Convicted Murderer Becomes a Frum Jew

Chassidim want to know if he will have a "tish" and hand out "shrayim" I will keep you posted on developments!

Maybe he can look over the peppers?

Steven Hayes, a convicted killer in Connecticut, is serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of the Petit family. He seems to have drastically changed since committing the 2007 murder.

Reportedly, Hayes, now 52, has become an Orthodox Jew, while on death row. In a recent mugshot, he is seen with a long flowing beard, sporting a white kippa.

Hayes and an accomplice, Komisarjevsky, were convicted after the brutal murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 11-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley. The father was also badly hurt but survived.

The women were brutally murdered in their Connecticut home, the mom being raped and strangled to death, while the girls were tied to the bed and set on fire, the youngest girl being raped by Komisarjevsky.

On Tuesday, Komisarjevsky, requested a new trial, saying his lawyers weren’t give all the police recordings. However, Prosecutors say the recordings have no information that warrants a new trial.

Molested Flatbush Girl will not press charges on Yeshiva Bochur because his father is a Yeshiva Principal

The suspect's father is the principal of a yeshiva and his grandfather is a "Gadol.’

Guys ... it's not the cellphones, it's not the internet, its a Yeshivah Bochur who decided to get a free "feel"! 

So because he is a son of a principal, the son goes free...

I'll bet there was Mucho Denaro $$$$$$$$$$ exchanged! 
I'm also convinced that this is not the last we hear from this "Tzaddik!"

An investigation into an attempted abduction of a 14-year-old girl in Brooklyn fell apart after it was learned that the suspect comes from a prominent Orthodox family, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.

The suspect, a 20-year-old Orthodox man, showed up at the 61st Precinct with his attorney Tuesday — a day after the NYPD released an enhanced photo of him as a suspect in the crime.

But when investigators contacted the victim after the suspect came forward the family "stopped cooperating with the cops," a police source said.

A source with knowledge of the investigation said the girl changed her mind about talking to authorities after receiving pressure from the community.

The suspect's father is the principal of a yeshiva and his grandfather is an "influential rabbi," the source said.

The victim was with her mother when the suspect — initially described as a white or Hispanic man — approached her on E. 7th St. in Midwood about 4:30 p.m. Feb. 16.

"Come here," the man demanded of the teen.

When the girl refused, he grabbed her by the shoulder and wouldn't let go until the victim's former teacher intervened, officials said.

"The case and the investigation is closed," an NYPD spokesman said Wednesday. "No one is charged."

Detectives made their decision after conferring with the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, the spokesman said.

Now Peppers & Tomatoes are Treif!

I think that the business of kashrus is the best business in the entire world.  

Not only can you talk  the water companies into thinking that water needs  an hashgacha but you can now assur peppers & Tomatoes!

Peppers?  What can possibly be wrong with peppers?

Tomatoes? Tomatoes now need a hechsher?

Dummy! Yes you.... you are a BIG dummy!

You see the mashgichim got together and said "we got most vegetables covered, we fooled the people that the tiny insects that you can only see under a 100x microscope are chazir treif .... we convinced them that  the Rambam's  psak  that one doesn't have to worry about bugs that cannot be seen by  the naked eye, ......  doesn't exist!"

"Nu Nu ...B"H ... we can rip off  heimishe families, who have an average of 10 kids, and even though they are dirt poor, we know that they will spend the bucks to buy Bodek and Positive lettuce that have our hashgacha!
And even though there is no way that Bodek and Positive check every single leaf, we will sell them the idea, that they are grown in a green house, even though the vegetables grow in  earth and there isn't any earth that doesn't have insects, even in a green house!"

"Also we were B"H successful in asuring most of the RBSH"O's foods such as Strawberries, blackberries, rasberries, asperagus, broccili etc ...
  Now the naive sheep ..... baaaaaaaaaa baaaaaaaaaaa, will have to buy them frozen with our hashgacha (ha ha) so that we can enrich ourselves."

