Lakewood-based WhatsApp group spreads unfiltered Lies about Eretz Yisrael!

 

DIN: The following is a post of a popular Lakewood-based WhatsApp group!

This post is not about the story itself which we posted as well, my beef is with the comment the poster made to appease his naive yeshivishe sheep who live in Chutz Le'aaretz in warm comfortable homes! 

I posted his sick comment in red!

 IDF Chief of Staff Approves Final Orders for Haredi Integration into the Army*

The IDF Chief of Staff has officially approved new General Staff directives aimed at integrating Haredi soldiers into the Israeli military.

Under the new regulations, special frameworks will be created to accommodate religious standards in certain service tracks. Among the measures: a complete ban on women entering designated bases, restrictions on any exposure of soldiers to women, the appointment of only observant commanders, and mandatory Torah study and daily prayer as part of the service routine.

In addition, an external rabbinical committee will be established to supervise and ensure proper Enforcing of the directives within the IDF.

*Mr. B -*  At some point, the IDF has to admit the truth. Maybe the army already knows this, and this is about politics and not results.

These changes won’t make a difference; mainstream chareidim aren’t enlisting. For many frum Jews, IDF service clashes with a Torah-centered life of full-time learning and values. No accommodations can change that core conflict.

The army was described by Ben Gurion as a secular melting pot (_koreh hituch chiloni_), and that’s without even getting into the ג' שבועות, כיבוש הארץ  התגרות באומות.

DIN: #1

Let’s begin by addressing his argument about the ג' שבועות—an argument so weak that even Satmar abandoned it.

No Jew ever witnessed these “ג' שבועות” and no one can identify when or where they supposedly occurred.

This aggadatah appears in Kesubos 110a, yet Rashi and Tosafos offer no commentary on it. None of the major commentaries printed at the back of the tractate—Rosh, Ran, Maharsha, Rif etc., mention it. It is entirely absent from the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, and it receives no mention whatsoever in the Shulchan Aruch or its nosei keilim.

I have already cited Emailim BaTorah, which notes that

"the Zohar in Parshas Vayechi explains that “Bnos Yerushalayim” refers to the neshamah. The Avnei Nezer therefore concludes that since the oaths were made with the soul and not with the physical human being, they do not apply to us in any halachic sense.

Indeed, the overwhelming majority of Gedolim—Agudas Yisroel, Shas, Degel, and most of the leading Torah authorities—did not consider the ג' שבועות to have halachic force. Even those who opposed the establishment of the State did not base their position on these oaths."

#2

Next, he invokes כיבוש הארץ & התגרות באומות.

This claim keeps resurfacing, regurgitated by commentators living abroad in comfort and safety, while criticizing Israel.

They live far from danger yet speak harshly about the State of Israel—whose soldiers risk their lives daily to protect millions of Jews in the only Jewish country on earth, surrounded by hostile enemies—and then accuse Israel of “provoking the nations.”

Jewish husbands leave their families for months, placing themselves in danger and leaving their wives and children as living widows and living orphans in emotional and financial strain, all to defend Jewish lives. Yet this commentator dismisses and mocks their sacrifice as “התגרות באומות”

The audacity is astonishing. What exactly do they offer as an alternative—disband the army? Avoid defending ourselves so as not to “antagonize” others?

Insanity!

As for כיבוש הארץ: The Ramban explicitly writes that settling the Land of Israel and securing it are mitzvos aseh d’Oraisa בזמן הזה.

Every major war Israel has fought was initiated by surrounding hostile nations that swore to destroy and eliminate her. Suggesting that Israel should have simply stood by passively defies both logic and halachah.

Finally, he quotes a 75-year-old description by Ben-Gurion in reference to the IDF that the IDF is a “secular melting pot.”

And what of it? So?

Since when does a historical comment override Torah obligations such as

?לא תעמוד על דם רעך

or

?ואהבת לרעך כמוך

The army has made significant efforts to accommodate Chareidim, yet he claims that mainstream Chareidim should not enlist.

