Several jurors in Sarah Palin’s defamation case against the New York Times learned before they issued a verdict that the judge planned to reject the former Republican vice-presidential nominee’s claims, though they said it didn’t affect deliberations, according to a court document.
A federal jury in Manhattan found for the Times on Tuesday, determining Ms. Palin didn’t prove her claim that she was libeled by a 2017 editorial about political rhetoric and gun violence.
Bnei Brak know as an "Ir shel Torah" is unfortunately in the news for producing on a mass scale a "chillul Hashem" industry.
First Walder, the Sexual Monster, an adulterer and a sexual molestor, and now the Yeshivisher Simon Heyut who changed his name Simon Leiviev so that he can prey and scam innocent women.
They say crime doesn’t pay but Simon Leviev could soon be swiping right on a vast fortune.
The convicted fraudster — who is the subject of the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler” — is allegedly eager to cash in on his newfound notoriety, setting his sights on Hollywood.
According to TMZ, Leviev, 31, has signed with LA-based manager Gina Rodriguez, who reps a range of reality stars, including Mama June.
The pair have purportedly discussed “a bunch of plans to parlay Leviev’s new Netflix fame into profit and an entertainment career.”
The Post has reached out to Rodriguez for comment.
Snopes.com has shifted its “fact check” on the news that the Biden administration would be offering free crack pipes as part of a $30 million program from “mostly false” to “outdated” — the latest move in a remarkable drive to make the story just go away.
It all started when The Washington Free Beacon broke the news, citing public documents. As meme-makers went wild, social media circled the wagons to try to protect the Biden administration.
Instagram attached a “missing context” label to posts, while Facebook went with “false information” after a ruling from partisan “fact checkers.”
Snopes then stepped in with its “mostly false” judgment, on the basis that the program in question would also give away free needles, etc. (as the Beacon had reported).
But the publicity didn’t stop, so the administration “clarified” that free crack pipes are now off the table.
That cleared the deck for Snopes to switch in “outdated” — while sniffing about the supposed “wave of grossly misleading news coverage” that got Team Biden to shift.
None of which changes the fact that the free crack pipes were real, until actual reporting got the word out. Proving once again that social media and their supposed “independent” fact checkers are just an extension of the Democratic Party.
A homeless career criminal with three open cases stalks a young woman, forces his way into her Chinatown apartment, stabs her to death — and Democrats blame everything from Donald Trump to the end of child tax credits.
Everything except their anti-cop, soft-on-crime policies that have caused the inevitable breakdown of law and order that led to the gruesome death of Christina Yuna Lee.
Lee’s murder is every woman’s worst nightmare. Her screams brought the police but by the time they managed to break down her reinforced steel door, she was dead in her bathtub, stabbed 40 times.
Surveillance footage shows suspected killer Assamad Nash loitering outside her apartment building when she returned home alone in a cab early Sunday morning, and then coolly pushing open the door behind her before following her upstairs.
He would never have been there that night if Albany lawmakers had not vandalized the bail laws in 2020. He should have been in jail.
Nash reportedly has been arrested seven times since 2017 and has three open cases in Manhattan Criminal Court. He was already out on bail for an alleged subway assault when he was arrested again last month and charged with 27 counts of criminal mischief, attempted escape, and resisting arrest — crimes that have been decriminalized by Alvin Bragg, our new progressive Manhattan DA.
You would think that Democratic women would show some empathy about Lee’s tragedy.
But all White House press secretary Jen Psaki could do this week when asked about the rise in anti-Asian hate crime (up 339% nationwide last year) was fall back on her favorite scapegoat, ex-President Trump.
I guess the storekeepers cannot get help from the "Gedoilim" who are on the payroll pf the Chareidie Mafia Gangsters!
Owners of cellphone stores from many chareidi districts in Israel came to the Knesset’s Internal Affairs committee to describe the harassment and violence they are experiencing from elements in the community.
The owner of the Didi Phone store in Bnei Brak, who has suffered from repeated harassment and raucous demonstrations outside his store, described the threats he had received from the self-styled “Rabbinic Committee For Kosher Communications” which demands that he authorize his phones under their auspices.
A member of the committee told him: “Listen, you see me dressed like this but three times I became non-religious and then did Teshuva. There is nobody who doesn’t know me and I have connections with the biggest criminals (citing a name of a well-known crime boss)- you better beware of me and listen to what I tell you to do.”
