The Story behind Satmar Idolizing the Staunch Zionist Militant -- Ben Hecht !

 

Who was Ben Hecht? 

Why would Satmar idolize, Ben Hecht, known for his mar­i­tal infi­deli­ties

and who was characterized as an "un-Jewish-Jew " by the historian Julien Gor­bach.?

 Hecht wrote a nov­el in 1931, called "A Jew in Love" that reveal his conflicted relationship with Jewish identity and assimilation.

 His portrayal of a Jew in this novel was so grotesque that critics called the main character " the caricature of an antisemite come to life."

Jews were outraged and Rabbis in Cleveland declared they would never allow Hecht to be buried in their city.

So how did Hecht turn around and become a Zionist militant?

Hecht looked around in 1939 and was horrified to see Jews around the world under siege (sound familiar?) and most American Jews seemingly hesitant to respond.

Many had "discarded their Jewishness out of the belief that as Jews they could line up only for a snubbing" (Hecht in a letter)

Hecht became an active Zionist after meeting Peter Bergson, who came to the United States with Jabotinsky near the start of World War II!

 Peter Bergson's real name was Hillel Kook a nephew of the great Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook z"L , and was a Revisionist Zionist activist and politician

Kook led the Irgun's efforts in the United States during World War II and the Holocaust in order to promote Zionism, attempting thereby to save the abandoned Jews of Europe. His rescue group's activism was a factor leading to President Franklin D. Roosevelt establishing the War Refugee Board, which rescued as many as 200,000 European Jews, partly via the Wallenberg mission. 

One of the Committee's more memorable activities was a protest in Washington, D.C. that Kook organized, which took place on October 6, 1943—three days before Yom Kippur. Known as the Rabbis' march, the event involved solely Orthodox rabbis, who were intent on pleading for the lives of the European Jews before the US government

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In 1947, Hecht, shocked and outraged newspaper readers across the world with a full-paged ad supporting terrorist attacks against Great Britian.

So even though he was characterized and epitomized as the assimilated  "Un-Jewish Jew" he turned into a Jewish Jew in 1939,

He later wrote: 

"The German mass murder of the Jews, recently begun, brought my Jewishness to the surface"

From 1939 on, British land, sea, and air forces had shut Europe's Jews out of Palestine, effectively clamping Adolf Hitler's trap shut during the war years and in the aftermath, leaving survivors to languish as "displaced persons" in the liberated concentration camps. 

Hecht and the Irgun Tzvi Leumi, the militant faction of Zionist fighters that he championed, believed a guerrilla war was the best way to finally smash the blockade, open the gates to mass immigration by Holocaust survivors, and thus clear a path to Jewish statehood.

Who was Rivka Anikster? The Mechaber of the Sefer "Zecher Oilam"?

 

יצאו לאור בדפוס

 האישה הראשונה ביישוב הישן שחיבוריה זכר עולם

Have you heard of Rivka Anikster, the first woman writer of the Old Yishuv?

The story behind her sefer will break your heart.

From a young age, Rivka Anikster was drawn to writing. Her father and five brothers used to write and print their works. She herself was a merchant and lived in great wealth with her husband, Rabbi Meir Anikster. They lived in the town of Krakynova, where they lost seven of their children.

In 1862, the couple decided to immigrate to the Land of Israel alone, because living in the Holy Land was considered a segulah for long life. They believed that through this segulah, their remaining children would stay alive.

They parted from their young children, who remained in the town and were raised by other relatives. “Our journey to Jerusalem was very heavy. The "nisayon" was like the binding of Yitzchok… and this "nisayon" is equal to the trial of the Akedah… and through these troubles we merited to come here,” Rivka wrote.

She described leaving her children:

“And what shall I say, when you were little chicks whose feathers had not yet grown. And when I went far from you, my compassion overflowed and I wondered where I had left my motherly mercy, for I left you small, and from my great sorrow my old illness was awakened.”

She traveled from Krakynova to Slonim, to Ruzhin, then to Karlin, and from there to Odessa, from which she sailed to the Land of Israel, docking in Jaffa.

Upon arriving in the Land of Israel in 1862, she and her husband immediately went to Jerusalem. They visited all the holy sites.

After reaching the Old Yishuv in Jerusalem, her husband was appointed director of the Vilna Kollel and was responsible for distributing most of the charity funds in the city. He was also the financial manager of the Talmud Torah and the Etz Chaim Yeshiva.

