Queen Helena of Adiabene, who died around 56 CE, was a foreign queen who embraced Judaism and became one of the most celebrated and beloved philanthropists in the history of Late Second Temple Jerusalem. Originally from Adiabene, an ancient kingdom in modern-day Kurdistan and northern Iraq, her life story is a remarkable testament to spiritual devotion and extraordinary generosity. Around 30 CE, Queen Helena, alongside her sons, who later became kings Izates II and Monobaz II, converted to Judaism after being deeply moved by the teachings of Jewish merchants. Driven by a desire to live fully under the laws of the Torah, she eventually left her royal court in Adiabene, traveled to the Land of Israel, and established her permanent residence in Jerusalem. Queen Helena is most famously remembered for her lifesaving humanitarian efforts. Around 45 CE, a severe famine struck Judea, leaving the population of Jerusalem starving. Using her vast personal wealth, Helena ordered ships of grain from Egypt and dried figs from Cyprus to be brought to the city. She personally oversaw the distribution of these provisions, single-handedly saving thousands of Jerusalem's poorest residents from starvation. Her devotion was also reflected in the magnificent, lavish gifts she commissioned for the Temple in Jerusalem. Helena donated a massive golden chandelier placed at the entrance of the Temple sanctuary. At dawn, it reflected the very first rays of the rising sun, creating a brilliant flash of light that signaled to the entire city that it was time to recite the morning Shema prayer. She also gifted a golden plaque engraved with the biblical passage of the Sotah, which served as a reference for the Temple priests. Furthermore, Helena and her sons constructed breathtakingly opulent palaces in the City of David, fragments of which archaeologists believe they have uncovered in recent excavations. The Sages of the Mishnah and Talmud highly praised Queen Helena as a model of piety and righteousness. They frequently discussed her massive, multi-story Sukkah holiday booth, which was built so grandly that the leading rabbis of the era would regularly visit her there.

"Brooklyn man convicted of possessing ghost guns maintains he had every right to have them" This is legal in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona. If it is legal in any state it is legal according to the second amendment. What part of "Shall not be infringed" does NY not understand? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCe156MrzM

The Most Destructive Intellectual Project of the Twentieth Century. The Frankfurt School. You should know what it was, what it built, and why you are still living inside it. 1. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and relocated to Columbia University in 1934 when Hitler came to power. The civilization they had decided to dismantle gave them refuge when another tried to kill them. They spent the next five decades producing the theoretical infrastructure for that dismantling. Western civilization itself was the problem: reason, the Enlightenment, the family, tradition, authority. Not reformed. Dismantled. 2. They called it Critical Theory – and the name is the program. Everything is to be criticized; nothing is to be built. In The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Adorno and Horkheimer argued that Western reason — the reason that produced Newton and the rule of law — contained the seeds of Auschwitz. Not that reason had been misused, but that reason itself, taken to its conclusion, produces the death camp. This was not a critique of institutions. It was an indictment of the civilization itself. 3. Adorno gave them the psychological weapon. The Authoritarian Personality (1950) classified conservatism, religious faith, patriotism, and the traditional family not as political positions but as symptoms of a proto-fascist personality. If you believe in the nation or the father’s authority, you are pre-fascist. The opponent was no longer wrong – he was sick. You don’t argue with a pathology. You treat it. This made dialogue impossible. You don’t persuade someone who is wrong; you diagnose someone who is sick. Politics becomes therapy, and disagreement becomes pathology. 4. Marcuse gave them the political weapon. Repressive Tolerance (1965) argued that tolerating wrong ideas is itself oppression. True tolerance therefore requires suppressing intolerant ideas. The left decides which ideas are intolerant. Everyone else is silenced – not despite tolerance, but "in its name." Censorship dressed in the vocabulary of liberation.