The owner said that he had feared for his life and complained to police, who were shocked that this particular criminal was involved. The owner stressed that he does not sell non-kosher phones and himself has a kosher phone. He only sells phones with SMS, cameras and players to those who require them but does not sell phones with internet access. Despite this, he was harassed for not accepting the kashrus committee’s authority.
Another store owner from Geula said that he had received threats and that the window of his store had been broken because he refused to purchase phones from the committee. He said that “I can’t sleep at night.”
now look at the bottom photo ..the fake one
A full 66% of Democrats want to see Hillary Clinton investigated for any role she might have had in trying to manufacture former President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia in an attempt to smear him, according to a new poll by TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP).
The figure marks a 20-point increase from last October, when TIPP asked the same question about Clinton. The most recent court documents reveal that special counsel John Durham’s investigation is ready to prove that the Clinton campaign and another individual identified as “Tech Executive 1” tried to infiltrate computer servers at Trump Tower and a Trump-owned apartment building in New York.
The team also tried to get into servers at the White House once Trump took office to try to get data that would create the impression that Trump had nefarious ties to Russia in an effort to deflect attention from Hillary Clinton’s missing email scandal during the 2016 campaign. Here are how the poll results, as detailed by the New York Post:
91% of Republicans called for Clinton to be investigated.
65% of independents said they want Clinton investigated.
71% of Republicans and an equal number of Democrats, said it is important that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, be kept away from any business involving the administration.
46% of Americans say the media has done a fair to poor job covering Joe Biden and allegations of influence-peddling by members of his family.
The poll, conducted in January, surveyed 1,308 Americans. No margin of error was given.
Based on present-day borders, one in every four Jewish victims of the Holocaust was murdered in Ukraine.
In the history of the Holocaust, the summer and fall of 1941 are especially significant because they represent a period of critical escalation. In a matter of months mobile Nazi killing units, which had begun shooting all adult male Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union, expanded to include a genocide targeting women, children, and entire Jewish communities.
On January 20, 1942, top Nazi officials and representatives of the Reich authorities met in Wannsee, a suburb outside of Berlin. At this meeting, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich Security Main Office formed the extermination plans for the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The Wannsee Conference, as it is now called, led to the creation of a network of extermination camps designed to systematically murder the entire European Jewish population.
Before the killing centers opened at Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek, more than 1.5 million Jews had already been murdered by the Germans, their Axis allies, and local collaborators in Ukraine, Belarus, and other USSR republics. These were the first victims of the Holocaust.
They were not transported by trains to the famous killing sites in Poland, with their gas chambers and crematoria that typically characterize the Holocaust in the minds of most people. Instead, these Holocaust victims were taken from their homes, usually by foot, to the outskirts of the cities, towns, and villages where they lived and were brutally shot—face to face or in the back—often in the presence of local residents and non-Jewish neighbors.
The mass shooting of Jewish victims in the summer and fall of 1941 represents the first phase of the Holocaust, often referred to by historians as “the Holocaust by bullets.” It was during this initial phase that special German killing squads (Einsatzkommandos) coordinated the mass murder of Jews by bullets with the help of the SS, Wehrmacht troops, the Romanian military, special “operational squadrons,” order police units, and local collaborators.
Before World War II, the 1.5 million Jews living in the Soviet republic of Ukraine constituted the largest Jewish population within the Soviet Union, and one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe. Between 1939 and 1941, when Stalin occupied Galicia, western Volhynia, northern Bukovina, and southern Bessarabia (see map below), the number of Jews in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic (UkrSSR) rose to 2.45 million people, increasing the percentage of Jews from five to six percent.
A woman who divorced and met a new acquaintance but was prevented from marrying him because he was a kohein. However in an unusual step, Rabbi Zevadia Cohen, a senior dayan in the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court, ruled that the woman’s previous marriage was null and void because her former husband had hidden from her that he was a homosexual. The “Noam Danieli” organization representing the woman declared that “the rabbinate is sensitive to the needs of couples- within the bounds of halacha.”
The Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court accepted the woman’s claim that if she had known of her husband’s homosexual inclination, she would never have married him – and ruled that her agreement to marriage was meaningless and the marriage was a “Mekach Taus”, a mistaken transaction. Dayan Cohen said in his ruling that he would not have accepted such a claim in order to permit a married woman to marry someone else but since the woman had already received her divorce, the concept of Mekach Taus can be used to enable her to marry a Kohen.
