Monday, September 14, 2026
Motzei Rosh Hashana in Uman ... beating each other up!
מי כעמך ישראל
Not to worry!
Reb Nachman will pull them out of gehinnom by their peyos!
CHINESE ENTITIES PROVIDED IRAN SATELLITE IMAGERY BEFORE DEADLY U.S. BASE STRIKE:
U.S. officials say Iran obtained high-resolution satellite images from Chinese entities before and after its July 17 ballistic missile attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, which killed three U.S. service members and wounded four others.
The U.S. has linked the imagery to the strike, according to The Wall Street Journal, though officials have not accused the Chinese government itself of direct involvement. Beijing has denied the allegations and demanded evidence.
Yitzchak Almekais, 45 Found Dead in Uman ..Homicide Suspected
Ukrainian authorities are investigating the death of a British Jewish father of seven who was found dead in a forest near the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman during Rosh Hashanah.
The victim, identified as Yitzchak Almekais, 45, had been staying in Uman for the holiday pilgrimage, which drew tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers from Israel and around the world.
According to initial reports, Hasidim who entered the nearby wooded area found him lying on the ground without a pulse or signs of breathing. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.
Local police have opened an investigation and are examining all possibilities, including a possible homicide. Reports from the scene raised suspicions of foul play, but Ukrainian authorities have not yet officially ruled the death a murder.
Aharon Ben Haroush, who heads United Hatzalah’s Uman branch, said volunteers are working with local authorities to secure the release of Almekais’ body for burial as soon as possible.
Norway is preparing to criminalize Jews for buying from Jews.
Oslo’s bill would ban imports of goods made by Jews in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and send violators to prison for up to three years. The foreign minister expects the Storting to pass it this fall.
Consultation closes September 19.
Read that again. Not “label the wine.” Not “boycott.”
Jail.
For commerce with the non-Muslim Jewish communities in the historic Holy Land.
They call it international law. It is a Judenfrei trade code with a Nordic stamp. The same campaign that demands Jews vanish from Hebron, Shiloh and the Old City now wants the receipt to be a crime.
The Nazi death camp guard, who lived for years in Queens undetected
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| Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was a former Nazi death camp guard living in Queens. |
She was the perfect American neighbor — sweet, hardworking and the ideal homemaker. Everybody liked her.
She was also a Nazi.
The new movie “The Housewife,” which had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the strange story of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who hid out undetected for years in New York, before finally being caught.
But the history of this major event is fascinating — and frightening.
When New York Times reporter Joseph Lelyveld, operating on a tip from Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, arrived at Ryan’s Maspeth, Queens, door in 1964, the war criminal among us said, “My God. I knew this would happen. You’ve come.”
The vicious woman hailed from Vienna, Austria, where she worked as a servant and eventually in a brewery. She later moved to Berlin in the 1930s and embraced rising Naziism.
Enthusiastic and needing money, Ryan applied for a job at the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp in Germany in 1939 and then was transferred to Majdanek in Poland in 1942.
She rose the ranks to assistant warden, and earned a bone-chilling nickname: “the stomping mare,” because she’d kill women with her steel-spiked boots. Hot-tempered Ryan would also whip prisoners to death and drag children by the hair. Grotesquely, she was awarded the War Merit Cross for her brutality.
After the war, a court in Austria, lacking evidence for her many murders, convicted Ryan of crimes against human dignity for non-fatal abuse and sentenced her to just three years in prison. She was released after four months for time served.
She then resumed a perfectly normal life. And while working at a hotel in 1957, she met Russell Ryan, an American Air Force mechanic. They married in Canada in 1958, and in 1959 finally moved to Queens, where she was accepted and popular. In 1963, Hermine — a former Nazi prison guard — received her American citizenship.
When Lelyveld went to the Ryans’ home for his story, he discovered that Russell knew nothing about his wife’s gruesome role in the Holocaust. He stayed with her anyway.
After the story ran, shocked neighbors couldn’t believe what they were reading. Who would think the nice lady next door used to work at a concentration camp?
Hermine was defiant.
“I was punished enough. I was in prison three years. Three years, can you imagine? And now they want something again from me?,” she said to the reporter.
“This is the end of everything for me.”
“The Housewife” misleadingly speeds up what happened next. If you assumed a known Nazi would be swiftly kicked out of the country, you’d be wrong. An investigation began, but she wasn’t stripped of her citizenship until 1971, when the government determined she’d lied on her application about her Austrian conviction.
During her deportation trial in 1972, there were many harrowing testimonies. A 51-year-old woman named Mary Finkelstein, who spent seven weeks at Majdanek, said that she’d seen another inmate “clobbered like the seals are clobbered in North America” by Hermine.
