Wednesday, April 30, 2025
At Har Herzl a group of young people stood and sang together: “Shaarei Shamayim Psach
With open hearts, with broken voices, out of a sense of responsibility and remembrance, they asked for mercy.
It wasn’t a performance, not a planned ceremony. It was a true prayer, straight from the heart – for an entire people grappling with loss, with longing, with a hope that has not yet been extinguished.
THE ZIONIST שמד
from EMAILIM BATORAH
When the Zionist movement was founded, there was a real danger
of the Frum community joining this secular organization.
The Gedolim of the time vehemently opposed Zionism and spoke out
against the movement.
They explained how dangerous this movement is for Yiddishkeit. They argued & warned that the sole goal of the Zionists was to uproot the Torah and destroy Yiddishkeit. They considered all the Zionists as 'כופרים בהקב"ה ועובדי ע"ז וכו
who are trying to שמד כלל ישראל
The Gedolim were successful in preventing most Frum Yidden from joining the secular Zionist movement. However, like in all generations, there were Yidden who went off the Derech, and many of them joined the Zionists.
The Gedolim of the past and present, with סיעתא דשמיא, accomplished that the Zionists didn't manage to Shmad any Frum Yidden for the past seventy years. Since the Parsha of the ילדי תימן in the years 1948-1954, thanks to the Gedolim, there was no Shmad taking place by the Zionists.
Yes, indeed, many Yidden in E.Y. did go off the Derech, but hey did so not because of Zionism. Had they lived in Monroe or New Square, etc., they most likely would have done the same and gone OTD.
Some will claim that the Zionists were the cause of so many of our Sephardi brethren adopting a secular lifestyle. Evidence has proven this to be wrong. The number of Sephardim who immigrated to Chutz Laaretz and forsaken their Yiddishkeit is more than tenfold that of the Israeli Sephardim.
Sephardic Torah Chinuch Mosdos in Eretz Yisroel versus Sephardic Mosdos in Chutz Laaretz is probably one hundred to one.
If it is not the Tziyoinim who are Shmading us, whom should we blame for the Shmad?
We should blame the entire non-religious community. Even those non-Frum מחללי שבת etc. who aren't עובר the שלש שבועות. The שנאת עמי הארץ towards the Frum community is not exclusive to the Zionists.
This Schmad is happening all over the Jewish world, in Williamsburg, Monsey, Lakewood, London, Bnei Brak Yerushalayim, and countless other cities where Yidden live.
The Shmad in Chutz Laaretz is much greater than that of the Tziyoinim in E.Y.
In Chu"l we have hundreds of thousands who intermarried with Goyim.
Part #2 - Stopping the Shmad
Sixty years ago, most of כלל ישראל adopted a new method of fighting the non-Frum,
instead of calling them "עמלקים-ערב רב-נאצים", etc. We called them תינוק שנשבה - אחינו בני ישראל
Instead of hurling rocks & stones at them, we showered them with brotherly love.
Instead of shouting angrily at them, "SHABBOS," we invited them into our homes and sang with them "SHABBOS HAYOM."
Instead of chanting נמות ולא נתגייס, we chant - נקדש את שמך בעולם (הזה)
עם ישראל חי
This new method of warfare against secularism proved to be so effective that over a hundred thousand Yidden returned to become חוזרים בתשובה.
In the entire history of כלל ישראל, never has there been such a large amount of בעלי תשובה as in the past generation.
Sadly, in the past few years, the number of new בעלי תשובה has drastically dwindled. Our inaction, of not being מוחה, protesting, and putting a stop to the rioting לשם שמים, discourages Yidden from being חוזרים בתשובה.
People stuck in traffic for hours due to illegal demonstrations don't want to join a community that disregards others trying to get to work, get to appointments, or return home after a long day.
The millions who watch the nightly newscast of our boys rioting like Mr. Schwartz's boys in the African jungle will not be convinced to change their lifestyle and become שומרי תורה ומצוות.
TO STOP THE SHMAD. The Roshei Yeshivah, Rebbes, leaders, Parents, etc. must clearly & loudly declare,
לא זו הדרך - דרכיה דרכי נועם
Forest Fire Reaches Homes in Ramat Beit Shemesh "Bet"
The wildfire in Ramat Beit Shemesh has now reached the residential area. Firefighting teams are working to contain the blaze.
