Meshiginar Chabad Chasid joins Ukrainian army: 'Willing to die for Ukraine'

 

David Cherkski, a Chabad-Lubavitch hasid from Dnipro, Ukraine, has joined the war against Russia, together with his father.

Wearing his army uniform, the young Cherkski told Channel 13 News that the Ukrainians will do everything to win.

"I am now in Dnipro, and we are doing everything we can," he said. "We don't have a war yet here, but it's a matter of time. We are waiting for the Russians, so that we can show them."

"Half of them have already died, and the other half have gone home," he said of the Chechnya forces, who took part in the invasion.

Cherkski added: "We will not give the Russians anything. They can say what they want... That they will take Kyiv in two days, but we understand that now our army is the best in Europe."

"I am willing to die for Ukraine. I am willing to die for the Jews who are here, for the Ukrainians who are here. I was born here, my family is here. I am with my father here."

When asked if he would be willing to carry out a suicide operation blowing up one of Ukraine's bridges, he responded, "I think so."

Tinder Swindler Gives his Side of the Story ..In Hebrew

 

This former Bnei-Brak  guy is the biggest chutzpehnyak in the entire world.

Israel Releases Rules for Entry to Unvaccinated Tourists

 

Israel announced just over a week ago that it would open its skies to unvaccinated tourists beginning March 1st. The full set of rules for entry has now been released.

The following rules will take effect on March 1.

1. All tourists will be permitted to enter Israel, regardless of vaccination or recovery.
2. Israeli citizens, toshavei  keva and toshavei arai (A5 and A1 visas) will no longer be required to present pre-flight Covid results.
3. All other travelers, including visa holders, will be required to present negative PCR results, from within 72 of departure, prior to travel to Israel. Antigen tests will no longer be accepted.
4. Recovered travelers, with a positive PCR or antigen test from no less than eight days and no more than ninety days, are exempt from the pre-flight PCR test.
5. All passengers will still be required to fill out the Entry Form within 48 hours of departure.
6. All passengers (Israeli and foreign) will be required to undergo a PCR test upon arrival at Ben Gurion airport.
7. All passengers, regardless of vaccination or recovery, will need to quarantine only until receiving negative Covid results from their airport test, or 24 hours, whichever comes first.
8. Full quarantine of five days will only be required for those who test positive in the airport or unvaccinated persons who are in close contact with a confirmed patient (such as on the plane).

It is unclear what the rules will be for travelers departing for Israel on February 28 but landing in Israel on March 1. Unvaccinated travelers should consider traveling on or after March 1 to avoid difficulties.

Watch Rabbi Bleich Making Believe that he is in Ukraine with a Ukraine flag in the background but he is reporting from Monsey New York Where he fled

 

Listen to a Ukranian say that the Ukrainain People are the most Evil on Earth!

 

Now listen to an Israeli explain that the Ukrainians murdered one and half million Jews and who liberated the Jews...? The Russians

Watch how the Ukranian Tzaddikim Welcomed the Nazis in Lvov in 1941. Watch the smiling faces of the Women and Children

 

כיבוש לבוב. אוקראינה, 1941. pic.twitter.com/0RAI7YhAFF

— תהיות (@Historyinpic6) February 27, 2022

Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Bleich Leaves Ukraine in Middle of the War to go back to his Home in Monsey

 

I can't say I blame him, but isn't he the "Gadol" who advised his flock to remain? Deja Vu all over again!

Interesting that whenever someone interviews him, the Ukranian Chief Rabbi is not in Ukraine but hiding in Monsey.

I really get a kick out of him..Two weeks ago Ami did an interview, and he was hiding in his Monsey home, and this morning when Kol Chai Radio called him, he was again in Monsey probably hiding under his bed! I need a job like this. 

 He claims that the president of Ukraine called him. I doubt that, it seems from this interview that the Chief Rabbi has only 250 followers out of 300,000 Jews living there. If Zelenky or whatever his name is, is relying on Rabbi Bleich, he better join him in Monsey. 

Read what he tells the reporter. What a convoluted story! The bottom line is that he is reporting on something that he did not witness because as he tells the reporter, he wasn't there. 

