A congressional candidate endorsed by former President Trump won the Republican primary for a vacant house seat in Ohio Tuesday.
The candidate, Mike Carey, said his win was evidence of the ex-president’s dominant sway over the GOP, days after Trump-backed candidate Susan Wright lost a run-off congressional race in Texas.
Carey won 36 percent of the vote in the district south of Columbus, more than twice as much as his nearest opponent.
“Great Republican win for Mike Carey,” Trump wrote in a statement issued Tuesday night.
“Big numbers! Thank you to Ohio and all of our wonderful American patriots. Congratulations to Mike and his family. He will never let you down!”
Carey played up Trump’s support during the campaign, touting his endorsement and “America first” policies on his website.
The former coal lobbyist was the beneficiary of a eleventh hour Trump tele-rally on his behalf, and an infusion of $350,000 on digital campaign ads from a pro-Trump PAC, as the former president sought to avoid a second straight loss from a candidate he backed, according to Politico.
Carey and 10 other GOP candidates were vying to replace Rep. Steve Stivers, who stepped down in May to head the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, the outlet said.
Carey is reportedly favored to win the seat in the conservative district this November.
Far-left Democrats were dealt a big blow Tuesday as former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, a co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, was defeated by Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Shontel Brown in a much-anticipated special US House primary election.
With 96.5 percent of precincts reporting, Brown led Turner by 4,380 votes out of more than 71,000 votes cast. Turner conceded the race soon after 10 p.m. local time, telling supports: “On this night, we will not cross the river.”
The contest in Ohio’s 11th District, a deep-blue constituency that includes most of Cleveland, parts of Akron and several majority-black precincts in between the two cities, was widely seen as a referendum on the future direction of the Democratic Party.
Brown received crucial backing from a pair of Democratic pro-Israel organizations: the Pro-Israel America PAC and the Democratic Majority for Israel PAC, the latter of which plowed nearly $2 million into the race.
“I am going to work hard to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen to another progressive candidate again,” Turner vowed in her concession speech. “We didn’t lose this race, evil money manipulated and maligned this election.”
By contrast, Brown thanked “my Jewish brothers and sisters” for their support in her victory remarks
Endorsements poured in accordingly, with Hillary Clinton, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), the political arm of the Congressional Black Caucus, and major unions backing Brown. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow members of the progressive “Squad” swung behind Turner, while Sanders headlined a get-out-the-vote rally in Cleveland for his onetime surrogate over the weekend.
“I need her alongside me in Congress in the fight for racial, economic, social, and environmental justice,” said Ocasio-Cortez when she endorsed Turner in March.
“I want to roll up my sleeves and get to work to make sure we are delivering results for the people, relief for the people who need it the most,” Brown said. “We are celebrating today. I’m grateful for all the love and support, but I want to get up and do what I’ve always done and that’s work, work, work.”
Brown is heavily favored to defeat Republican primary winner Laverne Gore, a business owner, consultant, trainer and community activist, in the November general election. Barring a shocking upset, Brown would then succeed Marcia Fudge, who resigned from the House in March to become Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
HaRav Osher (Oscar) Lemel Ehrenreich ZT”L, the Dean of Bais Yaakov of Boro Park for more than sixty years who was in hs nineties, passed away in Maimonides Hospital today.
Bais Yaakov of Boro Park has for decades been looked at by countless people as the flagship school for Chinuch Habanos, thanks to the incredible Mesiras Nefesh and dedication by Rav Ehrenreich.
Rav Ehrenreich was an incomparable master Mechanech, known as “the principal of all principals”, to whom Menahalim always looked for advice and help. There are thousands upon thousands of girls whos Chinuch he was responsible for over the decades.
The Levaya will be on Wednesday morning at 11:30AM at Bais Yaakov of Boro Park, 1371 46th Street.
The media coverage of the Ben & Jerry’s controversy has described it as the company’s decision not to sell ice-cream in “the West Bank” or in “Israeli settlements.”
There’s just one problem: Ben & Jerry’s has never used those terms.
Look closely at the official Ben & Jerry’s announcement that ignited the controversy. Notice that the only geographic terms it uses is “Occupied Palestinian Territory.” Same for the July 27 tweet by Ben & Jerry’s board chair Anuradha Mittal.
And look at the op-ed in The New York Times by the founders of Ben & Jerry’s—Bennett Cohen and Jerry Greenfield—on July 28. They wrote that the company will “end business in the occupied territories,” and they referred to “the territories Israel occupies.” The words “settlements” and “West Bank” did not appear anywhere in the op-ed, just as they did not appear in the company’s announcement.
