Why Trump lawyer David Schoen covered his head with every sip of water

 

David Schoen unwittingly gave Twitter a lesson in orthodox Jewish customs during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Tuesday.

Schoen, Trump’s attorney, rested his hand on top of his head each time he took a sip of water while making his opening argument that the case is unconstitutional.

Several viewers noted Schoen’s seemingly unusual drinking habit, with some even suggesting he was trying to keep a toupee from falling.

“Is anybody going to acknowledge the way David Schoen is drinking water?” one user wrote.

But the lawyer was  making the ritual move because he is religiously observant.

Rabbi Menchem Genack, CEO of the kosher division of the Orthodox Union, explained that since Schoen is an observant Jew, he must cover his head and say a blessing whenever he eats or drinks.

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A Year Of Loss: Orthodox Jewry Reels As Gedoilim Die During Covid-19 Pandemic

 

Funeral of Rav Soloveitchik

Three times on Sunday, Orthodox men carried the body of a beloved Torah scholar wrapped in a black and white prayer shawl through the streets of Jerusalem to a freshly dug grave.

First there was Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, the 99-year-old heir to a vaunted tradition of Talmud study. A few hours later it was Rabbi Yitzchok Sheiner, the 98-year-old leader of a prominent yeshiva. And in the evening they took Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, a psychiatrist and scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, to his final resting place near Beit Shemesh.

By nightfall, the Orthodox world could count three fewer rabbinic scholars than when the day began. All died of COVID-19, the disease that has killed well over 2.3 million people around the world, including more than 400,000 in the United States and nearly 5,000 in Israel. In Israel, 1 in 132 haredi Orthodox Jews over 65 had died of COVID-19 by the end of 2020.

The weekend’s losses were relentless in their pace, but they reflected a cruel fact of life in the Orthodox world over the past year. A long list of Orthodox rabbinic leaders have died, leaving communities reeling from their losses and at times wondering who will emerge to fill their shoes. The deaths from COVID — and from other causes during a pandemic that curtailed the mourning rituals that usually follow the deaths of major rabbis — spanned the range of the Orthodox community, from Modern Orthodox to Lithuanian, or non-Hasidic haredi, to Hasidic.

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Rabbi Genack urges people to vote for Hillary because she sent him a Mazel Tov for his Grandchild's Bris!

Rabbi Genack getting kissed by  Hillary Clinton

This is the guy that Hillary kissed at the AIPAC convention, and now he wants to throw Israel under the bus because she gave him some Kovod, and wants Klall Yisroel to vote for the woman that wants the Iranian murderers to have nuclear weapons !

Shame on him .....How low can a guy go .....??
He must have been promised a job in her administration! 

I will not post this clown's entire letter but this is the way it starts :

By Rabbi Menachem Genack

When my daughter Ora and son-in-law Avi recently gave birth to a son, they were contacted by Hillary Clinton’s staff to find out the baby’s name. As the bris was delayed for some time, Ora and Avi could not supply a name when the request arrived. But I did not understand why anyone needed a name—wouldn’t it be sufficient to congratulate the baby’s parents?

Once the baby was named, the parents received two letters from Hillary: one wishing Mazel Tov to the parents, and a second one addressed directly to the baby. Hillary wrote to my grandson Nachum, wishing him “a lifetime of amazing adventures and accomplishments, with those who love you cheering you along the way.”

I have known Hillary Clinton for almost twenty-five years, and this is the Hillary I know: gracious, kind, and focused on building a better future for our children and grandchildren. While to some, these qualities are not evident in her public persona, they are in fact ever present. And they underlie her engagement with the Jewish community – both in America, and in Israel.

What a bald faced lie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hikind wants you to vote for Paul Ryan, eventhough he is not even on the ballot

This raving lunatic, the meshiginar Hikind is voting for Paul Ryan! 
Paul Ryan the speaker of the House is not even running, and Paul Ryan himself is voting for Trump!
Hikind, wants you to go waste your time waiting in line like a meshiginar and then waste your vote, on a guy who isn't running!
Standing next to him is Genack who went out of his way to plant a juicy kiss on Hillary's ugly face just a few months ago!
These are our Jewish "leaders," a bunch of clueless idiots!
I'm embarrassed to have this fool represent us in any forum!

Tonight at an election forum in Flatbush, NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind made his choice for president known.

