Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Two New York City kosher restaurants send Pride emails, then apologize
Restaurants say emails offering Pride Month
discounts sent out by external marketing and promotions company, vow to
‘educate’ them.
Israel pushes vaccines for teens as fast-spreading Delta variant stokes fears
The Health Ministry on Monday urged rapid vaccination for teens and began working on measures to curb COVID-19 infections linked to international arrivals, amid signs that the extra-contagious Delta variant is spreading in Israel.
Ministry officials strongly recommended that 12- to 15-year-olds get
vaccinated against COVID as soon as possible. The vaccine has been
available to that age group for several weeks, but until now the
ministry stopped short of recommending teens receive the shot.
Ra’am MK says party will vote against the Palestinian family reunification law
Without the backing of Ra’am and several MKs from the left-wing Meretz and Labor parties, the coalition currently lacks a majority to extend the law. Most lawmakers in the opposition also back the legislation in principle, but many have indicated that they will nevertheless vote against it to undermine and embarrass the new coalition.
A source within the coalition told Channel 12 that the only potential
solution to the impasse would be to offer Ra’am something significant,
such as a freeze of demolition orders in Arab communities, in exchange
for their votes.
'Shabbat Driver' found to be missionary targeting haredi women
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308510
Following reports of missionaries targeting the haredi community in Israel, the Yad L'Achim anti-assimilation organization has reported that a non-Jewish woman who drives expectant haredi women to the hospital on the Sabbath is in fact a Christian missionary.
The problem came to light last week when a yeshiva student in Jerusalem called Yad L'Achim asking for help. His wife had seemed worried and distracted for several weeks and finally revealed to him that she was on the verge of converting to Christianity.
When he pressed for details, he learned that a Christian missionary by the name of Jan Comeaux had taken advantage of his wife's distress and fragile condition in the wake of recent trauma to get her to convert.
הרב הראשי: להוציא מהקבר את גופת המיסיונרית שהתחזתה
https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1240270
בהמשך לסערה שהתעוררה לאחר הגילוי כי משפחה באחת השכונות בירושלים התחזתה
ליהודייה, הורה הגר"ד לאו לעשות כל מאמץ להוציא אותה מקברה. "מדובר באשה
שאינה יהודייה שהתחזתה לחרדית והייתה מסיונרית ואף ניסתה להעביר על דת
ישראל"
Neil Postman - Foreword to Amusing Ourselves to Death
https://www.tau.ac.il/education/muse/maslool/boidem/170foreword.html
We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy
didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The
roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had
happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was
another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling:
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among
the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell
warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression.
But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of
their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come
to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their
capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley
feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would
be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would
deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so
much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared
that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would
be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a
captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture,
preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and
the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World
Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the
alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost
infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Huxley added, people are
controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled
by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will
ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it's not Orwell, he warned, it's Brave New World
The central argument of Amusing Ourselves is simple: there were two landmark dystopian novels written by brilliant British cultural critics – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell – and we Americans had mistakenly feared and obsessed over the vision portrayed in the latter book (an information-censoring, movement-restricting, individuality-emaciating state) rather than the former (a technology-sedating, consumption-engorging, instant-gratifying bubble).
Unfortunately, there remained a vision we Americans did need to guard against, one that was percolating right then, in the 1980s. The president was a former actor and polished communicator. Our political discourse (if you could call it that) was day by day diminished to soundbites (“Where’s the beef?” and “I’m paying for this microphone” became two “gotcha” moments, apparently testifying to the speaker’s political formidableness).
Weil Gotshal Files Federal Lawsuit Against Fort Lee’s ‘The Colony’ Over Religious Discrimination
Plaintiffs and other Sabbath observant residents of the building, most of whom are elderly and/or physically handicapped, are religiously prohibited from operating the building’s elevators on the Sabbath, and have relied on building staff for assistance for more than 16 years. In May 2019, shareholders of the building voted in favor of a Sabbath elevator program, which operated in the service elevators only, and allowed the Sabbath-observant residents greater independence and dignity.
Monday, June 21, 2021
Sunday, June 20, 2021
Covid-19 outbreak: Health Ministry orders even those already vaccinate to isolate
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308394
Case identified in Beit She'an is woman who recently traveled to Dubai. Fears of partially vaccine-resistant Indian mutation mount.
The so-called Indian mutation is known to be partially resistant to
coronavirus vaccines currently in use. According to a report from Reuters,
antibodies in blood from people who received both doses of the Pfizer
vaccine were found to be between three and six times less potent against
the Indian mutation than against other common variants, including the
"South African" mutation, according to a report posted on the website bioRxiv.
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