DA Hynes cry "fowl" over campaign ad

'It’s time to beat kaporos,' says this ad depicting Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes and written in Hebrew, referring to a Yom Kippur ritual that involves slaughtering chickens.

The race for Brooklyn district attorney has turned into a zoo.

An ad depicting longtime DA Charles Hynes as a chicken set to be slaughtered before Yom Kippur has appeared online.

The ad states, in Hebrew, “It’s time to beat kaporos.”

Kaporos is an 800-year-old ritual in which Orthodox Jews wave a live chicken over their heads before Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. In symbolic exchange for their sins, the chicken is later slaughtered.

A Hynes supporter, City Councilman David Greenfield (D-Flatbush), called the message “appalling.” Greenfield said the ad implies Hynes’ challenger Ken Thompson “wants to see Joe Hynes killed in the ritual tradition of slaughtering chickens.”

James Freedland, a spokesman for the Thompson campaign, said the ad was not “sanctioned” or generated by its staff.

UMAN FLYERS CAUSE CHILLUL HASHEM, RIOT ON PLANE BECAUSE OF DELAY

Several Hasidic Jews on a plane slated to take off for Ukraine were arrested after a riot broke out while the plane was on the tarmac Tuesday morning.

The unrest was sparked after the plane, one of dozens filled with religious pilgrims heading to Uman, Ukraine, for Rosh Hashanah celebrations, was delayed. The plane’s captain was forced to call police after excessive disturbances by the passengers.

Some passengers damaged the emergency oxygen systems on the plane, Israel Radio reported.

Thousands of pilgrims head from Israel to Uman each year to be at the burial site of Rav Nachman of Breslov, the 19th century founder of the Hasidic dynasty, during the celebrations of the Jewish new year.

At the airport earlier in the morning, in a separate incident, police and immigration authorities arrested some 50 people headed for Uman. Among those arrested were fugitives, people wanted for questioning and passport forgers.

It was unclear if all those arrested were actually followers of the Breslov sect or whether they had merely hoped to use the mayhem and abundance of people dressed the same way at Ben Gurion Airport as cover for their getaway.

Convicted Rapist "Rebbe" moving to Monsey

Shomer Amunim Rabbi, Yaakov Yitzchok Roth, who was convicted of raping his young nieces and sat 12 years in an Israeli prison, plans to move to Monsey and open a Shteeble.

According to B'chadrei Chadorim.

What the Dying Want Us to Know About Living

by guest writer:Alexandra Rosas 

Twenty-five years ago, I held my grandmother's hand as she passed away. Two and half weeks ago, it was my mother's hand that I held as she left our world. I was there for the last days of life with both my mother and grandmother, and in our time together, they spoke of things with a sadness and urgency that they never had before. 

 There’s an old photo I have of my mother, which I’ve always loved. In it, she’s a young, sharply dressed working woman in South America, and you can feel the determination in her stride. 

I showed her this photo just a few weeks ago, and you could've heard the pride in my voice as I asked if she remembered where she was going on the day it was taken. "I have always hated that picture," she said, which startled me. "I was always in a hurry. Hurrying. Always. For what?" She took a deep breath, and gently said it one more time, "Always in a hurry ...." 

What left me astonished and teary-eyed was not the surprise of her hating the picture, but that these words were exactly the ones my grandmother had spoken to me on the morning of her own passing. I had been sitting vigil at her bedside and she was growing weaker with each day in the hospital. Stroking her hand, I spoke softly to her, "Abuela. Abuela, do you hear me? Remember when you would take us to the grocery store across the street from our house at the start of every summer, and you began our first day of vacation with a popsicle?" 

 What the dying want us to do — and wish for us to know — is to regard our lives as precious moments making up our days. They want us to focus less on the big picture of building a large body of evidence that proves our accomplishments, and more on the true wonders in our life — the kind where we find unexpected beauty that will be remembered with a wistful smile. Like walking with your child alongside you, going somewhere without purpose. Or waiting patiently while five- and six-year-old children choose, change their minds, choose, and then change their minds again, about the root-beer-flavored or the banana-flavored popsicles. 

