Erlau Rebbe passes on

The Torah world was plunged into mourning early Monday morning (Israel time), with the petirah of the Erlau Rebbe, Harav Yochanan Sofer, zt”l, in Yerushalayim.

Many tefillos were held since the Rebbe was hospitalized several weeks ago in the Hadasah Ein Kerem Hospital on behalf of the Rebbe. The name Harav Yochanan ben Tushena was on the lips of many, but, alas, the gezeirahwas sealed, and on Monday morning, surrounded by many members of the family, the Rebbe was niftar.

Harav Yochanan Sofer, the Erlau Rebbe, was born in Erlau, Hungary, in Teves 5683/1923.

His father, Harav Moshe Sofer, great-grandson and namesake of the Chasam Sofer, zt”l, was the son of the Rav of Erlau, Harav Shimon Sofer, known for his sefer Hisorerus Teshuvah. In his later years, Harav Shimon appointed his son, Harav Moshe, to serve as Rav of Erlau alongside him.

Harav Yochanan’s mother, Rebbetzin Tushena, was the daughter of Harav Moshe Yochanan Schoenfeld, Rav of Ermihalyfalva in Hungary. Thus, Yochanan was named for his maternal grandfather. He was the second child in the family.

In his early formative years, he learned under the tutelage of his illustrious father and grandfather. As abachur, he learned in the yeshivah of Harav Yosef Asher Pollack, mechaber of She’aris Yosef Asher, in the neighboring town of Verpelet. He also learned for three years in the yeshivah of Harav Chaim Aharon Dovid Deutsch, mechaber of Tvuas Goren, in Balassagyarmat.

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Tzvi Yecheskel Ference z”l, on a suicide mission gets Killed in Wrong-Way Florida Crash

Just three days after writing on his social media account that he was depressed and determined to take his life by driving the wrong way and crashing headlong into a truck on the Florida Turnpike, Tzvi Yeheskel Ference apparently did just that.

The 26-year-old was killed when the car he was driving north in the southbound lanes of the highway collided with a tractor-trailer south of Griffin Road shortly before midnight Sunday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Ference was declared dead at the scene,

The driver of the truck and his passenger were not injured.

According to a Facebook posting on Friday, Ference, of Miami Beach, said he nearly carried out his plan for a public suicide Wednesday night but stopped when "I was overcome with such emotion that I started crying."

Ference pulled over near the entrance to the Turnpike, he wrote, "and cried non-stop for over 10 minutes."

But nothing stopped him about 11:40 p.m. Sunday.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Ference was driving a 2009 Hyundai Accent northbound in the southbound lanes of the turnpike when it hit the tractor-trailer being driven by Yadian Palomino-Leyva, 30, of Miami. Asleep in the back of the cab was passenger Leany Cervantes-Rodrigurez, 26, FHP Sgt. Mark Wysocky said.

Ference's Hyundai overturned and came to rest on its roof while the tractor-trailer jackknifed and hit a guardrail on the turnpike's west shoulder.

Ference, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Wysocky.

Where Ference got on the road and how long he was driving the wrong way are still being investigated, Wysocky said.

Ference recently had written about his years-long battle with depression on Facebook and Tumblr.

"I have major depression and have attempted suicide in the past," Ference wrote in a Facebook post Friday. "Sometimes life gets so overwhelming that I just want to quit."

Bracha Ference, 22, said her brother had been battling depression and had been on various medications and in therapy since the age of 16. "He definitely had been going through his ups and downs," said Bracha Ference.

Bracha Ference, who lives in New Jersey, said she received the news of her brother's death early Monday in a phone call from her mother, Tamar Ference, an assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.

Oded Guez like "Bugeye" Kin refuses to give "get" gets fired from Bar Ilan

Oded Guez

What's up with arrogant mamzeirim like Bugeye Kin and Professor Guez?
We have to thank the RBS"O every single minute that we have a Medina that takes action. If not we would have "les din Ve'les Dayan" just like in the USA!

