“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Obama Mocks Republicans for Fearing 3-Year-Old Orphans, While ISIS Trains Children to Become Jihadi Killers

Hey guys, Hussein Obama is making "choizik" from the Republicans!

OBAMA:  

"Apparently they're scared of widows and orphans coming in to the United States of America as part of our tradition of compassion.  
At first they were worried about the press being too tough on 'em during debates.  
Now they're worried about three-year-old orphans.  That doesn't sound very tough to me.  
They've been playing on fear in order to try to score political points or to advance their campaigns.  And it's irresponsible.  And it's contrary to who we are.  And it needs to stop, because the world is watching.

This fool must be a crazed nut 

Here read an article dated today!!!

Looking into the camera, a baby-faced boy, no older than three years old, holds a teddy bear in left hand and a knife in his right.
The child, who is not even old enough to start school, then appears to smile as he use the deadly weapon to hack the head off of his cuddly toy.
In new footage which has emerged - believed to have been released by ISIS but its provenance unconfirmed - the boy then lifts his knife triumphantly into the air and a man behind the camera shouts 'takfir!' - a derogatory word used to describe non-believers. 
Infant beheads teddy bear with a knife in front of ISIS flag
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Innocence lost: ISIS is believed to have released a disturbing new propaganda video which appears to show a young child beheading a teddy bear
Innocence lost: ISIS is believed to have released a disturbing new propaganda video which appears to show a young child beheading a teddy bear
Young militant: The video shows the boy stood in front of two black and white ISIS flags hanging on the bedroom wall as he plunges his blade into the red and white teddy bear
Young militant: The video shows the boy stood in front of two black and white ISIS flags hanging on the bedroom wall as he plunges his blade into the red and white teddy bear





The latest disturbing footage - thought to have been released by the terror group but unconfirmed - shows the child blurred out as he walks into a bedroom dressed in black with a beige hat on.
He comes into focus when he appears to grab the white and red teddy bear's head and thrusts the knife into its neck.
He uses the blade to hack away at the teddy during the 30-second clip, uploaded onto YouTube.
Then, smiling as if he was playing with the toy, the child raises the weapon into the air - seemingly copying the gesture carried out by Islamic State executioner, Jihadi John.
The boy's clothes also resemble those of Mohammed Emwazi, who has been responsible for the murders of at least five western hostages since he beheaded American journalist James Foley in August 2014.
When an unidentified man behind the camera shouts the word 'takfir', the boy once again appears to attack his cuddly toy.
The amateur video is not as professionally produced as previous ISIS footage. It has been released on social media reporting to have been made by ISIS, although MailOnline has not been able to confirm its provenance or veracity.
The disturbing video has sparked outrage online. A Syrian man on Twitter described it as 'a perfect symbolisation of a destroyed childhood'.