 My mother and grandmother were telling me loud and clear that as we live our lives, we have to stop running and chasing what we think leads to happiness, and slow down before we rush past the very thing we'll wish we had more of at the very last hours of our days. It's not too late to make sweet memories of children or grandchildren skipping alongside us, of us just being and not doing, of grateful children looking up to us smiling with orange-stained mouths, yelling excitedly, "Thank you for waiting for me until I picked my flavor, Grandma! I didn't know if I wanted the green or the orange!" After hearing these words — not once, but twice — from loved ones who know everything they are about to leave behind, I know this is something I'll be working on to change. And I'm forever grateful for the second chance.

Gas Masks in Israel "are for Purim," R' Chaim Kanievsky

Kikar reports when asked if one should get on line for a gas mask in light of the imminent attack on Syria, Rav Chaim is quoted saying “gas masks, they are for Purim!”
The Gadol Hador is quoted instructed avreichim to continue their limud Torah and not to concern themselves with the ongoing events.

Having children in Israel, I can now say that I feel much better!

Taubenfeld from New Square walks after sexually abusing teenagers in New Square

Gerer Chusid, Yisroel Greenhouse leaves Yiddishkeit with his children!

Yisroel Greenhouse and his kids

I will translate letter later on in the week, when I'll have more time!

 בריוו פון עקיבא וויינגארטן.

איך קען דעם ישראל שוין אסאך יארן, מיר האבן געארבעט צוזאמען אלס משגיחיםרוחניים אין איינע פון די ישיבות פאר בחורים וואס פאלן אוועק. מיר האבן ביידע איבערגעלאזט די ארבעט אין די זעלבע צייט. איך צוליב צו ווייניג געהאלט, און ער וועגן זיין אמונה. ער האט געהאלטן אז ס'איז נישט מאראליש אויסגעהאלטן פאר אים עוסק צו זיין אין עפעס וואס ער גלייבט נישט דערין.

איך שטרייך נאר אונטער דעם פרט, כדי מ'זאל וויסן פון וועמען ס'האנדלט זיך. ער איז נישט קיין כוליגאן, ער איז נישט קיין בעל תאווה'ניק, און ער איז אויך נישט גלייך צו קיינעם פון די וואס האבן געמאכט א ענליכע שריט. (און ס'איז מיר אויסגעקומען צו באקענען אסאך אזעלכע) ווייניג אין זיין עלטער קענען זיך פארמעסטן מיט זיין בקיאות נפלא און אויסערגעווענליכע וויסענשאפט אין יעדן תחום. ס'רעדט זיך דא פון א תלמוד חכם עצום אין יעדן הינזיכט. ס'איז כמעט נישט דא קיין פעלד אין וועלכע ער האט נישט קיין באקאנטשאפט.

אין די לעצטע פאר יאר האט ער זיך מתפרנס געווען פון פירן טוריסטן, נאכוואס ער האט געארבעט ביי עטליכע פלעצער. אבער זיין דעגרי אין סייקא-טערעפי האט ער גענצליך איבערגעלאזט כאטש ער וואלט שיין געקענט מאכן א לעבן דערפון. איך האב אים אמאל געפרעגט פארוואס, האט ער מיר מסביר געווען אז ער האלט ס'איז א פראבלעם פון 'אויספאפן' ווייל ער ווייסט פארוואס די עלטערן צאלן אים, צו ארבעטן מיט די בחורים, אבער וויבאלד ער אליין גלייבט נישט דערין, קען ער נישט ארבעטן דערמיט.

קעגן מיין מורא'דיגע שעצע וואס איך שפיר צו ישראל, פיהל איך דאס פארקערטע "א נידערטרעכטיגקייט" קעגן אזעלכע פארשוינען וואס זאגן אז די 'מיליטער' האט אים קאליע געמאכט. ישראל'ן קען קיינער נישט 'קאליע' מאכן. און זיכער נישט מיט ביליגע דעמאגאגיע און שפעטערייען. ער איז זייער א טיפע מענטש וואס לאזט נישט דורך קיין זאך ביזן דערגיין די טיפקייט דערפון.

