Chasidishe Bochur dies drowning in mikva on Shevuois in Uman

 A Chasidishe Bochur  is dead after drowning in a lake while celebrating the Shavuot holiday in Uman, Ukraine, rescue workers in Ukraine said.

23-year-old Shlomo Zalman Kozlowski of Bnei Brak, Israel, drowned in the lake while immersing himself as part of a holy ritual.

Kozlowski went to Uman in order to celebrate the holiday of Shavuot at the grave site of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. After entering the lake his friends realized that Kozlowski lost his consciousness.

They pulled him out and alerted local rescue workers. Kozlowski was transferred to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The victim’s father was identified as Rabbi Shraga Feivel Kozlowski, a member of the Gur Hasidic sect. This was not the first time that a yeshiva student drowned in Uman.

Last year, 19-year-old Eliyahu Al of Netanya, Israel, drowned after immersing himself in the lake. Al died after suffering of hypothermia as the water of the lake was extremely cold.

חג שבועות שמח

In Monroe, "all children born from a marriage not officiated by the the Monroe Rav, are Mamzeirim!

Its official, folks, Satmar has totally separated from the Jewish Religion!
 They have their own religion with vague similarities to Judaism.
In this poster Satmar posts the names of people who were married by Harav Yoel Morgenstern, but not by the Satmar Monroe Rav, and so they are not part of anything that is holy,  Their offspring, also mentioned in the poster are not Kosher Children!

The Punishment of NOT Eating "Kreplach" on Shevuois

Loose Translation of the above writing in the sefer "Panim Me'eerim Shevuois"

It has been said  in the name of Harav Hakodosh Rebe Aaron Leib Hagodol, father of Harav Hakodosh Rebe Meir M'primishlan, that

" You can be certain that the ancestors of those who didn't eat Kreplach on the holiday of Shevuois, weren't by Har Sinai!"

The question now is: What happens is if I ate last year, but will skip this year, were my grandparents there or not!" 

McJunkin Wedding Photos

Goodbye Yoily Brach ז״ל

Zionists will allocate NIS 100 Million to pay Farmers who let their lands lay fallow during Shmitta Year!

Hey Satmar Farmers ! You guys not taking any money from the "medinah?"
I keep saying that the biggest Baalai Tzedakah are the Zionists!

The government will allocate NIS 100 million in extra funding for the Religious Affairs Ministry in order to assist in preparation for the upcoming shemittah year, the sabbatical year in which Jewish farmers are supposed to let their fields lay fallow.

The next shemittah year will begin this coming Rosh Hashana (Jewish new year) in September. The somewhat complex issues of shemita were thoroughly explained in Arutz Sheva articles in 2007, ahead of the previous shemittah year, which began then. The funding is expected to be approved Sunday during the weekly government cabinet meeting.

The Torah commandment to leave fields fallow for one year every seven years involves many complicated Halakhic (Jewish legal) issues, and opinions differ on how best to adhere to the laws without unduly harming farmers' livelihood.

Of the total sum, NIS 11.5 million will be available for educational organizations to provide assistance and guidance for farmers who wish to fulfill the precepts of shemittah. An additional NIS 2 million will be available to produce materials explaining the importance of shemittah.

Another NIS 2 million will be used for a special “Hakhel” ceremony, to take place at the Western Wall at the end of the shemittah year. According to the Torah, the entire nation is to gather at the Temple at the end of the shemittah year to hear the Torah read in public by the nation's leaders, in the Hakhel ceremony. The balance will be used to support farmers who need assistance in fulfilling shemittah properly.

Speaking to a large group of rabbis in January, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau appealed for unity during the shemittah year. The sabbatical has been marred in recent years by the ongoing debate between those who approve of the "heter mechira,” a process that permits "selling" the land to a non-Jew so that agricultural work can continue during the shemittah year. The process, which was strongly advocated by the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, and originally approved by the first Chief Rabbi Avraham HaCohen Kook, is strongly opposed by the Ashkenazic hareidi rabbinate.

"I told the Rishon Letzion (Rabbi Yosef) that unfortunately there are rabbis who will try to make controversy between us, but in our positions we will sit together G-d willing ten full years without 'please part from me' (Genesis 13:9)," remarked the rabbi, emphasizing cooperation. (His Biblical reference was the the episode when Avraham and his nephew Lot parted ways due to irreconcilable differences in lifestyle).

Rabbi Lau noted that debates between rabbis are “today unfortunately portrayed as a desecration of G-d's name and as disputes. Every word out of place said by a rabbi can cause of desecration of G-d's name, contempt for rabbis and all people. We must guard the holiness of the land, but no less the holiness of man and of each other,” he added.

The Billionaire Bill Gates throws Israel Under The Bus because of Arab Pressure!

Yup, He is afraid that a bunch of towel wearing Arabs will stop investing with him, so he divests from an Israeli Company!
Time to buy Apple, folks!
Amid an international boycott against the company over alleged human rights violations, billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has sold a portion of his shares in G4S, the international British security firm that has current contracts with the Israel Prison Service.

