Harvard professor says an alien visited in 2017 — and more are coming

 

Professor Avi Loeb and a rendering of 'Oumuamua.

Is there a Chabad House out there? 

When the first sign of intelligent life first visits us from space, it won’t be a giant saucer hovering over New York. More likely, it will be an alien civilization’s trash. 

Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy, believes he’s already found some of that garbage. 

In his upcoming book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), out Jan. 26, the professor lays out a compelling case for why an object that recently wandered into our solar system was not just another rock but actually a piece of alien technology. 

The object in question traveled toward our solar system from the direction of Vega, a nearby star 25 light-years away, and intercepted our solar system’s orbital plane on Sept. 6, 2017. 

On Sept. 9, its trajectory brought it closest to the sun. At the end of September, it blasted at about 58,900 miles per hour past Venus’ orbital distance, and then, on Oct. 7, it shot past Earth’s before “moving swiftly toward the constellation Pegasus and the blackness beyond,” Loeb writes in the book. 

The object was first spotted by an observatory in Hawaii containing the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) — the highest definition telescope on earth. 

The space object was dubbed ‘Oumuamua (pronounced “oh moo ah moo ah”), which is Hawaiian for — roughly — “scout.” 

As space travelers go, it was relatively small at just about 100 yards long, but it was a big deal in the scientific community. 

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With apologies to Mark Twain, reports about the death of Trumpism are premature. At least for a few days more, Donald Trump has license to keep upsetting apple carts in Washington.

Just when it seemed the president was roadkill and about to be abandoned by his own party, growing numbers of GOP members of Congress are signing on to a last-ditch effort to challenge the election results. Because success in any state would require a majority of both houses to vote no, the objectors are virtually certain to fail. 

Yet the swelling ranks of supporters in both chambers signals that it’s still Trump’s party and that enough of his 74.2 million voters are sticking with him that the pols have concluded it’s not politically healthy to go against him. 

Most important, the challengers have more than enough clout to force debates on each state they dispute, and to require every member of Congress to vote yes or no on whether to accept the results as reported.

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US Official: ‘Growing body of evidence’ shows COVID-19 leaked from Chinese lab

 

U.S. National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger is doubling down on the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese government-run lab in Wuhan. 

Pottinger, a staunch critic of Beijing, allegedly made the claim in a recent Zoom meeting with British officials.

“There is a growing body of evidence that the lab is likely the most credible source of the virus,” Pottinger reportedly said, according to the Daily Mail. 

The Trump appointee pushed the theory as the European Union made a new investment deal with China last week over protests from Pottinger and hesitance from the incoming Biden administration.

Pottinger, one of the first U.S. officials to raise alarms inside White House walls about the origins of the virus back in January 2020, has reportedly suspected since the early days of the outbreak that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.

He ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to search for evidence that it had, the New York Times reported in April. 

A Chinese virologist who said she did some of the earliest research on COVID-19 has publicly claimed COVID-19 was man-made, and that the Chinese government covered up its dangers. Western medical experts have discredited the theory.

The World Health Organization has been investigating the source of the virus since the first case was made public in January 2020. Patient Zero has not been found. 

Pottinger suggested in the recent call with British officials that the WHO probe is a ruse.

“MPs around the world have a moral role to play in exposing the WHO investigation as a Potemkin exercise,” Pottinger told the parliamentarians, referring to fake villages created in Crimea in the 18th Century to convince the visiting Russian Empress Catherine the Great that the region was in good health.

“Even establishment figures in Beijing have openly dismissed the wet market story,” Pottinger allegedly said, referring to another theory that the virus was transmitted from animals to humans inside a wildlife market in Wuhan where the first cluster of cases emerged.

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Media Is Burying the Fact that Hospitals in CALI Are Overwhelmed by non-citizens

Read this and weep ... they are not telling you that 90% of the patients are illegals ... 

I am not suggesting they shouldn't be treated ... of course they should ... but wait till Biden brings in millions more ..all our hospitals near the Mexican boarders will be totally overwhelmed ..