מיין טייער ידיד איז אריבער א שווערע לאנגע אדורכגאנג, איך געדענק גוט אלע זיינע מצבים, און ס'איז נישט געווען קיינער וואס האט אזוי שווער אנגענומען ווי מיר, ווען ער האט אנגעהויבן פארלירן זיין אמונה. סתם איינער וועט עס קיינמאל נישט פארשטיין. ער איז געווען א זיידענע אינגערמאנטשיק וואס איז געזיצן און געלערנט תורה יומם ולילה. אויף אים קען מען זאגן אז ער איז ווי די אמאליגע משכילים במלוא מובן המילה צו גוטן און צו שלעכטן. אבער צוזאגן אז דאס איז א באשלוס וואס ער האט געמאכט איבערנאכט איז פשוט נישט אמת.

ס'טוט מיר זייער וויי אז ער האט גענומען דעם שריט, און אנדערש ווי יעדעם ווייס איך כאטשיג ביי מיר אז ער האט עס געמאכט מיטן פוהלן באוואוסטזיין,און רוהיגע געוויסן, אז דאס איז די ריכטיגע שריט צוטוהן. און כאטש איך בין נישט איינשטימיג דערמיט, און ער ווייסט דאס, קען איך מיר אבער נישט פארהוילן פונעם פאקט, אז נישט "לייכטזיניגקייט" אדער "גאווה" און זיכער נישט א "רצון צו תאוות" האבן אים פארדארבן.
ער איז אן אדורכגעטראכטע מענטש, וואס האט גוט גענומען אין באטראכט אלע אספעקטן פאר'ן טוהן וואס ער האט געטאן, און גענומען אין חשבון די פערזענליכע פרייז וואס ער וועט דארפן באצאלן דערפאר.

מ'פרובירט יעצט צו שיקן אלע סארט עסקנים רעדן צו אים, כאילו ער האט עס נישט 'אליין' געטוהן ביז היינט. ער איז געגאנגען איבעראל וואו ער האט נאר געהערט אז עמיצער קען אים העלפן. אפגעזיצן ביי אויסגערופענע רבנים און דיינים כדי נאכצופארשן און דערגיין דעם אמת. אלזא אויב טראכט עמיצער אז עפעס א "שמועס" פון א קליינטשיג עסקנ'ל וואס האט נישט געעפנט קיין ספר אין לעבן וועט אים עטוואס טוישן במשהו, מאכט יענער א גרויסן טעות. אבער ישראל ווי א וואויל קינד ,גייט און הערט אויס, און איז מכבד, און רעדט נאך, מיט יעדער - וואס מען איז אים מציע צו רעדן.

ווער ס'האט אפגעמאכט צו פארשפרייטן די מעשה ברבים האט געטוהן א גרויסע שטות און א רשעות אינאיינעם. די זאכן וועלן אויף קיין רגע נישט טוישן אדער דערשרעקן ישראל. פארגאנגענע וואך ווען אונז האבן גערעדט, האט ער גאנץ גוט פאראויסגעזען וואס ס'וועט פאסירן און וואס ס'קען ארויסקומען פון דעם. ער גלייבט נאך אלץ אז וואס ער האט געטוהן איז א ריכטיגע החלטה געווען. ער איז דאס מסביר שיינערהייט מיט א אנגענעמע שפראך, ווער עס וויל זיך אראפזעצן מיט אים קען זיך דאס אליינס איבערצייגן.

יעדנספאל, וואלט איך נישט געראטן די קליינטשיגע עסקנים'לעך צו פרובן משפיע זיין אויף אים, ווייל ער וועט זיי "אויפעסן פאר פרישטאג". און כ'האב מורא אז ער וועט מצליח זיין זיי צו פארדארבן מער וויפיל זיי וועלן מצליח זיין אים צוריקצוברענגען. נישט אז ער האט א אינטערעסע מיטצושלעפן אנדערע, אבער אויב וועט מען אריינגיין מיט אים אין א ערנסטע שמועס, איז קלאר אז דאס וועט פאסירן.

