Harav Hutner and The Mufti of Jerusalem

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First a brief background.....

Harav Yitzchok Hutner was best known for being the Rosh Yeshiva of Chaim Berlin. 

He was born in Warsaw and his background was Chassidish (Gerer) and Litvish..and as a bachur he learned by Harav Nosson Tzvi Finkel in the Slabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania.

 He later joined some of the bochrim of Slabodka to establish the Chevron Yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael and narrowly escaped the 1929 Chevron Massacre because he happened to be away for the weekend. 

While in Eretz Yisrael he became very close to Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook z"l ..and became his talmid .... when Rav Hutner was about to publish his sefer "Torat Ha'Nazir" he made sure to get a haskama from Harav Kook.

After the chevron pogrom, Rab Hutner returned to Warsaw and moved to Germany and studied philosophy at the University of Berlin... where he became close to two future rabbinical giants, Harav JB Soloveitchik and Rav Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the future Lubavitcher Rebbe....

There were rumors that Rav Hutner subsequently became a fierce opponent of Chabad, but that has been quashed since there are letters in existence today that show that he corresponded regularly with the Lubavitcher Rebbe  throughout his lifetime, seeking his views on a variety of halakhic, chassidic and kabbalistic subjects, and occasionally seeking his blessing. Harav Hutner also had several lengthy private audiences with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, during which they conversed for long periods of time, and that is all well documented.

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Infect me: .......Keren, 29, volunteers to catch coronavirus to help end pandemic

Keren Pedersen

In Yiddish there is an expression:

"es fehlt nisht kein meshigaim" "there is no lack of crazy people" but you know what? Better her than me...

Fresh from graduating college, Keren Pedersen is gearing up for her next challenge: Exposure to the novel coronavirus.

She wants to introduce SARS-CoV-2 into her body, convinced that by doing so, she will help to speed up vaccine development. Pedersen, 29, who immigrated from the US to Israel as a child, thinks it will be a “very unpleasant process” but feels “passionate” about taking part.

She is one of 61 Israelis who have signed up for an international initiative gathering volunteers who are willing to test potential vaccines by receiving either shots or placebos and then being exposed to the virus in a controlled environment.

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Israeli startup will test out '3-D printed steaks' in high-end restaurants

Trying to capitalize on the fast-growing global market for meat alternatives, an Israeli startup company has created a plant-based steak using a 3-D printer.

Redefine Meat announced Tuesday that it would begin testing its vegan steaks in high-end restaurants ahead of a more large-scale distribution.

The company makes what it calls Alt-Steak with industrial-scale 3-D food printers using its plant-based formulations. By printing with multiple materials, Redefine says it can create “sustainable, high-protein, no-cholesterol steaks that look, cook, and taste like beef.”

The product has a 95 percent smaller environmental impact than producing actual beef, the company says.

Redefine plans to sell its 3-D meat printers and alt-meat formulations to restaurants beginning in 2021. The restaurants can print steaks to be softer or harder, or juicier with less fat, for example.

The worldwide market for meat alternatives is expected to reach $140 billion annually, according to the company.

Redefine, based in Rehovot in central Israel, says on its website that its products “are designed to appeal to the world’s hundreds of millions of ‘flexitarians’ or ‘conscious carnivores’ who seek to reduce their meat consumption, often as part of their personal sustainability efforts.”

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ADL aligning itself with Al Sharpton the Instigator of the Murder of Yankel Rosenbaum

by Josh Nass

As someone who has worked in media for the better part of the last decade, I've been quite disappointed at the way certain figures who have demonstrated themselves to be bigots with tremendous amounts of prejudice have been normalized. 

None have been as effective in their bids for normalization and acceptance by mainstream society, as the "Reverend" Al Sharpton. 

Besides for his maintenance of a considerable media presence on MSNBC and his hosting of his own program on the network, he is still routinely introduced on various programs as a "civil rights activist." Indeed, the accolades continue being sent his way, even given his troubling background.

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Joe Biden calls TV reporter a 'lying dog face' after being asked if he has been tested for cognitive decline

Joe Biden snapped at a Fox News reporter who asked if he has been tested for 'cognitive decline', branding the man a 'lying dog face' during a press conference on Tuesday. 

The presumptive Democratic nominee appeared to briefly lose his cool after he was questioned over his mental sharpness during a campaign event at a high school in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.  

