Judge in Trump Trial Refuses to Halt Trial for Pesach to Accommodate Orthodox Lawyers

 The judge in the criminal trial of President Trump has made a surprising decision, announcing that court will be in session during the Holiday of Passover, including on the days of Yom Tov which are Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, as well as Monday and Tuesday of the following week.

According to CNN, “prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asked Judge Juan Merchan to confirm if he intends the court go straight until 2 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday for Passover. The judge said that is his plan.”

“Trump attorney Todd Blanche said Monday asked that they do not sit on Tuesday because it’s a holiday the entire day.”

“I can appreciate it’s a holiday, the entire day for him. It’s not a court holiday,” Merchan said.

This is an extremely significant decision by Judge Merchan, because two of Trump’s lawyers are Orthodox Jews, and thus will not be able to attend the proceedings. Jews are forbidden  to do any ‘labor’ on the first two and last two days of Passover, including writing and most forms of travel.

The judge announced the scheduling decision near the closing of proceedings on Thursday afternoon.

Although this is not unheard of, it is very common for judges to accommodate the religious needs of both attorneys and litigants. Specifically in this highly unusual and historic trial, when a former president is being accused of felonies, one would have expected Merchan to be as accommodating as possible to the defense team.

There have been unverified rumors that the judge also disqualified religious Jews to be jurors, which some speculated was not due to their religion but to their tendency to be Trump supporters.

Happy Birthday Khamenei ! Israel Sends Him a Birthday Gift an Attack on a Military Base in Isfahan, Iran

 

Israel on Friday morning attacked Iran with a retaliatory strike, as explosions were reported near a military base in Isfahan, central Iran early Friday morning.

The Tasnim news agency reported that nuclear sites in the province of Isfahan are “absolutely safe,” denying foreign media reports about an incident at a nuclear site in Isfahan. ABC News reported, citing a US official, that Israel delivered a missile strike on a “facility in Iran.

Iran’s news agency Mehr reported that the sound of several explosions was heard in Iran’s Isfahan province in the early hours of Friday. The sound of explosions was heard at around 4:00 AM in the northern and eastern regions of Isfahan. According to Mehr, the blasts were the result of the air defense systems firing at an incoming attack.

The Israeli attack fell on the 85th birthday (according to the secular calendar) of Iran’s supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, answering the age-old question, what to get a man who has everything.

L’havdil, the attack also fell on the 122nd birthday (according to the Hebrew calendar) of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson Ztz’l, who would have been delighted with the news of the attack, but probably wonder why so little and so late.

Also on Friday, according to Mehr, the air defense systems in the Vadi-e-Rahmat region of Tabriz fired at a suspicious flying object.

According to the Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, three explosions took place near the Isfahan Air Force Base.

Three Iranian officials confirmed to the NY Times that a strike had hit a military air base near the city of Isfahan early on Friday, but did not say which country had mounted the attack.

According to the Pentagon press secretary, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant Thursday afternoon on Iran’s destabilizing actions in the Middle East.

Explosions were reported overnight Friday in southern Iraq. The Iraqi Sabrin News Agency, which is affiliated with Iran, reported increased activity of American aircraft in Iraq’s skies.

According to Arab reports, Israel attacked Syria overnight Friday. The Iranian Al-Alam channel cited a Syrian security official about an Israeli attack in southern Syria between the suburbs of the Daraa district and the suburbs of the al-Sawida district. According to the report, a radar base was attacked. 

One of the channels of the Al-Jazeera network reported the bombings of several sites in southern Syria in the suburbs of the city of Daraa. For the time being, there is no official update in the Syrian state media.

Wow! Colombia President's Hearing Takeaways

🚨 MUST WATCH 🚨@Columbia is working overtime to cover up its rampant antisemitism, hiring lawyers and PR consultants to help avoid accountability, but has done NOTHING to combat Jewish hate and protect students on campus. @MorningsMaria pic.twitter.com/o42mlify0c

— Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) April 17, 2024

Congresswoman @RepLisaMcClain eviscerates @Columbia president Shafik, forcing her to reluctantly admit that mobs shouting from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free or Long live the Intifada is antisemitic."That is a great answer to a question I didn't ask...Yes or no, why… pic.twitter.com/QNLzKfELE3

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) April 17, 2024

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Woman Whose Husband is Missing Hopes They Never Find Him but Fakes it On Camera

 

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Read the Captions! Read Every Word! As Gazan Terrorists Says "no Regrets" During Interrogation

 

Read the captions. Read every word.

