No more dead ends: Israeli app helps navigate graveyards

An Israeli-developed app offers turn-by-turn voice directions to help cemetery visitors navigate large graveyards in search of a loved one's resting place.

 "It will change everything," said Yehuda Hanfling, a service manager for Chevra Kadisha, the main group that oversees Jewish burials in Israel. The app, 'Gravez' is only available in Israel for now, but its developers plan to expand globally.

For a person visiting a grave or making their way to a funeral, finding the exact location can be tough in a large cemetery that is constantly changing.

"People who haven't been to graves for years and want to reach (the grave) get lost because graves have been added, paths have been added everywhere," Hanfling said. Chevra Kadisha began operating the app in September.

By providing real-time, turn-by-turn directions on smartphones, Gravez aims to save cemetery goers a lot of stress, and time, in reaching the grave they are looking for.

The developers, Corido, used drones and image processing tools to map over 1.3 million graves in 30 cemeteries in Israel so far for pedestrian and vehicle navigation, said Guy Liany, partner chief executive of Corido.

"We map all the geographical elements, the paths, the plots, interest points, everything that depicts the outline of the cemetery," said Liany, adding that the cemetery managers constantly update the system.

A cemetery that contains an average of 30 thousand to 40 thousand graves can be mapped within several days. The app is free for private users but cemetery operators need to purchase the system. The price depends on the size of the grounds.

The app can also suggest nearby parking and provide on-screen prayers traditionally said by the grave. The developers plan in the future to provide paid services like flower delivery or cleaning and renovating tombstones.

"Asra Kadisha" Extortionists Run Away When Women Sing .....

The Atra Kadisha group is famous for disturbing constriction works and archeological excavations around the country on account of protecting Jewish graves, often asking for bribe money to evacuate and allow the costly work to continue. 

However, the group possess no archaeological knowledge and often arbitrarily provokes protests despite professional surveys and excavations ruling out any presence of such ancient graves.

  

They came to Shoham for a second time late June and as usual, got in the construction pit and halted works despite an Antiquities Authority report that determines no graves ever existed in the area. Local women were outraged to hear about the demand for bribe and quickly arrived in the scene, where they burst out singing Halleluiah.

AOC Apologizes and Unblocks Hikind On Twitter Following Lawsuit

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed by former Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who accused the lawmaker of violating the First Amendment by blocking him on Twitter.

In a statement, Ocasio-Cortez said on Monday that she had “reconsidered” her decision to block Hikind from her account. She conceded that Hikind, an outspoken conservative, was exercising his constitutionally-protected right to free speech by criticizing her on Twitter.

The announcement, first reported by the New York Post, comes just one day before Ocasio-Cortez was scheduled to testify in federal court in Brooklyn.

Lady Hatzalah Wants an Ambulance and 49 Rabbanim Without Consulting their Rebbitzins ..Fight Against It

New York’s all-women Hasidic EMTs are requesting an ambulance licence from the city — sparking outrage from an Orthodox men-only crew that doesn’t want them to exist in the first place.

Ezras Nashim — America’s first ladies-only EMT group — argued Wednesday for permission to operate an ambulance within a two-square mile area of Borough Park to serve Orthodox women who feel uncomfortable being cared for by male first responders.

“It’s the cultural norm of women in the Brooklyn Hasidic community to lead their lives in modesty,” Jim Deering, the group’s attorney, said during a public hearing at Methodist Hospital Wednesday evening.

“It is that cultural modesty and the trauma that can result from it not being honored that forms the need for Ezras Nashim’s ambulance application,” Deering said.

Ezras Nashim – Hebrew for “helping women” – launched in 2012 after the gals were denied membership in the Orthodox ambulance corps Hatzaloh.

Goyim Are Beating the Hell Out of Jews in Boro-Park and Jews are Quiet ...

I am old enough to remember when the Satmar Rebbe of Monroe, Rabbi Aron Teitelbaum parroted the meraglim and said that a Jew cannot move to Israel because he is in mortal danger ... turns out that more Jews were murdered last year in the US than in 10 years in Israel... 

Jews are being beaten in Boro-Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg on a daily basis and their only hope for safety is Mayor DeBlasio! 

Most assaults are not even reported!

Multiple victims were assaulted in what the Boro Park community is calling a string of hate crimes.

Sources say that the disturbing incidents started at around 12:20AM (Friday night / Shabbos morning) on New Utrecht Avenue and 53rd Street. As can be seen in a video,  a vehicle stops, a few men jump out and begin chasing two Hasidic boys down the street. The victims managed to get away.

