Woman’s heartwarming "hesped" for beloved dog goes viral

 

Who was the best boy?

A heartfelt obituary written by a South Carolina woman about her golden retriever’s adorable “little quirks” fetched tens of thousands of likes when it went viral on Twitter Thursday.

Sallie Gregory Hammett, 30, wrote the tribute to her dog, Charlie, who died this month at age 7 after a battle with lymphoma — describing him as a peanut butter-and-banana-chowing, boyfriend-material-testing, fiercely loyal force of “unconditional love.”

“If we’re being honest, Charlie loved everything life had to offer,” reads the obituary, which has since raked in 100,000 likes. “He was good at a lot of things, but he was best at unconditional love. He taught everyone he met about loving people and always seeing the good in everyone.”

Hammett took Charlie home as an 8-week-old puppy and the two quickly became inseparable.

When she met her now-husband, David, Charlie’s affectionate response to him was an early deciding factor that he was a good guy, and worth dating.

“[David] loved him as much as I did, which I didn’t think was possible,” Hammett told CNN, adding that the couple adored the pup’s eccentricities.

“When you put the peanut butter on the banana, I mean you would think it was just the best day of his life,” she said.

And it cracked them up that he was oddly stubborn about refusing to use stairs.

“We never could figure out why, but he just needed a lot of encouragement to go upstairs,” she said.

When Charlie went to the big doghouse in the sky on Sept. 13, Hammett spent days mourning before considering taking out an ad in a local paper.

Instead, Hammett, who has a background in design, created a mockup newspaper-style obituary and posted it on Twitter, calling him “The best boy.”

After it was reposted by the popular accounts WeRateDogs and Thoughts of Dog, it reached thousands of sympathetic pooch lovers.

“His last days were so happy and will be cherished forever,” Hammett wrote. “In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you give all your pups some extra love in honor of Charlie.”

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President Trump, First Lady test positive for coronavirus

 President Trump announced early Friday that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus.

“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!,” the president tweeted.

The first lady said the two “are feeling good,” in her own tweet addressing the diagnosis.

“Please be sure you are staying safe & we will all get through this together,” she wrote.

A memorandum dated Thursday from the president’s physician said the president and first lady “plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence.”

The memo added: “Rest assured I expect the President to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering,”

Hours before Trump announced his positive COVID-19 results, news broke that one of his top aides, Hope Hicks, was diagnosed with the illness earlier Thursday.

Hicks had traveled aboard Air Force One with the Trumps to Tuesday’s presidential debate in Cleveland. She also accompanied Trump to his Wednesday night rally in Minnesota.

Trump did a Fox News phone interview Thursday night where he acknowledged spending “a lot of time” with Hicks and said he was awaiting the results of his test.

Trump also explained to host Sean Hannity that he and his staff run into issues with social distancing because Americans are often approaching them to express thanks.

“When soldiers and law enforcement comes up to her, you know, she wants to treat them great,” Trump said about Hicks. “Not say, ‘Stay away, I can’t get near you.’ It’s a very, very tough disease.”

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Is ultra-Orthodox ideological disobedience fueling Israel’s soaring virus rate?

 

With Israel currently topping the world record for the rate of new daily cases of COVID-19 infection, some doctors are reaching an uncomfortable conclusion: that the actions of one community are disproportionately responsible for the surge.

“I’m afraid to draw this conclusion,” says Dror Mevorach, after a day on the COVID-19 wards at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center. “I’m not sure people will get it right, and they’ll see anti-Semitism and think I’m chasing the Orthodox, and I don’t want that at all.”

But he says he’s unable to ignore the scene in his wards, with numerous patients hospitalized soon after attending large indoor prayer services over Rosh Hashanah. “I expect, in a few days, to get a similar wave from Yom Kippur,” he commented.

Mevorach, Hadassah’s head of internal medicine, delivered his conclusion reluctantly, and stressed that living conditions, as well as conduct, have played a part in high infection levels of Haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jews. Still, “I do think that, in some sections, irresponsible behavior no doubt encouraged the spread of disease, among themselves and in Israel,” he said.

He spoke to The Times of Israel as the scale of the Jewish state’s coronavirus woes in a global context was becoming clearer than ever, and as Israeli health officials gave the nation hard statistics on just how much more common coronavirus is among Haredim than among other citizens.