He interrogates Palestinian terrorists. He says they have no regret.pic.twitter.com/Cf7ynzipjs

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) April 17, 2024

Shocking New Footage of Innocent Gazans on October 7

 

Shocking new footage emerges showing dozens of Palestinian CIVILIANS and Hamas terrorists kidnapping an Israeli father.

Yarden Bibas appears drenched in his own blood after being severely beaten by the savage mob as they film the kidnapping on their smart phones.

The father… pic.twitter.com/NvQvPISrrE

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 17, 2024

Chabad in Pomona Burns Down

 

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Blame Barack Obama for Iran’s attacks on Israel and their bloody global price

 

If a belligerent state launched 186 explosive drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles from three fronts against civilian targets within the United States, would Joe Biden call it a “win”?

Would the president tell us the best thing we can do now is show “restraint”?

What if that same terror state’s proxy armies had recently helped murder, rape and kidnap more than 1,000 American men, women and children?

What if this terror state were trying to obtain nuclear weapons so it could continue to agitate without any consequences?

This is what Joe Biden and the Barack Obama acolytes, Iranian dupes and Israel antagonists he’s surrounded himself with demand of the Jewish state.

And by “Iranian dupes,” I don’t only mean the Jake Sullivans and Antony Blinkens of the world, who worked to elevate the mullahs over Sunni allies and the Israelis, or even a Hamas-bestie like Rob Malley or Israel-hater like Maher Bitar.

I mean assets of the Islamic Republic who promised the Iranian government to help out in any way possible.

Their worldview is a cancer that’s metastasized within the Democratic Party.

To these people, Israel will always be the villain.

Brazilian woman wheels a dead guy into bank to co-sign a loan for her: ‘Uncle, are you listening?

In a mind-boggling scene straight out of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” a Brazilian woman reportedly wheeled the corpse of an elderly man into a Rio de Janeiro bank Tuesday to try to get him to co-sign on a loan.

The bank customer, identified as Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, was captured on video standing next to the deceased seated in a chair and seemingly holding up his drooping head.

The wild footage, which was first aired by TV Globo, Brazil’s largest broadcaster, captured Nunes talking to the dead man, whom she addressed as her “uncle,” and asking him to sign financial documents that would allow her to take out a $3,400 loan.

“Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign [the loan contract]. If you don’t sign, there’s no way, because I can’t sign for you,” Nunes says in the video, while thrusting a pen between his limp fingers and instructing him to hold it “hard.”

“Sign so you don’t give me any more headaches, I can’t take it anymore,” she adds.

When a bank worker tries to point out that the man’s color looks off and he appears “not well,” Nunes dismisses his concerns.

“He is like that. He doesn’t say anything,” Nunes says. “Uncle, do you want to go to the [hospital] again?”

Unnerved bank staffers quickly called the police, who arrived and arrested Nunes.

It was later determined that the decedent, identified as 68-year-old Paulo Roberto Braga, had been dead for several hours prior to his trip to the bank.

“She tried to pretend to get him to sign the loan. He already entered the bank dead,” Police Chief Fábio Luiz told TV Globo. “The main thing is to continue the investigation to identify other family members, and find out more about this loan.

Cops said they will look into the circumstances of Braga’s death and will try to determine whether Nunes is actually his niece, and whether other relatives were involved in the alleged attempt to commit bank fraud.

Nunes could face charges of theft through fraud, or embezzlement, and abuse of corpse.

Brazilian woman takes uncle's corpse to a bank and tries to take a loan on his name pic.twitter.com/FV70dlWzkf

— Restricted Vids (@RestrictedVids) April 17, 2024

These are the Vicious Antisemite Professors of Columbia University

 

Left to right: Massad, Dabashi, Franke, Abdou,Ahmed

As Columbia University’s president insisted Wednesday that the Ivy League school was doing all it could to crackdown on rising antisemitism, the campus remains filled with a slew of professors who have a history of spewing controversial remarks.

Ranging from a politics professor who declared that the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel was “awesome” to another who boasted “Yes, I’m with Hamas,” Columbia President Minouche Shafik was forced to address some of her faculty’s remarks as she was grilled by lawmakers in Washington DC.

At least three faculty members — Joseph Massad, Mohamed Abdou and Katherine Franke — were mentioned specifically by name during the congressional hearing. Others, though, have also been ripped over their history of remarks.

Here’s are Columbia’s most controversial professors and their incendiary remarks:

Joseph Massad: