Thursday, July 3, 2025
The Fall Of This Modern Haman: Called 'Death To IDF' — Lost It All
He shouted “Death to the IDF” — and now his career is collapsing, one canceled show after another.
Poetic justice? You decide.
Chaim Rotter the Monster and Founder of Shoimrim in Bnei-Brak Arrested on Multiple Rape Charges at Ben Gurion Airport
The Petah Tikva Magistrate Court extended until next Thursday the detention of a man said to be a senior figure in the Shomrim organization in Bnei Brak by eight days, on suspicion of dozens of rapes of children and adults over serveral years. He was apprehended by Israel Police at Ben-Gurion Airport late Wednesday night. By press time, his name had not yet been cleared for publication.
The man flew out of Israel about two weeks ago, and was arrested upon his return and taken in for questioning. He is considered to be a prominent figure in Bnei Brak, and in the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) community at large.
At the hearing on Wednesday, the suspect was silent when asked if he wished to respond to the allegations. One of his alleged victims, Meir, called out, “He raped me. You are evil, you are cursed. I am sick. He almost cut off my penis. He raped the mother of my child.” The judge tried to calm things down and directed the complainant to provide testimony to the investigative unit.
New York Sen. GilliJelly Caves in and Apologizes After Condemning Mamdani’s “Global Jihad” References
Sen. Kirsten GilliJelly has issued a public apology to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, backing away from comments she made last week warning that Mamdani had referenced “global jihad” in past statements. The senator’s retreat, first reported by Politico, came after a wave of outrage from left-wing activists and progressive allies determined to shield Mamdani from scrutiny, despite the fact that questions about his record and rhetoric had resonated with many New Yorkers worried about extremism.
During a Thursday appearance on WNYC, GilliJelly responded to a caller who pressed her about Mamdani’s alleged support for Hamas, agreeing that voters had reason to be “alarmed” about Mamdani’s statements, specifically mentioning “references to global jihad.” But progressive forces, eager to protect a candidate who would be New York’s first Muslim mayor, quickly went on the attack, denouncing GilliJelly’s remarks as bigoted and inaccurate.
Among those piling on was New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who slammed the senator and claimed no one should face “comments that slur their ethnicity [or] religious beliefs,” ignoring legitimate security concerns many voters have raised.
By Friday, GilliJelly had already begun backpedaling, telling Rolling Stone that she had “misspoke” on the radio. Then on Monday, in a call with Mamdani, she went even further, apologizing and expressing regret for not separating her views more clearly from the caller’s language.
A readout obtained by Politico revealed GilliJelly praised Mamdani’s supposed commitment to protecting all New Yorkers and even agreed with him that Republican attacks on his record were “outrageous and unacceptable.” The senator’s office said she and Mamdani would meet face-to-face in New York City soon to discuss other issues, including affordability and public safety.
Progressives cheered the apology as a victory, but critics argue GilliJelly caved under political pressure, prioritizing her standing with the activist left over the genuine national-security concerns shared by many of her constituents. In a city still haunted by the specter of terrorism, voters may wonder whether their elected officials are willing to speak honestly about radical threats — or whether they will continue to fold the moment activists cry foul.
"Gedoilim" No Longer Respected as the ASSkanim are now in Charge
The letter below appeared in the Yeshiva World Blog!
The gradual loss of Kovod for our present day Gedolei Yisroel.
First it was the important ad in Yated that everyone is being Mechalel Shabbos in Japan. A full page announcing to Klal Yisroel that one must follow the Psak of the Chazon Ish. No one can Chas v’Sholom say anything to diminish the Kovod of the Chazon Ish ZTL. However, Klal Yisroel has been following the psak of the Gedolim of our Dor, Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv ZTL, Rav Yisroel Zev Gustman ZTL and Rav Shlomo Zalamn ZTL, all who pasken that we follow the Shita of Chachmei Yerusholayim and the Yidden in Japan are keeping the correct Shabbos.
