People Wondering Why Rav Landau Needs Notes for a Simple Message??

 

People wonder why a Gadol would need written notes for such a simple message, and the reason is straightforward: most people don’t understand what’s actually happening.

Why would a Rosh Yeshiva, someone who knows Kol HaTorah Kula, require notes to deliver a message that even a young child could articulate? The answer is simple—he is relying entirely on the information provided to him by those around him. As far as I know, Rav Landau doesn’t follow the news and isn’t on social media. Everything he hears comes through his handlers, the askanim who filter and frame the information he receives.

A clear example took place in 2023, six months after October 7th, during the Beit Shemesh mayoral election. Certain Charedi factions were determined to remove Dr. Aliza Bloch, a Shomeret Torah U’mitzvot, and put forward their own candidate, Shmuel Greenberg—who, ironically, they later turned against to the point that he now requires heavy security just to leave his home.

To rally support, they rented a stadium—despite previously insisting that entering such a venue was forbidden—and managed to gather nearly 4,000 people for a Degel HaTorah event. On a Motzei Shabbos, they brought the elderly Rav Landau from Bnei Brak so he could address the crowd. I was there.

Rav Landau spoke for about five minutes, reading from notes. And what was the message?

He declared that this municipal election constituted a “Milchemes Mitzvah.” Therefore, he said, eligible bochurim should close their Gemaras and vote. If they were learning outside Beit Shemesh, Degel would provide buses so they could travel back and forth—a trip that would involve at least five hours of missed learning—all because this was supposedly a “Milchemes Mitzvah.”

This took place during a period of daily IDF casualties, constant sirens and runs to shelters, only months after October 7th. Yet according to this logic, the events of October 7th were not a Milchemes Mitzvah, but voting in a local mayoral race was. It’s hard to make sense of that.

And this brings us back to the original question: why did Rav Landau need notes for a five‑minute speech?

Because he was reading what others prepared for him. That’s the entire point.

The ones mocking Rav Landau are the Chareidim themselves who are afraid what he would say if he didn't have the notes! They think that he is basically a "dummy" and so they feed him crapola and hay and place it in a note for him to read!

זו תורה וזו שכרה

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CNN Black reporters Believe Blacks are too Dumb to have Voter ID

 

Scott Jennings ignites CHAOS on CNN when he asks “how” the SAVE Act strips voting rights from people of color.

ALENCIA JOHNSON: “[Trump] is championing a bill that would take voting rights away from a lot of black people in this country.”

JENNINGS: “Wait, what voting rights is… pic.twitter.com/MDW4YMV4Bd

— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) February 12, 2026

UN Secretary-General António Guterres Congratulates Iran on Anniversary Of Iran Islamic Revolution

 

This is vile and disgusting.

This is the equivalent of congratulating the Nazis on the anniversary of them taking over Germany.

Shame on the UN.

DEFUND THE UN pic.twitter.com/cTVdV8Giwi

— Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 (@gghamari) February 11, 2026

Renting your life: The hidden tax of the digital cloud

by Carmen Targownik

 If you ask your grandma what a cloud is, she will tell you that it’s a white and fluffy thing in the sky. In the tech world, too, the cloud is a great concept: You can upload your pictures to a big cloud castle in the sky that keeps them nice and safe. Always there, ready for you whenever and wherever you need it.

I love to rely on the cloud. It gives peace of mind to believe that someone is taking care of my most personal information, without having to worry about backing up a disk.

When we start using a cloud, we click accept and start using its convenience for free, but one day, we receive a ransom note (an email) saying that our storage is full. Either we keep paying monthly to keep both the space and the access to our data available. Or we don’t pay, and our access to our most sensitive and valuable data gets restricted. We don’t just lose the service of storing our images, we lose the access to our memories, our records, our work… The bubble pops and we understand the reality of the cloud: It’s huge warehouses, somewhere far away, in a cold place that will keep the computers from overheating.

Eventually, we pay and start renting our life back. The only way we can access our own data is through a middleman and a monthly fee. The relationship between us and the company changes. Suddenly, they are holding our personal data, and we have to pay our way back.

