4 New Cases of Herpes Because of "metzitzah b'peh" in NYC

Four recent cases of neonatal herpes infection following a Jewish circumcision ritual have health officials once again urging parents in New York City’s ultra-Orthodox population to avoid the practice or at least limit its risks.

Health officials on Sunday said there have been three cases of herpes simplex virus 1 infections in infant boys reported to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene since Dec. 1, 2019. The fourth case was reported in September 2019.

Health officials don’t believe the cases are linked. The infants were hospitalized, received intravenous antiviral drugs and are now recovering, health officials said.

Rabbi David Zwiebel, executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America, declined to comment.

The ritual is known as metzitzah b’peh. A mohel, a religious leader who performs the circumcision during a bris, uses his mouth to suck blood from the cut.

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads

Whistleblower against Obama Administration Philip Haney Found Dead – Shot and Killed

DHS whistleblower Philip Haney was found dead on Friday.
The whistleblower against the Obama administration was shot dead near his vehicle in California.

Haney told Sean Hannity in 2016 that he was ordered during the Obama administration to scrub the record of Muslims in the US with terrorist ties.

The story of his death has still not been reported by the mainstream media.
The Gateway Pundit was notified of this last night.

Haney had been missing since Wednesday.

Philip Haney said political correctness during the Obama years killed the investigation that might have stopped the San Bernardino Christmas terrorists.

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads

The Myth That Arabs are Palestinians ... Listen to the EU Rep and then Listen to Golda Meir ....

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads

Richard Grenell Begins Cleaning House in the Intelligence Office Firing "Deep State" Holdovers

Richard Grenell’s tenure as the nation’s top intelligence official may be short-lived, but he wasted no time this week starting to shape his team of advisers, ousting his office’s No. 2 official — a longtime "Deep State"  intelligence officer — and bringing in an expert on Trump conspiracy theories to help lead the agency, according to officials.

Mr. Grenell has also requested the intelligence behind the classified briefing last week before the House Intelligence Committee where officials told lawmakers that Russia was interfering in November’s presidential election and that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia favored President Trump’s re-election. The briefing later prompted Mr. Trump’s anger as he complained that Democrats would use it against him.

"Deep Staters" Joseph Maguire, the former acting director of national intelligence, and his deputy, Andrew P. Hallman, resigned on Friday. 

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads

Trump flips the Liberal Leftist 9th Circuit Court

Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) highlighted concerns with Patrick Bumatay and Lawrence VanDyke, President Trump’s nominees to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

When President Trump ticks off his accomplishments since taking office, he frequently mentions his aggressive makeover of a key sector of the federal judiciary — the circuit courts of appeal, where he has appointed 51 judges to lifetime jobs in three years.

In few places has the effect been felt more powerfully than in the sprawling 9th Circuit, which covers California and eight other states. Because of Trump’s success in filling vacancies, the San Francisco-based circuit, long dominated by Democratic appointees, has suddenly shifted to the right, with an even more pronounced tilt expected in the years ahead.

Trump has now named 10 judges to the 9th Circuit — more than one-third of its active judges — compared with seven appointed by President Obama over eight years.

“Trump has effectively flipped the circuit,” said 9th Circuit Judge Milan D. Smith Jr., an appointee of President George W. Bush.

To assess the early impact of these appointments, The Times interviewed several judges on the 9th Circuit. Some either declined to discuss their colleagues or inner deliberations or refused to be quoted by name, saying they were not authorized to speak about what goes on behind the scenes.

To be sure, some of the new appointees to the 9th Circuit have quickly won the respect of their colleagues

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads

Trump Congratulates "Crazy Bernie" ......Won Because of "Undocumented Immigrants"?

Bernie Sanders’s Nevada caucus campaign ended with a convincing win Saturday afternoon, thanks in large measure to a 37-percentage-point victory among Latino caucus-goers. Many are not yet citizens. But the seeds of that victory were sown five years ago when a staffer on Sanders’s first presidential bid had trouble reading a Spanish website.  

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads

Over 200 Israelis and 30 Children In Isolation After Contact With South Korean Tourists

Over 200 Israelis are in isolation as of Sunday morning due to contact with South Korean tourists who tested positive for the coronavirus in South Korea after returning from a tour of Israel.

Nineteen South Koreans who were on a week-long trip in Israel from February 8 -15 and were in contact with hundreds of Israelis tested positive for the coronavirus when they returned home, Israel’s Health Ministry said on Motzei Shabbos.

About 30 Beer Sheba eighth grade students who visited the Tel Be’er Sheva National Park last Thursday at the same time as the South Korean tourists were instructed to self-quarantine.

Two of the students’ teachers were also instructed to self-quarantine as well as the cleaning staff of the Jerusalem hotel where the tourists stayed.

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads

Binyomin Gewirtz Bone-Marrow Donor Meets Scott Novorr the Recipient For Very First time

A non-Jewish man fighting leukemia finally met the stranger – a Frum man from Lakewood New Jersey – who donated bone marrow to help save his life.

The two men had the chance to meet for the first time at a bone marrow gala on Thursday night.

Bone marrow recipient Scott Novorr said he owes his life to Binyomin Gewirtz.

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads

Briskers Hiding Handwritten Letter Of R' Aron Kotlar that wrote that the Brisker Rav's Position was Pro-Voting!

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads

Shabtai Tzvi Syndrome comeback?

The devastating pain Shabtai Tzvi(1626-1676) and his followers inflicted on the Jewish people have lasted for centuries. 

Presenting himself as the Messiah, garnering the support of hundreds of thousands, Tzvi’s eventual misconduct and conversion to Islam, has scared the Jewish people for centuries. 

Much of this pain could have been prevented by addressing this charlatan and likely psychopath earlier.

 Sadly, we have seen in the past year, a wave of deja vu Shabtai Tzvi ideology flourishing in the past five years in the Jewish community— without much religious opposition. 

The primary manifestation of this can be seen in the case of disgraced charismatic leader Eliezer Berland, arrested last week in Jerusalem. 

His open disregard to at least two of Judaism’s three most cardinal sins can be seen on video alongside other widely available incriminating information. 

Similar to Shabtai Tzi, Berland’s seeming disregard for the laws of morality is public, and often rationalized by his followers. 

Recently, Berland was taken into custody for allegedly advising a cancer patient to quit life-saving treatment in favor of giving him money, resulting in her tragic death. 

Kindly Support Our Blog by Browsing the Ads