Thursday, October 22, 2026
When is Rachel's Yurzeit? Really!
by EMAILIM BATORAH
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Will the New Charedie Party pass the threshold or not
Translated from Hebrew
Only someone who grew up in the Charedi education system can truly understand how important the struggle of the new Public Haredi Party is.
Most of you do not know what it is like to study in yeshiva and encounter ABCs only when you are already 30 years old, and that is even a good thing
Most of you do not know what it is like to come across a simple first-degree equation for the very first time at age 25, and that would even be a good thing
Most of you do not know what it is like to watch a good friend take more and more English courses, yet never truly master the language because he simply did not start early enough
Shas and United Torah Judaism operate with a mindset of "we'll sweep the smoldering coals under the rug and everything will be fine." Or they tell themselves stories about their party-affiliated schools that supposedly teach core curriculum subjects
A few days ago, I met a friend whose son "allegedly" studies English in his cheder. His wife, an American, called the "English teacher," who is also a kollel student, to ask him something about the homework
The man does not speak English at all. Barely utters "hello" and "by."
?Complain? To whom
The principal will respond that this is the best available option, and he is probably right.
So the child stays there, continuing to "study English," while Charedi politicians keep attending neighborhood gatherings and claiming that a large portion of their school system already teaches core subjects and that everything is fine
This is one of the reasons the Charedi parties are so strongly opposed to the state-supervised Charedi schools: sacrificing the truth for the sake of maintaining the illusion
So the Public Haredi Party has now come to voice the cry of thesefrustratedCharedimi
?Will it make it past the electoral threshold
In this case, the more important question than "How many Israelis identify with them"
is
How many of those supporters believe that the party can actually cross the threshold"
And here the situation is not particularly encouraging.
The electoral threshold, which was created to increase political stability and weaken anti-Zionist Arab parties (and failed dramatically at both goals), not only creates a democratic deficit of tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of votes that are effectively thrown in the trash, but also prevents change of any kind. Everyone prefers to play it safe, stick with the existing institutions, and above all survive.
As long as this remains the situation, the hoped-for change will probably not arrive.
But Moti Leitner has already achieved something important, even before the first polling station in Israel opens and the first ballot is cast: he has brought the cry from the grassroots into the public conversation.
Suddenly, Haredi Knesset members find themselves on the defensive.
Just a few days ago, Yaakov Asher found himself at a gathering in a Haredi neighborhood having to explain why he opposes the state-supervised Haredi schools.
What does he offer that Leitner does not, beyond slogans such as "You shall do according to all that they instruct you
The internal Haredi discussion is beginning, slowly but surely, to shift toward practical issues and thoughts about the future.
And that, too, is something.
As a beginning.
עברו או לא יעברו.
גוש נתניהו או גוש אנטי נתניהו.
רק מי שגדל בחינוך החרדי יכול להבין, באמת, כמה חשוב המאבק של מפלגת הציבור החרדי.
רובכם לא יודעים מה זה ללמוד, בי בעולם, את האיי סי רק אתם בני 30, וטוב שכך.
רובכם לא יודעים מה זה להיתקל, לראשונה, במשוואה במעלה ראשונה רק בגיל 25, וטוב שכך.
רובכם לא יודעים מה זה לראות חבר טוב שלוקח עוד ועוד קורסים באנגלית אבל לעולם לא ילמד לשלוט בשפה כמו שצריך, רק כי הוא לא התחיל מספיק מוקדם.
ש"ס ויהדות התורה נמצאים בתודעת "נגלגל את הגחלים הלוחשות מתחת לשטיח, ויהיה בסדר". או שמספרים לעצמם סיפורים על בתי הספר המפלגתיים שכן "מלמדים" ליבה. ימים פגשתי חבר שהבן שלו לומד אנגלית כביכול בתלמוד תורה. אשתו, האמריקאית, התקשרה למורה לאנגלית (שהוא גם אברך כמובן) כדי לשאול אותו משהו על שיעורי הבית.
והאיש לא מדבר אנגלית. בכלל. בקושי "הלו" ו"ביי". להתלונן? אין למי. המנהל יענה שזה מה יש, והוא צודק ככל הנראה. אז הילד נשאר שם, ממשיך "ללמוד אנגלית", והפוליטיקאים החרדים יכולים להמשיך ללכת לחוגי בית ולספר שכן, חלק גדול מהספר שלהם כבר מלמדים ליבה והכל בסדר.
זו אחת הסיבות שהמפלגות החרדיות כל כך מתנגדות לממ"חים המפוקחים - להקריב את האמת בשם הבלוף.
אז מפלגת הציבור החרדי באה לזעוק את זאקתם של החרדים האלה. האם היא תעבור? השאלה היותר חשובה, במקרה הזה, מ"כמה ישראלים מזדהים איתם", היא "כמה מהמזדהים מאמינים שתעבור את אחוז החסימה".