In the Land of Israel, the family experienced great poverty. They lived in a small house with no light or air, next to the home of Rabbi Shmuel Salant, the rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem.

Like many women of the Old Yishuv, Rivka devoted herself to acts of kindness. She made sure to feed and clothe widows and orphans, spun tzitzit threads for the children of the Talmud Torah, and more.

Five years after her arrival, Rivka traveled to Tiberias and the Galilee to pray at “the grave of our holy relative, the Ari, of blessed memory, and his son Moshe who is buried beside him.”

She visited more than ten graves of tzaddikim in Safed and the surrounding area, which made her feel energetic and healthy. Bathing in the hot springs of Tiberias also contributed, she said, to improving her health.

In the Tiberias region she visited additional graves: the Rambam, Rabbi Akiva, Yitro, and others. She felt a deep closeness to the prophets, Tannaim, and sages buried in the Land of Israel.

Rivka was a sickly woman even before immigrating, and the fact that she survived twenty years after her arrival was, in her eyes, a miracle.

As her surviving children grew older, they left their hometown and emigrated to America. Contact with them was lost, and she did not know their addresses.

Rivka came up with a remarkably original idea for how to reach them — to publish a sefer, hoping that one copy would somehow reach them and awaken them to write back to her.

This was an extremely unusual step in the Old Yishuv. Only men wrote and published books — not a woman.

Thus Rivka became the first woman in the Old Yishuv to publish a sefer:

Kuntres Zekher Olam.

The sefer was written in Yiddish and translated into Hebrew by an anonymous translator. The first edition was published in both languages in 1882.

The book was a huge success. Within two years the edition sold out, and she added more pages and published a second edition in 1884.

Those copies also sold out, so in 1891 she published a third edition.

Such a thing had never been seen in the Old Yishuv — a woman publishing a religious sefer, and three printings.

So what is the sefer about?

Zekher Olam is a collection of Rivka’s guidance and teachings for her children, after they had emigrated to America and contact with them was severed.

She embedded her educational and religious messages within autobiographical writing about her experiences in the Diaspora and in the Land of Israel.

She hoped that the printed booklet would reach her lost sons and that she would receive letters from them.

Rivka Anikster’s groundbreaking project, as the first woman author, made waves in the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem. Two other women were inspired by her: Reitze Chen-Tov and Toibe Pesil. Both published printed booklets not long after her. The first, Reitze, explicitly mentioned Rivka Anikster in her book.

In her later years, Rivka lived in Jerusalem with her daughter Rachel, who was born in the Land of Israel, and with her grandchildren, after her husband passed away in 1885.

Rivka died in 1893 in Jerusalem. After her death, additional editions of Zekher Olam were published.

Crying on Trump’s shoulder: Erdogan complains about Israel in call with Trump

 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Donald Trump to pursue diplomacy with Iran while using their phone call to once again criticize Israel over its military operations in Gaza.

Erdogan told Trump it was essential to “make the utmost use of diplomacy” amid tensions between Washington and Tehran, offering Ankara’s support for peace efforts. At the same time, he accused Israel of stepping up operations against Palestinians as the US pushes to advance the next phase of its Gaza plan.

The Turkish leader also praised the new Turkey-Saudi Arabia-Pakistan defense pact as a powerful step toward regional security. Trump has welcomed the alliance himself, calling it a “big, bold, and important first step” and saying it shows the Middle East is “coming together.”

Kushner’s direct Hamas talks trigger alarm in Palestinian Authority

 

Palestinian Authority officials are increasingly alarmed after US envoy Jared Kushner met directly with senior Hamas leaders in Cairo, warning that Washington is sidelining Mahmoud Abbas while giving the terrorist group new political relevance.

The irony is that the talks focused on Hamas’s disarmament and removal from power — both long-standing PA demands. But Ramallah’s concern is who has a seat at the table: Kushner is talking to Hamas in Cairo and Israel in Jerusalem, while bypassing Abbas in Ramallah.

“It harms the PA’s representational status and gives Hamas new cards to play,” one Palestinian official warned, raising fears that direct US-Hamas diplomacy could further erode the PA’s already weakened standing.

INSANE: Spain Blocks Israeli Rescue Flight En Route to Quake-Shattered Colombia

 

Spain denied overflight permission to an Israeli rescue team en route to Colombia Saturday. The aircraft was forced to reroute through Moroccan airspace, taking a longer route to reach its destination.

