When Shimon Dzigan met the Bobover Rebbe

Those growing up in the 50's and 60's will remember the two Yiddish comedians, Dzigan and Shumacher. 

The performances of Dzigan and Shumacher typically opened with skits based on items from daily newspapers. Their humor was aimed at anti-Semites and government functionaries, but also at themselves and their public. Routines based on domestic life would follow.

Holocaust survivors would get some comical relief and laugh hysterically listening to the recordings  of these two comedians who blended humor with sarcasm.

Who can ever forget, the skit "Vefill Ir Farshteit" or the hilarious "Einshtein Veinshtein" ...some will remember with fondness the skit ... "Yankel Friedman" where Dzigan tried to jog the memory of Shumacher ....  to convince him that Shumacher knew who Yankel Friedman was ... this goes on for a full half hour ...

Well above is an old photo of Shimon Dzigan meeting the Bobover Rebbe.... I guess it was in Israel .... The Bobover Rebbe doesn't look too impressed!

Ellen Jaffee Running for assembly to squash Chareidie influence in Rockland County!

A majority of the 9 Board members of the East Ramapo Central School District in Rockland County, NY, are Orthodox Jewish. They recently won re-election in a landslide, but sitting NY Assembly Member Ellen C. Jaffee used her time on the floor of the New York State Assembly to  question the legitimacy of the voters who elected the board. 

Democratic candidate Thomas Gulla is running against five-term incumbent Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee in the 97th Assembly District.

Many have accused Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee of stirring up anti-Jewish sentiment in the county, with unwarranted attacks against Yeshivas as well as questioning the validity of Orthodox Jewish Voters (See above video)

‎‎In the past, Jaffee enjoyed the support of the Orthodox community, but this year the incumbent seems to have lost its support with every Kehilla backing her opponent.

One influential observer said, “at a certain point elected officials need to understand that their words and actions have electoral consequences. Jafffe’s agenda and rhetoric have unfortunately gone well past the line of fairness.

Rav Kanievsky tells a Kalleh to break her shidduch because the Chasan has a smartphone

Kikar Shabbos News carries a Yiddish newspaper article from abroad which reports that Rav Kanievsky instructs a family to break a shidduch after learning the chosson, a talmid yeshiva attending a Litvish yeshiva, had a non-kosher phone in addition to a kosher one.

While the chosson was selected as being one of the top talmidim in the yeshiva, the father of the kallah learned the chosson uses a non-kosher phone during bein hazmanim and between sedarim. The father sent a family member to Rav Kanievsky asking what to do. Rav Kanievsky is quoted saying “Leave the shidduch”, adding “לא ייצאו דורות כשרים” from such a young man.

Kikar adds it probed the incident and learned it is unusual, for Rav Kanievsky will generally instruct using ‘Darchei Noam’ to have the chosson abandon the unauthorized phone rather than breaking a shidduch and if this does not work, then one may break a shidduch. 

Guatemalan Authorities Raid Helbrans ‘Lev Tahor Cult’ Compound And Take All Children Away From Parents

According to reports from Guatemalan news agencies, the building housing members of the “Lev Tahor” cult have been raided by the Public Ministry (MP) which investigates allegations of child abuse. 

Authorities were reportedly notified of parents exposing their children to severe punishments that have resulted in injuries.

Personnel involved in the raid include the Attorney General’s Office.

Recently, a court in Guatemala indicted the ex-mayor of a small town for “participating in the expulsion of a religious community.”

In 2014, some 230 members of the Lev Tahor cult were forced out of the village following religiously tainted disputes with its Mayan residents, who are Roman Catholic. The local elders’ council voted against the group.

Antonio Adolfo Perez y Perez of San Juan La Laguna was charged with abuse of authority and discrimination and sentenced to house arrest, the local newspaper Prensa Libre reported. He had lost his political immunity on Jan. 14 after he was not re-elected.

Lev Tahor had maintained a small presence in San Juan La Laguna, a village about 90 miles west of Guatemala City, for about six years, but it expanded considerably after a contingent arrived complaining of persecution by Canadian authorities. Tensions appear to have flared after the newcomers sought to impose its practices on the indigenous people.

 An article titled “Cults and the War of the Jewish Magazines” in response to Mishpacha and Ami magazines running articles on Lev Tahor.

 Mishpacha Magzaine had run a fifteen page “expose” on the group, essentially describing Lev Tahor as a cult that has some serious issues involving medicating children, and behaviors that resemble child abuse. 

Ami Magazing claimed the exact opposite – and ran the following sentence below their headline “The unjust persecution of a group of pious Jews, and the unsettling silence of the Jewish community.”

Originally a citizen of Israel, cult leader Shlomo Helbrans went to the United States where he was convicted for kidnapping in 1994 and served a two-year prison term before being deported to Israel in 2000. He then settled in Canada.

