Wednesday, September 9, 2026
On 911 we pause to remember Lizz Wainio
She was 27 years old.
And in her final minutes alive, she tried to comfort everyone else.
On September 11, 2001, a young woman picked up an Airfone on a hijacked plane and spoke eight words her family has carried for the rest of their lives:
“This is going to be so much harder for you than it is for me.”
Her name was Honor Elizabeth Wainio.
Everyone called her Lizz.
Two days earlier, she had been in Paris.
She had just returned from Europe — a long-anticipated trip filled with joy. She attended a friend’s wedding in Florence. She walked the Champs-ΓlysΓ©es. She stepped into a church and lit a candle for her grandmother.
She once told her mother that if she ever got to see Paris, she could die happy.
She was 27. A rising district manager for Discovery Channel Stores. Driven. Organized. Warm. The kind of person who lived quickly because she believed there was so much life ahead.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Lizz boarded United Airlines Flight 93 in Newark, bound for San Francisco.
There were 40 passengers and crew onboard.
At 9:28 a.m., four hijackers stormed the cockpit.
The plane violently dropped 700 feet. Screams filled the cabin. Passengers were forced to the rear of the aircraft.
But something happened on Flight 93 that changed history.
Through phone calls placed from seat-back Airfones and cell phones, passengers learned the unimaginable truth: planes had already struck the World Trade Center. The Pentagon had been hit.
This was not a hostage situation.
It was a coordinated suicide attack.
The people onboard understood before it was too late.
In the chaos, someone handed Lizz a phone.
“Call someone you love.”
She reached her stepmother, Esther.
Her voice, according to family accounts and later investigations, was steady. Clear. Not hysterical. Not broken.
She was trying to protect the person on the other end.
“It just hurts me most,” she said, “that this is going to be so much harder for you than it is for me.”
Pause there.
A 27-year-old woman, facing death at 30,000 feet, worried more about her family’s grief than her own fear.
They spoke for several minutes — about four, according to reports. They breathed together. There were no dramatic speeches. Just love carried through static.
Then Lizz said something else.
“I’m gonna be with Grandma.”
Her grandmother had lived near rural Pennsylvania — not far from where the plane would ultimately crash. Lizz could not have known that.
But in that moment, she found comfort in reunion.
At 9:57 a.m., passengers made a collective decision.
They were going to fight back.
Flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw told her husband she was boiling water to throw at the hijackers. Passenger Todd Beamer prayed the Lord’s Prayer with an operator and said words that would echo across a stunned nation:
“Let’s roll.”
Lizz’s final words came just before the counterattack began.
“They’re getting ready to break into the cockpit. I have to go. I love you. Good-bye.”
At 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Investigators later concluded the hijackers were likely targeting either the U.S. Capitol or the White House. Because the passengers resisted, the aircraft never reached its intended target.
The 40 passengers and crew were later awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of their courage.
Today, the site is preserved as the Flight 93 National Memorial.
There stands the Tower of Voices — 40 wind chimes, each tuned to a distinct note. When the wind crosses that quiet Pennsylvania field, the chimes do not blend into one sound.
They remain separate.
Individual.
For years, Lizz’s father would call her cellphone just to hear her voicemail greeting. One day, the service was discontinued. The message was gone.
He later said losing her voice a second time felt unbearable.
At the memorial, he listens for a particular chime.
“That’s my daughter,” he says.
Honor Elizabeth Wainio’s story is not only about how she died.
It is about how she chose to live her final minutes.
She had just seen Paris. She had just lit a candle for her grandmother. She had plans. She had momentum. She had a future.
And when the worst moment imaginable arrived, she did not ask for comfort.
She gave it.
In a day remembered for smoke and terror, there were also phone calls filled with grace. There were strangers who became allies. There were ordinary people who refused to surrender quietly.
Thirty thousand feet above the earth, a young woman chose love over panic.
And because of people like her — frightened, human, brave — history shifted.
We remember her.
We remember all forty.
US gave Britain green light to target Israel over Judea and Samaria
President Donald Trump was briefed in advance on Britain’s sweeping measures against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and did not ask London to hold off, according to a Western official cited by The Times of Israel.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham reportedly personally informed Trump of plans to ban imports from Israeli settlements and impose additional measures. “There was no request to hold off,” the official said. Secretary of State Marco Rubio likewise said Washington knew in advance but would not join the sanctions.
