Lakewood Roish Moisad calls for Jim Crow Busing!

 

by Daas Yochid

I was absolutely shocked to read the following in the latest issue of The Voice of Lakewood over shabbos. In the continuing saga of dysfunction of this town, funding for private busing has been slashed and one of the ways money was to be saved was via combining buses for different schools. Instead of having one bus serve one school in many different neighborhoods, there will be one bus per neighborhood for two schools combined. Many parents are very happy about this, because it means their kids commute times will be cut in half or more. But the reaction to this by certain heads of school were shocking. From The Voice of Lakewood (emphases mine): …with the onset of the school year and the sharp increase in the combined routes, the complaints are rising sharply as well. Several members of yeshivah administrations spoke with The Voice (all on condition that pseudonyms would be used) expressing varying levels of disagreement or apprehension. One supported the concept but objected to how it was implemented, another had reservations but supported it on balance, a third was sharply opposed, and another called it a “himmel geshrei.” Yitzy, the rosh mosad of one elementary school whose routes are being combined with those of another that he feels has “very different hashkafos,” said, “We wouldn’t send to camp together or daven in the same shul. We don’t want the kids interacting on a daily basis to and from school on long bus rides, sitting together and sharing information.” Yitzy says his talmidim come from homes with stricter standards in areas like technology and dress than the school his has been paired with, and he’s worried that “they’ll become friendly with kids that are in a very different sevivah.” God Forbid! Yitzy says his rabbanim have instructed him that “we cannot let our children go on these buses” and that if the combination plan goes through, he’ll have to get a final psak about how many kids from the other school the rabbanim will allow to be on a bus with their own students. And if there are more than that, Yitzy says “we might start private vans or carpooling.” Are you shocked yet? Because sit down. It’s gonna get worse. Way worse: Another option, he says, would be placing monitors on the buses to ensure that students from the two schools sit separately. With dozens of routes, however, that would be difficult and expensive. What the actual!?? Bus monitors? To ensure that chas veshalom more yeshivish boys don’t sit next to boys that are slightly less yeshivish than them!? (The LSTA says in the article that “we were very sensitive with deciding which schools to combine.” The schools that I personally know combined in our nighborhood leads me to believe this is true, and that Yitzy is representing an ultra-extreme yeshiva that is worried about a slightly less extreme one. Regardless, its certainly not Skvere Cheder riding with Yeshiva of Flatbush). Lets imagine this playing out: Ruvie goes to extreme yeshiva A. Lets call it “Cheder Bnei Yechidim”. Shimmy goes to slightly less extreme yeshiva B. (This Yeshiva allows 24six select.) Let’s call it “Cheder Bnei Lo Kol Kach Yechidim”. They live across the street from each other and know each other well. Ruvie is excited that he will finally be able to sit next to Shimmy on the bus. Ruvie gets on and heads to the back to sit with Shimmy. (Of course, Shimmy is in the back). But the bus monitor stops him. “Fahrshteitzich you want to sit next to your friend Shimmy that you know from the shchunah, but Rav Yanky and our yeshiva’s rabbanim hold it pas nisht. Gradeh, efsher you shouldn’t talk to him by dain hoiz either.” I’m sure both Ruvie and Shimmy are gonna feel great! (‘Yitzy’ certainly will.) It’s absolutely insane that a Rosh Mosad - a head of a Yeshiva - would want to reimplement Jim Crow to ensure that his yeshivos’ kids won’t associate chalilah with those from the other yeshiva’s “who have different standards of dress”. (Maybe a colorful yarmulka.) Keep in mind that buses are places of hefkeirus already (as a parent points out in the article) yet the one thing that would require bus monitors would be to stop boys from sitting together. The article concludes: Several people we spoke with commented that in other communities, yeshivos are much more integrated than in Lakewood, and a little less segregation here wouldn’t be a terrible thing. Yitzy says that might be a valid broader argument, but that “the matzav today in Lakewood is that everything is separate. When you have one school very closed-minded (!!! -DY) and one open-minded, the differences can’t meet at this point.” Methinks ‘Yitzy’ needs to watch some more Tisha Bav videos. Or listen to Incredible Kids.

Why was a monument for a Terrorist that murdered Jews allowed to remain?

 

Smotrich Defends Sukkot: Israel Should Have Demolished Terror Monument Long Ago*

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich defended MK Zvi Sukkot after he smashed a monument in the Palestinian village of Madama, while stressing that such monuments should ultimately be  removed by the IDF.