Massive Fires in Beit Shemesh, Motorists Abandoning Their Cars!
🚨 *EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT:*
If anyone from beit Shemesh is currently in Jerusalem, DO NOT travel home on Highway 1.It is closed due to massive fires that have overtaken part of the highway. Motorists are stranded and abandoning their vehicles evacuating the area on foot or any way they can.
Highway 375 from south Jerusalem via Beitar is still open.
*Make sure to share this as much as possible.*
Harav Yitzchok Yosef Permits Elevators on Shabbos "Le'chatcilah"
DIN: We are talking, of course, about specially modified elevators. In Israel, Shabbos Elevators have been modified with the latest scientific mechanism so that they are in line with halacha!
But, .......and this is a big "butt", there are Charedie Poiskim who prohibit it nevertheless!
A few years ago I bought a dira in an apartment building with a Shabbos Elevator! I live on the 3rd floor and B"H I can climb the stairs. The Vaad Habyis at the time shut off the elevator on Shabbos since no one, I guessed, needed to use it!
Then my wife invited a relative for the Shabbos Night meal, and this relative couldn't climb stairs for health reasons, so I asked the Vaad Guy if he could activate the elevator for Shabbos so I could accommodate this relative!
He answered politely that he asked "Daas Teirah" and that the Rav paskened that the elevator is prohibited on Shabbos, regardless of the latest scientific modifications! So, again, I asked politely if he can tell me which floor that Rav lives in his building! He asked of what difference that makes, since the Rav paskened like that! I told him, "I'm just curious!"
He answered, turning red like a boiled beet, that the Rav lives on the Ground Floor!
I told him sternly and firmly that unless he gets a Rav that lives on the 3rd floor or higher, he better have that elevator activated!
To make a long story short, he did in fact activate the elevator for that Shabbas!
Fast forward three years I notice that the elevator has been activated as a Shabbas Elevator every single Shabbos! So, again, I asked politely, completely innocent, "What happened? Did that Rav change his psak?" He didn't answer me, but it turns out that his father-in-law lives on the 2nd floor and he has "loi aleinu" Parkinson's disease and can't climb stairs!
So I see that Chareidim listen to "Daas Teirah" as long as it doesn't affect them personally, once it hits home.... The Rav and his psak go out the window!
מי כעמך ישראל
Chareide IDF Soldier Stands with His Children at the Side During Siren
Bnei Brak
A Charedi IDF reservist stands tall during the memorial siren, his children by his side — a quiet salute to Israel’s fallen and a heartfelt prayer for the hostages’ return.Zero mercy. President Trump just called out ABC to their faces for covering up for Biden
Trump puts the interviewer on ABC in his place after he tried denying that Kilmer Abrego Garcia is part of the MS 13 gang and that the tattoos on his hands were "photoshopped."
President Trump goes off on ABC News’ Terry Moran after he asks him about his confidence level in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Trump: He’s a very good defense secretary.
Moran: Do you have a 100% confidence in him?
Trump: Do I have a 100% confidence in anything? It's a stupid question… Only a liar would say I have a 100% confidence.
I don't have a 100% confidence that we're gonna finish this interview.
Beit Shemesh: A City of Heroes
Hundreds of people attended memorial ceremonies in Beit Shemesh yesterday evening.
Today the city remembers the 127 residents who gave their lives in Israel's battles and terror attacks.
Abbas: According to Quran, Jewish Temple stood in Yemen
Great News! Now we can all go up to the Har Habayit!
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas claimed last week that in the Quran, the Jewish Temple is described as being in Yemen.
“In the Noble Quran—and I believe that also in other divine books—it says that the [First and Second] Temples were in Yemen,” said Abbas on April 23 in a televised speech during the 32nd PLO Central Council meeting in Ramallah.
He made the remarks in the context of his claim that Israeli authorities were targeting Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is built on the Temple Mount, where the Jewish Temple used to stand.
“The Jews say, ‘This is ours, that was ours….’ No. That’s not what the Quran says,” said Abbas, according to a translation of his Arabic-language speech by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI.)
Scholars, including Nadav Shragai in his 2020 book “Al-Aqsa Terror: From Libel to Blood,” have identified false claims about the Quran’s localization of the Jewish Temple as a trend in a recent attempt at historical revision by Palestinian nationalists to deny Jewish ties to the place and strengthen Muslim or Arab ones.
