Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Rabbi Lau

 It has come to our attention that the article below, based on information on the YNet website, had incorrectly reported many of the facts. The true story is also beautiful and we felt it important to share with you the facts straight from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar himself.

In an interview with ESPN, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sorts out the facts as follows:
Reporter’s Question: I have heard this amazing tale about your dad and a boy he helped liberate from a concentration camp at the end of World War II. Would you mind recounting briefly the story of Rabbi Lau and your dad?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: That story — people have gotten that all mixed up. There was a reporter in Israel who put my father into the tank battalion that liberated Dachau.

My dad was a police officer in New York.

One of the guys that he was a police officer with was in a tank battalion that liberated Dachau. Rabbi Lau was a boy in Buchenwald, which was also liberated by black troops, but it was a totally different group than the one that my dad’s friend was in.

The group that helped liberate Buchenwald was the 183rd Combat Engineers, an all black unit.

Reporter’s Question: And that’s who you wrote the book about?

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Farrakhan’s ties to politicians and celebrities run deep

It was all smiles when Louis Farrakhan strode into a weekly luncheon for the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington DC, where he had been invited to address the most powerful black lawmakers in the country.

The year was 2005, and the Nation of Islam boss was greeted by a new up-and-comer among their ranks, a senator from Illinois — Barack Obama.

“He is much better looking than I am,” Obama said, according to Askia Muhammad, a photographer who snapped an image of the future president glad-handing the divisive, anti-Semitic minister.

Muhammad — recognizing the potentially dangerous impact the photo could have on Obama’s well-known White House ambitions — kept the picture buried for 13 years before releasing the image in his book “The Autobiography of Charles 67X” in 2018.

Muhammad — a Nation of Islam member — was probably right to be worried. In his decades in public life, Farrakhan has attacked Jewish people as “satanic;” publicly questioned the Holocaust; blamed Jews for the African slave trade; condemned Judaism as a “dirty religion;” and praised Hitler as a “great man” — financed by Jews.

He has called white people “potential humans” and accused the “white right” of trying to have Obama assassinated. Nation of Islam theology holds that white people are a creation of an evil black scientist named Yakub. Gay marriage is also “satanic” and was only introduced to Africa by whites.

He also denies Osama bin Laden planned the 9/11 attacks, calling it a “false flag operation” meant to divert American attention away from President Bush “stealing” the 2000 election.

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Chareidie Father in Beit Shemesh Arrested After Choking His Son To Unconsciousness On Shabbas

A 38 year-old Chareidie from Beit Shemesh is still in custody after choking his son last shabbos over a dispute about which yeshivah he would attend next zman.

The boy was still unconscious when Magan David Adom arrived. After examining the child they determined that he was choked after noticing rope marks on the child's neck.
Police were called and after searching the apartment and finding the rope, they arrested the father.

The father refused to be taken by police car to the station house because as he explained "it would be chillul shabbas."
The Zionist police ignored him and forcibly carried him to the police car. 

The father who was worried about violating shabbas, stopped talking to police under the advice of his lawyer Leah Zemel, but not before he told them that the child went berserk after their "yeshiva" discussion and to calm him down, he choked him..
I don't think that the father will be giving "parenting classes" anytime soon.

The Judge Oran Silberman, extended the "the tzaddik's" custody in jail, stating "we have a very dangerous situation here, where a father went searching for rope to choke his child and choked him until he became unconscious."

After further inquiry, DIN found out that the child is in fair condition.

No word on which Yeshiva the child will ultimately attend...

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Zerah Shimshon .. Parshas Mattos/Masei

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Whay Am I Jew ... Why?

Listen to this powerful speech by Bari Weiss .....

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Dr Zelenko Needs Our Prayers

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R' Shlomo Carlebach Discussing His Rebbe R' Rabbi Shlomo Heiman

חבל על תאבדין 

Reb Shlomo Heiman was the first Rosh Yeshivah of Torah Vodaat from 1935 to 1944. He was a true "gadol hador" and was one of the rebbis of Shlomo Carlebach...

Listen how he describes his rebbe ......

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Starving People Rob Food in Shoe Boxes

Don't be fooled by the fat behinds of the looters, they are starving nonetheless..

Warning: Video contains crude language and profanity... 

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Everyone Makes Mistakes Even the Israeli Police

by Shia Getter

Yes, it was my daughter.

You saw her crying on a viral video that circulated internationally, when policemen were trying to issue her a “doch,” a ticket for holding her mask in her hand and not wearing it, as she had just sipped a slush on a hot summer’s day. That was her, hysterically attempting to call my wife and me, as her younger siblings looked on. That was my 13-year-old struggling to get her mask in place as the policemen stood around, filing an official report, and a crowd gathered around her.

Yes, my daughter was harassed by the police — something no child should ever have to go through. And, yes, we agree that policymakers and law enforcement officers need to use (a lot more) common sense and sensitivity. Indeed, we all want our kids to feel that police are there to help and protect them, and not to attack.

But that’s not what I want to focus on.

You see, despite the trauma that day, despite the incredible amount of (unwanted) attention she received, something unbelievably heartwarming came out of this. Basya, my daughter, awakened the tremendous good in people.

Since that incident on July 6, my phone has been ringing incessantly: people from around the world have been calling to express their support, love, and friendship. These are not necessarily people I’m friends with, or even acquainted with. Many are strangers who heard about what we went through and who wanted to stand with us in this time of darkness and confusion. They’re other Jews from across the spectrum of Klal Yisrael, from across the scale of religiosity, people who don’t look at me as a Boyaner chassid or as an Israeli or as someone so vastly different from them. They saw what we went through and they just wanted to express unity, achdus.

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Seven Iranian Ships on Fire ..... Israel?

At least seven ships were on fire in the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr, Tasnim reported on Wednesday, adding that the cause of the fires remains unclear.

Efforts are underway to bring the fire under control, IRNA cited Jahangir Dehghani, the head of the crisis management organization for Bushehr province, as saying.

The incident follows a series of explosions which have rocked Iran in recent weeks.

An explosion occurred at an Iranian chemical plant Monday, Iranian media reported.

The blast allegedly occurred at a gas condensate plant in the Kavian Fariman industrial zone in the Razavi Khorasan Province in eastern Iran. The explosion was caused by a fire which broke out at one of the gas tanks.

Firefighters were able to put out the blaze before it spread to other tanks and caused additional explosions. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

A gas explosion shook a residential building in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, injuring one person, Iran's semi-official ISNA reported.

On Friday, IRIB reported that an explosion was heard in Western Tehran, and electricity had been cut in the area around where the explosion occurred.

Two people were killed in an explosion at a Tehran factory on July 7. An explosion caused severe damage at the Natanz nuclear facility on July 2.

In June, an explosion near a military complex in Parchin area southeast of Tehran rocked the Iranian capital. Authorities blamed that blast on "leaking gas tanks."

13 people were killed in an explosion at a medical center in Tehran on June 30. Tehran Deputy Governor Hamid Reza Goudarzi told state TV that the explosion was caused by a gas leak.

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