Smotrich said Israel should have demolished the monument long ago because it honored Yaman Tayeb Ali Faraj, who was linked to dispatching the terrorist responsible for the 2003 Geha Junction bombing that killed four Israelis and wounded more than 20.

He also criticized opposition leaders for condemning Sukkot rather than focusing on Palestinian terrorism and the glorification of terrorists.

Shuli Rand finally divorces his first wife after 40 years

 

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15 Minutes from Beit Shemesh ..Travel to Elah Valley to uncover the ancient Judean fortress of Azekah

 

For 16 years, the Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition has excavated the ancient stronghold of Azekah in central Israel's Elah Valley, working to uncover one of the Kingdom of Judah's key fortresses.

 i24NEWS traveled to the site and spoke with the team’s directors to learn how their work persists, and in some cases thrives, amid the ongoing conflicts around the world.

Prof. Oded Lipschits, who directs the excavation and serves as dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, said the site's importance lies in its location on the border between the Judeans and the Philistines, and later between Judah and Israel to the north. "Anyone who wants to conquer Judah had to cross through this place," he said.

Tel Azekah is over 3,000 years old, and the team continues to make discoveries from across the millennia, including stamp impressions, weights, jewelry, game boxes, weapons, and other finds which Lipschits says tie the site directly to biblical history. It’s not just what’s above ground either. Tel Azekah maintains its own subterranean world. Underneath the large mound is a system full of caves and installations, which will be part of the team’s focus for coming excavation seasons.

"This is a really exciting thing because it's bringing the Bible back; it's bringing the Judean history of the site," Lipchits exclaimed.

A stronghold recorded in biblical and Assyrian texts

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Azekah's occupation spans roughly 3,500 years, beginning in the Early Bronze Age, when the site was first settled. It became a strongly fortified, urban city during the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE) before its destruction at the end of the Late Bronze Age. After a period of abandonment, it was resettled during the Iron II period (1000-586 BCE) and flourished as a Judean town.

The fortress’s history stretches into some of the best-known narratives of the Hebrew Bible. The book of Joshua lists the city among the towns allotted to the tribe of Judah in the western foothills, naming it alongside Eshtaol, Zorah and Jarmuth as one of "fourteen towns and their villages" (Joshua 15:33-36).

First Samuel 17 places Azekah at the staging ground for the battle between David and Goliath: "Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Sokoh in Judah. They pitched camp at Ephes Dammim, between Sokoh and Azekah” (1 Samuel 17:1)

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The fortress also appears in Assyrian records. In 701 BC, King Sennacherib of Assyria recorded his campaign through Judah on the Taylor Prism after King Hezekiah refused to submit to Assyrian rule; one of the cities he claims to have destroyed was Azekah. The City was described as being “Situated upon a mountain peak. Like the blades of daggers without number, they rise high into the heavens... were well fortified and rival high mountains."

Azekah's destruction under Sennacherib was not the end of the city. Jeremiah 34:7 describes Azekah and Lachish as the only fortified cities of Judah. The city would go on to be repopulated by Greeks, Romans, Persians, and the Byzantines before it was forgotten.

Finding the forgotten fortress

The site was left forgotten until the excavations of British archaeologists F.J. Bliss and R.A.S. Macalister on behalf of the Palestine Exploration Fund between 1898 and 1899. Lipschits described their approach as "a very destructive method of archaeology" that damaged other sites they worked at, including Maresha and Gezer, and said it was long believed Azekah had suffered the same fate.

Time constraints forced the pair to abandon the project and backfill it, and for more than a century afterward, most archaeologists believed the site had been fully excavated.

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Renewed excavations began in 2012 under Lipschits, Yuval Gadot and Heidelberg University's Manfred Oeming. Dr. Sabine Kleiman, who joined the project as a field director after three seasons as assistant supervisor at the nearby Ramat Rahel excavation, said the depth of prior work at Azekah makes it possible to date material from ceramics and even small potsherds in ways other sites do not allow.

"I can't do this on other sites. It's a big opportunity," Sabine said.

The project has since grown to include archaeologists, historians, scientists and students from Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Malta, the United Kingdom, Spain, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada and the United States.

Fighting the learning amid war and uncertainty

But the dig has not been immune to the region's conflicts. Kleiman said the team has continued excavating every year, including during the COVID pandemic and the wars with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran that followed October 7, though it has been difficult.