The Rabbinical High Court of Appeals in Jerusalem has made the unusual decision to excommunicate, Oded Guez, a physicist at Tel Aviv University, for refusing to give his wife a get for the past four years.

They also ordered the publication of his name, photo and personal details.

The Rabbinical High Court of Appeals last week issued a herem – a writ of banishment — against Oded Guez, a physicist at Bar Ilan University, because he had refused to give his wife a divorce, the Ynet news website reported Friday.

The university said Guez had already been suspended from working at the institute’s physics department a year ago, Haaretz reported.

The herem says Guez is not to be honored, hosted, allowed to attend synagogue or even be asked as to his health or visited at home if he is ill, among other prohibitions, “until he relents from his stubbornness and listens to his betters and he unchains his wife and gives her a get [religious divorce].”

The unusual sentence was issued after Guez failed to show up for a hearing. He had appealed against the rabbinical court’s ruling last year to publish his name but lost at the High Court of Justice.

100 year old video shows men and women davening at the Kosel .... no Mechitzah no problem

Almost 100 years’ Dutch tourists came to Jerusalem and decided to film scenes from the streets of Jerusalem, then not yet the state of Israel. Filming was a rarity in those days, not like in today’s smartphone age.

The scenes from Jerusalem were filmed in 1918. We see scenes of people davening at the Kotel, which was then commonly known as the “Wailing Wall”.

This scene doesn’t look all that much different then what we would see today when we visit the Kotel. The only difference we see is the women and men davening together.

Also shown in the video are scenes form the streets of “modern” Jerusalem. Shown are Arabas, Christians, and Jews walking the street, no different than today! Though the style of dress is quite unlike what it is today.

Scenes from the hustle and bustle of Jerusalem’s market is also scene where vendors sold clothes, food, and much more!

Products were moved with “low-tech” help of donkey. No cars were seen on the streets of Jerusalem in those days.

Watch the video to see what Jerusalem was like 100 years ago!

Satmar Violates "Hisgarus Be'umois" in South Blooming Grove

Crowd protests house-buying spree in South

 Blooming Grove!

 Residents form grassroots group similar to United

 Monroe to protect the character of their town

Satmar constantly screams that the State of Israel is violating the prohibition of "HisGarus Be"umois" which basically means that one shouldn't instigate the gentile nations ....
But all the State does, is trying to defend herself, but that's not good enough for the Satmar SHIT'ah, but when their own ox is being gored they don't give two bits about any prohibition!

They are instigating hatred in Monroe and now in Bloominberg.... the goyim are screaming and they don't care .....


 The crowd spilled through the doorways at this week’s South Blooming Grove Village Board meeting as dozens of speakers described in detail a spate of home buying.

Some longtime residents described it as “a major land grab,” with reports of cash-on-the-table offers, some as high as $50,000 over market value, from people affiliated with the Village of Kiryas Joel.

United South Blooming Grove

A group of South Blooming Grove residents have organized themselves in ways similar to that of United Monroe, a grassroots organization that in three short years has changed the political landscape in Monroe. Among United Monroe’s issues is its opposition of the annexation of land from the unincorporated portion of the Town of Monroe into the Village of Kiryas Joel.

Kiryas Joel is seeking the additional property in order to accommodate the increased need for housing; opponents say such development will ignore environmental concerns and destroy the character of the area.

Members of “United South Blooming Grove” have been documenting the offers for what they described as quick sales for properties on Old Mansion Road, Worley Heights, Dallas Drive, Fort Worth and Old Mansion Road.

At the meeting this week, Toni Picone of United South Blooming Grove presented what she described as documents for at least 40 home sales in neighborhoods of South Blooming Grove over the past six weeks.

According to United South Blooming Grove, perspective buyers have been driving the streets and researching homes, especially those owned by the elderly. After paying inflated prices for one or two houses, the buyers then post hand-written flyers throughout the neighborhood warning: “Your neighbor’s house is already sold. I have a cash order that you should accept before prices start plummeting,” the group told village officials.
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Protest gets Chicago BDS billboard taken down

A massive online campaign demanding that a Chicago advertisement agency remove an offensive pro-BDS billboard calling on motorists boycott the Jewish state has borne fruits, as the agency eventually relented and agreed to take down the offensive sign.