By uploading our photos to the cloud, we are handing over the sovereignty of our data to a company. Google, Amazon and Microsoft (“the big three”) currently hold around 63% of the market share of cloud infrastructure, and when we use them, we trust them blindly.

These companies are not just “renting out” their storage space for normal consumers. When we use clouds, they double tax us. They earn from our subscription fees, and also from using our data to improve their algorithms, their AI models, etc. (Some companies say that they “anonymize” personal data, but there is no way of knowing.) Their business improves, and they earn even more. In Scott Galloway’s Book “The Four,” he argues that the big tech companies “[…] are in a race to become the operating system for our lives. The prize? A frictionless existence that we pay for with our data, our privacy, and eventually, our agency.”

In November 2025, Amazon and Google announced that their cloud services were starting an Interconnect partnership. It was marketed as a victory for “multi-cloud” convenience, but by linking their infrastructures, these giants have ensured that our data stays within their combined ecosystems. The partnership will make it even harder for us to track who really has access to our data and to withdraw it.

We can argue that clouds are similar to banks. They keep our valuables safe, and they use them for their own investments, right?

In October, an eight-hour outage of the Amazon Cloud services (AWS) affected more than 17 million users across more than 60 countries, according to Ookla Research, costing companies across the US millions of dollars.If banks lose your money, you are protected through deposit insurance.When data gets lost by a cloud, there’s no way to recover it – it’s gone.If we want to switch banks, we can close our account and go to another one.

But “data gravity” prevents us from simply exiting the cloud. As the amount of our data on the cloud grows, it pulls us deeper into the company’s convenient ecosystem. From there, it’s a spiral. The more data you have, the more convenient the cloud is and the harder it is to leave.Removing your data becomes a technical difficulty.

This data concentration on a few tech giants has given them more power than some countries have. They can change the terms of service and raise prices. We, the users, have nowhere else to go, because when it comes to handling digital data, there aren’t enough laws to protect us. We might think that we know how to use these tools, but we can only see the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how the companies use our data.

In December 2025, Time magazine named “Architects of AI” as the person of the year. If we want to keep using advanced tech in 2026, we need to look further than convenience. We need to find solutions that we believe in, to escape the spider web of data. By installing a home cloud — storage we control — we can take back the power from the companies and return to being the true owners of our data. We can take back our sovereignty over our own digital life.

Charedie Torah Leaders Quiet While One of Their Own The Stoliner Rebbe is Under Attack!

 

DIN: The article below I copied and pasted from Mazav.com! Know that they are a bunch of liars! 

They write at the end of the article:

"Across the chassidic world and beyond, strong condemnations were voiced over what many described as a severe affront to kavod haTorah."

This last two lines is a unfiltered unmitigated lie! I have not read in any Chardeie publication that anyone condemned this !

An extremist was detained after allegedly planning to spray pepper spray at the Stoliner Rebbe, according to sources on Monday, following a separate incident earlier in the day in which radical protesters publicly harassed the rebbe.

Journalist Yoeli Brim reported that a zealot was apprehended while carrying pepper spray that he intended to use against the Stoliner Rebbe. According to the report, police later released the suspect and did not confiscate the pepper spray.

Earlier in the morning, a group of extremists from the fringes of the chareidi community confronted and humiliated the Stoliner Rebbe as he arrived in the Gush Shemonim area to attend a bris for the son of one of his chassidim.

The protesters, who oppose the Rebbe’s involvement in efforts to arrange adapted military service frameworks for the chareidi public, lay in wait for him and vandalized his vehicle by throwing eggs, ketchup, and other objects at it.

The Rebbe himself was not harmed in the attack, though visible damage was caused to his car, as seen in the photo above obtained by Matzav.com.

Despite the incident, the Rebbe instructed his chassidim—consistent with his long-standing approach over decades—to remain silent and not respond in any way to the provocations.

Across the chassidic world and beyond, strong condemnations were voiced over what many described as a severe affront to kavod haTorah.

