Iran Fatwa: Women in Cartoons Must Wear Islamic Head Coverings

 

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly issued a decree that female characters in cartoons must wear a hijab, the Islamic head covering that Iranian women are persecuted for refusing to wear.

According to the Saudi outlet Al-Arabiya on Monday, Khamenei was holding a virtual forum on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram when someone asked if the hijab, made mandatory for women in Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution, should also be considered mandatory for “characters in animated films.”

“Although wearing hijab in such a hypothetical situation is not required per se, observing hijab in animation is required due to the consequences of not wearing hijab,” Khamenei replied rather confusingly since everything after the comma contradicts everything he said before the comma.

Al-Arabiya noted that Iranian women are harassed by everyone from the “morality police,” to regular law enforcement, to self-appointed moral vigilantes for failing to wear hijabs, or even for wearing one “badly.” Iranian women of all ages are nevertheless protesting the hijab with increasing boldness.

Iranian state media sources cited by Al-Arabiya said Khamenei issued a fatwa, or religious order, to compel animated characters to wear hijabs. The Jerusalem Post notedsuch orders have little power under Iran’s legal system and, for that matter, the hijab “law” is not written down, but various enforcement agencies and vigilantes are happy to use violence against women to make them obey.

The New Arab said it was “unclear” how Khamenei’s order would be enforced, but observed “Tehran has imposed strict censorship laws on the country’s film agency,” so cartoons depicting female characters who are not properly masked and hooded might simply be banned from theaters.

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State Dept briefing gets heated as reporter asks if Biden admin taking credit for Trump accomplishments

 

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How Cuomo’s office terrorized me for doing my job as a journalist

 It was 4:30 a.m., so I pulled the bathroom door shut in my one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment to answer the phone without waking my then-5-year-old. On the line was Melissa DeRosa, Gov. Cuomo’s then-communications director, now his second-in-command. She was threatening to destroy me.

By now, thanks to Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim blowing the whistle on the threats he received in a call from Cuomo, the public has a glimpse of the bullying practiced by the governor and his top brass.

Many Americans are shocked, having bought into the compassionate persona Cuomo conveyed in his pandemic briefings. But Kim’s revelations came as no surprise to anyone who has dealt with the governor. As one Albany insider texted me last week, “everyone has an Andrew Cuomo story.”

While the April 2014 call I received from DeRosa didn’t come directly from the governor, I knew it bore the full weight of his power. City & State, the New York politics magazine I edited at the time, was about to publish a story exposing Cuomo’s machinations to distort the final report issued by the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption.

The manipulation we documented put the lie to the governor’s public proclamation that it would be a fully independent body with the authority to probe graft in Albany wherever it found it. In reality, as soon as the commission touched the governor’s own office, he hastily shut it down.

I started getting pushback from the governor’s office as soon as we called requesting comment. In a barrage of calls, his media handlers pushed me to spike the article, alternately approaching me with carrot (a hot exclusive to be named later) and stick. By 4:30 a.m. — our piece was scheduled to publish at 5 — I was only getting the stick.

Seven years later, I don’t recall precisely everything DeRosa hurled at me, though I’m positive she vowed to “destroy” my career and take revenge on my publication. I remember vividly how I felt: scared. 

I had no reason to think these were idle threats. I was fully aware of the governor’s volcanic temper and track record of vindictiveness. If he wanted to crush me, he could and likely would.

This was a serious gut check for me. I worried about losing my livelihood, damaging my future, letting down my wife and daughter. But fortunately, I had bosses and colleagues who stood by the quality of our work. So we published the piece, like the press is supposed to do in the face of intimidation.

I’m no hero. The members of the Albany press corps regularly endure abusive calls like I received. And sometimes those calls come from the governor himself.

Shrewdly, the governor rings up reporters out of the blue to praise them when he likes what they write. This personal touch wins him goodwill. Receiving such a call is something of a rite of passage for Albany reporters. Unfortunately, so too is getting a call from the governor when he’s breathing fire.

Cuomo doesn’t dispute that talking tough is what he does. He thinks it’s a virtue. But the abuse he privately metes out amounts to a systematic campaign to chill negative coverage of his administration. And it works.

Editors kill legitimate stories because of his threats; reporters shy away from promising tips; sources stay silent.

There are many reasons the media don’t expose the governor’s bullying. Albany reporters fear that if the governor freezes them out, they won’t be able to do their jobs effectively. Some journalists see speaking up as a violation of the unwritten code of “off-the-record” conversations. Others just assume that “everyone knows” how Cuomo operates, so it isn’t worth reporting.

For years, entertainment reporters justified their silence about the #MeToo monsters in the industry by telling themselves that “everyone knows.” But the public didn’t know. Many of the perpetrators’ future victims didn’t know. And so these thugs went on operating with impunity.

Until last week, most New Yorkers didn’t know about Cuomo’s despicable ways. But they should have. Journalists are agents of accountability. It’s time for New York’s reporters to step up and tell their own Cuomo stories.

Morgan Pehme, a documentary filmmaker, served as editor-in-chief of City & State from 2012 to 2014.