“The attempts by Palestinian leaders like Yasser Arafat or Saeb Erekat to cast doubt on the Temple’s existence on the Mount or to distance it from that location by claiming that there was indeed a Temple, but in Nablus or Yemen, stem from one sole motive,” wrote Shragai: “The desire to expunge from the Temple Mount a competing Jewish historical narrative and a competing historical and religious awareness, since these could becloud their own historical and religious narrative on the Mount.”
Abbas’s predecessor, Yasser Arafat, also repeated this theory. On Sept. 25, 2003, Arafat told Arab leaders from northern Israel that no Jewish Temple had existed in the Land of Israel, but rather in Yemen. Arafat told his listeners that he had visited Yemen and seen with his own eyes the site upon which Solomon’s Temple once stood.
The previous year, another top PLO figure, Haj Zaki al-Ghul, stated that King Solomon had ruled over the Arabian Peninsula, and that it was there, not in Jerusalem, that he built his Temple.
Professor Yitzhak Reiter of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research, in a 2011 essay in The American Interest, traces the Yemen canard to Kamal Salibi, professor emeritus at the American University of Beirut and subsequently director of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies in Amman. In a 1985 book, Salibi claimed that biblical Jerusalem was located in the Arabian Nimas highlands, halfway from Mecca to Yemen.
The Quran does not name Jerusalem, but for centuries, Muslim scholars have acknowledged that the Jewish Temple stood there, including in the writings of Abu Jafar Muhammad bin Jarir al-Tabari, Muhammad al-Idrisi, who visited Jerusalem in the 12th century, theologian Taki ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328) and 14th-century historian Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun, according to Shragai.
The current Muslim denial of this history, particularly since 1967, is a relatively recent political fabrication aimed at delegitimizing Jewish claims and justifying incitement and violence under the false claim that “Al-Aqsa is in danger,” he wrote.
In the same speech, Abbas also used sharp-worded language against Hamas, urging it to free the Israeli hostages it is holding.
“[Hamas says:] ‘We won’t release the American hostage.’ You sons of dogs, release the [hostages] and spare us this! Strip the [Israelis] of their excuses,” he exclaimed.
That part of his speech grabbed headlines worldwide, with some commentators presenting the statement as evidence that Abbas is a pragmatist working to de-escalate the war in Gaza. Others interpreted Abbas’s criticism of Hamas as posturing for Western audiences, meant to serve the Palestinian Authority’s agenda of taking over Gaza from its arch-rival Hamas under Israeli and Western auspices.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Thank you, Hashem for the State of Israel!
By Tzvi Fishman
For me, one of the most poignant events of Israel Memorial Day has been attending the memorial ceremony at my children’s and grandchildren’s religious kindergartens, grade schools and high schools, during which the students tell stories about brave Israeli soldiers who have fallen defending our cherished Homeland, the greatest sacrifice and sanctification of G-d that a Jew can make.
How proud it makes me feel to watch the youngsters act out the famous battle of Givat HaTachmoshet, one of the decisive battles of the Six Day War. After the long memorial siren that is sounded all over the country, the children parade with Israeli flags around the auditorium in tune to rousing Israeli melodies of patriotism and valor.
“Thank you, G-d,” I say quietly while I watch. “Thank you for making me realize that George Washington isn’t the founder of my country and that my children have never heard about Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. Thank You G-d for bringing me to the Land of the Jews and teaching me the true meaning of Torah, which isn’t just performing individual precepts like kashrut and Shabbos, but also helping to build the Holy Jewish Nation in its Holy Land, to serve in Tzahal and play a part in the exalted mitzvah of conquering the Land and defending it against enemies who rise against it.
Thank You for giving me healthy, wonderful children and grandchildren who are all growing up as Jews through and through, celebrating Israel’s Memorial and Independence Days, and not someone else’s, children who will grow up to become soldiers of Israel and defend Your inheritance of the Jews, and not do everything they can to dodge army service like young Jews do in other countries.”
Only an oleh who lives in Israel can appreciate the incredible difference between religious kids who grow up in Israel and their Diaspora counterparts. Kids in Israel are a different species of child, a totally different breed. Sure they like candy and Coke and playing basketball like all children, but their heads are in a completely different place. Even those who are not as close to the Torah as we would like, they are all ready to fight and die for their fellow Jews and to defend Hashem’s chosen Land.