The revelation appears to undercut US Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s warning that Britain would face “significant” repercussions. A White House official later said Huckabee’s remarks were not coordinated with the administration, although a stronger US response could still follow.
Hostage's mother sues Charedi provocateur
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| Iris Haim |
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| Dov Halbertal |
Iris Haim, the mother of the late Yotam Haim, who was mistakenly shot and killed in Shejaiya after escaping Hamas captivity, has filed a lawsuit seeking approximately NIS 170,000 against Haredi provocateur Dov Halbertal over harsh and offensive comments he posted about her on Facebook following reports that she could potentially be included on the Likud’s Knesset slate.
Halbertal called Haim “a seeker of honor and publicity who has only flourished since her son’s death," and claimed that “it can be assumed that she planned her entire path into politics in advance and is trampling on the blood of her son, who bestowed worldwide celebrity status upon her."
He concluded the post with the words: “On her son’s grave, she will write: ‘How good that you were murdered.’ What a kindness Hamas did for her."
In response to the post, Haim chose to respond publicly and rejected his claims.
“No one has approached me - not from the Likud, nor from any other slate or party - and even if I am approached, the answer will be no. The important thing is to write vile and disgusting things about me without even checking," she wrote.
The lawsuit states that Haim, through no choice of her own, has become a figure who seeks to promote unity among the people of Israel. It also emphasizes that the offensive post was published shortly after she received preliminary approval to have a child using Yotam’s sperm.
Her attorneys stress that Halbertal’s remarks were not an inadvertent act committed in a moment of anger, but rather a deliberate effort to hurt her and tarnish her reputation.
Thomas Friedman says that the present Israeli Government is "Worse than the Klan"
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Thomas Friedman, in a New York Times Op-Ed, has informed his readers that “self-destruction is on the ballot” in Israel and in America. It is a bold claim from a man whose track record includes the Iraq war he championed, the Chinese authoritarianism he admired, and the flat world that turned out to have quite a few hills. The column is as far from journalism as mankind is from the amoeba and completely collapses when checked against the record. Claim by claim, there is nothing left standing.
“The future of democracy” is on the ballot in Israel
Here is Friedman’s “democracy on the brink.” The outgoing 25th Knesset became the first Israeli legislature since 1988 to complete its full four-year term without early dissolution. The election is being held on schedule, on October 27. The motion to dissolve parliament passed 62-0, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voting in favor. That’s 62 to 0. And the incumbent is trailing: Channel 12’s August 25 poll shows Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot beating Netanyahu 44 percent to 34 on the question of who is fitter to be prime minister.
And now let’s look at what Friedman is asking readers to believe. A regime that is “strangling democracy” schedules an on-time election, watches the polls turn against it, and then votes unanimously to hold the election anyway. That is not how autocracies behave. It is how democracies behave. Friedman has mistaken the thing itself for its absolute opposite.
The British Mandate Is Finally Over’: Israel Orders UK Consulate in East Jerusalem Shut!
The British Mandate Is Over’: Israel Orders UK Officials Out of Gaza Coordination Center Over Judea and Samaria Boycott, and their consulate in East Jerusalem shut!
Israel has reportedly given British representatives at the international Gaza coordination center in Kiryat Gat seven days to leave the country, retaliating for Britain’s new ban on dealings with Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
According to Channel 12, the move is part of a broader Israeli response that also targets British diplomatic operations in Jerusalem and Ramallah, dramatically escalating the confrontation with London.
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
The major battle that split Satmar in Two
In the video below Frieda Vizel interviews the singer Yumi Lowy about his recollections of how the Satmar split unfolded!
Yumi (which grownup still uses "Yumi" as a name?) grew up in Satmar and it's clear from this conversation that he speaks from the Aroni faction's perspective, however, his observations of the physical violence between the Satmar Chassidim amongst themselves is astounding.
He starts with a false narrative, obviously repeating the "horse crap" that the "Aronim" were dishing out!
For example at the 7.24 mark he claims that the Beirach Moshe z"l suffered from dementia, an unmitigated lie!
R Aron Teitelbaum, the elder son, fabricated that because his father refused to name him as his successor. Why wouldn't the father name his eldest son as his natural successor, because the Beirach Moshe didn't want a known bully with an uncontrolled mouth to succeed him so he went ahead and named the younger one R Zalman Leib to be the next Satmar Rebbe,
In 2005, R Aron tried to drag his father to secular court to get the court to approve R Aron's psychologist that would have said "that his father lost his marbles."
