Even the "DEAD" Come Late!

The following is an email that was sent by El Al to every funeral chapel in the NYC area on Tuesday morning. 

Please be advised that ELAL passenger flights recently suffered several departure delays due to late delivery of human remains and documents.

In order to stop this situation the new instructions would apply effective immediately, without exceptions.

All human remains along with the documents must be dropped at ELAL cargo 3 hours prior booked flight departure.

Any later human remains will be moved to the next available flight.

In case of any problem please contact El Al cargo executive office

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

9 year-old Tzvi (Hersh) Elimelech Yechiel Michel Grossman Drowns in Water Park

A terrible tragedy struck the Boro Park community on Tuesday, when word spread of the drowning of a young child.

Tzvi (Hersh) Elimelech Yechiel Michel Grossman Z”L (son of R’ Moshe and Mrs Shaindel), 9-years-old, was on a camp trip with the Belzer Talmud Torah to the Sahara Sam’s Water Park in West Berlin, NJ, where the tragedy occurred at around 7:30PM. The park had been rented out, and there were multiple camps at the park (Vien, Pupa and others).

Emergency personnel did everything they could to save his life, and Paramedics transported the child to Virtua Voorhees, where he was unfortunately Niftar.

Grand New Entrance To Jerusalem Will Transform The Historic Skyline

An ambitious plan for the new entrance to Jerusalem is underway, which will forever change the main entrance to the capital city of Israel.

The new complex, expected to be completed by 2022, spans over 300,000 square meters (328,084 square yards) and is expected to cost about NIS 1.5 billion ($435 million). The project will feature 24 towers, spanning between 24 and 40 flights tall. The towers will include approximately 1.5 million square meters of space that will be used for office space, hotels, housing units, and commerce.

Chief Sfardi Rabbi Yosef Asks Sfardim: "Why Do You Grow Your Peyois, Why Wear Tzizis Outside? It's Not Our Minhag ...

As you guys know, I now live B"H in Israel, I can no longer distinguish a Yeshivishe Sfardi from an Ashkenazi, unless the guy goes over to be the Chazzan ...
Sfardim dress look like Ashkeneizim and dress like them too ...
I'm talking about the "Yeshivishe guys."

Well, now the Sfardi Chief Rabbi, R' Yitzchok Yosef, sharply criticized the Sfardim .... 
He asked where "did they get the minhag of growing wild Peyois like (the sexual pervert) Berland,  wearing Tzizis outside and Techeilis come from?"

Where did "they get the minhag to dress in white?"

In reference to having Techielis is tzizis, he asked:
Did Harav Eliyashiv or Harav Auerbach wear Techeilis?

In reference to wearing tzizis outside, he asked:
"Did Harav Ovadia Yosef or Chacham Yehuda Tzuska wear tzizis outside?"

On growing peyois especially to the pipuk, he asked:
"Did the Ben Ish Chai, the Kaf Hachayim or Harav Yosef have peyois?"

"That's not our Minhag!"

If the Ashkenazim want to grow their peyois, or wear their tzizis outside... Kol Hakovoid....... but we are not Ashkenazim and we shouldn't be imitating them!

So God performs open miracles to clear you of group sex?

Israeli tourists, then suspected of raping a 19-year-old British girl in Ayia Napa, leave the court premises in the eastern Cypriot resort of Paralimni on July 26, 2019. The men have since been exonorated of rape, with the woman's admission that she lied. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)

Last night was extremely difficult for me.

Seeing those Israelis in Cyprus cleared of rape (but guilty of plenty of other stuff) wearing kippot and giving thanks to God for “saving them” made me ill. Part of my reaction was based on what they did. Part of my reaction was based on what they represent.

A quick background on the story:

 A couple of weeks ago, 12 Israelis vacationing in Cyprus were arrested for sexually assaulting (raping) a British tourist. Since then, this woman has retracted her charges and is being charged with placing a false complaint. Having said that, there is no dispute that many of these teens had sexual relations with her, filmed the action, and sent the video out on social media. Anyone wanting to read more about the sordid story can do so here.

Max Berger Self Hating Jew Works For "Pocohantos"

Max Berger, now an aide to Elizabeth Warren, organized and participated in anti-Israel protests and compared IDF anti-terror ops to pogroms.

Days after Israeli ground troops entered the Gaza Strip in 2014, following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens at the hands of Hamas terrorists, a group of far-left millennial Jews gathered to plan a public protest of the military operation.

The new group, which called itself IfNotNow, discussed a public demonstration in front of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an establishment Jewish umbrella group.

Max Berger was one of the planners who urged them to take it a step further: The protesters should get arrested at the Presidents’ Conference headquarters in New York, he suggested. And they should recite kaddish, the traditional Jewish mourner’s prayer, for Israelis and Arabs who had died in the fighting.

When the protest took place, on July 28, 2014, that’s what they did. Berger was one of nine Jews arrested in the Presidents’ Conference building.

No excuses for remaining outside the land! Parshas Mattos ....And The Birth of Bnei Brak

Gleaned from the works of Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook z"l 

Moses’ rage was palpable. “You have risen in your fathers’ places as a band of sinners!” (Num. 32:14).

When the tribes of Gad and Reuben petitioned not to cross the Jordan River and enter Israel proper, Moses denounced the proposition and lashed out at them. “Why are you trying to discourage the Israelites from crossing over to the Land that God has given them?”

We can certainly understand Moses’ anger and frustration. But this incident took place not long after he was punished for berating the people at Mei Merivah. When he snapped at the people, “Listen now, you rebels!” (Num. 19:10), God informed Moses that he would not be leading the Jewish people into the Land of Israel.

We similarly find that the prophet Isaiah was punished for his harsh criticism when he lamented, “I live among a people of unclean lips” (6:5).

Yet there is no indication that Moses was wrong in his scathing response to the tribes of Gad and Reuben. What was different?

The Rotten State of Orthodoxy

by Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
Jaskoll is a writer and an activist. Cofounder of chochmatnashim.org She loves her people enough to call out the nonsense. See her work at skjaskoll.com

Men's access to the grave of Rabbi Yosef Caro zt"l, in Tsfat, Israel. The men are able to draw close enough to even kiss the grave. (Laura Ben David)
If a picture speaks a thousand words, these images scream volumes. Taken a few weeks ago in the ancient cemetery of Tsfat, they show two sides of the same grave. Rav Yosef Caro zt”l was a mystic, and the author of the Shulchan Aruch, among other works. Thousands come to pray at his graveside. Some have total access to the monument. They can touch it, kiss it, cry on it. Others can talk to the wall behind it.

Women’s ‘access’ to the same grave, from behind a wall. They are unable to even see the grave, let alone approach it, or touch it. (Laura Ben-David)

I cannot think of a better pair of images to illustrate the state of Orthodoxy today, where there is one open accessed reality for men, and one increasingly restrictive reality for women. 

Meah Shearim Guy Punctures Tires of the Guy Who Delivers Chareidie Newspapers While Wearing His Shtrimal

אחת ההתנכלויות למחלק העיתונים  (צילום: באדיבות המצלם)

This guy who calls himself "Duvid" was already caught puncturing tires of Chareidie Newspaper Deliverymen, 4 times!
But the courts released him again...

Taliban Women in Yerushalayim