The wars they learn about are Jewish wars.
Their war heroes are Israeli.
Their flag is the Star of David – not the Stars and Stripes of someone else’s country.
Their songs of patriotism are Israeli.
They celebrate Israel’s independence and not the Fourth of July or Bastille Day.
The history they learn is the history of Abraham, Moses, Joshua, and King David, Rabbi Akiva, the Maccabees, and the heroes of the Jewish Underground who fought against all odds to chase the British out from our Homeland so that Jews could live proudly in a country of our own.
Instead of growing up being American kids who are Jewish, they are Children of Israel, just as we are called in the Bible.
As Israeli jets roar over Jerusalem practicing for the air show on Yom Ha'Atzmaut, I thank G-d that my kids and JEWISH grandchildren are where they belong – in the Land that G-d gave them and where He wants them to be. As Israeli helicopters streak by outside my window, I thank G-d for opening my eyes to the fact that being Jewish means being absorbed in Jewish history, and celebrating JEWISH independence, and living in the Jewish Land and performing the mitzvot in the place they were meant to be performed.
Thank you G-d for having opened my ears and helping me to actualize the goal of our prayers in bringing me home to live a life of Torah in the Land you gave to my forefathers, as we pray every day, three times a day, in the Amidah prayer, “Sound the great shofar of our freedom; lift up the banner to bring our exiles together, and gather us from the four corners of the earth.”
How a bereaved wife responded when a high school principal tried to silence her
Sigal, the wife of Kibbutz Be'eri Security Coordinator Arik Kraunik, who fell during the October 7th Massacre, delivered a lecture on Monday to the students of the Hartman High School in Jerusalem.
In her lecture, Sigal discussed the loss of trust in her neighbors in Gaza. She quoted Avida Bachar, a survivor of the massacre who lost his wife Dana and son Carmel, and was himself wounded, who said that it was a good thing the massacre did not occur in Judea and Samaria because that way he understood how guilty the Gazans were.
In a post on social media, the bereaved wife described how her words upset the school's principal. "With a crowd of about 400 students in the auditorium, I began the lecture, which has already been given over 250 times. In the middle, the girl who invited me came over, motioned for me to stop, and whispered in my ear: 'The principal says that this is not the message the school wants to give, and if possible, skip this part and get straight to the personal story."
Kraunik recounts how, at that moment, she gathered strength from something that ex-IDF general Ofir Winter once said about humility. "I stopped, I took a breath, and then Ofir Winter's spirit stood before me and reminded me of the new meaning of humility that I learned from him. I told her: 'This is the lecture, this is my truth, and if the principal doesn't like it, I can get off the stage and go home.' I didn't even get to finish my sentence, and suddenly a fierce round of applause was heard throughout the auditorium. The students clapped loudly. I saw the principal look at the one who invited me and motioned to her to continue.
"That's how the victory of the spirit is born! Education needs to allow children a choice. Democracy grants a space for every opinion and free choice. I only continued the lecture for those pure faces and hands that expressed what the heart wanted," she concluded.
“TZIYONIM AREN’T YIDDEN!” Protests Erupt Outside Tel Hashomer as Charedim Rally Against IDF Enlistment
DIN: "Tziyonim Aren't Yidden!" "Nazis" "Sinwar".... this coming from Yidden learning Torah, learning Mussar !זו תורה וזו שכרה .... Where did I hear that "Torah refines you?"
The protestors weren't only Yeshiva Bochrim, but also married Kollel guys, all barking "Tziyonim Aren't Yidden" "Nazi Nazi!" Torah didn't refine any of those protestors! Not one!
This is why Yom Ha"shoah is so important! Only a Jew that is clueless of what happened to Jews in the Shoah can bark at another Jew "Nazi Nazi" "Sinwar"
There is a WhatsApp chat called "CBN UNFILTERED" that posted in reference to these very protestors: " just to clarify the gedoilim have told them to protest."
I would like to know who these "gedoilim" are?
How would one of these "gedoilim" feel if their own child enlisted (against their parents wishes) and someone barked ""Tziyonim Aren't Yidden" "Nazi Nazi?" "Sinwar"at their own child?
So it's ok to call someone else's child "Nazi!" It's ok to call someone else's child "You aren't a Yid" but what if its your own family member who decided to enlist?
