Motzei Rosh Hashana in Uman ... beating each other up!

 מי כעמך ישראל

Not to worry! 

Reb Nachman will pull them out of gehinnom by their peyos!

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CHINESE ENTITIES PROVIDED IRAN SATELLITE IMAGERY BEFORE DEADLY U.S. BASE STRIKE:

 U.S. officials say Iran obtained high-resolution satellite images from Chinese entities before and after its July 17 ballistic missile attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, which killed three U.S. service members and wounded four others. 

The U.S. has linked the imagery to the strike, according to The Wall Street Journal, though officials have not accused the Chinese government itself of direct involvement. Beijing has denied the allegations and demanded evidence.

Yitzchak Almekais, 45 Found Dead in Uman ..Homicide Suspected

 

Ukrainian authorities are investigating the death of a British Jewish father of seven who was found dead in a forest near the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman during Rosh Hashanah.

The victim, identified as Yitzchak Almekais, 45, had been staying in Uman for the holiday pilgrimage, which drew tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers from Israel and around the world.

According to initial reports, Hasidim who entered the nearby wooded area found him lying on the ground without a pulse or signs of breathing. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

Local police have opened an investigation and are examining all possibilities, including a possible homicide. Reports from the scene raised suspicions of foul play, but Ukrainian authorities have not yet officially ruled the death a murder.

Aharon Ben Haroush, who heads United Hatzalah’s Uman branch, said volunteers are working with local authorities to secure the release of Almekais’ body for burial as soon as possible.

Norway is preparing to criminalize Jews for buying from Jews.

 

Oslo’s bill would ban imports of goods made by Jews in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and send violators to prison for up to three years. The foreign minister expects the Storting to pass it this fall.

Consultation closes September 19.

Read that again. Not “label the wine.” Not “boycott.” 

Jail.

For commerce with the non-Muslim Jewish communities in the historic Holy Land.

They call it international law. It is a Judenfrei trade code with a Nordic stamp. The same campaign that demands Jews vanish from Hebron, Shiloh and the Old City now wants the receipt to be a crime.

The Nazi death camp guard, who lived for years in Queens undetected

 

Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was a former Nazi death camp guard living in Queens.

She was the perfect American neighbor — sweet, hardworking and the ideal homemaker. Everybody liked her. 

She was also a Nazi.

The new movie “The Housewife,” which had its world premiere this week at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the strange story of Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who hid out undetected for years in New York, before finally being caught.

But the history of this major event is fascinating — and frightening.

When New York Times reporter Joseph Lelyveld, operating on a tip from Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, arrived at Ryan’s Maspeth, Queens, door in 1964, the war criminal among us said, “My God. I knew this would happen. You’ve come.”

The vicious woman hailed from Vienna, Austria, where she worked as a servant and eventually in a brewery. She later moved to Berlin in the 1930s and embraced rising Naziism. 

Enthusiastic and needing money, Ryan applied for a job at the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp in Germany in 1939 and then was transferred to Majdanek in Poland in 1942.

She rose the ranks to assistant warden, and earned a bone-chilling nickname: “the stomping mare,” because she’d kill women with her steel-spiked boots. Hot-tempered Ryan would also whip prisoners to death and drag children by the hair. Grotesquely, she was awarded the War Merit Cross for her brutality.

After the war, a court in Austria, lacking evidence for her many murders, convicted Ryan of crimes against human dignity for non-fatal abuse and sentenced her to just three years in prison. She was released after four months for time served.

She then resumed a perfectly normal life. And while working at a hotel in 1957, she met Russell Ryan, an American Air Force mechanic. They married in Canada in 1958, and in 1959 finally moved to Queens, where she was accepted and popular. In 1963, Hermine — a former Nazi prison guard — received her American citizenship.

When Lelyveld went to the Ryans’ home for his story, he discovered that Russell knew nothing about his wife’s gruesome role in the Holocaust. He stayed with her anyway. 

After the story ran, shocked neighbors couldn’t believe what they were reading. Who would think the nice lady next door used to work at a concentration camp?