Posted on the major highway I-294 by the Lamar Advertising agency, the huge billboard directed motorists to visit stopfundingapartheid.org, a rabid anti-Israeli organization. It read in massive letters: "Boycott Israel Until Palestinians Have Equal Rights."

An outpouring of Facebook users gave one-star reviews to the Lamar Advertising agency's page and the company was inundated with phone calls. 

After initially refusing to apologize on late Thursday and defending the "First Amendment rights" of its customers to advertise calls for a discriminatory boycott, Lamar Advertising relented on Friday.

"Serious questions concerning the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SEAMAC) billboard in Chicago have been raised in numerous contacts to Lamar Advertising," wrote the company in a Facebook post.

"Since Advertiser responsibility is central to Lamar’s Copy Acceptance Policy, we have tried to contact SEAMAC to discuss these issues but have not received a reply to our telephone and email messages. Therefore we have decided to remove the SEAMAC copy as soon as possible."

One Facebook user Uri Pilichowski last Thursday called on locals to call the company and protest, urging: "let's get it down before Shabbat."

Thanks to the pressure of Israel supporters, that goal was realized and the company agreed to remove the discriminatory ad on Friday.

Miller Shtrimal Chooses to use Syrian Star to Advertise!

Since the Magan David symbol is now treif like the tail of a rodent, so Miller Shtrimal Tails, decided it's best to use the Star symbol of the Syrian Flag on it's advertisement ....since both Miller Shtrimal and the Syrians hate the Jews living in Israel!

Some have asked me why Miller Tails hasn't used the Saudi Arabia Symbol? Doesn't it have the "Teitelbaum" Symbol 

Muslim Lady that went to Miami Shul wanted to know about Judaism?

New 71 year old Video clip discovered from Kotel

הוידאו המלא . וידאו חדש של הכותל חובה לשתף את הוידאו הכותל לפני שבעים ואחד שנה ,  

Maccabees were Tziyoinim!

Though Purim is coming up....I'm posting this to the

 Tzibbur, because it is relevant now! 



The following made up dialog between a father and his son regarding Chanuka sounds very funny but actually points to a very big problem in today's society (translated from אבא ליטאי: המכבים היו ציונים):

(S is the son and F is the father) 

S - Daddy, how did we defeat the Greeks?

F - With Hashems help

S- So what did the Maccabim do?

F- They were just soldiers. Hashem helped them and with Hashem's help they won

S- The Maccabim were soldiers?

F - Uh ... they were soldiers of Hashem, Hashem's army

S- So the Maccabim where Lubavitchers?

F - No, no, heaven forbid, they were Litvaks

S - Did Yehuda Hamaccabi have weapons?

F - Yes

S - So Yehuda Hamaccabi was a chiloni or a non-Jew?

F - Of course not, why would you think that?

S - But only chilonim and non-Jews serve in the army

F - In those days religious people also served in the army

S - Why did the Maccabim go to the army and we don't?

F - Because our Torah learning protects us

S - And their Torah learning didn't protect them?

F - Maybe you should go learn Mishnayes with Moishe

S - The Maccabim learned Mishnayes?

F - They learned Torah a lot of Torah

S - Did they not work?

F - Chas V' Shalom

S- Did Antiochus give them money?

F - No, they worked 

S - What did they do?

F - Matisyahu was a farmer

S - Matisyahu was a Thai?

F - Of course not why would you think he was a Thai?

S - Because all of the farm workers are Thai

S - How did he work in the fields with a white shirt?

F - How do you know he wore a white shirt?

S - Because Moishe said that a real Jew only wears white shirts

S - What did the Maccabim want?

F - They wanted a Jewish state that would be independent

S - Is that we want?

F - Yes but we can't say it, we are not Zionists

S - But daddy, I want to be a Maccabi, Zionist and a soldier

F - Gevald, what happened to you!