The founder of the Noam Danieli organization, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Rani, said that “many couples who were about to obtain a civil marriage came to us and received a friendly solution which enabled them to willingly choose to marry in the rabbinate.” He warned that “attempts to force the rabbinate to issue leniencies by force of law “would lead to the opposite conclusion.”
The Noam Danieli organization’s goal is to help couples who wish to marry according to Jewish law to deal with the relevant religious authorities. The organization is funded by Motti Danieli in memory of his daughter (who died seven years ago today in a road accident.)
A judge said Monday he’ll dismiss a libel lawsuit that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin filed against The New York Times, claiming the newspaper damaged her reputation with an editorial falsely linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff made the ruling with a jury still deliberating at a New York City trial where the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate testified last week.
The judge said Palin had failed to show that The Times had acted out of malice, something required in libel lawsuits involving public figures.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff says he’ll let jury deliberations continue in case his decision winds up being reversed on appeal.
Lawyers for both Palin and The Times declined to immediately comment on the judge’s decision.
Palin sued The Times in 2017, claiming the newspaper had damaged her career as a political commentator and consultant with the editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, was wounded when a man with a history of anti-GOP activity opened fire on a Congressional baseball team practice in Washington.
In the editorial, The Times wrote that before the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona that severely wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and killed six others, Palin’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence by circulating a map of electoral districts that put Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs.
The Times acknowledged that the editorial wrongly described both the map, and any link to the shooting, but said the mistake wasn’t intentional.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzfas, has refused a request to meet with the Shin-Bet.
As Ramadan approaches, the Israeli national security service’s Jewish Department asked for Rabbi Eliyahu’s cooperation, to help calm tensions which have been flaring in mixed Jewish-Arab cities.
While he says that he respects the agency, he refuses to meet with the department on this particular matter, because he feels that the Arabs are almost exclusively to blame, while Jews get scapegoated.
As quoted in Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon, Rabbi Eliyahu said, “I have the greatest of respect for the [Shin-Bet], and I used to meet with them. But this political department of theirs wants to portray Jews as being responsible for the problems we have here, when 99 percent of violent incidents are caused by Arabs. Is Jewish graffiti really going to ignite the Middle East?”
Rabbi Eliyahu added, “Once, they came to see me about a fire in a mosque in Tuba Zangriya, and in the end, it turned out that it was the result of a dispute among Arabs. It’s a joke. What Jewish crime are they talking about? There are lies being spread here, and I won’t be party to their attempts to draw parallels.”
According to the report, the Shin Bet learned tough lessons during Operation Guardian of the Walls, when security forces struggled to contain violent riots. As a result, they have asked Rabbi Eliyahu to help ease tensions in the Jewish community, and prevent violence.
Last year, tensions during Ramadan led to a great deal of violence and ultimately a military operation.
Rabbi Eliyahu pointed to many other crimes that are of higher priority. “There are hundreds of vehicle thefts, shootings, rock-throwing incidents, and trees being uprooted. They should start by dealing with all of that – all of that, and then Arab crime that ends with murder,” he said. “What are they doing about all the other problems?”
A woman was stabbed to death inside her lower Manhattan apartment by a man who followed her from the street into her building, authorities said.
Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was found fatally wounded in her bathtub at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, police said. The suspected killer was arrested after he at first tried to flee down a fire escape and then barricaded himself inside the apartment, a police spokesperson said. Charges against him were pending Monday.Officials including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams denounced Lee’s killing as the latest in a string of unprovoked attacks on people of Asian descent.
“I join New Yorkers standing together in support of our AAPI friends & neighbors,” Hochul said on Twitter.
Lee worked as a senior creative producer at Splice, an online platform for digital music. She was a graduate of Rutgers University and had previously worked for companies including Marriott and the shoe retailer Toms, according to her LinkedIn page.
Surveillance video obtained by the New York Post shows a man following Lee into her six-floor walkup building on Chrystie Street in Chinatown.
The building’s landlord told the Post that cameras posted on every floor showed the man followed Lee all the way to her sixth floor apartment. A neighbor heard screaming and called 911, police said.