CNN: 

Overflowing hospital morgues, increased 911 wait times, beds only opening when patients die. Hospitals in California, where almost all of the state’s 40 million residents are living under stay-at-home orders, are seeing historic stress points.The surge of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations is pushing hospitals in Los Angeles County to the “brink of catastrophe,” a top health official there said.To the north in Santa Clara, one doctor said: “What we are seeing now, is not normal.”Every day since November 7, Covid-19 hospitalizations in California have increased.

As of Thursday, 21,449 Covid-19 patients were in hospital beds throughout the state, with more than 4,500 of those in intensive care units.

“We are in the midst of a disaster,” Los Angeles County Director of Emergency Medical Services Agency Cathy Chidester said, talking about the challenges faced by hospitals due to the lack of resources and staffing. The amount of oxygen required for each coronavirus patient is putting extreme pressure on the hospital, according to Chidester. 

They also are running out of ambulances while response times to 911 calls are getting longer and longer, she said.Los Angeles County shattered its record of the highest number of coronavirus deaths reported on a single day since the start of the pandemic with 290 deaths Thursday, according to data from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. 

The high number of deaths includes a backlog of cases from the holidays as well as an internet service interruption. “As we see 2020 come to a close, we’re experiencing extreme conditions in L.A. County,” Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said at a news conference.

“With no decline in the number of new cases, our hospitals continue to be overwhelmed as more and more people are rushed to hospitals.”The medical examiner’s office, which is accepting overflow from hospitals that don’t have any more room in their morgues, is also expected to receive help from the California National Guard on Monday.

While no hospitals in the L.A. County have formally declared they are operating under “crisis care,” health officials have said that some Southern California hospitals have put in place practices that would be a part of crisis care, including redirecting ambulances when facilities are overwhelmed. Ferrer warned that the data trends will continue into January and hundreds of people will die each week. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said people need to stay home to help blunt surges from the holidays.”We are still going to have our toughest and darkest days,” Garcetti said. “It’s so critical we change our behavior. Everybody’s doing something but everybody can do more.”

Problems throughout the state

Doctors in Santa Clara, 45 miles south from San Francisco, are treating some critically ill patients in the emergency room, as there’s no room in intensive care units.

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Israel Questioning If R' Chaim Kanievski Is Really Making Halachic Decisions

 

As we all know R' Chaim Kanievski paskened that everyone should take the Vaccine against covid.....

Well guess what?

A guy went to ask R' Chaim Kanievski whether he should vaccinate, telling the Rav that his wife is afraid to have the family take the vaccine...the Rav tells him not to take it 

He secretly recorded the entire conversation ... 

and you can clearly hear his question and R' Chaim answer  that he SHOULD NOT VACCINATE.... ...

As soon as Yanki Kanievski heard the conversation he ordered the guy into a separate room and wouldn't allow him to get out unless he erased the recording ...,,, he refused and so they tried convincing him that R' Chaim only paskened that the guy's wife shouldn't vaccinate but that the psak was not for the world...

The guy had to call police to get him out of there... and he then promptly told anyone who wanted to hear, that the psak of R' Chaim Kanievski was for everyone ...

Now the "litvishe" world is having conniptions because they are questioning all the recent halachic decisions of R' Chaim, that was publicised by the family and not heard directly from R' Chaim ..

They are convinced that all recent "halachic decisions" are decisions made by Yanki and his father.. and not by R' Chaim ...

The Kanievski family in a panic released a video where you hear R' Chaim say one should vaccinate but the very end of the video was erased

.....So which is it?

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Bobover Rebbe ..R' Shlomo with R' Moshe Feinstein

 

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Gérer Civil War In Full Battle ... The Home of The Late Gerer Rebbe The Pnei-Menachim Vandalised

 

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Israel Vaccinates Over 1 million People in Sprint to Vanquish Pandemic

Israel has vaccinated 1 million people against COVID-19, more than a tenth of its population, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday, as the country’s inoculation drive cemented its status as the world’s most rapid thus far.