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Biden's $1.9T coronavirus stimulus package gives $1B to 'root out systemic racism' for farmers

The $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package being pushed by President Biden puts more than $1 billion toward "socially disadvantaged" farmers and related groups — including an equity commission, agricultural training and other assistance to advance racial justice in farming.

"Socially disadvantaged" farmers are defined as those who are part of a group that has been discriminated against because of their race or ethnicity.

The provision would fund the development of agricultural legal centers and the distribution of grants and loans to help minority farmers.

Democrats are planning to use the process of budget reconciliation, which allows them to bypass courting Republican support. However, it also means they must obey the Byrd rule, which says anything passed during budget reconciliation must have to do with the federal budget in some way.

The American Rescue Plan would also fund direct relief payments "equal to 120 per cent of the outstanding indebtedness of each socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher as of January 1, 2021, to pay off the loan directly or to the socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher." The "farm loan assistance is to be provided, using however much otherwise unappropriated FY 2021 funds are 'necessary,'" according to the American Action Forum.

Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., opposed the direct payments when the House Agriculture Committee approved funding for debt relief for socially disadvantaged farmers earlier in February, Successful Farming reported.

"I think it's wrong. I don't understand the justification of this," Scott said, according to Successful Farming.

Black farmers accounted for approximately one-sixth of farmers in 1920, but less than 2% of farms were run by Black producers by 2017, according to USDA data.

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Beit Shemesh Resident 42 Dies of Covid ..Watch the Heartbreaking Plea of His 10 year old daughter Begging people to Vaccinate

 

קורע לב: יעל אטיאס, היא בת 10 בלבד. בסוף השבוע, אביה, נפטר מנגיף הקורונה. כעת, היא תופסת עוז ותעצומות ומתייצבת מול המצלמה בקריאה נרגשת לעם ישראל - ללכת להתחסן.

הרב יעקב אוראל אטיאס ז"ל, אברך, תושב העיר בית שמש, נפטר בשבת האחרונה והוא בן 42 בלבד, לאחר שנדבק בנגיף הקורונה.

המנוח ז"ל, לא סבל ממחלות רקע, ומיד עם אשפוזו, במחלקת הקורונה בבית החולים 'אסף הרופא', הוא הורדם והונשם. במשך שלושה שבועות נלחמו הרופאים על חייו.

ביום חמישי האחרון אף חל שיפור במצבו הרפואי, והוא פקח את עיניו, אך בשבת מצבו שוב הידרדר במהירות, עד שהשיב את נשמתו ליוצרה

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31 Days In, Democrats Haven’t Accomplished A Single COVID Promise To The American Worker

 The Democratic Party woke up Saturday morning to its 31st day of leading both the executive and BOTH legislative branches of government. 

They had run on “immediate [economic] relief” to Americans put down and out by largely Democratic COVID shutdowns. Relief, you might notice, that hasn’t actually come.

On Jan. 14, less than one week before taking the oath of office, President Joe Biden promised, “We’ll make sure that our emergency small business relief is distributed swiftly and equitably, unlike the first time around. We’re going to focus on small businesses, on Main St. We’ll focus on minority-owned small businesses, women-owned small businesses.”

But so far in the first full month that Sen. Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Biden have been in control, the only money that has gone toward American relief has been from that money allocated while President Donald Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell still joined Pelosi in power, including $1 trillion that remains unspent.

Instead of their promised relief, over the past month Democrats have tried the former president, re-entered the Paris Climate Accords, locked down the U.S. Capitol, and freed up American tax dollars to go to aborting children abroad.

So what about American business owners, parents, and workers suffering under COVID-19 restrictions? Anything for them? So far nothing.

Well, not exactly nothing. President Joe Biden has mandated masks on busses, for example .

And Vice President Kamala Harris has claimed credit for the Trump administration’s vaccine development. 

Biden has also established a COVID board, created a COVID task force, developed a COVID plan, reviewed COVID, assessed COVID, and held a COVID town hall. Lovely.

“Our rescue plan will provide flexible grants to help those hardest-hit small businesses survive the pandemic,” Biden promised more than five weeks ago. His administration, he said, would “help entrepreneurs of all backgrounds create and maintain jobs, plus provide the essential goods and services communities depend upon.”

Instead, at this week’s CNN town hall Biden told Wisconsin brewer Tim Eichinger, a Democrat who is struggling to keep his employees on and his business afloat, to give White House staff his address so they could mail him that COVID plan — the one he laid out five weeks ago.

It’s the same one Democrats have been sitting on for a month while they fight over things like a $15 national minimum wage hike unlikely to pass the Senate and which even the president admits likely isn’t going anywhere.

Whether it does or doesn’t will be no help to Tim Eichinger. Nor will taxpayer money for abortion, nor any of the other completely unrelated left-wing projects jammed into this apparently necessary COVID relief.

Meanwhile, a Republican push for domestic abuse survivors to not have to go through their former abusers for access to their checks was denied by Democrats. So too was a push for schools to even have a plan to reopen their doors before receiving money. So too is Republicans’ completely accurate complaint that there is still $1 trillion in unspent relief money allocated by the last Congress.