Hermine was defiant.

“I was punished enough. I was in prison three years. Three years, can you imagine? And now they want something again from me?,” she said to the reporter.

“This is the end of everything for me.”  

“The Housewife” misleadingly speeds up what happened next. If you assumed a known Nazi would be swiftly kicked out of the country, you’d be wrong. An investigation began, but she wasn’t stripped of her citizenship until 1971, when the government determined she’d lied on her application about her Austrian conviction.

During her deportation trial in 1972, there were many harrowing testimonies. A 51-year-old woman named Mary Finkelstein, who spent seven weeks at Majdanek, said that she’d seen another inmate “clobbered like the seals are clobbered in North America” by Hermine. 

Finkelstein also said once when Hermine noticed a prisoner slouching, she “clobbered her” with a stick and shouted, “Du schwein, du fluchte, Jude, stehgerade.” (“You pig, you damn Jew, stand up straight”).

Hermine, who was complicit in the murders of more than 1,000 people, was finally deported to West Germany in 1973 where she was tried for her deadly acts at Majdanek — the first US citizen to be extradited for war crimes.

She was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 and died in 1999 at age 79. 

What Shirinian’s decent film does to lead us off the scent and build suspense is make Hermine the main character and have Lelyveld (played by Tye Sheridan) first pursue Russell (Luke Evans). The reporter believes the husband is the Nazi — not the wife. 

That’s not a bad idea, but Watts’ performance is so grand that even a viewer with no knowledge of Ryan will catch on pretty fast that she’s the bad guy.

The obviousness of her guilt waters down the movie’s most powerful point: Evil doesn’t always look or sound like evil.

And it can be living right next door.

Bill Clinton reveals why the CIA told him not to take out bin Laden before 9/11

 

Former President Bill Clinton revealed on Sunday that the CIA abandoned a plan to take out Osama bin Laden before 9/11 over fears that innocent civilians could die if the risky operation went sideways.

Clinton, 80, spoke about the spy agency’s reasoning during a radio interview on WABC’s “Cats Roundtable” show with host John Catsimatidis — and reflected on how he “immediately” knew the al Qaeda leader was responsible for the terror attacks while watching them unfold.

“I had authorized the CIA to try to take him out,” Clinton told Catsimatidis, adding that he told the agency it would have been good to capture bin Laden alive, but the main priority was to stop him.

“I was scared, and I was mad because we tried to get him before, and the CIA at the last minute killed the plan that I think might well have succeeded,” the former Democratic president said.

“But they were afraid that if they missed, they’d kill a lot of innocent civilians. They didn’t want to run the risk. I didn’t second-guess them, but I think, in the end, [bin Laden] was determined to do what he did, and he had lots of money and lots of capacity,” Clinton reflected.

“I wish we had done even more to get him. I always thought he was our biggest threat … I wanted to get him, and I did what I could to do that,” he said.

Clinton also recalled knowing that bin Laden was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as soon as he watched the second plane hit the Twin Towers on television, remembering that the terror mastermind had long been planning to hit US soil.

“At the time, I was in Australia. Hilary was in Washington. But our daughter was in Lower Manhattan, and we were worried to death about her. She was one of the thousands of people who were told to just walk north. We couldn’t get in touch with her,” Clinton told Catsimatidis.

“I was watching television in Australia when the second plane hit. I immediately said that bin Laden did this. They all looked at me and said, ‘How do you know this?’ I said, ‘Well, because the only adversaries we have with the capacity to do this are Iran and bin Laden,” he recalled.

“And the Iranians wouldn’t do it because we could wipe them off the face of the Earth immediately. And bin Laden is holed up in a cave in Afghanistan.’ I just knew it had to be him. I also knew that he had been planning to do what he did to hit us for a long time.”

Bin Laden was later killed in a targeted, secret raid on his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound led by US Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011, under Barack Obama’s presidency.

Clinton added that he believes that it’s possible that New York City could face another terrorist attack, but maintained the US is “much better prepared” for an attack of that scale.

