Israeli Rabbis Are Divided Over Temperature Checks On Shabbat

Top Charedi Orthodox rabbis in Israel and the Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel are split over the use of thermometers on Shabbat as part of health checks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

In Israel, the thermometers are used at the entrance to hospitals to make sure that people who enter do not have fevers, one symptom of the coronavirus. The thermometers could also be used by synagogues around the world to measure the temperature of worshippers arriving for Shabbat services.

Last week, five senior Charedi rabbis said in an official letter that the temperature checks mean that it is forbidden to enter the hospital on Shabbat, unless it is a life-threatening situation, Ynet reported.

“There are concerns about the prohibition of work on Shabbat in both the heat measurement and the writing generated on the monitor,” read the letter. The letter said hospitals could circumvent the issue by having non-Jews perform the checks.

But Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, ruled on Sunday that it is permitted to enter a hospital on Shabbat if a person’s temperature is automatically taken, the Jerusalem Post reported.

The Zomet Institute, an Israeli nonprofit that designs electronics and other equipment that can be used by observant Jews on Shabbat, recently developed a digital thermometer that does not require users to engage in activities prohibited on Shabbat. The thermometer detects a temperature every four seconds, so no one needs to operate the electronic device to take a measurement, and the way the readings are displayed are designed not to constitute writing.

The dispute is one of countless examples of how the coronavirus pandemic has presented vexing new questions for Jewish law authorities — many of which have been resolved without consensus, even among Orthodox rabbis.

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One Hour of Howard Stern Using the N Word

Longtime fans of The Howard Stern Show were stunned when Howard claimed on The View that he has never uttered the n-word. 

His "evolution" appears to have conveniently affected his memory as an attempt to scrub away his past use of the N word 100's of times along with probably the most racist comments ever broadcast. 

A few hundred examples above
 WARNING - VERY GRAPHIC RACIST LANGUAGE

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Avraham Adler Arrested For Beating Up His Girlfriend

Avi in the good old days with his wife

An East Village man accused of hosting sex parties last year has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend, cops said.

Avraham Adler, 33, was taken into custody Friday after a 26-year-old woman reported she had been “punched in the face” and “choked by her boyfriend,” an NYPD spokesman said.

The woman reported bruising and pain, but was not hospitalized following the 8:30 a.m. incident in Adler’s East 7th Street apartment, according to police. Cops charged him with strangulation and assault.

Adler made international headlines last year after his landlord and outraged neighbors accused him of hosting sex parties in his East Village apartment, while leading a “double or triple life” as an ultra-Orthodox Jew with a pregnant wife and three kids in suburban New Jersey.

Adler once bragged he was so religious that he wouldn’t even carry his car keys on the sabbath.

The alleged sex soirees came to light when Adler’s landlord sued him in Manhattan Supreme Court, prompting a judge to order him to top the alleged lewd gatherings.

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Truckers wouldn’t deliver to cities that defund police

Truckers are promising to bring freight deliveries to a screeching halt in any city that cuts or disbands its police department, a new poll shows.

Three out of four long-haul drivers told CDL News, a website for the commercial trucking industry, that they would fear for their personal safety if a city slashed its number of cops in response to the demonstrations nationwide against police brutality.

Trucking ranks consistently as one of the most dangerous jobs nationwide, labor statistics show. In 2018, the occupation topped the list, followed by construction workers, farmers and ranchers, groundkeepers and miscellaneous agricultural employees.

Long-haul drivers have been on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic as stay-at-homes have forced millions of Americans to buy virtually everything online.

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Alternate reading of Mayan calendar suggests end of the world is next week

If you thought COVID-19, civil unrest, locusts, volcanic eruptions and hurricanes signaled Armageddon — you may be right!

The reading of the Mayan calendar was wrong according to a conspiracy theory on Twitter, and while the world didn’t end on Dec. 21, 2012, as originally prophesied by calendar readers, Mayan doomsday is sometime this week or next.

