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Unbelievable! 12 countries condemn Israel over UNRWA center evacuation in Jerusalem Which was a Den for Terrorists

 

12 countries, including eight European Union members, have criticized Israel over its decision to begin dismantling a UNRWA vocational training center in Kafr Aqab, an area of eastern Jerusalem.

The statement was issued Thursday by Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. All 12 countries serve on UNRWA’s Advisory Commission.

They described Israel’s entry into and seizure of the facility as “unlawful" and reaffirmed their support for the UN agency for "Palestinian refugees".

The countries called for “immediate and full compliance with the UN obligations allowing UNRWA to carry out its mandated activities without interference," while urging Israel to “halt all disruptions" to the agency’s operations.

The joint condemnation followed an operation earlier this week involving the IDF, Israel Police and Jerusalem Municipality to evacuate the UNRWA compound in Kafr Aqab, in northern Jerusalem.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir welcomed the operation, saying Israeli authorities were acting in accordance with legislation targeting UNRWA.

New poll delivers blow to left as Winter’s party gains ground

 

A new poll published Thursday evening on Israel’s Channel 14 reveals challenging numbers for Israel’s left-wing bloc while showing a notable debut for Ofer Winter’s newly launched political party.

Just three days after announcing the formation of “Amcha Yisrael” (Your People Israel), retired Brig. Gen. Ofer Winter has achieved a significant milestone: his party crosses the electoral threshold for the first time, securing four Knesset seats in the survey. (Other recent polls have credited Winter with six or even seven mandates.)

The shift marks a dramatic change from Channel 14’s initial poll conducted immediately after Winter announced his entry into politics, which showed “Amcha Yisrael” earning only 2.1% of the vote, below the 3.25% threshold required for Knesset representation. Within days of the party’s official launch, Winter has now entered the parliamentary picture, reshaping the distribution of seats.

According to the complete survey results, Likud leads with 31 seats. Yesh Atid, the centrist party led by Yair Lapid, receives 23 mandates, while the ultra-Orthodox Shas party takes 10 and the Democrats secure 9.

United Torah Judaism (representing Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox parties), Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), and the Joint List each win 7 seats. Yisrael Beiteinu earns 6 mandates, Ra’am (an Arab Islamist party) gets 5, while Religious Zionism and Winter’s “Amcha Yisrael” close the list with 4 seats each.

Several parties fall short of the electoral threshold, including Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut party at 1.7%, Beit Zioni-Miluimnikim (a reservists’ party led by Chili Tropper and Yoaz Hendel) at 1.1%, Blue and White at 0.4%, HaAchdut at 0.3%, and Noam at 0.3%.

When divided into political blocs, the right-wing camp reaches 63 seats, a governing majority in the 120-seat Knesset. The left-wing bloc stands at 45 mandates, while Arab parties collectively hold 12 seats.

Charedie "Pay for Slay Program": New Fund to Provide NIS 1,000 a Day to Families of Bnei Torah Held in Military Prison

 

Charedie steal Arab "Pay for Slay" idea and apply this to their own! 

A new program known as “Prison 1000” is being established to assist the families of Bnei Torah detained by Israeli military authorities. The initiative will provide NIS 1,000 for every full day an eligible individual remains in military prison.

The fund was created with the guidance of leading dayanim and poskim as arrests of yeshiva bochurim and avreichim over draft evasion have ramped up. Its goal is to ensure that the financial strain of an arrest does not fall entirely on the family. Assistance may be used for legal fees, transportation and prison visits, as well as income lost when family members must take time off from work.

Participants will pay a maximum of NIS 1 per day when an eligible arrest takes place, along with a NIS 3 monthly administrative fee. As more people join the program, the daily cost per participant is expected to decline.

The initiative is overseen by several dayanim, including HaGaon HaRav Naftali Nussbaum Shlit”a, HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Tufik Abiezri Shlit”a, HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Meir Stern Shlit”a, HaGaon HaRav Eliyahu Pozna Shlit”a and HaGaon HaRav Tzvi Braverman Shlit”a.

The committee has sole authority to determine who qualifies for assistance and how funds are distributed.

The program applies only to unexpected arrests. Individuals who knowingly expose themselves to arrest, such as by voluntarily reporting to draft offices or police stations or attempting to cross an airport or other border crossing, are excluded from coverage.

Chareidi communities, yeshivos and kollelim are now joining the initiative, with institutions signing up together to extend coverage to their bochurim and avreichim.