Netanyahu was on hand to mark what he said was the millionth Israeli to receive a vaccine, in the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.

Netanyahu called it a moment of “great excitement.”

“We are breaking all of the records. We brought millions of vaccines to the State of Israel,” he said. We are ahead of the entire world… with our excellent HMOs.”

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AG Letitia James Recuses Herself from the Heimishe ParCare COVID-19 Vaccine Fraud Probe

 

Letitia James and Gary Schlesinger

State Attorney General Letitia James has recused herself from the ParCare vaccination probe “to avoid even an appearance of conflict,” her office told The Post.

The AG’s office will still investigate whether ParCare Community Health Network “fraudulently” obtained 2,300 doses of the coveted Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, a case referred by Gov. Cuomo,  but James will have “zero involvement,” officials said.

James is chummy with the boss of the embattled network, which runs four Brooklyn clinics, one in upstate Kiryas Joel and another in Harlem.

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Virus Brings Soldiers and Charedim Closer Together

The relationship between the secular and the ultra-Orthodox sector in Israel has always been strained. But thanks to the coronavirus, the two parties are starting to be exposed to each more, and therefore understand each other better.

Israel instituted its first lockdown in March. Soldiers were stationed all over the country to enforce the Health Ministry guidelines.

"As soon as the IDF soldiers came to Bnei Brak, the dynamics of the relationship between them and the Haredim changed," explains Ben Barber, a public activist and member of the Bobov Hassidic dynasty.

"The Haredi community has come to understand the coronavirus better, and the soldiers were exposed to the religious community and learned how much they support each other.

"Because the two parties interacted directly, and not through the media, each one changed the way they thought about the other."

Barber aims to ease the ever-present tension between the ultra-Orthodox and secular population in order to create a better communication with the government.

"When two sides do not understand each other, it is only natural that there will be tension between them. We need to remember that we are all brothers and each one has its own unique way. I believe that in the long run, this idea will seep into the depths of our consciousness. There is a great opportunity right in front of us."

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Dem Hypocrites Call Hawley’s Election Concerns ‘Coup Attempt’ After Objecting To Every GOP Certification This Century

 

Democrats are condemning Republican Sen. Josh Hawley for objecting to certifying the 2020 election results, even though they are guilty of doing the same thing for purely political reasons.

On Wednesday, Hawley announced he will object during the Electoral College certification process on Jan. 6, unless an election integrity and voter fraud investigation is called.

“I cannot vote to certify the electoral college results on January 6 without raising the fact that some states, particularly Pennsylvania, failed to follow their own state election laws,” Hawley said, noting that some Democrats objected to the elections in 2004 and 2016.

“And I cannot vote to certify without pointing out the unprecedented effort of mega corporations, including Facebook and Twitter, to interfere in this election, in support of Joe Biden,” he added. “At the very least, Congress should investigate allegations of voter fraud and adopt measures to secure the integrity of our elections. But Congress has so far failed to act.”

Hawley’s announcement was met with harsh backlash from politicians, journalists, and others on the left.

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Kwanzaa Is A Fake Holiday Invented By A Criminal Marxist

 Kwanzaa has nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with California in the 1960s.

Spanning from Dec. 26 to the first of January is Kwanzaa, the invented African American holiday celebrated solely by white liberals and clueless public school teachers. Overblown by leftist claiming the holiday has immense cultural significance, a survey by the National Retail Foundation discovered only 1.6 percent of Americans celebrate Kwanzaa.

The “holiday” was created in 1966 by Ron Karenga, who renamed himself Maulana. Karenga, the founder of the United Slaves, a violent rival organization to the Black Panthers, created the holiday for black Americans and derived the name “Kwanzaa” from the Swahili phrase “matunda y kwanza,” meaning “first fruits of the harvest.” That’s about the extent of the deep African roots the official Kwanzaa websiteclaims.

The history of the holiday and Karenga has been seamlessly suppressed by leftists who find the facts inconvenient. Since few know its origins, the current definitions of the celebration are usually nonsensical and made up, much like the holiday itself.

