Israel kicks off mass coronavirus vaccine drive to stamp out COVID-19 pandemic

Rabbi Lau Taking the Vaccine

 Israel’s vaccine drive officially began on Sunday morning, with healthcare workers, the president, and the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff set to receive the coronavirus shot throughout the day.

Among the first to receive the vaccine on Sunday morning were former coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu, who has returned to his job at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, and Finance Minister Israel Katz.

President Reuven Rivlin will receive the vaccination Sunday morning at a Jerusalem hospital. IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi will receive the military’s first dose of the vaccine in order to set a “personal example” to the rest of the troops, the army said last week.

From Monday, Israelis aged 60-plus and at-risk populations can receive a vaccine at health maintenance organizations (HMOs) with an appointment.

The government hopes to inoculate some 60,000 people per day and as many as two million Israelis by the end of January. But Hebrew media reports said the first week would serve as a pilot program, tamping down expectations that hundreds of thousands of Israelis would be vaccinated within days.

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The New York Times Finally Apologizes for ONE of its Many Lies & Fabrications

 by Michael Goodwin

The best stories in The New York Times often involve the Gray Lady’s self-flagellation over a doozy of a mistake, and Saturday was one of those days. The paper was crowded with confessions, explanations and apologies over a disgraced podcast called “Caliphate” that went off the rails and into the weeds of fiction. 

Over 12 episodes in 2018, the program promoted the false boasts of a Pakistani man living in Canada who claimed he murdered and beheaded people as a member of Islamic State in Syria. The man, Shehroze Chaudhry, who went by the name Abu Huzayfah, also told tales about terrorist leaders using maps to plan attacks on Western targets and aiming for another 9/11. “They wanted to outdo Al Qaeda,” Chaudhry warned. 

It was sensational stuff and the release sparked political fallout in Canada, with Justin Trudeau’s government accused of not monitoring the return of Islamic State fiends. 

Soon, however, critics suggested the Times had been duped and that Chaudhry never joined ISIS or committed crimes. It turns out that the battlefield pictures he posted on social media as his own were taken off the Internet. 

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Ma'oz Tzur and the "End of Christianity"

Ma’oz Tzur is an intense anti-Christian text reflecting the mood and experience of Ashkenazi Jews during the Crusades, when dozens of Jewish communities were slaughtered in the name of the cross.^[1] 

 

A 12^th/13^th Century Ashkenazi Hymn

Ma’oz Tzur is the most popular of the Chanukah hymns. It was written in late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Ashkenaz. The poem’s style attests to the influence of the literary devices and norms of the Sefardic Piyyut. Through the centuries the hymn was adopted by the vast majority of Jewish communities, and became the piece of liturgy most associated with the festival of Chanukah.^[2]

The poem is comprised of six stanzas. The acrostic formed from the first letters of the first five stanzas give us the name of the author: Mordechai [מרדכי], though little if anything is known about the identity of this Mordechai.^[3] Quite ironically, even though it has strong anti-Christian elements, its most famous mellow melody derives from a sixteenth-century Protestant Choral.

Six Stanzas – Two Units

The six stanzas of the poem are divided into two main units. The four middle stanzas narrate, in the past tense, the events of four persecutions of the Jews: the Egyptian exile, the Babylonian exile, the persecution of the Jews by Haman in the Persian Empire as narrated in the Book of Esther, and finally, the Greek attempt to enforce Hellenistic religion and culture during the Hasmonean period. (This, ostensibly, constitutes the official reason for the association of the hymn with the festival of Chanukah.)

The first and last stanzas are both written in the present tense and complement each other, and thus express the mindset and wishes of the poet at the time of the composition of the hymn.

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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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