Why should others bear the burden entirely? Why should Chilonim die for you?

Moshe Rabbeinu has a message to this fool

?האחיכם יבוא למלחמה ואתם תשבו פה

My message to this Lakewood-based WhatsApp administrator is simple: We do not need your commentary, and we do not need your interference. Please stay out of our affairs.

New York Times had a Gaza Doctor Write 2 Op-Eds ..Turns Out He is a Hamas colonel

 A Gaza doctor who slammed Israel in a pair of New York Times op-eds is a colonel with terror group Hamas, according to an Israeli watchdog group and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Hussam Abu Safyia was photographed wearing a Hamas camo military uniform while at a gathering of Hamas elites to celebrate the completion of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in 2016, according to the Jerusalem-based watchdog NGO Monitor.

Safyia’s photo appeared on the Gaza Medical Services‘ Facebook page — a group overseen by the Hamas-run health ministry.

The ceremony was attended by ranking members of the brutal terror group, including Gen. Abu Obaida Al-Jarrah, Director of Military Medical Services Saeed Saoudi and National Security Forces commander Col. Naeem Al-Ghoul, according to the post.

Following Hamas’ massacre of over 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, which led to the war in Gaza, Safyia penned two screeds in the Times bashing Israel on Oct. 29, 2023, and Dec. 2, 2024.

“We are suffering and paying the price of the genocide that is happening to our people here in the northern Gaza Strip,” Safyia wrote in one op-ed.

Critics decried media giving the alleged Hamas member any ink.

“Those who platformed Abu Safyia must do some serious soul-searching, and figure out how they ended up promoting the propaganda of a literal Hamas terrorist,” NGO Monitor senior researcher Vincent Chebat said.

The Times referred to the colonel as a “pediatrician and the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza” in each op-ed.

Neither Safyia nor the Times disclosed his alleged affiliation with the terror group, even though Palestinian media refers to him by his military rank. He is also referred to as a colonel in a 2020 Facebook post on the Gaza Strip Medical Services page.

An IDF spokesman said Safyia was a ranking member of Hamas, and that the hospital was teeming with hundreds of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists.

Neither NGO Monitor nor the IDF accused Safyia of participating in any specific terrorist acts.

The New York Times did not respond to The Post’s request for comment. The Post was unable to reach Safyia.

The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed Safyia was apprehended during the war on suspicion of “involvement in terrorist activities.” He was not charged and was released by the IDF, but the Israeli Prison Services agency did not respond to a request for comment on his current whereabouts.

Mamdani’s NYC homeless freeze to death

 Brace yourself: This is the editors of the New York Post begging, urging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to live up to his inaugural vow to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

Specifically, when it comes to the homeless he’s decided to let freeze to death.

Last weekend saw at least 10 New Yorkers die in the cold, and temps remain glacial now.

Yet the mayor’s sticking by his order to cops and other city workers to leave encampments alone last weekend and not force the homeless to come in out of the deadly cold.

The idea is that the city should respect the autonomy of these (highly dysfunctional) individuals — which sure sounds like an obsessive care for “rugged individualism” to us.

That he himself called that “frigidity” is all the more damning.

Why is the newly prominent Democratic Socialist leader embracing a cold, laissez-faire attitude out of a Charles Dickens novel?

The most his office will do to get people into the collectivist warmth of a homeless shelter is “redouble outreach efforts.”

“Outreach” is a magic word in blue-city social services circles, because the alternative — compulsory shelter — is (mysteriously) a big no-no.

Even when a homeless person is clearly mentally ill, the ethic among the provider class is to make contact, extend the offer of help . . . .and retreat.

Under Mayor Eric Adams, the city had a policy of “involuntary removal” of homeless people with severe mental illness, but Mamdani rejects that approach because it doesn’t yet lead to “permanent supportive housing.”

Well, involuntary elementary school doesn’t always lead to an Ivy League degree, either, but it’s a good first step.

Nor is it remotely humane or compassionate to leave people to freeze to death just so you can push for some transformative change that might benefit others.

