Sunday, January 26, 2020
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's Senate impeachment trial -- What does it take to remove a president?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-senate-impeachment-trial-judge-andrew-napolitano
I don't blame President Trump for his angst and
bitterness over his impeachment by the House of Representatives. In his
mind, he has done "nothing wrong" and not acted outside the constitutional
powers vested in him and so his impeachment should not have come to
pass. He believes that the president can legally extract personal
concessions from the recipients of foreign aid, and he also believes
that he can legally order his subordinates to ignore congressional
subpoenas.
Hence, his public denunciations of his Senate
trial as a charade, a joke and a hoax. His trial is not a charade or a
joke or a hoax. It is deadly serious business based on well-established
constitutional norms.
In Trump's case, though the House chose delicately not to accuse the
president of specific crimes, there is enough evidence here to do so.
Federal election laws proscribe as criminal the mere solicitation of
help for a political campaign from a foreign national or government.
There is no dispute that Trump did this. In fact, the case for this is
stronger now than it was when the House impeached him last year. Since
then, more evidence, which Trump tried to suppress, has come to light.
The exploitation of a tragedy: 8-year-old found dead in Jerusalem
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/7-year-old-child-missing-in-Jerusalems-Beit-Hanina-615271
Missing boy found drowned in Beit Hanina • Hanan Ashrawi, Rashida Tlaib retweet claim ‘settlers kidnapped, executed’ youth
Missing boy found drowned in Beit Hanina • Hanan Ashrawi, Rashida Tlaib retweet claim ‘settlers kidnapped, executed’ youth
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Donald Trump Is the Mad-King President Our Founders Feared Most
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-king-impeachment-founders-ukraine-922935/
Trump is hardly the first president to
make full use of the frighteningly expansive power of the presidency.
That bipartisan tradition dates back decades. More recently, we saw it
in the vast executive theory used by George W. Bush to justify torture
and wage endless wars. We saw it Barack Obama’s expansion of the war on
terror, use of a secret drone-strike kill list, and wielding of
executive authority to put in place hundreds of new regulations.
But Trump exists in a different realm. He thinks he is
the law, an untouchable and all-knowing sovereign. Reality bends to his
will. He stands in front of the American people and tells them to
believe the opposite of what they see and hear, tells them that he alone can fix what’s broken in American politics.
This is the behavior of a president who believes he’s a king.
Dozens of Israelis being arrested, some jailed in Europe for smuggling khat drug
Israeli organized crime groups are paying travelers to smuggle khat
leaves to European countries, leading to dozens of Israelis being
arrested, and some jailed, abroad.
While khat is illegal in most European countries, there are no
restrictions on its sale or distribution in Israel and it is frequently
used by the country’s Yemenite and Ethiopian communities.
The situation creates a lucrative opportunity for criminals, Channel 12 news reported Sunday.
Missing East Jerusalem 8-year-old found dead in deep pool of rainwater
https://www.timesofisrael.com/missing-east-jerusalem-8-year-old-found-is-in-very-serious-condition/
Qais Abu Ramila, from city’s Beit Hanina neighborhood, apparently slipped in and drowned; extensive search efforts were launched after his disappearance on Friday afternoon
Qais Abu Ramila, from city’s Beit Hanina neighborhood, apparently slipped in and drowned; extensive search efforts were launched after his disappearance on Friday afternoon
Rashida Tlaib retweets unverified claim Israelis killed Palestinian boy
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Tlaib-retweets-unverified-claim-Israelis-killed-Palestinian-boy-615319
However Ashrawi apologized for her tweet. “My apologizes for re-tweeting something that’s not fully verified. It seems that the news of his being kidnapped is not certain.” She also tweeted other clarifications and then appeared to delete the tweet. Tlaib’s retweet was also was thereafter deleted but she did not apologize for spreading the false information.
However Ashrawi apologized for her tweet. “My apologizes for re-tweeting something that’s not fully verified. It seems that the news of his being kidnapped is not certain.” She also tweeted other clarifications and then appeared to delete the tweet. Tlaib’s retweet was also was thereafter deleted but she did not apologize for spreading the false information.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Righteous Outrage Goes International:
BS"D
Righteous Outrage Goes International:
Jewish Outrage Over the Israeli Drafting of Girls Overflows Onto the International Stage
26 Teves, 5780 °° Jan. 23, '20
By Binyomin Feinberg,
FeinbergBinyomin@gmail.com
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To check for updates, on first view of this article, as well as throughout the week, please visit https://saveHischildren.
or/and see updates for month of Teves '80:
https://docs.google.com/
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This morning we reported on today's international Israeli summit against antisemitism held in Jerusalem (see
"Never Again??" at: http://
We've
since received reports of the demonstration held there by concerned
Orthodox Jews against the Israeli government, over their drafting of
girls into the notoriously exploitive and immoral Army, and over the
often brutal religious-persecution of religious objectors, particularly
the girls currently languishing in Military Prisons Four and Six.
Well
over a dozen protesters demonstrated at a location about a five-minute
walk away from where world leaders were being hosted in Jerusalem, to
address increasing antisemitism, on the 75th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz. Demonstrators prepared multiple "provocative"
signs, e.g. protesting antireligious Army racism against Jews of color,
and imploring President Putin to seek the freedom of an incarcerated
victim of IDF antireligious persecution (Lital bas Miriam).
Nevertheless,
B"H, the protest remained peaceful, because, in full view of
international media, the police employed noteworthy restraint this time,
allowing free expression of dissent without stealing signs, or
targeting demonstrators for "disciplinary" beatings and incarceration.
Protesters
held signs protesting the decades-old Israeli policy of forcing girls
into the promiscuous military environment from about 4pm to 7:30 or 8pm,
and reported a vibrant media presence (including YNet). One poster
identified the co-ed Army as "The Largest Open Human Trafficking Network
in the Mideast."
It was a
wonderful Kiddush HaShem to see that Jews truly care. It's tragic that
the Israeli government requires concerned Jews to appeal to the broader
international community in order to save our sisters from religious
persecution - by other Jews.
Context of the Rav Soloveitchik Transcription
https://www.jewishlinknj.com/letters/30336-context-of-the-rav-soloveitchik-transcription
This article is a
powerful essay based on a speech delivered to the rabbinic alumni of
Yeshiva University in 1975. But because you did not provide the context
and purpose of that speech, the general reader may have been confused by
the impassioned uncompromising tone of the piece.
This talk was
delivered by the Rav as a response to proposals by Rabbi Emanuel Rackman
to resolve the problems faced by women whose husbands refused to grant
them a Jewish divorce. Rabbi Rackman was also in line at that time as a
top candidate to become president of Yeshiva University.
Rav Soloveitchik’s
strident remarks in the piece that you published characterized (without
spelling this out) that the innovations that Rabbi Rackman wanted to
make in divorce law were (1) heretical and (2) liable to “destroy yahadus (Judaism)” and (3) “methods of self-destruction and suicide.” Harsh words indeed.
Rabbi Kaminetsky-Rabbi Greenblatt Heter: Rav Dovid Feinstein says it is worthless
Matzav just published the following letter from R Sholom Kamenetsky acknowledging and accepting that Rav Dovid Feinstein's beis din had declared the heter totally worthless. He also indicated that his father has already stated that he would accept the ruling of Rav Dovid Feinstein.
Unfortunately I have not seen the psak itself. It had been expected that Rav Dovid Feinstein would reject the heter - after all it was obvious that it was a sad joke. The question remains did Rav Dovid Feinstein criticize those who had said the heter was valid? In addition will Rav Nota Greenblatt accept the psak?
Without the criticism of those who produced the heter and without the retraction of Rav Greenblatt - the heter now becomes simply a dispute between poskim and Tamar obviously will chose Rav Greenblatt.
Of greater importance, without the criticism of those who produced the heter and its retraction - the heter will remain a viable option for all those who want a quick and simple end to a marriage without having to worry about the Get process. All they need is to pay a therapist to declare their husband to have an incurable personality problem i.e., to certify they don't like them and that they can do better with another husband. The therapist doesn't have to even waste his time talking to the husband - he will simply accept what the wife tells him.
Kaminetsky-Greenblatt Heter: Why the psychiatric report is irrelevant can not be used to justify the heter
Just received the following email
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Regarding:
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Regarding:
I think someone has to get the following information to Rabbi Feinstein: even if a psychiatrist diagnosed Aharon as mentally ill (and even if this is retroactive), there still can be no heter.
I believe I wrote this to you in the past: According to her own version of the story, Tamar Epstein discovered her husband's issue and decided that getting married was a mistake two weeks after the wedding.
See from 37:44 of the video.
She became pregnant with their daughter a few months later.
Under these circumstances, Rabbi Feinstein's father would never have granted a heter, even if a psychiatrist had diagnosed a disorder in the husband.
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