R" Shmuel Auerbach Passes Away at 86

Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, the leader of the so-called Jerusalem Faction, an extremist Haredi political group, died early on Shabbat morning from a heart attack, aged 86.

A medical team, after 30 minutes of resuscitation efforts, had managed to restore the rabbi’s pulse. Emergency services took Auerbach to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, but he suffered another heart attack and died 40 minutes later, between 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning.

Auerbach’s funeral procession will leave on Sunday morning at 11 a.m. from his Jerusalem neighborhood of Sha’arei Hesed and he will be buried in the capital’s Har Hamenuhot Cemetery.

Authentic Portrait of Chasam Sofer & His Wife

 THIS STRIKING PORTRAIT WAS PAINTED DURING THE CHASAM SOFER’S LIFETIME.

The above portrait is being auctioned by Kestenbaum & Company
LOT: 23 (CHASAM SOFER) Josef Edward August von Gillern. Half-length portrait of The Chasam Sofer (R. Moshe Schreiber / Sofer). Oil on canvas. Signed by the artist lower right. 21 x 26 inches (53.3 x 66 cm). Later elaborate gilt frame. Portrait of the Chasam Sofer (R. Moshe Sofer), painted in his lifetime, by Josef Edward August von Gillern (lot 23: Auction estimate: $20,000-30,000).

c. 1835: Est: $20,000 - $30,000

A European family, descendants of the Chasam Sofer.
     Moshe Schreiber (1762–1839) known to his community and to Jewish posterity by his celebrated work “Chasam Sofer,” was one of the leading Orthodox rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century. As Rav of the city of Pressburg he maintained a strong Orthodox Jewish perspective through communal life, first-class education and uncompromising opposition to Reform and radical change.
     The Chasam Sofer established a yeshiva in Pressburg (today Bratislava, Slovakia) which became influential throughout Europe, producing hundreds of future rabbinic leaders. The Chasam Sofer died in Pressburg, his grave there is a place of pilgrimage for tens of thousands.
     The artist Josef Edward August von Gillern (1794-1845) was a well-known German painter and portraitist of the Biedermeier period, who was particularly active in Silesia, a heavily Jewish region of Central Europe.
     Gillern interrupted his youthful studies to fight against Napoleon before entering the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1822 he moved to Poznan (western Poland) where he opened an art school and also became a popular portraitist of local citizenry and the nobility. “[Gillern] had a sensitive eye and a particular technique to represent faces without palliation or idealization, well reproducing character and psyche.” (Thieme-Becker).

Serel, was the second wife of the Chasam Sofer, she was the daughter of Reb Akiva Eiger.

She was the mother of the Chasam Sofer's eleven children.

US Embassy in Jerusalem to open in May — in time for Yom Hatzmaot

The new US Embassy in Jerusalem will open in May 2018 to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Israel declaring independence, two Trump administration officials said Friday.

The officials said Congress was being notified of the impending move on Friday. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed off on the security plan for the new embassy on Thursday.

The officials weren’t authorized to discuss the plan publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

TRUMP HITS 50% APPROVAL

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.

This is the president’s highest job approval rating since mid-June of last year. President Obama earned 45% approval on this date in the second year of his presidency.

The latest figures include 34% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. 

This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -7. (see trends). 

Chief Rabbi Of Gateshead: ‘Jews Will Have to Leave Britain’ Because of Forced Secular Studies For Yeshivah Students

A  huge problem for all European Jewry and this may spread to the USA!.

In England, Belgium and France, there is a law on the books that makes the study of evolution, and the study of deviant sexual behaviors,  compulsory for all children.

This is even if the Yeshivas do not take funds from the respective governments. 

In the Zionist State of Israel, if a Yeshivah chooses not to accept government funds, they have every right to teach what they want!

But in the Chutz Le'Aartez Schools, it is mandatory for all children to learn these subjects that are basically abhorrent to Torah observant Jews. 

In the US, it is also mandatory, but somehow they get away with it, but not for long!

So what will Jews do now? 

Will they move to the Zionist State?

I believe that they will cave in and teach the subjects rather than to move to Israel!

The Satmar Special Public School in Monroe, years ago took off the mezuzois from the doors and they do not teach Torah subjects to their Special students that attend there.

One of the most prominent Rabbonim in England, HaRav Shraga Feivel Zimmerman is suspect of the leadership of the Ministry of Education in England and said: “Jews will have to leave England before long.”

Rabbi Zimmerman serves as the Chief Rabbi or Av Beis Din of the Jewish community in Gateshead. In his remarks, Rabbi Zimmerman was referring to an issue that is affecting many Charedi communities across Europe in countries where the Education Ministries are forcing students to learn subjects which the communities feel are of the level of transgression where it would be better to die than to transgress (yehareg va’al ya’avor). These topics, which are considered heretical by Charedi communities at large include; the theory of evolution and multiple possibilities of ways in which the world was created.

Rabbi Zimmerman was quoted in the Jewish Chronicle as saying: “The involvement of the government in religious studies is the most serious issue facing the Jewish community in England since the expulsion of the Jews by King Edward the 1st more than 700 years ago. The Jews of England feel that we are in a crisis situation right now.”