Don’t Be a Golem

 

by EMAILIM BATORAH

:friedmanmoishe771@101211442.mailchimpapp.com Among serious historians — Jewish and non‑Jewish, frum and non‑frum — the famous story of the Golem of Prague is universally regarded as a legend with no pre‑19th‑century evidence. Neither the Maharal nor his talmidim ever mention such an event, and no contemporary source records it. 1. The First Appearance: A Novel by a Maskil  The earliest known reference to a “Golem of Prague” appears not in any Jewish manuscript, but in 1837, in a fictional novel by the Maskil, Berthold Auerbach, Spinoza: Ein Historischer Roman. In a satirical depiction of Spinoza’s חרם, Auerbach has Spinoza declare that he does not believe in the Golem of Prague — and in the novel, this disbelief is presented as the reason for his חרם. Auerbach’s intent was transparent: to mock frum Yidden by portraying them as people who place someone in חרם for rejecting fairy tales. These few lines are the first recorded mention of a Prague Golem in history.   2. R. Yidel Rosenberg, a bestselling novelist The legend gained traction only decades later through R. Yidel Rosenberg z”l, a respected Rav in Łódź and Warsaw who later served in Toronto and Montreal. Rosenberg was a תלמיד חכם— he translated the זהר into לשון קדש — but he also wrote popular Yiddish novels*. Rosenberg claimed to have discovered manuscripts written by R. Yitzchak Katz zt”l, the Maharal’s son‑in‑law, in the “Great Library of Metz.” This library, however, never existed. One of these alleged manuscripts described the creation of the Golem in elaborate detail. In 1908/1909, Rosenberg published this “manuscript” as נפלאות מהר"ל, and it was this ספר — not any earlier tradition — that popularized the Golem story among Jews and eventually among non‑Jews. To bolster credibility, Rosenberg asserted that the נודע ביהודה believed in the Golem and even invented a dramatic tale of the Noda B’Yehuda climbing into the attic to view the deactivated Golem**. No such story appears anywhere in the writings of the נודע ביהודה or his descendants. . 3. The Immediate Pushback: R. Mendel Eckstein (1909) Within a year of Rosenberg’s publication, R. Mendel Eckstein z”l released a ספר titled ספר יצירה, in which he systematically refuted Rosenberg’s work and labeled it a fabrication. He presented 25 proofs demonstrating that the manuscript could not be authentic — including halachic contradictions and historical impossibilities. One of his most compelling proofs: The manuscript refers to a talmid named “Tosfos Yom Tov.” But in the era of R. Yitzchak Katz, no such sefer existed, and R. Yom Tov Lipman Heller was not known by that title. The name “Tosfos Yom Tov” became common only after his פירוש was printed — long after the Maharal’s lifetime. It is impossible that R. Yitzchak Katz would have used that term. Eckstein also noted halachic impossibilities in Rosenberg’s description of how the Golem was created and decommissioned — procedures inconsistent with the actual Sefer Yetzirah tradition. *His grandson, Mordechai Richler, was one of the most famous Canadian novelists. ** The Rebbe Rayatz Zt"l (Frierdiker Lubavitcher Rebbe)  climbed up the attic. He never claimed to have seen the Golem there, but some Chasidim claim that he did.

Entire Neturei Karta Family goes off the derech

 Now this isn't "stam" a Neturei Karta Family! This family of 8 was from the "Cream of the Crop" of the Neturei Karta living in the most extremist places in Israel, Beit Shemesh Bet! 

They were influential and leaders! The lady illustrated and wrote dozens of children books that was according to her, embedded with the most vile hatred against the State that one can imagine! Her husband orchestrated all the protests, stopping traffic, and putting everything in their path on fire.

She says that Satmar is mild compared to the group she belonged to. 

Her children are now serving in the IDF and she is proud of her children and now loves her country! 

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Only in Israel .... the most popular names given to babies in Israel are all Biblical .... no not "yoielie!

 

Yad L'Achim says that the Schwiethale Family are a bunch of Goyim

 

Lakewood Roish Moisad calls for Jim Crow Busing!