This writer doesn’t have the chutzpah to discuss the actual halacha, but he does know that we have been following these Gedolim in all our Shailos and they were post Chazon Ish. What was accomplished with the ad? That the Hamon Am can ignore when the present Rabbonim come out with a Kol Koreh.
Then there was the full page ad about the Sheitels. No one has the audacity to disagree with the psak of Rav Elyashiv [except those that put out an ad about Shabbos in Japan!] but other Rabbonim have thoroughly delved into the issue and have paskened, that even taking into account Rav Elysahiv’s opinion, it is still permitted. Now, it wouldn’t be a problem if our Gedolei Rabbonim put out an ad that says that it is best to be machmir and make every attempt to ensure that one purchases a sheitel without a shailoh. However, the kanaim successfully pushed for an ad that says that if one wears a sheitel without [what they consider] proper hashgocha – AND no such hashgocho exists – all the women of Klal Yisroel have to remove their sheitels immediately, and if they don’t, they are transgressing an Issur d’oraysoh of Avodah Zoroh. So now klal Yisroel knows to again ignore our present Gedolim.
Then WZO. A distasteful situation but one that some Gedolei Yisroel did permit and encourage the olam to vote. It is very understandable for other Gedolim to feel that it is forbidden and wrong. They surely have the right and obligation to have their opinion known. But when it becomes a terror campaign, calling up anyone that doesn’t agree, cancelling, drowning the internet with ridicule and mockery of other Gedolei yisroel then Klal yisroel has again learned the lesson – ignore our present day Gedolei Yisroel. The “kanaim” are running the show.
Then we reach the latest episode, where they crossed even more lines in their attacks on the rabbinic system. After they finished with WZO, and found themselves with extra time on their hands, they gathered signatures on a letter attacking big rabbanim and an established, respected Beis Din. This was a new step taken after months of terrorism and canceling and public ridicule etc.
What was especially disturbing was that they went much further than usual both in terms of the scope of the attack and in terms of the lies that led to it. The kanaim weren’t content with a letter voicing disagreement with a psak. They weren’t even content with merely attacking the rabbanim for the psak. They instead opted to pasul the rabbanim and the Beis Din personally, a dangerous move demonstrating a total lack of responsibility, especially being as this Beis Din is mesader a few gittin a week. And they didn’t suffice with simply taking issue with the halachic rationale or the understanding of the metzius. They instead attacked the behavior of the rabbanim personally – behavior which as it anyway turned out was a total lie designed to attack the rabbanim. This was readily shown with the subsequent publication of letters from 6 other rabbanim personally involved who testified that it was slanderous lies. The kanaim had completely fabricated a slanderous narrative which they used to elicit these signatures. And it was a narrative that was very easy to debunk, and never should have been promoted in the first place. This was a tremendous bizayon for the signatories.
The “kanaim” are making it abundantly clear. They run the show and will stop at nothing to make sure of this and advance their agendas.
Slowly but surely, the “kanaim” are taking over. This must not be allowed to continue.
We must take a hard look in the mirror and see if our behavior does not exhibit many of the traits displayed by the secular liberals we so despise. We must have an awakening. It is high time that words such as mussar and middos make their way back into our vernacular. It is time for the all the Torah we learn to act as a “Sam hachaim” and not, c”v, a “Sam hamaves”.
Yosef B.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Virginia School Praises Hitler as a ‘Strong Leader’ then Expel the Jewish Classmate that was offended
One finished drawing depicted Adolf Hitler’s face—sparking controversy as classmates later subjected a Jewish 11‑year‑old to intense antisemitic harassment.
When her parents complained, the school allegedly canceled a Holocaust survivor speaker, displayed a Palestinian flag that seemed to embolden the bullying, and eventually expelled all three Jewish siblings on March 13, 2025, citing a “lack of trust.”
The lawsuit, brought forward by the Brandeis Center, seeks damages and mandatory antisemitism training.
As a Jewish Mother in Northern Virginia, I’m Speaking Out.
— Elicia Brand #IStandWithIsrael. (@EliciaBrand) July 1, 2025
I’m heartbroken. I’m furious. But above all, I’m not surprised.