I am one of the 'idiots' who say Hallel on Yom Ha'atzmaut

 

DIN: Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the former Israel Chief Sefardi Rabbi, stated that people who recite Hallel on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) are idiots. Without going into this debate, I just want to point out that Rav Yosef is not the sharpest blade in the drawer and people shouldn't get all worked up about what he says! 

In Yiddish there is a great expression and its impossible to translate:

ער איז נישט א גרויסיר חכם אין נישט א קליינער נער

by Tzvi Fishman

I am an idiot. Why am I an idiot? Because I recite the Hallel prayer of thanksgiving on Israel Independence Day. Why does that make me an idiot? 

According to a report published in Israel National News, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef stated that people who recite Hallel on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) are idiots. (The correct translation is "are stupid," ed] The article reported remarks which Rabbi Yosef made concerning the aggressive opposition of the Israel Police toward haredim during protests against the drafting of yeshiva students.

At the end of his remarks against the police and the Israel Government, the former Israel Chief Sefardi Rabbi and a spiritual leader of the Shas Party criticized the practice of saying the Hallel prayer on Israel's Independence Day, saying, 

"We are in exile. How can you say Hallel on Independence Day? One of the Mizrachi people (i.e. Religious Zionists, ed.) told me he says Hallel on Independence Day. What is there to say Hallel on Independence Day for? For the beatings from the police? For the arrests? For the mixed swimming pools? For the mixed beaches? For the secular education? They tell me 'No, we have a country.' Idiots."

While it is not pleasant to be called stupid, I am in good company. 

Shin Bet Escorts Reporter Off Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Plane in Last-Minute Security Move

 

An unusual incident took place today (Tuesday) at the airport when Nick Kolyohin, an Israeli-Russian independent journalist, was removed from Prime Minister Netanyahu's flight, which was headed to Washington for a meeting with US President Donald Trump.

Kolyohin, who was part of the press delegation invited to visit the White House, was preparing to board the "Wing of Zion" plane but was detained and removed just minutes before takeoff.

The journalist, who immigrated to Israel as a child and served in the IDF, claims that the decision to remove him was made solely by security officials, and that he was not given any information about the reason for his removal from the plane, even though his participation had been previously approved.

The Prime Minister's Office stated: "The security authorities decided not to approve the journalist’s participation in the flight due to security considerations, but we cannot provide further details at this stage."

The Shin Bet stated: "According to its mandate and duties under the law, the service is responsible, among other things, for securing the Prime Minister. As part of this, decisions are made to minimize risks to the Prime Minister and the information surrounding him. Naturally, it is not possible to address the reasons behind individual decisions."

Ironically Carrie Boller whose Sex-tapes went viral is a White House Religion Committee Member now spews her Anti-Jewish Comments

This is too funny to be true, Carrie Prejean Boller, is sitting on a Religion Committee while her sex tapes are going viral. On top of all that she is a vicious antisemite!  

Carrie Prejean Boller, a member of the White House Religious Freedom Commission appointed by President Donald Trump, faced sharp criticism Tuseday after making controversial statements Monday about Jews and Israel during the panel’s first hearing.

During the discussion on antisemitism in the U.S., Boller said she believes “Jews killed Jesus” and added that, due to her Catholic faith, “she does not support Zionists.” She also asked panel participants, “Does my opposition to the State of Israel make me antisemitic, yes or no?” drawing boos from some attendees.

Boller confronted Jewish witnesses who shared experiences of antisemitism following the Hamas attack on October 7, questioning the definition of the term. She also defended right-wing commentator Candace Owens, who has previously made statements described as antisemitic.

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, the commission’s only Jewish member, responded that Boller’s statements misrepresented both Jewish and Catholic communities. Advocacy groups called for her removal, citing her social media posts accusing Israel of “deliberate starvation” and “murdering children” and criticizing Zionist Christians.

Meliora Raz, CEO of StopAntisemitism, said Boller’s rhetoric “constitute[s] a red line” and urged Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the commission’s chairman, to remove her.

 

Thank you all for the love and support I’ve received. I will continue to stand against Zionist supremacy in America. I’m a proud Catholic. I, in no way will be forced to embrace Zionism as a fulfillment of biblical prophesy. I am a free American. Not a slave to a foreign nation.