ופה, המצב לא מזהיר במיוחד. אחוז החסימה, שנולד בשביל להגביר את היציבות הפוליטיות ולפגוע במפלגות הערביות האנטי ציוניות (ונכשל כישלון חריף בשתי המטרות) לא רק יוצר גירעון דמוקרטי של כמה ולפעמים מאות אלפי קולות שפשוט נזרקים לפח, אלא גם מונע שינוי. מכל סוג. כולם מעדיפים ללכת על בטוח, להיצמד לגופים הקיימים, העיקר לשרוד.
כל עוד זה המצב, השינוי המיוחל כנראה לא יגיע. אבל מוטי לייטנר לפחות הצליח, עוד לפני שהקלפי הראשונה בישראל נפתחה והמעטפה הראשונה שוללה, להביא את הזעקה מהשטח לשיח. הח"כים החרדים נמצאים פתאום קצת במגננה. רק לפני כמה ימים יעקב אשר מצא את עצמו, בוג בית בשכונה חרדית, נאלץ להסביר למה הוא מתנגד לממ"חים. מה הוא מציע שלייטנר לא, מעבר לסיסמאות של "ועשית כל אשר יורוך". והדיון הפנים חרדי מתחיל לזוז, מעט מעט, לכיווני תכלס ולמחשבות על העתיד.
וגם זה משהו. בתור התחל
Crazy Stuff! While his country is burning, Macron in Qatar Claims that it is all AI
BREAKING: While the entire country of France burns, Macron is currently in Qatar claiming that the scenes out of Paris are actually AI generated. https://t.co/PVo5meLfzO
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 21, 2026
Congressional Candidate Jackie Auringer's Campaign is only about fighting Satmar's Expansion Plans in Galus!
They curse Reb Binyomin Zev Herzl z"l because he set the groundwork for fulfilling the RBS"O's promise of וקבצנו יחד מהרה מארבע כנפות הארץ לארצנו and those of us living in Eretz Yisrael, mamash, see with our own eyes this prophecy unfolding as we watch with amazement Jews from all over coming home in the millions. Never before in the entire world history did a people return to their native country in these numbers.
One could ask, so what should Satmar do? They are a growing community and need housing?
The answer is to accept that you live in Galut and stop building "Ugandas!" and integrate in existing communities!
Satmar were the first to mock and ridicule Herzl's initial idea to settle Jews in a separate country in Chutz Le'aartz, in Africa, in Uganda!
In 1896, even though he proposed Uganda, he published Der Judenstaat favoring the Land of Israel.
In 1903, B.Z. Herzl at the 7th Zionist Congress rejected the Uganda Plan and reaffirmed the Land Of Israel as the only Jewish Homeland and quoted the famous pasuk in tehillim: ...... אִֽם־אֶשְׁכָּחֵ֥ךְ יְֽרוּשָׁלָ֗͏ִם תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח יְמִינִֽי
In 1974, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum the Satmar Rebbe, took Herzl's "Uganda Plan" without giving Herzl any credit and established an Uganda in Monroe, New York! They then started a vicious campaign to mock, ridicule and even curse B. Z. Herz z"l to cover up the fact that they stole his Uganda idea!
In 2026, Satmar endorsed a vicious antizionist as Mayor of New York, and not only did they invite this vile scum into their Sukka they presented him with a Mezuza, ironically, the symbol of a Jewish home.
The Mayor Mamzarani was born in Uganda!
Eda HaCharedit: Voting in elections is forbidden
DIN : According to this letter signed by the Gadol Hador, both Rav Landau and Rav Hirsch are a bunch of apikorsim and are defying the Torah and are committing a Chuillul Hashem! Rav Landau and Rav Hirsch are
חוטאים ומחטאים את הרבים!
So there you have it folks, Charedim eating each other alive.
They require us regular Joe Shmoes to be respectful of each other yet they sit there on their high horses and based on the Torah they call each other "apikorsim"
This is what I have been writing about for years, and I'm not surprised at all that this is now coming out in public
Charedim have been selling us a bill of goods that they follow the Torah and that they are authentic Jews, yet here we see Rav Shternbuch calling out other Gedoilim and outright saying and writing for posterity that the other Gedoilim are a bunch of heretics and defying the Torah!
Pass the popcorn, sweetie! no salt please!
Ahead of the Knesset elections, the leaders of the Eda Haredit's Badatz (rabbinical court) in Jerusalem issued an official statement unequivocally calling on those who support their position to refrain from voting.
In the document, the hardline haredi leadership reiterated its consistent historical opposition to participation in the governing institutions of the State of Israel.
At the beginning of the letter, the rabbis clarified their halachic position: "We have already faithfully made known the Torah's position regarding elections to the ruling Knesset, and it is forbidden to participate in Knesset elections in the Holy Land."
According to the rabbis, the directive is based on rulings issued by leading rabbinic authorities of previous generations: "We act as the emissaries of the great sages of earlier generations, of blessed memory, who prohibited participation in these elections."