Open-source intelligence and other reports have indicated that the Israeli military aircraft avoided Spanish airspace after Spain allegedly denied it passage.

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The Home Front Command and humanitarian delegation included 80 experts drawn from the reserves and active duty and arrived in Colombia Saturday to aid in rescue efforts following a devastating magnitude 7.4 earthquake last week. Despite Spain’s refusal of overflight permission, the team arrived in Colombia and immediately began assisting in rescue operations.

Spain had passed a comprehensive ban on Israeli military materials, and the aircraft that bore the delegation belonged to the Israeli military. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has also strictly forbidden any access to foreign aircraft that bear any connection to the conflict in Israel.

Spain has fiercely criticized Israel during the war in Gaza, and it has backed up its rhetoric with action, joining South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, implementing an arms embargo against Israel, recalling its ambassador from Tel Aviv, recognizing Palestinian statehood, and imposing strict restrictions on Israeli military and fuel shipments through its airspace.

Forty-four percent of American Jews view Mamdani favorably

 

Forty-four percent of American Jews view Zohran Mamdani favorably, according to an AP-NORC poll released in July 2026 - 1,022 Jewish adults nationwide, margin of error ±5 points. The mayor of New York City - a democratic socialist born in East Africa who ran on Palestinian Arab solidarity, endorsed by progressive Jewish organizations - helped gain office due to Jewish money.

We can reveal that money included funds from Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation, built with Schindler's List profits.

Between 2020 and 2024, the Righteous Persons Foundation directed $3,065,000 to progressive organizations that endorsed Mamdani's mayoral campaign, advocated for U.S. arms embargoes on Israel, opposed the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and organized protests against the Israeli military. During the same period, the foundation allocated $125,000 to Holocaust-related projects. For every dollar spent on Holocaust remembrance since 2020, it spent roughly $19 funding organizations that work against the Jewish state.

Fifty-nine percent of American Jews hold an unfavorable view of Netanyahu. Thirty percent believe the false accusation that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Thirty-eight percent say the U.S. is too supportive of Israel. Just 42% support continued military operations in Gaza - even as 73% say Israel's initial response to October 7 was justified. These numbers were built - deliberately, over decades - by a progressive Jewish infrastructure funded by Diaspora liberal Jews, including Steven Spielberg and George Soros.

Steven Spielberg called the profits from Schindler's List - a film about the murder of six million Jews - "blood money." He put it into the Righteous Persons Foundation, established in 1994 with approximately $100 million from the film's earnings. The stated mission: support Holocaust education and Jewish life in America.

Thirty years later, the foundation's tax returns reveal that money funds the progressive Jewish infrastructure that endorsed Mamdani, mobilizes for Palestinian Arab rights, advocates to defund the police, and publicly defended Mahmoud Khalil - the Columbia University activist facing deportation.

The 990 filings show Bend the Arc received $1.2 million across five years. T'ruah received $690,000. Jews United for Justice received $925,000. The Jewish Social Justice Roundtable received $250,000. The foundation's last donation to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum came in 2019. Its last grant to the USC Shoah Foundation - Spielberg's own creation - was $500,000 in 2015.

The Recipients of Spielberg's Money

Bend the Arc received $1.2 million. The largest progressive Jewish advocacy organization in the country. Its political arm - Bend the Arc Jewish Action - was co-founded by Alex Soros, who serves as founding chair. The Foundation to Promote Open Society has directed over $13 million to Bend the Arc's 501(c)(3) charitable arm. The (c)(3) and (c)(4) share the same CEO, address, and cost-sharing agreements for staff.

Bend the Arc endorsed Mamdani on September 26, 2025 - its first-ever mayoral endorsement. It ran paid media, canvassing, and Jewish voter outreach for the campaign. It demanded a U.S. arms embargo on Israel and defended campus protest movements. On Khalil, Bend the Arc launched a petition with nearly 5,000 signatures demanding his release, published an op-ed in Haaretz titled "Smokescreen Antisemitism," and co-led a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

T'ruah received $690,000 since 2021. A rabbinic organization (almost all of whose members are Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist with a few Open Orthodox) commanding over 2,300 rabbis and cantors - described by JNS as "the rabbis training clergy to oppose Zionism." T'ruah organized protests against Israel's military operations in Gaza, falsely accused Israel of deliberately starving civilians, and mobilized its clerical network against Israeli government policy.

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) received approximately $925,000. Opposed the IHRA antisemitism definition. Advocates to abolish the NYPD and ran the #DefundNYPD campaign.