However,before the Secular Judge even ruled, the rebbe passed away April 2006.
Now I don't have a dog in this fight and could care less who was the true successor is but I won't allow re-writing of the facts. I know for a fact that he was sharp as a tack.
The Rebbe did get very depressed when his daughter Rebbetzin Chaya Meisels passed away in 1993, and couldn't get over it, but he functioned 100%
Now when you watch this video, you will hear what I have been telling you guys for years, that Satmar is a violent uncivilized sect.
But what Yumi Lowy doesn't tell you, is that this violent history goes back all the way to Europe preWW2 where R' Yoel Teitelbaum the founder of the Satmar Chassidus fought with everyone including his own brother the Atzei Chayim and his nephews in Sighet! Later he fought with the Spinker Rebbe, for reasons only Hashem knows!
After settling in the USA, he fought with Reb Hershele Spinker z"l and made his life a living hell. He also fought with his nephew the Kloizenberger Rebbe z"l. The Kloizenberger had to flee to Union City NJ!
When I say "fighting" I mean actual physical violence!
PS: At the 44:27 mark, Yumi compares the Satmar Civil War to the Israeli/Arab conflict!
This shows that Satmar Chassidim by-in-large whether they are still in the community or out of it like Yumi, are basically stupid!
Adidas surrenders to terror supporters, apologizes for featuring disabled Israeli veteran
Adidas has apologized after pro-Palestinian activists targeted an Israeli campaign featuring Shalev Biton, a former IDF soldier who lost his left leg after being wounded during his military service in 2021.
Biton was one of 11 disabled athletes promoting Adidas’s “Single Shoe” initiative, which allows amputees and others with limb differences to buy only the shoe they need. His inclusion triggered outrage because of his IDF service, with actor Javier Bardem even calling for a boycott of Adidas.
Rather than simply stand behind an inclusion campaign featuring a disabled athlete, Adidas bowed to the backlash and apologized, stressing that the advertisement was only a local Israeli initiative: “It was never our intent to cause offense and we apologize for anyone affected.” The retreat is likely to fuel criticism that the company caved to political pressure over the mere inclusion of an Israeli veteran with a disability.
Hey Huckabee, watch out for the real trap
This urgent article is NOT about the storm which rightly arose risen regarding the Ambassador Huckabee fiasco earlier this week. That fiasco is however the direct backdrop to the disaster waiting to happen which we report below. So, to recap:
Ambassador Huckabee, in a moment of oversight, agreed this week to a “town meeting" with “Palestinian-Americans" (i.e. Israel-bashing activists). It truly did not occur to the ambassador that a “town meeting" format would allow Pallywood con artists to say whatever they want - with zero fact-checking. Pro-Israel groups were properly astounded by the Ambassador’s naivete - especially since the ambassador even expressed delight that his event drew lots of media (“Large press group turned out to cover my trip to Turmusayya").
Of course the Israel-bashing media turned out en masse. But that does not mean the event is a success. To the contrary, it means the Ambassador was set up by the Arab bloc’s powerful propaganda machine.
Such events are used to undermine the Jewish state and the Jewish people on a grand scale. Such fests skew public opinion against the Jews, shape anti-Jewish policy, fuel anti-Semitic sentiment, and physically endanger Jewish communities and Jewish students. But none of this matters, because this fest, this “town meeting", already happened.
However -
Ger and Sanz on each others throats!
Tensions inside Agudas Yisrael escalated overnight following a contentious meeting between representatives of Gur and Sanz, after Sanz firmly rejected a demand that its representatives sign a written commitment sought by Gur.
According to a report by Kikar HaShabbos, the dispute erupted after Gur representatives sought a formal letter of commitment from Sanz, similar to an agreement that had reportedly been signed several years ago. Sanz rejected the demand outright, reportedly responding: “This will not happen. We are not repeating the same mistake twice.”
With the sides at an impasse, a senior Gur delegation traveled Monday night to Kiryat Sanz in Netanya in an effort to resolve the dispute. The Gur delegation included Motty Babchik, Yonatan Chassid and Chanoch Dranger, while Sanz was represented by Berl Stemer and Reichman.
During the meeting, the Gur representatives reportedly stressed the importance of their request and maintained that the demand had come from the Gerrer Rebbe.