In 1994 he was convicted in Brooklyn for the 1992 kidnapping of 13-year-old Shai Fhima Reuven, a Bar Mitzvah boy he was tutoring, and served a two-year prison term in the U.S. He was originally sentenced to four to 12 years in prison, but in June 1996 an appeals court reduced the sentence to two to six years. Three days later, he was placed in the work release program for prisoners less than two years away from the possibility of parole, where inmates are freed from prison if they have a job. After protests, he was moved back to prison.

The high-profile case drew much attention in the U.S., and gained further attention when Helbrans successfully convinced New York prison authorities to waive their requirement that all prisoners be shaved for a photograph upon entering prison, and to accept a computer-generated image of what he would have looked like clean-shaven instead. After the State Parole Board decided in November 1996 to release Helbrans after two years in prison, the case rose to near scandal with suspicions that the Pataki administration was providing him special treatment.

After his release from prison, Helbrans ran a yeshiva in Monsey, N.Y., and was deported to Israel in 2000. He then settled in Canada, where in 2003 he was granted refugee status, claiming his life was being threatened in Israel.

Hillary Campaign Critical? Tim Kaine Waiting on Deck!

Ongoing concerns over the Democratic presidential candidate's health and credibility were underscored in a seeming throwaway remark by former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, who said Kaine is "a wonderfully prepared person to be vice president, and to be the president if that ever became necessary.” The comment went viral after it was tweeted by The Dispatch and even becoming the lead story on the Drudge Report.

And the campaign of Republican Donald Trump, after making nice for 24 hours following Clinton's early departure Sunday from a 9/11 commemoration in New York, sent an email Monday night titled "Clinton Campaign in Chaos." It listed a series of stories mentioning her health issues, including a piece saying “Some In Media Saying Democratic Operatives Are Seriously Worried About Clinton's Ability To Continue Campaigning.”

Why did Hillary embrace a child while having the contagious disease "Pneumonia "

Would you allow your child to be hugged with a lady that has a dangerous contagious disease?
I think not! 
I think Hillary is a very sick lady but she doesn't have pneumonia! 
Hey Ezra (friedlander) what did you feed her?

'Crazy Eddie' Eddie Antar owner of electronics chain, dead at 68

The man who turned the “Crazy Eddie" electronics stores into a retail giant before it collapsed amid federal fraud charges has died.

Eddie Antar was 68. The Bloomfield-Cooper funeral home in Ocean Township confirmed Sunday that Antar died on Saturday. But a cause of death wasn’t disclosed.

The “Crazy Eddie” chain was known for its ads featuring a maniacal pitchman who touted that “Our prices are insane!”

Antar started with a store in Brooklyn, and the chain eventually grew into 43 stores in four states. But he fled to Israel after being indicted on securities fraud and insider trading charges.

Antar was extradited back to the United States in 1993 and was convicted on racketeering and stock fraud charges. But that was overturned on appeal in 1995.

Antar eventually pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and served a prison term.

Sniper takes out ISIS executioner from a mile away

A British sniper took out a top ISIS executioner with a single bullet from nearly a mile away — just seconds before the fiend burned 12 hostages alive with a flamethrower.

The ace sharpshooter turned one of the most hated terrorists in Syria into a fireball when he expertly shot a single round into the fuel tank affixed to the jihadi’s back, prompting a fiery explosion that fatally engulfed the mass-murderer. Three of the terrorist’s flunkies who were there to film the execution were also killed, reported the UK’s Daily Star.

The ISIS butcher had been on a US “kill list” for several months before the British Special Air Service marksman downed him with a Barrett .50-caliber rifle during the rescue operation outside of Raqqa, Syria, several months ago, sources said.

The group of terrorists had been traveling around ISIS-held compounds slaughtering civilians who had been labeled as spies.

The prisoners were tied to stakes or thrown in cages before being torched by the fiend, according to the report.

“The executioner gave some sort of rambling speech over a [megaphone], then when he finished, the SAS sniper opened fire,” a source told the daily.

The jubilant civilians were then rescued by British and US special forces.

ISIS started using flamethrowers after the torture method was popularized in North Korea.

The rescue comes just months after another SAS sniper killed two ISIS car bombers as they drove toward Libya, when the bullet catapulted through the driver’s skull and into the passenger’s neck, taking both out.

The jihadis had been en route to a packed Tripoli market with a massive bomb, which they planned to detonate, intelligence showed.

Remembering Shimmy Biegeleisen HYD, 9/11 Victim & Devoted Chossid of the Belzer Rebbe

FIVE FLOORS ABOVE, Shimmy Biegeleisen phoned his wife from his office at money-management firm Fiduciary Trust International Inc. “There’s been an explosion next door,” the 42-year-old vice president said. “Don’t worry. I’m OK.”

After a few minutes, Mr. Biegeleisen grabbed his black canvas bag, walked past a cluster of cubicles and headed toward the stairwell. But when he reached the doorway — a step behind a project manager who worked for him — he stopped, leaned his big body against the open metal door and rummaged through his bag. “Whatever you’re looking for, it’s not important,” the manager told her boss. “Please come.” She started down the stairs.

THE WORD “FIDUCIARY” filled the caller-ID panel on the kitchen phone in the Biegeleisen home in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Miriam Biegeleisen knew it was her husband calling again from his office. “I love you,” he told her.