As the press conference drew to a close, the reporter raised his hand to ask a final question, before being immediately interrupted by Biden who called him a 'lying dog face.'  

The reporter then continued: 'I'm 65, I don't have the word recollection that I used to have, I forget my train of thought from time to time, you've got 12 years on me, sir -  have you been tested for some degree of cognitive decline?' 

Biden, appearing annoyed, responded defensively, saying he is 'constantly tested'.

'All you gotta do is watch me and I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man I’m running against,' he said. 

The former vice president's mental acuity and age has become the subject of media scrutiny and a target for President Trump and his campaign who have tried to push the narrative that Biden is the one who's addled. 

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Satmar Van Curses Israelis .... Has Sign That Curses Jews and Says "Free Palestine"

Well.... guys I heard the argument .... that's "Neturei Karta! ....not Satmar ...." Satmar Rebbe threw them out!"

Well not so fast..... they quote the Satmar V'yoel Moshe" all the time and were all "educated" in Satmar Moisdois ..
Maybe the Satmar Rebbe threw out a bunch of them .... very few in fact and never condemned them in any of his "official" drashos ...
This is the direct result of Satmar SHIT'ah! 

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Watch the Always Wrong Dr. Fauci In March Tell People NOT To Wear a Mask

If we had done the opposite of everything he said, things would have been so much better. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been wrong every step of the way, always giving the wrong advice, always making totally inaccurate predictions (see the list ). 

Here's one more example - on March 8th he tells 60 Minutes that people should NOT wear a mask!

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2,500-year-old seals may show Jews rebuilding Jerusalem after 1st Temple exile

Rare evidence of when and how Jerusalem was resettled after the Babylonian exile of 586 BCE has been discovered in an excavation in the City of David, just outside the Old City walls.

The two recent discoveries in an ongoing excavation in the Givati parking lot — a clay “official” seal impression and a strange DIY pottery sherd seal with fake writing — help illuminate the enigma that is 6th century BCE Jerusalem history. There are only 10 other similar artifacts discovered in Israel that date to the Persian period (circa 536 BCE-333 BCE).

“The Persian period is a black hole in archaeology,” Israel Antiquities Authority’s Dr. Yiftah Shalev told The Times of Israel on Tuesday. “Every time we find something, it’s like lighting a new candle — it gives a new light.”

Whereas the seal impression is made in an official imperial style, perhaps depicting a god, the crude clay seal is locally made, presumably by an illiterate underling. Combined, said Shalev, the seal and seal impression illustrate all levels of officialdom in the reviving city. They indicate, he added, that after the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the Jews, Jerusalemites were rebuilding the city, including its bureaucracy, as told in the Bible.

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Victory For Yeshivas as Supreme Court strikes down state ban on taxpayer funding for religious schools

I know that in some States and cities ... parents practically no tuition... For example, Milwaukee and I believe in Cleveland parents pay very little in tuition, since those states have "free choice" for all students....

Since New York State has Charter Schools which they fund, they will have to fund Yeshivas as well, as I understand it ......... I wonder how much parents will need to pay in tuition if this is implemented? I really hope that works out so all Jewish children will be able to afford a Jewish education.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a ban on taxpayer funding for religious schools, in a narrow but significant win for the school choice movement.

In the 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court essentially backed a Montana tax-credit scholarship program that gave residents up to a $150 credit for donating to private scholarship organizations, helping students pay for their choice of private schools. The state's revenue department made a rule banning those tax-credit scholarships from going to religious schools before the state's supreme court later struck down the entire program.

“A State need not subsidize private education. But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious," Roberts wrote in the court's opinion.

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Carl Reiner Dead at 98 .....

Carl Reiner’s legendary, seven-decade-long career in television, film, books and Broadway came to an end Monday when he died at his home in Beverly Hills.

But the Bronx-born 98-year-old’s legacy will live on forever.

Born on March 20, 1922, to Jewish immigrants from Austria and Romania, Reiner, a true Renaissance man, made a permanent imprint on American comedy.

The entertainment icon won nine Emmys, a Grammy and a place in the Recording Academy’s Hall of Fame, acted in over 40 films, held countless TV roles — including variety-show host Alan Brady on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” — directed 15 movies and wrote more than 20 books, among them memoirs and children’s stories.

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