New York City yeshivas are operating in the shadows

When I was a kid learning in Yeshivos, I'll never forget what happened when officials of the New York State Lunch Programs showed up... suddenly I noticed children from different yeshivas sitting in our classroom ...

Yeshivas would lend their students to other Yeshivas to make it look like there were more students per class ... to get more "lunch money." This happened in the summer camps as well....

What message is this for children ....? Is this chinuch?

What happened to "emunah?" They were teaching us the concept of "emunah" while they themselves didn't believe in it?

I remember well, that my mother refused to sign the "lunch program" application, even though and G-d knows the truth, she really needed it ... but wouldn't sign since she had a feeling that the program was riddled with fraud!

As Orthodox lawmakers were brazenly cutting the locks off a New York City playground on Tuesday morning, Orthodox children were settling in for a school day just nine blocks away.

The classes at Yeshiva K’tana Torah Vodaath in Brooklyn were the first held in the school building since mid-March, when New York ordered schools closed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In resuming classes, the elementary school joined a number of yeshivas in operating illegally as the school year comes to a close.

The students had to get themselves there without the transportation provided by the city when schools are open.

“Since I suppose all the boys will be going to day camp this summer, let this be the training ground for it,” Rabbi E. Brieger, a teacher at the school, wrote in a letter to families Monday night.

Unlike with the playgrounds, where community leaders are increasingly open about families’ need for a safe place to play, the Orthodox schools that have opened in the past several months appear to be taking deliberate steps to evade notice. 

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Rabbi Gazahi an Ethiopian Who Joined Shas Quit ...After His Statement "Women Showing Their Upper Parts Get Reincarnated as a Cow!

Rabbi Baruch Gazahi, a rabbi who immigrated to Israel at the age of two from Ethiopia, was No. 11 on the Shas Knesset list and – by virtue of passage of the Expanded Norwegian Law enabling ministers and deputy ministers to resign from the Knesset to make room for those next in line on party lists – was on the verge of entering the Knesset.

But on Monday night, just prior to the passage of the Expanded Norwegian Law, a video emerged of him saying during a Torah lecture he delivered four years ago that dressing immodestly was the reason women miscarry and contract breast cancer.

“A woman who was used to revealing her upper parts usually is reincarnated as a cow, whose upper parts are exposed,” Gazahi said in the class. 

“That is why women have to be covered up there. This is one of the reasons women suffer from breast cancer, because everyone looks at them and it causes the evil eye. It is also one of the reasons why women, God forbid, have miscarriages. They post pictures of themselves on Facebook showing their exposed stomachs.”

He was also heard on another video making derogatory comments about Arabs.

These comments caused an uproar, and Shas leader Arye Deri tweeted in response that he spoke to Gazahi, who told him that a few sentences of a two-hour lecture delivered years ago were taken out of context.

“I made clear to him that these remarks are unacceptable and do not represent Shas,” Deri wrote.

On Tuesday, Gazahi quit the Shas list.

There is a "chashash" a suspicion, that Arye Deri leaked the tape to get him thrown out ..... I believe that is true...

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Flynn transcript supports report that Obama Was Ready To Stab Israel On His Way Out the Door but Russia Stopped it!

Russia did not support a UN Security Council Resolution the Obama administration considered pushing to force parameters for a peace agreement on Israel and the Palestinians, recently declassified phone conversations between US President Donald Trump's former adviser Michael Flynn and Russia's ambassador to the US at the time Sergey Kislyak indicate.

The US and Russia denied reports that in December 2016, soon after then-US president Barack Obama allowed UN Security Council Resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlement activity to pass, he pushed a second resolution that would be damaging to Israel. 

The resolution passed because the US abstained, as opposed to its usual veto.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended up convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin to threaten a veto. The resolution was never actually submitted to the UNSC, because it had no chance of passing.

However, the Flynn-Kislyak transcripts declassified late last month, indicated that the story of Putin’s veto of a second Obama-backed resolution – first reported in Israel Hayom this week and further developed by The Jerusalem Post – is, in fact true.

Netanyahu enlisted then-president-elect Donald Trump and his staff to try to block Resolution 2334, and during those efforts, an Israeli source told the Post this week, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon found out that a second resolution was on the way.