“I think it’s entirely possible. I think we have to stay on guard about that. We have to make sure we’re getting all the intelligence we can on the issue. I think there is a chance that will happen,” Clinton said when asked if New York could be targeted by terrorists again.

“We’re much better prepared [now] than we were… [But] you only have to miss once, and then you’re screwed. It’s just something that has to be a continuing part of our national security plan,” he said.

“If you’re running the country, you want to make big good things happen, and stop big bad things from happening … That’s where I think we are as a country, and where I think we can maybe find unity again.”

Israel Moving to revoke Citizenship of Self-Hating Jews Rahel Shor and Yuval Avraham Creators of Disgraceful Naza Film

 

Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar on Sunday evening condemned a film that won an award at the Venice Film Festival, accusing its creators of damaging Israel’s reputation and announcing that he would work to revoke their citizenship over what he called “treason against the state."

“The disgraceful Naza film winning at the Venice Film Festival is shocking," Zohar said. “The burning self-hatred of the creators, who are willing to harm their homeland in order to receive applause from antisemites around the world, is a betrayal of the state. I will act to revoke the citizenship of these contemptible creators."

Ganz called them a "bunch of liars"

Ben from Ben & Jerry's receives a award from the Muslim Brotherhood on Rosh Hashanah

 

Ben from Ben & Jerry's receiving a major award from the Muslim Brotherhood on Rosh Hashanah has got to be the most "as a Jew" thing I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/44xwsLwoNa

— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) September 13, 2026

TV Station Surprises Lone Soldier with her parents

 

Israel Made Britain ‘Wince,’ says Middle East Expert

 

A Middle East expert and former official from three Republican administrations said Israel succeeded in making Britain “wince.”

Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former U.S. official in the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump administrations, said that Israel’s retaliatory measures were meant to make Britain “wince,” and he believed that Israel had succeeded.

After Britain imposed a ban on goods produced in Judea and Samaria to punish Israel for its planned construction in Section E1, Israel retaliated by giving the British government 30 days to close its consulate in Israel, ordering British officials at the U.S.-led International Gaza Support Center in Kiryat Gat to cease operations, and canceling the British Support Team that trains Palestinian Authority police in Ramallah.

In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Abrams said, “The British, like the French, think of themselves as a global power. Okay, not a superpower, but a country with a global role.”

He explained that Israel has now essentially told Britain, “You just lost your role here.” This will make it harder to exert influence in Ramallah or Gaza, which is important to the British.

He also said that despite 10 other European countries joining the sanctions, the majority of European countries did not join, showing that Israel’s actions did create deterrence. The strong Israeli reaction, he added, signaled to other countries that there is a cost to joining this movement.

Abrams said that Israel meted out the punishment particularly to Britain for taking the lead in getting other countries to join its initiative.

“It was the British who not only did it, but then went out and tried to convince others to join them,” he said. “And I think the Israelis particularly resent that.”

Abrams pointed to Norway as an example of a country that lost its influence when it lost its neutrality. Israel expelled the Dutch representatives, and Norway subsequently lost its influence as a mediator.

He took Norwegian diplomats to task over this. “What have you achieved?” he said he asked them. “Nothing for the Palestinians, and you diminished your own influence.”

Directing his words to London, Abrams said it risks the same thing: “What you did will not help one Palestinian, but it will diminish British influence.”

Houthis seize Yemen's Red Sea coast, Bab al-Mandab and three strategic islands, threatening a vital trade route

 

The Iran-backed Houthis on Friday took control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline and captured three strategic islands, dramatically expanding their control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a critical maritime passage connecting Europe and Asia, reported AFP.

The takeover followed a week-long offensive in which hundreds of people were killed and gives the Houthis control of the Yemeni side of the strait, the southern gateway to the Red Sea and the route leading toward the Suez Canal. The development comes months after Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz disrupted shipping in the region.

A local official from Yemen's Saudi-backed government said Friday that the Houthis had "completed their takeover of the Bab al-Mandab area and Mayyun Island". A Yemeni military official subsequently said the group had also captured Greater and Lesser Hanish, the two remaining islands in the narrow waterway that had not been under Houthi control, along with the entire adjacent Red Sea coastline.

