Monday, February 4, 2019

Gedolim in the Trump post--Truth and alternative facts Era

Today it seems as personality is more important than knowledge of Torah/
 a Rabbi who can inspire and gives people what they want is viewed as a Gadol.

Torah laws can be ignored if you have enough money

as HaRav Sternbuch told me "money can purify even the status of mamzer"



Sunday, February 3, 2019

Fox Host Tells Trump He's "Beacon for Repression"

9 מוסדות חרדיים נקנסו בגלל התפרצות חצבת

http://www.bhol.co.il/news/972931


9 מוסדות חרדיים במונסי קיבלו קנסות בסך כולל של 70,000 דולר, מכיוון שהם נמנעו להציג מידע בעניין חיסון נגד חצבת.
עקב התפרצות של כ-95 מקרי חצבת ב-12 שבועות האחרונים באזור רוקלנד קאונטי, בה שוכן כפר מונסי, משרד הבריאות האמריקאי דרש מכל מוסדות החינוך להציג רשומות של החיסונים שנערכים אצלם.
שני שליש מהמוסדות נענו לדרישה, אך תשע מוסדות חרדיים לא שיתפו פעולה ולא הציגו את המידע הנדרש.
הקנס על חוסר שיתוף הפעולה הוא 2,000 דולר ליום, וחלק מהמוסדות נקנסו על כך שבמשך שבועיים ימים הם לא העבירו את המידע. קנס של 14,000 דולר.
כעת שמונה מתוך התשע החלו להעביר את המידע הנדרש למשרד הבריאות. בזכות שיתוף הפעולה הם זכו למחילה של 10% מהקנס. לעומתם מוסד אחד, 'עטרת בנות', אינו מסכים להתניות ולא משתף פעולה.
"במהלך משבר בריאות ציבורי, אנו מצפים מכולם לשתף פעולה עם דרישות משרד הבריאות המחוזי", הכריז מנהל המחוז.

Business Secrets from the Bible

Psychiatrist Bandy Lee On What's Wrong With Trump's Mental Health

Saturday, February 2, 2019

'Willful Ignorance.' Inside President Trump's Troubled Intelligence Briefings

http://time.com/5518947/donald-trump-intelligence-briefings-national-security/


In the wake of President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the U.S. intelligence community this week, senior intelligence briefers are breaking two years of silence to warn that the President is endangering American security with what they say is a stubborn disregard for their assessments.
Citing multiple in-person episodes, these intelligence officials say Trump displays what one called “willful ignorance” when presented with analyses generated by America’s $81 billion-a-year intelligence services. The officials, who include analysts who prepare Trump’s briefs and the briefers themselves, describe futile attempts to keep his attention by using visual aids, confining some briefing points to two or three sentences, and repeating his name and title as frequently as possible.

Friday, February 1, 2019

FACT CHECK Fact-Checking President Trump’s Interview With The New York Times


5 Takeaways From The Times’s Interview With President Trump


WASHINGTON — President Trump wanted to talk. He initially invited A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, to an off-the-record dinner. Mr. Sulzberger countered with a request for an on-the-record interview that included Times reporters. The White House accepted.



Trump Says He Summoned Intel Chiefs After Hearing They Contradicted Him | The Last Word | MSNBC

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Fact-checking Trump's claim on cost of illegal immigration, number of immigrants here illegally

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/jan/28/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-claim-cost-illegal-imm/


Our ruling
Trump said, "We are not even into February and the cost of illegal immigration so far this year is $18,959,495,168. Cost Friday was $603,331,392. There are at least 25,772,342 illegal aliens, not the 11,000,000 that have been reported for years, in our Country."
The source of Trump’s claim is unclear. We asked DHS and the White House to back Trump’s statement, but neither provided studies or any other data to support it.
Trump previously falsely claimed that the cost of illegal immigration was $250 billion a year. Even the highest annual estimates we found were significantly lower than that amount ($116 billion, after factoring in tax contributions).
Most estimates say there are around 11 million immigrants in the country illegally. A recent study from Yale University researchers said a mean number was 22.1 million, but several demographers have pointed flaws in the assumptions and findings of that study.
Without evidence from Trump or his administration to back this statement, we rate it False.

Monday, January 28, 2019

Rabbis: New York Reproductive Health Act 'declares war on life'



A prominent rabbinic organization has denounced New York State's newly-passed Reproductive Health Act. The law not only declares that abortion is a "fundamental right," but entirely removes illegal abortion, whether by a practitioner or malicious assailant, from the New York Penal Law. The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 1000 traditional rabbis in matters of public policy, called the law "indefensible" from a moral and humanitarian perspective.
"According to this law," said Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, Chairman of the Rabbinic Circle of the CJV, "late-term abortions may be performed literally until right before birth, even by non-doctors, and not only in order to save the mother’s life but also 'to protect a patient’s health' — and even decriminalized illegal abortions. New York State has asserted that a woman’s convenience and whim are more important than the life of another."
Rabbi Gordimer, who has written extensively on this topic, also pointed to numerous cases where women were attacked specifically due to their pregnancy, with intent to harm or kill her fetus. "The same legislators who have defined entirely new 'protected classes' have stripped expectant mothers — and their unborn children — of protection. This is morally indefensible. That they imagine this better for humanity simply boggles the mind."

The state of Trump's presidency is, well, pretty feeble


As President Donald Trump begins his third year in office — after the longest shutdown in U.S. history and after another adviser was indicted — our new NBC News/Wall Street Journal pollprovides a check-up on his presidency.
The conclusion: He’s in pretty weak shape.
According to the poll, which was conducted before Friday’s deal to reopen the government, Trump’s job-approval rating stands at 43 percent among all adults — which is unchanged from December, and which is higher than other polls finding a slight drop in his approval since the shutdown’s start.
That’s some of the good news for Trump in poll. The bad news is that just a third of Americans (33 percent) are “extremely” or “quite” confident that he has the right set of goals and policies to be president, and slightly more than a quarter (28 percent) have high confidence that he has the right set of personal characteristics to be president.
Half of Americans (50 percent) say they are “not at all” confident in his personal characteristics.
What’s more, Trump gets poor marks on many key presidential qualities.
Notably, Trump is below 50 percent on all eight of these qualities. And the numbers for knowledge/experience, honesty and ethics are absolutely brutal.

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Trump hits Ann Coulter over recent criticism: 'Maybe I didn’t return her phone call or something

President Trump on Sunday took a shot at conservative commentator Ann Coulter, a longtime supporter of his, after she criticized him for agreeing to reopen the government without a deal on his long-promised border wall.
“I hear she’s become very hostile,” Trump said in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal. “Maybe I didn’t return her phone call or something.”
His jab comes shortly after Coulter blasted Trump repeatedly for not securing funding for a wall along the southern U.S. border, his signature campaign promise.

Sunday, January 27, 2019

ANN COULTER CALLS DONALD TRUMP 'BIGGEST WIMP EVER TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT' AS CONSERVATIVE MEDIA BLASTS ‘CAVE’ OVER WALL

newsweek



Conservative media hammered President Donald Trump for his surprising announcement on Friday afternoon that he has agreed to reopen the federal government for three weeks while continuing to negotiate with Democrats to secure the southern border. The agreement came without funding for his border wall.
Conservative political commentator and author Ann Coulter roasted Trump on Twitter without explicitly naming him.
“Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States,” Coulter tweeted.