He hadn’t made it to the stairs when the wings of the second jet ripped diagonally through the south tower just four floors below Mr. Biegeleisen’s cubicle. Fire engulfed the tower’s stairwells. Mr. Biegeleisen was trapped.

Mrs. Biegeleisen handed the phone to Dovid Langer, a friend who volunteered for an ambulance service and had run over when he heard that ambulances had been dispatched to the towers.

“Dovid,” Mr. Biegeleisen told him, “take care of Miriam and take care of my children.” Mr. Langer heard a recording in the background saying over and over that the building was secure and that people should stay put. (A Port Authority spokesman said, “We are not aware of any recorded announcement made by building management.”) Mr. Biegeleisen continued: “Dovid, I’m not coming out of this.”

Mr. Langer connected Mr. Biegeleisen to Gary Gelbfish, a vascular surgeon and friend who was watching the towers burn on TV. “I’m having difficulty breathing,” Mr. Biegeleisen told him. Black smoke was filling the room.

“You’ve got to do two things,” the doctor said. “Stay low to the ground. And do you have a towel or a rag? Put water on it and put it over your mouth.” Twin

New York Times and Washington Post turn on fellow liberal card-carrier Matt Lauer for his performance

by Michael Goodwin

There is nothing more to learn about Hillary Clinton’s home-brew server, deleted e-mails, chronic cough or anything else that makes her look bad, according to The Washington Post. 

And The New York Times, stung by Clinton’s woeful performance at last week’s presidential forum, believes the debates are going to be a total disaster unless moderators get much, much tougher with Donald Trump.

To judge from her tone, the Gray Lady finally has found somebody she wants to waterboard. Naturally, it’s a Republican, not a terrorist.

America’s two most prominent newspapers used to compete for Pulitzer Prizes and readers, but now they’re competing to see which can suck up more to Clinton. On Friday, both papers’ editorial pages turned on fellow liberal card-carrier Matt Lauer for his performance as the moderator of the commander-in-chief forum, with The Washington Post blasting him for being too tough on Clinton and the Times accusing Lauer of letting Trump ramble, boast and lie.

The unsubtle point was clear: journalists must focus all their firepower on Trump, or they will get a beatdown from the Clinton Praetorian Guard. She must be protected, even if that means taking the “new” out of “news.” How odd for businesses protected by the First Amendment to demand that others shut up.

Then again, the stakes are high. The best lap dog can expect better access and more leaks from a Clinton White House. Whoppee.

In any other era, there would be staff revolts as both papers trash their standards and torch their credibility in their partisan quest. But Trump Derangement Syndrome is creating an unprecedented spectacle as elite news organizations reveal contempt for their own traditions and the millions upon millions of Americans who don’t agree with them.

Put it this way: With polls showing a tight race, Trump is on track to win at least 50 million votes in the fall. That’s a lot of Americans to dismiss as idiots, rednecks and racists just because you hate their candidate.

Yet the partisan shrillness reflects desperation as much as conviction. Clinton, viewed as inevitable from the start, just as she was in 2008, is having trouble putting Trump away and is actually sliding backwards in key areas. Her slump suggests that the media’s nonstop bashing of the GOP nominee — in their news and opinion pages — is yielding diminishing returns and might be backfiring.

With no end in sight of the drip-drip-drip of bad news about Clinton’s e-mails and the growing evidence of a slipshod FBI investigation, the new efforts to help her carry a heightened sense of urgency.

The editorial in The Washington Post was especially striking. Headlined “The Hillary Clinton EMail Story is Out of Control,” the paper lamented that Lauer and most other journalists still find the subject newsworthy. It called the stories much ado over a “minor e-mail scandal,” and insisted coverage “has vastly exceeded the boundaries of the facts.”

Days earlier, the Post’s political blogger, Chris Cillizza, made himself a health expert in declaring that stories about Clinton’s health are “ridiculous.” He insisted there is “zero evidence” that there is anything wrong with her.

What, she has to cough up a lung before her uncontrollable hacking is news? Many Post readers objected to the Cillizza rant, with a number recalling that the same paper relentlessly raised health and age concerns about Ronald Reagan and John McCain.

But, of course, they were Republicans, and the Washington Post has never, ever endorsed one for president.

The Times has — but not since 1956, when it backed Dwight Eisenhower. Since then, every Democratic nominee, no matter how pathetic or unqualified, has gotten the Times’ backing. It even had zero doubts about George McGovern and Walter Mondale, both of whom lost 49 states.

In its Friday editorial, the Times wanted Trump to be asked “why he should be allowed to be commander in chief,” as if there is some higher approval needed beyond the ballot box. It also faulted a “tendency among some journalists to let Mr. Trump’s deceptions go unchallenged,” as if Clinton is a font of pure honesty.

She knows she has the Times and the Post in the bag, notwithstanding her policy failures, lies and shameful selling of access. The papers should end any pretense of having an open mind and endorse her now.

It would be the most honest thing they have done in the campaign.