"Everything that was under our control on the western coast has fallen," the military official said, as quoted by AFP.

Mayyun Island, located in the center of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, is particularly significant because its capture strengthens the Houthis' ability to target Saudi tankers. The group has been attacking Saudi vessels since July.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, has increasingly depended on the Red Sea for shipments after Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz restricted its traditional route through the Gulf.

Despite the takeover, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said maritime traffic through Bab al-Mandab would remain open, with an exception for Saudi vessels.

"Maritime navigation is safe for all companies except Saudi ships, which have already been banned," Saree said in a statement.

The latest territorial gains came one day after the Houthis captured the Red Sea port city of Mokha. Earlier in the week, the group also launched attacks against four cities in southern Saudi Arabia: Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran. The attacks wounded 73 civilians, including women and children.

The rapid Houthi advance has also prompted Saudi Arabia to seek greater US involvement. Axios reported that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called President Donald Trump twice on Thursday to request US strikes against the Iran-backed group.

Trump rejected the request, according to two US officials cited by Axios. MBS initially called Trump to update him on the deteriorating situation as Houthi forces advanced toward Mokha and Saudi-backed Yemeni forces retreated. Several hours later, he called again and urged the president to authorize American military action.

Trump refused Saudi Crown Prince’s request to strike Houthis

Washington again declined. Instead, a US official said the United States would provide Saudi Arabia with intelligence on Houthi positions and targeting information.

Around 200 US military personnel are already in Saudi Arabia providing non-kinetic support, according to the official, in line with an earlier CNN report.

The Saudi embassy in Washington and the White House declined to comment.

Zera Shimshon Rosh Hashana

 

Chasam Sofer Minhagim for Rosh Hashana

by EMAILIM BATORAH

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הנהגות ופסקי חתם סופר 

 for ראש השנה

1) The  חיוב of טהרה במקוה before YomTov (ר"ה ט"ז ע"ב) is 

 only for ערב שלש רגלים and not ערב ר"ה.

2) He made התרת נדרים on  ערב יו"כ and not on ערב ר"ה.

 3) He insisted the חזן say   נקדש, - נעריצך at the end  of the Piyut  דרי מעלה עם דרי  מטה  

 (Most מחזורים start with ככתוב​). To  be מקיים the מצוה דאורייתא  of  ונקדשתי the Chazzan needs to invite (נקדש) the ציבור to  be 

מקדש השם. 

4) For תשליך all he said was 3x the Pasuk מי אל כמוך

and  no  other תפילות

5) He was מקפיד   not to eat nuts only on Rosh Hashana

​ ​(not on the rest of  עשרת ימי תשובה)

SHAVE OFF YOUR BEARD ON ער"ה

 ​ The טור (O.Ch. 581) quotes the מדרש .

"The מנהג of the world is that when a person has a court case, he dresses in black, wraps himself in black, and grows his beard, etc.The בני ישראל are different. They dress in white; they wrap themselves in white and shave their beards. ומגלחין זקנם*

 גילוח = shaving not trimming

The words "באהבה וברצון" are added

to the שמונה עשרה and at קידוש when Yom Tov falls on Shabbos.

The מטה משה writes "Yomim Tovim were given on הר סיני.

and were originally accepted forcefully כפה עליהם הר כגיגית. 

Shabbos was given in מרה (before מתן תורה) and was

accepted באהבה וברצון with love & favor.

That is the reason why we add באהבה וברצון on Shabbos.

Charedi critics keep asking the New Charedie Party "where are your endorsements from the Gedolim?" Here is your answer!!

 

YOU’RE ASKING THE WRONG QUESTION

Since Hatzibbur HaCharedi entered the Israeli political arena, one question has come up again and again — where are your endorsements from senior Rabbonim? Where are the Gedolim?

It is a fair question, and it deserves a proper answer rather than a defensive one. To be clear, the party does have rabbinic endorsements, rabbinic leadership, and a Va’ad Rabbanim involved in every policy they adopt. Some have given their approval quietly, for reasons I will come to; others have been public.