Victory salute: The small boy (left) raises the weapon to the sky, just as a man behind the camera shouts 'takfir!' - a term used to describe an 'unbeliever'
Victory salute: The small boy (left) raises the weapon to the sky, just as a man behind the camera shouts 'takfir!' - a term used to describe an 'unbeliever'
Brainwashed: The boy smiles as he saws his teddy bear's head off in a video that parents will find shocking
Brainwashed: The boy smiles as he saws his teddy bear's head off in a video that parents will find shocking
Julie Lenarz of the Human Security Centre think-tank called it 'child abuse of the most wicked sort' -while several suggested he was being 'brainwashed' into carrying out beheadings when he grows up.
Counter-terrorism experts have told MailOnline that ISIS mould young children into killers by hijacking their education - and minds - from a very early age.
It has released videos of young boys learning how to use deadly automatic rifles and being taught Islamic State's twisted ideology in schools run by the terror group.
ISIS has reprogrammed their young and impressionable minds into those of killers by, according to the executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
Steve Emerson told MailOnline: 'Indoctrinating kids with ISIS fanaticism is not only the easiest population to indoctrinate but also produces new generations of ISIS believers and... at some point fighters.'
'Their goal is to rebuild the Islamic societies they have conquered into a global comprehensive Islamist system that... takes over all aspects of society from garbage collection to teaching at the Madrassats [religious schools].' 
In July, a small child was filmed beheading a human victim in the first ISIS  video of its kind.  
Brainwashed: ISIS uses training camps (pictured) and special schools to teach young children its twisted ideology
Brainwashed: ISIS uses training camps (pictured) and special schools to teach young children its twisted ideology
Ruined childhood: ISIS moulds young children into killers by hijacking their education and minds from an early age, counter-terrorism experts have told MailOnline
Ruined childhood: ISIS moulds young children into killers by hijacking their education and minds from an early age, counter-terrorism experts have told MailOnline
Sickening: In July, ISIS forced a young child (pictured) to behead a Syrian soldier in the first execution of its kind
Sickening: In July, ISIS forced a young child (pictured) to behead a Syrian soldier in the first execution of its kind
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It is thought he killed the unnamed Syrian soldier in Homs province of Syria after the man was captured at nearby army checkpoint 
The victim was thought to be stationed in the ancient city of Palmyra, where ISIS have destroyed another priceless monument today. 
That video was also shared by ISIS soldiers who praised the young boy, thought to be no older than 10, for executing an enemy fighter.  
The regime soldier was forced onto his stomach as the young boy approached him from behind, pulled his head back and used the knife to decapitate him.

Yaakov Segedin Obsessed with Ladies Stockings

This Segedin guy, besides being an obvious raving lunatic, is also obsessed with ladies legs!

Now guys, I've been around the block in my lifetime and never knew what "Nude 60 denier" is, but this pervert is as an expert in ladies stockings.
He took hard earned Jewish money and sponsored a full page ad telling our holy ladies that they cannot wear "Nude 60 denier, Honey and Natural 40 denier stockings"

What is he doing? 
Watching his wife model the stockings for him, so that he can judge whether his neighbor's wife is wearing stockings thick enough ?

The world is falling apart, ISIS is on the rise, the President of the US is going berserk and this Meshiginar who calls himself Yaakov Segedin is busy with Ladies legs!

Question: How is it that Chassidim are in control of the ladies underwear business?
I remember when I was a kid growing up, all the stores on the lower east side that sold bras and panties were owned by Chassidim? 
When I was a kid, my mother took me to one of those stores and told me to go outside and buy myself a knish, while she hondled with this middle aged Chassidisher  guy behind the register. I asked her why can't I go in ..."there is a big fat guy with a beard down to his belt behind the counter?"
While I was wolfing down my hot potato knish, I was  wondering what this guy was thinking when the ladies with the Shpitzels were placing the bras on the counter? 

Also notice that some Rabbis that signed the ad like Rav Eliyashiv have long since met their Maker and now know the truth!



Spain That Expelled All Jews in 1492, Now want to IMPORT the Jew Netanyahu to Arrest Him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seven other former and current government officials may be at risk of arrest if they step foot on Spanish soil over the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla affair after a judge drew up warrants at the end of last week.

Other officials who might face arrest include former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman; current and former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon and Ehud Barak, respectively; former interior minister Eli Yishai; former minister of intelligence Dan Meridor; minster without portfolio Benny Begin;

Together with Netanyahu, the officials make up the so called 'Forum of Seven," an ad-hoc committee of ministers that made key decisions on security issues at the time.

Former head of the Navy Eliezer Marom, the top IDF commander running the operation at the time, could also face arrest.

In response to the judge's order, Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon said Saturday night, "We consider it to be a provocation. We are working with the Spanish authorities to get it canceled. We hope it will be over soon."

The Prime Minister’s Office and the Justice Ministry had not responded by press time.

In the 2010 incident, a group of human rights activists and a smaller group of IHH activists (which the quasi-government Turkel Commission Report identified as affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood) boarded several ships to try to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Israel commandeered and stopped most of the ships without incident, yet when Israel Navy commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara, IHH activists attacked them, leading to some commandos being wounded and, eventually, 10 deaths on the IHH side.