What’s happening at the @NysmithSchool in Herndon, Fairfax County, VA, is appalling—but for those of us paying attention, it was only a matter of time.… https://t.co/mwlOSTub3y
White House Pushes for Removal of UN Palestine Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
The Trump administration is urging the United Nations to remove Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, citing a pattern of what officials describe as legally unsound, inflammatory, and antisemitic conduct.
The escalating diplomatic confrontation—reported by The Algemeiner on Tuesday—reflects deepening tensions between Washington and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), particularly over longstanding concerns of institutional bias against Israel.
In a formal diplomatic letter sent to UN leadership, acting U.S. Ambassador Dorothy Shea issued a direct appeal to Secretary-General António Guterres, accusing Albanese of crossing ethical and legal boundaries in her role. The letter, reviewed by The Algemeiner, charges Albanese with misusing her UN platform to wage a campaign of economic and political warfare against Israel, and by extension, against U.S. and international companies engaged in legal commerce with the Jewish state.
The Truth about Ocober 7 from a Muslim
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by Aimen Dean
On October 7, 2023, Hamas, an authoritarian, Iranian-backed militia that has ruled Gaza for 17 years, launched a carefully planned massacre. It killed 1,200 civilians, and took 250 hostages. It did so with full knowledge that such a move would trigger devastating retaliation. And it did. A brutal, urban war erupted. Tens of thousands have since died, many of them civilians, many of them militants. The war was horrific, tragic, and yes, entirely avoidable.
And yet, within days, hundreds of thousands marched across Western cities, not to denounce the massacre that sparked it all, nor to condemn the authoritarian militia responsible for using civilians as human shields, but to demand an end to what they instantly branded genocide. By mid-May 2025, London had seen at least 27 mass marches in solidarity with Gaza. One of them numbered over a million people. In contrast, during the darkest years of the Syrian civil war, when Assad used chemical weapons, barrel bombs, siege warfare, and starvation to subdue his population, London’s largest Syria-related protest peaked at 900 people. Most saw a few dozen. That contrast tells us something deeply uncomfortable.Israeli government will compensate families of the 45 victims killed in the 2021 Meron tragedy
The funds will come from the state, religious site authorities, and insurers.
You just have to love the Press Sec
I just love @PressSec. 🩷 pic.twitter.com/YosU1JS6xc
— Lily West✡️🇺🇸🎗 (@LilyRoslynWest) July 1, 2025
CBS forced to pay eight-figures, change editorial policy in settlement with Trump
Paramount Global and CBS agreed on Tuesday to pay President Donald Trump a sum that could reach north of $30 million to settle the president’s election interference lawsuit against the network.
Trump will receive $16 million upfront. This will cover legal fees, costs of the case, and contributions to his future presidential library or charitable causes, to be determined at Trump’s discretion.
There is an anticipation that there will be another allocation in the mid-eight figures set aside for advertisements, public service announcements, or other similar transmissions, in support of conservative causes by the network in the future, Fox News Digital has learned.
With these considerations, CBS would pay well in excess of the $15 million ABC paid Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit last year. Current Paramount management disputes the additional allocation.
Sources close to the situation told Fox News Digital that CBS has agreed to update its editorial standards to install a mandatory new rule.
Going forward, the network will promptly release full, unedited transcripts of future presidential candidates’ interviews.
People involved in the settlement talks have referred to this as the “Trump Rule.”
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Removing Hamas from power a condition for Saudi normalization
Saudi Arabia is insisting that Israel finish the job in Gaza by removing Hamas from power completely in the coastal enclave as a precondition for a normalization agreement with the Jewish State, a Saudi source told i24NEWS.
The source, who is reportedly close to the royal court, told Middle East correspondent Ariel Oseran that, "Without removing Hamas, there will be no peace."
According to the report, the Saudi government hopes the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, will be restored to power in Gaza after the fall of the Hamas government.
The report is the first indication that ending the war now instead of continuing until Hamas is completely defeated may jeopardize efforts to secure normalization accords with Arab and Muslim nations and the Trump Administration's efforts to expand the Abraham Accords.
