Florida Gov to Sign Bill that Will Not Allow Twitter or Facebook to Kick Off People Their Platforms

 

Social media companies would be unable to permanently kick people off their platforms under a tough new Florida law.

The bill, passed by the GOP-dominated state Legislature Thursday and awaiting Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signature, would make it a crime to remove state political candidates from Twitter and Facebook, and would mete out penalties of $250,000 a day for any statewide candidate who is deplatformed. 

Removing more local candidates would cost the company $25,000 a day. 

The bill also requires tech companies to give users seven days notice that they are at risk of being banned and offer them the opportunity to correct the issue. Suspensions of up to 14 days would still be allowed.

“What this bill is about is sending a loud message to Silicon Valley that they are not the absolute arbiters of truth,” GOP state Rep. John Snyder said Wednesday, NBC News reported. “What this bill does is send a loud message that the Constitution does not have an asterisk that says only certain speech is free and protected.”

Big tech advocacy groups have struck back saying the law would violate their First Amendment right to decide who can participate on their platforms.

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100 Year-Old 6'10" Fish Caught in Detroit...

A US Fish and Wildlife Service crew caught a nearly 6-foot-10, 240-pound sturgeon on the Detroit River.

 A US Fish and Wildlife Service crew got the shock of their lives when, while on patrol on the Detroit River, they reeled in a nearly 6-foot-10, 240-pound sturgeon, likely over 100 years old.

The fish, believed to be one of the largest ever caught in the United States, was found near Grosse Ile. The crew tagged and released it back into the river.

“We’re trying to protect this fishery,” Justin Chiotti, a US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist told The Detroit Free Press. “Everybody is always catching a huge sturgeon. Everybody catches a 100-pounder. But a fish this size is very, very rare to catch.”

The scientists estimated to the paper that the fish hatched in the Detroit River sometime in the 1920s when Detroit was the fourth-largest city in America. But, they added, that’s a conservative guess. It likely is even older.

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Is R' Shimon ben Yochai Even Buried in Meron? Was he Niftar on Lag Be'Omer? Did he actually write the Zohar? You will be very Surprised!

From EMAILIM BATORAH 

1) Where is Kever רשב"י located?

According to ר' מנחם החברוני (13th century)

רשב"י is buried in Kfar Chananya *(15 km. south of Meron)

2) What day in the עומר was רשב"י niftar?

According to the חיד"א, there is no מקור anywhere

that רשב"י was niftar on Lag Baomer**.

3) Who wrote the Zohar?

According to the יעב"ץ, (The Chasam Sofer seems

to agree) it was R. Moishe d'Leon (not רשב"י)

4) What day did the Talmidei R. Akiva stop dying?

According to the many Poskim, they still died on

Lag Baomer but stopped on the 34th day of the עומר .

5) How many Talmidim of R. Akiva died between

Pesach & Shavuos?

The גמרא (Yevamos 62) says 12,000 pairs of

Talmidim.The מדרש says it was only 300 Talmidim.

6) How did they die?

The גמרא says they all died of a disease called Askera.

 According to Harav Hagaon Y. Henkin zt"l and others, the

גמרא uses Askera as a code for getting killed fighting

the Romans.

7)  How can you bring Nachas to רשב"י (guaranteed)?

The שואל ומשיב  5 - 39  writes " if you distribute the  money

to עניי ארץ ישראל instead of spending it to go to his

 Kever etc., he guarantees רשב"י will have  much more

Nachas Ruach.

8) Why do we celebrate Lag Baomer with קצת שמחה?

According to the Chasam Sofer  the קצת שמחה has nothing

to do with רשב"י but because it's the Sefirah of הוד שבהוד***

and to commemorate the first day the מן came down in

the מדבר.

9)  Why you should not celebrate ל"ג בעומר with

dancing & music in חוץ לארץ ?

According to the   מנחת אלעזר ח"ד :ס because it is only a

Minhag Eretz Yisroel Celebrating in Chutz Laaretz is

onsidered strange & haughty כזרות יחשב וכיוהרא 

10) Why is it forbidden to dance in front of a fire?

The תוספתא (Shabbos 7:1) says clapping hands or 

dancing in front of a fire is אסור because of דרכי אמורי. 

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Daniel Morris from New Jersey among dead in Meron disaster

 

The Sha'alvim Yeshiva is mourning the death of Daniel (Donny) Morris, a 19-year-old student from Teaneck, New Jersey, who was studying at the yeshiva.

Morris was among the 45 killed in the Meron disaster at 1:00a.m. Friday morning.

Following the stampede, the yeshiva's staff searched for Morris in the various hospitals, until they received the heartbreaking news that he was among the dead.