Anyone that can make sense of his story below gets the DIN Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, spoke to Kol Chai Radio Sunday morning about the situation of the Jewish community of Ukraine as Ukrainian and Russian military forces do battle on the outskirts of the city.

"I left Ukraine in the middle of the week and arrived in the United States," Rabbi Bleich said.

"Inside Kyiv there are something like 8-9 Jewish communities, from our community which was the largest I took out who I could until Thursday. On Thursday I took people out one last time - a bus and something like twenty cars, about 100 people, that's in addition to 150 people a week before and they went to a camp we had prepared outside of Kyiv. It is a hundred kilometers west of Kyiv," he said.

He said: "Those from my community who did not want to [leave] stayed in Kyiv, and there are other communities left as well. On Friday afternoon, just before Shabbat, another 40-50 people from the communities of Chabad next to us who were not ready to evacuate came to my community in Kyiv."

He added: "On Shabbat afternoon the rabbi came there by bus and took them out and they went to Zhytomyr. Those from my community stayed there because a curfew began on Saturday at five in the afternoon until Monday morning at eight. It is because of the massive attack by the Russians."

Rabbi Bleich said that the Ukrainian president called him and asked that the Jewish people pray for his success. "President Zelensky called me a few hours ago, while waging war, and asked the entire Jewish people to pray for the soldiers of Ukraine: 'The Russians have more soldiers than us, but our soldiers have more determination than the Russians. We need your prayers for us to succeed,' the Ukrainian president said."

"Kosher Phone" Extortionists Now Targeting Bet Shemesh Kosher Cell phone stores

 

So it looks like they managed to destroy all the Kosher Cell Phone stores that refused to cave in to their Mafia tactics in Yerushalyim, so now they are trying Bet Shemesh. But in Bet Shemesh police quickly arrived and they ran like roaches, but two got arrested.

These are stores that carry Kosher Phones exclusively but without their hechsher!

They wouldn't try messing with the stores that sell smartphones because those owners will perform a bris on them!

How Biden has empowered evil in both Russia and Iran

 

The contrast could scarcely be more glaring. America’s strategy to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine is to impose sanctions. But its strategy to deter aggression by the Iranian regime is to lift sanctions.

Not only is this contradictory, but in terms of effectiveness, it’s precisely the wrong way round. Sanctions were pointless once Putin’s assault on Ukraine was already underway, as its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, so bitterly observed.

But sanctions did weaken the Iranian regime as it raced towards achieving nuclear weapons breakout capacity. Sanctions were aimed at encouraging the Iranian people to rise up and topple the regime, the best chance of avoiding a nuclear-armed Iran short of war.

Now the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has reportedly reached an agreement that’s even worse than the disastrous 2015 nuclear deal, lifting all constraints on Iran’s manufacture of nuclear weapons within two and a half years.

If this is so, Biden will have played midwife to the Iranian bomb which his administration has so vapidly pledged to prevent and towards which Tehran has already taken huge strides through America’s policy of appeasement.

Breaking: DIN Encourages Putin to March Into Poland Next

"We Stand With Ukraine?" 

No, we do not stand with Ukraine! Yes we stand with Ukrainian Jews, absolutely, but we don't "Stand with  Ukraine"

Ukrainians Shooting Jewish Women & Children to death

I am totally shocked to find frum "heimishe" Yidden on social media placing "We Stand with Ukraine memes" on their pages be it on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter!

Have we forgotten that the Ukrainians were worse than the Nazis?

 The US State Department said on Wednesday that Putin has a "Hit List" of Ukrainians, well I hope that the list is very very long. I pray that Putin troops go from house to house and pulls out entire Ukrainian families and marches them to Babi Yar! 

וינקום לעינינו נקמת דם עבדיו השפוך

I know what the problem is.. it is the lack of Holocaust studies in Frum Yeshivois. We children of survivors really didn't need any Holocaust Studies, we lived it on a daily basis. We lived in neighborhoods that were inhabited totally 100% by survivors. But our children need to study this!

I remember when survivors were begging the Rabbanim to make Holocaust Studies a curriculum in the yeshivois, the Rabbanim would say "Holocaust Studies and Museums" are for the Reform & Conservative Jews, we frum people have the Torah, that is our revenge." The gemarrah is our "Museum!"

