Chief Rabbi Lau to Diaspora rabbis: You must vaccinate, dangerous not to

 

The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, David Lau, has started speaking to rabbis in the Diaspora to tell them to encourage their followers to vaccinate in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

As part of a campaign to strengthen Israeli relations with the Diaspora, vis-à-vis virtual meetings with other chief rabbis in a wide variety of countries, Lau stressed the importance of preventing the continued spread of coronavirus. 

Among some of the meetings that have already taken place include a discussion with the rabbis of the congregations of Vienna, Austria, where Lau provided words of encouragement and halachic responsa. 

Lau also virtually met with rabbis of the communities in France to discuss halachic issues and the coronavirus crisis, particularly the need to vaccinate, which included special meetings with the rabbis from Marseilles, Strasbourg and the Beit Din of France. 

Lau told the rabbis of the congregations that they need to vaccinate, and that they should act by example and explain the importance of vaccination, saying in a statement that there is a danger in not getting vaccinated. 

The special campaign for Israel-Diaspora relations led by Lau will continue into the next week, when he will meet with rabbis from Australia and Panama, along with further meetings expected with rabbis from the United States, Argentina and Canada.

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Only In the USA Can A Congressman Sleep With a Chinese Spy and Sit on the Intelligence Committee

 

"He was the most over-the-top critic of President Trump on Russia collusion, and it turns out he's sleeping with a Chinese spy."@RandPaul says @ericswalwell "ought to just resign from Congress," after his association with an alleged Chinese spy was revealed. pic.twitter.com/84bmxfmHsn

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 16, 2020

Seattle Politician Who Defunded The Police Called 911 To Report A Crime She Wants To Legalize

 

Seattle City Councilwoman Lisa Herbold has been one of the drivers of the defund the police movement in that city. She also is pushing a law that would give blanket immunity for misdemeanor crimes as long as the person committing the crime was “poor, homeless, drug-addicted, or (had) a mental illness.” Apparently, like so many other liberals, Herbold thinks her wonderful ideas shouldn’t apply when she’s the one being victimized.

On Friday, a man tossed a rock through her living room window and Herbold called the police. You know, the police she wants to defund because vandalism, a crime she doesn’t think the poor, homeless, drug-addicted, or mentally ill should be punished for, was committed against her.

According to Herbold, “she was on the west side of the living room near the kitchen when she heard a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot and dove into the kitchen for cover.” When one of those awful cops she wants to defund showed up to help, she told the officer, “her staff has received anonymous phone threats recently, but nothing in particular that links the threats to today’s incident.”

So, interesting question. If Lisa Herbold’s law passed and someone were to pay poor, homeless, and mentally ill people $5 to throw rocks at Lisa Herbold’s house, would they be convicted of a crime even if they didn’t fit into those categories? Maybe, but what if that person paid someone who was mentally ill to do it for them? These sound like jokey, ridiculous questions, but Seattle is getting so detached from reality that these are issues that need to be considered. Meanwhile, police officers are leaving the Seattle force in droves and the city is on pace to have the highest number of homicides that it has seen in years.

At the end of the day, mistakes like the ones Seattle is making tend to be self-correcting problems because guess what? People can virtue signal all they want, but no one wants a rock thrown through their window.

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California Will Prioritize Blacks Over Elderly in Covid Vaccine Saying 'old people in this country are too white to save'

 

Tucker Carlson has told his viewers he believes that the coronavirus vaccine is being distributed based solely on race, claiming that elderly old white people are not receiving the shot first in many places because they are from a 'disfavored race'. 

On his Friday night show, he said that the government's plan to prioritize non-healthcare essential workers over the elderly is an example of eugenics because 'racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately represented in many essential industries'.

'Old people in this country are too white to save. They even put it in writing,' he claimed, while blasting the vaccine rollout as 'entirely racial'. 

He also cited examples in California and Oregon where health officials have announced measures that will ensure black and brown communities have extended access to the vaccine. 

It comes after black and Indigenous Americans were shown to have the highest death rates from the virus. Black, indigenous and latino Americans all have a COVID-19 death rate of more than 2.7 times white Americans, who experience the lowest age-adjusted rates, according to APM Research Lab. 

But Carlson hit out the measures, claiming it tells Americans 'when you're the right color, you're essential'. 

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Rand Paul Gives You the Real Truth About the Election Fraud Cases

 

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RABBIS SLAM RAPHAEL WARNOCK for ANTI-ISRAEL COMMENTS

 Orthodox rabbis are speaking out against Rev. Raphael Warnock just days before his Georgia Senate runoff, saying they have concerns with some of his past remarks about Israel.