“Following the Julian Calendar, we are technically in 2012… The number of days lost in a year due to the shift into Gregorian Calendar is 11 days… For 268 years using the Gregorian Calendar (1752-2020) times 11 days = 2,948 days. 2,948 days / 365 days (per year) = 8 years,” scientist Paolo Tagaloguin tweeted last week according to the Sun. The series of tweets has since been deleted.

If Tagaloguin is correct, adding up all the missed days, then the Mayan doomsday date is … this week.

In 2012, doomsday theorists were convinced the world was ending on December 21, and hordes of believers flocked to Mayan sites in Mexico and Guatemala — only to be left disappointed and dirty due to the lack of sanitation at ancient Mayan pyramids

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"Bobover" Eichenstein Thrown Under the Bus ... No Overnight Camps...

Governor Cuomo's Health Commissioner, Dr Zucker, just kicked "lang reckel" Bobover State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein and his cohort the "asken" Ezra Friedlander in the proverbial ass....

You see where all that "tuches lekking" got them....nowhere!

The party is over.... 

the goyim don't give two hoots about you and the communities that you represent .......

When you and your "Torah" leaders support bums like Nadler, Schumer and Engel who are looking to topple a sitting president who loves the Jewish people and Israel and you say nothing .......then "karma" turns around and takes a big bite in your behinds! 

Last week Eichenstein made a dramatic appeal in front of an empty Governor Cuomo's office and pleaded for him to open the camps... but what Eichenstein forgets is that he is in Galus ... and should do diplomacy in secret ....

But no! ... instead of humbling down in front of Eisav he stood with arrogance and chutzpah  in front of the Governor's office to "demand"  the governor open the camps....

Statement from New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker on Overnight Summer Camps:

Throughout this entire public health response, there isn’t a single decision we have not made based on data and science, rather than emotion. Using the best currently available science and data, I have reached a decision to prohibit overnight children’s camps from operating this season in New York State.

Unlike day camps, which are approved to open June 29, overnight camps are a difficult setting to manage social distancing and face covering and infection control practices. Overnight camps have congregate settings and sleeping arrangements in close quarters that present too many risks. In such a setting, even a single positive case in a camper or staff member could create an untenable quarantine situation and overwhelm camp health personnel that may not be able to handle a serious infectious outbreak of this nature.

I have fond memories of summer sleepaway camp as a kid and I understand the role they play in childhood development and the disappointment this decision may bring to families across the state. But amid the worst public health crisis in a century, my number one priority is the health and safety of all New Yorkers. And while infection rates are declining, we need to proceed with caution and take every step possible to avoid undoing all the progress New Yorkers have made in bending the curve and reopening the state safely and responsibly.

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Mordy Mehlman of FJJ Dedicates More Space to the Death of James Floyd Than to Dr Norman Lamm

Dr Norman Lamm, a distinguished Talmud Chachem, philosopher, teacher and author who faithfully led the YU community as president, and Rosh Yeshivah for 5 decades, was niftar on May 31.

If you are a faithful reader of the FJJ you would have no idea....
in fact Mordy Mehlman the publisher,  dedicated more space to the convicted violent felon James Floyd then he did for this outstanding educator and tzaddik.

In this week's issue June 12 ... he managed to stuff the announcement of Dr. Lamm's petirah somewhere on page 71, 
you had to first go thru some grueling ads for air conditioners, Babshi's Shabbos Pan, The Yellow Door, etc .... before you got to the notice...

In fact a recipe for a Lemon pie taking up a half page was placed on page 21....
a question why boys now want girls to have masters degrees appeared on page 52 ...19 full pages before letting anyone know that this giant passed away...

When a "Letter to the Editor" called him out on this.....
Mordy asks the letter writer to write a tribute!
Mordy himself could not bring himself to say one word about Dr Lamm...
The Black & Whites have taken over ..... it's all over folks...

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Hallel Ariel's family Sues Palestinian Authority for NIS 100 million

The family of 13-year-old Hallel Ariel, killed in a violent terror attack in 2016, is suing the Palestinian Authority for NIS 100 million.