US President Donald Trump stated today (Tuesday) that he believes a ceasefire could be reached sometime next week. He also reiterated his desire to see all of the remaining Israeli hostages returned.
Trump further stated that he would be "very firm" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the issue of ending the war in Gaza when the two leaders meet in Washington next week.
I am My Brother’s Keeper, not My Brother’s Prosecutor!
Why we must join Trump in demanding an end to the witch hunt against Netanyahu in the light of the war against Iran. The height of absurdity was when he was questioned on a Bugs Bunny stuffed animal his son received decades ago
The US-Israel stealth mission to bomb Iran’s ensconced nuclear plants was a stunning achievement in both military might and in painstaking coordination between two world leaders.
The logistics of this mission posed some of the most challenging conditions that anyone has ever faced in a military operation. Specifically, the US had to fly B-2 bombers with very heavy payloads along with over two dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles, and 125 U.S. aircraft to support the attack. And to reach their destination, they had to fly over Syria and Lebanon, and parts of Iraq, without being caught.
Such an operation required months and months of preparation. Certainly, Israel’s steady efforts to degrade the air defenses in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran paid off, and the mission was recognized as an achievement of epic proportions.
US cabinet members who participated in a phone call between Netanyahu and Trump immediately following the successful raid on Iran’s formidable nuclear facilities described the feeling as “cathartic.” For Bibi, it was the result of his 30-year relentless campaign against Iran, alerting the world to Iran’s existential threat to Israel and to neighboring countries.
The morning after the successful US-Israel covert mission to destroy Iran’s major nuclear plants, news reports showed Bibi standing at the Kotel holding a siddur as he expressed gratitude to Hashem for this extraordinary defeat of Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Not unlike the Battle of Jericho in the Book of Joshua, where the walls collapsed after the Israelites marched around the city blowing horns for six days, the walls of Fordow were blown apart by the bunker-buster 30,000 pound bombs, leaving the centrifuges and enriched uranium 235 isotopes (the fissile variant used in nuclear reactors and weapons) severely damaged.
Yet, amidst this legendary US-Israel joint strike on Iran’s redoubtable nuclear facilities, the war hero at the center of this mission - the person credited with making the courageous decision to start the Rising Lion operation, miraculously galvanizing President Trump to take an unprecedented military part in Israel’s existential battles - is the target of criminal prosecutions.
Not unlike the Dreyfus Affair, Netanyahu is being railroaded by his political adversaries for crimes he did not commit.
The reason for this is simple. Bogus charges were brought against the prime minister of the Jewish state to tie his hands so that he could not participate in judicial reform by preventing him from naming judges to serve on the bench. That is, to stay in office while these criminal trials were pending, Netanyahu had to sign an agreement that he would not appoint judges to the bench, lest it would appear as a “conflict-of-interest” because he himself was before the courts.
In short, this gambit of false charges were brought against the prime minister to prejudice him so that he would not be able to reign in the freewheeling judiciary enjoying undeserved power for far too many years.
Caught in this imbroglio of a long-standing fight between the judicial branch and the government, Netanyahu became a hapless victim. Even when he tried to replace the head of the Shabak, that, too, was deemed a conflict of interest.
Trump has shared a similar fate of politically-motivated witch hunts against him and recognized the travesty of justice. Even worse, this was being done to Israel’s prime minister while facing an existential fight for the survival of the Jewish state. So, shortly after the successful US-Israel strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, Trump declared on Truth Social (his social media platform) that the US “won’t stand” for Netanyahu remaining on trial. In fact, Trump renewed his exhortation for all charges to be dropped. Preserving the same tone of urgency, he stated in his second social media posting: “LET BIBI GO, HE’S GOT A BIG JOB TO DO!”
In response, the head of the Israel Bar Association, Amit Becher, said - appallingly and with not a shred of evidence - that if Netanyahu had requested the US president to demand that the charges against him be dismissed, it would be a “criminal offense.”
I raise the question, “Is this a threat?”
Or is it a harbinger of a whole new set of charges to be brought against Netanyahu for alleged interference with a prosecution/obstruction of justice?
