Sunday, April 18, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
23-year-old dies from allergic reaction to dairy ice cream at meat restaurant
An initial investigation found that the victim had ordered ice cream, assuming it was pareve (not dairy or meaty) as the restaurant was kosher and could not serve dairy with meat.
The chef, 19, had earlier noticed that they were out of ice cream and ordered a co-worker to run to the store and purchase some. However, the employee allegedly bought dairy ice cream by mistake.
The victim did not have her epinephrine pen on her at the time of the allergic reaction.
Anulling a civil marriage
Igros Moshe (E.H. 4:52) impotent husband. wife complained that she married a man who was impotent and he had the problem even prior to marriage and the condition was incurable. There are reasons to believe the claims are true and she has remarried without a get and had children from the second marriage. The first marriage was annulled in civil court when a doctor under oath said she was still a virgin and had never had intercourse. The first husband was told to give her a get but he refused unless he was given a large amount of money which was not able to provide. . She later remarried to a second man in a civil marriage and had two sons and a daughter. Her parents testified before beis din that their family doctor, who the beis knows to be frum was also the doctor of the first husband from his youth, that the first husband was always impotent and was not fit for marriage and that if he had known that he wanted to get married he would have advised against it. While this doctor is no longer alive, a second Jewish doctor who has testified that the first husband was always impotent. The first husband has remained silent. The issue now is the status of the children and whether they can marry Jews. I have already explained and ruled in Igros Moshe (E,H. 170) that if there is a major deficit such as impotence which involves the bases of marriage that there is no need for a Get even rabbinically. So in this case, if all the facts are unquestionably true and she can not obtain a get and especially related to the status of the children. I ruled after a number of years similarly in a case where the husband was a shoteh (severe mental illness) even prior to marriage which is also clearly a great deficit [mum gadol] as noted in Yevamos (112b) that you don’t marry a shoteh because of the rule that a person does not dwell together with a serpent in close quarters.Therefore she should be allowed because of kiddushei ta’us (mistaken marriage) if it is impossible to obtain a get.
הבד"ץ התכנסו ודנו בשמיטה ונשים עגונות
https://www.kikar.co.il/389720.html
בסוף הדיון הוגש לפני הרבנים מכתבו של ראב"ד התאחדות הרבנים בארה"ב הגאון רבי מנחם זילבר, בו הוא כותב בדאגה על גורמים מסויימים שהקימו גוף, המציע לעגונות לבוא לבחון אפשרות של "ביטול קידושין" על ידי ניסיונות למציאת פגם בקידושין, כמו על ידי טעות או אומדנא וכדומה.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Fox stands behind Tucker Carlson after ADL urges his firing
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fox-stands-tucker-carlson-adl-urges-firing-77031126
During the show, Carlson said “the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate of voters now casting ballots with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World." He added that he had “less political power because they are importing a brand new electorate.”
Monday, April 12, 2021
An “audit report” found that a voting system used in Michigan in the 2020 presidential election was designed to “create systemic fraud.”
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The report cited is from a firm that provided analyses and affidavits for lawsuits brought by Trump allies, falsely alleging voter fraud and election irregularities.
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Under oath, Michigan’s election director stated that the report “ascribes motives of fraud and obfuscation to processes that are easily explained as routine election procedures or error corrections.”
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An official hand audit of Antrim County’s votes confirmed that Trump won the county, with only slight changes in the vote totals that had already been certified.
Report spreads debunked claims about Dominion machines in Michigan county
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9847904839
CLAIM: A report released this week in Michigan shows Dominion Voting Systems machines in Antrim County, Michigan, were “intentionally designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. This report rests on falsehoods about a human error in Antrim County and about Dominion machines, according to state and local officials. The initial vote reporting error in Antrim County was isolated and has been identified and explained by election officials. It was caused by a clerk’s failure to update media drives for certain tabulators to reflect the correct ballot content. It was not a machine problem.
Michigan election officials slam report on votes in Antrim County
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel issued a joint statement calling the report "another in a long stream of misguided, vague and dubious assertions designed to erode public confidence in the November presidential election."
"If the Trump campaign had any actual evidence of wrongdoing – or genuine suspicion thereof – they could have requested a hand recount of every ballot in the state," Benson said in a Monday statement. "They did not, instead choosing to allow shadowy organizations claiming expertise to throw around baseless claims of fraud in an effort to mislead American voters and undermine the integrity of the election."
But Trump, who lost Michigan by 154,000 votes, tweeted that the report showed "massive fraud." The report came from an organization called Allied Security Operations Group, which has previously made false claims about Michigan's election.
Impersonator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Waldo_Demara
The following year, Demara began his new lives by borrowing the name of Anthony Ignolia, an army buddy, and going AWOL. After two more attempts in monasteries, he joined the Navy where he trained as a hospital corpsman.[5]:80 He did not reach the position he wanted, faked his suicide and borrowed another name, Robert Linton French, and became a religion-oriented psychologist, who taught psychology at Gannon College (now a university) in Erie, Pennsylvania. Afterwards, Demara served as an orderly in a Los Angeles sanitarium, and served as an instructor in St. Martin's College (now a university) in the state of Washington. The FBI captured him, and he served 18 months at the Naval Disciplinary Barracks, San Pedro, California, for desertion.[4]
After his release he assumed a fake identity and studied law at night at Northeastern University, then joined the Brothers of Christian Instruction in Maine, a Roman Catholic order.[4]
While at the Brothers of Christian Instruction, he became acquainted with a young Canadian doctor named Joseph C. Cyr.[4] That led to his most famous exploit, in which he masqueraded as Cyr, working as a trauma surgeon aboard HMCS Cayuga, a Royal Canadian Navy destroyer, during the Korean War. He managed to improvise successful major surgeries and fend off infection with generous amounts of penicillin. His most notable surgical practices were performed on some sixteen Korean combat casualties who were loaded onto the Cayuga. All eyes turned to Demara, the only "surgeon" on board, as it became obvious that several of the casualties would require major surgery or certainly die. After ordering personnel to transport these variously injured patients into the ship's operating room and prep them for surgery, Demara disappeared to his room with a textbook on general surgery and proceeded to speed-read the various surgeries he was now forced to perform, including major chest surgery. None of the casualties died as a result of Demara's surgeries. Apparently, the removal of a bullet from a wounded man ended up in Canadian newspapers. One person reading the reports was the mother of the real Joseph Cyr; her son at the time of "his" service in Korea was actually practicing medicine in Grand Falls, New Brunswick. When news of the impostor reached the Cayuga, still on duty off Korea, Captain James Plomer at first refused to believe Demara was not a doctor (and not Joseph Cyr). However, faced with the embarrassment of having allowed an impostor into the navy's ranks, Canadian officials chose not to press charges. Instead, Demara was quietly dismissed from the Royal Canadian Navy and forced to return to the United States. The MASH episode "Dear Dad... Again" included a one time character Captain Adam Casey, likely inspired by Demara's exploits, who performs several surgeries, but turns out not to be a real doctor.
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