Finkelstein also said once when Hermine noticed a prisoner slouching, she “clobbered her” with a stick and shouted, “Du schwein, du fluchte, Jude, stehgerade.” (“You pig, you damn Jew, stand up straight”).
Hermine, who was complicit in the murders of more than 1,000 people, was finally deported to West Germany in 1973 where she was tried for her deadly acts at Majdanek — the first US citizen to be extradited for war crimes.
She was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 and died in 1999 at age 79.
What Shirinian’s decent film does to lead us off the scent and build suspense is make Hermine the main character and have Lelyveld (played by Tye Sheridan) first pursue Russell (Luke Evans). The reporter believes the husband is the Nazi — not the wife.
That’s not a bad idea, but Watts’ performance is so grand that even a viewer with no knowledge of Ryan will catch on pretty fast that she’s the bad guy.
The obviousness of her guilt waters down the movie’s most powerful point: Evil doesn’t always look or sound like evil.
And it can be living right next door.
Bill Clinton reveals why the CIA told him not to take out bin Laden before 9/11
Former President Bill Clinton revealed on Sunday that the CIA abandoned a plan to take out Osama bin Laden before 9/11 over fears that innocent civilians could die if the risky operation went sideways.
Clinton, 80, spoke about the spy agency’s reasoning during a radio interview on WABC’s “Cats Roundtable” show with host John Catsimatidis — and reflected on how he “immediately” knew the al Qaeda leader was responsible for the terror attacks while watching them unfold.
“I had authorized the CIA to try to take him out,” Clinton told Catsimatidis, adding that he told the agency it would have been good to capture bin Laden alive, but the main priority was to stop him.
“I was scared, and I was mad because we tried to get him before, and the CIA at the last minute killed the plan that I think might well have succeeded,” the former Democratic president said.
“But they were afraid that if they missed, they’d kill a lot of innocent civilians. They didn’t want to run the risk. I didn’t second-guess them, but I think, in the end, [bin Laden] was determined to do what he did, and he had lots of money and lots of capacity,” Clinton reflected.
“I wish we had done even more to get him. I always thought he was our biggest threat … I wanted to get him, and I did what I could to do that,” he said.
Clinton also recalled knowing that bin Laden was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as soon as he watched the second plane hit the Twin Towers on television, remembering that the terror mastermind had long been planning to hit US soil.
“At the time, I was in Australia. Hilary was in Washington. But our daughter was in Lower Manhattan, and we were worried to death about her. She was one of the thousands of people who were told to just walk north. We couldn’t get in touch with her,” Clinton told Catsimatidis.
“I was watching television in Australia when the second plane hit. I immediately said that bin Laden did this. They all looked at me and said, ‘How do you know this?’ I said, ‘Well, because the only adversaries we have with the capacity to do this are Iran and bin Laden,” he recalled.
“And the Iranians wouldn’t do it because we could wipe them off the face of the Earth immediately. And bin Laden is holed up in a cave in Afghanistan.’ I just knew it had to be him. I also knew that he had been planning to do what he did to hit us for a long time.”
Bin Laden was later killed in a targeted, secret raid on his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound led by US Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011, under Barack Obama’s presidency.
Clinton added that he believes that it’s possible that New York City could face another terrorist attack, but maintained the US is “much better prepared” for an attack of that scale.
“I think it’s entirely possible. I think we have to stay on guard about that. We have to make sure we’re getting all the intelligence we can on the issue. I think there is a chance that will happen,” Clinton said when asked if New York could be targeted by terrorists again.
“We’re much better prepared [now] than we were… [But] you only have to miss once, and then you’re screwed. It’s just something that has to be a continuing part of our national security plan,” he said.
“If you’re running the country, you want to make big good things happen, and stop big bad things from happening … That’s where I think we are as a country, and where I think we can maybe find unity again.”
Israel Moving to revoke Citizenship of Self-Hating Jews Rahel Shor and Yuval Avraham Creators of Disgraceful Naza Film
Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar on Sunday evening condemned a film that won an award at the Venice Film Festival, accusing its creators of damaging Israel’s reputation and announcing that he would work to revoke their citizenship over what he called “treason against the state."
“The disgraceful Naza film winning at the Venice Film Festival is shocking," Zohar said. “The burning self-hatred of the creators, who are willing to harm their homeland in order to receive applause from antisemites around the world, is a betrayal of the state. I will act to revoke the citizenship of these contemptible creators."
Ganz called them a "bunch of liars"
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Ben from Ben & Jerry's receives a award from the Muslim Brotherhood on Rosh Hashanah
Ben from Ben & Jerry's receiving a major award from the Muslim Brotherhood on Rosh Hashanah has got to be the most "as a Jew" thing I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/44xwsLwoNa
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) September 13, 2026
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