The Guardian asserts Kwanzaa is simply an “opportunity [for black people] to celebrate themselves and their history rather than indulge in the customary traditions of a white Christmas.” The Los Angeles Times says it is “a way to honor African heritage and bring Black families and communities together.”

FrontPage Magazine’s Paul Mulshine writes that “the history of the founder of Kwanzaa has disappeared into an Orwellian time warp.” Indeed, CNN informs readers that Kwanzaa’s violent, racist founder was “a black nationalist and professor of Pan-African studies at California State University at Long Beach,” omitting his criminal and misogynistic past.

Kwanzaa, the “African feast,” really has “nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with California in the 1960s,” writes Mulshine. He contends it was made up to divide Americans, not unite them.

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NBC Spreads Pro-Wuhan Anti-America Propaganda To Swipe At Trump

One year since coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, Americans living there look home.

"I would be very afraid if I were living in the States." https://t.co/4P0q2s2B6r

— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 30, 2020

 NBC News celebrated China’s triumphant successes Wednesday in apparently controlling the novel Wuhan coronavirus, relying on Chinese figures to tell the story while griping over the American response.

The piece that reads as explicit Chinese propaganda begins by featuring the fears of a Louisiana native living in Wuhan, the city of the first outbreak that gave the Wuhan virus its name, who told NBC’s two overseas-based reporters that living in the United States appears to be more terrifying than living in the dystopian-like Hubei province. Wuhan, said Benjamin Wilson, is “one of the safest places in the world.”

The report outlines China’s response, praising its numbers released by the Chinese Communist Party while taking every opportunity to admonish President Donald Trump in what’s become routine for corporate media.

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Biden Estimated 250,000 COVID Deaths This Month. He Was Off By 178,000

 President-elect Joe Biden spiked coronavirus hysteria early this month, warning Americans the nation would suffer 250,000 additional deaths from the novel Wuhan coronavirus by the end of the year.

“Christmas is going to be a lot harder,” Biden said during a small business roundtable on Dec. 2, a week after Thanksgiving. “I don’t want to scare anybody here, but understand the facts — we’re likely to lose another 250,000 people dead between now and January. You hear me?”

At that point, The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project reported nearly 262,000 Americans had succumbed to the virus, making Biden’s prediction a near doubling of the nation’s nine-month death toll within a 30-day period. According to the latest data from the COVID Tracking Project, however, the U.S. death toll stands at nearly 334,000, meaning Biden was off by about 178,000 with 72,000 deaths in December.

The nation now leads into the new year with two FDA-approved vaccines in distribution to front-line health care workers and senior individuals at the highest risk of complications from the novel coronavirus. While vaccines are being distributed, however, the pandemic continues. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released figures Thursday showing the United States hit a new record of deaths, with 3,764 deaths on Wednesday.

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Watch CNN's JakeTapper after the October debate falsely accusing President Trump of lying about the vaccine coming in a few weeks

 

Hey @jaketapper is this why they call you #FakeJake? https://t.co/tknkorWFyH

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) December 31, 2020

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Woman Arrested for Sharing Video of ‘Empty’ Hospital in England

 

Police in England have arrested a woman in connection with a video of an allegedly “empty” hospital in Gloucestershire that was posted on social media.

Gloucestershire Constabulary police officers arrested the woman on Tuesday, on suspicion of a supposed “public order offence“.

The 46-year-old woman has been bailed until January on the condition that she does not enter any NHS facility except for a health emergency or appointment, according to the local news outlet Gloucestershire  Live.

In the video posted on social media, the woman is heard saying: “Where’s the second wave? Where’re all the people dying from the second wave?” as she wanders through the largely deserted corridors of the hospital.

“We’ve just been locked down in Gloucestershire into Tier 3, for this? For an empty hospital, look at it, this is a disgrace,” the unnamed woman went on.

“To be honest I didn’t expect it to be this quiet,” the woman said, adding: “I expected a few more people to be around.”

“This is a disgrace. It is so dead. All the people in our country desperately waiting for treatment, cancer treatment heart disease, honestly this is making me so angry,” she concluded.