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Message to the Mayor From a Heimishe Guy

Message is from Isaac Abraham

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Aunt Jemima Follows Jewish" Frummie" Publications and Will Remove Her Image

A couple of years ago ... some nameless "poisek" came up with a new chumrah. To remove the faces of dead alteh bobbis from frum magazines.... If some elderly lady, 110 years old,a survivor of the Holocaust died ..they would put the photo of her live husband in the publications instead... Was the poisek afraid he would get turned on if he saw her photo?A tzedeikas ? .. Some would answer, I'm sure she wouldn't want her photo in the publication." To that I say .. "she is now in place where she knows the truth" that these chumras didn't make anyone a bigger "yirei shamayim" ... any "baal aveirah" can easily access any lady photo from the internet ... at least let them glance at a tzneesidike women who dedicated herself selfishlessly  to her family and for Torah! Maybe they would get inspired....

Just recently (before covid-19) a prominent lady was honored by a "ladies chesed organization" for her tremendous work in the field of medicine ...This organization placed ads all over with her husband's photo! On the internet! Magazines such as Ami and Mishpacha who have sections catered exclusively to women have no photos of women...

Recently I saw an interesting "shaaleh" in the halacha section of a Torah newspaper.... 

The guy is asking if he is allowed to display photos of his wife and daughters in his own home, because he invites a lot of Yeshivah bochrim for Shabbos meals.

I happened to recognize the name of the guy who asked this sick question, and can tell you and I'm not a poisek ... but knowing his family well ... I'll go out on a limb and venture to say he can display the photos of his wife and daughters ... no problem... no one is getting turned on...

But the publication printed this idiotic "shalleh" and answered him... that he should not "display them prominently"! ...... a guy invites boys, who learn Torah 24/7 and who hopefully have living mothers and some may even have sisters and the "poisek" is afraid that the boys are going to get turned on by the hostess and her daughters by glancing at their photos... mind you, they are in the house meeting in person the host's wife and his daughters, shmoozing with them  and that won't turn the kid on, but what's going to turn him on is a photo from 30 years ago! If we are that afraid of this, then don't invite the boys over, let them eat ptcha in Yeshivah ..

Aunt Jemima is being rebranded with a new name and image, parent company Quaker Oats has announced, acknowledging that the face of the brand was “based on a racial stereotype.”

It was announced on Wednesday morning that the line of pancake mix, syrup, and other breakfast foods will be debut a new look as part of Quaker’s push to “to make progress toward racial equality.”

“We recognize Aunt Jemima’s origins are based on a racial stereotype," said Kristin Kroepfl, vice president and chief marketing officer of Quaker Foods North America, in a statement shared with Fox News. “As we work to make progress toward racial equality through several initiatives, we also must take a hard look at our portfolio of brands and ensure they reflect our values and meet our consumers’ expectations."

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Should Churchill Statue Be Removed? Listen to Stupid Liberal Leader from the UK Answer!

Watch and Cringe!  
When asked if the Statue of Winston Churchill should be removed...
she answers " I haven't personally met him"

Should we tell her that he died in 1965?

Why didn't the reporter ask her 
"would you be willing to meet him in a public forum?’

If it wasn't for Churchill she wouldn't be talking English with her fancy accent, she would be talking German..
and what's amazing is that the interviewer does not call her out on it.
This is a significant media problem today.
They push their agenda/narrative and do not do their job..

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Only in New York..... Can a Violent Criminal be Arrested 100 Times and Be Out on the Street

A career criminal with more than 100 arrests to his name was busted for cruelly shoving a 92-year-old woman into a Manhattan fire hydrant — leaving his victim too scared to walk alone in her own neighborhood.

The injured elder, a Bronx native named Geraldine, spoke to The Post on Tuesday after cops arrested convicted sex offender Rashid Brimmage, 31, and charged him with attacking her.

“I thought a brick hit me or something hit me on the left side of my head, and I went right down and hit my head against the hydrant,” Geraldine, who asked that her last name be withheld for safety reasons, said of the attack. “Blood was coming out, not spurting blood, but blood was dripping.”

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A Reply to Shaul Magid on Satmar Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum’s Anti-Zionist Theology

R' Joel Teitelbaum 

Shaul Magid

In a recent article in Tablet Magazine, Shaul Magid, posits that the world should learn some anti-Zionists ideas from the late Satmarer Rebbe, R' Yoel Teitelbaum z"l...

No ... Magid is not a Satmar Chasid .... far from it... he is an actual radical leftist,  who calls Israel an "Apartheid State" and doesn't want Maalei adumim and Efrat to ever be part of Israel, and would give Chevron to the Palestinians in a heartbeat..