These Rabbanim never encouraged any of their students and followers to visit Yad Ve'Shem, saying "Yad Ve'shem doesn't give the frum point of view!." 

Frum point of view? What?????

Frum Jews have another point of view of Nazis killing all types of Jews? The Nazis shoved Zionists and Satmerers in the same oven! You think that a Nazi cared if the Jew wore a gartel or had a "chup?"

You want a "frum point of view?" Then put your version of Holocaust Studies in  Yeshiva curriculums!

It is that attitude that has Frum Jews feeling bad for the descendants of these murderers! I saw on a Yiddish chat on WhatsApp just this Friday a Frum Naive Chassidishe Jew who is now in Ukraine say that "we have to help our goyishe neighbors, they are so nice" 

The Ukrainians that grabbed this Jew in the Photo below, were also very nice.They murdered him after torturing him! 

It is Rabbanim who never learned what really happened to us just 75 years ago that encouraged the Jews of Ukraine to remain, never having learned about the "gedoilim" that advised Jews to remain in Europe even while Hitler ym"s was nipping at their heels. 

It won't be very long when books will come out denying that these Rabbanim ever said that, just like they deny that the pre-war Gedoilim ever said that their followers should remain in Europe! What sheer Chutzpah! Even while there are still Holocaust survivors around, books have come out saying that Rabbanim never advised them to stay! 

I was recently talking to a reader of DIN who reached out to me and  who doesn't agree with me 99% of the time, and he remarked to me that it "isn't true that Rabbanim told their followers to remain in Europe." This guy is a very learned man and "a seeker of the truth" and he is telling me, a child of survivors who heard this about the pre-war Rabbanim, straight from the mouths of the survivors, that it isn't true, even though he and his entire family are Yankees going up to George Washington, and were in the USA while my grandparents were being murdered!

Chassidishe Jews have made an entire industry fixing up Cemeteries and building Shuls in the Ukraine. Plane loads of frum Jews now fly on a weekly basis and spend millions of Jewish dollars in Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Rumania.. Ukraine's filthy earth is soaked with Jewish blood, yet Jews will spend their hard earned money to go visit a country that murdered their grandparents. Just last month, a Rebbe, "Christened" a shul in Szegid! I say "Christened" because I couldn't find a better word in the English lexicon.

G-d forbid they should visit the graves of Avraham, Yitzchok, Yaakov, Sarah, Rivka and Leah! Rachel, our mother lies in Beis Lechem crying for her children to come home, but her tears are all in vain as her children are by R' Shayele Krastirer z"l, buried in a town that murdered all its Jews. Abaye and Rava, Rav Ama and Rav Asa, R' Chiya and his children are all lying there lonely while the Jewish people are busy financing the economies of people that hate them!

G-d forbid that they go up to Har Herzl where thousands of Jewish Soldiers are buried, most of them, teenagers that gave their lives for the Jewish people. I wonder how many of those who go to the graves of R' Shayele, the Baal Shem Tov etc ever even thought of visiting their brothers and sisters who sacrificed their young lives so that Jews can have a country for them to run to when they will be thrown out of their countries!

Frum Jews sincerely believe that everything that occurs in the world has something to do with Jews. 

I am not a prophet nor am I a son of a prophet but I can tell you that Hashem doesn't want any Jews visiting any cemeteries in Europe. Hashem want Jews to come home and if you can't then at least come to the Mekoimos Hakdoishim in Eretz Yisrael. R' Shayele doesn't want you to visit him, he wants you in Israel!

I hope Putin when he is done with Ukraine, marches into Poland, Hungary, Romania! 

Are you crazy? Oh! You want Russia to dominate Europe and the world? 

I don't care about the world, the world never cared about us!

Good luck Putin. here is at least one Jew that wishes you Hatzlacha!

Am I the only one thinking like this?

When Trump Told Off Germany & NATO

 

I know CNN & MSNBC never aired this, so I figured I would. Spot on, don't you think? pic.twitter.com/6V1vRKxP8p

— Justin Pulitzer 🍊 (@JustinPulitzer) February 24, 2022

Majority of Americans say Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine had President Trump still been in office, a majority of Americans said according to the results of a new poll.