HAARETZ.com (http://bit.ly/U5rCW5) reports that Palestinian NGO, Addameer, in conjunction with multiple other international organizations, called on Gates in April to divest in G4S over its treatment of Palestinian political prisoners currently being detained at Israeli detention centers in Ofer, Ketziot, and Megiddo.
Calls for Gates to divest stemmed from Addameer’s contention that Gates’ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic entity, should not be affiliated with a company accused of human rights violations.
A spokesman for the Addameer Palestinian Prisoner and Human Rights Association praised Gates’ move, saying, “we have been arguing that it is completely unacceptable for a charitable foundation to be investing in a company, like G4S, which participates in gross human rights violations against Palestinian political prisoners, including child prisoners. We welcome this step in the right direction

Lewis Katz owner of Philidelphia Inquirer Killed in Plane Crash

Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz is among the seven people killed in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts, the newspaper’s editor said Sunday.

Bill Marimow confirmed Katz’s death to Philly.com, saying he learned the news from close associates.

The Gulfstream IV crashed as it was leaving Hanscom Field at about 9:40 p.m. Saturday for Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey, said Matthew Brelis, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates the air field.
“There were no survivors,” Brelis said. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the people on board and their loved ones.”

The identities of the other victims weren’t immediately released. Nancy Phillips, Katz’s longtime companion and city editor at the Inquirer, was not on board.

The 72-year-old Katz was one of two business moguls who bought out their partners last week with an $88 million bid for The Inquirer, which also operates the Philadelphia Daily News and the news website Philly.com.
T
he winners vowed to fund in-depth journalism to return the Inquirer to its former glory and to retain its editor, Marimow.
“It’s going to be a lot of hard work. We’re not kidding ourselves. It’s going to be an enormous undertaking,” Katz said then, noting that advertising and circulation revenues had fallen for years. “Hopefully, (the Inquirer) will get fatter.”

Katz, who grew up in Camden, New Jersey, made his fortune investing in the Kinney Parking empire and the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network in New York. He once owned the NBA’s New Jersey Nets and the NHL’s New Jersey Devils and is a major donor to Temple University, his alma mater.

The fight over the future of the city’s two major newspapers was sparked last year by a decision to fire the Inquirer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editor. Katz and H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest wanted a judge to block the firing. Katz sued a fellow owner, powerful Democratic powerbroker George Norcross, saying his ownership rights had been trampled. The dispute culminated last week when Katz and Lenfest, a former cable magnate-turned-philanthropist, bought out their partners.

Officials did not speculate on what they think caused the crash. They said the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate and determine what happened.

Nearby residents recounted seeing a fireball and feeling the blast of the explosion shake their homes.

Jeff Patterson told The Boston Globe he saw a fireball about 60 feet in the air and suspected the worst for those aboard the plane.
“I heard a big boom, and I thought at the time that someone was trying to break into my house because it shook it,” said Patterson’s son, 14-year-old Jared Patterson. “I thought someone was like banging on the door trying to get in.”
The air field, which serves the public, was closed after the crash. Brelis said responders were still on the scene early Sunday morning.

Tennessee Family Converts to become "Heimeshe Yiden"

by Sandy Eller

A Tennessee family’s long journey to yiddishkeit comes to its conclusion today with the completion of their geirus and a proper Jewish wedding for the husband and wife, to be celebrated with their ten children.

Chad and Libby McJunkin were living in Chattanooga with their large family when they embarked on their quest for religion.
“They had always been very religious but they knew something was wrong,” Dovid Tzvi Steinberg, a friend of the McJunkin’s and a former Chattanooga resident, told VIN News. “They went to the Amish but quickly realized that the answers they sought weren’t there either and the Amish preacher told them, ‘You belong with the Jewish people.’”

Chattanooga has been home to an Orthodox synagogue since the late 1800’s and is home to Eastern Tennessee’s only mikvah. Chad McJunkin quickly hooked up with the local Chabad rabbi, who did his best to dissuade McJunkin from converting to Judaism. Still McJunkin persisted.
“Someone in Chattanooga suggested he contact me and we struck up a relationship,” said Steinberg, who said he and McJunkin became phone chavrusas.

The McJunkin children, seven girls and three boys, range in age from sixteen years to a toddler. All have been homeschooled until now and the McJunkins, will be making a Bar Mitzvah for their son in just a few weeks.

The McJunkins received their Ksav Geirus from Rabbi Yisroel Belsky and will now be known by their new names, Sholom and Nechama. The couple is to be married tonight by Rabbi Tzvi Mandel at Khal Bnei Yisroel in Flatbush.

Rabbi Mandel noted that the timing of today’s events, the first of the shloshes yemei hagbala, was extremely appropriate.
“I have been working with baalei teshuva for 30 years and you see that the Aibishter is getting together all of his children before Moshiach comes,” said Rabbi Mandel.

The Jewish community has already begun to raise funds for the new chosson and kallah and their brood with a crowd funding wedding shower campaign that was created by Alexander Rapaport, Executive Director of Masbia in hopes to raise $20,000 for essential items including new dishes, housewares, appliances, judaica items and kosher groceries.

To participate in McJunkin wedding shower, go to http://www.gofundme.com/weddingshower

The family will be returning to Chattanooga after the wedding but Steinberg speculates that they will soon be relocating to a Jewish community that will better suit their needs, possibly Baltimore.

The Family in Boro-Park this morning!