Since the incident of the terror attack, Hallel's parents, Rina and Amichai Ariel, have been involved in inter-state legal battles against the Palestinian Authority (PA). 

The NIS 100 million is the same amount the PA is paying the terrorist's family, in the form of monthly payments, for having carried out the attacks, and is the basis of the Ariel family's legal pursuit. 

Prior to Hallel's murder, the terrorist who carried out the attack, Muhammad Tarayrah, 17 at the time of the incident, shared multiple posts on Facebook in which he praised terror attacks and stated his intentions to be a martyr. Carrying out his intentions, the terrorist infiltrated the West Bank Settlement of Kiryat Araba, located next to Hebron, snuck into Hallel's bedroom and stabbed her multiple times.

Following the attack the PA has paid the terrorist's family a monthly amount of NIS 12,000, according to Shurat HaDin, the legal body helping the Ariel family with their case.

Hallel was a dancer, and had performed in Jerusalem the night before the incident. Her family had allowed her to sleep in while they left to carry out the day's activities. Tarayrah had managed to infiltrate the settlement, and though alarms were set off, managed to sneak into the girl's bedroom, stabbing her to death, before the settlement's security team, of which her father was a part of, captured the terrorist, shot and killed him.

Hallel was brought to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. 

Hallel's mother Rina and Shurat HaDin, a civil rights non-governmental organization representing terror victims, filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court in The Hague against the heads of the Palestinian Authority for inciting terrorism earlier this year. 

"The body that finances, encourages and incites terrorism will also be held accountable for its actions. Money is oxygen for terrorism, even if it is given in retrospect," Shurat HaDin said in a statement. 

"If the lawsuit is accepted, all victims of terrorism can sue the Palestinian Authority without proving their [the terrorist's] direct connection to the attack, but rather based on the payments the PA pays to the terrorists and their families," Shurat HaDin added. 

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Watch Howard Stern Mock Blacks .....

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Chasidishe Man stabbed in the Head in London

An Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed in London Friday, in an apparent anti-Semitic attack.

The incident occurred on Stoke Newington High Street in the Hackney area of east London Friday morning just before 11:00 a.m. (local time).

The victim was treated at the scene by a Hatzola emergency response team before being evacuated by an air ambulance to a London hospital. He is reportedly in stable condition.

London Metropolitan Police were called to the scene, and have arrested the suspected assailant.

The Hackney Council confirmed that a “police incident” had occurred, adding that roads in the area have been closed off.

Witnesses say the suspect stabbed the victim, a Hasidic Jew, before being tackled by construction workers, who detained the assailant until police arrived to take him into custody.

A friend of the victim who was present during the attack told MailOnline that the victim had suffered blade wounds to his skull.

The victim was identified as a man in his 50s who lives in the Stamford Hill neighborhood of London. He was reportedly standing outside of a bank when the assailant attacked him.

Community Security Trust (CST), a British non-profit which monitors anti-Semitism, said it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the stabbing.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman released a statement on the stabbing saying Friday:

 "At 10:54 a.m., police were called to reports of a male being restrained in Stoke Newington High Street, N16. Officers and London Ambulance Service attended. A man, aged in his 50s, was found suffering stab wounds."

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The Story of the Brutal Murder of Dr. David Applebaum and His Daughter Naava

Renowned emergency physician, David Applebaum, and his daughter, Nava Applebaum, were killed in a terror attack the day before her wedding. Now, Shayna Applebaum-Abramson shares the story of how their family honors their legacy.

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Israelis Place Fridges All Over Israel With Free Food

Check out this incredible initiative by Yerushalyim's young residents to feed the needy and. prevent food waste.

Local vendors donate extra food at the end of each day which is then placed in fridges throughout Israeli cities, because no one should ever go hungry!

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Heshy Tischler Demands the Parks Open in Boro Park

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Jews Sit Shivah for the Convicted Black Felon ...George Floyd

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Zera Shimshon.... Parshas Shlach

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Trump Signs Order Sanctioning International Criminal Court

The Tzaddik, Trump!  How is there even one Jew hating this Oheiv Yisrael ...... 