The survey released Friday from the Harvard Center for American Political Studies (CAPS)-Harris Poll found that 62% of Americans believed Putin would not have pulled the trigger if Trump were still president, The Hill reported.

The view was held by an overwhelming 85% of Republicans, but also 38% of Democrats. A further 59% of voters said Putin had decided to invade because Putin sensed weakness on the part of President Biden, while just 41% said that view had not played a role in Putin’s decision.

The online poll was conducted between Feb. 23 and Feb. 24 and surveyed 2,026 registered voters.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Va'yakheil

Blacks Continue To Beat Jews in Boro-Park & Williamsburg ..Watch how they beat an Elderly Jew

 

NEW VIDEO JUST IN: NYPD looking for black suspects that brutally beat up a school bus driver in Boro Park. Security at the Yeshiva was terrible per law enforcement sources. The fact perps were able to just walk in with zero security measures MUST CHANGE IMMEDIATELY pic.twitter.com/Oh7tPjJAbr

— NYCPHOTOG (@nycphotog) February 25, 2022

An elderly Jewish bus driver was brutally beaten Thursday morning by a group of teens in the Boro Park area of New York, the Yeshiva World News reported.

The incident occurred at approximately 6:00a.m., in a parking lot on 49ths Street, New York's Police Department (NYPD) and the Shomrim security group said.

In the incident, the teens confronted the 70-year-old bus driver as he entered his vehicle, assaulting, punching, and kicking him before escaping the scene. According to The Jewish Press, the teens hit the elderly man in the face, stomach, and on his arms.

 

This elderly bus driver arriving to his bus for his morning run, was viciously assaulted in what appears to be an unprovoked coordinated attack. If you #HaveInfo, call @NYPD66Pct detectives and the #Shomrim emergency line 718-871-6666. #YourCityYourCall pic.twitter.com/nkY96HLmNY

— 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐫𝐢𝐦 (@BPShomrim) February 24, 2022

First the Rabbis of Ukraine Advised them to stay put and now Odessa orphanage trying to evacuate

 

The Jewish community in Odessa, Ukraine, was one of the first to suffer from the Russian attack, including the 250 children living in the city's orphanage.

Rabbi Shlomo Baksht, director of the orphanage, told 103FM about the situation. "We have a lot of worries right now. I'm in touch with all the members of the community. We do not know what will happen next, but these children are the rock that sits on our hearts. We have children here with a very difficult story. A child whose mother threw him in the trash or a child with parents who were addicts. The stories are shocking and they are all close to our hearts."

Regarding the efforts to take the orphans to a safe place, he explained, "Right now we have them all on buses but do not know where we are going. The operation is complex and not completely safe. We have prepared food and medicine for a long enough period, and different types of places of refuge. We change things while on the move, everything happens from moment to moment. Things are very complex. We are in contact with the relevant parties in the State of Israel at the highest level."

His daughter, Shira Baksht, who works with him, joined the conversation and shared her experiences with the children: "The situation is not simple. We try to calm the children - they heard explosions and were frightened. We told them we are going on a trip. I will never leave them. These are children from the age of 0 until university. Orphanhood can happen at any age."

She added, "For a month now we have been preparing logistically for what is happening now. It is very cold here, so we took the warmest clothes we could and all the food we could prepare."

Israel was created so that never again would Jews be dependent on anyone else for their security. Not on the UN, the US, or NATO

 

Just like that, the world is a different place. It's scary times ahead. As a 47-year old, in my lifetime I cannot remember a more serious time of conflict. Like many worldwide praying for Ukraine, I worry about what Russia’s action means for the State of Israel.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett avoided condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine — or even mentioning Russia by name - saying “The world order as we know it is changing. The world is much less stable, and our region too is changing every day.”

And while the world has changed, Ukraine is fighting alone. Not America and not NATO will be coming to their rescue. Against this backdrop, surely many realize that Israel was created so that never again would Jews be dependent on anyone else for their security.

US Pressuring Israel: Support vote to condemn Russia in UN

 

What a Chutzpah! Russia is a couple of miles away from our border in Syria, and the awful Biden Administration is pressuring us to vote against the Russians. Crazy! I hope Bennett doesn't cave and bring us into another mess. Meanwhile Russia allows Israel to bomb the crap out of Hizballah in Syria!