Turkey and many others in the international community accused Israel of war crimes and Spain is only the most recent of countries to go after Israeli officials.

Local proceedings in Turkey went to full trial, though they stalled after Netanyahu made a partial apology.

There were several efforts to arrest Israeli officials in England, though those efforts also stalled after the government amended the law to make it more difficult for individual judges to issue arrest warrants without state approval.

At the International Criminal Court, the Mavi Marmara incident has provoked intense controversy with ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda performing an initial investigation then deciding to close the case.

The Comoros Islands, who filed the complaint, appealed to the Pretrial Chamber which voted on a 2-1 split for Bensouda to reconsider her position, a decision upheld on a 3-2 split vote by the ICC Appeals Chamber.

Still many expect Bensouda to just close the case again on different grounds.

Further, Israel was cleared by the quasi Israeli-government-sponsored Turkel Commission and the UN-sponsored Palmer Report, which validated some of Israel’s narrative of fighting in self-defense or said there was not sufficient evidence to pursue Israel for war crimes, even as the Palmer Report said some of the IDF’s force was excessive.

This is also not Spain’s first run at bringing war crimes allegations against Israeli officials.

After the IDF’s 2002 bombing of Hamas mastermind Salah Shehadeh, the full range of Spanish courts got involved in reviewing the deaths of 15 civilians and the injuring of 150 that came along with the attack.

But in 2009 the top judicial court in Spain, in one of the flagship lawfare cases against Israel, essentially approved Israel's High Court and related investigative decisions that the killing and injuring of the civilians and the destruction or damaging of 38 houses all in order to kill Shehadeh had not been disproportionate under the circumstances.

While many critics have slammed Israel's legal and judicial apparatus as unwilling to criminalize IDF conduct, the Spanish court said that the apparatus satisfied "the requirements issuing from the application of the right to effective due process by an independent and impartial judicial system."

It was unclear from reports on the issue whether the latest Spanish arrest warrant would be respected by Spanish law enforcement and INTERPOL, or would be stalled as similar arrest warrants from countries which are friendly or neutral toward Israel have been.

Further, it was unclear whether the case had a serious path forward and chance of success or whether it was an individual judge acting on his own with little backing.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Kobi (May) Peleg Transgender Takes her Life

May Peleg Friedman, the Jerusalem Open House’s first transgender Chairperson, put an end to her life this week at the age of 31. 

Born into a world of religious tradition and gender conformity, May tried to live as dutiful son, husband and father, while knowing, since age 4 that her soul belonged in another type of body. 


על אהבה וחושך: הטרנסג'נדרית שהקדישה את עצמה לקהילה שמה קץ לחייה

מאי פלג נולדה בשם קובי למשפחה חרדית בבירה. אמה התעללה בה, והיא עברה לגור ברחוב - שם נאנסה מדי לילה. בצבא הכירה את אהבת חייה, איתה הביאה שני ילדים לעולם. אלא שאז החליטה לעבור תהליך לשינוי מין ולהתגרש. ביום שבת נמצאה גופתה. "אפשר היה למנוע את זה"