That’s not by accident. Announcements and op-eds of this significance are not just dashed off without a thought. The company made a major business decision with millions of dollars at stake. Such statements are crafted by teams of writers and advisers. Every word is carefully chosen. They go through draft after draft before getting final approval.
There’s a reason that Ben & Jerry’s, and its founders, have chosen to refrain from defining where that “Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
The reason is Jerusalem.
According to the Palestinian Arabs, as well as the various U.N. resolutions supporting them, “East Jerusalem” is part of the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.” Read their statements. Read their resolutions. That’s what they say. That’s what they believe.
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) made up of 1,500 Rabbis took renewed aim at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, after the ADL announced a partnership with Hillel International, the Jewish college organization, to document anti-Semitism on American campuses.
While such an effort is noble and worthwhile, the ADL, CJV pointed out, demonstrated that it lacks the moral clarity to properly identify anti-Semitism, let alone combat it.
An ADL spokesperson, describing the new initiative, wrongly claimed that, “Anti-Israel activism in and of itself is not anti-Semitism,” and that they would need to “carefully evaluate” student government resolutions supporting BDS, the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement that seeks to destroy the State of Israel.
Only someone with no sense of Jewish history could claim that BDS is not anti-Semitic,” said CJV Southern Regional Vice President Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes. “The first Nazi edict was a boycott of Jewish businesses; economic warfare directed against the Jewish people was then and has always been one of the first signs of systemic Jew-hatred. Combating anti-Semitism in all its forms defined the ADL’s mission throughout its long and storied history, and it is crucial that it return to its core goals.”
For millennia, anti-Semitism has been driven by fabricated conspiracy theories regarding Jewish supremacists acquiring wealth by means of thievery and fraud. In the modern era, the same fictional beliefs are applied to the State of Israel. BDS arose from and is perpetuated by the same concocted claims expressed as land theft, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and similar terms, providing a prime example of ancient anti-Semitism in new dress.
“Human rights activists opposed to tyrannical regimes don’t describe themselves as ‘anti-Cuba,’ ‘anti-Iran,’ or ‘anti-North Korea,’ or seek to destroy those nations,” noted CJV Midwestern Regional Vice President Rabbi Ze’ev Smason. “That so many BDS supporters proudly label themselves ‘anti-Israel’ is revealing—and should be chilling to everyone.”
He added, “any honest person can see that anti-Semitism runs through the core of the anti-Israel movement, from its hateful accusations to violent assaults perpetrated by ‘pro-Palestinian’ demonstrators against individual Jews.”
After a number of woke Olympics warriors went down to ignominious defeat this week, many Americans jumped to social media to celebrate their demise, Team USA or no.
After spending years protesting against the U.S.A., the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team took an early loss against Sweden on July 21, right after the Tokyo Games opened, and then were out of gold medal contention entirely due to Sunday’s loss to Canada.
Far from finding a Team USA loss devastating, many reacted gleefully when the team led by loud and proud anti-American protester Megan Rapinoe went down to defeat in Japan.
“Little Ms. Purple Hair and her team of woke warriors fell flat on their faces,” read an article posted to conservative commentator Wayne Dupree’s website.
“Maybe it would have been smarter for Team USA to focus more on the actual sport of soccer than the sport of ‘liberal wokeness,'” the article said, adding, “I mean, if there was a medal for being ‘Social Justice Warriors,’ team USA would have taken every gold medal in the joint.”
The article voiced many of the jibes typical of those launched at Rapinoe and her teammates after the losses to Sweden and Canada. For instance, another Conservative blog called Rapinoe’s loss “Karma.”
Social media kicked into high gear, as well.
Author Nick Adams posted several tweets revealing his satisfaction that Rapinoe and Team USA lost
Sports commentator Clay Travis insisted that many people “enjoyed the loss”:
A doctor has shared X-rays showing the difference between the lungs of a fully vaccinated who contracts COViD-19 and an vaccinated person.
Dr Ghassan Kamel, director of the Medical ICU at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital in Missouri, has been treating thousands of people ill with the disease since the pandemic exploded in March 2020., reported KSDK.
The X-ray of the unvaccinated patient's lungs are almost completely white - showing they are filled with the virus, have intense scarring and there is a lack of air entering the organs.
But the scan of the vaccinated patient's lung show plenty of air flowing through and mostly free of the virus.
Coronavirus often leads to complications such as pneumonia, which occurs when the lungs fill with fluid and become inflamed.
Kate Coyne-McCoy, the chief strategist of the Rhode Island Democratic Party, faced swift criticism late Monday over a tweet about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s COVID-19 diagnosis.
