Bunch of Moslems singing "Habein Yakir"

Frum Jews posting signs on the door warning Schnorrers to stay away, because the house has "Internet"

Famous Actress defies the Israel Boycott and continues to model for Israeli product

One of the most famous actresses in America has the PC crowd in a swivet. Scarlett Johansson, you see, is shooting a Super Bowl ad for SodaStream.

Huh?

As it turns out, SodaStream, the Israel-based booming “make your own soda at home” firm, has a plant in the Jerusalem suburb of Maale Edumim — which is on the “wrong” side of the 1949 ceasefire line.

That “green line” lasted for all of 18 years, until the 1967 Six Day War, and every proposed map for Israeli-Palestinian agreement has Maale Edumim on the Israeli side — but Johansson’s critics don’t care.

The global blame-Israel lobby long ago elevated that line to an almost holy status of “border”; anything Israeli beyond it is really, really bad.

Including SodaStream.

Enter the Boycott, Divest and Sanction crowd. BDS, as it’s known, calls for shunning Israel for all of its perceived sins — and knows it gets its best results when it asks for boycotts of “settlements.”

So Johansson, by agreeing to be SodaStream’s “first global brand ambassador,” became a BDS boogie woman.

The talented actress, mind you, has hinted she may launch a political career. In addition to being named (again) as “Esquire’s Sexy Woman Alive,” she’s an Obama supporter and a perfectly kosher lefty (who, incidentally, was born Jewish).

But instead of answering BDS jeers, she simply said she loves the brand and has used it for years, and that SodaStream’s “commitment to a healthier body and a healthier planet is a perfect fit for me.”

She could also add that Soda­Stream’s plant in Maale Edumim, one of three in Israel, employs 1,100 workers — mostly West Bank Palestinians, under the same conditions and salaries as Jewish workers. A fourth plant, in southern Israel, will hire mostly Bedouin Arabs, now suffering from high unemployment.

In other words, SodaStream boasts many corporate values admired by the politically correct crowd. But not for Hollywood’s anti-Israelis.

Ever since Vanessa Redgrave famously dedicated her 1977 Oscar acceptance speech to the plight of Palestinians, many entertainers have made a point of singling out the Jewish state for rebuke while ignoring abuses anywhere else.

Stars like Elvis Costello, Annie Lennox and Stevie Wonder canceled shows in Israel. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has dedicated his recent life and concerts to bashing Israel, complete with anti-Semitic rants.

Emma Thompson and several other actors recently signed a letter opposing the participation of Israel’s national theater, Habimah, in a British Shakespeare festival (though they evidently have no problem with a Chinese company performing “Richard III.”)

It’s not all bad: Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber and Neil Young will play Tel Aviv this summer. And Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Madonna and Bob Dylan have in the past ignored the BDS crowd. (Dylan’s 1983 “Neighborhood Bully” is a perfect sendoff to Israel’s phony critics.)

But consider: In the 1970s, many in Hollywood were rightly puzzled by Redgrave’s admiration for plane hijackers, some quietly wondering whether her outburst wasn’t informed by old-fashioned British anti-Semitism. Today, her take is gradually becoming mainstream in Tinseltown.

Yes, Hollywood was founded by Jews. But it also cherished some particularly odious anti-Semites like Walt Disney (whose Nazi sympathies were airbrushed from Tom Hanks’ recent biopic).

Anyway, the hard Hollywood left is happy to boycott anything having to do with the Jewish state — including Israeli theater companies that systematically bash their government’s policies.

Others are torn, saying they support Israel in principle, but oppose “occupation.” So they’ll boycott anything labeled “settlements.”

In Hollywood, where misguided radical chic hasn’t cost anyone a juicy movie part in half a century, ignoring the anti-Israel catcalls is no easy thing these days. Sticking by SodaStream in such an environment is admirable.

Scarlett Johansson, it turns out, is much more than a pretty face. Her casual dismissal of the BDS crowd is downright sexy.

Boro Park Parents freaking out because of Children Being Stalked! Video

 

Stalker 

Parents in Brooklyn were on alert Friday evening, as police investigated the motives of a man who has been seen following school buses and taking pictures of young children.

“It’s very scary,” said Chaim Krakauer, “very scary.”Krakauer is just one of the parents on alert here.

For more than a week, the suspicious man has been seen following school buses and taking pictures of students leaving their Yeshiva. Parents have been fearful because they don’t know who the man is.

 Krakauer said parents should “keep an eye on (their children) and make sure whoever goes around them should be safe.”

The man’s actions worried one parent so much that he snapped the photos and even recorded a video of him. And after video of the man surfaced, other parents in the area came forward, saying that they have also seen the man outside a synagogue.

“Our school has, I’m sure they have precautions in place and we hope and pray to God that our kids to get to school and come home safe,” said parent Chanie Schwartz.

State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) met with concerned parents Friday morning.“We don’t know who this guy is. We don’t know what his intentions are,” Hikind said. “But following kids around and taking pictures of them is not a healthy situation.”

