The DOJ Won't Defend Rep. Mo Brooks In Court Against Claims He Incited The Jan. 6 Riot

 https://www.npr.org/2021/07/28/1021611663/the-doj-wont-defend-rep-mo-brooks-in-court-against-claims-he-incited-jan-6-riot

 The Justice Department says Brooks was engaged in campaign activity when he participated in the rally. That is not within the scope of his duties as a member of Congress, so he doesn't qualify for legal immunity for his actions, the department said.

"The Department has declined to issue a certification because it cannot conclude that Brooks was acting within the scope of his office or employment as a Member of Congress at the time of the incident out of which the claims in this case arose," the Justice Department explained in a court filing.

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Reassessing Rav Kook - Tzadik hador

 https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/reassessing-rav-kook/

While being an administrator was not his strong suit, Rav Kook was most generous in his rabbinic duties to help the needy. He spent a lot of time visiting the sick, regularly giving away his own household possessions. One of his disciples, Rabbi Ya’akov Moshe Charlap, a native Jerusalemite, regarded him as “Tzadik HaDor, the saint, who in Kabbalistic and Hasidic doctrine, takes upon himself the uplifting of his time, and whose soul challenges God’s energies into the world.”

Tzadikei hador are G-d's beis din

 ספר צדקת הצדיק - אות פז

פז) אין גזירה יוצאה מפי הקב"ה אלא בהסכמת צדיקי הדור [שהם בית דינו] כמו שמובא (אידרא רבא קמ"ב ע"ב) סוד ה' ליראיו ועד דלא אסכימו לא נחתין דינין לעלמא. ואיך יהיה זה והלא הם אדרבה מתפללים בעדם, רק שהוא בענין אחר הדומה לו כענין שהיה בדוד המלך ע"ה בכבשה [וירמיה היה בבני ענתות, וגלות עשרת שבטים היה ישעיה בשבנא, ואברהם אבינו בסדום הוא במה שהפריד לוט מקודם וכן הכל ואין כאן מקום להאריך]. ולכך צריך שמירה בזה שלא יצא לעולם דבר רע מפיו ולכך הצדיק נתפס ובהדי הוצא לקי כרבא ובודאי הכל במשפט רק שהוא כנזכר לעיל מפני שהסכים והוא גרם לפורענותם ולכך ממנו מתחיל כדאיתא בבבא קמא (צ"ב.) כענין מדה טובה שאמרו (שם) במתפלל על חבירו וכו' נענה תחילה. ולא היה צדיק שניצול מזה לגמרי רק משיח ואין כאן מקום להאריך עוד:

Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham mocked the harrowing police testimony about the Capitol riot with snickers and a 'best political performance' trophy

 https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-laura-ingraham-mocked-110027089.html

Carlson responded: "Actually, what happened on January 6, according to the video we do have, does not look a lot like Iraq. It's not Fallujah." He played footage of a relatively quiet segment of the Capitol invasion, with people milling peacefully about the rotunda.

Extensive footage of much more violent moments exists.

Fanone also excoriated the "indifference" shown to officers who defended the Capitol that day. "I've been left with the psychological trauma and the emotional anxiety of having survived such a horrific event," he said.

Carlson outright laughed at this:

 

Jared Kushner set to move away from politics and launch investment firm

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/28/jared-kushner-donald-trump-investment-firm-politics 

Jared Kushner, a top adviser to former Donald Trump, plans to launch an investment firm in coming months, a move that will take him away from politics for the foreseeable future, sources familiar with the plan said on Wednesday.

Kushner, the former chief executive of Kushner Companies, who served as the Republican president’s senior adviser in the White House, is in the final stages of launching an investment firm called Affinity Partners that will be headquartered in Miami.

Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, is also looking to open an office in Israel to pursue regional investments to connect Israel’s economy and India, North Africa and the Gulf, said two people briefed on the plan, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Terrorist who stabbed Jew handed 15-year sentence

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310811 

 Despite a demand by the Military Prosecutor's Office that Maslama receive between 19-25 years in prison, the judges decided on a lighter sentence, accepting the claim that the terrorist found the knife by coincidence, and therefore did not plan the attack early enough, Yediot Aharonot said.

"We need to take into account that the accused found the Exacto knife used in the attack by happenstance, and did not intentionally arm himself with it ahead of time, as in other cases. Indeed, the accused's actions were done after prior thought, when he ambushed his victim after noticing him, but this is a 'short-term' pre-planning, in my opinion," Judge Rani Amar wrote in his ruling.

PM set to back 3rd vaccine dose for older Israelis after nod from expert panel

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-set-to-approve-3rd-vaccine-for-older-israelis-after-nod-from-expert-panel/

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is expected to announce his support for older Israelis to receive a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine after a government-appointed panel of health experts gave a nod to the trailblazing initiative on Wednesday evening.

The panel’s position will be presented to Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz during a Thursday morning meeting, after which the prime minister is expected to announce his backing for Israelis above the age of 60 to receive a third dose of the vaccine.

The vote by the panel was not unanimous, according to Hebrew media, but a majority supported booster shots for older Israelis, against the backdrop of the rising number of seriously ill patients in recent weeks.

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Trump and DeSantis clash with Biden as the mask wars roar back to life

 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/mask-wars-are-back/index.html

Only two months ago, the CDC said vaccinated people didn't have to wear masks indoors with the pandemic apparently in retreat. But on Tuesday, with the highly transmissible Delta variant raging, the top public health agency said that even vaccinated people in areas of "substantial" and "high" transmission of the coronavirus should mask up. And it said that everyone -- staff, kids and visitors -- should wear masks in K-12 schools when the summer break ends.

The decision was taken in the context of new data showing that vaccinated people infected with the Delta strain can play a limited role in transmission, even if their chances of getting seriously ill and dying are still very low.

The announcement that masking is back for many Americans came as a devastating blow to morale and could have significant political implications for a White House that made ending the pandemic this year its signature goal.

Knesset nixes vote on bill to decriminalize cannabis

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310747

A bill to decriminalize the use of cannabis will not be brought for a vote Wednesday, after the coalition leaders failed to garner a majority supporting it.

The bill, put forth by New Hope's MK Sharren Haskel, was brought down mainly by opposition from the United Arab List (Ra'am) party.

The bill would ban smoking cannabis only in public areas, similar to the laws regarding smoking cigarettes. In all other places, police officers would be banned from conducting a body search, detaining a suspect, or arresting someone smoking grass.

Health Ministry to begin offering third coronavirus vaccine dose - next week

 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/310729

During a Wednesday morning interview with Galei Zahal, Professor Eli Waxman of the Weizmann Institute of Science called on the Health Ministry to approve the provision of a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

"You need to understand that we don't have time," he said. "We need to immediately approve the third dose of the vaccine against coronavirus, to start the campaign - and to vaccinate, at the end of the day, the entire population."

"We have proofs that the efficacy of the vaccine drops after six months," he added