— Carrie Prejean Boller (@CarriePrejean1) February 10, 2026

 

Laura Loomer

@LauraLoomer

Nobody asked you to be a Zionist. They asked you to not use a religious hearing to harass every Jew on the panel as you said Israel doesn’t have a right to exist and showed up wearing a Palestinian flag. You want to be a victim so badly. What type of Catholic attacks

@MrsErikaKirk

and amplifies Candace’s lies that Erika was involved in her husband’s assassination? Stop using religion as a shield to be a horrible person.

Bored Charedi Leaders Ban Gender-Separated Concerts..What's Next?

 

DIN: Some of the recent decisions coming from Chareidi leadership circles are nothing short of outrageous. Banning a fully kosher, family‑friendly event makes no sense whatsoever. Why should I be prevented from sitting with my wife, my children, or my grandchildren and enjoying a concert together? Since when is a wholesome family outing considered a threat?

This isn’t about holiness — it’s about control. These leaders seem determined to micromanage every detail of people’s lives, as if the community can’t be trusted to make normal, healthy choices.

Instead of strengthening families, they impose restrictions that isolate them. Instead of building confidence in their own chinuch, they act as though the mere sight of men and women in the same public space will cause society to collapse.

It’s a worldview driven by fear, not faith — and it’s families who pay the price. These policies don’t protect the community; they suffocate it.

A major upheaval has shaken the charedi cultural world after the newspaper Yated Ne’eman published a rare and strongly worded letter signed by all leading Torah authorities of the Lithuanian charedi community. The letter launches a direct attack on the concert culture that has developed in recent years and lays out new, strict rules that are expected to dramatically reshape the events and music industry in the sector.

At the center of the declaration is the establishment of a new rabbinical oversight body called “Shira Kehilchata” (“Song According to Halacha”). At the instruction of the senior rabbinic leadership, Rabbi Shlomo Levenstein and Rabbi Aharon Vagshel were appointed to supervise public performances and enact regulations aimed at preserving standards of modesty.

The letter sets out several sweeping prohibitions, including:

• A total ban on performances intended for both men and women, even when full gender separation is maintained.
• A determination that such events constitute a serious breach of the sanctity of the Jewish people.
• A prohibition on male singers performing before women in any setting.
• A limited exception only for events held inside synagogues under strict supervision.

The practical implications of the directive are unprecedented. Singers, producers and artists are required to sign formal commitments to comply with the rules set by the committee. Those who refuse to comply will face an official boycott: the letter calls on the public not to invite them to perform, not to accord them honor, and prohibits production offices from representing artists who are not subject to the committee’s authority.

The move follows escalating tensions during last Hanukkah between concert promoters and rabbinic leadership, which led to the cancellation of several large-scale performances that rattled the industry.

One such case involved a planned concert by singer Naftali Kempeh at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center. After tickets were sold to a mixed audience with gender separation, strong opposition emerged. Efforts to convert the event into a men-only performance failed due to legal concerns and fears of gender discrimination, and the concert was ultimately canceled.

Days later, another major concert by singer Shmulik Sukkot at an arena venue was canceled after thousands of tickets had already been sold. The cancellation followed a direct ruling by Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, who stated that the very concept of a mass event intended for men and women together contradicts the values of the Torah-observant public.

The force of the current letter lies in the breadth of its signatories, representing all major streams within the Lithuanian Torah world. Among them are leadingrosh yeshivas Rabbis Dov Landau, Moshe Hillel Hirsch, Berel Dov Povarsky, Meir Tzvi Bergman, Yitzhak Zilberstein and Yaakov Ades.

Their unified stance sends a clear message that this is not a localized or temporary struggle but an official, long-term policy. The goal is to establish a form of “kashrut supervision” over the music world, similar to food certification, ensuring that every musical event in the Haredi sector is vetted by the Shira Kehilchata committee.

The letter appears to mark the end of the era of mixed large-scale concerts in the charedi community and forces artists to choose whether to align with the new framework or face exclusion.

OTD Chassidim singing "Ka Echsof" on Friday Night!

 Please note that not one of these attendees ever went to the IDF! 

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