Even the designation of a “Code Blue,” which means it’s cold enough to override normal shelter admission policies, isn’t enough to let the city force people to come inside, unless they’re found to be in a state approaching death — but if they’ve gone hiding after the “outreach” crew has stopped by, they probably won’t get found in time.

It’s bizarre: Progressives are completely down with meddling maximally in people’s lives most of the time — taxing us, regulating us, telling us how to tip on food delivery and where to dispose of our vegetable peels.

But they become fiercely libertarian when it comes to letting mentally ill people refuse to come out of the cold.

“The law, in its majestic equality,” snarked Nobel Prize winner Anatole France, “forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges.”

Mamdani’s corollary is that the law permits rich and poor to sleep outside in the cold.

Sorry: Virtually everyone sees the value in rejecting “the frigidity of rugged individualism” in extreme cases, and the virtue of imposing the “warmth of collectivism.”

Live up to your clear promise, Mr. Mayor, and do right by the city’s most vulnerable.

Iran hit by wave of explosions

 

Iran has been hit by multiple explosions with at least four people reported killed.

The regime has moved swiftly to dismiss suggestions that a Revolutionary Guard chief was the target of the blasts.

The wave of explosions follows threats from Trump to launch strikes against the Ayatollah over the deaths of thousands of protesters.

Whether the incidents are connected to US military action remains unclear.

Four fatalities were reported following a blast in Ahvaz, a city on the Iraqi border.

A separate explosion hit Bandar Abbas, a southern port city.

An eight-storey building was struck, with dramatic images showing serious damage to its lower levels.

The official IRNA news agency reported several injured people were taken from the scene, while cars and a shop also suffered damage.

Iranian media outlets have suggested the incidents were caused by "gas explosions".

Further blasts were recorded in Shahr-e Jadid-e Parand, Karaj, Tabriz, Nowshahr, Hashtgerd and Qeshm.

Washington has increased its military footprint in the region amid mounting tensions.

Nationwide demonstrations swept through Iran during the new year period.

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Zera Shimshon Parshat Beshalach

 

What really Happened at the Weberman Hearing !

 DIN: Tznees alert!

The hearing began with the judge stating that he would be granting the motion to vacate Weberman’s original sentence. Weberman had originally been sentenced to 103 years, but that sentence had been reduced by law to 50 years because of caps on incarceration. Weberman was then given an opportunity to address the court and his victim, who was present in court with her husband, her lawyer, friends, and advocates.  

Weberman read from a prepared statement saying that he was not there to revisit the past. He said that he stood ready to take full, unconditional responsibility for the harm he caused. He said that he had misused the position of authority that was given to him and had desecrated God’s name. Turning to his victim he told her that she deserved a protector, and instead he had violated her. He told her that she had done nothing to deserved what had happened to her, that she had been an innocent child.

He then said that his time served – 13 years – had paid his debt to her, and that he stood before the court as a changed man. He pleaded to his victim, saying that he wasa truly, and deeply sorry.

The ADA, Joe Alexis, then asked Weberman to be more specific about what he was apologizing for. He asked Weberman if he accepts that his victim was 12 years old, and Weberman said he didn’t remember exactly, but that she was a child. The ADA then asked Weberman what specifically he had done to his victim. Weberman said it was sexual abuse. When asked to be more specific, Weberman bristled, saying he didn’t want to get graphic. His family was sitting in the courtroom, including two of his children.

He said that he’d been in jail for 13 years and couldn’t remember the specifics well enough to graphically say what it was, but it was sexual abuse, and that he didn’t want to think about it.  The ADA asked him if he didn’t remember anything about it, and he said that he remembered what he’d said – that it was sexual abuse, but that he wouldn’t be using graphic language and it wouldn’t be true if he said it was this or that. The ADA asked him what he did remember. Weberman said “let’s call it sexual abuse.” The ADA pushed him, saying that Weberman kept saying that, but what did it specifically mean.