The killing happened weeks after another woman of Asian descent, Michelle Alyssa Go, was killed by a man who pushed her in front of an oncoming subway train at the Times Square station.
Police have not classified Lee’s death as a hate crime, but Adams said the police are investigating and added, “we stand with our Asian community today.”
In an almost surreal twist, the Rabbi arrested last month on child molestation charges is the father-in-law of Malka Leifer, who is currently awaiting trial in Australia on dozens of charges, stemming from her work as a principal in Melbourne.
Baruch Leifer, Rabbi in the Chust Chassidus, has been accused of multiple indecent acts against a 12 year old female relative, in addition to inappropriate acts against other children. According to media reports, many of the alleged acts happened too long ago to be prosecuted, due to the statute of limitations.
Although Baruch Leifer was arrested last month, a gag order prevented his name from being released, until a request was made by Kan News to make it public. That request was granted on Monday.
Leifer’s daughter-in-law Malka is slated to stand trial on 70 charges of extreme immorality against children at an Australian Charedi school, taking place between 2004 and 2008.
Leifer had fled to Israel after the allegations surfaced in 2008. She was extradited to Australia in January 2021.
Last month, MK Yaakov Litzman pled guilty to breach of public trust in the Leifer matter. He is suspected of stalling her extradition to Australia by pressuring a top psychiatric official to falsely declare her mentally unfit to stand trial.
Chief Rabbi of Israel HaRav Yosef Yitzchak wrote a letter to Jews in Ukraine, and all Jews living in the Diaspora, to pay heed to the threat of war as a call to move to Eretz Yisrael.
The letter, entitled: Kol Koreh to all Acheinu Beis Yisrael in Ukraine,” the letter states: “To Acheinu Beis Yisrael in foreign lands, especially Ukraine: During these times, when the sounds of trumpets of war are heard, it’s appropriate for every Jew with yiras Shamayim to hasten his way to Eretz HaKodesh, as promised by HaNavi Ovadia (Perek Aleph, Passuk 17): “וּבְהַר צִיּוֹן תִּהְיֶה פְלֵיטָה וְהָיָה קֹדֶש”.
“And although it’s not clear if there will be a war and only Hashem has the solutions and we must daven for peace throughout the entire world, in any event, ascending to Eretz Hakodesh is always a very great and important mitzvah, and at all times, we must strive to reach Eretz Hakodesh and especially Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh. And now that there are sounds and fears of war, the issues are unfolding in a way as to see it as a type of call from Shamayim, to ascend to Eretz Hakodesh from all the foreign lands in the entire Diaspora, and especially Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh, because these are the places where the Schechina rests, and they have more protection.”
HaRav Yosef all wrote words of chizzuk: “And the main thing is to be mechazeik b’emunah and tefillah, and to know that there is nothing that can stop Hashem from providing a yeshuah from every situation in any manner. Just like we witnessed miracles and wonders during Yetzias Mitzrayim that were above all the laws of teva, and there was also a great amount of hashgacha during Kriyas Yam Suf to save each and every Jew from the dangerous sea, in the same way, a Jew that is moser nefesh for Hashem b’emunas Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad twice a day – Hashem will protect him and save him.”
“And yet there is a sacred obligation on each and every Jew with yiras Shamayim in all the lands of the Diaspora to do his hishtadlus to hurry and hasten his footsteps to Eretz Hakodesh and make aliyah quickly to our kodesh land, and not to delay this at all, and to hurry to arrange a plane ticket. And Hashem Yisbarach who feeds and sustains everyone will b’siyata dishmaya provide everyone with a good place to live and food and parnassah.”
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Groom serious injured while dancing at his wedding https://t.co/tnqaRdkXuD
— The Times of Israel (@TimesofIsrael) February 14, 2022
If you were the pope living in the 14th century and could verify this fact, would you not ask yourself how indeed such Jewish artifacts had come to your residence in the first place?
After some digging around (no pun intended), you would have found that your new Vatican residence was actually built over sections of Caesar’s Palace – the Vatican, including St. Peter’s Basilica, was constructed over Emperor Vespasian’s Roman palace approximately 200 years after the sacking of Rome in 455 AD. Indeed, there are excavations going on there right now, even as you read this magazine.
What this means is that the vandals and the Visigoths passed over, or simply didn’t find, the select treasures secreted away in that palace, and instead took with them the many items on public display in the Temple, located not far away.