A few minutes later, the same pack of thugs drove down 48 Street near the Bobover Bais Medrash, and drove past a Hasidic man walking. They punched the man from the car and drove away.

Reform Rabbi Rachel Korbrin Says Halloween is a "mitzvah' of "V’ahavta l’reiacha kamocha. Love your neighbor as yourself. "

Rabbi Korbrin Not In  Her Halloween Costume

The late Radio personality Bob Grant would always quip...

"It's sick out there and getting sicker"

Those words were true when he said them some 30 years ago ...and much truer now

Instead of speaking about the Jewish holidays that just passed .... Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos and Simchas Torah .... this moronic imbecile who calls herself a Rabbi, in an article in The Jewish Times, takes words of our holy Chazal, twists them to fit her sick agenda and states that Halloween can bring out the goodness and potential achdus of our Goyishe neighbors!

She says that in order "to keep peace with her children" she will no longer stop her children from dressing up on this pagan holiday and in fact on this holiday she will give her children a chance to "embrace Halloween."

Those of you that attended Yeshivah will never forget the vicious beatings and violence of those Trick or Treating when we came home from Yeshivah ...

Yeshivah boys were frightened to walk the streets and I remember many years where we would need special patrols to make sure that we weren't hurt... 

Our parents that were Holocaust survivors would look out the windows to watch and with tear in their eyes bless Hashem that we arrived safely home...

and this piece of turd wants her children to "embrace" this violent holiday!

I hope someone takes her and shoves some m&m's where the sun doesn't shine and yells "trick or treat!"

 

The mitzvah of Halloween: The Jewish case for trick-or-treat

“Do your kids do Halloween?” Is the question that, as a rabbi, I seem to get asked every October.

Gerer "Breakaway" Starts New Yeshiva .... Main Donors to Present Gerer Rebbe Freeze Donations ...“The train has left the station,”

Rabbi Shaul Alter 

The unprecedented split in the Gerrer hassidic dynasty deepened on Thursday as a splinter group formally established its first separate institution – a yeshiva katana, or middle school – for the children of families who have already joined the new community.

Over the recent Simhat Torah holiday, Rabbi Shaul Alter, the first cousin of the Gerrer grand rabbi, Yaakov Aryeh Alter, held separate prayer services for some 300 hassidim, thereby actualizing a schism that has been several years in the making. The schism, the first in the history of the Gerrer community, threatens to damage the prestige and political power which it has enjoyed due to its size and financial wealth.

The establishment of separate educational institutions is a critical step needed to provide the families who have joined the breakaway community with schools and yeshivas for their children, as the divide between the two groups becomes more severe and shared institutions become impossible.

New York Nightclub Playes "Reb Shayeleh Krastirer" Song "Lichvoid Halloween"

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Jewish Lady found Her Birth Parents — and they were Famous Con Artists

It was the line about her birth mother being “a strong and expert swimmer” that stopped Donna Freed cold.

In 2010, Freed, a London radio journalist, was reading a five-page, bare-bones report that she had obtained about her biological mother from a Manhattan adoption agency. It described the unnamed woman who had given her up as an infant in the vaguest of terms: “A 27-year-old, Caucasian, Jewish, single female” who lived on the Eastern Seaboard and worked at an advertising firm.

Oh, and she was a good swimmer.

“Why were they telling me she was a strong swimmer?” said Freed, who grew up in Westchester and began searching for her birth parents after her adoptive mother died in 2009.

Rabbi Yakov Lipschutz Famous Monsey Rav and Father of Yated Publisher Pinchos Lipschutz Dies at 87

HaRav Yakov Halevi Lipschutz ZATZAL, was a long time Rov in Monsey at Khal Bais Yosef. He was 87.

As a Bochur, Rav Lipschutz learned in Torah Vodaas and went to Beis Medrash Elyon in Monsey in 1952. He stayed in Kollel, and never left Monsey.

He was a Rosh Yeshiva in Breuers Yeshiva, and then headed the OU Kashrus Division. He later lead National Kashruth, his own kosher supervision organization.

The Niftar served as Rov of Kehillah Bais Yosef in Monsey for several decades.

A tremendous Talmid Chchom, Rav Lipschutz authored Seforim on Chamish Chumshei Torah.

The Niftar leaves behind an illustrious family of talmidei chachomim and bnei and bnos Torah.