BEIT SHEMESH ELECTIONS SHOW LIMIT OF HAREDI RABBINIC POWER

It seems there is a limit to rabbinical influence and perhaps even an erosion of their authority, if what has happened in the Beit Shemesh municipal election can be used as a barometer of such things.

The mayoral election in the city is, at press time, very delicately balanced between incumbent Charedi mayor Moshe Abutbul (Shas) and his religious-Zionist challenger Aliza Bloch.

It appears that there have been significant numbers of Charedi residents who voted for Bloch despite the instructions of the leading Charedi rabbis to vote for Abutbul.

And it appears that there are many more who, despite the instructions of the rabbis to go out and vote for Abutbul, either stayed at home or voted only for the municipal council and not for mayor.

This phenomenon is somewhat surprising and almost unprecedented given that the incumbent mayor was endorsed by the entire spectrum of Charedi rabbinic leaders – Sephardi, non-hassidic and Chassidic alike.

See the Love for Trump As He Visits Victims of Synagogue Shootings in Hospital ...

Chareidim Secretly Voted Against the Chareidie Candidates in Yerushalayim .....

The Chareidie candidate for Mayor of Yerushalyim Yossi Deutsch who was endorsed by the Chassidishe Gedoilim lost his shirt, and it wasn't because Chassidim didn't vote .... they did ....

This year for the first time, the Chareidi Gedolim fought amongst themselves and put up their own candidates ....
Chassidim put up Yossi Deutsch and Shas backed both Moshe Leon and Elkin.

 Statistics show that Chareidim  voted in mass against their own  Gedoilim endorsed candidates 

Most Arabs did not vote in this election holding the Satmar Shit'a not to vote in Zionist Elections. 

33 % of Yerusalmites voted for the Litvishe Backed Candidate Moshe Leon and 29% voted for the Secular Ofer Berkovitch 
Deutsch had only 17% of the vote ... 

There will be a run off election on November 13 since no candidate won 40% of the vote 

At the moment both the Agudah and Shas are talking to the secular Berkovitch ...... to make some sort of deal ...
Let's see what happens!

Bet Shemesh "Frum Soldiers" Put Dr. Aliza Bloch In As Mayor .....

The Bet Shemesh race for Mayor was a virtual tie until they counted the ballots of the Frum IDF soldiers.... 

This is a "potch" in the face to those who abuse frum soldiers in uniform in Bet Shemesh and in Yerushalyim ......

All the "gedoilim" ordered their sheep to vote for the "do nothing" Mayor Abutbul who had a Bracha from the Viznitzer Rebbe of Bet Shemesh ....

The "puppet" of the Chareidim will now have to work for a living..

His own supposed "backers" the chareidim from Bet Shemesh Gimmel ignored the brachois and kallalois of their respective "gedoilim" and voted for Aliza!
Even the entire Likkud slate of Bet Shemesh got voted in for City Council!

Abutbul may have gotten a bracha from the Viznitzer, but it seems that Hashem also gives brachas and  Dr. Aliza Bloch, a staunch supporter of the draft, got one from her CREATOR!

Yesterday,  things started looking bleak for the Chareidie Mayor Abutbul .... So Satmar activists (who "officially" ordered the sheep not to vote) from the Abutbul headquarters in Beit Shemesh contacted the Satmar Rebbe's residence in Kiryat Yoel-Monroe in the early hours of the morning and briefed him on the interim results and the  battle being conducted in the city. Rebbe blessed them that their activity will bear fruit ..... 

It did "bear fruit" .... but he didn't need "fruit," he needed votes ......  

Kol Hakovod to the Frum IDF Boys of Bet Shemesh and the Chareidim of Bet Shemesh Gimmel... you guys came thru ....

The "Shabbos Shabbos" screamers will have to find another city to pull off their disgusting shenanigans! 

Listen to Moshe Abutbul Former Mayor of Beit Shemesh getting a bracha from the Admor of Vizhnitz Bet Shemesh, last night ..........

It didn't work ......

Young Israel refutes post-Pittsburgh Trump criticism

Those who criticize President were doing so prior; it is unseemly that they would use this massacre to denounce President at this time.'