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How Taiwan a Country that Borders China Avoided Covid-19

 

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5 patients leave Hadassah coronavirus-free after been hospitalized in serious or critical condition

Five patients recently discharged from Hadassah Medical Center were healthy and coronavirus-free after taking part in the first clinical trial of an innovative treatment developed by the hospital.

Allocetra, the drug used in the clinical trial, was developed with the Enlivex Company based on research conducted by Prof. Dror Mevorach, director of the internal medicine and coronavirus departments at Hadassah. It had already been successfully tested on ten sepsis patients.

All five patients had been hospitalized in serious or critical condition.

"Allocetra is meant to treat a wide range of cases in which there is an overreaction of the immune system, which leads to an increase in the secretion of proteins by cells of the immune system called cytokines and causes a cytokine storm," explained Mevorach. "Its activity is carried out by treating cells taken from a healthy donor and engineering them in the laboratory in a way that, when they are injected into the patient's body, will control the inflammation or storm of cytokines that is very harmful to patients."

The clinical test was carried out with the permission of the Helsinki Committee of the Health Ministry by a team led by Prof. Vernon Van Heerden, the director of Hadassah Medical Center's General Intensive Care Unit.

"We are happy that the patients in severe and critical condition recovered after the Allocetra treatment," Enlivex said.

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In Israel You Will Get a 500 Shekel Fine If You Invite the "Ushpizin"

 The government on Wednesday night approved as a temporary order for seven days the regulation according to which a restriction will apply for participation in a demonstration up to the permitted distance from the house (1,000 meters), similar to any other exit from a place of residence, including for the purpose of prayer or religious ceremony.

In addition, it was determined that there will be no gathering in public spaces, including for a demonstration, prayer or religious ceremony in which the number of participants exceeds the number allowed (20 people), and no distance of two meters is maintained between the participants.

Ministers Assaf Zamir, Izhar Shay and Orit Farkash from Blue and White voted against the party.

In addition, the government approved via a telephone vote a 500 shekel fine for those who stay in a sukkah with a person who does not live with them.

The purpose of the fine is to deter citizens seeking to stay with relatives and friends during the holiday of Sukkot, which begins at sundown on Friday.

Earlier it was reported in Channel 12 News that coronavirus project manager Ronni Gamzu has decided to seek a significant increase in fines for citizens who do not meet the guidelines related to the virus.

According to the proposal, opening businesses, public spaces and places whose opening is prohibited by regulations will result in a fine of 10,000 shekels instead of 5,000 shekels as is in effect today.

At the same time, holding prohibited events with large numbers of participants, including parties, conferences and ceremonies, will result in a fine of 50,000 shekels compared to 5,000 today.

Gamzu also proposes to increase by ten the fine for opening an educational or boarding school that was barred from opening to 50,000 shekels.

The fine for violation of the obligation of personal isolation will, according to the proposal, be 10,000 shekels compared to 5,000 shekels today, and the fine for not wearing a mask will be 1,000 shekels compared to 500 shekels so far.

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Ireland's Highest Court Paskens that the Rolls in Subway Are Not Legally "Bread"

If there are any OTD guys going out to the Subway Restaurants in Ireland , you don't have to wash since the rolls according to the courts aren't legally "bread." But that's only if you are Chassidiish, if you from a litvishe background you may have to wash anyway if you are koviah seudah."

Ireland’s highest court isn’t sweet on tax breaks for footlongs.

The country’s Supreme Court ruled that the starch used in Subway sandwiches is too sugary to meet the definition of “bread” — a legal distinction that would have saved the firm some dough.

In deciding whether to give the fast-food chain a tax break for serving a “staple” food item, the five-judge panel ruled that the bread’s sugar-to-flour content is roughly five times too high to qualify, according to the Irish Independent.

For a company to be taxed zero percent, under the Value-Added Tax Act of 1972, the weight of sugar and fat in a bread product must not be more than 2 percent of the total weight of flour in the dough.

But the dough baked for Subway sandwiches has a sugar content of roughly 10 percent the weight of its flour content, the outlet reported.

In its decision, the court rejected arguments by a Subway franchise owner, Bookfinders in Galway, that the restaurant was not required to meet the standard on to-go items such as heated sandwiches, teas and coffees.