The Republican from South Carolina—who had been fully vaccinated—announced earlier in the day that he came down with flu-like symptoms on Sunday. He said he was diagnosed with the virus on Monday by the House physician. His symptoms are mild and he said he will be quarantining for 10 days.
Coyne-McCoy took to Twitter and posted, "It’s wrong to hope he dies from Covid right? Asking for a friend. #COVIDISNOTOVER #LINDSEYGRAHAM," she posted.
Even at a time when the political divide in the country seems like it could not get any deeper, posts hinting at the death of a political opponent seem to cross an imaginary line of civility. But individuals who tweet out these posts have often weighed the risks and have determined that they play to their base.
The Rhode Island Democrats and Coyne-McCoy did not immediately respond to after-hours emails from Fox News. The tweet was initially screengrabbed by a reporter from the Free Beacon.
In March, Rhode Island Public Radio called the hiring of Coyne-McCoy, a registered lobbyist, a "clear signal" that the state’s Democratic Party was intent on moving to the left. The report said that while she is not the party’s executive director, she "will be the person responsible for leading the party’s political efforts."
When former President Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 last year, many Democrats seemed to put politics aside and sent the president well wishes. But some of his notable detractors seemed to view the infection as a political vulnerability during the 2020 election and used it to describe him as reckless.
Graham has been an advocate for the vaccines and received his jabs in December. He said during a visit this spring to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston that "the sooner we get everybody vaccinated, the quicker we can get back to normal."
Independent investigators determined that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women who worked for the state in violation of state and federal laws.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on Tuesday, Aug. 3 that the five-month investigation into sexual harassment claims against the governor has concluded, with independent investigators Joon Kim and Anne Clark finding that the Executive Chamber was “rife with fear and intimidation,” which allowed for harassment to occur and create a hostile work environment.
The investigation found that Cuomo allegedly engaged in unwanted groping, kissing, and hugging, as well as making inappropriate comments to both state employees, and non-state employees, including a New York State trooper who was assigned to his protective detail.
According to investigators, the governor and his senior staff took actions to retaliate against at least one former employee for coming forward with her story.
James said that the Executive Chamber fostered a “toxic” workplace that enabled “harassment to occur and created a hostile work environment.”
“The investigators find that Governor Cuomo’s actions and those of the Executive Chamber violated multiple state and federal laws, as well as the Executive Chamber’s own written policies.”
The report found that Cuomo repeatedly harassed women, including reaching up one victim’s breast, gazing at their private parts, and talking explicitly about sex in front of employees, which Clark said “humiliated them.”
“One current employee said that she was terrified that if she spoke out she would lose her job,” Clark said. “She broke down in front of colleagues on March 3, 2021, when he claimed he never touched anyone inappropriately, and then she confided in co-workers, who made it known.”
Clark also outlined the claims made by former aide Charlotte Bennett, age 25, who came forward in the spring last year and was attempted to be quieted by the governor’s administration.
“He said he could date women as young as 22, knowing that Bennett was 25 at the time,” Clark said. “He asked about details of her sexual assault … He said he was lonely and wanted to be touched … He asked about monogamy … He asked how her sexual assault affected her romantic life … He said she looked like Daisy Duke … He asked if she had any piercings anywhere other than her ears.”
The investigation also found that Cuomo’s administration was one of fear and intimidation.
Kim said that “words that witnesses have used to describe it include ‘toxic,’ ‘hostile,’ ‘abusive,’ while others used words like ‘fear,’ ‘intimidation,’ ‘bullying,’ and ‘vindictive.’”
In texts among members of the administration, Kim said that one wrote that “Hopefully when this is all done, people will realize the culture even outside the sexual harassment stuff is not something you can get away with. You can’t berate and harass people 24/7.”
James said that “This is a sad day for New York because independent investigators have concluded that Governor Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and, in doing so, broke the law.
“I am grateful to all the women who came forward to tell their stories in painstaking detail, enabling investigators to get to the truth.
“No man — no matter how powerful — can be allowed to harass women or violate our human rights laws, period.”
The woman in the video yells up to the "pervert" in Meah Shearim that just spilled water from the balcony of his home on the girls walking under his cursed window, and asks him if that's Torah? "are you crazy, cut off your peyes or be a person, what a Chillul Hashem, what a chutzpah"
She then turns around to the girls and explains in English, that "we are Chabad and we love every Jew and we don't behave that way"
The Meah Shearim extremists are like the Shvartza in the Bronx, where a white guy cannot go into their neighborhoods safely but they can go to all white neighborhoods.
I sincerely believe that those spilling water on girls are perverts and use frumkeit as an excuse. The girls are all dressed tzneesdik but of course not to his sick standards .
