A woman condemned as Australia’s worst female serial killer has been pardoned after serving 20 years behind bars for killing her four children in what appears to be one of the country’s gravest miscarriages of justice.
New South Wales Attorney General Michael Daley intervened to order Kathleen Folbigg be freed, based on the preliminary findings of an inquiry that had found “reasonable doubt” as to her guilt for all four deaths.
In her 80 years on earth, Blau lived more lifetimes than would seem possible. Her stranger-than-fiction story winds its way from a stint in the French Resistance during World War II to serving as a spy in Morocco, going to prison for tax evasion, converting to Judaism twice, playing a key role in the kidnapping of a boy in Israel, a wildly controversial marriage to the founder of Neturei Karta and at least one meeting with Iranian ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Following a month-long consumer boycott of Angel Bakeries by many ultra-Orthodox Jews, the chairman of the firm’s board apologized on Sunday for attending a rally last month in Bnei Brak in favor of national service by Haredim.
The apology Sunday by former public security minister Omer Barlev, who took up the top executive post at Angel Bakeries after leaving office, came in a letter that he left with his hosts following a shiva visit to the relatives of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the late leader of the Lithuanian stream of Ashkenazi Jews. Edelstein, a top adviser to the United Torah Judaism party, died last week at the age of 100.
Yaron Angel, one of the bakery’s owners, also joined the shiva visit alongside Barlev and left his own separate written apology.
Australian police have reopened an investigation into whether a Jewish girls school in Melbourne helped former principal and convicted sex offender Malka Leifer flee to Israel after the allegations first surfaced 15 years ago.
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שכותב אודות החילול ה' שעושים
בישיבה ידע כת"ד שכאן בליטא
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באמעדיקא, וגם אני כבד סבלתי מזה
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/04/daniel-ellsberg-final-advice-00099639
“The need for whistleblowing in my area of so-called national security is that we have a secret foreign policy, which has been very successfully kept secret and essentially mythical,” he says. “I’m saying there’s never been more need for whistleblowers … There’s always been a need for many more than we have. At the same time, it’s become more and more dangerous to be a whistleblower. There’s little doubt about that.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/372313
Rothman discussed the incident during a conversation on Sunday morning with Galei Tzahal, "There will be a judicial reform. There are people who think that through violence and threats, they will manage to get us to think differently. But violence actually convinces me that reform is important and how important it is to do it quickly."
The feds went on to secure convictions against Bannon’s three other business associates, who were punished for looting the purported charity. Brian Kolfage, a wounded and decorated Air Force veteran who served as the face of the project, was sentenced in April to more than four years in prison. Andrew Badolato, a project financier, got three years. Colorado businessman Timothy Shea, whose first go-around ended in a mistrial, was ultimately convicted and is set to be sentenced this month.
At issue is sucralose, a widely used artificial sweetener. Previous work by the same research team established that several fat-soluble compounds are produced in the gut after sucralose ingestion. One of these compounds is sucralose-6-acetate.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/utah-district-bans-bible-in-schools-due-to-vulgarity-or-violence
The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/14/covid-vaccine-mandate-detox-borax-bath
Unproven and sometimes dangerous vaccine “detox” remedies, including restrictive diets and supplements, have been popular in anti-vaccination circles for years. Social media, coupled with politicized resistance to Covid-19 vaccine mandates imposed by businesses and government agencies, has increased the spread of misinformation.
Blouma Jacobs noted that antisemitism was one of the main factors pushing away young religious Jews, who statistical data show are likelier to be targeted because of their recognizable dress code. When they leave, it weakens the community that remains, she said, “so Jewish life is less robust overall.