Bookfinders had demanded a refund for past years’ taxes in an appeal of a 2006 case.

While shooting down the legal challenge, Justice Donal O’Donnell said the definition of “bread” was established to distinguish the starch from other baked goods, such as cookies or brownies, that aren’t healthy enough to be considered essential.

All six of the company’s bread options — Italian white bread, Italian herbs and cheese, nine-grain wheat, hearty Italian, nine-grain multi-seed, and honey oat — were deemed too sugary by the court to qualify as bread.

According to nutrition facts posted by the Subway, a 6-inch white bread roll has 5 grams of sugar — similar to that of an Oreo cookie. 

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Mayer Rispler Satmar "Rosh Hakahal" Sick With Covid

As COVID-19 test positivity rates continue to climb in Orthodox communities in New York, a major leader of the Satmar Hasidic sect was put on a ventilator Wednesday morning after becoming critically ill with COVID-19.

Flyers circulated online Wednesday morning calling for prayers for Mayer Rispler, a community leader in the Aronim faction of the Satmar community.

An accountant by trade, Ripsler has long been one of the community’s most important leaders and a major donor to Satmar institutions. He has also served as a spokesperson for the community at times.

In April, after a large funeral prompted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to lash out at the community in a widely criticized tweet, Rispler defended the mayor and called for compliance with government health regulations.

“We do not condone any behavior that puts people at risk and pledge to keep working alongside the brave men and women of the NYPD in addressing and eliminating any such occurrences,” Rispler wrote at the time.

Rispler is not the first major leader in the Satmar community to become gravely ill with COVID-19. Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, head of the Aronim faction, reportedly tested positive for the virus in March.

His name for Tehillim is Meir Zelig ben Esther. 

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Biden Wore a Wire During Debates

 

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Kid whose ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ went viral sings at NY synagogue Yom Kippur service

 

The first time 6-year-old Bibi Shapiro found out just how widely viewed the video of him singing “Avinu Malkeinu” had been, he was sitting on his mother’s lap in Australia being beamed into Yom Kippur services at one of the largest synagogues in the United States.

Like so many others who saw the video over the past several weeks, Angela Buchdahl, the senior rabbi of New York City’s Central Synagogue, was touched by the passion Shapiro brought to his performance. She also noted that Bibi, who is Black, did not conform to stereotypes about what Jews look like, the topic of her Kol Nidre sermon.

So Buchdahl reached out — and began a conversation that ended with Bibi leading her congregation in the iconic High Holiday song.

“Our community just got to hear you sing and I think our hearts are all just opened up,” the rabbi told the Perth boy before his performance. Afterwards, she said, “Connecting with both of you today — it feels like that’s what reminds us that we are a huge Jewish family.”

That was the theme of Buchdahl’s Kol Nidre sermon, in which she argued that Jews should stop thinking of themselves as a race — a historically dangerous, exclusionary concept — and instead as a family.

Buchdahl told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that she had reached out to Bibi and his mother, Nina Shapiro, after reflecting on her own experiences as a Korean-American woman who, despite holding one of the most influential pulpits in American Judaism, still elicits confusion when people learn she is Jewish.

“I was taken with how clearly Bibi’s Jewish neshama [soul] comes through, and how much is at stake for us to make sure he never feels as marginalized and othered as so many Jews of color feel in our community,” Buchdahl told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about her outreach.

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Did These Archeological Finds Just Settle Debate on How Long a "Tefech" is?

Storage jars from Khirbet Qeiyafa 

Storage jars form one of the main ceramic types which were produced and abundantly used ever since pottery was invented.

The need to collect, store, and distribute agricultural products such as grains, oils and wine in large vessels has littered excavation sites with an abundance of ceramic jar fragments of various designs, sizes and shapes.

However, for all of their variety, three Israeli archaeologists Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Ortal Harush, Israel Antiquities Authority’s Avshalom Karasik and Weizmann Institute’s Uzy Smilansky found an astonishing common denominator among storage jars in Israel over a period of 350 years: the inner-rim diameter of the jar’s neck.