“I have decided to write in Speaker Paul Ryan for President of the United States”, Hikind told the crowd at Talmud Torah Of Flatbush.

“He (Ryan) is a superstar with great integrity and morality”.

Tonight’s event gave community members the opportunity to ask questions to Hikind regarding Donald Trump as well as Rabbi Menachem Genack responding to questions regarding Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Kisses Rabbi Menachem Genack from the OU who has endorsed her for president.!

Upon entering the hall, Clinton shook hands and even stopped to kiss (see .008 mark)Rabbi Menachem Genack from the OU who has endorsed her for president.

What's with frum Jews like Ezra "the kapo" Friedlander and Menachem Genack that find it necessary to tuchesleck Hillary, who hates Israel!

So now the "groiser tzaddik" the macher at the OU actually forgoes all ...and kisses a shiksah!

Unkosher Rabbi Genack endorses an anti Israel Treif Candidate for President

Unkosher Genack with the Chazzer Feesel Clinton

Can we now trust the OU on kashrus?

Rabbi Menachem Genack is the CEO of the Kashrus division of the OU, effectively in charge of most of the kosher food consumed by Jews in the USA. Let's not forget that most of the "Heimeshe" Hashgachos totally rely on the OU, so this guy is the man that most Jews in the entire country trust for their kosher food...

So how can we trust his judgement, if he has no compunction endorsing Hillary Clinton, a proven Sonei Yisrael for President? 

And what is it with these Jews and Rabbis that repeatedly stab us in the back and we continue with our life as usual!

Why isn't there an uproar, when this arrogant lilliputian Genack writes his opinion in the Jewish Week endorsing  Hillary Clinton for President.

"  Clinton has proven to be a true friend of Israel. She has spent decades developing and nurturing relationships with Israeli leaders that would continue if she becomes president."

Click on this link and you will see a lifetime of Hillary stabbing Jews in the back. She is the classic anti-Semite!
She hates Netanyahu and hates Israel!

It is unbelievable that  an Orthodox rabbi at one of the most prestigious kashrut organizations in the world  endorses someone so wedded to left-wing ideology and enemies of Israel, and to then promote her as a staunch friend of Israel against overwhelming evidence to the contrary, is  beyond comprehension and reality. 

And while he makes it a point to say that his views do not reflect those of the Orthodox Union, no reasonable person can deny the negative public relations effect this will have on the OU.

Hillary Clinton was secretary of state for an administration whose top priority was to disengage as leader of the free world by choosing instead to let other countries take the lead. 

With every major Jewish organization, including the OU, opposing the flawed nuclear deal with Iran, Hillary Clinton sided with the Obama administration. 

Rabbi Genack should be ashamed of himself.

This is why Jews are in danger. 

Not because of the usual anti-Semites, we have defeated them throughout history. 

Its the enemy within

Rabbi Belsky says that Yosef Kolko is innocent, while Kolko himself says he is guily of child sex abuse!