As of Friday, police said they are not sure if the man has committed a crime, but did confirm they are looking into what his motives could be.“You never know,” Hikind said, “and I don’t want to wake up to some horrible thing happening, saying we should’ve done more. We’ve got to do whatever is humanly possible to get this guy away from these kids.”The concerned parent who snapped the photo of the man also got his license plate number, which was turned over to investigators.
As CBS 2′s Don Champion reported, one parent caught the man on tape.
A photo shows the man climbing into the driver’s seat of a van. It may look innocent, but it has been raising eyebrows in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn.

Chassan cuts his foot breaking a glass under the Chuppah

Its time to use light bulbs, this glass business has caused many chassanim to cut themselves, forcing guests to call Hatzalah!
All Rabbonim who are Mesader Kiddushin  should insist on a light bulb!

A groom missed part of his own wedding after cutting his foot while breaking the glass cup during the chuppah ceremony, according to a new lawsuit filed in an Israeli court.

According to the lawsuit, the wedding guests were shocked to hear people shouting "medic, medic" instead of Mazel Tov.

The groom filed his lawsuit against the owners of a wedding hall with the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court last week, after the glass of the broken cup cut through his leather shoes and slashed his foot.

Following the injury, the groom underwent medical treatment and missed several hours of his own wedding.

The groom is demanding compensation for punitive damages and emotional distress.

He is also demanding compensation because he was unable to work for several days.

"The wedding hall failed to provide a suitable glass cup for the chuppah ceremony," the lawsuit states.

39 year old daughter of the Shomrei Emunim Rabbi dies in New York

The daughter of the Rabbi of the  Shomrei Emunim Bnei Brak, is dead after suffering from cancer, according to hospital officials in New York.

Sarah Goldstein, 39, the daughter of Rabbi Rafael Aharon Roth, died while receiving treatment for cancer in the U.S.

Goldstein was diagnosed with cancer last year. She left Israel for the U.S., in order to receive better treatment.

She was born in 1975, in Israel. She married to her husband, Rabbi Pinchas Baruch Goldstein, who is the son of the grand rabbi of Skulya in the U.S.

She left behind her husband and her four children. Her youngest child is 2-years-old.

Her funeral was held in Jerusalem, and she was buried on the Mount of Olives.

20 year old grand daughter of Viznitzer Rebbe dies of Heart Attack

Chassidim  of the Viznitzer Rebbe  are in shock after the rabbi’s 20-year-old granddaughter suddenly died of a heart attack, according to hospital reports in New York.

Fradel Twerski died on Friday night, after suffering from a massive heart attack.

Twersky left behind her husband, Rabbi Meshulam Zusia Twerski, who is the grandson of the grand rabbis of Viznitz, Skver, and Rachmistrivka.

Fradel Twersky was born was born in 1994, to her father, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Goldman, also known as Barry Goldman, of Monsey, New York, who is the director of Skver in New Square, New York,

She married her husband just two years ago.

Two months ago, she gave birth to her daughter.

The funeral was held in Monsey, New York, at the main Synagogue of Viznitz.

Moshe Taubenfeld arrested for sexual abuse, walks...

The 55-year-old brother of a convicted sex offender from New Square was arrested Friday on accusations he molested a young boy repeatedly over five years, police said.

The chances of him ever being convicted and jailed are ZERO, since the case will be heard in New Square "Justice" Court!

Moshe Menachem Taubenfeld, 55, an educator like his younger brother Herschel, and the father of 20 children, was charged with a felony for alleged sexual abuse starting Sept. 11, 2001, when the preteen boy came to him seeking comfort after the terrorist attacks.

“I went to his house and he told me ‘I’ll give you love, I care about you,’ ” the alleged victim, Laiby, recalled Friday to The Journal News. 
He said Taubenfeld, a family friend, molested him that day and dozens of other times until he turned 13 in 2006. “I was scared and I trusted him completely, unfortunately. I was a naive child and didn’t know what he was doing was wrong.”

Laiby said he and his family reported the alleged abuse about six years ago to New Square’s Grand Rabbi David Twersky and other community leaders, who discouraged him from going to police.

“My mother, my brother and I told him (Rabbi Twersky) what was happening to me,” said Laiby, who asked that his last name not be used. “He let him (Taubenfeld) walk free.”

Rabbi Twersky has not responded to requests for comment.

Laiby’s alleged problems were similar to those of other New Square abuse victims, including a young man, Yossi, who reported Taubenfeld’s brother to police in 2011. Yossi was profiled earlier this month by The Journal News.

Laiby, who is 20, went to police in July.
“The community protected him,” Laiby said. “Since New Square did not want to deal with this, I went to police. I need to feel a closure.”

Taubenfeld, also known as Mendel Zarkowsky, was charged with second-degree course of sexual conduct against a child.
“The guy was hard to track down because he had two different names,” Ramapo Detective Lt. Mark Emma Emma said.

Taubenfeld was released on $25,000 bail Friday for an appearance scheduled for Jan. 27 in New Square Village Court.