He hates President Trump the best friend Israel ever had, and supported Bernie Sander the self hating Jew ..

 here see a post which appeared on his Facebook page ....

"It makes me proud to be a Jew and an American/Israeli to watch the anti annexation protest in Rabin Square. And proud to have supported Bernie listening to his words to the protestors. Thank you to all in Rabin Square. And thank you Bernie for speaking truth to power

Now a reply to his column;..

by James A. Diamond and Menachem Kellner

In his recent essay for Tablet, professor Shaul Magid, a prominent scholar of Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah, calls for “serious engagement” with Satmar Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum’s anti-Zionist theology. 

In assessing the essay’s credibility, it is important that readers understand what is at stake in order to properly decide whether to take up his clarion call for “serious engagement” with Yoel Teitelbaum’s demonization of Zionism. 

It should not be confused with any left-wing critique of Zionism or territorial claims, or relationship with its neighbors. 
To be clear, Rabbi Teitelbaum could not have cared less about Israel’s economic or foreign policy or about Palestinian rights—his anti-Zionism
was directed at the very heart of the notion of a Jewish homeland. 

Magid’s sympathetic presentation of Teitelbaum’s doctrines strategically omits key details that would undermine his presentation of Teitelbaum’s anti-Zionism as a serious theological alternative.

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Traffic banned from Brooklyn block with new 'Black Lives Matter’ mural

Now your mayor will kill business ,,,, how are delivery trucks going to navigate these streets...?

Look what the dope did to Broadway ... where he banned cars .... business plunged and never recovered ...

Traffic will be banned from a Brooklyn block that’s now home to a sprawling “Black Lives Matter” mural through the end of summer, Mayor de Blasio announced Monday.

The mural, which was painted over the weekend along the roadway on Fulton St. between Marcy and Brooklyn Aves., mimics one installed on Washington, D.C.'s, 16th St. outside the White House last week. Muriel Bowser, the mayor of D.C., also named the stretch Black Lives Matter Plaza.

Mayor de Blasio said the traffic restrictions in Brooklyn are meant to make it easier for New Yorkers to continue the anti-police  demonstrations that began May 25 after the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd at the hands of a white cop. Protests began nationwide in the week following his murder and have continued across the country since, including in the five boroughs.

De Blasio said the car ban will last until the end of summer, but didn’t give a specific end date.

The block serves two busy bus routes, the B44 and the B25, and the mayor said he was working with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on an alternative service plan.

“We’re very supportive of the city’s tribute and are working to mitigate any impacts to customers to the degree possible," said MTA spokesman Tim Minton.

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Over 30 Intelligent Alien Races Could be Living in our Galaxy

Guys.... I'm really in the wrong business......

Here I am, trying to make a couple of bucks waiting for a reader who wants to do "chesed" and clicks on one of my google ads .....

when I could be making millions getting a grant to make a study about alien's in space ... something that can never be proven.......

The study below calculates that there "at least 36 intelligent alien races" in our own galaxy, the "Milky Way."

Are they in quarantine...? Do they talk by davening?

Are they breaking the locks of the parks?

Are they black?, trans-gender? 

Yesterday the media showed thousands of protestors in front of the Brooklyn Museum, in favor of .. get this... "black trans-genders Lives matter"....Tens of Thousands of people who I thought live "normal" lives with "normal" families were protesting to support men that want to dress like women...... 
I am not making this up....

Now  they want to boycott the creator of "Harry Potter" because she insists that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.... 

Here we have a lady, J.K. Rowling, who became a billionaire writing books to millions about a totally fictitious character with totally fictitious adventures ...; everyone loved her, loved getting into her characters that were really just a figment of her imagination ,,,,
so as long as she was writing lies..fiction... she was their hero; she sold over 500 million copies . ...books that do not contain one single word of truth... not one 

but when she does say the truth, makes a statement of fact ... they want to destroy her!

Maybe just maybe the aliens have it right ......they decided to live "17,000 light-years away from earth..
as for me? it's still too close for comfort!

Dozens of intelligent alien races could be living alongside us in the Milky Way, a study has claimed. 

The question of whether there are other life forms within our Universe has long preoccupied scientists.

Now researchers at the University of Nottingham have taken a new approach to estimating the number of possible extraterrestrial civilisations, using the assumption that intelligent life develops on other planets in a similar way as it does on Earth.

They calculate that our galaxy could harbour at least 36 intelligent alien races capable of sending radio signals into space.

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