, a Magen David Adom (MDA) van arrives at Zionist yeshivas
once every three months, in order to enable the students to donate blood
on site.
Danger! Missionaries in your home!
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315747
These things need to become clear to all Jews regardless of their
level of observance or non-observance. To have warm and fuzzy feelings
for Christian Messianic Evangelical groups, colleges, individuals,
preachers and their online programs just because they are "Zionist" or
"Jewish" or can spout chapters of the Bible, is a mortal danger to the
present and future of the Jewish people, no less than the rockets and
terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah.
Abracadabra: Israel Museum exhibit explores Jewish magic
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/abracadabra-israel-museum-exhibit-explores-jewish-magic-683100