Riots broke out today outside the IDF recruitment center in Tel Hashomer, as Charedim staged loud and aggressive protests against the enlistment of yeshivaleit into the army.
The protesters attempted to disrupt the recruitment of soldiers for the Chashmonaim Brigade — a unit specifically designed to accommodate charedi recruits who wish to uphold a Torah lifestyle while serving. Demonstrators blocked roads, shouted inflammatory slogans, and handed out anti-enlistment pamphlets.
As young soldiers entered the base, the protesters screamed insults such as, “Don’t kill yourself,” “This is Gehinnom,” and even went so far as to call them “Nazis” and say that “Tziyonim are not Jews.”
When Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot showed up to support the draftees, protestors shouted, “Sukkot is like [Yahya] Sinwar!”
Police and Border Guard forces were deployed in large numbers to secure the area and maintain order as the situation escalated. The police reported that at one point protesters laid down in the streets to block traffic, forcing officers to physically remove them to allow vehicles to pass. One individual was arrested amid the chaos.
Several main roads in the area were shut down, including Yaakov Dori Street in Kiryat Ono between Shaul HaMelech and Levi Eshkol, causing heavy backups along Route 461 from the Beit B’Park intersection all the way to Mesubim Junction. Motorists were urged to seek alternate routes.
Meanwhile, inside the recruitment center, around 70 active-duty soldiers and an additional 110 reservists who had volunteered to transition into combat roles were processed for enlistment into the Chashmonaim Brigade.
Hamas Captive Karina Ariev: ‘For 7 Days We Didn’t Touch Pita, Even Though We Were So Hungry’
Karina Ariev, the IDF observer who was freed from captivity in Gaza, recently shared her story at a special gathering organized by the “Kesher Yehudi” organization. She spoke of a journey filled with faith, inner strength, and a profound connection to G-d that became her anchor amid the horrors she endured. With deeply moving words and raw honesty, Karina described how faith alone managed to sustain her hope during her terrifying ordeal.
“I’m not angry at G-d, but I do cry out to Him, like one cries out to a father,” Karina shared during the emotional meeting. “I speak to Him as I would to a father, and sometimes I say, ‘Father, why such a painful slap?'”
She explained to those present that under unimaginable conditions of hunger, fear, and uncertainty, she found comfort in speaking directly to G-d, like a daughter turning to her father.
Karina also recounted a profound spiritual experience she shared with the other captives: “All the hostages in Gaza tangibly felt divine protection. It was impossible to survive such hell without complete faith in G-d, and impossible to come out of captivity without feeling with certainty that G-d personally protected and saved you.”
One of the most touching moments in Karina’s story was the collective decision she and her fellow captives made to observe Pesach even while in captivity. “We decided not to eat Chametz ,” she said. “For seven days, not one of us touched pita bread, even though we were terribly hungry.”
Rabbanit Tsili Schneider, chairwoman of “Kesher Yehudi,” said at the gathering: “This decision, which seems almost superhuman given the severe hunger they faced, illustrates the incredible strength of faith and the captives’ commitment to preserve their Jewish identity even in a state of helplessness. Hearing these powerful testimonies is chilling. Their strength of faith deeply strengthens the people of Israel.”
Monday, April 28, 2025
Despite Protests Chareidim (Ger, Slonim, Belz)Start Enlisting in the IDF!
Bus full of Charedie Recruits
Dramatic Watch moment DEA raids underground nightclub frequented by MS-13 in Colorado, arresting more than 100
BREAKING: Over 100 illegals arrested in a DEA sting operation targeting an illegal, underground nightclub in Colorado Springs, CO.
The DEA says there was drug trafficking, pr0stitution, crimes of violence, and weapons seized.
Over a dozen active duty military members were… pic.twitter.com/VBizzS2cTe
Dramatic footage captured the moment hundreds of DEA agents descended on a Colorado nightclub over the weekend, detaining more than 100 illegal immigrants in an early morning raid.
More than 300 law enforcement officers from federal and local agencies were involved in the operation, seizing drugs and weapons from the underground nightclub Sunday morning in Colorado Springs.
A total of 114 illegal migrants were detained in the raid on the underground club allegedly frequented by members of the MS-13 criminal organization, according to authorities.
Federal officers can be seen breaking a large front window of an unbranded building as people flee into the night — many wearing outfits suitable for a nightclub, according to video posted online by the DEA on Sunday morning.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 27, 2025
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