"Daniel was an amazing student, he was studious and beloved by his friends, he had a sense of humor and was bursting with love of life," the yeshiva said. "Daniel had an excellent character and acted with pleasantness; he loved very much to learn Torah. He came to Israel from New Jersey, in order to learn Torah in the Land of Israel."

"Sha'alvim embraces the bereaved Morris family and is in touch with his parents, family, and community rabbi, who all received the bitter news. The school's staff is embracing Daniel's friends and the shocked students, and is in touch with professionals to provide the necessary support."

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When A Similar Tragedy Happened in Meron on Lag Be'Omar in 1911

An 1885 photograph of the balcony that collapsed some 26 years later, in 1911.

 The tragedy at the celebration of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai occurred on the night of Lag B’Omer 5671, May 15, 1911, when a crowd of about 10,000 filled the compound and a railing collapsed, causing many to be crushed in the collapse and the panic that followed. Eleven people were killed in the tragedy, the deaths of seven were determined at the scene and of four others in the days following the incident. There were 40 wounded.

According to Shmuel Har-Noy, Director General of the Safed Academic College, the Jewish community in the first decade of the 20th century in Tsfat numbered between seven and eight thousand – Tsfat was the second-largest Jewish community in the country, after Jerusalem, with the largest Chassidic community. There were many kollels in Tsfat, most of whose students depended on the “distribution” charity for their livelihood. Medical treatment in the city was provided by several Jewish doctors but was based mainly on the English and Scottish mission institutions. Towards the end of the first decade, a hospital built by the Rothschild family was inaugurated.

On 18 Iyar, 5671, May 15, 1911, crowds gathered for the annual celebration at the tomb of the Rashbi in Meron. The author Joshua Bar-Yosef describes in his book “Magic City” (1949) what happened next:

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After tragedy, reports emerge that politicians were pressed not to limit Meron event by Haredi politicians and their political allies

Terrifying video shows moments before deadly stampede at Israeli holy site

 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews stand at the bottom of a staircase, leading from a narrow walkway where a stampede led to mass fatalities at Lag B’Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, Friday, April 30, 2021.

As the initial shock and horror over Thursday night’s deadly crush at Lag B’Omer festivities on Mount Meron began to subside, focus started to turn on Friday toward the matter of who was to blame for the packed conditions at the site that led to the deaths of 45 people and the injuring of dozens of others in the fatal stampede.

Stark questions will likely be directed at political, civil and law enforcement officials involved in planning, approving and securing the event, amid talk of a potential state commission of inquiry to thoroughly investigate the disaster.

On Friday night, multiple reports in Hebrew media outlets indicated that there had been immense pressure by religious lawmakers ahead of the festivities to ensure that there would be no limits placed on the number of attendees. Some 100,000 ultra-Orthodox pilgrims ultimately attended the event; a framework drawn up by the Health Ministry, in consultation with other government officials, police and others, would have limited the event to 9,000 participants, but was not implemented.

Officials with knowledge of the investigation told Channel 13 that cabinet ministers had pressed police to allow large numbers of people to enter the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, saying this was to compensate for last year’s event being canceled due to coronavirus.

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Arab towns offer food, drink to Meron survivors; hundreds give blood in Tel Aviv

 

עיריית טמרה מכינה תחנת התרעננות ומנוחה עבור המפונים ממירון.
תודה לראש העיר על היוזמה המבורכת. pic.twitter.com/kqrMTASxmc

— Ahmad Mawasi (@ahmadaim) April 30, 2021

Local Arab villages set up stations to offer food and drink to evacuees from the site of the disaster at Meron on Friday morning, as many hundreds lined up to donate blood in Tel Aviv.

Media reports said residents of nearby villages and towns in the north of Israel set up stations with free food and drink for the many thousands of Jewish worshipers still trying to make their way out of the mountainous Meron area in the wake of the overnight tragedy.

According to Yoseph Haddad, an Arab Israeli activist, initiatives to help the evacuees were launched in Tamra, Jish, Yarka and Peki’in.

Radi Najm, mayor of the Druze town of Beit Jan near Mount Meron, said his town had opened its facilities and many families had opened their homes to evacuees and rescuers from the disaster.

“Beit Jan residents and the local council join in the grief of the entire nation,” Najm said in a statement. “They open their homes and the council’s facilities to offer any help possible. I have ordered the [town’s] emergency services to provide any help necessary to the rescue crews. The residents are ready to receive evacuees and families from the disaster area.”

Arab leaders expressed sorrow over the tragedy.