 

by Daas Yochid

I was absolutely shocked to read the following in the latest issue of The Voice of Lakewood over shabbos. In the continuing saga of dysfunction of this town, funding for private busing has been slashed and one of the ways money was to be saved was via combining buses for different schools. Instead of having one bus serve one school in many different neighborhoods, there will be one bus per neighborhood for two schools combined. Many parents are very happy about this, because it means their kids commute times will be cut in half or more. But the reaction to this by certain heads of school were shocking. From The Voice of Lakewood (emphases mine): …with the onset of the school year and the sharp increase in the combined routes, the complaints are rising sharply as well. Several members of yeshivah administrations spoke with The Voice (all on condition that pseudonyms would be used) expressing varying levels of disagreement or apprehension. One supported the concept but objected to how it was implemented, another had reservations but supported it on balance, a third was sharply opposed, and another called it a “himmel geshrei.” Yitzy, the rosh mosad of one elementary school whose routes are being combined with those of another that he feels has “very different hashkafos,” said, “We wouldn’t send to camp together or daven in the same shul. We don’t want the kids interacting on a daily basis to and from school on long bus rides, sitting together and sharing information.” Yitzy says his talmidim come from homes with stricter standards in areas like technology and dress than the school his has been paired with, and he’s worried that “they’ll become friendly with kids that are in a very different sevivah.” God Forbid! Yitzy says his rabbanim have instructed him that “we cannot let our children go on these buses” and that if the combination plan goes through, he’ll have to get a final psak about how many kids from the other school the rabbanim will allow to be on a bus with their own students. And if there are more than that, Yitzy says “we might start private vans or carpooling.” Are you shocked yet? Because sit down. It’s gonna get worse. Way worse: Another option, he says, would be placing monitors on the buses to ensure that students from the two schools sit separately. With dozens of routes, however, that would be difficult and expensive. What the actual!?? Bus monitors? To ensure that chas veshalom more yeshivish boys don’t sit next to boys that are slightly less yeshivish than them!? (The LSTA says in the article that “we were very sensitive with deciding which schools to combine.” The schools that I personally know combined in our nighborhood leads me to believe this is true, and that Yitzy is representing an ultra-extreme yeshiva that is worried about a slightly less extreme one. Regardless, its certainly not Skvere Cheder riding with Yeshiva of Flatbush). Lets imagine this playing out: Ruvie goes to extreme yeshiva A. Lets call it “Cheder Bnei Yechidim”. Shimmy goes to slightly less extreme yeshiva B. (This Yeshiva allows 24six select.) Let’s call it “Cheder Bnei Lo Kol Kach Yechidim”. They live across the street from each other and know each other well. Ruvie is excited that he will finally be able to sit next to Shimmy on the bus. Ruvie gets on and heads to the back to sit with Shimmy. (Of course, Shimmy is in the back). But the bus monitor stops him. “Fahrshteitzich you want to sit next to your friend Shimmy that you know from the shchunah, but Rav Yanky and our yeshiva’s rabbanim hold it pas nisht. Gradeh, efsher you shouldn’t talk to him by dain hoiz either.” I’m sure both Ruvie and Shimmy are gonna feel great! (‘Yitzy’ certainly will.) It’s absolutely insane that a Rosh Mosad - a head of a Yeshiva - would want to reimplement Jim Crow to ensure that his yeshivos’ kids won’t associate chalilah with those from the other yeshiva’s “who have different standards of dress”. (Maybe a colorful yarmulka.) Keep in mind that buses are places of hefkeirus already (as a parent points out in the article) yet the one thing that would require bus monitors would be to stop boys from sitting together. The article concludes: Several people we spoke with commented that in other communities, yeshivos are much more integrated than in Lakewood, and a little less segregation here wouldn’t be a terrible thing. Yitzy says that might be a valid broader argument, but that “the matzav today in Lakewood is that everything is separate. When you have one school very closed-minded (!!! -DY) and one open-minded, the differences can’t meet at this point.” Methinks ‘Yitzy’ needs to watch some more Tisha Bav videos. Or listen to Incredible Kids.

Why was a monument for a Terrorist that murdered Jews allowed to remain?

 

Smotrich Defends Sukkot: Israel Should Have Demolished Terror Monument Long Ago*

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich defended MK Zvi Sukkot after he smashed a monument in the Palestinian village of Madama, while stressing that such monuments should ultimately be  removed by the IDF.

Smotrich said Israel should have demolished the monument long ago because it honored Yaman Tayeb Ali Faraj, who was linked to dispatching the terrorist responsible for the 2003 Geha Junction bombing that killed four Israelis and wounded more than 20.

He also criticized opposition leaders for condemning Sukkot rather than focusing on Palestinian terrorism and the glorification of terrorists.