Jewish Social Justice Roundtable received $250,000. A collective whose members include both Bend the Arc and T'ruah - meaning Spielberg's money flows to the same organizations through multiple channels.

A detailed investigation cross-referencing these IRS filings documents the year-by-year grant flow from the Righteous Persons Foundation to each of these organizations - and the political activities funded with Spielberg's money.

Decision Makers:

The board has included Margery Tabankin since 1995 - Executive Director and Senior Advisor for nearly three decades.

Tabankin's background: a former Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) member and anti-Vietnam War activist who studied community organizing under Saul Alinsky. Among the early American Jews advocating for Palestinian Arab statehood, she traveled to Ramallah in 1989 and met Yasser Arafat. Spielberg hired her in February 1995. A celebration party in New York was attended by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

The remainder of the board is Steven Spielberg as Chairman; wife Kate Capshaw Spielberg as Director; and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Spielberg's longtime film producer - she started as his assistant in 1998 and rose to produce Bridge of Spies, The Post, West Side Story, and The Fabelmans.

Day One with Zohran

On January 1, 2026 - inauguration day - Steven Spielberg officially became a New York resident. Days later, he hosted a private meeting with the new mayor at his apartment overlooking Central Park. They were joined by Kate Capshaw, their son Theo and his wife, and Morris Katz, Mamdani's senior Jewish adviser. The meeting did not appear on the mayor's public schedule. It was confirmed only after New York Times inquiries. Both sides described it as a "friendly introduction." There was "no particular agenda."

Munich: Spielberg and Palestinian Arab Terrorists

In "Munich" (2005), Mossad agent Avner - played by Eric Bana - hunts the Black September operatives who murdered eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. The film is structured as a revenge thriller. Its argument runs the other direction.

In a safehouse scene, Avner encounters Ali, a PLO operative who does not know Avner is Israeli. What follows is the most sympathetic case for Palestinian Arab nationalism in a major American studio film. NPR called it "Spielberg's most provocative film."

"You don't know what it is not to have a home," Ali tells Avner. "Home is everything." He continues: "We have a lot of children. They'll have children. So we can wait forever... The world will see how they've made us into animals."

Spielberg lets Ali make this argument without interruption or narrative correction. Avner manages only: "You'll never get the land back." Ali is given the philosophy. Avner is given the gun. Avner's arc is a man destroyed by violence committed on behalf of a state whose moral authority he can no longer locate. By the film's end, Avner is paranoid, isolated, undone.

Ali accuses Jews of exploiting German guilt over the Holocaust to secure Western support for Israel. Spielberg - the filmmaker who built his reputation on Schindler's List - put this argument into the mouth of a character the audience is positioned to sympathize with. One side received the philosophy. The other received the doubt.

Progressive Jews: Enemies of the Jewish State

The "blood money" from Schindler's List - his term, not ours - now funds opposition to the Jewish state and the political movement that elevated Zohran Mamdani. The foundation, the film, the grants, and the meeting all tell the same story: Steven Spielberg took the profits from a movie about the murder of six million Jews and built a machine that works against the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

Forty-four percent of American Jews now view Mamdani favorably. That did not happen organically. It was engineered - by Bend the Arc, T'ruah, JFREJ, and the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Funded by the Righteous Persons Foundation and people like Steven Spielberg and George Soros.

These are not critics. These are not dissenters. These are Jews who fund, organize, and mobilize against the survival of the Jewish state - while claiming to speak for Jewish values. They endorsed a mayor who ran on Palestinian Arab solidarity. They defended an activist facing deportation for campus protests against Israel. They demand arms embargoes. They reject the internationally recognized definition of antisemitism. They call the IDF's operations war crimes.

The progressive Diaspora Jew has become an enemy to Zionism and Israeli Jews.

Steven Spielberg took the proceeds from a film about the murder of six million Jews and directed them to organizations that defend the enemies of the Jewish state. What can one say?

How Agudah Yisrael sought to sabotage Jewish rights to Eretz Yisrael, and How Harav Kook Triumphed and got the British Parliament to vote in favor of the Balfour Declaration.

 

In 1914, Rabbi Kook, then Rabbi of Jaffa, was invited to attend the Agudat Yisrael Congress which was to take place in Berlin. The Rabbi of Jaffa could not decide whether to travel there or not. On the one hand, he did not want to leave the Holy Land, even for a short official visit abroad. In addition to his marriage-like love for the Cherished Land, he was busy day and night with his many educational endeavors, Rabbinical duties, as well as his Halakhic and philosophical writings.