די דאזיגע שורות שרייב איך מיט א שטארקע צער און ווייטאג. וואס ס'באדערט מיך די מערסטע נאך איז אז מ'פארגיסט אומשולדיג בלוט פון אזא גוטע חבר מיינער, און מ'איז אזוי מזלזל אין מענטשנ'ס אינטעליגענץ. נאך א מזל אז מ'האט וועם צו באשולדיגן... "די מיליטער"! א שאד אז מ'האט נישט צוגעלייגט אויך דער פאקט אז אז ער האט נישט קיין כשר'ע טעלעפאן, אפענע אינטערנעט, און ער גייט מיט א בלויע העמד.

צום שלוס, צו אלע וואס מיינען אז זיין בלוט איז הפקר. טראכט'ס גוט אריין אויב וואס איר רעדט און טייפט איז דער רצון השם. און אויב נישט, זאלט איר אייך בעסער אנפוהלן א מויל מיט וואסער, און דאס איבריגע אויסשפייען אויפ'ן קיבאורד. ווייל גלייבט'ס מיר, איר האט נישט קיין בלאסן אהנונג איבער וואס ס'רעדט זיך דא..!

Ten Year Old Aaron Tepfer killed in boating accident

A ten year old boy whose leg came in contact with a boat’s propeller while swimming in the waters of Reynolds Channel in Lawrence lost his fight for life over Shabbos. Aaron Tepfer, the son of Tully and Rochel Tepfer, was swimming in the waters off Cedarhurst Yacht Club, three miles from his Cedarhurst home, when the incident occurred at approximately 2:20 PM on Friday afternoon.

 According to reports on Newsday, Tepfer had gone tubing with four friends. The tubes were being towed by the boat, a 27 foot Sea Ray Sundeck, when Tepfer fell into the water. The boy swam toward the boat, which was stopped in the water, but his leg came into contact with the propeller as he attempted to re-board the boat. After being informed of the accident by his own son, the boat’s operator kept Tepfer’s head above water, by grabbing onto his life jacket, keeping the boy from being dragged under water until help arrived.

 ABC News is reporting that five different agencies were involved in the rescue attempt, including paramedics on boats and jet skis, who worked together to extricate Tepfer’s leg from the propeller. Tepfer, who suffered serious blood loss, was stabilized at the scene and was transported to the foot of the Atlantic Beach Bridge, before being rushed to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. Despite earlier optimistic reports in the local media, Tepfer, who was about to enter sixth grade, passed away on Shabbos

. The levaya will take place at 10 AM this morning at Yeshiva Darchei Torah where Aaron was a student and his mother is a 5th grade teacher.
We regret to inform you of the petira of our talmid Aron Sholom Tepfer A"H. The levaya will be held, Sunday, at 10 am in the Diamond Bais Medrash, 257 Beach 17 Street .

 Shiva will be in the Tepfer home, 376 Rugby Road, Cedarhurst, NY. Shacharis 7:30 am Mincha/Maariv 7:20pm The family requests that no visitors come after 10pm.

 Mrs. Zahava Farbman, LMSW, Associate Director of Chai Lifeline's Crisis Intervention, Trauma and Bereavement Department will present to parents on helping our children cope with this tragedy. It is open to all parents who would like to come, at 9:00 pm in the Diamond Bais Medrash. Israel call in number +972(0)76-599-0060 US call in number +1 424-203-8405 177249# Participant Access Code — at Yeshiva Darchei Torah.

2,700 year old pottery is inscribed with the name of the father of the Novie Yachaziel!

Archaeologists working in Jerusalem have discovered what they say is a 2,700 year-old pottery fragment with an ancient Hebrew inscription possibly containing the name of a Biblical figure.

The fragment, discovered just outside the capital’s Old City at the City of David site, in what is now the Arab village of Silwan, was likely part of a large ceramic bowl dating from between the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said Sunday.

The text fragment on the shard, roughly transliterated without vowels into English characters as “ryhu bn bnh,” is similar to the name of Zechariah son of Benaiah, the father of the prophet Jachaziel, whose name appears in 2 Chronicles 20:14 when Jahaziel spoke prophecy to King Jehoshaphat before the king went off to war.

“While not complete, the inscription presents us with the name of a seventh century BCE figure, which resembles other names known to us from both the Biblical and archaeological record… and provides us with a connection to the people living in Jerusalem at the end of the First Temple period,” the statement said.

