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“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
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| Using a tank, David Dushman destroyed the electric fence at Auschwitz. |
David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier who helped liberate Auschwitz in World War II died on Saturday. He was 98.
The former soldier died at a Munich hospital, according to the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria.
The Red Army soldier “was right on the front lines when the National Socialists’ machinery of murder was destroyed,” said Charlotte Knobloch, a former head of Germany’s Central Council of Jews.
“Every witness to history who passes on is a loss, but saying farewell to David Dushman is particularly painful,” said Knobloch.
Over a million people, mainly Jews, were killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1940 and 1945.
Dushman, riding in his T-34 tank on Jan. 27, 1945, flattened the electric fence surrounding the Nazi death camp.
“They stumbled out of the barracks, they sat and lay among the dead. Terrible. We threw them all of our canned food and immediately drove on, to hunt fascists,” Dushman recounted in a 2015 interview with Munich newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
“Skeletons everywhere,” he said.
Following the war, Dushman trained the Soviet Union’s women’s national fencing team for four decades.
He also frequently visited schools to speak to students about the horrors of the Holocaust.
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"The rabbis' letter calling for 'doing everything' to prevent the Bennett-Lapid government - can only be incitement in the imagination of those who think it is incitement," Rabbi Druckman said in an interview with Kol Chai radio.
He said, "For months there were demonstrations in front of the prime minister's house - and we did not hear the Shin Bet chief say it was incitement, suddenly my letter is incitement. I did not imagine that anyone would see this as incitement."
"Everyone knows my positions," the rabbi stressed. "It is inconceivable that I say to do something that involves physical or verbal violence, it is only those who want to label me as saying such things. People have completely lost their minds. They turn white into black and black into white."
"I oppose this and I express my opinion. I think everyone is seeking the good of the people of Israel, but in my opinion what others mean for the good of the people of Israel is to the detriment of the people of Israel."
Rabbi Druckman was asked if this was not a necessary move to prevent a fifth election. "I think there was a choice, but the point is I think the government that is about to be formed will hurt religion and state, I think security matters will be hurt, if the government relies on terrorist supporters. I think it will be a bad government and since I want the good of Israel then I express my opinion. May I not express my opinion? Is expressing this incitement?"
He questioned the Sin Bet's statements that there have been threats of violence against Yamina MKs. "I do not understand, what happened? What was the urgency of issuing a statement on Shabbat? Where was the head of the Shin Bet when Jews were attacked in Lod? There he also made a preemptive warning?"
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A prayer like this one doesn't see every day. Today at Amuka, Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Edelstein will conduct an awe-inspiring prayer event on the site to bring personal salvation to members of the public, with the blessing ofRabbi Chaim Kanievsky that those who contribute to poor brides should merit, in accordance with their deeds, to find their partners and get engaged by Rosh Hashanah 5782.
Today marks as the yahrtzeit (date of passing) of the holy Rabbi Yonasan ben Uziel who is interred in Amuka in northern Israel.
t's sufficient to merely mention the name 'Amuka' to cause multitudes to feel a sense of holiness: The holy tomb has long been a magnet, and many have found personal salvation at this place that's auspicious for finding one's marriage partner. Many have found, by prayer at this holy site, their true "soul mates."
Now, a few days before the yahrtzeit, Kupat Ha'ir has publicized that, due to the unprecedented number of poor brides who do not even have the means to pay for their own weddings, Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Edelstein will today be conducting a prayer event and "nullification of curses" at this auspicious place, to help people see personal salvation.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky expressed himself in an out-of-the-ordinary manner in response to this special and rare prayer event.
In the words of the rabbi, those who donate to Kupat Ha'ir's fundraising campaign for poor brides the sum of at least 516 shekels [$160] – the gematria of chasan kallah- will be included in the prayer of Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Edelstein in the ceremony at Amuka, which will be conducted according to the tradition he received from his father Rabbi Ya'akov Edelstein of blessed and righteous memory. They should also merit, with the power of the tzedakah(charity) and the tefillah (prayer), that, in accordance with their deeds, they should become engaged by Rosh Hashanah 5782.
Now is our time- your time- to join this tefillah event; to help these poverty-stricken brides; and to merit to hopefully receive our marriage partners ; to bring us the salvation that we yearn for so much- by Rosh Hashanah 5782. Join now to ensure that your names, and those of your loved ones awaiting their partners, will be there.
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The nonprofit exec whose organization sent nearly $600,000 in US taxpayer money to a Chinese lab that may have been the source of COVID-19 masterminded an effort near the start of the pandemic to squelch the notion that the coronavirus was man-made, a new report reveals.
Peter Daszak, president of the New York City-based EcoHealth Alliance, secretly organized a statement issued by the influential British medical journal The Lancet in February 2020, according to Vanity Fair.
A total of 27 scientists — including Daszak, 55, who trained as a zoologist — signed the statement, which expressed “solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China.”
“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” the statement affirmed.
“Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice that jeopardise our global collaboration in the fight against this virus.”