But the assumption buried inside the question also deserves to be taken seriously. Charedi Judaism is built around deference to Torah authority, and we do not treat Da’as Torah as a decorative slogan to be wheeled out whenever it is convenient.

But there is also a second Torah concept, no less fundamental, which has a curious habit of going missing from these conversations at precisely the moment it becomes inconvenient. That concept is achrayut — responsibility.

Which is why, if we are going to be totally honest, the question is being asked in the wrong order. People have been trained to ask about the endorsement first, and everything else afterwards, if at all.

Mamzarani, the Temple Mount & the Hilltop Heroes

 

Charedie Violence is winning! Moshiach doesn't want to come, he has no one waiting for him!

 

 I drove through the tiny alleyways scanning my windshield for cracks as stones, garbage, and curses were hurled at my car. It was Shabbat afternoon and I was navigating through the maze-like streets of an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood surrounded by an enraged mob. Ironically I wasn’t afraid for my own safety. I was afraid for theirs.

The mob was made up of children. Teeny children.Their tiny bodies formed a human blockade in the street as they screamed, “Shabbos!” They threw rocks and assorted garbage while shaking their tiny fists in indignation.

Six minutes earlier, I had been resting at home when the call came in: Woman giving birth. Seven minutes away.

Leftist Media Completely Fabricated a Story about Netanyahu having a Conversation with a UAE Leader in an Effort to Topple BiBi

 

Former Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, speaking at the MEAD Conference in Washington, addressed a question about the alleged conversation between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of the United Arab Emirates before October 7:

“Did such a conversation take place? No.

Had there been a conversation, I would have been part of it, because one of the tasks assigned to me was expanding the Abraham Accords and strengthening the partnership with the United Arab Emirates.

So in all the conversations between the prime minister and Mohammed bin Zayed, the UAE leader, I was either privy to the details or on the line during the conversation itself. This conversation did not take place.

And it’s not even a question of the content of the conversation; I don’t think there was a conversation at all. And that content certainly wasn’t discussed.

So I don’t know where they got this story from. I think the Emiratis have been clear that it didn’t happen. We’ve been clear that it didn’t happen. So it’s essentially a fabrication. Just a made-up story.”

How much $$$$$ Will Gafni receive from the Zionists who he fought all the years he served

 Knesset member Moshe Gafni, who was removed from the Degel HaTorah list for the Knesset, is expected to receive a budget pension of 70% of his salary as a Knesset member. According to the current salary, the pension is estimated at about NIS 36,500 per month, about NIS 438,000 a year.

n addition, Gafni is expected to receive a one-time adjustment grant of NIS 312,000 from the Knesset

Uproar within Charedim at Rav Dov Landau's throwing Away Gafni and Maklev "like dogs"

 

Rabbi Rafael Wolf, who was a close associate, confidant, and right‑hand man of Maran Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach zt”l — and a partner in the historic moments surrounding the founding of Degel HaTorah — delivered sharp criticism over the ousting of veteran Knesset members Moshe Gafni and Uri Maklev.

In an interview with Natan Mashi and Avi Gadolovitz on the program “One in the Afternoon” on Kol Barama, Rabbi Wolf said he is “shocked” by the move, especially by the attempt to justify it as a need to “refresh” the ranks.

“Can you explain to me why they were dismissed?

What does ‘refreshing’ mean?

Where is there a new mitzvah in the Torah about refreshing?” he wondered.

“Do roshei yeshiva send people out in order to refresh the yeshiva?

Do rabbis send people out to refresh the rabbinate? This is a new mitzvah. Such a thing never existed in Judaism at all.”

Political Context Behind Rabbi Rafael Wolf’s Criticism

1. Degel HaTorah’s Internal Shake‑Up

Degel HaTorah — the Lithuanian faction within the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) alliance — recently removed two of its most senior and long‑serving MKs: Moshe Gafni and Uri Maklev. Both have been central figures for decades:Gafni chaired the Knesset Finance Committee for many years. Maklev was a key parliamentary operator and coalition negotiator. Their removal represents a major generational and strategic shift inside the party.