But Sanz refused to budge.
“We are not subordinate to you. We also have a Rebbe, and his opinion and decision carry exactly the same weight as those of the Rebbes of Gur, Vizhnitz and Belz,” the Sanz representatives reportedly told the Gur delegation.
Sanz further made clear that the chassidus answers to the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and the Sanzer Rebbe, and would not accept the authority of another chassidus.
According to the report, Gur ultimately withdrew its demand for the written commitment after it became clear that Sanz would not agree to sign it.
The confrontation comes amid broader turmoil inside Agudas Yisrael surrounding the party’s Knesset slate. The dispute intensified after Gur moved to remove Sanz representative MK Moshe Shimon Roth from the fifth position on the Agudas Yisrael list.
Hours after the initial report, a statement issued in the names of Gur’s Central Faction and the Sanz community said the sides had reached an agreement following talks held “in a positive atmosphere and with mutual understanding.” Under the reported agreement, the representative of the Sanzer Rebbe would receive the fifth position on the Agudas Yisrael Knesset slate.
The statement added that the arrangement was intended to increase representation for the various kehillos and promote cooperation on communal and religious matters.
France and Canada Join the UK to Ban Goods From Israeli Settlements in Judea and Samaria
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said that the countries are part of an international coalition. He said that Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Poland, Portugal and Sweden have pledged to “support further action.”
The Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Spain and Norway have either banned goods from settlements or are in the process of doing so, he said.
Ben Gvir urges Israel to recognize Argentina’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir publicly urges Israel to recognize Argentina’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) as British-occupied territory and impose sanctions on the UK until the occupation ends.
“It's time for the State of Israel to publicly recognize that the Malvinas Islands are Argentine territory under occupation, which the British violently steal from the Argentine people.
The British are not content with merely occupying the territory; they also carry out oil drilling there and steal the money from the Argentine people.
I call upon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognize Argentina's sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and to impose sanctions on Great Britain as long as the occupation continues.
The Tzaddik Harav Moshe Yazdi convicted of Sexually assaulting Two Woman the Indictment said Eight, but he got away because of the Statue of Limitations
Yesterday the court convicted Rabbi Moshe Yazdi of sexual offenses, and I want you to pay attention to one sentence that may be hidden in the background, a sentence that we are already unfortunately used to, which reads as if it were a report on the weather!
, and I hope that one day our granddaughters will come and ask us,
"Grandma, tell me, was there really a thing in your time where a convicted sex offender escaped punishment at the time of the conviction itself?"
And we nod and say,