Defense attorney Gerard Damiani said Taubenfeld denies the charges.
Damiani said the police complaint should be dismissed because it said Detective Peg Braddock had personal knowledge of the accusations. Damiani said the detective was not a witness and the charges came from the accuser.

Taubenfeld faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.
“It’s a step closer to getting justice,” Laiby said of the arrest. “I’m hoping this pervert who did this to me will get his time in prison.”

Moshe Taubenfeld’s brother Herschel Taubenfeld avoided jail last year when he admitted to sexually molesting Yossi.
Herschel Taubenfeld pleaded guilty to one count of forcible touching, received six years probation and had to register as a sex offender.

Yossi publicly criticized the non-jail sentence. He and another alleged victim, Yehuda, and their advocates have accused the New Square leadership of looking the other way when it comes to sexual abuse.
They argue that New Square and other Hasidic Jewish communities have created a culture where sex abuse rarely gets reported. Those who report abuse are ostracized, they say.

The Taubenfelds are the second pair of Ramapo brothers accused of sexually abusing children. Monsey residents Shmuel Dym, 34, and his younger brother Betzalel Dym are both registered as Level 2 sex offenders.

Dr. Alan Tuckman, Rockland’s former forensic psychiatrist, said having siblings involved in sex abuse is rare, but could result from abusive upbringings.
“If they were sexually abused or demeaned as children there is a higher likelihood they would become sexual abusers,” Tuckman said, but added, “The overwhelming majority of children sexually abused do not become sex offenders.”

CNN a bunch of liars! Reports of second Christe Scandel, NOT TRUE!

On Monday, CNN flooded the airwaves with reports of a second scandal threatening to engulf New Jersey’s Chris Christie, claiming the Republican governor is under federal investigation after evidence surfaced that Hurricane Sandy relief funds were used to purchase a self-promoting advertisement campaign. But according to the federal government, that’s simply not true — and CNN has yet to issue a meaningful correction or retraction.

The story first broke early Monday morning. “CNN has learned exclusively that a federal investigation will be launched into why money meant for Hurricane Sandy relief was used in a marketing campaign involving Christie’s family,” anchor Kate Bolduan began, before punting it off to CNN’s new investigative reporter, Chris Frates.

Frates alleged that the Christie administration improperly spent $25 million in federal Hurricane Sandy relief funds on a 2013 advertisement campaign to promote tourism in the wake of the storm — even going so far as to spend $2.2 million more on one ad because the agency agreed to feature Christie and his family.

The network pushed the story hard, revisiting the report in at least fourteen separate segments on Monday alone. 

But on Tuesday, HUD’s inspector general issued a rare press release directly contradicting CNN’s story.

“The Department granted a waiver to allow the State to use $25 million of its award on a marketing campaign to promote the Jersey Shore and encourage tourism,” the release read. “An audit was initiated in September 2013 to examine whether the State administered its Tourism Marketing Program in accordance with applicable departmental and Federal requirements. This is an audit and not an investigation of the procurement process.” The statement adds that audits of federal expenditures “are something that this office does routinely.”

That means there was never any “initial review of Sandy relief spending,” no “evidence” yet dug up suggesting wrongdoing, and certainly no “full-scale investigation” — a word the federal government uses only to define a probe by law enforcement. Instead, the inspector general’s release suggests a routine accounting review, the likes of which are pursued dozens of times each year by any agency doling out large grants.

So how did CNN respond to these new revelations? The television reports mostly dried up, while a few sentences added to Chris Frates’ written report Tuesday noted that the inspector general released a statement calling the probe an audit, not an investigation.

But the “update” failed to note that the audit is part of a routine inspector general process, that the $25 million diversion for advertising was approved by HUD or that CNN was wrong in its initial claim that the federal government was pursuing a law enforcement investigation against Christie. And on Wednesday Frates pushed boldly onward, writing that the ad agency rejected by Christie was asked if they would feel “comfortable” featuring the governor in their ads and that — unsurprisingly for a New Jersey state initiative– the committee evaluating the ad proposals was made up entirely of Christie officials.

Viznitzer Rebbe bans listening to the News even by phone?

 The Viznitzer Rebbe has banned listening to the news on phones, according to a report in the Haredi World.

The rabbi delivered his new ruling during a Tu Bishvat seuda held on Thursday. Thousands of the rabbi’s followers attended the event. Tu Bishvat is the Jewish new year for trees.

The rabbi attacked those who report the news on phone lines, and ordered his people not to call and listen to them.

"If your life and the lives of your children are dear to you, do not listen to the news,” the rabbi said.

This was not the first strict ruling issued by the Viznitz grand rabbi.

 The Viznitzer  rabbi told a group of followers that those men who wear watches, should also wear earrings because they look like women.

During a recent speech for yeshiva students, the rabbi said that his followers need to fight modernization because it destroys everything that is holy.

He told his yeshiva students to wear only old-fashioned plastic eyeglasses. He also said that he recently saw a yeshiva student wearing a watch and he told him to remove it.

"Those men who wear wristwatches should wear earrings as well because they look like women," the rabbi said.