The next Israel-Iran war will not look like the last one

Iran’s threat to strike “the heart of Tel Aviv" should the US attack Iran sounds less like confidence than fear. It resembles a terrified animal puffing itself up to appear larger than it is. Iran desperately needs the world to believe it remains dangerous.

Tehran’s deranged mullahs are weaker-militarily, economically, diplomatically, and internally-than they have been in years.

Israel’s stunning success in its 12-Day War with Iran in 2025 stripped away long-cultivated myths of Iranian invulnerability. Israel demonstrated that it could penetrate Iran’s largely Russian air-defense systems and identify and strike key targets almost at will.

Kosher food and no women: The IDF's new guidelines for integrating Charedim

 

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has given final approval to the General Staff orders for the integration of haredim into the military, Channel 13 reported on Thursday.

According to the report, the orders are intended to ensure that every haredi soldier maintains the same way of life he did at home before enlisting.

Among the orders that will be incorporated into IDF regulations in some tracks: an absolute ban on women entering the base, and a ban on exposing soldiers to women.

In addition, the soldiers' commanders will only be observant, and in some tracks, there will be mandatory Torah study and prayers.

The order states that soldiers will be able to receive food in several levels of kashrut, according to the practice in their homes. They will be exempt from wearing a uniform in haredi population centers, and the customary oath of allegiance to the IDF will be replaced by a declaration of allegiance to avoid the Torah prohibition on false oaths.

In addition, an external rabbinical council will be formed to oversee the implementation of the orders.

Lapid & Bennett need Arab parties to form a government

 

Lapid & Bennett sit with the Atab MK

The unification of the Arab parties negatively impacts Netanyahu’s opponents, who are unable to form a coalition without relying on the votes of the Joint List, according to a poll conducted by the "Mida" Institute for Channel 12 News.

The poll shows that if elections were held today, the Likud party would win 27 seats, and Naftali Bennett’s party would win 21.

The Joint List, if the Arab parties unite, would achieve 12 seats, the Democrats 11, Shas 9, Yesh Atid 8, Yisrael Beytenu 8, Otzma Yehudit 8, and United Torah Judaism 7.

The Religious Zionist Party does not pass the electoral threshold, but is close to it. Also, the Blue and White Party and the Reservists’ Party do not pass the electoral threshold.

The opposition bloc achieves 57 seats, while the coalition bloc has 51, with the Arab parties in the middle.

A union between Bennett, Yesh Atid, and Gadi Eizenkot does not bring any change to the bloc map. A joint party of the three would win 38 seats, with Likud maintaining its strength with 27 seats. In this scenario, the Joint List gets 12 seats, the Democrats 11, Shas 9, Yisrael Beytenu 8, Otzma Yehudit 8, and United Torah Judaism 7.

צמאה לך נפשי

 

צמאה לך נפשי

See Reb Yitzchok Dovid Grossman on the right on the 0.27 mark

Saudi Arabia’s Ugly Pivot Against Israel

 by Dinah Bucholz

Before the war in Gaza, relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel had taken a hopeful turn, as the prospect of the Arab state joining the Abraham Accords appeared to be approaching reality. 

But the Oct. 7 attack derailed that plan, which appeared to serve one of Hamas’s goals of starting the war. Still, even during the war, there was hope that Saudi Arabia would continue to soften its stance and normalize relations with Israel.

But tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have since escalated. The two countries had long enjoyed warm relations and a strong strategic partnership, but differences regarding Yemen have turned into an emerging rivalry amid increasing hostility, with Saudi Arabia demanding that the UAE withdraw from parts of Yemen, while drawing closer to Turkey and Qatar, both hostile to Israel.

At the same time, Saudi Arabia started to jack up its anti-Israel rhetoric, including anti-Jewish conspiracies, on its state-run media and its local Al-Jazeera station, as the hope for normalization with Israel receded in the rear-view mirror.

This calls into question the wisdom of the November 18 meeting between President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (also known as MBS) about the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. It also raises doubts about the reliability of Saudi Arabia as a U.S. ally, even as Trump continues to maintain a positive and warm relationship with MBS, who serves as the country’s prime minister.