פלג, שנולדה בשם קובי למשפחה חרדית, חשפה בסרטון שפרסמה באינטרנט את סיפורה. "אני זוכרת בגיל ארבע, כשישבתי בביתי ואמרתי שמשהו בגוף שלי לא בסדר", אמרה. בגיל 13 נשלחה לישיבה. "הייתי מבריזה מהפנימייה והולכת לספרייה שבגבעת רם. אמרתי לעצמי שאעשה את כל שביכולתי בשביל להימנע מלעשות את התהליך". כשהגיעה לגיל 17, ביקשה להתגייס לשירות קרבי עוד כשהגדירה את עצמה כגבר, אולם לא התקבלה "כי הייתי בן יחיד".
במהלך השירות הצבאי, הכירה בתור קובי את מי שלימים נישאה לה והביאה עמה שני ילדים. "חשבתי לעצמי שאם אני מאוהבת, אולי אשרוד כגבר. בהיריון השני שיתפתי את בת הזוג, כי הבנתי שלא אחזיק מעמד", סיפרה פלג והוסיפה כי "בהתחלה השמיים נפלו, אבל עם הזמן היא הבינה שהכל בסדר".
מאי פלג, טרנסג'נדרית שהתאבדה. נובמבר 2015 (צילום מסך , פייסבוק)
שימוש בסמים קשים וחיים ברחוב בגיל צעיר. פלג (צילום מתוך פייסבוק)
אלא שאז נוצרה בעיה חדשה - הקבלה שלה בקרב ילדיה. "בכיתי, נכנסתי לדיכאון ופיתחתי הפרעות אכילה. סביב גיל 27 ניסיתי להתאבד - וכשנכשלתי אמרתי לעצמי 'אני חייבת לעצור, לעשות שינוי ולהבין לאן אני הולכת וממשיכה בחיים'", אמרה פלג, תוך הכרזה שמדובר בנקודה שבה החליטה להתחיל את התהליך. בעקבות כך, בני הזוג התגרשו ושיתפו את הילדים על כך שיש להם אמא חדשה. פלג סיפרה לאביה על שינוי המין לפני מותו, עם אימה נותק הקשר שנים רבות קודם לכן.
שנים לאחר התהליך החלה פלג לחשוף את הסיפור הקשה שהוביל לנתק מאמה; ההתעללות שעברה בבית, שימוש בסמים קשים וחיים ברחוב בגיל צעיר. "האישה שילדה אותי התעללה בי בבית", כתבה והוסיפה: "בגיל 13 יצאתי מבחירה לפְּנִימִיָּה, שם התחלתי להסתובב ברחובות. 'כיכר החתולות' הפכה לבית עבורי, ועם הזמן התחלתי לצרוך סמים". בגיל 16, פלג, אז עדיין קובי, גרה רוב הזמן ברחוב; בהתחלה בחדרי מדרגות, על ספסלים ואפילו בתוך מגלשות.

 "הגעתי לגיהנום"

"אז הגעתי לגיהנום – הזולה ברחוב קינג ג'ורג'. שם 'אומצתי' על ידי בחור שגדול ממני בשנה, הוא 'הגן' עליי ולאט לאט נפלתי לתוך המלכודת שלו – ההרואין", שחזרה פלג, "תחילה הוא סיפק לי את הסם ללא תמורה, כעבור זמן מה החל הניצול המיני. לילה אחרי לילה נאנסתי במקום המקולל ההוא. בשנים שבהן גרתי ברחובות הגוף שלי חולל עשרות פעמים".
החרדה והקושי צפו בעיקר כשהשמש שקעה. "התעוררתי כל רגע מפחד מהאונס הבא, מסיוטים של הטראומות שעברתי, מרעשי הרחוב ותנאי מזג האוויר הקיצוניים". גם למצוא עבודה לא היה פשוט בעבורה: "ניסיתם פעם ללכת לעבודה כשאתם רעבים? ומי בכלל יעסיק חסרי בית?".
מאי פלג, טרנסג'נדרית שהתאבדה. נובמבר 2015 (צילום מסך , פייסבוק)
ניהלה את "המקווה". פלג בפאב (צילום מתוך פייסבוק)
סיפור החיים הקשה שלה הוביל את פלג לא אחת לאשפוז בבתי חולים פסיכיאטריים. באחת מהפעמים שבהן אושפזה הכירה את חברתה לחיים. כשהשתיים הכירו, גם נותק הקשר בין פלג לילדיה, אותם לא ראתה מאז. "היינו ביחד שנתיים וחצי, עד שלפני שישה חודשים נפרדו", סיפרה בת הזוג לשעבר, שהוסיפה כי הן נותרו קרובות.
"מאי הייתה אדם מקסים. היא עברה הרבה קשיים בחיים וניתקו אותה מילדיה, שהיא מאוד אהבה. היא הייתה פעילה גדולה בקהילה הלהט"בית, כזאת שנתנה את נשמתה למען כולם", סיפרה בת הזוג לשעבר. מסכת הייסורים לא פסקה שם, ולפני שמונה חודשים חלתה פלג בפיברומיאלגיה – מחלת שרירים נדירה – ונלחמה תקופה ארוכה על מנת שיכירו במחלתה.
מאי פלג, טרנסג'נדרית שהתאבדה. נובמבר 2015 (צילום מסך , פייסבוק)
פלג (צילום מתוך פייסבוק)
בת הזוג לשעבר שחזרה את התא המשפחתי שהשתיים הקימו. "חודש אחרי שהיא עברה לגור איתי, שלושת הילדים שלי כבר החלו לקרוא לה 'אמא'. הם התחברו אליה בצורה מטורפת. חלק מהזמן היא הייתה על כיסא גלגלים בגלל הכאבים, אולם למרות הקושי היינו יוצאות לטיולים והיא הייתה מסיעה את הילדים לבית הספר", סיפרה.
לדבריה, "היא ידעה המון דברים. היא נהגה לשבת שעות עם בני הגדול ולדון על פוליטיקה והיסטוריה, הייתה לה המון סבלנות. היא נהגה להגיע לכל המשחקים של הבן שלי ולהריע לו מהקהל – גם כשהייתה על קביים".