The distribution of this diameter is consistent with measurements of the palm of a (male) hand and, according to the authors, this match is not coincidental. It may reflect the use of the original metrics for the biblical measurement of the “tefach,” a unit of measurement that was used primarily by ancient Israelites, appears frequently in the Bible, and is the basis for many Jewish laws. Their findings were published in BASOR, the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

“It was natural for the ancient potters to adopt the handbreadth—tefach--standard. It was a unit of length that was widely used in ancient times, and is mentioned both in Assyrian and Egyptian sources and in the Old Testament, for instance: Numbers 25-25, Numbers 37-12,” the researchers shared.

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After Bolting Coalition, Litzman Begs to rejoin government

 MK and former Construction and Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) is looking to rejoin the government, just weeks after resigning in protest of the nationwide lockdown.

According to a report Walla Wednesday, Litzman has turned to senior Blue and White officials, asking them to help him be brought back in to the government, this time as Deputy Construction and Housing Minister.

This arrangement would allow the UTJ chief to serve as a de facto minister, without officially being a minister in the government – returning to the UTJ’s tradition of maintaining a symbolic distance from the governing coalition by not officially serving as ministers.

Under the plan put forth by Litzman, he would be appointed as Deputy Construction and Housing Minister, using one of Blue and White’s deputy ministerial appointments. All of the right-wing bloc’s deputy ministerial appointments have already been filled, forcing Litzman to turn to Blue and White.

Another member of the coalition would officially serve as Construction and Housing Minister, though Litzman would in effect carry out the duties of the minister.

Blue and White is considering the request, and has yet to issue a response.

Earlier this month, Litzman resigned from the government in protest of the decision to impose a nationwide lockdown during the holiday season.

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Herd Immunity - "won't help" Says Director-General of the Health Ministry Prof. Hezy Levy,

Speaking with representatives of haredi media outlets on Wednesday, the director-general of the Health Ministry, Prof. Hezy Levy, said that the haredi sector accounts for just over one third of all coronavirus infections in Israel.

Levy said that the number of coronavirus patients in the haredi sector had increased significantly in recent weeks, as has the number of coronavirus-related fatalities.

Along with accounting for 34% of all coronavirus infections in Israel, Levy continued, roughly one out of every three haredim who is tested for the virus is found to be carrying it, a far higher rate than in the general population.

“That’s twice as high as in the general population, and add to that the fact that there are many tests being conducted in the haredi community.”

The director-general also dismissed the possibility of attaining herd immunity, whereby a large enough portion of the population becomes infected and develops immunity so as to effectively block large outbreaks.

"We're not interested in gaining herd immunity," Levy said, "not in the haredi community, and not in the rest of the population either. We haven't seen that it achieved anything significant in countries where it was attained. It doesn't decrease the fatality rate.

"This is why I am so distressed at the tishes [chassidic gatherings] I see," he added, "with people behaving as if there was no such thing as coronavirus. This is not the right way - it is irresponsible and lacking all concern for others. Who are you endangering? You are endangering your own families, your own grandparents."

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Iranian chess referee who ditched her country over hijab reveals Jewish roots

 

A world-class Iranian chess referee who made headlines after announcing she would not return home following an international championship as she no longer wanted to keep her hair covered with a hijab, has revealed that she has Jewish roots.

Shoreh Bayat, 33, told the Telegraph newspaper that she kept her heritage hidden all her life while in Iran, but this year, as she waits for asylum in Britain, was able to celebrate her first Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year.

“All my life was about showing a fake image of myself to society because they wanted me to be an image of a religious Muslim woman, which I wasn’t,” she told the paper from her temporary home outside London at the family of a chess player friend.

Bayat, one of the top chess referees in the world, was born in northern Iran and said it was her father who encouraged her to take up chess at the age of nine. By age 12 she was a national champion in Iran, where chess is a state-sponsored sport. She went on to became general-secretary of the Iran Chess Federation, as well as becoming Asia’s first top-level chess arbiter.

But there was part of her family’s history that she kept hidden from Iranian authorities. Her paternal grandmother, Mary, was Jewish, arriving in Iran from Baku in Azerbaijan during World War II.

“If they knew that I had a Jewish background, I would never ever be general-secretary of the Iranian Chess Federation,” she said and recalled that she had heard anti-Semitic remarks from chess officials.

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Travelers Back From Uman Board Planes to Tel Aviv Despite Having COVID-19

Confirmed coronavirus carries have been identified on 17 different flights to Tel Aviv from Ukraine and Belarus, senior Health Ministry officials told Channel 12 Tuesday.