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh spoke of “heartache” for the dozens of families “left torn and bereaved.” He said he was heartened to see Jews and Arabs work together to respond to the disaster, calling it “a small ray of light in the great tragedy.”

Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi tweeted of “a terrible disaster” and his“deep sorrow for those who died on the day they came to celebrate.”

Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas sent condolences to the bereaved amid his “difficult feelings over the terrible disaster.”

Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, hundreds of Israelis lined up to donate blood at Magen David Adom mobile units in the iconic Rabin Square, after the organization sent out a call for anyone to come to assist following the deadly stampede.

“I’m number three hundred and something, and I think they’re seeing number 100 now, so I have a long wait ahead,” a man waiting to donate blood told Channel 12 News.

A woman told the outlet that said she had been waiting for two hours to donate but felt that it was important to stay.

According to Channel 12, Magen David Adom had planned to close the units in the early afternoon but decided to remain open as hundreds of residents waited in the sun to donate.

Tel Aviv additionally plans to light up the municipality building with the Star of David on Saturday night, in solidarity with the victims and their families.

At least 45 people were crushed to death and more than 150 people hurt, including many in critical condition, in the tragedy that began to unfold at around 1 a.m. on Friday.

Tens of thousands of people had gathered at Mount Meron in the northern Galilee for an annual pilgrimage around the gravesite of the second-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai. Army Radio reported that children were among the dead and injured.

Visiting the site of the Meron disaster, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Sunday would be marked as a day of national mourning.

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Confirmed: Kerry Gave Zarif Secret Info on Israel That He didn't Have Before ....

An independently analyzed translation of the leaked audiotape of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif shows that he was unaware of secret Israeli airstrikes until former Secretary of State John Kerry gave him the information.

These new details are in direct contradiction to claims by the State Department in defense of Kerry that the information was no longer classified and already in the public domain at the time of his conversation with Zarif, reported the Washington Free Beacon, who paid for an independent translation of the audiotape.

In the tape, Zarif can be heard saying, “Kerry told me that Israel had launched 200 airstrikes against (Iran).”

"You didn't know?" asked the interviewer.

"No, no," said Zarif.

At a Monday press conference, State Department spokesperson Ned Price appeared to contradict what is on the tape.

"If you go back and look at press reporting from the time, this certainly was not secret, and governments that were involved were speaking to this publicly on the record," he said.

Also, the next day Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called the allegations “utter nonsense” and said that the strikes had already been reported in the media. He accused Republicans of trying to "play politics with this,” according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Republicans have been calling for Kerry to resign or be fired from his current White House job as Biden’s climate envoy.

“The allegation that John Kerry told his Iranian pal Foreign Minister Zarif that Israel attacked Iranian interests 200 times is deeply concerning and there needs to be a serious investigation,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said in a tweet. “If it’s true, and Joe Biden were a real leader, he should fire John Kerry.”

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List Of Niftarim Killed In Meron ... Their Yurzeits Will Now Coincide With R' Shimon ben Yochai

 

Victims of Meron tragedy include 2 sets of brothers, father of 11, 6 US citizens

Top row (L-R): Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Shraga Gestetner, Shimon Matalon;

 2nd row (L-R): Yosef David Elhadad, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, Moshe Natan Neta Englander, Yehoshua Englander;

 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yedidia Hayut, Daniel (Donny) Morris, Nahman Kirshbaum; 

4th row (L-R): Abraham Daniel Ambon; Yedidya Fogel, Yisrael Anakvah, Moshe Ben Shalom

• R’ Shragi Gestetner Z”L of Monsey. He is survived by his wife and 6 children.
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  Shragi Gestetner

  
  
• R’ Eliezer Tzvi Joseph Z”L from Kiryas Joel.
• Habachur Yosef Amram Tauber Z”L from Monsey. He was a talmid in Yeshivas Brisk.
• Habachur Menachem Knoblowitz Z”L (22) of Boro Park. He was a Chosson to a girl from Lakewood.
• R’ Eliezer Goldberg Z”L from Beitar Ilit.
• R’ Dovid Kraus Z”L (33) of Beit Shemesh. He is survived by his wife and nine children. He was a Toldos Aharon Chossid.
• R’ Yisrael Alnakvah Z”L (24) of Beit Shemesh. He is survived by his wife and two children.
• R’ Chanoch Solod Z”L (52) from Ashdod.
• R’ Simcha Bunim Diskind Z”L (23) from Beit Shemesh.
• Habachur Eliyahu Cohen Z”L (16) from Beitar Ilit, a talmid of Yeshivas Heichal Avraham in Beitar.
• Habachur Chaim Rock Z”L from Beit Shemesh, a talmid of Yeshivas Mir-Brachfeld.
• Habochur Moshe ben Shalom of Bnei Brak, a Talmid at Yeshivas Ponavezh.
• Habochur Yedidya Fogel, a Talmid at Yeshivas Hatziyonit Hadatit.
• R’ Menachem Asher Zeckbach Z”L (24) from Kiryat Sefer.
• R’ Yehuda Leib Rubin Z”L (27), from Beit Shemesh.
• R’ Yonoson Chevroni Z”L, of Givat Shmuel.
• Habachur Yosef Dovid Elhadad Z”L, Talmid Yeshiva Amalah Shel Torah, Yerushalayim.
• R’ Yehudah Leib Rubin Z”L Ramah 1ג.
• R’ Elazar Gefner Z”L.
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  Nachman Kirshenbaum