 "הפרידה הייתה מאוד קשה"

לדברי בת הזוג לשעבר, פלג העבירה את חייה עם המון צער וכאב. "היא סבלה מאנורקסיה, מהפרעת אישיות גבולית ומפוסט טראומה חריפה. בשלב מסוים ניסינו להשיג לה משמורת משותפת על הילדים, אולם העובדת הסוציאלית שהגיעה אלינו הביתה החליטה לבסוף להשאיר את המצב כפי שהיה".
"הפרידה הייתה מאוד קשה", סיפרה. "נפרדנו כי הגענו למצב שהורדנו אחת את השנייה, נכנסו לדיכאון מזה". לאחר שיחה בין השתיים הוחלט להיפרד, "אבל לא כי לא אהבנו", הדגישה.

 "מכה נוספת לקהילה הלהט"בית"

יו"ר הבית הפתוח בירושלים, דנה שרון, סיפרה לוואלה! NEWS כי "התחושות לא פשוטות. כבר מהרגע שהיה ברור שהיא נעדרת, האווירה בבית הפכה לקשה. זוהי מכה נוספת אחרי גל המכות שחטפנו לאחרונה בקהילה". לדבריה, "אנשים מגיעים למצבים אובדניים בגלל הדרה חברתית ובגלל שמערכות בריאות הנפש והרווחה לא ערוכות להתמודד עם מצבים מיוחדים. זה שילוב קטלני".
שרון סיפרה על פלג כי הייתה "אישה עם לב ענק, אנרגיות מדהימות ורצון אין סופי לתקן ולשנות. אישה שהייתה כולה לב ופשוט לא עמדה בזה. העולם לא היה מספיק טוב בשבילה".
מאי פלג, טרנסג'נדרית שהתאבדה. נובמבר 2015 (צילום מסך , פייסבוק)
פלג (צילום מתוך פייסבוק)
לבקשתה של פלג לא תתקיים הלוויה לזכרה, אולם יערך טקס זיכרון קטן וצנוע. היא השאירה אצל חברה הוראות איך להתמודד, ואפילו ביקשה שעמוד הפייסבוק שלה לא יהפוך לדף זיכרון אלא יישאר עמוד רגיל, כפי שהיה עד מותה.