If so, then Israel’s attorney general will need to subpoena Trump as a witness to verify whether or not Netanyahu cajoled, co-opted, or suborned the US president to come to his aid?
Didn’t we learn our lesson in history?
We suffered the destruction of the Holy Temple because of sinat chinam (baseless hatred of one Jew for another). We are now placing the security of the Jewish state at risk by demoralizing our truest war hero and military strategist, who has devoted himself tirelessly to strengthening the Jewish state on all its borders. And he has proven to be successful in degrading and weakening Iran’s defenses - destroying missile launches and eliminating entire teams of nuclear scientists and commandoes - and its major terror proxies.
We are a few weeks away from the Fast of the 17th of Tammuz, Shiv’ah Asar B’Tammuz, beginning the period of mourning for the Temples. We must course-correct so that we do not repeat a dismal history of destruction. The first step is to recognize “I am my brother’s keeper.” What that means is that I am not my brother’s prosecutor.
Netanyahu must be freed from the sinister, endless and ridiculous trials that have no merit or purpose other than to feed the self-serving agenda of those agitating vociferously against judicial reform and his government.
It’s time to remove the shackles from one of the greatest war-time leaders of the Jewish state. We owe that to Trump and, even more so, to ourselves.
Amy Neustein, Ph.D. (sociologist) is the author/editor of 16 academic books. Her most recent book, From Madness to Mutiny: Why Mothers are Running from the Family Courts -And What Can be Done about It, 2nd Edition, will be published by Oxford University Press in August.
Duty-free cigarette tax exemption to be fully canceled in Israel
The Knesset Finance Committee on Monday approved today Amendment No. 9 to the Customs and Exemptions Tariff Order, under which the tax exemption on importing tobacco products into Israel will be gradually phased out until its complete removal in June 2028.
The exemption had previously applied to the import of tobacco, cigarettes, and e-cigarette liquids from abroad.
According to estimates by the Israel Tax Authority, the order is expected to generate approximately NIS 50 million in 2027, NIS 70 million in 2028, and around NIS 100 million annually thereafter, once fully implemented.
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Health’s latest annual smoking report revealed that one in five Israeli adults smokes — a rate 30% higher than the global average — while efforts to quit lag significantly, with cessation rates 50% lower than the OECD average.
A separate Ministry of Health survey found that 53% of teens experimenting with tobacco products first try electronic cigarettes. Use of flavored smoking products is widespread: 88% of teens use flavored shisha, 82% flavored e-cigarettes, and 45% flavored cigarettes or rolling tobacco.
Among haredi youth, a new survey found that 54% of students in ultra-Orthodox high schools, and 80% of youth in dropout programs aged 12-17, have tried smoking products.
Despite laws requiring municipalities to enforce bans on smoking in public spaces, compliance remains low. While 82 local authorities reported activities under the smoking prevention law in 2024, more than 65% did not submit required reports, and enforcement remains inconsistent even among those who did.
Israeli Mayor Bans the Israeli Nazi Paper Haaretz
Arad Mayor Yair Maayan announced on Friday that he would ban the left-wing daily Haaretz from his city over what he said was a “false blood libel” in a feature article accusing the Israeli Defense Forces of “deliberately” firing on Gazans near aid distribution sites.
“The municipality will not allow false incitement against IDF soldiers and the State of Israel, certainly in times of war. The municipality will act to prevent the entry of the inciting newspaper into the city in accordance with the Prevention of Incitement Law,” Maayan told JNS.
The mayor wouldn’t say if the ban would include door-to-door deliveries of Haaretz to subscribers, although that number is likely negligible given the newspaper’s relatively small Hebrew print distribution.
The Haaretz article, by Nir Hasson, Yaniv Kubovich and Bar Peleg, titled, “‘It’s a Killing Field’: IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid,” cites anonymous Israeli soldiers and officers who accuse the IDF of firing on Gazans using tanks, artillery and snipers to prevent them from approaching areas where they weren’t permitted.