The 770 Crasher May Not have been a Terrorist He actually wanted to convert

 The man who crashed his car Wednesday night into the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway was known to have visited other Chabad houses in recent months and reportedly sought to convert to Judaism but was turned away.

 Authorities said the driver claimed a mechanical problem caused the crash and that he had no terrorist intent.

Final hostage, Ran Gvili, is laid to rest

 The funeral procession for slain Israeli hostage, Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, HY”D, has set off for his hometown of Meitar, where he will be buried. Thousands of Israelis and saluting police officers are standing on the sides of the road to pay their final respects.

*“I just wanted to tell you, my beloved child, that the hope you might return to us on two legs, or even one leg, gave us hope,” his mother, Talik Gvili, said in her eulogy.*

“Rani, my love, I promise you that thanks largely to you, all of Israel remembered that despite all the divisions, we are one big, strong people. Everyone is worthy of your sacrifice.”

Ran’s father, Itzik Gvili, recited Kaddish over the coffin, saluted and said,

 “Here, your friends are taking you.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu to the Gvili family:

 “Our souls are bound to yours. We met many times, crossing continents and seas together, including a heart-wrenching meeting with President Trump in Florida. We witnessed, up close and with deep emotion, the power of parental and sibling love. We embraced you in your pain then, and today we embrace you again-together with the entire nation-as a hero of Israel is laid to rest in his homeland."

This photo explains why the Jews need a State!

 

If you don’t understand why Jews must be back home, look at this image.

From November 30th to December 8th 1941, Nazi Einsatzgruppen, with the help of local collaborators, carried out mass executions in the Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia.

Nearly 25,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto were murdered in just two days, including thousands of children.

Breaking the Silence! I Survived Incest Abuse Inside My Own Family

 DIN: Without judging her, I am very disappointed that she is allowing her abusers to continue abusing and producing more victims! I sincerely hope that with time she will report them to authorities. 

I also must point out that I know of at least two other cases of incest in New Square! 

Bassy is an incest survivor, advocate, and psychodrama co-facilitator dedicated to breaking the silence around childhood sexual abuse.

Through her lived experience and professional work, she focuses on spreading awareness, supporting prevention efforts, and helping remove the stigma and taboo surrounding incest and family-based abuse.

Bassy uses her voice to educate, empower survivors, and encourage open, honest conversations that promote healing, accountability, and safer communities.

The Famous Speech of Rabbi Lewin to the UN General Assembly July 1947 on the Agudah Position on Jews Returning to their Homeland

CHAIRMAN: I recognize Rabbi I. M. Lewin (CHAIRMAN of Agudath Israel). (Rabbi Lewin spoke in Hebrew.)

Rabbi I. M. Lewin: In the name of World and Palestine Agudath Israel, I wish to welcome you here and say how much we all hope that you may succeed in your task.

I think this is a first and unique event in history of representatives of fifty-five nations organized in the United Nations having come to the Holy Land, to Jerusalem, in order to hold an enquiry into the question of Palestine and of the Jewish People.

We appear before you as the representatives of independent orthodox Jewry organized in Agudath Israel in Palestine and all over the world.

It is our view that Divine Torah alone forms the eternal constitution of the Jewish people, and that it, and it alone serves as the foundation and essence of the existence of the Jewish people as the nation of the Lord; that Torah alone is the soul and backbone of that nation, and that whatever is formative in Palestine and within the Jewish people can be of lasting value and can have a right of existence only inasmuch as it is connected with and flowing from, the Almighty's Torah.

This, our view, presents an unbroken tradition of about 3,000 years, one that has forever been absolutely based on the Bible and its teachings, both written and oral, and that is independent and uninfluenced from any other spiritual foundation. In making this short address to you, I should like to assist you in solving the difficult problem in connection with which you have come here from this our point of view.

First of all: we declare the following to be our main aspiration, in which we feel united with the entire Jewish people.