***(notice that all the pamphlets that tell you what fruits and vegetables are "infested" are financed by the Hashgacha Companies, there are no independent Rabbonim that have ever looked into it)

"But Oilim Goilem follow what we, the crooks tell them, so we are covered!

We also assured, just like BDS boycott, all Israeli fruits and vegetables  ........... 

What can we do now to rip off these naive sheep? Baaaaaaaaaaa baaaaaaaa!"

Rav Chaim Meir Vagshall who calls himself the Shiniver Rav (even though there haven't been any Jews living in Shiniav in 75 years ) came up with ingenious idea, let's find something wrong with Peppers  & Tomatoes.... .....we will assur peppers & Tomatoes!

The Nirbarter asked .... "Vus? Peppers and Tomatoes? ..... "Peppers and Tomatoes huben nish kein shratzim"? (peppers have no bugs)

Said the R' Chaim Meir .... "you think you know everything? You may have made millions from all the money you ripped off the heimishe naive families .... but you are a stupid meshiginar ...I will find a way"

"Just because there are no bugs on peppers, I will assur it because it has wax!"

"Wax? What's in the wax?"

 Asked the Nirbarter while counting the millions.....
"Don't they use carnauba wax (from the carnauba palm tree), or beeswax?"

"Shhhhhhh! You shoiteh Shebeoilim!" shouted the Shiniver!

"We will tell them it's made from  shellac (from the lac beetle)!"

"Vos is dus "shellac"? (what is shellac")
Men darf freggen the OU ..zei visen alles." (we have to ask the OU, they know everything!)

"Nu?" Continued the Shiniaver,  "So I called the OU and they said that the secretion of the lac beetle is sometimes called "lac resin," and companies possibly  use it to coat fruits and vegetables to keep them fresh and pretty."

But said the Nirbarter, 
"even if they coated it with "shellac" it's kosher .... 
we already paskened many years ago when the "Pashkas Scandel"  happened, when we found out that all Pashkas candy are covered with shellac the beetle crap" 
we paskened that because shellac is a secretion it is similar to honey, which is also a secretion,  and since honey also  comes from a sheretz,....... it's kosher"?

"Shut the Hell up" shouted R' Chaim Meir .... "you dont have enough money? .... Don't ruin my great idea"

And so, now we need a hechsher for peppers & tomatoes!

Mi Ke'Amcha Yisroel!

YU Book Sale Bans Kahane Books But Sells Books by Reform & Conservative Rabbis

Since I love Seforim, I made it my business to go this year to the largest Jewish book sale in North America: The Annual Yeshiva University Seforim Sale.

At the sale I noticed that there were close to 10,000 titles, including the book Beyond Reasonable Doubt written by Louis Jacobs who rejects Torah Me' Sinai. I also found the book David by David Wolpe who has said that Yestzias Mitzrayim was a myth. 

I found Books written by R' Yoel Teitelbaum, who wrote books denying that RBS"O gave Jews Eretz Yisroel in our time , a land that he says is Tumeh and bizarrely , he states, that America is Holy?

But lo and behold, I couldn't find any books that were written by the holy martyr Rabbi Meir Kahane z"l. 
Rabbi Kahana loved Eretz Yisroel, advocated that the Government of Israel not give back one inch .... loved every single Jew and gave his life for the Jewish people, yet his book was nowhere to be found. 
Books of haters of Israel according to YU is ok to sell, but Seforim written by Holy Jews ... no?

After inquiring further, I subsequently found out that Sarah Sheps, the sale's marketing director, said, that Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the vice president for university and community life at YU,  was responsible for the ban!
 Guys, call the CEO of the Seforim Sale, Nisim Franco
(707) 572-5398

So my friends, looks like YU and Satmar are colluding ...
Strange bedfellows! 

Mir Yerusalyim will have Shiurim in Ivrit ...Yiddish is out!