 On the other hand, the conference could influence the Zionist cause in a positive way, or, Heaven forbid, adversely, and conceivably damage the further settlement of Eretz Yisrael.

Many important Rabbis looked favorably upon the Zionist enterprise, while other influential Torah leaders viewed the efforts of the secular pioneers with skepticism and outright disdain. 

Rabbi Kook felt that his presence at the large assembly could encourage the Rabbis to support the resettlement of Israel, or at least persuade them not to discourage Diaspora Jewish communities from making Aliyah. In addition, he believed that by attending the convention, he could find people who could help him raise the funds needed to hire religious school teachers for the struggling moshavim in Eretz Yisrael which were supplying the fruits, vegetables, eggs, and poultry for the growing Jewish population.

In a letter to his son, Tzvi Yehuda, who was in Europe, studying at a yeshiva, Rabbi Kook wrote:

7-Year-Old Hillel Mordechai Dadon Z”L Murdered By Neighbor During Family Birthday Party; 4-Year-Old Cousin Wounded

 

 A horrifying stabbing attack in Beit Shemesh on Monday afternoon left 7-year-old Hillel Mordechai Dadon z”l dead and his 4-year-old cousin wounded, with police arresting a 25-year-old neighbor suspected of carrying out the attack.

The attack occurred at a home on Emek HaZeitim Street during a family birthday celebration. According to the initial investigation, the children were outside near an inflatable pool when the suspect, a neighbor of the family, entered the property and allegedly stabbed them.

A 15-year-old relative who had been watching the children was reportedly present and witnessed the attack. The father of one of the children later arrived and found the two boys wounded near the pool. The mother had reportedly gone out to purchase items for the birthday celebration.

Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah personnel rushed to the scene and treated both victims before transporting them to Hadassah Ein Kerem.

Hillel Mordechai was evacuated while undergoing resuscitation efforts and arrived at the hospital without signs of life. Doctors subsequently pronounced him dead.

His 4-year-old cousin arrived conscious and was taken into surgery. Hadassah said his condition was moderate.

Police apprehended the suspected attacker, a 25-year-old neighborhood resident, shortly after the stabbing. Investigators believe he fled after attacking the children.

Police are examining several possible motives, including whether a previous dispute existed between the suspect’s family and the victims’ family. Reports also indicated that the suspect has a history of mental health issues. His father was questioned at the scene as part of the investigation.

Jerusalem District Police Commander Avshalom Peled arrived at the scene and held a situation assessment with senior commanders. Forensic investigators collected evidence from the property, and the investigation has been assigned to the Jerusalem District Central Unit.

ZAKA identified the murdered child as Hillel Mordechai Dadon z”l and said its legal department was assisting the family with efforts to expedite his release for kevurah.

The murder came during an exceptionally tragic afternoon in Beit Shemesh. In an unrelated incident elsewhere in the city, Asher Anshel Fish z”l was killed after being struck by a vehicle in Ramat Beit Shemesh Daled.

Beit Shemesh Mayor Shmuel Greenberg said: “Beit Shemesh has experienced two difficult and painful incidents in the past hour, in each of which the life of a child was cut short. In the terrible incident on Emek HaZeitim Street, a child was killed, and in the traffic accident in Ramat Beit Shemesh Daled, another child was killed.”

“These are extremely difficult moments for the entire city,” Greenberg added. “Our hearts are with the families who lost what was most precious to them, and we daven for the welfare and recovery of the injured.”

Pope Leo Wants a Two-State Solution Instantly gets Shut Down by David Friedman

 

Your eminence, the overwhelming majority of violence in Judea and Samaria (I assume you have no issue with the Biblical reference to this territory) is initiated by Palestinian thugs. Respectfully, should fully investigate the facts before damaging your credibility with posts… https://t.co/deK4KRIFvo

— David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) August 16, 2026

So Busy Stealing before even realizing whether it will fit in!

 

If it doesn’t belong to you, maybe don’t test the borrowing policy. pic.twitter.com/mGmaXRy7K6

— The Best (@TheBestqueenx) August 16, 2026

Charedie Reveals That they are really all a bunch of frauds and phonies

 

For a week, a Chasidic couple from one of the most extreme Chasidic groups in the Charedi world stayed at our guesthouse. I won’t write which one, to preserve their privacy — at their request.