"We were not able to really get a hold on good grants, which we usually would go for from abroad," Kleiman explained, noting the excavation now operates with far fewer volunteers than in past seasons.

"Usually we would have in this area 20 volunteers working," she said, describing a crew that has shrunk to two. She said she does not yet feel the strain but expects to "in the long run."

Looking toward the future

Despite the war's toll on funding and staffing, Kleiman said Azekah already draws busloads of school visitors to its lookout point to hear the story of David and Goliath, though she said they currently arrive, hear the story and leave. She said she hopes visitors will eventually be able to buy refreshments on site.

Lipschits said his dream is for visitors within about four years to walk through the citadel's high walls and inner structures and along the street surrounding the fortress, calling it a future "pearl" among Israel's archaeological sites.

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Ivanka Trump talks about her conversion to Judaism

 Ivanka Trump talks about her conversion to Judaism with GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson at an Israeli-American Council event during Trump's first term.

"I never normally talk about this, but we're amongst friends..."

"I actually converted before [Jared and I] became engaged..."

I wonder how much of an influence this had on Trump's philo-Semitism?

Bnei-Teirah Mob circle Chardeie Soldier, harass , mock and denigrate him, while he is being Moiser Nefesh for Klall Yisrael!

 This didn't happen "bein-hazmanim" this happened during seder in Elul, weeks away from Yom Hadin

?רשע למה תכה רעך

Don't Give Skver one cent!

 

Wreckage found of Altalena arms ship sunk in deadly 1948 power tussle

 

The Altalena ship burns after being shelled near Tel Aviv, June 22, 1948. (Hans Pinn/GPO)

IDF says it had no part in search for Irgun ship sunk by army of nascent state; 16 Irgun members, 3 IDF troops died in incident that became right-wing symbol; chances of lifting still-intact vessel said slim

Divers have located the Altalena, a cargo ship bringing arms to the Irgun militia during the 1948 War of Independence that was hit on the orders of then-prime minister David Ben-Gurion and sunk off Israel’s coast, two far-right ministers announced Monday.

The ship, still intact, was located at 12:30 a.m. at a depth of 503 meters (1,650 feet), some 20 kilometers (12 miles) off Israel’s coast “during a complex maritime search operation,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, of the Otzma Yehudit party, announced in a joint statement.

They credited “long months of meticulous planning and preparation” and “special sensors and advanced survey systems” for the find, saying more details were to be revealed at a press conference.

A military spokesperson told The Times of Israel that the IDF had no involvement in the operation to locate the vessel.

A letter to Mispacha Magazine in reference to their Lying 10 Page Yenuka Spread!

This is what a reader sent to mishpacha magazine:

Dear Editors,

I am an ordained rabbi. I do not have time to read magazines, but Mishpacha enters my home every week; my wife and children read it. I am writing about the "Communicated" feature on "the Yanuka," Rav Shlomo Yehuda Be'eri, in this week's issue.

I understand that a Communicated piece is paid content. But it runs under the Mishpacha masthead, in a magazine that families trust and children read. That trust obligates a factual floor even for paid features. This piece does not meet it, and in at least one respect it appears to be demonstrably false.

The name. The article has the subject stating that he was named Shlomo after his grandfather, and that his grandmother called him by it throughout his childhood.

 Documentary records say otherwise. His sixth-grade graduation board from the Bialik state elementary school in Holon, from the year 2000, lists him by name and photograph as Shai Tzubary; I attach it. 

His own mother and sister referred to him as "Shai" in public social media comments as recently as December 2019. A Channel 12 investigation published in 2025 likewise reported that he was born Shai Tzubary in Holon. If the central figure of the piece misstates his own name, the reader is entitled to ask what else in the piece is misstated

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The biography. 

The article describes a childhood in Holon, attending school there while his father lived alone near Barcelona. Yet for years, the official biography circulated by his own organization told a different story: the entire family emigrating to Spain when he was three, a childhood in the Jewish quarter of Girona, and a return to Israel at age twelve. Both versions come from the same camp. They cannot both be true, and the attached school record contradicts the earlier one. A biography that is revised as inconvenient facts surface is not a mesorah. It is marketing.