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Zera Shimshon Parshat Vayechi

 

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NYC Mayoral Hopeful Yang Backtracks on His Anti-Bris Stance

 

Ok now we have another fake phoney and fraud that the Heimishe Oilim will probably endorse and who will kick them where the sun don't shine ....I can just see it now ..Ezra "capo" Friedlander  shlepping him to the anti-Zionists Munkatcher and Satmar rebbes for a Bracha...... 

"Ying" Yang was absolutely against circumcision ... we are not talking about "Meziza Be'Peh" we are talking about a bris..so now that he is running ..he backtracks and says "I attended many Bris'im" 

Ex-2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a likely entrant in the race to succeed New York Mayor Bill de Blasio next year, responded on Twitter on Thursday to questions about past comments opposing circumcision.

“I have attended multiple friends’ brises and felt privileged to do so,” Yang tweeted. “I believe in religious freedom. This is every parent’s personal decision and not a role of government.”

Yang, who filed paperwork last week to run in the upcoming mayoral contest, the Democratic primary for which will be held in June with the general election following in November, was responding to Ben Max, executive editor at the Gotham Gazette. 

Earlier, Max had tweeted, “Just learned that @AndrewYang is against circumcision, which may not be helpful in a Democratic primary in New York City.”

Max also linked to a 2019 Daily Beast article, in which Yang spoke out against the practice. 

“I’m highly aligned with the intactivists,” Yang told the outlet, referring to anti-circumcision activists. “History will prove them even more correct.”

He added that, if elected president, he would “inform parents that it is entirely up to them whether their infant gets circumcised, and that there are costs and benefits either way.”

The back-and-forth is not the first time circumcision has entered the world of New York mayoral politics. In 2015, Mayor de Blasio eased regulations over the controversial practice of metzitzah b’peh used in some ritual circumcisions. 

The former limitations, introduced by de Blasio’s predecessor Michael Bloomberg, had required parents to sign a consent form before the ritual.

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The Rebbe That Leaves NO Sherayim

 

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Women from lost tribe of Menashe to make Aliyah from India

 

וקבצינו יחד מארבע כנפות הארץ 

This Sunday, January 3, four women and one girl from the Bnei Menashe community of northeastern India will make Aliyah to Israel.

Their Aliyah is the result of a government decision that was promoted by the Minister of Aliyah and Integration, MK Pnina Tameno-Shete, with the support of the Minister of the Interior, MK Aryeh Machluf Deri, and the Foreign Minister, MK Gabi Ashkenazi in cooperation with the Shavei Israel organization. 

The arrival of sisters Rut (28), Dina (21), and Avigail Lhanghal (13) from Manipur, along with Malka Zote (37), and Tiferet Renthlei (33) from Mizoram, follows that of the 252 Bnei Menashe who already made Aliyah to Israel two weeks ago.

After undergoing bureaucratic processing at Ben-Gurion Airport, the immigrants will be sent to temporary quarantine according to Ministry of Health restrictions. Subsequently, they will join the other recent Bnei Menashe immigrants who are being housed at Shavei Israel’s absorption center in Nordia, near Netanya, before settling in the city of Nof HaGalil.

“We are happy to start 2021 with the Aliyah of five more Bnei Menashe to the land of their ancestors, the Land of Israel, where they will join their family members who already live here,” said Shavei Israel Chairman and Founder, Michael Freund. “We are confident that 2021 will prove to be a significant year for the continued Aliyah of the Bnei Menashe, as we are planning to bring more than 500 new immigrants from the community to Israel, which is double the number we were able to bring in 2020.”

The Bnei Menashe, or 'Children of Manasseh', claim descent from one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, who were sent into exile by the Assyrian Empire more than 27 centuries ago.

Their ancestors wandered through Central Asia and the Far East for centuries, before settling in what is now northeastern India, along the borders of Burma and Bangladesh. Throughout their sojourn in exile, the Bnei Menashe continued to practice Judaism just as their ancestors did, including observing the Sabbath, keeping kosher, celebrating the festivals and following the laws of family purity. They continued to nourish the dream of one day returning to the land of their ancestors, the Land of Israel.