When the husband discovered that I was the owner of the place, he asked to meet. I even offered to record the conversation with him, but he refused, afraid to be exposed even with blurred face and voice.

In the end, we sat in our living room over coffee and cake. The things he said were so sharp that I felt I had to share them — with his permission, of course.

It began when his wife told my wife that they hide from their parents the fact that he works, and that they use birth control — because in the Charedi world this is considered terrible.

And then the Chasid said to me:

“What is a Charedi? A Charedi isn’t trying to keep the Torah written in the Tanach, or even the Shulchan Aruch. A Charedi wants to keep whatever his ancestors did in the last few generations. That’s it. They may even do things that the Shulchan Aruch explicitly forbids — like among Chasidim, shaving a woman’s hair, which is prohibited because of lo yilbash; or the laws of washing hands for foods dipped in liquids, which no Charedi actually keeps. And the same goes for mitzvot like helping Israel against its enemies or settling the Land.”

The Hasid continued with a sentence I couldn’t believe I was hearing:

“A typical Religious Zionist is more religious than a typical Haredi!

The clothing and terminology are purely social codes, with no connection to spiritual level. The Chasidim of today would oppose the Baal Shem Tov — because he was a revolutionary and an innovator, and today we persecute people like that.”

When I asked him whether Neturei Karta and the Eida HaCharedit really don’t take money from the state, he answered:

“My father told me that for years he didn’t take anything — because it was ‘impure Zionist money.’ Until he discovered that he was the only naïve one, and everyone around him was taking child allowances and anything else possible. When he asked how they can oppose the state but enjoy its money, he received a formal halachic answer:

They take money from the state under the rule of ‘to save from them’ — a rule mentioned in the Gemara about doing business with idol-worshipping gentiles near their holidays, which is normally forbidden but permitted in order to ‘save from them’ the money of Jews…”

He finished with something very surprising:

“Between us, all the young people in our community want to go to the army. Mainly because it’s very cool and exciting. But they treat it like a forbidden dream, or like a craving for a very tasty food that isn’t kosher — something that simply will never happen.”

That’s most of what he said. There’s another part — in a field that really shocked me — but I won’t share it at this stage…

שבוע התארחו אצלנו בצימר זוג חסידים מאחת החסידויות הקיצוניות ביותר בעולם החרדי. לא אכתוב איזו, כדי לשמור על הדיסקרטיות שלהם. לבקשתם.
כשגילה שאני הבעל בית של הצימר ביקש להיפגש. הצעתי כבר לצלם איתו שיחה, הוא סירב מפחד להיחשף אפילו עם טשטוש פנים וקול. בסוף ישבנו אצלנו בסלון על קפה ועוגה. המשפטים שהוא אמר לי היו כל כך חדים, שרציתי פשוט לשתף. ברשותו כמובן.
זה התחיל בזה שאשתו סיפרה לאשתי שהם מסתירים מההורים שלהם את העובדה שהוא עובד ושהם משתמשים באמצעי מניעה, כי בעולם החרדי זה נחשב לכישלון גמור.

וכך אמר לי החסיד:
״מה זה חרדי? חרדי לא מחפש לשמור את התורה הכתובה בתנך ואפילו לא את השולחן ערוך. חרדי רוצה לשמור את מה שאבותיו בדורות האחרונים עשו. זהו. יתכן אפילו לעשות דברים שהשולחן ערוך אוסר במפורש, כמו אצל החסידים גילוח שיער האשה שנאסר משום לא ילבש, או הלכות נטילת ידיים על דבר שטיבולו במשקה שאף חרדי לא מקפיד עליהן. וכך גם בנוגע למצוות כמו עזרת ישראל מיד צר וישוב הארץ.״

החסיד המשיך במשפט שלא האמנתי שאני שומע:
״דתי לאומי ממוצע יותר דתי מחרדי ממוצע!
הלבוש והטרמינולוגיה הם נטו קודים חברתיים ללא שום קשר למדרגה הרוחנית. החסידים של היום היו מתנגדים לבעל שם טוב כי הוא היה מהפכן וחדשן, ואנחנו היום רודפים אנשים כאלו.״
כששאלתי אותו האם נטורי קרתא והעדה החרדית באמת לא לוקחים תקציבים מהמדינה? ענה:
״ אבא סיפר לי ששנים הוא לא לקח ! כי זה כסף ציוני טמא. עד שגילה שהוא התמים היחיד ומסביבו כולם לוקחים קצבאות ילדים וכל מה שאפשר . לתמיהתו איך מתנגדים למדינה אך נהנים מכספה?
הוא קיבל תשובה הלכתית פורמלית: לוקחים כסף מהמדינה מדין ׳להציל מידם׳ דין שנאמר בגמרא על עשיית מסחר עם גויים סמוך לימי חגם האלילי, מה שאסור בד״כ אבל הותר כדי ״להציל מידם״ את הכסף של היהודים..״