Any Jew hating Trump should check if they are from Zera Avraham Aveenu...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on people involved in the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation into alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan Thursday.

A senior administration official said the investigation is "being pushed forward by an organization of dubious integrity," Reuters reported.

The order authorizes US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to freeze assets of ICC officials involved in the investigation. In addition, Pompeo will be authorized to block these officials from entering the US.

President Trump also cited the ICC's war crimes investigations against Israel when signing the order.

"Despite our demand, the tribunal has also politically persecuted Israel, our ally," Trump said.

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DIN .... Message from the Parsha.....of Spies .... of the Meraglim

In Eretz Yisrael, the parsha that will be read this Shabbos is Parshas Shlach, the parsha that discusses the spies...
the meraglim....

When the meraglim return from spying on the Canaanites ..they say

"לא נוכל לעלות אל העם כי חזק הוא ממנו"

"We cannot go forward against those people, they are too strong for us"
and when it seemed apparent that the meraglim didn't want to go to Eretz Yisrael, 
Hashem tells Moshe:
" אכנו בדבר ואורישנו ואעשה אותך לגוי גדול ועצום ממנו"
"I will kill them with a plague and annihilate them. then I will make you into a greater, more powerful nation than they"

Moshe trying to advocate for the Jewish people replies to Hashem:

ושמעו מצרים כי העלית בכחך את העם הזה מקרבו.. והמתה את העם הזה כאיש אחד ואמרו הגוים  ..וגו' מבלתי יכולת ה' להביא את העם הזה אל הארץ אשר נשבע להם וישחטם במדבר 

"And what will happen when the Egyptians hear about it? 
They will say ...You have brought this nation out from among them with Your great power, ...to kill the entire nation like a single man... 
The nations of the world will say when they hear the news ..that G-d was not able to bring this nation to the land that he swore to them so he slaughtered them in the desert"

Question:

After hearing from Hashem that He wants to slaughter the Jewish people .... 
(keep in mind that the Jewish population stood 600,000, not counting women, children and anyone under 20 or over 60....which means that millions would have died in this plague...)

Moshe argues: ...... Forgive them... for 

 " the nations will say that G-d didn't have the power to bring them to Israel so He slaughtered them?

What about replying to Hashem.....

"How could You do something like this ...killing millions in one fell swoop with a plague?" 

Wouldn't that have been a solid argument? 

Isn't that what WE would argue....? 

Even a child understands how precious one single human being is ...and certainly our Creator Who created them ...

 especially since Jews are considered ... בנים למקום ..... Children of G-d...

 G-d Himself referred to the Jewish people not too long before this incident בני בכורי ישראל ..... "My firstborn are the Jewish people?"

So why did Moshe ignore this argument and instead argued

 "What would the nations say?

Once we are G-d forbid gone...Who cares what the nations will say?

If you want to maybe say that Moshe's argument was also a  pretty good one  .. 
then he could have added the argument "What would the nations say"  after stating the obvious stronger defense..

 "How can You annihilate millions of Jews?"

Moshe himself in a previous incident, the sin of the Golden Calf, the incident of the "Eigal Hazahav" did just that... 

In pleading on behalf of the Jewish people he asks:

למה  ה'' יחרה אפך בעמך אשר הוצאת מארץ מצרים בכח גדול וביד חזקה

"O G-d! Why unleash Your wrath against your people, whom You brought out of Egypt with great power and a show of force?"

Moshe first asks G-d why He would destroy so many lives?

but,  then adds:

למה יאמרו מצרים לאמר, ברעה הוציאם להרוג אתם בהרים ולכלתם מעל פני האדמה 

"Why should Egypt be able to say that You took them out with evil intentions to kill them in the hill country and wipe them from the face of the earth?"

So why didn't Moshe at  the sin of the meraglim come with the same approach as he did by the Eigal, which worked out pretty well for the Jewish people? Why take a chance on an approach that might not work.....?