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Frum Jewish sellers say they're squeezed by this new Amazon rule

 A change in requirements for participating in a select Amazon delivery program is posing potentially insurmountable challenges for Orthodox sellers.

As of Feb. 1, Amazon businesses that deliver from non-Amazon warehouses through Amazon Prime, a subscription service that includes free two-day delivery, must agree to fulfill orders six days a week.

The sellers may choose Saturday or Sunday delivery to fulfill their six-day-a-week commitment, but shipping carriers like FedEx and UPS offer limited or no pickup on Sundays. Observant Jews do not do business on the Jewish sabbath, from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.

Orthodox sellers make up a disproportionate share of third-party sellers, according to a 2019 Buzzfeed report that explored the connections between Amazon’s marketplace and Orthodox communities.

The Free Beacon on Friday reported that the new policy is driving out businesses run by observant Jews, citing group chats it had reviewed.

Amazon told the Free Beacon that Prime sellers had more than five months’ advance notice of the policy to come up with accommodations and that it had dedicated staff to assist the businesses. The Free Beacon said it had heard from Orthodox businesses that Amazon was unresponsive.

StandWithUs, a pro-Israel non-profit, has proposed to Amazon that it allow sellers to turn off their Amazon Prime badge during Shabbat, meaning that shoppers would not be promised quick shipping during that time.

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Brother in law of Pregnant Woman Who Died .. Convinced Her Not to Take Vaccine ...Watch Heartbreaking Funeral

 

Brother in law of Osnat Ben Shitrit: 'I established one of the most successful Facebook groups against the vaccines, now I've disabled it.'

Family members of Osnat Ben Shitrit, the pregnant woman who died last night at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, opposed receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.

Ben Shitrit, 32, who was in her 30th week of pregnancy, died in the intensive care unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, and the efforts to revive the fetus also failed.

Ben Shitrit's brother-in-law told Kan News: "I founded one of the most successful groups on Facebook against the vaccines, after this case I disabled it. When it comes to you, you understand that you have to think differently."

Her two sisters added: "Her condition was serious for several days and she refused to be hospitalized due to fear of the hospital. When she arrived at the hospital her condition was already critical. We call on everyone to go get vaccinated now."

50 new mothers and pregnant women are hospitalized across the country. 19 of them are in serious condition, 8 are in critical condition, 7 of them are on respiration while 1 is connected to an ECMO machine. Dr. Ortal Ne'eman, director of the Corona Maternity and Fetal Medicine Unit at Assuta Public Hospital in Ashdod, called on pregnant women to get vaccinated. "As far as is known, there are no sick pregnancies in Israel after the second vaccination," she noted.

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Rabbis Prohibit School Girls From Getting Their Homework on "Email"

 

Help! Get me out of here ....

Rabbis are going off the wall with their convoluted chumrois...

They write that first the girls were on zoom  for their studies..chas ve'sholom

The girls are home because of Covid .. and the rabbis want the girls to go stir crazy ..

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Badatz Running Out of "Chumros" Condemns Kiddush Video In Meah Shearim

Badatz doesn't care if you turn over garbage cans and put them on fire and then stone the Jewish firefighters when they come to put out the fires... 

 Badatz is silent when their followers block traffic stopping people from going and coming back from work and blocking ambulances from transporting people in need of emergency care.

They are silent when their hoodlums stone Chareidie soldiers that are in Shul davening ,,,,but when a couple of guys want to have some fun... they go crazy ....

They write in the pashkivel that this a "moshav leitzim".. so a tish by a rebbe when the chassidim grab "shrayim" that's ok? 

Great job guys!

 

A clip by Akiva Gruman and the Malchus choir depicting a kiddush taking place in a Meah Shearim shul has caused significant opposition within the local chareidi community. 

The clip, which has tens of thousands of views on social media, was filmed in the old Chabad shul in Meah Shearim and shows a typical kiddush taking place with all the participants singing in Shabbos finery, including all the various types of Shabbos garments found within the chasidic community. Many people participated in the clip, including Arele Samet, Meir Adler, Yoeli Davidovitz, Mendi Weiss and many others.

However already during the filming there were scuffles and violent demonstrations near the shul, forcing the producers to stop the filming and search for a shul in another neighborhood in order to continue shooting the clip.

The Badatz (Beis Din Tzedek of Jerusalem) issued a strong protest against the filming inside a shul, calling its producers mockers and scorners, who make fun of holy Jewish minhagim of a kiddush, a shalom zachar and the birth of a daughter and even dressed in the garb of Yerushalmim with the shtreimels, caftans, etc. The Badatz notes the inappropriate level of consumption of alcohol and meat and wine while singing Shabbos songs – and says that the actors look like the Reform who sang in shul and did things of pleasure there. They call this an unprecedented disgrace and desecration of the holiness of Shabbos, besides the general issue of producing “kosher” movies and videos.

The Badatz also called the producer before the beis din warned him about this and he promised he would not spread his merchandise, but the clip has now been published and therefore the Badatz issued a strong protest against the producer.

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