The United Nations (UN) Security Council will vote on Friday on a draft resolution to condemn Russia for its attacks on Ukraine.

The resolution was drafted by the US, Britain, and France. It is expected that Russia will use its veto power to ensure that the resolution does not pass.

Meanwhile, the US has turned to Israel requesting that Israel support condemning Russia in the UN, even though the resolution will clearly not pass.

The American request was made Thursday night by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a conversation with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid).

Israel, meanwhile is trying to stay out of the matter and avoid direct conflict with the Russians, since the Russians are involved in the Syrian conflict and have played a key role in preventing Syria from retaliating to Israeli attacks on Iranian interests within Syrian territory.

John Kerry "the stupid fool" Worries That Russia-Ukraine War Is Bad for Climate Change..No Kidding!

 

He definitely has his priorities. US climate czar John Kerry said that he is very worried about a Russian invasion of Ukraine because it is likely to distract the world from talking about climate change and would produce “massive emissions.”

“Massive emissions and consequences to the way – but equally important, you’re going to lose people’s focus, you’re going to lose certainly big country attention because they will be diverted and I think it could have a damaging impact,” told the BBC.

“So, you know, I think hopefully President Putin would realize that in the northern part of his country, they used to live on 66% of the nation that was over frozen land. Now it’s thawing, and his infrastructure is at risk. And the people of Russia are at risk. And so I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate,” he added.

Kerry’s comments weren’t a one-off, either. He made similar comments to GZERO Media, saying that a war will have a “monumental impact on the ability and willingness of people to do what’s necessary,” to cut global emissions, adding that it will be “very tough for the climate agenda, there’s no question about it.”

Hard to believe, but Vladimir Putin was indeed probably not thinking of the climate when he decided to invade Ukraine. For shame.

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Sfardie "gadol" destroys smartphone in a ceremony.... Chareidim slowly becoming "Cults"

Remember the good old days when Chareidim would have huge protests against the Israeli Government because of the evil decree of drafting Yeshivah students ? Well it looks like it's moving forward very fast and there are absolutely no protests!

You would think that they would be busy protesting the government for attempting to put aside space by the Kotel for the Reform and Conservative movements/

Nada! Nothing!

אין קול ואין עונה

What about "Chillul Shabbos?" 

Just in the last two years, some cities like Tel-Aviv have introduced  public transportation for the very first time in  the history of modern Israel?

Where are the "gedoilim?" Where are the protests?

So what are they protesting on a daily basis?

The "Light Rail" . The train that is being built by the Zionists which will make their lives a lot easier, And is a prelude to Moshiach, making it much easier for frum Jews to do Olah Regel!

They are protesting and vandelizing stores that sell Kosher Phones!

 Gedoilim are allowing the destruction of private and public property without saying one word. 

Hundreds of thousands of Shekels worth of tractors and bulldozers that are being used to build the Light Rail  have been destroyed by frum people.

Damage to the cell phone stores have amounted to tens of thousands of dollars.

 What is going on?

The youth is dropping out of these Chareidie cults by the thousands. 

They see how the "gedoilim" fight one another. They witnessed how "gedoilim" shredded the reputation of Harav Avraham Yitzchok Ha'cohen Kook z"l . 

Why? Because he didn't agree with them! And now a whole industry sprung up just to defame Harav Kook and his son R' Tzvi Yehuda!  What mamzeirim!

Look at what they are doing to themselves.. Bobov vs Bobov, Satmar vs Satmar, Sadigere vs Sadigere, Ponovitz vs Ponovitz, Etc etc etc 

Satmar Chassidim Reading Der Yid Will Never Know that the USA is Going Back to the Iran Deal that could G-d Forbid Destroy the Jewish State

 

Close to 6 million Jews residing in Eretz Yisrael are facing danger from Iran that vowed to wipe Israel off the map. The USA under the leadership of a demented old fool has decided to re-join the Obama's Iran Deal and to remove all economic sanctions from the Iranian Terrorist State.

This latest news was on the front pages of every single newspaper sharing headlines with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

But the Satmar "oilim goilim" that get their news from Der Yid will never know about the eminent danger that their brothers and sisters living in Israel are facing. 