A view of Federal Election Commission records indicates New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paid thousands to a former Blackwater contractor for security.
According to the New York Post, Ocasio-Cortez, who has been a vocal proponent of defunding the police, had her campaign pay at least $4,636 for “security services” to Tullis Worldwide Protection.
Since she arrived in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez has insisted that shifting resources out of police departments and into communities is the best way to help those struggling.
“[Suburban] communities have lower crime rates not because they have more police but because they have more resources to support healthy society in a way that reduces crime,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a 2020 social media post.
After New York defunded billions from police, Ocasio-Cortez maintained that “defunding police means defunding police.”
I watched this video over and over and of course I found it very disturbing, a Chareidie should be able to live anywhere in Eretz Yisrael.And this guy should fined for his "hate slurs"
Having said that, I wonder if a chilonie would be able to move into a Chareidie neighborhood, without them burning his house down. I'm old enough to remember when a "frier" bought a house in New Square at an auction and it didn't take long until the house burned down.
Well, Chassidim explain, that the whole reason they established a town like New Square or Kiryat Yoel was to protect their traditions without outside influence. This is a utopian dream, something impossible to accomplish in today's world of technology that has infiltrated the most sacred of homes, and in Chutz Le'aaretz.
At any rate, a chilonie would never be able to move into a Chireidie neighborhood, but Chareidim don't like it when it happens to them, they hate being screamed at, something they do every single shabbos in Yerushalayim.
So if you want respect,,, give it to others as well.
A haredi man looking to buy property in northern Israel was chased out of town by a local resident, who declared that haredim were not welcome in his community.
The incident occurred in the Western Galilee town of Bustan HaGalil, a moshav near the city of Acre [Akko], when realtors brought a haredi customer to visit property up for sale in the moshav.
While the realtors took the customer for a tour of the town, a resident approached them, cursing both the realtors and the customer and demanding they leave town immediately.
“Get out! Move it, or I’m going to eat you,” the man screamed.
When asked why he was harassing the group, the resident replied: “Because we don’t want haredim here.”
“Don’t try and lie to me that you’re here for a vacation. Listen, you’ve got one minute to get out of here, and then we can all be friends.”
The resident continued to berate and even threaten the realtors and their haredi customer, demanding the leave immediately.
“I’m very angry, I don’t want to see them here. Take them to your home, those pieces of garbage, you piece of filth.”
“Do they carry guns? Do they protect us from the Arabs? They’re just trash. They just take our money.”
Religious Zionist Party chief Bezalel Smotrich responded to the incident in a statement, saying: “This disgusting person needs to be embarrassed whenever he leaves his home. The truth is he should go to jail for his violence and racist anti-Semitism. But since there is no chance our rotten police and the justice system will deal with him, make the video go viral and shame him everywhere possible so that he should be too ashamed to leave home.”
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the preeminent authorities of Jewish law in the Haredi world, has issued a ruling to the staff of healthcare provider Clalit's Haredi department that populations at risk must be vaccinated a third time.
Senior members of the Dan district administration and Clalit's Haredi department went to the Rabbi's house to hear his opinion regarding the third vaccine according to Jewish law.
The meeting was attended by Dr. Eyal Jacobson, Medical Director of the Dan - Petah Tikva District in Clalit, Rabbi Avraham Konsky, Director of the Haredi Department in Clalit, and Rabbi Nehemiah Blushtein, Director of the Haredi Sector in the Dan - Petah District with Bnei Brak Community Relations Manager Rabbi Yechezkel Peksher.
Rabbi Kanievsky considered the experts' opinions before issuing a ruling that people at risk are obligated to get vaccinated a third time and gave his blessing to the new vaccination campaign.
Rabbi Kanievsky's directive is in accordance with the advice of the Health Ministry and the medical community, both of which support the third vaccination for seniors and other populations at risk.
A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard will face trial in October accused of being an accessory to the murder of 3,518 people.
The accused, who has not been named in accordance with German law, is said to have worked at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin from 1942 to 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing.
Around 200,000 people were imprisoned in the camp, tens of thousands of whom were killed.
The man's trial is slated to start in October after the prosecutor's office in Neuruppin, which first brought the charges in February, received a medical assessment which confirmed the man is 'fit to stand trial' despite his advanced age.
A spokesman from the Neuruppin district court told German weekly Welt am Sonntag that the defendant should be able to stand trial for two to two-and-a-half hours a day.
The suspect is accused of 'knowingly and willingly' assisting in the murder of prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.
He is accused notably of complicity in the 'execution by firing squad of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942' and the murder of prisoners 'using the poisonous gas Zyklon B'.