Read this e-mail exchange from a fellow blogger!  I am writing to you in light of the recent trial of Yosef Kolko, who was found guilty last week of aggravated sexual assault of a minor in Lakewood. One of Kolko's chief defenders was and continues to be Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Vodaas, who wrote a public letter to Lakewood defending the molestor and vilifying the family of the abused child. Following is the text of Rabbi Belsky's letter:  RABBI YISROEL BELSKY'S LETTER TO THE RESIDENTS OF LAKEWOOD      My ears should have been spared hearing the horrific news that one of your fellow residents in town informed upon a fellow Jew to the hands of the secular authorities, may god spare us, for which the [Jewish] law is undisputed that one who commits such an act has no share in the world to come. (see: Choshen Mishpat 388:4)       After conducting a thorough investigation I am absolutely certain that R' Y.K. [Yosef Kolko], may his light shine, is perfectly innocent of any wrongdoing of any nature whatsoever. And not only is he innocent but it is also as clear to me that all these allegations are fabrications made by [REDACTED].       Further, all the reports made to the secular authorities were only for the express purpose of casting blame for their [the victim's family] own shameful and cursed existence on others. And the truth is that the allegations they make against others are crimes they themselves are in fact guilty of and they seek to cleanse their reputation by blaming an innocent man for their own deeds.       Accordingly, as it is a great mitzvah to rescue the pursued from the hands of the pursuer and to make it known that the righteous man is right and the evil man is evil‐to rescue a pure and righteous soul. Therefore, anyone who has the ability to rescue the righteous and does not do so is considered as if he is himself the pursuer. (See: Rambam ‐ laws regarding informing 1: 14)  Thus, all who have the ability to influence the informers that they should retract their terrible deeds should do so.  Despite the fact that Yosef Kolko admitted his guilt of long term sexual assault of a child, Rabbi Belsky has neither retracted his letter or his vilification of the victim and his family. His letter is unfortunately a tragic example of the widespread, grotesque, evil phenomenon of rabbinic coverup of child molesters and persecution of their victims throughout the frum world.   Rabbi Belsky is a Senior Posek at the OU, an organization which prides itself on its educated leadership, its integrity and its protection of children. I am writing to you to join and be a signator in a letter writing campaign to all the administrators of the OU leadership, asking that they require that Rabbi Belsky publicly retract his letter if he is to continue to be affiliated with the OU. If the OU does not do so, it is giving credibility and publicly honoring a senior employee who advocates protecting sexual child molestors and persecuting their victims, even when the molestor admits his guilt. This is hardly a message befitting the OU and its admirable mission in the Jewish world.   Please join an email letter writing campaign to voice your opinion about this matter to the OU administration. Following are their names and email addresses. Please include Rabbi Belsky's letter to Lakewood in your letter to the OU. You may just copy the above letter and email it to the following:   Executive Vice President Rabbi Steven Weil rabbiweil@ou.org  Executive Vice President, Emeritus Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb execthw@ou.org Chief Financial Officer Shlomo Schwartz shlomoschwartz@ou.org Chief Communications Officer Mayer Fertig fertig@ou.org Rabbinic Administrator/Chief Executive Officer Rabbi Menachem Genack genackm@ou.org Executive Rabbinic Coordinator/Chief Operating Officer Rabbi Moshe Elefant elefantm@ou.org Executive Rabbinic Coordinator Rabbi Yaakov Luban lubany@ou.org Executive Rabbinic Coordinator / Director of Operations Rabbi Moshe Zywica zywicam@ou.org Senior Rabbinic Coordinator/Vice President, Communications and Marketing Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran safrane@ou.org Senior Rabbinic Coordinator Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz rabinowitzn@ou.org Senior Educational Rabbinic Coordinator / Director of Kashrus Education Rabbi Yosef Grossman grossman@ou.org  Senior Director of Institutional Advancement Paul Glasser pglasser@ou.org Chief Human Resources Officer Lenny Bessler besslerl@ou.org Senior Information Officer Sam Davidovics, Ph.D. davidovics@ou.org Public Relations Director Stephen Steiner steiners@ou.org Alumni Connections Rabbi Yehoshua Marchuck marchuck@ou.org Community Engagement Rabbi Judah Isaacs isaacsj@ou.org Community Services Frank Buchweitz frank@ou.org Heshe & Harriet Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus Rabbi Ilan Haber college@ou.org Institute for Public Affairs/IPA Nathan Diament ipadc@ou.org  Jewish Action Nechama Carmel carmeln@ou.org Job Board Michael Srulie Rosner rosnerm@ou.org NCSY Rabbi Micha Greenland mgreenland@ou.org NextGen Rabbi David Felsenthal rabbidave@ou.org OU Press Rabbi Simon Posner posners@ou.org Pepa & Rabbi Joseph Karasick Department of Synagogue Services Rabbi Judah Isaacs isaacsj@ou.org Yachad/Our Way/NJCD Dr. Jeffrey Lichtman lichtmanj@ou.org  Dear Tiferes, Thank you for your letter.  I agree that the OU should sever its relationship with Rabbi Belsky as soon as possible.  The question is what is the most effective manner in which to accomplish this. I think that what is needed, rather than writing to the OU staff (other than Rabbis Weil, Genack, and maybe selected others) is to reach out to the volunteer leadership.  So far, the only email address I have been able to track down is for Martin Nachimson, President of the OU: martin.nachimson@macquarie.com.  Here are links to what the OU website shows for their lay leadership, in case you want to try: Officers - http://www.ou.org/contact/C393#listing Board of Governors - http://www.ou.org/contact/C394#listing Board of Directors (appears out of date but that's what is on the website) - http://www.ou.org/contact/C392#listing Please let me know what you think. P.S.  Please let me know if you are using a real name or an assumed name.  I work with a number of people who choose not to use their real names.  That does not bother me, but I need to know when that is the case