Later in the document, the rabbis used harsh language to condemn the very existence of the elections and the parliamentary activities of haredi representatives who serve in the Knesset.
According to the rabbis, participation brings no benefit but instead entails "the grave sin of desecrating God's name" and joining forces with those who do not follow the ways of the Torah.
The letter also noted that Knesset members are required to swear allegiance to the laws of the state, which the signatories claim contradict Torah law.
It further cited the historical prohibition against women's participation in elections, as previously established by prominent rabbis such as Rabbi Meir Simcha and Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski.
The Badatz rabbis concluded with an explicit warning to voters: "Anyone who participates in these elections lends a hand to evildoers and must be concerned about bearing responsibility for the consequences of his participation... Do not associate with a wicked person, even for the sake of Torah."
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
A letter to Jews in the USA
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This is so painful to write, and even more painful to watch unfold.
A majority of American Jews are willing to abandon Israel because they believe it will buy them a sense of security in America.
And this isn’t just one corner of the Jewish community.
It crosses the spectrum, from the ultra-Orthodox to the secular and everyone in between.
How did we get to a point where Jews might be willing to distance themselves from their own homeland, their own people, and a fundamental part of their own identity just to feel safer in the country they live in?
We are already seeing politicians trying to separate Zionism from Judaism, to make you think they love Jews.
Zionism is not some foreign ideology that Jews picked up in modern times.
The connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel goes back thousands of years.
It is woven into our prayers, our holidays, our history, and our very identity.
For generations, Jews prayed to return to Jerusalem.
We pray 3x daily to return to Israel.
At weddings, we remember Jerusalem.
At the end of the Seder, we declare, “Next year in Jerusalem.”
Israel is not some political accessory that Jews can discard when it becomes inconvenient.
And let’s be clear: anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
Denying the Jewish people the right to their ancestral homeland, singling them out for a right granted to other peoples, and demanding that Jews abandon their national identity is not some noble form of tolerance.
It is discrimination against the Jewish people.
To pretend that Judaism can be completely separated from the Jewish people's connection to Israel is to ignore thousands of years of Jewish history.
It is a dangerous delusion.
And here is what truly breaks my heart.
When forced to choose between standing with Israel and feeling safe and accepted in America, too many Jews may choose acceptance over solidarity with their own people.
They may convince themselves that distancing themselves from Israel will protect them.
History should teach us how dangerous that assumption can be.
Yes, there are many of us who will fight this with everything we have.
But we may be outnumbered.
And if we wait until this becomes the accepted position across American Jewish life, it may be too late to reverse it.
This is still a warning, not a foregone conclusion.
But the warning signs are there, and we cannot afford to ignore them.
Our connection to Israel is not something to be embarrassed about, hidden, or sacrificed for the approval of others.
It is part of who we are.
Wake up, friends.
Before we lose something that generations of Jews prayed, sacrificed, and many have even died for.
Please share this message and wake up those who have lost their faith in our religion and homeland.
DIN Musings Parshas Lech Lecha
לֶךְ־לְךָ֛ מֵאַרְצְךָ֥ וּמִמּֽוֹלַדְתְּךָ֖ וּמִבֵּ֣ית אָבִ֑יךָ אֶל־הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַרְאֶֽךָּ׃
Rav Meir Yechiel of Ostrovtza points out that this is the very first mitzvah ever given to a Jew.
The Ribbono Shel Olam commanded Avraham, "Leave your land, your birthplace, and your father's house" and go to His chosen land.
Remarkably, this command came before Hashem instructed Avraham to circumcise himself. In other words, before Avraham entered the covenant through bris milah, he was already commanded to make Aliyah.
Why?
Would it not have made more sense for Avraham to first enter the covenant through a bris and only then be told to move to Eretz Yisrael?
I believe the Ribbono Shel Olam is conveying a powerful message.
Hashem is teaching us that Eretz Yisrael is the foundation upon which all of Yiddishkeit rests.
Every Jew, even one who, like Avraham at that moment, has not yet performed a single mitzvah, possesses within his very essence, his spiritual DNA, the ability and the calling to leave his homeland and his father's house and journey to the land that Hashem has shown us.
No matter how distant a Jew may be from Torah and mitzvos, a spark remains within him that connects him to Eretz Yisrael. The very first command given to the first Jew teaches us that Hashem wants every Jew in His land.
Brad Lander Flew to Israel to provoke Jewish Soldiers before Election to Pander to Hamas and Hezbollah
First this stupid self-hating Jew flies to Israel and takes a Tour Bus to try to get Jewish Soldiers to fight with his group of haters. He confuses the city of Nehalim in Judea & Samaria with an Arab Village near Ramalla with a similar name, "Nahalin" and the takes a selfie in the bus stating that "he was detained!"
He is an unmitigated liar, as he needed to first coordinate with the proper authorities as one does in any other country, and because he didn't, for his own protection he and the other woman rabbis were asked politely to turn around until proper coordination was arranged!
In a video right below this he say that he was "released"
This is so funny and is totally absurd
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