Thomas Walther, a lawyer representing a number of the victims in the case, told Welt am Sonntag: 'Several of the co-complainants are just as old as the accused and expect justice to be done.'
The Neuruppin office was handed the case in 2019 by the special federal prosecutors' office in Ludwigsburg tasked with investigating Nazi-era war crimes.
The court in Neuruppin is based northwest of the town of Oranienburg, where Sachsenhausen was located.
The defendant is said to live in the state of Brandenburg outside of Berlin, local media reported.
While the number of suspects in Nazi war crimes is dwindling, prosecutors are still working to bring individuals to justice.
A Las Vegas dad dying of COVID-19 sent his fiancée the heartbreaking text, “I should have gotten the damn vaccine” just before he succumbed, according to new reports.
Michael Freedy, 39, had gone on vacation with fiancée Jessica du Preez and their children, ages 17, 10, 7, 6 and 17 months, in mid-July, KVVU reported.
A short time after their return, Freedy went to the hospital with a painful skin rash.
While there, he ended up testing positive for COVID-19.
He went home to try to ride out the illness in isolation, but his symptoms became more and more severe, the outlet reported.
“Early Tuesday morning, I would say around 3, 4 o’clock in the morning, he wakes me up panicking,” du Preez told the Fox TV station. “He’s like, ‘I can’t breathe. I know something is wrong.’ ”
Freedy couldn’t even manage to stand, so the couple went back to the hospital.
He was admitted with pneumonia in both lungs and moved to another hospital, where du Preez was allowed to see him.
“I just kept telling him, ‘You are going to get through this, you’ve got to come home to us,’ ” she said.
Instead, his condition deteriorated, and he was transferred to the ICU.
“I was able to call before they took him in, and he sat on the phone,” du Preez said. “And I was able to hear him. I was like, ‘Please keep fighting. Don’t give up.’ And he’s like, ‘I’m trying to fight, but they are going to intubate me and put me under.’ ”
At one point, Freedy sent du Preez a text from the hospital.
The heartbreaking text messages that Michael Freedy sent while in the hospital.
Freedy died at the hospital Thursday morning with du Preez by his side.
“I was at the hospital visiting Mike and telling him all about our kids’ day and how everyone was pulling for him,” du Preez posted on a GoFundMe page. “His numbers crashed and they were not able to bring them back up.
“The love of my life, my rock, my everything. The father to my babies, is no longer with us. I don’t know what to do.”
Freedy was not vaccinated — though his fiancée said the couple had planned on becoming so eventually.
“We were just holding off, and now to think that if we just had gotten the shot a week before or a month before when one of our jobs had a vaccination thing, he could still be here,” she told the station.
“We wanted to wait just one year from the release to see what effects people had, but there was never any intention to not get it,” she added to KVVU.
Du Preez, who said she will always regret the decision, is now vaccinated along with the couple’s oldest child.
She said that even if the vaccine had prevented “a little bit” of her fiance’s symptoms, “it could have stopped the coronavirus from progressing so fast.”
“I expected to get 30 more years with him,” du Preez said. “I didn’t expect him to be gone.”
Kathy Griffin revealed she has lung cancer despite “never” smoking and will be undergoing surgery to have half of her left lung removed.
The comedian announced the news Monday morning in a lengthy note posted to social media, sharing that the cancer is stage 1 and “contained.”
“I’ve got to tell you guys something. I have cancer. I’m about to go into surgery to have half of my left lung removed,” she began her letter on social media. “Yes, I have lung cancer even though I’ve never smoked! The doctors are very optimistic as it is stage one and contained to my left lung.”
Griffin, 60, said she’s hopeful that she won’t need to get chemotherapy or radiation treatment after the surgery and “should have normal function with my breathing.”
“I should be up and running around as usual in a month or less,” she added.
The former “Fashion Police” star assured fans that she’ll be “just fine” and ended her note by encouraging readers to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
“Of course I am fully vaccinated for Covid,” she continued. “The consequences for being unvaccinated would have been even more serious. Please stay up to date on your medical check ups.
“It’ll save your life.”
Griffin was hospitalized in March 2020 — just days after her 99-year-old mother died — with “unbearably painful” Covid-like symptoms, but was unable to be tested for the virus due to restrictions at the time.
In an interview with “Nightline” slated to air Monday night, Griffin admits she was stunned upon receiving the diagnosis about two weeks ago.
“I was definitely in shock,” she says. “I’m still a little bit in shock — not denial — but I still like once a day I’ll just turn to like nobody next to me and go, ‘Can you believe this s–t? Is this a bitch or what?'”
