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“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l

Thursday, October 23, 2025

The R' Sholom Ber Sorotzkin lie! When faith turns politics into persecution

 Rav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin’s statement comparing the arrest of a yeshiva student in Israel to the dark days of Soviet persecution is a perversion of what really happened, and it's time to call him out on his distortion of facts! 

He claimed the bochur was imprisoned for one reason only: "because he learned Torah." That is a bald-faced lie! 

 The arrest was for refusing military service!! But Rav Sorotzkin’s doesn't care about the truth. 

From his narrow-minded perspective, every arrest is an attack on holiness. Every government official is a Russian soldier, tearing a young man from his studies.

 The persecution of the Soviet persecution was real and the Czar’s cantonist decrees ripped children from their families for twenty-five years of military service, designed to break their faith. That was cruelty with intent. Antisemitism ran deep in every century—and it runs deep still. Jews were targeted for being Jews. That hatred was evil.

The worldview that gave our ancestors strength to resist assimilation also gave us a lens to distinguish between oppression and consequence. Between moral resistance and civic responsibility.

When your worldview becomes total—when “learning Torah” is the only lens through which you interpret reality—you lose the ability to see clearly. 

You lose a basic desire to understand how our choices affect others, and how their responses might be more complex than pure hatred.

When every arrest is “for Torah,” there’s no space left for reflection. No room to consider whether young men avoiding the draft might have mixed motives—sacred conviction tangled up with ordinary fear. You lose the ability to imagine that a government enforcing its laws might be doing something other than persecuting the holy.

And when accountability becomes impossible—when every outside criticism is automatically reframed as persecution—we exile ourselves from reality itself.

 Rav Sorotzkin’s statement was not just a defense of one bochur, but the sound of a community that can no longer tell the difference between a government and Pharaoh. The Sorotzkins of the world are totally disconnected from the reality on the ground and have lost empathy to the plight of those in uniform protecting the Jewish people! 

Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch's Troops Throw Rocks at Innocent Vehicles and Stop the Light Rail

 

Rav Hirsch and on his left a poster that has a photo of the Draft Dodger with the "hostage emblem 

Rav Hirsch’s Troops: A New Chapter in Charedi Protest Culture

The mask of "moderation" has officially slipped.

Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, long regarded as a more measured voice within the Litvishe Charedi world, has now publicly aligned himself with the Peleg faction—whose protests have repeatedly disrupted public life across Israel. 

In a recent address at Prison 10, Rav Hirsch declared that “if there’s no choice, the entire Torah community will join” the demonstrations. With that, the Peleg activists—once seen as fringe—can now be dubbed “Rav Hirsch’s Troops.”

This marks a dramatic shift in tone and strategy. Rav Hirsch, together with Rav Dov Landau, has called for a nationwide protest this coming Sunday. The rally is expected to draw tens of thousands and cause massive disruptions around the entire country, with violence expected, in response to the arrests of yeshiva students who refuse to enlist in the IDF.

Meanwhile, Rav Dov Landau is currently in the United States on a fundraising tour for Keren Olam HaTorah. His arrival by private jet has raised eyebrows, especially since Torah Institutions claim that they are running out of money. 

The optics are striking: one leader rallying the masses to take to the streets, the other flying across the globe in a private jet to raise millions. Both moves reflect a coordinated push to resist government pressure and assert that "they would rather die than enlist" yet don't want them in prison either. The draft dodgers want to "die" but their rabbis who painted themselves in a corner and now feel responsible for their reckless actions that caused their students to sit in jail, now want them released. 

Whether this new alignment will strengthen the Charedi position or deepen internal divisions remains to be seen. But one thing is clear: the era of quiet diplomacy is over. The battle lines are being redrawn—and Rav Hirsch’s troops are mobilizing, and so are those frum Torah abiding Jews who feel that well-fed, eligible boys must enlist! 


Jerusalem gridlocked: anti-draft chareidim block Bar-Lev, halt light rail, hurl stones

Crowds of radical Charedi protesters shut down Bar-Lev Road in Jerusalem and obstructed sections of the light-rail line, with some pelting passing cars with stones, according to police. Service was curtailed between Giv’at HaMivtar and City Hall and traffic across the corridor snarled.  

Jerusalem District Police and Border Police moved in to clear the artery. 
“Freedom of protest will be upheld within the law, but violent disturbances that endanger the public will not be tolerated,” the police said, as officers dispersed stone-throwers and reopened segments of the route.  

The unrest follows overnight arrests of yeshiva draft-dodgers, which sparked coordinated demonstrations in multiple cities; in parallel actions, protesters also blocked light-rail tracks and key roads.  



Tragedy at Mir Yeshiva: Shlomo Aryeh Ribakow an American student found dead in dormitory

A tragedy struck the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem on Tuesday night, when one of the students was found lifeless in the Jerusalem dormitory.

Emergency medical teams were called to the dorm, located in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood, and performed prolonged resuscitation attempts. However, they were ultimately forced to pronounce the young man dead at the scene.

 The young bochur was identified as Shlomo Aryeh Ribakow z”l, a beloved talmid of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, he was a choshuveh ben Torah who was currently learning in Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim.

Shlomo Aryeh was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Ribakow, and a brother to Dovid, Yehoshua, Yaakov, Daniel, Aaron, Moshe Ribakow, Ilana (Chesky) Finkelstein, Adina (Chezky) Kosman, and Shira Ribakow.

Known for his warmth, sincerity, and dedication to learning, Shlomo Aryeh exemplified a life of emes and avodas Hashem.