The IDF rejected the accusations, saying its directives “prohibit” intentional attacks on noncombatants. “The IDF did not instruct the forces to deliberately shoot at civilians, including those approaching the distribution centers,” the IDF Spokesman’s Office said in a statement.
Non-Jewish Fox News anchor says she ‘100%’ questions faith of Jewish lawmakers who endorse NYC’s Mamdani
Meanwhile, the remarks from Faulkner – who herself is not Jewish, though her husband is – sparked pushback from liberal Fox News pundit Marie Harf, prompting the daytime anchor to double down on policing the religious devotion of Jewish Democrats.
“The same way I would question Chuck Schumer, who works against the interests of his own people at times for the politics,” she exclaimed, adding: “And that’s what they’re doing here.”
Since his upset victory in the Democratic primary last week, Mamdani – a 33-year-old democratic socialist who energized young voters with his campaign focused on affordability – has been the target of Islamophobic attacks from conservatives due to his Muslim faith.
President Donald Trump has suggested that he would defund New York City if Mamdani is elected, all while claiming “New York City has fallen” and falsely labeling him a “communist.”
Monday, June 30, 2025
AI video shows Netanyahu, exiled Iranian prince united in Tehran
Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology Gila Gamliel (Likud) published an AI-generated video on social media titled "Next Year in a Free Tehran."
The clip opens with establishing shots of Teran. It then quickly jumps to showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, walking arm-in-arm down a street in the Iranian capital.
The video also shows shots of Minister Gamliel and her husband, as well as exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and his wife walking in a similar setting.
It concludes with Israeli and Iranian imperial flags side-by-side.
In 2023, Gamliel hosted Crown Prince Reza in Israel, where he met with officials and participated in the official opening ceremony to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Welcoming him upon his arrival, Gamliel stated: "Together, through a common vision, we will take the first step in building bridges and collaborations between the two peoples."
These are Syria's conditions for Israeli accord
Lebanon’s LBCI channel reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with developments in Syria, about Syria’s conditions for a peace agreement with Israel.
According to the report, the conditions include Israeli recognition of the regime of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, withdrawal from territories captured by Israel since last December and from the buffer zone in the Golan, a halt to Israeli airstrikes in Syria, and security arrangements in southern Syria — particularly along the border and the tri-border area with Jordan.
Most importantly, according to the report, Syria is demanding US guarantees for the agreements and American support for the Syrian regime.
In return, Syria would recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Axios reported earlier this month that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed interest in launching US-mediated negotiations with the new Syrian government.
According to the report, Netanyahu conveyed his interest during a recent meeting with US Envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack. The Prime Minister is aiming to reach a revised security agreement with Damascus, ultimately leading to a full peace accord. This would mark the first direct diplomatic engagement between Israel and Syria since 2011.
The Israeli approach follows a shift in regional dynamics after al-Sharaa replaced the Assad regime. According to the Axios report, while Israeli officials initially voiced concerns over al-Sharaa's Turkish ties and urged Washington to proceed cautiously, President Donald Trump's recent meeting with al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia, followed by the lifting of US sanctions on Syria, prompted Jerusalem to reassess its stance.
On Sunday, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an American rabbi who recently met in Damascus with al-Sharaa, said he believes a meeting between al-Sharaa and Netanyahu is not out of the question - as long as it is initiated by Trump.
In an interview with Kan News, Rabbi Cooper shared his impressions of al-Sharaa and said, “It’s true he’s an Islamist, but al-Sharaa speaks of a vision for his country that includes a united Syria with one army and equal rights. If he can achieve that, it would be a game-changer.”
Addressing potential relations with Israel, Cooper outlined two possible paths: short-term de-escalation and a political meeting brokered by Trump. “The only quick path would be if someone named Donald Trump invited both leaders — Israel’s Prime Minister and Syria’s President — to Washington to sit together for a few hours. That could change everything.”
According to Cooper, Syria’s president told him that resolving the conflict with Israel was a priority. “We intend to continue advancing this,” Cooper said, adding that al-Sharaa had expressed genuine interest in peace.
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