 "בחורה סופר חכמה וסופר חזקה"

גיל נווה, אחד מחבריה, סיפר: "אנחנו הכרנו בעיקר סביב הפעילות של הבית הפתוח ובתקופה קצרה שבה הייתה הבעלים של בר 'המקווה' בעיר. היא הייתה בחורה סופר חכמה וסופר חזקה. הייתה בה יכולת לראות רגישויות של אנשים מבלי שהיו צריכים לדבר עליהן".
לדבריו, "יצא לנו לדבר פעם אחת על הילדים שלה והיה לה כזה אור בעיניים שזה היה מעורר השראה. בשנתיים האחרונות היא עברה עוד התפרצות של המחלה ולקח לה הרבה מאוד זמן עד שנפתחה שוב לעולם, אבל משהו נשבר שם. מההיכרות שלי איתה זה היה מתוכנן לפרטי פרטים, היא לא הייתה בן אדם שעושה משהו כזה בפרץ של רגע".
מאי פלג, טרנסג'נדרית שהתאבדה. נובמבר 2015 (צילום מסך , פייסבוק)
"הרחוב הפך לבית". פלג (צילום: מתוך פייסבוק)
עו"ד מיכל עדן, פעילה מרכזית בקרב הקהילה הלהט"בית, סיפרה שפלג התלוננה לא אחת באוזניה על יחס מפלה ומקפח בשל היותה טרנסג'נדרית. "הקושי הגדול היה מכיוון שהשינוי נעשה לאחר שהתחתנה והביאה ילדים, היא נזקקה לתמיכה רבה במהלך הגירושין. במקרה של מאי נוכחתי שוב לדעת שהמדינה אינה מעמידה משאבים ראויים לתמיכה באזרחים העוברים הליך לשינוי מגדרי".

Sruly Stein Grows Up to be a Beautiful Lady


A man descended from a Hasidic “dynasty” is transitioning into a woman — enraging members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community she left behind.
Srully Stein — who now goes by Abby — recently came out as a woman and said she’s finally living as her true self — something she said was impossible to do growing up in her restrictive household in Brooklyn.
“In the community that I was raised in, Trans did not exist, neither was it ever discussed,”the 24-year-old writes in her blog.
“I was therefore convinced that I have to be crazy, and that I have to get this ‘stupidity’ of feeling like a girl, out of my head.”

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Stein posted these photos to her blog documenting her transition.Photo: thesecondtransition.blogspot.com

Stein — who some say has “royal blood” coursing through her veins because of her grandfather, the prominent Rabbi Mordechai Stein — began hormone replacement therapy Sept. 4.
The results have been “amazing,” she kvelled.
“The road is long, but with the support of some amazing friends and professionals, for the first time in my life I feel like I am getting to be my real self,” she wrote in a recent post, which received more than 20,000 hits in just a couple days.
Stein’s roots trace back to Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer, believed to be the founder of the Hasidic Judaism
Her grandfather, Mordechai, was born in Fălticeni, Romania, and her father was born in Israel.
Her ancestors are part of several Hasidic sects, her grandfather’s mother was part of the Twersky family, a “very famous” old dynasty from the Ukraine, she said.
Stein recently broke the news to her father — and hasn’t heard from him since.
“I think right now it’s shock more than anything,” Stein told The Post. “He doesn’t know what to do.”
Others took to social media to spew hate-filled messages about her transition.

Stein poses for a photograph on Nov. 17 in New York City.
Photo: Chad Rachman
“And family is nothing?” one member of the Lee Avenue WhatsApp group wrote. “The lowest scum of earth live with deficiencies with lifelong pain not to hurt their family. I saw your father today in synagogue, he is going to die of the shame you have caused him.”
The person continues: “No human in the world puts his pleasure in front of the pain of his loved ones. What kind of animal are you?”
Another added, “It’s all the devil, the evil inclination that says there is such a thing a man can be born in the wrong body.”
But Stein said she’s prepared for the backlash.
“My main goal is to get people to talk about it,” she said. “I don’t care how hateful the reaction might be within the Orthodox community.”
Stein added that many of the Orthodox people she’s heard from are in “denial” about transgender people.
“For most of them, they don’t even know what this is, they have no context for it,” she said.
Stein said she hopes that will change and that her story will reach other transgender Orthodox teens who’ve been battling similar conflicts.
“Since I’ve gone public, 17 people have reached out to me who still live within the community and struggle with similar things,” she said. “Most of them didn’t know there’s help.”
Stein said that while she felt like a woman for many years, she couldn’t even consider taking action until she left her Orthodox community.