 2. Why This Is Causing Turmoil

In the Lithuanian Charedi world, political leadership is traditionally stable and guided by senior rabbinic authorities. Sudden changes — especially involving veteran figures — are rare and often interpreted as signs of deeper ideological or leadership struggles.

Rabbi Wolf’s comments reflect: Shock at the break from tradition, Suspicion toward the justification of “refreshing the ranks”, and concern that the move lacks precedent in Torah‑guided leadership norms

His rhetorical question — “Where is there a mitzvah of refreshing?” — expresses the belief that political decisions should be rooted in continuity and rabbinic guidance, not managerial language.

 3. The Broader Power Struggle

The shake‑up appears connected to: Internal rabbinic disagreements within the Lithuanian leadership Younger political figures seeking influence, Pressure to modernize party structures and finally Tensions between Degel HaTorah and Agudas Yisrael (its Hasidic partner in UTJ)

These dynamics have been building for years, especially as:The older generation of gedolim has passed on, New rabbinic authorities are asserting different priorities and Younger activists want more representation

 4. Why Gafni and Maklev’s Removal Is Symbolic

Their ousting signals:A shift away from the old guard, A possible redefinition of Degel HaTorah’s identity,A struggle over who speaks for the Lithuanian community, and A move that could reshape UTJ’s future coalition behavior

For many in the Charedi world, this is not just political — it’s a question of continuity of Torah leadership, which is why Rabbi Wolf frames it in religious terms.

 5. What Happens Next

Without predicting outcomes: Degel HaTorah may be entering a new era of leadership, UTJ’s internal balance could shift, The party’s negotiating style in future coalitions may change, Veteran voters may feel unsettled, while younger voters may welcome change

רב רפאל וולף, מי שהיה מקורבו, נאמנו ויד ימינו של מרן הגרא"מ שך זצ"ל ושותף לרגעים ההיסטוריים של הקמת דגל התורה, מותח ביקורת חריפה על הטלטלה במפלגה ועל הדחתם של חברי הכנסת הוותיקים משה גפני ואורי מקלב.

בריאיון לנתן משי ואבי גדלוביץ' בתוכנית "אחת בצהריים" ב"קול ברמה", אמר הרב וולף כי הוא "המום" מהמהלך, ובעיקר מהניסיון להסביר אותו בצורך ב"רענון" השורות.

"אתה יכול להסביר לי למה הדיחו אותם? מה זה רענון? איפה יש מצווה חדשה בתורה של רענון?", תהה. "ראשי ישיבות שולחים אותם כדי לרענן את הישיבה? רבנים שולחים אותם כדי לרענן את הרבנות? זו מצווה חדשה. לא היה בכלל ביהדות כזה דבר".

Lone juror’s holdout in the Lindsay Clancy trial is a true act of courage

 

DIN: We live in a very sick society, people and even Jewish frum people defending Lindsay Clancey. Helllowwwwww she planned and executed her innocent children. Does anyone know the name of her children. One can justify every single murderer with this perverted logic that it was her medications, it could very well be, but at the end of the day, she murdered her children, why couldn't see just have killed herself and let her children live? She needs to be held accountable. 

by Miranda Devine NYP

He couldn’t get over the fact that Clancy viciously killed her children.”

Those are the words of one of the insufferably condescending female jurors from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial who have gone public with their disdain for the lone male juror who refused to go along with their not guilty verdict.

Good for him.

The children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, have been the forgotten victims in this case.

The Massachusetts nurse does not dispute that she strangled her children one by one on Jan. 24, 2023, with exercise bands around their necks after she sent her husband, Patrick, out on an errand.

Patrick returned to his kids dead and his wife bleeding on the snow-covered yard after she cut her wrists and throat and leaped out a bedroom window 12 feet above the ground, rendering herself paralyzed from the waist down. Rather than accepting blame, Lindsay, 36, pleaded not guilty, claiming she could not tell right from wrong at the time because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, even though evidence for that was thin.