An annual pilgrimage over the Rosh Hashanah holiday in Uman, Ukraine, which usually draws tens of thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims, was curtailed this year due to the pandemic. Despite Health Ministry warnings, however, thousands of Israelis flocked to Ukraine to the pilgrimage site of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, before Kyiv closed its borders in September to avoid an outbreak.

Thousands of others then traveled to neighboring Belarus in an attempt to cross the border to Ukraine, but were blocked by local authorities.

Many of the pilgrims have since returned to Israel — some of them with COVID-19.

Some returning pilgrims boarded planes to Tel Aviv while displaying symptoms of the disease, health officials told the network.

Others refused to cooperate with contact tracing or get tested for the coronavirus, the officials added.

“It’s one failure after the next,” an unnamed official said. “They aren’t willing to get tested, are unwilling to cooperate and aren’t declaring that they’ve entered quarantine. It will simply hurt us all.”

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CIA Says that Hillary Clinton Conjured Trump-Russia scandal

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday released a bombshell allegation that Hillary Clinton ordered “a campaign plan to stir up a scandal” by linking President Trump to Russia in 2016 — and that then-President Barack Obama knew about the possibility.

Ratcliffe disclosed the information in a letter published by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just hours before Trump debates Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.

Clinton’s alleged July 2016 plot would tar Trump by “tying him to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee,” Ratcliffe wrote Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Handwritten notes by then-CIA Director John Brennan, who now is a fiery anti-Trump commentator, say that Brennan briefed Obama on “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”

The FBI opened its investigation of possible Trump-Russia collusion on July 31, 2016 — five days after Clinton allegedly hatched the plan — premised on Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos allegedly telling an Australian diplomat that Russia had damaging information on Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee..

It’s unclear when Obama was briefed or if Biden also was informed.

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Biden's Token Jew ... Aaron Keyak Agrees that Trump is "Hitler's Hero"

 

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Bliden Tells the President of the USA ‘Shut up, man!’

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday told President Trump to “shut up, man!” while refusing to say if he wants to add justices to the Supreme Court during the first presidential debate.

Biden declined to tell debate moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News whether he would support adding justices to the court if Trump’s conservative pick Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to replace liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

“Whatever position I take on that, that’ll become the issue. The issue is the American people should speak. You should go out and vote. You’re in voting, now vote and let your senators know how strongly you feel. But vote now,” Biden said.

Trump interjected: “Are you going to pack the court? Are you going to pack the court? He doesn’t want to answer.”

“I’m not going to answer the question, because the question is, the question is, the question is —” Biden said, as Trump continued to press him to answer.

“Will you shut up, man?” the former vice president said.

Trump persisted: “Who is on your list, Joe? Who is on your list? He’s going to pack the court.”

After telling the president to shut up, Biden scoffed, “This is so unpresidential.”

“Keep yapping man!” Biden said in a departing shot.

“The people understand, Joe. In 47 years, you’ve done nothing. They understand,” Trump said. 

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Young Lady sings "Kwartin's" Ve'Tiher Reb Yishmoel Atzmoi

 Kol Isha Alert!

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A post shared by Flatbush Girl (@flatbushgirl) on Sep 27, 2020 at 8:43am PDT

So below is the composer of the tune ..... 

So who did it better?

AOC Slaps Liberal Jews in the Face With Her Decision to Withdraw From Rabin Memorial

 

Yitzhak Rabin was famous for saying that people make peace with their enemies – not with their friends.

Israelis were reminded of this maxim on Saturday by Rabin’s granddaughter, Noa Rothman, who tweeted her grandfather’s saying in response to a decision by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the popular, progressive New York congresswoman, to withdraw from an event in memory of the late prime minister.

The October 20th event was being organized by Americans for Peace Now in memory of Rabin who was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist for his efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians.

Ocasio-Cortez – or AOC as she is known – had initially confirmed her participation alongside Rothman and “Homeland” actor Mandy Patinkin.

But she then came under fire from a number of pro-Palestinian groups which described Rabin, a career IDF officer before entering politics, as a war criminal, for reportedly expelling Arabs from their homes in the War of Independence in 1948, and for calling for brutal measures to repress the First Intifada, a violent Palestinian uprising in the late 1980s.

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