Nu nu ... what will the Satmar bochrim in Mir do?

They only speak and understand Yiddish and Hungarian.

They will have to leave because according to the Holy Rebbe R' Yoel, Ivrit is a "Tumedik" language, and I understand that Rav Finkel and Rav Shmuelevitz cannot understand  or speak Hungarian. 

Satmar & other Chasidishe Yeshivos speak neither Yiddish or English ...
Their Yiddish vocabulary is a meager 200 word vocabulary. Like when they want to buy  soup they say
"ge'mmir a zip"
But if the Chassidishe Yeshivas taught in Hebrew the bochrum would have had and easier time learning.
When you study Torah in Hebrew, it becomes natural & ingrained.
 The average Israeli elementary yeshiva student knows much more than
the average High School Yeshiva student ...

Now let's see what the Torah Ha'Kdoshe says about the Hebrew language....
Look in
Devarim 11:19

[And you shall teach them to your sons,] to speak with them: From the
moment your son knows how to speak, teach him, “Moses commanded us the
Torah” (Deut. 33:4). Let him learn speech through this (Sukkah 42a).

see Rashi:
From this, our Rabbis taught: When the infant begins to talk, his
father should speak to him in the Holy Tongue, and should teach him
the Torah. If he does not do this, it is as though he buries him, as
it is stated [here], “And you shall teach them to your sons to speak
with them…” [in order that your days may increase, and the days of
your children].

לדבר בם: משעה שהבן יודע לדבר, למדהו תורה צוה לנו משה (דב' לג ד), שיהא
זה למוד דבורו. מכאן אמרו, כשהתינוק מתחיל לדבר אביו מסיח עמו בלשון הקדש
ומלמדו תורה, ואם לא עשה כן הרי הוא כאלו קוברו, שנאמר ולמדתם אותם את
בניכם לדבר בם וגו':

Hundreds of talmidim at Mir Yerushalayim were surprised on Monday morning 13 Adar I when the Rosh Yeshiva HaGaon HaRav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel gave his ‘shiur klalli’ in Hebrew instead of Yiddish, with Yiddish having been the norm for many years.

Kikar Shabbos reports that just days ago, in his shiur, HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Shmuelevitz gave his shiur in Hebrew instead of Yiddish. 

Rav Shmuelevitz recently assumed the post of his late father, HaGaon HaRav Refoel Shmuelevitz ZT”L, who was niftar a few weeks ago.

Talmidim explain the Rosh Yeshiva spoke in Hebrew to avoid having some shiurim in Yiddish and some in Hebrew, hence, he decided to follow the lead of Rabbi Shmuelevitz. 

They further explain the rabbonim understand not all the Israeli talmidim understand the Yiddish, leading to the decision to change to Hebrew to permit everyone to understand. They explain it is better to abandon the long-standing minhag towards everyone understanding a sugya.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe's plan to beat terror

There is a popular joke about a man standing trial for the murder of his own parents. After he is unequivocally proven guilty, the judge turns to him and asks: “Do you have anything to say in your defense?” The defendant replies, unhesitatingly: “Yes. I beg the court to show leniency due to my unfortunate situation. I was recently tragically orphaned of both my father and mother...”

Today, regrettably, this is no longer a joke, but a fact of life. We are constantly being bombarded by claims that Israel is “stuck” in the current political situation. That our inability to quash the murderous wave of terror now sweeping our streets leaves us no option but to return to the bargaining table; 

In other words – to surrender, to retreat, and to offer our enemies ever more gifts, beyond the capitulation and weakness we have already shown by freezing settlement construction, evicting Jews from their homes, and more.

The absurdity of the situation screams out to heaven; for it is the Israeli governments that created the current situation – by promoting the warped idea that by “giving up a little here, giving up a little there, we will gain a little peace and quiet.”

We ourselves have convinced the Palestinian Arabs that they can defeat us with their rocks and knives and guns.


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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!