  
  
• Habachur Nachman Kirshenbaum Z”L of Beit Shemesh.
• R’ Chaim Ozer Seler Z”L (24) of Nevei Yaakov, Yerushalayim.
• Habachur Moshe Levy Z”L (14) of Kiryat Herzog, Talmid of Talmud Torah Imrei Dovid.
• Habachur Dov Steinmetz Z”L Montreal, Canada, Talmid of Mir Yerushalayim.
• Habachur Yaakov Elchanan Strakovsky, z”l, 20 years odl, Yeshiva Be’er Yisrael.
• Habachur Yosef Mastorov Z”L (26) Talid Yeshiva Rinah Shel Torah, Carmiel.
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  Donny Morris
  
  
• Habachur Nachman Doniel (“Donny”) Morris Z”L (19) Teaneck, N.J., Talmid of Yeshivat Sha’alvim.
• R’ Shimon Matlon Z”L (37), a Rebbe in Talmud Torah Chanichei Hayeshivos.
• R’ Eliezer Mordechai Goldberg Z”L (37), of Beitar Illit. He was a Rebbein Talmud Torah Aderes Eliyahu.
• R’ Shmuel Tzvi Kalgsbard Z”L (43) of Beitar. he was a Rosh Kollel in Rachmastrivka and a Magid Shiur in Yeshivas Meor Einayim.
• BROTHERS: Moshe Nosson Nota Englard Z”L (14) and his brother Yehoshua Englard Z”L (9), of Yerushalayim.
• BROTHERS: Moshe Mordechai Elchad-Sharf Z”L (12) and his brother Yosef Dovid Z”L (18). They live in Yerushalayim.
• Habochur Yosef Yehuda Levi Z”L (17) of Rechasim.
• Habochur Yishai Me’ulam Z”L (17).
• Habochur Avrohom Daniel Ambon Z”L (21) of Argentinia. Talmid Yeshivas Heichal Yitzchak.
• Habochur Eliezer Yitzchok Koltai Z”L (13). He lived in Yerushalayim, formerly of Passaic, NJ.
• R’ Ariel Tzadik Z”L (56) Lived in  Beit Vegan, Yerushalayim.
• R’ Yosef Greenbaum Z”L (22). He lived in Haifa.
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  Yedidyia Chiyuis

  
  
• Habochur Yedidyia Chiyuis (13) nei Brak Z”L.
• Habochur Yossi Kohen Z”L. (21) He was from Cleveland, and was a Talmid at Mir Yerushalayim.
• Habochur Elkanah Shila Z”L (28) of Yerushalayim.
• Tzadik Mordcha Yoel ben Avrum Yakovm Mordechai Fekete Z”L at the young age of 23. (the niftar leaves behind a wife and 2 children, an emergency Chesed Fund campaign was launched, click here to donate)

Monsey Singer Shraga Gestetner killed in Meron tragedy

 

Friday Levayeh Of Shraga Gestetner

Shraga Gestetner, a 35-year-old singer, was among the 45 Jews killed in the Meron disaster during the night between Thursday and Friday.

Gestetner, a resident of Monsey, New York, and a married father of five, was in Israel for a visit at the time of the tragedy.

His mother, Shoshana, grew up in Bnei Brak.

A Skverer hasid, Gestetner was born in Montreal. Though initially he was involved in the world of music, in recent years he had moved from music to business.

Shraga Gestetner, a 35-year-old singer, was among the 45 Jews killed in the Meron disaster during the night between Thursday and Friday.

Gestetner, a resident of Monsey, New York, and a married father of five, was in Israel for a visit at the time of the tragedy.

His mother, Shoshana, grew up in Bnei Brak.

A Skverer hasid, Gestetner was born in Montreal. Though initially he was involved in the world of music, in recent years he had moved from music to business.

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