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July 28, 2021 at 5:31 pm
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., says she is suing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
She made her comment in a Tuesday tweet, saying simply: “We’re suing @SpeakerPelosi.” She directed her followers to speakermaskhole.com.
The site shows a photo of Pelosi with the words: “HELP Marjorie Taylor Greene Sue Pelosi. Donate now.”
And it also says: “I’m suing Nancy Pelosi! Nancy Pelosi must be held accountable. Please rush an emergency $15, $25, $50, $100 donation – whatever you can afford – right away.”
However, nowhere in her tweet or her fundraising page does she specify why she is suing Pelosi and whether a suit has been filed.
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July 28, 2021 at 5:27 pm
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, was the guest on the launch of a new YouTube series aimed to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations in Black and brown communities, telling the hosts it is important not to “disrespect the distrust” that exists.
The series, “Barbershop Medicine,” is hosted by Drs. Jamie Rutland and Italo Brown and is part of the YouTube Originals Series. It plays off the tradition that African-Americans talk about important issues in barbershops and beauty salons.
Fauci addressed the fact that some Black people are among those reluctant to take the vaccine. Skepticism has come from memories of the infamous&nb...
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July 28, 2021 at 5:27 pm
The GOP speaker of the house in Texas has signed a civil warrant to arrest state Rep. Philip Cortez, a Democrat who returned to Washington, D.C., on Sunday in an effort to block a Republican election reform bill from being approved by state lawmakers, The Texas Tribune is reporting.
However, the news outlet noted it is unlikely that Speaker Dade Phelan’s signed warrant will have any impact since Texas law enforcement lacks any jurisdiction outside of the state.
The Texas Democrats had traveled to Washington to break the state House quorum to avoid losing votes in a special session.
More than 50 Democrat House lawmakers from Texas fled to the nation’s capital in mid-July to temporarily block efforts to pass election reform measures in t...
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July 28, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Baltimore, MD – July 2021 - Every Shabbos table offers every Jewish family an incredible opportunity by which they can share their joy for Shabbos, for Yiddishkeit and for HaShem with their children. Unfortunately, our schedules are hectic and many people don’t have the time to prepare themselves to utilize the Shabbos table to its fullest. Therefore, we at ACHIM created TableTalk as a pre-packaged talking points pamphlet which is attractive, fun and has something for everyone. Limited copies are distributed to many shuls on a weekly basis but they are snatched up very quickly. Get yours ASAP or click on the graphic below and print your own.What’s in it and what’s all the excitement about?TableTalk features:• Weekly halachic dilemma creating l...
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July 28, 2021 at 3:15 pm
The Rabbinical Alliance of America — Igud HaRabbonim, representing over 950 American rabbis — applauds the fifty CUNY faculty members who resigned or indicated that they will be resigning from the Professional Staff Congress (PFC), the College systems union, over its anti-Semitic statement on Israel.
The statement, which was released by the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) in response to the eleven days of violence between Israel and Gaza, did not mention Hamas or the rockets being fired indiscriminately into Israeli civilian areas. Instead, the statement condemned “the continued subjection of Palestinians to the state-supported displacement, occupation, and use of lethal force by Israel.” The statement described Israel as a “settler colonial state” an...
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July 28, 2021 at 3:08 pm
Several GOP lawmakers refused to comply with the newly reinstated mask requirement on the House side of the Capitol on Wednesday, putting themselves at risk of having to pay hefty fines as punishment.
More than half a dozen Republicans refused to wear masks on the House floor, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Chip Roy (Texas), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Mary Miller (Ill.) and Andrew Clyde (Ga.).
Most of the 211 House Republicans did comply with wearing masks on the House floor after the Capitol physician announced late Tuesday night that they would once again be mandatory amid spread of the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19.
But Republicans who are among the House GOP's most vocal fir...
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July 28, 2021 at 2:54 pm
[ALL CLEAR as of 2:54 PM]Baltimore, MD - July 28, 2021 - 2:09PM - Due to construction, there is only one lane of traffic on Smith at Darwood (in between Wellwood and the Greenspring Shopping Center) and Darwood itself is blocked off.
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July 28, 2021 at 2:35 pm
Three men have been arrested and charged with a hate crime after they attacked a Jewish man in Fleishmanns, New York.New York State Police said that the anti-Semitic assault occurred Shabbos, July 24, shortly before 11 a.m. A Chassidishe man walking home from shul along Main Street in Fleishmanns, a village in New York’s Catskill Mountains, was accosted by a man who got out of a pickup truck and stole the victim’s shtreimel off his head.
The suspect returned to the pickup truck. He and its two passengers shouted anti-Semitic slurs at the victim and then drove away. The three suspects have been charged with grand larceny in the third degree as a hate crime.
Investigators were able to locate the victim’s shtreimel. A shtreimel can cost thousands of dollars.
The susp...
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July 28, 2021 at 2:35 pm
The commonly held view is that wealth is an impediment to a meaningful spiritual life; that wealth is accompanied by necessary hubris that makes humility and godliness nearly impossible. In this view, it is the poor who, seemingly because of their poverty and need, who gravitate toward spirituality.
But is this “commonly held view” accurate? Is it more difficult for the wealthy or the one in want to experience genuine spirituality?
It is told that a rich Chasid came to his master for a blessing. Before giving it, the Rebbe asked, “What is the conduct of your household, and what table do you set from day to day?”
Eager to demonstrate his piety, he replied, “My household is conducted with great simplicity. My own meal consists of dry bread a...