Instead, Der Yid has a byline on their first page of a protest against the "Misrad Hashichon" the Office of Housing, because they are excavating land in the Gilo section of Yerushalyim, that the Gaavad of the Eida Hachreidis said is an ancient graveyard of Jews. The Gaavad is none other than the aged R' Tuvia Weiss. We will never know if the Gaavad even knows about this or if he is in the frame of mind to issue Halachic decisions of this nature. The Raavad of the Eida is R' Moshe Shternbach, also an extremist but he had examined the site and ruled that there is no problem excavating the site.

In Beit Shemesh we had a similar fight amongst the leaders of the Eida Ha'Chreidis, where R' Weiss ruled that a site where a developer built a Chareidie community is a former gravesite, and R' Shternbach who actually examined the site ruled that there wasn't any Jewish bones buried there, and the developer built his development. 

Back to Der Yid

Why wouldn't Der Yid report the Iran story? 

Because Satmar supports the Iran Deal! Yes, let me repeat : The Satmar Rebbe is all for the Iran Deal that would allow Iran to continue their murderous quest of obtaining Nuclear arms. We wrote about this numerous times; you can do a search on this blog. 

They would rather write about some idiotic irrelevant protest and place it on their front page than write about something that can very well effect every single Jew!

Last week we all heard the Baal Korah read how the "Eirav Rav" fashioned and then worshipped a golden calf. I guess Moshe didn't kill them off, they are still around!

The Jews of Uman aren't leaving

 

Despite the threat of Russian strikes in Ukraine's interior, the Jews of Uman are not planning to leave.

The local boys' school, under the auspices of Uman's rabbi, Rabbi Yaakov Jann, is holding regular classes; meanwhile, constant prayers are being offered at the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, situated in Uman.

Already a week and a half ago, Rabbi Jann called on local Jews to leave Ukraine if they were able to do so.

"Answering this question of all questions at the current time - that of whether to leave or remain - is not simple," Rabbi Jann wrote then. "What is clear, however, is that we must neither panic nor remain complacent.

"After consulting with Torah leaders and experts in the situation," Rabbi Jann continued, "I am recommending that all tourists must leave Ukraine by Wednesday [over a week ago]. Those who live here with their families should also leave if they are able to do so with ease, until the crisis passes."

Rabbi Jann concluded his letter with reassurance that no one would be left without necessary assistance. A week later, most of Uman's Jews have opted to remain.

'Unorthodox' spending Julia Haart sued for millions, allegedly used company as 'personal piggy bank'

 

“My Unorthodox Life” star Julia Haart is being sued for allegedly spending unauthorized millions of dollars of company cash by her estranged husband Silvio Scaglia.

Haart, 51, who was ousted as CEO of Elite World Group earlier this month, is alleged to have spent $125,000 on “cosmetic procedures” —including a boob job, as Page Six reported — according to court papers.

The filing, seen by Page Six, also claims that Haart used the company set up to run her clothing line, E1972, as her “personal piggy bank.”

It alleges that she spent approximately $500,000 at Louis Vuitton, $180,000 at Chanel, $140,000 at Dior and more than $500,000 on lavish trips for herself and her family, plus more than $160,000 on makeup and hair-styling services.

The suit alleges that Haart overspent on the budget allocated to her for personal expenses, claiming: “In addition to exceeding E1972’s budget by millions of dollars due to her personal spending habits, Haart also freely used two EWG corporate credit cards to purchase expensive clothing and handbags, luxury vacations, and other personal and unnecessary purchases.”

‘Full Scale Invasion’ Ukranians Were Tough Against the Jews ..Let's See How Tough they are with the Russians

 

“Make no mistake this is a full-scale Russian invasion”. Shocking images show hordes of cars fleeing Kyiv, in addition to the sounds of air raid sirens.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Two Top Prosecutors Resign from Manhattan DA’s Trump Probe

 

In a sign of growing frustration within the Manhattan DA’s office over the insistence that prosecutors find something to charge Donald Trump with, two top prosecutors have resigned, throwing the entire case into doubt.

Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne resigned together, but the DA’s office declined to comment on their departures.

The DA’s office launched a probe into the Trump Organization’s business practices in 2018 under then-District Attorney Cy Vance, and the investigation has continued under DA Alvin Bragg.