The mofsim. The piece presents overnight disappearing growths, foreknowledge of October 7, and an apparition healing a broken foot, all anonymous, undated, and unverifiable, printed in a family magazine whose readers include impressionable children and teenagers. Klal Yisroel has paid dearly, from Shabbetai Tzvi onward, for movements built on unverified wonders around a charismatic figure. The gedolim who demanded verification in those episodes were vindicated by history, and they were not popular when they demanded it.

I therefore respectfully request:

1. That Mishpacha review how this piece was accepted for publication and verify the name and biographical claims against the documentary record.

2. That, if the claims cannot be verified, Mishpacha publish a clarification in a coming issue.

3. That Communicated content be labeled in plain language as paid advertising not verified by the editorial staff, prominently enough that a young reader understands the difference.

4. That Mishpacha adopt a standard for miracle claims in paid content. A magazine that would not print an unverified allegation against a Jew should not print an unverified wonder on behalf of one.

I write this out of concern for emunas chachamim, not against it. When wonder stories collapse, and unverifiable ones eventually do, it is the emunah of the young readers who believed them that pays the price.

I would appreciate a substantive reply.

B'kavod,

Rav …

Watch how he owns penthouses in Yerushlayim, Bat Yam etc!

Blima Marcus a frum nurse is expressing sympathy for Lindsay Clancy — the woman who planned and deliberately murdered her own children.”

 

Blima 

I have written many times about this self-righteous nurse, who doesn't believe that Jews have a right to live in Judea and Samaria (see side bar), but now she has hit a new low, showing sympathy to a baby killer, stating "No one was evil here." 

This is a clear case of female empathy gone awry! To quote Miranda Devine (below) " she showed her children no mercy that day and this trial is for them."

Yes, Blima, there is a story behind Lindsay Clancy, but there is a story behind every single cold-blooded killer! Someone needs to take Blima's nursing license away from her ASAP, we don't need people that work in Hospitals to have sympathy for murderers! 

The following is from her Facebook page:

I never follow sensationalist news or trials. Evil exists, murder happens, stranger-than-fiction crimes occur. I’m not interested in any of that.

But I am all sorts of broken while paying close attention to Lindsey Clancy’s trial.

I am watching evidence of a woman who knew she was desperately unwell go from hospital to physician to emergency room to suicide hotline get fragmented and inadequate care, which culminated in an almost-predictable outcome: psychotic break.

She will either spend her life in prison or in a state facility; she deserves neither.

The mistakes made here are numerous.

1. Her psychiatrist was a month out of residency, caring for a very complex case. She wrote 12 prescriptions for her within weeks. This is inappropriate care and should have been escalated to a senior physician.

2. There was no coordination of care between her providers, their referrals, or follow up. To me, that’s unethical. No one took responsibility for a woman in crisis.

3. Her family did not recognize the depth of the crisis. This is not their fault; this is hindsight. But it’s tragic.

4. No one was evil here. I would argue that some of her providers were negligent or didn’t practice as I would hope. Her psychiatrist’s career, in its infancy, is likely over. Her presentation on the stand did not help her; she was combative and defensive (understandable) but immature and unempathic. It’s sad for her to invest 15 years in a medical career for this to happen, but her lack of experience and hubris are partially responsible.

I keep coming back to Lindsey.

If this case causes providers to change how they interact with patients, go the extra mile, follow up on referrals, improve how suicide organizations operate - then we can prevent more crises.

If this puts the fear of god in every provider to document clearly, prescribe carefully, reach to senior providers for help, maybe this won’t happen again.

Below read Miranda Devine 👇👇👇

The bizarre fandom around Lindsay Clancy is the latest example of a moral rot infecting a small cohort of conspiracy-minded, self-engrossed women.

In a clear case of female empathy gone awry, they have transformed a Massachusetts nurse who strangled her three babies into the sole victim in this tragedy, while demonizing their poor father, Patrick.

The murdered children, Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months, barely get a mention in the outpouring of support for Lindsay, who has become a vehicle for the “TikTok Moms’ ” own fake victimhood.

Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to the 2023 murder of her children who she methodically strangled, one by one, with exercise bands after sending Patrick out to pick up dinner and medications. She does not dispute that she killed the children but claims she was “suffering from psychosis at the time.”

The prosecution contends she “acted intentionally, rationally, and swiftly to accomplish a very specific goal — to kill . . . She knew exactly what she was doing.”

The five-week trial has been televised to an increasingly obsessive audience of true crime nuts, assorted snoops and a disturbing number of women who have taken to filming themselves holding babies and whining about how hard it is to be a mom.

