The Dead Will now be prohibited from using a smartphone in the Satmar Cemetery!

Satmar won't let us live and won't let us die! 

Now even the dead won't be able to peruse the internet!

Shan and Toad responds to why they offer refunds worldwide — except Brooklyn, Monsey, and Monroe in NY; and Lakewood and Passaic in NJ

Hey guys..... remember when we posted an article about Shan & Toad, a children's clothing Website that  refused to give cash refunds to people residing in frum communities? 

Well ... sit down for this ....
Turns out that the owner of the website is a frum lady from Los Angeles, a mother of 5 children!
She had no choice but to institute this drastic policy because the frummies were taking advantage of her and almost put her out of business....

You see, Frummies average 8-12 children per family, so the Frum Chachumim balabustes, thinking they were dealing with some hicks from Montana, would order 10 articles of clothing, and then ship it back in crappy condition for a full cash refund, sometimes  weeks and months later. 

Meanwhile the Website couldn't sell those outfits to others ...
Is this Yoisher? .... hey Passaic & Lakewood Tzaddikim, yeh the guys with the long beards ...is this what they taught in in Ohr Samaich and in BMG?
  
Read the following from the JTA!
A high-end children’s clothing shop is facing a bit of a scandal — and not for its steep prices or frivolous sartorial designs.
Shan and Toad, an online store that carries brands like Kenzo, Little Mark Jacobs and Gaultier Junior, is facing criticism for its very specific return policy.

The company — which “aims to please!” according to its website — issues refunds for non-sale items ordered from customers anywhere in the world.

Well, anywhere in the world except five US locations: Brooklyn, NY; Monsey, NY; Monroe, NY; Lakewood, NJ and Passaic, NJ.

Are you scratching your head as to what these five places have in common? Well, to some, it was alarmingly obvious: All five cities have an overwhelming presence of Orthodox Jews.

So is Shan and Toad’s return policy discriminatory?

Refund policy for Shan and Toad

Maybe yes — but maybe not.

Yes, it’s possible that this policy discriminates against a certain demographic. According to a 2000 US census, 40 percent of Monsey’s population speaks Yiddish at home and over half of population of Lakewood, home to one of the largest Haredi yeshivas in the world, is Jewish.

But it’s also possible that it discriminates against shopping habits of residents of those areas — and that there is an excessive amount of returns from these zip codes. As one reporter, Judi Franco of New Jersey Radio 101.5, put it, the return policy is discriminatory, but “not against Jews — against people who return too much!”

As of press time, we don’t know for sure. Shan and Toad did not respond to multiple phone and e-mail requests for comments on Wednesday.

Even if the shop’s prices may be criminally expensive — take for example this $1,085 cape dress — its two-tiered return policy is not illegal in either NJ or NY, which stipulate that businesses must post a clear return policy on their websites, but does not put any limitations on these policies.

Perhaps surprisingly, the owner of Shan and Toad, Shana Laub, is herself an Orthodox Jew and a mother of five girls.

The contact number on the company’s web site has a California area code, though some outlets erroneously reported the store is based in Israel — where, by the way, almost all clothing stores do not offer refunds, only store credit.

12-Year-Old Child Critical After Being Struck By Vehicle In Boro Park

The Helmet the Child Wore

Detectives canvassing the scene

Driver not being charged 

An 11-year-old child is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle on Wednesday morning. 

Hatzolah was called to the intersection of Dahill Road and Cortelyou Road in Boro at around 6:45AM. Upon arrival, Hatzolah found the child with severe injuries. He was rushed by Paramedics to Maimonides Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.

Sources say that the child was on his way to Yeshiva at the time of the incident. His bike helmet was reportedly shattered in pieces.

The NYPD was on the scene conducting an investigation, and the streets were going to be closed for an extended period of time.

Please be Mispallel for Moshe Yehuda ben Rochel Miriam who needs Rachmei Shomayim.

Kiryas Joel Kicks "Hisgarus Be'Umois" to the Curb and Files Petitions To Form Town Of North Monroe

The prohibition of "Hisgarus Be'Umois" (antagonizing the gentiles), the battle cry of the Satmar leadership against the Zionists, apparently is a one way street only! 
Only the Zionists must adhere to that prohibition; the Satmar hypocrites are exempt!
The Satmars are in golus, and believe that they will be here forever, forgetting that they are sitting on a powder keg, with the gentiles fuming and waiting to throw them out of their communities ...Hashem Yeraicheim! 


A petition with over 2,400 signatures of Monroe residents was filed minutes before 5 p.m. closing time on Monday with the Orange County Clerk’s Office, calling for the county legislature to approve the just under 1,100 acres of land in the Town of Monroe to secede and form a new town of North Monroe. The Town of Monroe would be left with over 12,500 acres. 

Only 650 petition signatures are needed to request legislative action. A two-thirds vote of county lawmakers would be required for approval before the proposal would go back to a vote of all Monroe town residents in the fall 2017.

“We believe that this is the most practical and reasonable solution to resolving a longstanding issue in our region, recognizing the different needs of both communities, and allowing each community to coexist in peace and harmony,” said Kiryas Joel Village Administrator Gedalye Szegedin.

Kiryas Joel officials note that a separate town would eliminate the Kiryas Joel block-vote effect on all Monroe elections, which they say would reduce community tensions. “Monroe residents are entitled to chart their own course by electing town leadership without any influence from the Kiryas Joel residents, but this can only be made possible by splitting off the Town of North Monroe,” a statement from the KJ leadership said.

They said the split would also allow each town to decide which public and community services and facilities it finds desirable – including possible consolidation of local fire districts and alteration of school district boundaries.

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?