Dunne, a nearly 40-year veteran of the DA’s office, oversaw the investigation from the very beginning, and Pomerantz was asked by Vance to join the probe late last year, the NY Post reported.

Without Dunne and Pomerantz leading the investigation, it is no longer clear that Trump himself will be charged with anything.

Trump lawyer Ron Fischetti told the NY Post that he is “happy” they resigned, saying that without them there is “no investigation.”

J Street Convinces Congressman to Turn Against the Jewish State

 

A New York congressman has withdrawn his support for a pro-Israel bill, saying that J Street, which labels itself as the “home of pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans” convinced him to change his position.

This development reveals a great deal about the reasons for the ongoing tension between American Jewish critics of Israel and the rest of the Jewish community.

The congressman in question is Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a first-term Democrat who represents a district that covers part of New York City (the north Bronx) and much of Westchester County. Bowman has a substantial number of Jewish constituents, which probably explains why, in the past, he has not been as harsh towards Israel as some of his ideological bedfellows.

The Tide Turns: More Jewish than Arab Births in Israel

 

For the first time since the establishment of the Jewish State, the fertility rate of Arab women has fallen below that of Jewish women. At the establishment of the state, in 1948, a Muslim woman gave birth on average to 9 children, and today she gives birth to fewer than 3, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

Israel’s total fertility rate (average number of children per woman) in 2020 was 2.90. This figure is low compared to 3.01 in 2019 and 3.09 in 2018, but still far higher than all the OECD countries whose average in 2019 was 1.61 children per woman.

The total fertility rate of Jewish women and others in Israel is estimated at 2.88 children per woman, compared to Arab women at 2.82.

Bloomberg to Dems: You’re Going to Be Wiped Out

 Former NYC mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg warned Democrats that they are heading for a bloodbath in the midterm elections later this year if they don’t fix things now.

“Without changing course, the party is headed for a November wipeout,” the former mayor wrote in an op-ed.

“Three months after Republicans scored major election upsets in Virginia and New Jersey, largely because of the frustration parents felt with Democratic officials who catered to teachers’ unions and culture warriors at the expense of children, voters in San Francisco recalled three school board members by margins of nearly three to one,” Bloomberg wrote. “Coming from America’s most liberal city, those results should translate into a 7 to 8 on the Richter scale, because the three main factors that drove the recall are not unique to the Bay Area.”

“Swing voters will decide the 2022 midterm elections, and right now, polls show they are swinging away from Democrats. The earthquake that shook San Francisco needs to shake up our party, before voters do it themselves in November,” Bloomberg said.

A poll released Tuesday by Emerson University found that Republicans currently lead Democrats by 9 percentage points – 50% to 41% – on a generic congressional ballot heading into November’s midterms.

Chareidie Cleaning Lady Needed Extra Cash so She sued Sara Netanyahu but the Court won't have any of that and throws out her case

 A labor court rejected on Wednesday the claim of abuse by a woman who worked as a cleaner for Sara Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Residence.

The Jerusalem District Labor Court ruled that Shira Raban’s version of events was unreliable, and she had failed to prove there was abusive behavior on Netanyahu’s part when she worked as a cleaner for the wife of then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The court also said that Raban’s claim that the alleged abuse went on for a prolonged period could not be proven due to the fact that Raban only worked at the residence for a short period of time, and the defense provided evidence that she and Sara Netanyahu were never alone on the same floor.

Despite the dismissal of the lawsuit, the court decided that in view of the plaintiff’s financial situation, she would not be compelled to pay the legal expenses.

In their verdict, the judges wrote that while the legal defense of working conditions should be maintained, it was not without limit.

“Although the growth of this cause should be welcomed, given the significance it has for preserving the rights of workers and formulating a proper standard for a respectful work environment and proper working conditions, it is worth remembering that this cause is not unlimited,” the verdict read.

Responding to the ruling, Netanyahu said that she had paid an “unbearable” price over four years of legal wrangling.

“After countless news shows and newspapers led to four years of blood libels, today the court threw out Shira Raban’s claims on all levels,” the statement read. “The price paid by Sara Netanyahu is unbearable. Who will give her back her good name and who will apologize for the malicious slander that was presented to the public as absolute truth?”