What was it about the meraglim that Moshe felt that he couldn't bring up a plea from a humanitarian perspective?

Going back to our parsha, the parsha of the spies, you can ask an even a stronger question:

It seems that Hashem responds positively to Moshe's argument 

of "What would the nations say"....?

Because Hashem responds:

סלחתי כדברך

"I have forgiven because of your words"

Rashi explains:

'בשביל מה שאמרת, שיאמרו מבלתי יכולת ה' 

" (I forgive them ) because of your argument ... "that the nations will say that Hashem lacked the ability etc. ?"

What's going on here?

Moshe totally ignores the humanitarian response .. 
"How could you kill millions?"

 instead uses an argument of "What would the nations say" and to our shock ... 
Hashem actually likes this argument and responds favorably?

The Lubavitcher Rebbe in his Sefer "Lekutei Sichos" Volume 23 in Yiddish .... tackles these questions.... and has a whole different and much deeper approach....... if you are shtickel scholar you will love his perspective.

I have a much simpler answer that seems very obvious to anyone who looks carefully at the differences of why Moshe used a  humanitarian  approach at the sin of the Golden Calf ... 
and why Moshe abandoned the humanitarian approach to Hashem on behalf of the Jewish people at the story of the spies...

The sin of the Golden Calf was ... a grave sin ... of course..

It was a sin against G-d... worshipping a creation of G-d, an inanimate object ....rather than worshipping G-d himself .......

Moshe begged Hashem not to destroy the Jewish people ... for two reasons 

One on humanitarian grounds : Why unleash your wrath on the people that you saved?

and Two: What would the Egyptians say?

It seems that when it came to His own Honor ... Hashem relinquished and responded positively ...from a humanitarian perspective as well....

The sin of the meraglim was much worse... much worse...

It was led by  Gedoilei Yisrael..... the spies were hand chosen by Moshe ... he knew them on a personal basis ... ....they were not only spies ... they were leaders of the Jewish people........everyone looked up to them....everyone respected them.... "Daas Torah"
Moshe didn't send the shaven Shul president that was a businessman.... he sent the Rabbi! he sent the Kollel guy!

This sin was not a one time sin.... it was a continues one... 
since it came from the very top, the cream of the crop, it was they that instilled this hate against Eretz Yisrael into the very souls of their flock ...

and this unfortunately remains to this very day .....

See what Hashem says:

עד אנה ינאצוני העם הזה ועד אנה לא יאמינו בי בכל האותות 

אשר עשיתי בקרבו 

"How long shall this nation continue to provoke Me? How long will they continue to not believe in Me? despite all the miracles that I have done among them?

Notice Hashem's choice of  words ...

 עד אנה by the word "provoke" & again עד אנה 
by the word "belief".... 
this "provocation" is continuous .... this "not believing" "in my miracles" is continues ... even today there are gedoilim that say that the miracles that Hashem did for the Jewish people in Israel .. are not miracles...

Because this Loshon Hara from the meraglim unfortunately affected the soul of the Jews ...

and because it affected the soul, it affected their "belief" and it unfortunately continues to affect even leaders of the Jewish people!

Yes,,,,, even Gedoilei Yisrael, even Roshei Yeshiva, even Rebbes...

 that's why Moshe couldn't bring himself to argue a defense of this terrible sin on humanitarian grounds .....

it would not have worked  ... and it didn't, the 600,000 died!

The sin of the "eigal" was a one time sin... it wasn't embedded in the soul of the Jewish people, it wasn't continues ... Hashem didn't say:עד אנה  .... it may have damaged Am Yisroel to a certain degree but it wasn't permanent ... they could move on ... look forward to go to the promised land .....
they could be forgiven on humanitarian grounds...

But the grave sin of hating of Eretz Yisrael penetrated every Jewish soul in the worst possible way because they couldn't "unhear" the Loshon Hara because it came from the lips of those they respected,, those they revered... Gedoilei Yisrael .... 
Moshe believed that this was it ... how could they move on from this? Where would they go? 
they not only rejected the gift that Hashem granted them but came to hate it ...

