https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1146996
בית משפט השלום בירושלים האריך ביומיים את מעצרו של חשוד, גבר כבן 25, שנתפס בדירת מגורים בביתר עילית לאחר שפרץ למקום, נכנס מתחת למיטה בחדר הילדים ותקף אותם
https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1146996
בית משפט השלום בירושלים האריך ביומיים את מעצרו של חשוד, גבר כבן 25, שנתפס בדירת מגורים בביתר עילית לאחר שפרץ למקום, נכנס מתחת למיטה בחדר הילדים ותקף אותם
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/one-of-the-ugliest-words-in-judaism-moser/
But it is hard to understand the ugly events of Brooklyn last week in terms that would even approach the threshold of rendering anyone a moser. The actions of the state — in this case, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov Andrew Cuomo — were clearly motivated by a desire to protect the Hasidic community, and the broader population, from a deadly virus that took the lives of tens of thousands of New Yorkers this spring. Their imposition of the New Cluster Action Initiative threatened economic, social and religious hardships for certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens (including, incidentally, my own), but only the most extreme opponents of the measure would argue it was more than heavy-handed governance.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/18/politics/donald-trump-women-gretchen-whitmer/index.html
An estimated 10,000 people are expected to gather together in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, on Monday to celebrate the wedding of the grandchild of the Satmar hassidic dynasty's grand rabbi, local CBS-affiliate WBCS reported Saturday.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289257
New York state officials issued a halt order on a planned wedding in Brooklyn that they allege would have brought together "upwards of 10,000 individuals," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday quoted by ABC News.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-emails-computer-repair-store-owner-john-paul-mac-isaac
Isaac’s claim that the laptop in question belonged to Hunter Biden has yet to be substantiated. Isaac told the New York Post, which first published the emails earlier Wednesday, that he determined it was Hunter Biden because the laptop had a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, which is named after his late older brother.
“I just don't know what to say, or what I'm allowed to say,” Isaac said. “I know that I saw, I saw stuff. And I was concerned. I was concerned that somebody might want to come looking for this stuff eventually and I wanted it out of my shop.”
When asked, Isaac, whose social media
posts indicate is a supporter of President Trump, rejected the
possibility that the laptop did not belong to Hunter Biden and was an
attempt to set him up.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/twitter-has-refused-to-unlock-new-york-posts-account
Twitter has refused to unlock the New York Post's account since Wednesday unless the outlet deletes six tweets about its reporting on 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, the Post reported.
Both the San Francisco-based social media platform and Facebook came under fire this week after the two blocked users from sharing a Post article showing purported communication between 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and an adviser to a Ukrainian energy company.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-russia-024b553e9a4ffb2716286dd134876f8a
A New York tabloid’s puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden’s son has raised some red flags. One of the biggest involves the source of the emails: Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani has traveled abroad looking for dirt on the Bidens, developing relationships with shadowy figures, including a Ukrainian lawmaker who U.S. officials have described as a Russian agent and part of a broader Russian effort to denigrate the Democratic presidential nominee.
Yet
Giuliani says foreign sources didn’t provide the Hunter Biden emails.
He says a laptop containing the emails and intimate photos was simply
abandoned in a Delaware repair shop and the shop owner reached out to
Giuliani’s lawyer.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/russian-disinformation-investigation/index.html
US authorities are investigating whether recently published emails that purport to detail the business dealings of Joe Biden's son in Ukraine and China are connected to an ongoing Russian disinformation effort targeting the former vice president's campaign, a US official and a congressional source briefed on the matter said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/scott-atlas-face-masks-coronavirus/index.html
Atlas wrote in a tweet, "Masks work? NO" followed by a series of misrepresentations about the science behind the effectiveness of masks in combating the pandemic. The tweet links to an article in the American Institute for Economic Research that argues against the effectiveness of masks, among other things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/coronavirus-pandemic-fatigue.html
Exhaustion and impatience are creating new risks as cases soar in parts of the world. “They have had enough,” one U.S. mayor said of her residents.
While the country takes its first steps toward returning to routine today, most of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community will defy the government by opening up educational institutions for hundreds of thousands of students in first through eighth grades against the law.On Saturday night, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky – one of the leading rabbis of the Lithuanian haredi community – ordered that his community’s elementary schools open up while adhering to Health Ministry regulations, such as wearing masks, organizing students into small groups, and maintaining social distancing.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/289251
Haredi-Lithuanian leader Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky this evening ordered Talmud Torah directors in the haredi areas to open classes tomorrow.
This, after they failed to reach an understanding around an agreed outline last week. The rabbi's instruction also includes the yeshivot ketanot without boarding schools for 13-16-year-olds.
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, also among the senior Lithuanian-stream leaders, stated that for the time being, remote learning should be enough, and instructed not act against the law.
Former Maayanei Hayeshua Hospital Director Prof. Moti Ravid warned on Kan News of a disaster in the haredi sector: "If they open up the education system to the haredi, it'll spell disaster in a short time."
Ravid explained that while kindergarten children are not contagious while the older population is more careful, children and teens aged 7-20 are "super contagious". "If the overall infection rate is 0.6, for them it is 2-5. Fifteen percent of all patients are responsible for 60% of all infections," Ravid said.