Thus far, Shavei Israel has made the dream of Aliyah, immigration to Israel, possible for over 4,000 Bnei Menashe and plans to help bring more members of the community to Israel. Currently, there are 6,500 Bnei Menashe awaiting their return to the Jewish homeland.

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"demented" Biden to sign executive order blocking Trump’s ‘midnight regulations’

 

Fake President-Elect Joe Biden will sign an executive order when he enters office Jan. 20 blocking any “midnight regulations” from President Trump that haven’t gone into effect by Inauguration Day, his incoming White House spokeswoman said.

“We’re announcing today that, like other incoming administrations have done before, the Biden-Harris White House will issue a memo to take effect on the afternoon Eastern Time on January 20 that will halt or delay midnight regulations, actions taken by the Trump administration that will not have taken effect by Inauguration Day,” Jen Psaki said Wednesday.  

“Midnight regulations” pertain to federal government regulations that the outgoing administration creates in the lame-duck period between the election and the inauguration.

As an example, Psaki cited an expected Department of Labor rule that would allow businesses “to misclassify” their workers as independent contractors to avoid minimum wage and overtime protections.

The Biden memo would freeze the rule and halt it from being implemented.

The president-elect has vowed to sign a number of executive orders after his inauguration, including to rejoin the Paris climate accords that Trump withdrew the US from in June 2017 and the World Health Organization.

Psaki also said Biden will make more cabinet appointments next week.

He has yet to announce his selections for attorney general, commerce secretary and labor secretary.

“He is very thoughtful about how he makes the decisions of who he’s going to nominate for the cabinet and any real personnel decisions and we believe he deserves the time and space to make those decisions,” Psaki said when asked about the timing of the announcements.

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Animal accused of vandalizing four NYC synagogues Arrested and charged with hate crime

 

A Brooklyn animal was charged with a hate crime Thursday for allegedly desecrating four synagogues last week, police said. 

Emil Benjamin, 39, is accused of vandalizing the four houses of worship in Midwood with graffiti last Saturday, authorities said. 

The targeted synagogues were Kahal Darkei Noam on Avenue J, Young Israel Senior Services of Midwood on Ocean Avenue, Khal Toras Chaim D’Flatbush on Avenue L and Knesses Bais Avigdor on Avenue J, police said. 

At the last location, Benjamin allegedly broke into the synagogue, graffitied the inside, broke two cabinets and swiped $20, police said.

Cops said the graffiti at all the synagogues included derogatory phrases, but didn’t elaborate.

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Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin announces death of 25-year-old son

 

Thomas Bloom Raskin

The 25-year-old son of U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has died, the congressman’s office said on Thursday.

Thomas Bloom Raskin, a second-year student at Harvard Law School, was remembered as “pure magic” in a statement from his parents. 

“His brilliance and compassion knew no bounds,” the lawmaker and his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, said of their son.

“He passionately loved his family, friends, and animals, and was devoted to the cause of the global poor. We are devastated and demolished to be without him.”

The statement did not provide a cause or manner of death.

Raskin’s office said the congressman and his family are “grateful for the outpouring of support and love from neighbors, constituents, and friends” but asked everyone to “observe strict COVID-19 protocols during this time of grief.”

In addition to his parents, Thomas is survived by his sisters, Hannah and Tabitha, grandparents, Arlene Bloom and Lynn Raskin, and dozens of aunts, uncles, cousins and friends, the statement said.

Tributes to the young man and condolences for the family poured in on Thursday night.

“My heart completely shatters for my dear friend @RepRaskin, Sarah, and their family in this devastating loss,” New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

“Tommy was an incredible and brilliant beam of light. All our thoughts are with the Raskin family, and we pray for support to envelop them in this unimaginable time.”

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wrote that, “The First Lady and I extend our deepest sympathies over this heartbreaking loss.” 

“I ask all Marylanders to keep the Raskin family in your prayers.”

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