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July 28, 2021 at 2:23 pm
Love. This is one of the words that appears the most in this week's Torah portion. We speak of love 8 times, as in the following passages: "To walk in His ways and to love Him," "It was your fathers alone that HaShem desired in His love for them," If, then, you obey the commandments that I command you this day, loving HaShem your God." Here Rashi explains a general principle that is associated with our relationship with God and with other people: "Don't say: 'I am doing this to receive a reward,' but rather everything you do, do it with love, and in the end honor will come." Rabbanit Yemima MIzrachi explains that this is the essential Torah portion for summer vacation, for the period when the family is cramped together, when you hear "I'm bored," and endure other J...
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July 28, 2021 at 1:59 pm
The teacher's union in Baltimore County said the school system is "re-evaluating" the decision on masks in school come fall, now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending them in a school setting.
Given the latest CDC guidance, Cindy Sexton, president of the Teachers Association of Baltimore County said a decision to require masks for students, staff and teachers "would not" surprise her.
“Not everyone who can be vaccinated has been," Sexton said.
The union is not keeping track of faculty and staff who have been vaccinated.
As far as a vaccination requirement for teachers and staff, Sexton said, “that would be something we would take to our building rep and our board to see what the members thought on that.”
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July 28, 2021 at 12:00 pm
In Devarim 10:12 the posuk tells us, “Now, what (ma) does Hashem want from you? Just to have yiras shomayim.” The Gemara Menachos 43a learns from this pokuk that we should not read the word as it is written, ma, but rather me’ah. A person must recite 100 brachos a day.
If someone makes a bracha levatala, it would not be counted toward the total of 100 brachos for the day. The question is whether or not a bracha she’eino tzricha has the same status of not. According to the Magen Avraham 47:5, a person cannot count a bracha she’eino tzricha as part of his 100 brachos.
What would happen if someone already heard kiddush&...
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July 28, 2021 at 11:23 am
Twitter, assailed by some critics as hostile to conservative voices, has apparently imposed a ban on those seeking to audit 2020 presidential election results, including some involved in the first-of-its-kind forensic audit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Reports first noted the banning of two accounts sharing information from the Arizona forensic audit, but accounts sharing information on audit intentions in other states were suspended by Twitter on Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple reports.
The accounts included those designed to inform about the Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Pennsylvania audits, too. Those are among the states that decided the election for President Joe Biden and the bans come on the day House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. ...
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July 28, 2021 at 11:17 am
COVID-19 may be “just a few mutations” away from being able to evade vaccines, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned Tuesday.
Walensky said the current vaccines are effective against severe cases of the coronavirus, including those caused by its known variants, but its continuing spread could allow the disease to mutate beyond the immunizations’ protection.
“The largest concern that I think we in public health and sciences are worried about is that virus and potential mutations … [have] the potential to evade our vaccine in terms of how it protects us from severe disease and death,” Walensky said at a press briefing.
“Right now, fortunately, we are not there. These vaccines operate really well in protecting us from severe disease and death....
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July 28, 2021 at 11:14 am
President Joe Biden on Thursday will announce a vaccine mandate for all federal employees and contractors as coronavirus infections rise in the U.S., according to a source who spoke with CNN.
Biden alluded to the announcement Tuesday when he spoke to reporters after delivering an address at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“We have a pandemic because of the unvaccinated, and they’re sowing enormous confusion. And the more we’ve learned about this virus and the delta variant, the more we have to be worried and concerned. There’s only one thing we know for sure: If those other … people got vaccinated, we’d be in a very different world,” the President said.
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July 28, 2021 at 11:14 am
Former President Barack Obama has become a strategic partner and minority owner in the National Basketball Association’s Africa business, which oversees the Basketball Africa League.
The NBA launched its Africa entity in May and values the business as a nearly $1 billion venture. NBA Africa oversees the BAL, which held its inaugural season last May, and has investors including Dikembe Mutombo, Grant Hill and Junior Bridgeman. The league said Obama would use his stake in NBA Africa to fund the Obama Foundation youth and leadership programs across Africa.
Currently, 55 players who are either from Africa or whose parents are native Africans play in the NBA.
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July 28, 2021 at 11:14 am
President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned a significant cyber attack on the United States could lead to “a real shooting war” with a major power, comments that highlight what Washington sees as growing threats posed by Russia and China.
“I think it’s more than likely we’re going to end up, if we end up in a war – a real shooting war with a major power – it’s going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence and it’s increasing exponentially, the capabilities,” Biden said during a half-hour speech.
Cybersecurity has risen to the top of the agenda for the Biden administration after a series of high-profile attacks on entities such as network management company SolarWinds, the Colonial Pipeline company, meat proc...
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July 28, 2021 at 10:53 am
Anuradha Mittal says the action against Israel is not antisemitic and that she is not antisemitic
Anuradha Mittal, the board chair of Ben & Jerry’s, took to Twitter on Tuesday to defend the company's decision to stop selling ice cream in the region referred to by the international community as the West Bank and by the Israeli government as Judea and Samaria.
"I am proud of Ben & Jerry's for taking a stance to end sale of its ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory," Mittal wrote to her Twitter followers. "This action is not anti-Semitic. I am not anti-Semitic. The vile hate that has been thrown at me does it[sic] intimidate me. Pls work for peace – not hatred!"
The statement by parent company Unilever last week to not sell ice cream in the We...
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July 28, 2021 at 10:46 am
People who already took third vaccine dose show no abnormal side effects
Data collected from people in Israel who have already received a third vaccine dose against COVID-19 shows no abnormal side effects from the booster shot, Hebrew-language newspaper Israel Hayom reports.
The internal data, reportedly presented to senior Health Ministry officials, finds that it is safe to administer the third jab six months after the second dose — an important indicator as the government moves closer to approving an expansion of the booster shot beyond severely immunocompromised individuals to older adults.
The data was taken from around 2,000 Israelis who got the booster shot over the past two weeks at hospitals and clinics across the country.
The results show no additio...