Rabbi Zimmerman said that Rabbonim from other parts of the country outside of Gateshead have shown a desire to form a unified front in an attempt to stop this attempt at forcing Charedi children to learn these things.

In find of biblical proportions, seal of Prophet Isaiah found in Jerusalem

Isaiah Bulla, a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which potentially belonged to the biblical prophet Isaiah. (Ouria Tadmor/© Eilat Mazar)

The hand of the Prophet Isaiah himself may have created an 8th century BCE seal impression discovered in First Temple remains near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, according to Hebrew University archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar.

“We appear to have discovered a seal impression, which may have belonged to the prophet Isaiah, in a scientific, archaeological excavation,” said Mazar this week in a press release announcing the breathtaking discovery.

Mazar’s team uncovered the minuscule bulla, or seal impression, during renewed excavations at the Ophel, located at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The discovery was published on Wednesday in an article, “Is This the Prophet Isaiah’s Signature?” as part of a massive March-June issue of the Biblical Archaeology Review dedicated to its recently retired founding editor, Hershel Shanks.

The clay impression is inscribed with letters and what appears to be a grazing doe, “a motif of blessing and protection found in Judah, particularly in Jerusalem,” according to the BAR article.

Is Moshiach Here? Satmar, Viznitz and Belz make Sholom at the Wedding in Petach Tikvah

I'll give you a little background to the eternal feuds amongst the Chassidic dynasties

Viznitz and Belz openly take money from the 

Zionist state, which puts them in direct conflict with Satmar who are adamantly against taking any funds from the Zionist state of Israel

There is one problem ..... however ... because it just so happens that the Satmar Rebbe, R' Aron Teitelbaum and the Viznititer Rebbe, R' Yisroel Hager, and the Belzer Rebbe.... are all brother-in-laws.... 

their wives are all sisters

R' Aron, the Satmar Rebbe has a nephew by the name of R' Chaim Hersh Meizels, who is the Satmar Rosh Yeshivah and head of all Satmar Moisdois in Israel 

One problem, the Aronim, the followers of R' Aron, hate this Meisels guy for , reasons I am not privy of, but now there is a civil war in Israel within the Aronie Camp with the Pro-Meisels guys fighting with the anti-Meisels guys 

This Meisels guy happens to be the Vizniter Rebbe' son- in -law ....

The Son in Law, Meisels doesnt get along with his own Father-in-law, the 

Viznitzer rebbe, because the Viznitzer is a hidden Zionist 

..

This Meisels guy married off his daughter this week in Petach Tikvah 

This past Shabbos at the "Furshpiel" seudah, Meisels didn't even show up at his own son-in-laws, "seuda, because it took place by the Vizniter Rebbe..

Got it so far? because it gets better...

So at the wedding, most Satmar Chassidim didn't show up because of their own civil war 

And Meisels wouldn't give the honor of "mesader Kiddushen" to his grandfather, the Viznitzer Rebbe, who is the grandfather of his own child, because he hates his guts ... so he honored the Satmar Rebbe , his uncle as the Mesadeir Kiddushen"

However, a miracle occurred, and when the guy called out that the Satmar Rebbe will be the Mesader, the Satmar Rebbe turned around to his brother-in-law, the Viznitzer Rebbe and gave him the honor ..

Meisels was horrified .... but couldn't say a word ... 

meanwhile they called up the Belzer Rebbe , who is "Chazir" in Satmar because he is one of the biggest takers of Zionist funds .. for the first 2 blessings under the Chupah ... but the Belzer was told quietly to take 6 blessings

So now we have miracles of miracles... to have the Viznitzer get Mesaider Kiddushin at a Satmar wedding and the Belzer getting 6 blessings a no no 

in Satmar circles

However, the Satmar Rebbe realized that the new generation is not interested in the old stupid feuds and decided to stay out of the feud and benevently gave his honor to to his Zionist Brother-in-law

I hope this continues ...

I have to give credit where credit is due

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Is the Fashion Industry ... Glorifying ISIS??

Heads were rolling at the Gucci Fall/Winter 2018 show in Milan!

Designer Alessandro Michele sent models down the catwalk toting decapitated mannequin heads, designed to look just like the models’ own.

The set, according to the Italian label’s Instagram, was meant to reflect “the work of a designer — the act of cutting, slicing, reconstructing materials and fabrics to create a new personality and identity with them.”

Guillotining certainly counts as cutting and slicing. 

Hats and heads off to Gucci!

Where are the parents of these teenagers that are harassing 2 girls walking down the street in Yerushalyim?

This is so vile and very troubling. 

 Because some of the participants don't seem to be so "radical" based on their looks - 

Something is wrong in the way those kids are being raised. 

To me this is much worse than screaming or even throwing things at a soldier walking through Meah Shearim (not that doing so is okay) simply because the soldier at least can hit back. 

Harassing two girls walking down the street is something that most civilized people realize is something beyond the pale of decency. 

Satmar "Black Matters" Parade