סיים בעוד דבר מפתיע מאוד: ״ביננו, כל הצעירים אצלנו רוצים ללכת לצבא. בעיקר כי זה מגניב מאוד ואקשן ואבל מתייחסים לזה כמו אל חלום אסור או תאווה למאכל טעים מאוד אבל לא כשר – משהו שפשוט לא יקרה״
עד כאן רוב דבריו. יש עוד חלק שאני די מזועזע ממנו (נחשו באיזו תחום) ולא אשתף בשלב זה…
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אשמח לאישור הדברים או הסתייגויות מהם מעוקביי החרדים היקרים. כמובן בשפה מכבדת

Only in Israel will a lifeguard on a beach remind the bathers that it is Elul and Time for Teshuvah

 

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Shabbat in Madagascar

 

Wow! How beautiful is this! Shabbat in Madagascar. I didn’t even know there were Jews there. ✡️ pic.twitter.com/s8Ndn3tb1s

— Mish (@Mish_K_) August 15, 2026

"We've been very worried about you" Three words from the Israeli policeman in Argentina to the Mother & Daughter that were "missing"

 "We've been very worried about you"

Those were the first words the Israeli policeman said when the two missing women were finally found—words that hit harder than any siren, any headline, any speech. Because behind that simple sentence stood an entire country that had been searching for them as if they were its own daughters.

The moment they disappeared, Israel didn’t wait. It didn’t hesitate. It didn’t ask whether it was “practical.” It moved. Fast. Even when they already knew that the Mother/Daughter team left voluntarily.

Across borders, across oceans, across bureaucracies—Israeli diplomats, police, intelligence units, and volunteers turned the world upside down. Every airport camera was checked. Every bus route traced. Every lead pursued. No detail was too small. No distance too far.

Because in Israel, a missing citizen is a national emergency.

And when the women were finally located— alive—the Israeli officer stepped forward and said the words that summed up the entire operation:

“We’ve been very worried about you.”

Not “Show me your passport.” Not “What happened?” Not “Do you know how much trouble this caused?”

Just worry. Just care. Just love.

Only one country on earth mobilizes like this for two individuals. Only one country treats every citizen as family. Only one country searches the world and then greets you with:

“We’ve been very worried about you.”

That is Israel.That is our government. That is who we are.

The FJJ (Flatbush Jewish Journal) Rewrites History of R' Yoel Teitelbaum on how he was saved during the Holocaust!

 

Satmar is embarrassed that their founder R' Yoel Teitelbaum was rescued by the Zionists, the very people he hated with a passion.

So they started a campaign to rewrite history and say that he was actually rescued as a "result of the negotiations of Rav Michael Ber Weissmandl with Adolf Eichmann! This is of course an unmitigated lie, but what I am surprised is that a Flatbush Newspaper would print and sneak in this garbage in their column "Yahrzeits Tributes"!

Thank the L-rd, in the following issue of August 13, two of their readers called them out on this vile attempt to erase the truth and replace it with Satmar propaganda! 

Shabbos Attacker in NYC Synagogue punches congregant in antisemitic attack

 

Footage from tonight’s attack inside NYC’s Central Synagogue.

Thankfully this lunatic has been arrested. pic.twitter.com/t9RfZZBg1T

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) August 15, 2026

 A hateful lunatic barged into a Manhattan synagogue on Friday evening, assaulting a congregant and headbutting a security guard in a deranged antisemitic attack, police said.

Larry Montes, 46, allegedly launched the unhinged attack at Central Synagogue on Lexington Avenue and East 55th Street during Shabbat services, according to police and sources.

He walked to the front of the synagogue around 6 p.m. and began acting disorderly, law enforcement sources said.

Security stepped in and began to escort the man outside — but not before he allegedly slugged a 63-year-old congregant in the face, the sources said.

Montes, of the Bronx, also allegedly headbutted and spat at a security guard and broke two religious candles valued at $20,000.

An NYPD sergeant working a paid detail at the house of worship took Montes into custody.