The land of Israel and the People of Israel form one complete entity forever inseparable. In practice we demand, therefore, that the gates of the Holy Land be opened to all Jews wishing to come here; that the absorptive capacity of the Land be developed to the only possible limit; and that a political regime be established capable of guaranteeing free immigration, the development of the country and exploitation to the full of its absorptive capacity.

 The grandson of Holocaust survivors was blocked from attending the United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day event in New York City after taking a photograph of influencer Lizzy Savetsky’s confrontation with security over an Israeli flag.

Julian Voloj was going through the security line at the U.N. General Assembly Hall when he saw security guards “harassing” Savetsky, a prominent pro-Israel social media influencer.

The security guards told Savetsky that she could not enter the event wearing her blazer, which had a bedazzled Israeli flag displayed prominently on its back. She was eventually allowed into the General Assembly Hall after checking her jacket.

“I do find it interesting that I was asked to check my Judaism at the door of an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event. Kind of ironic, no?” said Savetsky in an Instagram post about the incident.

After instinctively using his phone to take photos of the confrontation between Savetsky and security, Voloj said a security guard “stormed right to me, moved me aside, took my phone, used my face ID to access my photos and made me delete the pictures.”

From there, Voloj, who serves as the executive director of Be’chol Lashon, a nonprofit promoting Jewish diversity, said the security guard took his pass for the event and escorted him off the premises.

Satmar Believes Jews in Israel Should live under an Arab Flag but they don't like it when an Arab Enters KJ

 

This is too funny to be true! 

The founder of the Satmar Chassidus, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum z"l wrote that Jews cannot have a State before Moshiach comes, he suggested that Jews in Israel live either under an Arab or International Flag! 

In retrospect, we now know how smart that suggestion was, as the United Nations would have expelled the Jews a long time ago! 

But when an Arab visits their "Holy" City of Kiryas Yoel to investigate how much welfare and federal grants they get, they don't like it one bit! 

Ironically, this Arab is investigating Satmar's taking money from the "medina." This is too funny! It's Satmar that screams and barks that Jews in Israel "aren't allowed to take money from the medina" ...

My friends, there is a G-d!

They cannot tolerate this visitor for even half an hour, yet when Israelis suggest limiting Arab elements within Israel, Satmar denounces it as “hisgaris be’umos.” Somehow, though, they cannot handle an outsider in their own community for even a few minutes.

They are quick to criticize the State of Israel, but when they experience even a small taste of the medicine Israel faces constantly, the bitterness is hard for them to swallow.

מה ששנוא עליך אל תעשה לחברך

 

Chareidim learn from the Palestinian Authority and pay a stipend to Draft Dodgers who sat in jail!

Chardeim reading the news noticed that the Palestinian Authority pay those who kill Jews a stipend while in jail! So they reasoned "why, that's not a bad idea, why don't we grant those draft dodgers in jail a stipend! 

The guy in the photo a chassan who doesn't look much like a "Mar be'rav Ashi" but because he dodged the draft and sat in prison he will get 30,000 shekels, that's close to $10,000, not bad for sitting a month in "summer camp"

 The groom, Meir Yona, who sat for a long time in Prison 10, received a special grant from Charedim , in the sum of 30,000 NIS 3,000 for each day in prison. He is getting married in a month and a half.

Weberman nearly walked free — till he ‘forget’ details of his crimes at hearing, infuriating DA

 

רשעים אפילו על פתחו של גיהנם אינם חוזרין בתשובה

This arrogant pedophile with his sick perverted smile, was going to walk free that morning, but because of his smugness and "gaaveh" he will sit at least another 3 years! 

A notorious Brooklyn Chasidic pedophile nearly walked free during a resentencing Tuesday — till he pretended to forget details of his crimes, and the furious prosecutor reversed course and pushed for more time.

Nechemya Weberman ended up with a sentence slashed down from 103 years to 18 years, although with time served, that amounts to just five years left on the clock for the pedo — and with good behavior, he could be out by 2028.

