Year: 2020

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Freedom of religion violated, printing house fined

Posted on April 21, 2020 by admin

Tuesday, April 21, 2020, 20:08 In a legal precedent, Be’er Sheva Magistrates Court Judge Orit Lipschitz accepted a civil suit filed by an organization associated with LGBT activists against a printing house in Be’er Sheva which refused to print a custom order which violated the owner’s beliefs and would have forced him to violate Jewish law. The court awarded the plaintiffs 50,000 NIS.

The incident occurred approximately three years ago. Students from the LGBT association on the Ben Gurion University campus requested a price estimate for printing material. In response, the printing house emailed a warning not to send them abhorrent material: “We do not handle abhorrent material; we are Jews.” The students did not directly reply and all further correspondence was handled through an attorney. To the shock of the printing house owner, the matter resulted in a 100,000 NIS lawsuit.

Honenu Attorney Menashe Yado, who represented the printing house, presented the opinions of two rabbis who determined that according to Jewish law the printing house owner could not print material of the sort that the LGBT associated had requested. Yado also claimed that it was not possible to obligate the printing house to produce custom material for a client contrary to their beliefs and Jewish law.

In her precedent-setting decision, Judge Lipschitz ruled, “When beliefs conflict with the obligation to give service ‘in a public place’, the latter value takes precedence.” Her justification is that the law prohibiting discrimination of products, services and entrance to places of entertainment and public areas should be interpreted in a broad sense, and that it overrides freedom of religion. An additional point in her ruling is that business owners are required to give service not only concerning off-the-shelf items, but also to fill custom orders.

Honenu Attorney Menashe Yado sharply censured the decision: “The court has legitimatized secular coercion in Israel. If a believing Jew cannot manage his business in the State of Israel according to his way of life, where can he?
“Every believing Jew knows that the People of Israel has survived for thousands of years thanks to the Torah of Israel. The court forgot, or perhaps never learned, that lesson and issued a ruling which delivers a final blow to a business owned by G-d fearing and honest people who due to their conscience and the dictates of their faith did not bow to the LGBT idol.

“This is a difficult time for the State of Israel, which must in this complex reality allow equality also to those who keep the Torah and the commandments, as courts in the USA and Britain allowed in similar cases. However the court in Israel ruled in a one-sided manner, pro-LGBT and anti-religious, which will eat away at the solidarity of Israeli society and damage its resilience.”

Honenu: Support the printing house!

Honenu has distributed fliers calling on the public to support the printing house: “Today, in the Jewish State, a printing house that refused to print fliers which violated Jewish law and their faith, was fined over 50,000 NIS [50,00 NIS to the plaintiffs in addition to legal expenses] by the court!! This is the price of keeping mitzvot in the State of Israel.

“Following the publication of the scandalous ruling, we have received many requests for information from citizens interested in assisting the business owner who was fined. Whoever needs quality printing services is invited to place an order.”

Shmuel (Zangi) Meidad, the director of Honenu: “Today, unfortunately, a court in Israel crossed a line. What is left for us is the People of Israel, solidarity, and mutual assistance. ‘They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother: “Be strong”.’ (Isiah 41:6) The Torah and faith in G-d were here long before the court and they will be here forever.”

From Honenu, here.

כבש בן שנתו לעלה ובן יונה או תר לחטאת

משך חכמה ויקרא י”ב ו’:

ובן יונה או תור לחטאת, יולדת עשירה מביאה חטאת עוף לפי שקרבנה כדר”ש (נדה לא:) שבשעה שיולדת ומצטערת נשבעת שלא תזקק לבעלה, [ובמדרש (בראשית רבה כ-יז) היא רפרפה כו’], לכן מביאה יונה לחטאת שאינה מנחת בן זוגה ואינה נזקקת אלא לבן זוגה. (ע’ ערובין ק סע”ב)

והעולה הוא, כפי הנראה, אחרי שהיתה אסורה לבוא אל הקדש כל ימי טהרתה וכעת באה אל הקדש ובתודה לשמו יתברך על אשר שבה לאיתנה לא יראה פניו ריקם והוא כעין קרבן ראיה. ומצאתי רמז ע”ז באזהרות ר”ש בן גבירול אות ס”ה וטהרת הטומאה בקרבן הנראה וקרבן חטאה, וקרא להעולה קרבן הנראה וכמוש”כ ודו”ק.

POVERTY Kills Too: Doctor Ron Paul Supports the Sweden Model

What If the Lockdown Was All A Big Mistake?

By 

Ron Paul Institute

April 21, 2020

From California to New Jersey, Americans are protesting in the streets. They are demanding an end to house arrest orders given by government officials over a virus outbreak that even according to the latest US government numbers will claim fewer lives than the seasonal flu outbreak of 2017-2018.

Across the US, millions of businesses have been shut down by “executive order” and the unemployment rate has skyrocketed to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Americans, who have seen their real wages decline thanks to Federal Reserve monetary malpractice, are finding themselves thrust into poverty and standing in breadlines. It is like a horror movie, but it’s real.

Last week the UN Secretary General warned that a global recession resulting from the worldwide coronavirus lockdown could cause “hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths per year.” As of this writing, less than 170,000 have been reported to have died from the coronavirus worldwide.

Many Americans have also died this past month because they were not able to get the medical care they needed. Cancer treatments have been indefinitely postponed. Life-saving surgeries have been put off to make room for coronavirus cases. Meanwhile hospitals are laying off thousands because the expected coronavirus cases have not come and the hospitals are partially empty.

What if the “cure” is worse than the disease?

Countries like Sweden that did not lock down their economy and place the population under house arrest are faring no worse than countries that did. Sweden’s deaths-per-million from coronavirus is lower than in many lockdown countries.

Likewise, US states that did not arrest citizens for merely walking on the beach are not doing worse than those that did. South Dakota governor Kristi Noem said last week, “we’ve been able to keep our businesses open and allow people to take on some personal responsibility.” South Dakota has recorded a total of seven coronavirus deaths.

Kentucky, a strict lockdown state, is five times more populated than South Dakota, yet it has some 20 times more coronavirus deaths. If lockdown and house arrest are the answer, shouldn’t those numbers be reversed, with South Dakota seeing mass death while Kentucky dodges the coronavirus bullet?

When Anthony Fauci first warned that two million would die, there was a race among federal, state, and local officials to see who could rip up the Constitution fastest. Then Fauci told us if we do what he says only a quarter of a million would die. They locked America down even harder. Then, with little more than a shrug of the shoulders, they announced that a maximum of 60,000 would die, but maybe less. That is certainly terrible, but it’s just a high-average flu season.

Imagine if we had used even a fraction of the resources spent to lock down the entire population and focused on providing assistance and protection to the most vulnerable – the elderly and those with serious medical conditions. We could have protected these people and still had an economy to go back to when the virus had run its course. And it wouldn’t have cost us six trillion dollars either.

Governments have no right or authority to tell us what business or other activity is “essential.” Only in totalitarian states does the government claim this authority. We should encourage all those who are standing up peacefully and demanding an accounting from their elected leaders. They should not be able to get away with this.

From LRC, here.