Friday, August 5, 2011
69% Say Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 69% say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40% who say this is Very Likely. Twenty-two percent (22%) don’t think it’s likely some scientists have falsified global warming data, including just six percent (6%) say it’s Not At All Likely. Another 10% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here .)
The number of adults who say it’s likely scientists have falsified data is up 10 points from December 2009 .
Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe there is significant disagreement within the scientific community on global warming, up five points from late 2009. One in four (25%) believes scientists agree on global warming. Another 18% aren’t sure.
Republicans and adults not affiliated with either major political party feel stronger than Democrats that some scientists have falsified data to support their global warming theories, but 51% of Democrats also agree.
Levi Aron Pleads Not Guilty In Kletzky Murder. Suspect Fit For Trial! Asked for not Kosher food during initial questioning!
Despite the alleged confession, police and prosecutors say they are continuing to work on verifying Aron's horrific and bizarre explanation for the boy's death. It remains unclear why Aron would have taken the child in the first place.
The medical examiner's office said the boy was given a cocktail of prescription drugs. But Aron's confession didn't mention that, and he denied ever tying up the boy.
The suspect was asked if he wanted a kosher meal. "No, I'll eat anything," he replied, according to the documents. They considered McDonald's before settling on Chinese food.
Before the arraignment, State Assemblyman Dov Hikind told reporters that the victim's family and community were still coming to grips with the gruesome slaying.
"The idea of an insanity defense is just not acceptable," Hikind said. "He planned and plotted this entire horror that he committed."
A pretrial hearing was set for Oct. 14.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
The Heat of the "Three Weeks" by guest blogger Hannah Greenberg
Fire purifies. Fire destroys. Fire is iconic of the ‘Three Weeks,’ a time of devastation, and, B’ezrat Hashem, also of renewal.
More profound than our giving up shoes on Tish B’Av, more significant than our foregoing meat during the Nine Days, more important than our refraining from music during the period of time lasting from the Fast of Tammuz through the Fast of the 9th of Av, in fact, more weighty than any other basic aspect of this time of grief, of profound loss, is our need to be more open minded toward each other.
Consider that following that other time of narrowness, our slavery in Egypt, we were emancipated, and, somehow, we merited both to receive the Torah and to enter Eretz Yisrael, thereafter. This time, in contrast, we think that the best we can do is to pray for the fulfillment of our lives as that fulfillment would be manifest in the establishment of the Third Temple and in the arrival of Moshiach. Nonetheless, we forget that last time our restrictions were not self-imposed and our passage through the straits resembled the helpful squeezing that occurs during childbirth. This time, quite the opposite is true. By dint of our self-serving values, we caused the walls to close in on us. This time, on the contrary, we will be fortunate if our journey through our self-wrought tightness does not destroy us.
Our legacy of baseless hatred, of judging without cause, of casting ourselves apart from others among us, brought about the contemporary pressures from which we now suffer.
In associating ourselves with strata, with separateness, with the types of dissonance that gets called up by categorizing ourselves as “them” and “us,” we destroyed not only Hashem’s physical house in the Old City, i.e. the Temple, but we laid waste, also, to the holy places within ourselves.
When we elevated the act of making comparisons and contrasts to a place of merit, we, in turn, downgrade our souls to a place of shadows.
When we elevated the act of making comparisons and contrasts to a place of merit, we, in turn, downgrade our souls to a place of shadows.
Now, that is, during this time/space, which we occupy, only the breaking open of our hearts, only the revealing of our most vulnerable depths, only our subsequent experiencing of grief can restore us to light, to thresholds higher than those of the status quo, can pull us up to our potential. Such an aliyah is not a matter of our merely integrating our learning into words, but is a matter of our weaving our words into deeds and our deeds into habits.
It’s no longer sufficient for us to claim championship because we have managed to guard our thoughts from unrestrained fantasy or have otherwise rid our minds of whimsy. Contemplation count, it just doesn’t count enough to bring us to the next level. Rather, simultaneous with any private designs, we might collectively construct, out of our ideations, acts of loving kindness. As an entire people, we must grow choices that are comprehensive, we must elect intentionality that brings accord, we must make efforts to behave in ways that celebrate all of us, that leaves none among our tribes, behind.
Such goals can feel unrealistic; it is one thing to claim to love the Klal, another to hold ourselves back from casting dispersions on other Jews and on other interpretations of Jewish activities, especially when we don’t understand or like existent alternatives. And yet, it is required of us to appreciate, as we claim we do during the three festivals, Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot, as we symbolize by gathering together four very different species, by referring to four very different sons, and by pointing to the whole of the generation of the miracles on Har Sinai, that, specifically, without some portion of our people we are lacking.