“Mr. Weberman’s outrageous behavior in court today personified why he remains a danger to society,” said Sarena Townsend, the lawyer for the sicko’s then-12-year-old female victim.

“His repeated denials and refusal to face his actions proved that his assurances of rehabilitation and remorse were lies.”

Weberman, a former counselor at a Williamsburg yeshiva now in his 60s, appeared vivacious, smiling and jovial on video feed from the maximum-security Shawangunk Prison in upstate New York — despite his supporters painting an image of a feeble man at death’s door.

He had been convicted on 59 counts and originally sentenced to 103 years in prison 13 years ago for repeatedly sexually abusing victim Rivky Deutsch for three years. 

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office — under pressure from some members of the convict’s religious community for years — was prepared to effectively push to free the convicted sicko, having sought the resentencing on the grounds his 103-year stint was excessive and that he had already served enough time.

But Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Joseph Alexis changed course mid-hearing when Weberman claimed to forget the gory details of his misdeeds.  

The pedophile attested to his remorse and apologized, reading from a statement, claiming he had spent years “in denial’’ and was “a changed man.’’

But Alexis demanded he go further and specifically attest to his criminal acts. 

Weberman repeatedly responded “I don’t remember” when asked graphic questions about his crimes, including if he recalled forcing his pre-teen victim to perform oral sex.

“What’s troubling to me is that Mr. Weberman can’t remember,” Alexis said “The victim can never forget.”

“Quite frankly, if the defendant was forthcoming, I was authorized to offer 15 years,” Alexis said, a move that would have potentially seen Weberman walk free.

“But I am going to pivot away from that,” the ADA said.  

A quiet and reserved Deutsch read her own statement to the judge, recalling, “His smug smile hurt the most.

“It would be tragic if in five years from now, someone else is standing here describing his own story similar to mine, your Honor. You have the ability to prevent that.”

Judge Matthew D’Emic’s new sentence gives Weberman five more years to recall his misdeeds, but with good behavior, he could be out in half the time. 

“A modified sentence of 18 years with 10 years supervision remains a meaningful penalty,” the judge said.
Weberman, who has fought his conviction and sentence for years, could still further appeal the new ruling.

Sexual abuse advocates said the new sentence sends a “dangerous” message to survivors in the Hasidic community.

“[The DA] walked in ready to let [Weberman] walk out,” said Asher Lovy, director of the Orthodox Jewish victims group Za’akah. 

“And the only reason he didn’t is because that dumb f–k was too stupid to just answer the questions and show a little bit of remorse himself.”

Amit Segal fact‑checks Biden advisers Lies and propaganda

 

Brett McGurk, senior adviser to former US President Joe Biden, sharply criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, after Netanyahu suggested during his press conference that a US weapons embargo was among the factors that contributed to IDF casualties during the war.

“That statement by Netanyahu is categorically false. Biden left office with a ceasefire in Gaza and hostages coming home, a ceasefire in Lebanon with Hezbollah defeated, Iran in its weakest position since 1979 after two failed missile attacks thanks to the deployment of U.S. military forces and a coordinated response that destroyed Iran's air defenses," McGurk stated.

He added that Biden’s “commitment to Israel's security to include US military assistance was unwavering throughout the crisis."

Journalist Amit Segal responded with a detailed fact-check, writing, “And now to the facts: Biden imposed a partial arms embargo on Israel, halted the transfer of bulldozers that Israel had already paid for - which led to soldiers being put at risk and killed. He caused the IDF to enter Rafah with tanks that didn’t have full ammunition loads, which also put soldiers at risk and led to casualties."

Segal further noted, “Biden opposed the assassination of Nasrallah; his defense secretary cursed during a phone call with [then-Defense Minister] Gallant when Gallant told him that our aircraft had taken out the Hezbollah leader. Iran was not at a low point when Biden left - on the contrary, it was confident enough to launch two barrages at Israel."

According to Segal, “The ceasefire Biden longs for was, for him, a goal rather than a means."

He concluded: “We’ve all been around for more than a year, so we were here when it happened - there’s no need to cover us with lies and propaganda."