"Yes, my granddaughter, when I was your age, the legislation in the State of Israel on the subject of sexual offenses was like what you find today only in the Third World,"
and here is his sentence:
"The indictment included eight women, but the sex offender was convicted of harming only two, and some of his offenses were erased due to the statute of limitations."
ΧΧͺΧΧΧ ΧΧ¨Χ©ΧΧ’ ΧΧΧͺ ΧΧΧ©Χ€Χ ΧΧͺ ΧΧ¨Χ ΧΧ©Χ ΧΧΧΧ ΧΧ’ΧΧΧ¨ΧΧͺ ΧΧΧ, ΧΧΧ Χ Χ¨ΧΧ¦Χ Χ©Χ Χ©ΧΧ ΧΧ ΧΧΧ©Χ€Χ ΧΧΧ Χ©Χ’Χ©ΧΧ ΧΧΧΧΧΧ’ ΧΧ Χ ΧΧ¨Χ§Χ’, ΧΧ©Χ€Χ Χ©ΧΧ ΧΧ Χ ΧΧΧ¨ Χ¨ΧΧΧΧΧ ΧΧ§Χ¨ΧΧ ΧΧΧΧΧ ΧΧ©ΧΧΧΧͺΧ ΧΧ§ΧΧ¨ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧͺΧ ΧΧΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧΧ¨ ΧΧΧΧΧΧ Χ’Χ ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧΧΧ¨,
ΧΧΧ Χ ΧΧ§ΧΧΧ Χ©ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧ ΧΧ ΧΧΧΧͺ Χ©ΧΧ Χ ΧΧΧΧΧ ΧΧΧ©ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧͺΧ Χ,
"Χ‘ΧΧͺΧ, ΧͺΧΧΧΧ, ΧΧΧΧͺ ΧΧͺΧ§ΧΧ€ΧͺΧ ΧΧΧ Χ§ΧΧ’ ΧΧΧ Χ©Χ’ΧΧ¨ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧ¨Χ©Χ’, ΧΧΧΧ§ ΧΧ’ΧΧ Χ© ΧΧΧ’ΧΧ ΧΧΧ¨Χ©Χ’Χ Χ’Χ¦ΧΧ?", ΧΧΧ ΧΧ Χ Χ ΧΧ ΧΧ ΧΧ ΧΧΧ
"ΧΧ Χ ΧΧΧͺΧ, ΧΧ©ΧΧ Χ ΧΧΧΧͺΧ ΧΧΧΧΧ ΧΧΧ§ΧΧ§Χ ΧΧΧΧΧ Χͺ ΧΧ©Χ¨ΧΧ ΧΧ ΧΧ©Χ Χ’ΧΧΧ¨ΧΧͺ ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧͺΧ ΧΧΧ Χ©ΧΧͺ ΧΧΧ¦ΧΧͺ ΧΧΧΧ Χ¨Χ§ ΧΧ’ΧΧΧ ΧΧ©ΧΧΧ©Χ"
, ΧΧΧ Χ ΧΧΧ©Χ€Χ:
"ΧΧͺΧ ΧΧΧΧ©ΧΧ ΧΧΧ Χ©ΧΧΧ Χ Χ Χ©ΧΧ, ΧΧ Χ’ΧΧ¨ΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧ ΧΧΧ¨Χ©Χ’ ΧΧΧΧ Χ€ΧΧΧ’Χ ΧΧ©ΧͺΧΧΧ ΧΧΧΧ, ΧΧ©ΧΧΧ§ ΧΧ’ΧΧΧ¨ΧΧͺΧΧ Χ ΧΧΧ§Χ ΧΧ©Χ ΧΧͺΧΧΧ©Χ ΧΧͺ"
15 year-old Charedie Learned Arabic Stands in from of a Mosque to tell them that "Jews are not Zionists"
This Chareidie little fool will not tell the Muslims that he himself is a Zionist, he believes should Moshiach come, all Arabs will be thrown out of Israel, why doesn't he tell them that?
Do we know how King Jehu of Malchei Yisrael looked like? Well there is a carving
This is the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
Carved in the ninth century BC, this Assyrian monument contains one of the earliest surviving images connected to a biblical Israelite king.
Its inscription names “Jehu, son of Omri,” while the relief shows an Israelite delegation bowing before the Assyrian king and presenting tribute
The Bible records Jehu becoming king of Israel during this same period.
This wasn’t written by Israel.
It was carved by Assyria.
A king from the biblical record, named and pictured on the monument of a foreign empire.
DIN: It is interesting, that in Tanach, Achab is the son of Omri not Jehu. Jehu was the son of Yehoshufat , and this story of Jehu paying tribute is only known from the Black Obelisk, however King Jehu did in fact live during the period of 9th century BCE ... so this could likely be a carving of King Jehu!
ΧְΧֵΧͺ֙ ΧֵΧ֣ΧּΧ ΧֶΧ־Χ ִΧְΧ©ִׁ֔Χ ΧͺִּΧְΧ©ַׁ֥Χ ΧְΧֶ֖ΧֶΧְ Χ’ַΧ־ΧִΧ©ְׂΧ¨ָΧֵ֑Χ (ΧΧΧΧΧ Χ Χ"Χ: Χ"Χ)
ΧּΧָ֖ΧΧͺָ־Χ©ָּׁ֑ΧָּΧ ΧּΧ¨ְΧֵΧ־Χ©ָׁ֠Χ ΧֵΧ֨ΧּΧ ΧֶΧ־ΧְΧΧֹΧ©ָׁΧ€ָ֜Χ ΧֶּΧ־Χ ִΧְΧ©ִׁ֗Χ (ΧΧΧΧΧ Χ Χ)
This is the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
Carved in the ninth century BC, this Assyrian monument contains one of the earliest surviving images connected to a biblical Israelite king.
Its inscription names “Jehu, son of Omri,” while the relief shows an Israelite delegation bowing before the Assyrian king and presenting tribute
The Bible records Jehu becoming king of Israel during this same period.
This wasn’t written by Israel.
It was carved by Assyria.
A king from the biblical record, named and pictured on the monument of a foreign empire.
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