“We are concerned and hurt by the manner in which the Reverend brushed aside his past rhetoric against Israel and the Jewish community, and even blamed his opponents for ‘trying to use Israel as yet another wedge issue,’” wrote Rabbi Ilan Feldman from Atlanta and Rabbi Avigdor Slatus from Savannah in a letter to Warnock’s campaign this week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The letter was also signed by two out of state rabbis from Coalition for Jewish Values.

The Democratic Warnock is facing off against GOP incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Polls show an incredibly tight race.

For months Warnock has been dogged by allegations of being anti-Israel — an issue a growing number of Democrats have faced as their left flank has grown more ascendent.

Rabbi Feldman cited a letter Warnock signed, along with other clergy in 2018, that compared Israel’s presence in the West Bank to “military occupation of Namibia by apartheid South Africa” and another sermon the same year in which he accused Israelis of shooting down “unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey.”

Warnock has denied any allegation of anti-Semitism and had said his remarks were taken out of context. In another letter, nearly 200 rabbis have expressed support for Warnock. The clergyman is also backed by Jon Ossoff, the Democrat running for the other Georgia Senate seat.

It’s not the first time the reverend has taken heat from his ecclesiastical peers. Earlier this month a coalition of conservative Georgia ministers took him to task over his pro-abortion views, which was also first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“You have publicly expressed your views that abortion is an exercise of ‘human agency and freedom’ that is fully consistent with your role as a shepherd of God’s people,” the letter read. “We believe these statements represent grave errors of judgment and a lapse in pastoral responsibility, and we entreat you to reconsider them.”

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'I’m a Breslover - I go out to the fields and talk to Hashem'

 

Nissim Black is passionately, assuredly, confidently in love with God.

Not in love with Judaism, though he’s fastidious in prayer and observance. Not in love with spirituality, though most mornings, you can find him meditating in the Israeli hills after sunrise. Not in love with ritual, though he’s a devoted Hasidic Jew.

No, Nissim Black is in love with the creator of the universe, with whom he has an intimate and fierce connection. He’s faced no shortage of adversity, experienced myriad modes of connection with the divine. Yet he’s unapologetically who he is, doing what he loves — rapping — with the undeniable gifts — perceiving and conveying clear-eyed truth — he’s been endowed with.

Days after his 34th birthday, on which he released “The Hava Song,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency spoke to Black at length about his music, his faith and his communities.

TA: You just released a totally transformative version of “Hava Nagila.” Walk me through how that happened.

Black: It was really a story of divine providence. Thank God, I have been out there enough that producers send me beats all the time [musicians frequently utilize sample tracks to layer under their own lyrics]. My brother-in-law is my producer. He’s really a tzaddik [righteous person], so I let all of the beats go to him. Because if it’s good, he’s gonna tell me.

I went home — I have a studio now in my house because of COVID — and I think within a few days, I had the song.

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Obama trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes — lefty media didn’t notice

The words leap out and grab you. Former President Barack Obama characterizes no other world leader in anything like the terms he reserves for former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

In his recent memoir, Obama tells us that Sarkozy is a “quarter Greek Jew.” Little wonder, then, that Sarkozy has “dark, expressive, Mediterranean features,” which resemble the exaggerated, often distorted figures “of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.”

Little wonder, too, that he is “all emotional outbursts and overblown rhetoric,” while his conversation, which reflects unbridled ambition and incessant pushiness, “swoops from flattery to bluster to genuine insight.”

One might have thought Obama was deliberately directing at Sarkozy the insults notoriously hurled at Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), the first person of Jewish birth to become Britain’s prime minister. The colonial administrator Lord Cromer said of Disraeli that he was driven by “a tenacity of purpose” that was “a Jewish characteristic.” With his swarthy, “Oriental features,” Disraeli was consumed by an “addiction” to the “passionate outbursts” and “excesses of flattery” that were the hallmarks of his “nimble-witted” race.

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Chareidi Suspects From Bnei Brak Arrested For Rishon LeZion Shooting Incident

Following an in-depth investigation, the prosecutor has filed their statement with regard to a shooting that took place in Rishon Letzion two months ago. The shooting was perpetrated in the direction of a woman and two Chareidi suspects from Bnei Brak were arrested. The suspects have been remanded into custody until Monday.

The incident took place on October 29th, when a masked individual approached a woman who was walking on HaNevi’im Street in the city and attempted to shoot towards her with a pistol from close range.

For some unknown reason, the gun jammed and would not shoot. The suspect, seeing this, fled the scene and ran into a waiting car that was being driven also by a masked individual. The pair of assailants fled the scene.

Following the incident, the police opened an investigation and began gathering evidence to determine the identities of the masked individuals. One suspect, a 16-year-old teenage male from Bnei Brak, was arrested at the end of November. One week later, a second suspect, a 21-year-old man also from Bnei Brak, was arrested as well. Their reprimands have been extended until this coming Monday as evidence was being gathered against them. The district attorney is supposed to file an indictment against the two suspects on Monday in court.

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