During Daszak’s efforts to arrange the Lancet statement, he reportedly emailed two scientists, including Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina, who’d worked with the lead coronavirus researcher at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, located at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
Daszak told the scientists that they “should not sign this statement, so it has some distance from us and therefore doesn’t work in a counterproductive way,” Vanity Fair said, citing emails obtained by the group US Right to Know.
“We’ll then put it out in a way that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent voice,” Daszak reportedly added.
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Facebook's 'independent fact checkers' relied on a letter spearheaded by a major financial backer of the Wuhan Institute of Virology to 'debunk' articles exploring the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a leak from the lab, it has emerged.
For nearly a year, Facebook censored articles exploring the lab leak theory, labeling them 'false information' and punishing news publishers by limiting their reach on the platform, before the social media giant sheepishly reversed course last month.
Facebook relies on third-party fact-checkers to 'debunk' false claims, and in the case of the lab leak theory, a February article from Facebook partner Science Feedback played a key role in the social media site's censorship.
The article, which purported to 'debunk' a New York Post opinion column questioning China's denials of a lab leak scenario, prominently cited a letter to The Lancet, a leading medical journal, signed by '27 eminent public health experts'.
It has now emerged that the Lancet letter, which played a key role in suppressing early debate on the pandemic's origins, was not only signed but organized by Peter Daszak, whose group funneled U.S. taxpayer dollars to controversial gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
Though no definitive proof has emerged yet to show whether COVID-19 leaked from a lab or crossed over to humans directly from an animal, mounting evidence in support of the lab leak theory has emerged in recent weeks -- after academics dismissed it as impossible for more than a year.
It is now clear that many of the leading experts in emerging coronavirus threats, who rushed to dismiss the lab leak theory early in the pandemic, were potentially conflicted, fearing that confirmation of a leak would shut down virology labs around the world and cut off their precious flow of funding.
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SHOCKING VIDEO shows an Amazon Driver giving a 67 year old Castro Valley woman a beat down after words were exchanged. 21 year old woman arrested by Alco Sherrif…who says suspect claims self defense. @kron4news pic.twitter.com/umTVNityDi
— Maureen Kelly (@KRON4MKelly) June 4, 2021
A 21-year-old Amazon delivery woman viciously beat another woman, 67, who had called her a bi**ch after the San Francisco-area driver told her to 'check her white privilege' when she'd complained about a delayed package.
Itzel Ramirez, the Amazon driver, was arrested after she was filmed assaulting the woman in Alameda County, the sheriff’s office said on Friday.
Video posted to social media shows the unidentified victim from Castro Valley appearing to say something to the driver after she dropped off the packages in front of an entrance to Vista Creek Apartments at around 6pm on Thursday.
Doug Smith, the owner of the apartment complex where the victim lives as a tenant, told KTVU-TV that the victim received an alert that a package she had been waiting for was delivered.
When she went to the lobby of the apartment complex to retrieve the package, it wasn’t there. The Amazon driver, Ramirez, was standing nearby.
According to Smith, the woman asked Ramirez where the package was. Ramirez is said to have replied that the package would be arriving soon.
Smith said that the victim waited for about 15 minutes in the lobby. She then came back outside and once again asked Ramirez about the status of the delivery, according to Smith.
‘I believe the Amazon driver said something about “your white privilege,” and my tenant said, “You don’t need to be a b***h about it,” turned around and walked away,’ Smith told KTVU-TV.
Ramirez was so enraged that she began punching the woman in the head and upper body, landing as many as 10 blows.
She claims she was acting in self-defense.
Surveillance footage filmed by cameras positioned both outside and inside the lobby of the building shows Ramirez push the woman up against the front entrance and continue to strike her.
The woman is seen hunched over with her hands covering her head in an attempt to defend herself.
The victim is believed to have suffered a broken nose and other visible injuries.
Ramirez was seen wearing her Amazon vest as she posed for her booking photo with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.
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A New York City-based psychiatrist told an audience at the Yale School of Medicine in April that she had fantasies of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.”
Dr. Aruna Khilanani spewed the race-hating virtual remarks — in which she also said she’d walk away from the shooting “with a bounce in my step” and that white people “make my blood boil” and “are out of their minds and have been for a long time” — at the Ivy League institution’s Child Study Center on April 6.
Audio of the talk was posted on the substack online platform of former New York Times opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss on Friday, along with an interview of Khilanani conducted by writer and podcaster Katie Herzog.
A flyer promoting the talk and posted online by Weiss titled the lecture, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind” and included “learning objectives” such as “Set up white people’s absence of empathy towards black rage as a problem” and “Understand how white people are psychologically dependent on black rage.”
Khilanani opened her remarks by telling the audience, “I’m gonna say a lot of things, and it will probably provoke a lot of responses, and I want you to just maybe observe them in yourself.”
She then added “prayers up for DMX” before discussing what she described as the “intense rage and futility” people of color purportedly feel when talking to white people about racism.
Khilanani launched into an attack of all white people as a monolithically ignorant, delusional, and hateful group. Early on, she offers a telling self-diagnosis: “We are calm, we are giving, too giving, and then when we get angry, they use our responses as confirmation that we’re crazy or have emotional problems.” She insisted “Nothing makes me angrier than a white person who tells me not to be angry, because they have not seen real anger yet.”
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