In a Facebook post, her husband, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the ruling “the end of another shameful chapter in the false smear campaign against Sara Netanyahu.”

Sara Netanyahu was sued by Raban, who worked as a cleaner at the Netanyahus’ official residence in Jerusalem for a month in 2017 — a total of 20 working days.

Raban alleged that the then-prime minister’s wife insulted her relentlessly throughout her short tenure. She filed her lawsuit shortly after leaving her position, claiming NIS 225,000 ($69,000) in damages.

Raban claimed she was forced to endure unacceptable conditions by Netanyahu while working on the second floor of the residence.

Some of the former employee’s complaints included not being allowed to take leave when one of her children was sick, and being forced to use the bathroom outside the main building. She also claimed that the prime minister’s oldest son, Yair Netanyahu, would conduct cleanliness inspections.

Netanyahu allegedly forbade Raban to eat, drink, or rest, and she was required to change her clothes dozens of times a day. She was also required to wash her hands about 100 times a day with hot water, and was expected to dry them with a towel separate from the one used by the Netanyahu family, the lawsuit charged.

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EXPLAINER: Ukraine Crisis – Why is Putin invading now?

 

Vladimir Putin is on a crusade to rebuild the former Soviet Union. In a sense, Putin believes that the old regime is still intact, and the downfall of Communism was merely a hiccup. (Like most dictators, he is delusional about his empire.)

He’s described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “disintegration of historical Russia” and considers Ukraine’s leaders as running an “anti-Russian project”. He has said that Ukraine and Russia are one country.

It’s important to understand Putin’s psyche, to recognize his true motives. Putin is a narcissistic sociopathic megalomaniac. He has poisoned political enemies with toxic nerve gas. He used his own daughter as a guinea pig for the Russian Covid vaccine. He dissolved the Russian parliament and altered the constitution, so that he could be a lifelong dictator.

Putin is obsessed with, well…Putin. He craves the approval of his citizens, taking photo ops of himself shirtless on horseback and flying a hang glider.

It’s hard to comprehend, yet many Russian citizens worship him, and soak up his bogus vicious propaganda against the United States.

For First Time, Romanian Officials Commemorate Holocaust Refugees Who Died In Sunken Ship 80 Years Ago

 

Romanian officials for the first time commemorated the victims of the sinking 80 years ago of the Struma, a ship that carried hundreds of Holocaust refugees from Romania.

The ceremony Tuesday took place in the coastal city of Constanţa in southern Romania, from which the ship set sail in 1941 with 770 refugees, including more than 100 children, aboard.

In 1942, a Red Army submarine mistook the Struma for a hostile vessel after Turkish authorities towed it away from its dock in Istanbul and left it in international waters without a working engine or an anchor. The sub torpedoed the ship, leaving only one survivor.

Activist for Settlers Finds out Her Biological Parents are Muslim

 

A prominent far-right Jewish activist has been forced to reexamine her beliefs after finding out her biological parents were Muslim, she acknowledged in an Israeli television report broadcast on Sunday.

Or Leibler, 22, has become a well-known figure among both Muslims and Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem.

She became increasingly involved with far-right groups in the capital following last year’s 11-day war between Israel and the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group, Channel 13 news noted, attending protests organized by Lehava, a far-right and Jewish supremacist group that opposes the intermarriage of Jews and non-Jews, and openly sharing her extreme ideology influenced by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Despite living in southern Israel, she would make weekly commutes to one of Jerusalem’s most explosive areas, while walking around with an Israeli flag. Her activity has been described by some as a deliberate attempt to cause provocation, a claim she strongly denies.

“In this day and age, in the State of Israel, being Jewish is provocative,” she insisted.

Leibler regularly shared videos of her confronting Arabs near Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City, located south of the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

“Anyone who supports Palestine is a potential terrorist,” she said on one occasion. “I have a problem with Palestinians who don’t recognize the State of Israel… who don’t recognize me as a Jew who belongs here. I see them as murderers for all intents and purposes.”

In another video, she can be seen holding an Israeli flag, saying, “this flag represents love and peace,” while telling a nearby Arab activist waving a Palestinian flag that his flag “represents murder and Jew-hatred.”