The levaya will took place on Wednesday afternoon at Eretz HaChaim Cemetery in Beit Shemesh, where kevurah took place.

Shiva will begin in Eretz Yisroel and continue in Baltimore, beginning Friday morning, October 24, at the Ribakow home, located 3316 Olympia Avenue, and will continue until Tuesday morning, October 28.

Police and medical professionals have launched an investigation into the circumstances of the tragic incident.

No further details have been released.


This is how Israel exposed the Houthi Chief of Staff

 

Muhammad al-Ghamari, Chief of Staff of the Houthi forces in Yemen, reportedly used a Motorola walkie talkie similar to those carried by Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and Hezbollah’s Radwan Force commanders, figures who were also eliminated.

According to the intelligence blog Intelli Times, al-Ghamari carried a Motorola TLR7 model, identical to one manufactured in Israel and often distributed through Chinese vendors under various commercial names. This raises the possibility that the device played a role in enabling Israel to track and target him.

The device was first seen on a Houthi-affiliated media channel, potentially exposing its signal to Israeli intelligence - echoing past incidents involving Hezbollah and Quds Force commanders. Israel has reportedly succeeded in penetrating various communication systems, including pagers acquired from Taiwan.

In 2018, Intelli Times exposed the use of Chinese-made radios by Iranian militia leaders. In June 2022, the blog reported that fighters from Hezbollah’s Radwan Force were equipped with “Icom” devices visible on their chests.

For al-Ghamari, this marked a second assassination attempt. The first took place in Sanaa during a strike on a building where a khat-chewing gathering was underway. The second, in August this year, targeted a Houthi government meeting attended by al-Ghamari. This time, the strike proved fatal.


Satmar/Mamdani Sends Chasidic voters Yiddish letter

 

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani endorsed by the anti-Zionist Satmar community is making a direct appeal to Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, The Forward reported.

In an open letter published Wednesday in Yiddish-language newspapers and written in Hasidic Yiddish, Mamdani addressed the community directly.

“You have probably heard a lot about me, and some of it may be a distorted picture of who I am. Therefore, it is important for me to address you directly on important issues and to set the record straight,” he wrote, as quoted by The Forward.

“I have had the honor myself to meet with members of the Orthodox Jewish community,” Mamdani continued. “I still have a lot to learn, but this was a wonderful introduction to an important and valued part of what makes New York so amazing.”

He concluded the letter by stating, “It would be the honor of a lifetime to serve as your next mayor. I hope you will consider casting your vote for me in November. Together, we can build a city that works for all of us.”

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Chutzpah : A Stark Contrast Between Heroism and Protest


The Gemara in Sotah famously states: בעקבות משיחא חוצפה יסגא "In the days preceding Moshiach, chutzpah will proliferate."

They weren’t kidding.

This week, the contrast between true suffering and performative outrage couldn’t be more glaring. Hostages kidnapped by Hamas have begun to share their harrowing experiences—two years of starvation, torture, and psychological torment. These are Jews who endured unimaginable horrors simply for being Jewish.

And yet, back in Israel, a group of yeshiva students—bochrim—chant “we will die, but we won’t enlist,” while simultaneously panicking over a few days in a Jewish jail. A jail that provides Mehadrin meals, visitation rights, and basic comforts. The comparison is not only absurd—it’s offensive.

To equate the incarceration of draft dodgers with the suffering of Hamas hostages is a moral distortion. It trivializes the pain of those who were brutalized and dishonors their resilience.

Even more troubling is the recent statement by Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, long considered a “moderate” voice in the Charedi Litvishe world.

 He reportedly threatened that if the situation doesn't improve  the “entire public” will join the Peleg protests—demonstrations that have increasingly been marked by chaos, disruption, and hostility toward the state.

This isn’t moderation. It’s a dangerous alignment with extremism masquerading as religious conviction.

In a time when Jews are under attack globally, unity and responsibility must take precedence over ideological theatrics. The Torah demands truth, compassion, and perspective. We must not allow chutzpah to drown out the voices of real suffering.




 

Trail of Mother-in-Law from Hell getting Arrested and finally Convicted and to her Sentencing

 




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Mother-in-law begs instead of asking for mercy, tries to reargue the case Judge cuts off her speech, she never admitted setting it all up she had utter lack of remorse

For the first time in Jerusalem: an Assyrian inscription from the First Temple period was discovered









A tiny, extremely rare pottery sherd bearing a cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language from about 2,700 years ago was discovered in an archaeological excavation near the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, north of the City of David.

This is an extraordinary find and the first of its kind - the only Assyrian inscription from the First Temple period (8th to 7th centuries BCE) ever found in the city.

The inscription will be presented to the public for the first time this Thursday, October 23, at the New Discoveries in Jerusalem and Environs Conference by the Israel Antiquities Authority, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University, at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of the Land of Israel.

The rare discovery was uncovered as part of an Israel Antiquities Authority archaeological excavation, in collaboration with the City of David Foundation and directed by Dr. Ayala Zilberstein of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The excavation is taking place in the Jerusalem’s Davidson Archaeological Park, which is managed by the Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter. The rare inscription was deciphered in collaboration with Dr. Filip Vukosavović and Dr. Anat Cohen-Weinberger of the Israel Antiquities Authority, together with Dr. Peter Zilberg of Bar-Ilan University.

Qatar back to its old tricks backs Hamas 100%

 


 

Confirmed 100% :Barack Hussein Obama attempted to overthrow the Constitutional Republic of the United States in 2016 as part of a ‘seditious conspiracy,’