To bring Moshiach and the Third Temple, exactly, and to cover ourselves with unprecedented peace, more generally, we must urge and help all other Jews to join with us. We must make and sanctify social inclusivity. We must get beyond present interpersonal restrictions, and, in doing so, built a comfortable channel for The Boss’s Goodness. Only our improvement of our relations with other Jews will bring our rescue. Else wise, we will continue to fail to overcome our current, overwhelming existential tightness. There can be no wishing away of it.
This daunting goal, what’s more, is a necessary vision. Without it, we risk remainingaliened from Hashem and from all of His higher spheres. We chance that the cosmic reflection of our earlier alienation of our brethren will continue to be both the cause and the ongoing means of our ban from all things beneficent, from all things that truly matter.
Despite our life circumstance, it is the nature of the universe for us to be pressed upon. It is our merit, though, to determine whether or not those forces, most of all the unpleasant ones, will merely seem, or actually be, exerted upon us, and whether or not those weights result in good, or, has v’shalom, its opposite, in our lives. It is our decision whether or not we escape the void, the spiritual exile, whether or not we continue to have difficulties because we have failed to heal the psychic hurts we laid upon ourselves.
It is in our power to reduce the amount of pain we endure before our final healing. We can propagate actions that bring about unity, understanding, and, ultimately, transcendence. We can burn in intense devotion to each other, in the mitzvot bein adam l’chaveiro. We can herald an era of harmony and of good fortune if we apply ourselves to do so.
Hannah Greenberg bloggs on the Jerusalem Post Blog
R" Amnon Yitzchok blames the murder of Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira on haredi singers and songs that he feels are improper!
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| R' Amnon (left), R' Abuhatzeira Z"L (right) |
He added and I will loosely translate it after the Hebrew: Parentheses are ours:
"כיון שהצדיק היה מקפיד בעניינים אלה, יש לנו מסר גדול, שצריכים להתחזק בעניינים האלה של קדושה וצניעות וטהרה, ובפרט ב'גזירת החורבן' - לא לשמוע שירים אסורים ופסולים מזמרים פסולים ואסורים כל ימות השנה. גם לא מזמרים כשרים כל ימות השנה, רק במועדים שהתירה ההלכה. אין מסר יותר ברור מזה".
"ואדם שמקל בזה", הוסיף הרב אמנון יצחק, "אם יתברר שאני צודק במה שאני אומר, יתבעו אותו בשמים על סילוקם של הצדיקים. תזכרו את הדברים שאמרתי ואולי יהיה לנו שכל לשוב בתשובה סופסוף לפני הצונאמי שיגיע, כי הצונאמי ביפן ובהאיטי זה כלום לעומת סילוק של צדיק".
"Since this rightous man (R' Abuhatzeira) was very strict with these issues, there is a very strong message in his death that we have to be careful in matters of Tznius .... especially after the ancient Rabbis decreed after the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash, not to listen to any prohibitive music throughout the year and even Kosher music throughout the year. One can only hear music at holidays... and there is nothing clearer than this.
And any person that takes this rule lightly, is and will be responsible for the death of the Tzadikim. Remember my words and do tesuvah before the Tsunami hits us. The tsunami that hit Japan and Haiti is nothing compared to the death of the Righteous."
Dus iz nies:
560 is also the gematria of the following word in hebrew: לישועה ולנחמה which actually translates to "salvation and comfort" so I have no idea how this would fit into his equation..
560 is also the gematria of רננו צדיקים ..."the rightous shall sing" this gematria actually contradicts his theory.... but who am I to say??????????
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
UPDATE!!!! Desperate battle to defuse collar bomb hung round neck of girl, 18, 'being held to ransom' at multi-million pound mansion: Video
* Balaclava-clad intruder 'broke in and attached bomb and note to girl'
* Shaken parents outside house haven't spoke to their daughter yet
* Family is one of Sydney's wealthiest with mansion in exclusive street
* Bomb officers investigating other 'items' in house
* 'Life of young girl potentially at risk', say police
* Bomb is proving a 'tough nut to crack'
Four bomb squad officers have entered a house in a wealthy suburb of Sydney where a terrified teenage girl has had an explosive device strapped to her body by a balaclava-clad intruder.
Police said a 'delicate operation' was taking place in a property in the suburb of Mosman where wealthy families including bankers, stockbrokers, sports personalities and company directors live.