The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI), representing 25,000 member families in 135 branch synagogues throughout the United States, Canada, and Israel, today addressed criticism directed at President Trump in the wake of the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

“We were horrified to hear the news about the anti-Semitic murderous rampage against Jews praying at Congregation Etz Chaim in Pittsburgh," NCYI said. "Like our fellow Jewish organizations, we released a statement expressing unity with the victims, and we reached out to our Young Israel Synagogue several blocks away to offer assistance in the aftermath of this tragedy. Our hearts ache and our souls cry out for the shattered families in Pittsburgh.

CHILLING FOOTAGE: Phone Video Shows Passengers Boarding Fatal Flight

Like untold numbers of spontaneously shot smartphone videos, Paul Ferdinand Ayorbaba’s most recent was not a work of art, full of the backs of heads and the constant bobbing and disorientating pans and zooms that are a signature of mass digital culture.

But its mundane details have been transformed by tragedy into something deeply chilling — the last images of some of the 189 people who perished in terrifying circumstances little more than an hour after the video was shot.

Just minutes after takeoff, their Lion Air flight plunged into the Java Sea, tearing apart the plane and the people in it.

Ayorbaba traveled frequently within Indonesia on business and the boarding video was perhaps meant to comfort his wife, Inchy Ayorbaba, who felt a little anxious about the trip to an outlying island he’d never visited

“It was his last contact with me, his last message to me,” she said in an interview with Indonesian TV at a police hospital where she’d taken their three children for DNA tests to help with victim identification.

The End is Near For Diaspora Jewry

By

 Daniel Krygier

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 22 Heshvan 5779 – October 31, 2018

{Originally posted to the MIDA website}

We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the Jewish diaspora.  While the anti-Semitic terrorist attack against a synagogue in Pittsburgh is a grave warning for American Jewry, the danger for Jews in Scandinavian countries, France and Britain has been evident for some time.

5 Who Obama freed from Gitmo in exchange for Bergdahl join Taliban

Somewhere Obama is reading this and smiling!!!

 Five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined the insurgent group’s political office in Qatar, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday.

They will now be among Taliban representatives negotiating for peace in Afghanistan, a sign some negotiators in Kabul say indicates the Taliban’s desire for a peace pact.

Others fear the five, all of whom were close to the insurgent group's founder and hard-line leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, bring with them the same ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam that characterized the group's five-year rule that ended in 2001 with the U.S.-led invasion.

"The Taliban are bringing back their old generation, which means the Taliban have not changed their thinking or their leadership," said Haroun Mir, political analyst in the Afghan capital. "What we are more worried about is if tomorrow the Taliban say 'we are ready to negotiate,' who will represent Kabul? That is the big challenge because the government is so divided, not just ideologically but on ethnic lines."

Efforts to find a peaceful end to Afghanistan's protracted war have accelerated since Washington appointed Afghan-American Zalmay Khalilzad as envoy to find a peaceful end to America's longest war, which has already cost the U.S. more than $900 billion.

9/11 terrorist back on the streets... and treated like a hero

Freed early from his cell, the twisted money man behind attack that killed 2,996 is mobbed by well-wishers back home in insult to those who died.

One of only two men to be jailed over the 9/11 terror attacks is back in his home country as a free man – where he is being given a hero's welcome.

The Daily Mail tracked down Mounir el-Motassadeq to a suburb of Marrakesh where he is now living in the family home with his wife and children.

In the first sighting of him since he was deported from Germany following his early release from prison, he was seen being greeted by well-wishers as he returned from prayers at his local mosque.

A friend of the family described scenes of jubilation on his return and said people were coming from all over Morocco to see him.

Driver Who Killed Family of 8 Was USING HIS CELLPHONE and was DUI

The driver who caused a horrific fiery crash in Israel on Tuesday morning that left a family of 8 R”L dead in the vehicle he struck, appeared to be distracted by his cellphone and was under the influence of drugs.

According to Magen David Adom, two vehicles collided head-on on Route 90 in the Dead Sea area, with one bursting into flames.

Paramedics and EMTs responded, finding the left parents and their 6 children trapped in the burning vehicle.

The victims have been identified as the Atar family, Frum residents of Psagot, a Yishuv in the Binyamin Regional Council of Shomron with about 300 families.

Yariv (father – 45), Shoshi (mother – 47), Yaakov Yisroel (12), Ateres (11), Ayala (9), Moriah (7), Yedid (5) and Avigayil (3) all perished in the blaze.