Some women even caption their TikTok videos “Same, Lindsay.”

It’s a twisted form of attention-seeking in the guise of empathy. These women are normalizing the horror of a mother killing her children, making it seem like a natural response to the everyday challenges of child-rearing, which far-less privileged women have managed to navigate since the dawn of time, like every other challenge in life.

‘We are all Lindsay’

Lindsay fans have raised almost $1 million in the name of her parents, and hundreds dressed in pink and rallied for her outside the court last week.

“We are all Lindsay” is their sick message.

One woman sobbed on camera that Lindsay can’t hug her children’s stuffed toys because her cruel husband supposedly threw them away. But what about the children who can’t hug their toys? The father who can’t hug his children?

It’s the same inversion behind the Luigi Mangione fangirls, the London mob who valorized Cambridge hoaxer Jason Arday and the demonization of Erika Kirk.

The Lindsay frenzy goes hand in hand with the left’s upending of the moral order, in which sympathy is reserved for murderers, rapists and illegal migrant child molesters while police must be defunded, ICE abolished and prisons closed.

The Clancy trial is simply a promotional vehicle for this new amorality.

There is a soap opera pathos to this real-life drama of a perfect family brutalized by unspeakable tragedy.

Each day, the people who loved the children best have been called to the witness box: the husband, the parents, the in-laws, the sister, the friends, the nanny — all with the same haunted look. You wonder at the public interest of televising their private grief.

Patrick’s father, Chris Clancy, described them as “the all-American family” and praised Lindsay as a “very, very good mother.”

True anguish

But unlike a soap opera, there are no easy villains in this case, apart from the one person who committed the crime, whose suffering is impossible to discount.

Lindsay, 36, presents as a sympathetic figure in court. She is in a wheelchair because a suicide attempt left her paralyzed from the waist down. She sits wan and mostly silent, quietly sobbing when the children are mentioned, her face half-hidden by her long, lustrous brown hair.

In a moment that encapsulates the heartbreak of this family cataclysm, she broke down one day during graphic autopsy testimony, whimpering “I can’t do this” as a medical examiner described the ligature marks around Cora’s neck and the broken blood vessels in her eyes and said it would have been a painful death for the little girl.

Only a heart of stone could fail to be moved by Lindsay’s anguish.

But she showed her children no mercy that day and this trial is for them. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham makes that point to the jury by wearing bows in her hair every day in memory of Cora who loved big bows in her soft blonde hair.

All three children died the same painful way; Dawson first, then Cora and finally baby Callan, who was still alive when paramedics found him but died in the hospital.

After strangling her children, Lindsay left them in the basement while she went upstairs to her bedroom, slit her wrists and throat and threw herself out the second-story window onto the snow-covered lawn below where her husband found her when he returned from the errands she had sent him on.

You wonder how a woman could inflict such unimaginable cruelty on her husband, let alone her children.

First responders on the scene described primal howls of pain coming from the basement when Patrick found his babies after paramedics arrived to treat his wife.

Demonized dad

Evidence before the court is that the cuts to Lindsay’s wrist and neck were superficial, leading the prosecution to suggest that it was a fake suicide attempt, which the defense denies. She almost died.

Lindsay has said she heard a voice instructing her to kill the kids and her lawyers claim she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, a rare ailment that usually occurs immediately after childbirth, not eight months later.

Patrick, 38, is admirably stoic in his testimony but when asked to describe each of his children, he could barely get the words out. He and his parents have been remarkably sympathetic to Lindsay in their testimony, describing her as a devoted mother. He comes across as a patient, thoughtful husband who did everything humanly possible to help his wife with an illness he couldn’t fully fathom.

He has since remarried, which is deemed a capital offense by the Lindsay fans who interpret his stoicism as guilt.

Lisa Rinna, the pneumatic-lipped actress of “Real Housewives” fame, is typical of this halfwit crew, and took to social media last week to allege: “Patrick’s the one who did it . . . Not Lindsay. Patrick did it. Because [I] heard that women, typically, don’t strangle.”

It’s hard to understand why the grieving father is subject to such vitriol, other than the fact that he’s a man, which is a crime in itself to the perpetually angry TikTok brigades.

Closing arguments begin this week so we will soon see if the jury finds Lindsay mad or bad. Either way she will be locked away for a long time, whether in jail or a psychiatric facility.

That’s sad, but her children deserve more sympathy for the lives they never had a chance to live.