A senior police officer described the device as an unusual 'collar bomb', which has never been seen before in Australia, but an exact description has yet to be officially given.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021874/Teenage-girl-mansion-Australia-bomb-ransom-note-strapped-her.html#ixzz1TyJQqOun
Update!!!!!!!!!!5:10 New York Time
After 10 hours, police in a wealthy suburb of Sydney released a teenager involved in a bomb scare. Police refused to confirm media reports that the teenager had been strapped to an explosive device in an apparent extortion attempt.
Update at 3:30 p.m. ET: Assistant Police Commissioner Mark Murdoch said the British armed forces were contacted, because they had experience with the device, described as a collar bomb, The Australian says. Police reportedly have X-rayed the intact device and are analyzing its components before attempting to defuse it.
Murdoch said the 18-year-old girl, Madeleine Pulver, was kept in an "uncomfortable position" during the ordeal and was taken to hospital for evaluation early Thursday,The Daily Telegraph reports.
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| Madaline Pulver 18 year old |
The reason why the Jewish People lost respect for their leaders .... they are constantly in courts and not in Bais Din!
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| Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum |
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| Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum |
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| Mordechai Tendler |
And now we have two Chassidic Rabbis suing each other in Secular Court to determine who the leader of the Satmar Chassidim is.
Read Reuters
The succession battle between two brothers to be the leader of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect is back in the courts.
The brothers, Zalman and Aaron Teitelbaum, have been fighting for years in religious and state civil courts to determine who should head the Satmar wing of Hasidic Judaism. The Teitelbaums' father, Moses, was the long-time Satmar boss, but he died without naming a successor.
Aaron Teitelbaum governs Kiryas Joel, a town about 60 miles from New York City. The largely Yiddish-speaking town was founded in the 1970s and its residents strictly observe Jewish religious rules.
Zalman Teitelbaum runs a similiar Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in New York City.
The latest development in the fraternal battle was sparked by a group of Zalman's supporters who live in Kiryas Joel. They have accused Kiryas Joel of running a repressive theocracy and asked a federal judge to dissolve the self-governing community.
In court papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday, a Kiryas Joel offical who stands accused by the angry residents said the legal fight was a tactic to change the town's leadership.
"Plaintiffs ... attempt through this case to drag Moses Witriol ... into the middle of their dispute concerning leadership," Witriol, the town's director of public safety, said in court filings.
In an amended complaint filed last month, the Zalman Teitelbaum supporters said Kiryas Joel officials selectively enforced laws and discriminated against them because of their religious beliefs. They asked U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, who is presiding over the case, to direct New York State to dissolve the municipality.
The case is Kiryas Joel Alliance et al. v. Village of Kiryas Joel et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-3982.
Author of "Hush" is Judy Brown, Daughter of the Publisher of Hamodia
It's time to admit that we as a frum community have severe problems with abuse, and it's time to deal with it..
We are supporting Judy Brown for "outing" herself! We admire her courage!
Read Judy's words
"Six months after my book, "Hush," came out, my publisher and I began receiving threats in the mail intended to intimidate us for daring to expose these unspeakable truths about my beloved community. The message was clear: I had violated the rule that said victims must protect the community from their own crimes. Now, I would pay.
For too long we have tiptoed around our flaws with fear and caution, pushing them into the shadows in hopes they will disappear. For too long, victims have been made to be the villains, and abuse was calledloshon harah, evil talk. For too long, we have refused to honestly discuss the horrific possibilities, and in doing so allowed our children to fall victim to them. And for too long, I have allowed my own fear to make me part of a wall of silence -- guilty for what I had seen, guilty for what I had written.
I refuse to continue to allow that fear to force me into hiding over a book that should have been written long ago. I no longer want to be known only as Eishes Chayil when my name is Judy Brown. I must find the courage to stand with the victims who carry the burden of our silence for the rest of their lives.
I originally wrote my book under a pseudonym to protect my family and friends from community retribution, but so far we have only hurt ourselves. Maybe now, because of Leiby's tragedy, things will change. Maybe now, we will finally teach our children what we should have taught them years ago: morality has no garb!"
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Bachelorette Show: Jewish Boy from Long Island, J.P. Rosenbaum gets final rose
J.P. Rosenbaum, a Jewish construction manager from New York, received the final rose from The Bachelorette, Ashley Hebert, a Christian girl.
Rosenbaum got down on one knee and proposed to Hebert during the ABC dating reality show's two-hour season finale Monday night.
Rosenbaum had been favored to get the final rose from the 26-year-old dental student.
Hebert said during the "After the Rose" special following the finale that she would move in with Rosenbaum in New York City after she finishes dental school next month. No wedding date has been set.
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