....now... Moshe couldn't use this as a defense ....

the only defense Moshe could use was ... 
"What would the nations say?" 

Hashem liked that argument ... he liked the fact that Moshe saw 
that the humanitarian argument would open a whole new ball of wax ..... and would never be accepted..
Hashem appreciates a leader that knows when not to push the envelope...

Hashem did forgive the Jewish people but not that generation....that generation, the 600,000 had to die ...they could not be part of the destiny of the future of the Jewish people.......
there was no forgiveness for them .... 
just like there is no forgiveness for anyone that badmouths Eretz Yisrael.. 
Yes you can be a Roshei Yeshiva spreading Torah and the word of Hashem, you can be a Rebbe of thousands, Yes you can be an "askan" and do chesed all the time, yes you can start all kinds of Chesed organizations... 
and that's great, helping a fellow Jew  ...
but if you hate Israel and those who live there and badmouth them ..then you will have no part in its destiny..

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AIPAC turns on Israel

Who knew that Bilam's prediction: "עם לבדד ישכון" the Jewish people "dwell alone," apply to Jewish people also. Now our own brethren in the US have abandoned us ........the very people that we in Israel count on to advocate for us have now stabbed us in the back....

This will not end well for Jews living in the diaspora, if we in Israel cannot count on our own to watch our back.... then the time will come very soon when the USA turns their back on Jewish citizens as well!

Leading pro-Israel lobby privately telling officials it’s okay to condemn planned controversial West Bank move as long as they don’t push to limit US aid to Jewish state

The leading pro-Israel lobby in the United States is telling US lawmakers that they are free to criticize Israel’s looming annexation plans — just as long as the criticism stops there.

Two sources — a congressional aide and a donor — say the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, is delivering that guidance in Zoom meetings and phone calls with lawmakers. The message is unusual because the group assiduously discourages public criticism of Israel.

But these are unusual times: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set a July 1 deadline to annex parts of the West Bank, over the criticism of people abroad who say the move would set back any efforts to bring peace to the region.

With anxiety pervading the US Jewish community ahead of that deadline, AIPAC faces a thorny question: Does it support Israel’s leadership at all costs, or does it draw a line on actions it believes endangers the Jewish state’s future?

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Say Kaddish for America!

by Prof. Phyllis Chesler

It’s the French Revolution and the Russian and Chinese Communist Revolution in America.

Insurrection is the name of the game—and the Gaza-style Intifada, which has dominated campus revolts for a long time has now taken to the streets and has been there for weeks now. 

Today, a group of “militants” has taken over six city blocks in Seattle and issued a long, long list of demands.

I’ve been told that a mob has be-headed the statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston and are demanding that we celebrate an Indigenous People’s Day—and forget about Columbus. In Bristol, England, the statue of an 18th century slave trader has been toppled.

Can be-headings of people be far behind?

This very literal, quite concrete set of actions are attempts to rewrite, deny, and disappear history. 

However, without it, what would the permanently aggrieved have to focus upon?

There’s more. HBO has withdrawn “Gone With the Wind” until it can accompany it with a politically correct discussion about slavery in the South and the NYT is devoting 60% or more of its coverage to Black Folk and Racism daily, every day. (Not entirely a bad thing but it is certainly a driving force for the anarchy and destruction that’s upon us.)

If the Wuhan Virus ends, people can return to their jobs. But do the looters, ANTIFA rioters, and protestors have jobs? Will our lives ever be safe again?

The protestors are telling us that life has never been safe for black people in America. 

The experts are telling us that black on black violence, including homicide, is far more of a factor in black deaths than at police hands. 

We are having a new kind of Civil War, tragically, a Race War too, one that I’d predicted long ago.

I am curious: 

Churches and synagogues have been defaced in the last two weeks in America. Have any mosques been similarly defaced?

A close friend just told me that her husband had lain awake in bed last night saying Kaddish for America.

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