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Photo: Chad Rachman

Initially, she followed the traditional path of most in Hasidic Williamsburg. By 18, Stein was married, and soon had a son.
“I was raised in an extremely sheltered community,” she said. “No Internet, no TV and no movies — not even Jewish ones.”
“My family and community was so sheltered that up to around 14 I thought that most of the world is Jewish and most of the Jews are ultra-Orthodox,” she added.
With an intense desire to pursue a college education, Stein divorced, and ultimately left the Orthodox community about four years ago.
Being part of a famous Hasidic family made that split even more difficult, Stein said.
“My family had more restrictions than most families even in Williamsburg,” she explained. “Like men were expected to work only in Jewish scholarly jobs, not drive, and I was constantly told that we ought to be role models.”
Now Stein is a second year student at Columbia University’s School of General Studies, where she’s taking courses in political science and gender studies.
Adjusting to a secular scholar’s life wasn’t easy, but she said she’s found comfort in the campus’ strong Jewish community and trans support group.
“Culturally it took me quite a while to blend in, and until [now] there were so many basic references to popular culture that everyone ‘just knows’ and I had no idea what they are talking about,” she said.
Stein is interested in someday working in the nonprofit world, advocating for other transgender people from similar backgrounds and shaping public policy.
She’s currently raising money for her own transition on her blog.
“But my main goal is to raise awareness for trans people within the ultra-Orthodox community,” Stein said.
She added: “It’s been totally ignored until now.”


Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Obama is LATE for moment of silence as the rest of the G20 leaders hold somber observance to mourn Paris attacks


President Barack Obama arrived late to a 'moment of silence' in Belek, Turkey on Sunday as the rest of the world's most powerful leaders stood for a somber observance to honor Friday's terror-attack victims in France. 

The G20 leaders 'gathered around a large round table for their first working session,' a White House pool reporter wrote from the scene.

 'President Erdogan began the session with a one-minute moment of silence. The leaders stood to observe the moment.

 President Obama had not yet arrived and walked in at 4:34pm, after the moment of silence had begun.' 

Despite his late showing, Obama offered his thoughts on the coordinated attacks in Paris, tying the rise of the ISIS terror army to economic conditions in the Middle East. 

'There is a strong link between economy and security,' he told his peers.

CUNY Protest for "Free Tuition" turns into Anti-Semitic Rally at Hunter College

by David Green 

Friends, please listen up. I took this video on Thursday night November 12, 2015 at Hunter College, where I am a student. 

A rally was held to end the tuition hikes in CUNY schools and this is what I witnessed. 

As a Jewish student, I was harassed for wearing a yarmulke. People yelled at me "Go back to Poland!" and "terrorist" just for wearing a yarmulke. 

People were waving Palestinian flags and denouncing Israel as a terrorist state. What was supposed to be an anti tuition hike rally actually turned out to be an "anti-Semitism" rally that called for CUNY to fire it's "Zionist Funding administration". 

To put it into perspective, Hunter college is located on the Upper East Side - which is a predominantly Jewish neighborhood. 

Rallies like this one take place everyday all over the world in places where Jews have never even been. The hate needs to stop. 

This isn't a matter of religion against religion rather, a matter of hate. The only way to combat such hate is to educate and stand up for what is right. I ask all of my friends to please spread the peace, educate others and make sure that this hate stops.

 Learn about Israel, educate others and protest peacefully- please share this video with friends and show them the hate we are up against. 

I urge every student on every campus to speak up and not stand idly by. Israel is forever. עם ישראל חיי. Please share

Watch at 2:57 mark as it turns ugly!