Harrowing livestream footage of the service shared to X shows Montes in a rage, shouting erratically at the front of the synagogue.

An object off camera is then heard shattering, causing the congregation to collectively cry out.

Montes is then seen being escorted out down the aisle as he screams and forcefully throws his fists into the air.

The alleged antisemite was charged with two counts of assault as a hate crime and one count of criminal mischief as a hate crime.

“I have spoken with the rabbi of the synagogue, and I’m relieved that no one was seriously injured,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in a statement.

“There are no known additional threats at this time, and additional NYPD resources have been deployed to the synagogue,” added Tisch, who attended the same synagogue as a kid.

Tisch said she spoke to the synagogue’s rabbi following the incident and confirmed “those who were hurt were evaluated at the scene and are doing well.”

“I understand the sanctity of this space and its meaning for congregants. Central Synagogue is where I grew up,” the commissioner wrote.

“In joy and in sorrow, it has always been a place of comfort and peace. What happened there tonight is deeply painful. A place of worship should never be a crime scene.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul called the assault “appalling” and is “grateful the suspect is in custody and that no one was seriously injured.”

“Jewish New Yorkers have every right to worship openly, proudly, and without fear,” Hochul wrote on X.

Similarly, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he was “horrified by the assault at Central Synagogue.”

“I can only imagine the pain and fear an attack like this, during Shabbat services, causes for the congregation and for Jewish New Yorkers across our city,” Hizzoner said. 

“Every New Yorker must be able to observe their religion without fear of violence. This despicable act has no place in our city, and our administration will do everything in our power to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe.”

Attorney General Letitia James said her “heart is with the Central Synagogue community this evening.”

“The assault during services at Central Synagogue today is appalling and unacceptable,” James said on X.

“No one should feel threatened in their place of worship.”

Britain Furious Only at Netanyahu Because he Said "The first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic Republic of Britain" Something that Vance Also Said!

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked a diplomatic uproar in Britain after making an unusual remark during Avi Harush’s podcast on Galei Tzahal, Israel’s Army Radio.

Netanyahu said that “someone said the first Islamic republic with nuclear weapons will be the Islamic Republic of Britain,” adding that Israel is making sure there will not be another such country in Iran.

The remark triggered sharp reactions in Britain. Popular British broadcaster Piers Morgan issued scathing criticism and called Netanyahu an “idiot.

MK Avi Dabush of the Democrats also attacked Netanyahu, saying: “You are a prime minister, you have a responsibility, and you sit and joke about Britain, a Security Council member six times larger than Israel.”

The phrase used by Netanyahu was not new. He was drawing on comments made by U.S. Vice President JD Vance in July 2024, when Vance was still a senator and vice-presidential candidate. Speaking at the National Conservatism conference in Washington, Vance said Britain could become “the first truly Islamist country” to obtain nuclear weapons.

Vance described a conversation he had with a friend about the danger of nuclear proliferation, saying: “We thought — maybe it’s Iran, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we decided that maybe it’s actually Britain, since Labour came to power.”

The controversy comes amid months of diplomatic tension between Israel and Britain, with the British government under the Labour Party taking a more critical stance toward Israeli policy.

Missing Yahalomi Mother and Daughter Found Alive in Argentina

 

On a bus in Argentina

 

IIsrael Police announced Friday that Mali Yahalomi and her daughter Liel, who mysteriously disappeared during a trip to Vienna a week ago, have been located safe and unharmed in Argentina.

Police released dramatic footage showing officers, including representatives from Israel and Interpol, boarding a bus in Argentina and approaching the mother and daughter. Mali and Liel appear confused and surprised as the officers introduce themselves, but both appear unharmed.

The discovery ends an international search launched after the two abruptly vanished from Vienna last Friday and cut off all contact with their family.

Their disappearance had triggered an extensive investigation involving Israel Police’s Lahav 433 unit, Austrian authorities and international law-enforcement agencies.

It remains unclear why Mali and Liel stopped communicating with their family, how and when they traveled from Austria to Argentina, or why they made the trip.

A police source stated: ‘We tracked their movements and managed to locate the bus they were traveling on. We knew they had likely left the country voluntarily and that they were not in any danger, but we needed to confirm this. We contacted them, updated them on the situation, and ensured that there was no criminal concern. From that point on, it was their decision. They voluntarily ended contact, and their lives are not in danger. This is not a criminal incident, and there is no basis for arrest.