The City of David, while today located outside the southern walls of the Old City, is understood by archaeologists to be the site of the ancient city of Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible.

Fragments of oil lamps, stamped handles and female figurines dating from the end of the First Temple period discovered at the City of David site. (photo credit: courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)

The bowl fragment, along with a number of other small artifacts dating from the same period, was discovered by archaeologists Joe Uziel and Nahshon Zanton during an investigation of remains associated with the destruction of the First Temple, which occurred in 587 BCE at the hand of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.

Uziel and Zanton said that the letters inscribed on the bowl shard likely date from “sometime between the reign of Hezekiah and the destruction of Jerusalem under King Zedekiah.” Based on their analysis, they noted, the inscription “was engraved on the bowl prior to firing, indicating that the inscription originally adorned the rim of the bowl in its entirety, and was not written on a shard after the vessel was broken.”

The bowl possibly contained an offering, given by the person whose name was inscribed on the vessel, they said.

Terrorists ‘aim to hit Israeli, Jewish targets worldwide’ in coming weeks

Israeli and Jewish targets all over the world are likely to be sought out by terrorist organizations in the coming weeks, the Israeli government’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned in strikingly strident tones on Monday, 

Listing dozens of countries where it said it had “concrete” indications of a terrorist threat. 
It cited concerns about terrorist acts timed to coincide with the forthcoming Rosh Hashana (New Year), Yom Kippur and Succot festivals, and also said that the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US was likely to be “a favored period” for al-Qaeda and other global jihadist groups to attempt to carry out acts of terrorism Iran and Hezbollah, it warned, were continuing their “global terror campaign” against Israeli and Jewish targets.

 It noted that Iran remained bent on avenging alleged Israeli responsibility for the killing of Hezbollah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh in a Damascus car-bombing in 2008, and the deaths of three Iranian nuclear scientists. 

It said its information indicated that Israeli businessmen and ex-government officials were prime potential targets for assassination and/or kidnapping. With all that in mind, the bureau reconfirmed that Israelis are barred altogether from travel to Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, where the “concrete” terror threat was “very high.” 
In addition, it ordered Israelis not to travel to Sudan, Somalia, Algeria, Djibouti, Mauritania, Libya and Tunisia, and to leave these countries immediately if they were there, because of a similarly “very high” terror threat. Where Tunisia was concerned, it underlined what it said were the “threats to carry out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets.” 

The unusually shrill and widespread alert included an order to Israelis not to travel to the Sinai Peninsula, because of the chaotic situation in Egypt. The Sinai’s Red Sea resorts are a traditionally popular holiday destination for Israelis, especially at this time of year. 
The advisory noted that Sinai was off limits not only because of the general Egyptian disorder and a series of recent attacks in the Sinai, however, but also because of “information on the intention to carry out further attacks.” 

Using only slightly less urgent language, the bureau, part of the National Security Council under the authority of the Prime Minister’s Office, ordered Israelis to “avoid visiting” the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt and Qatar, where it cited what it called a “basic” terrorist threat. 

Israel maintains peace agreements with both Jordan and Egypt, and the warning underlines what the bureau called “the complex security realities” in nations adjacent to Israel.The advisory also specified a “high” terror threat in Indonesia, Burkina-Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo, Mali, Malaysia and Pakistan, telling Israelis not to go there and urging them to leave as soon as possible if they were there now. 

The bureau’s warning also specified concerns about terror threats to Israeli “business targets” worldwide, and especially in Africa, “in the wake of the exposure of a terrorist infrastructure in Nigeria over the past year.” 
Generally, it urged Israelis traveling worldwide to take extra precautions, such as avoiding unexpected meetings or out of the way places, and to change regular travel routes The bureau also told Israelis to postpone nonessential visits to Turkey, Oman and Morocco, because of “ongoing potential threats.” Slightly further afield, it cited “very high” terror threats in Afghanistan, parts of southern Thailand, parts of the southern Philippines, east Senegal, India’s Kashmir province, northern Nigeria, parts of Kenya, and Chechnya. Israel were not to travel to any of those areas, and to leave immediately if they were there, it ordered.