AOC Slaps Liberal Jews in the Face With Her Decision to Withdraw From Rabin Memorial

 

Yitzhak Rabin was famous for saying that people make peace with their enemies – not with their friends.

Israelis were reminded of this maxim on Saturday by Rabin’s granddaughter, Noa Rothman, who tweeted her grandfather’s saying in response to a decision by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the popular, progressive New York congresswoman, to withdraw from an event in memory of the late prime minister.

The October 20th event was being organized by Americans for Peace Now in memory of Rabin who was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist for his efforts to achieve peace with the Palestinians.

Ocasio-Cortez – or AOC as she is known – had initially confirmed her participation alongside Rothman and “Homeland” actor Mandy Patinkin.

But she then came under fire from a number of pro-Palestinian groups which described Rabin, a career IDF officer before entering politics, as a war criminal, for reportedly expelling Arabs from their homes in the War of Independence in 1948, and for calling for brutal measures to repress the First Intifada, a violent Palestinian uprising in the late 1980s.

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How Zionists Saved 100,000 Hungarian Jews during the waning months of World War II.

Hungarian Jews During WW2

You will not find the following testimony in "der yid" or any "frum" publications.... Why? .... because it defeats their narrative...

In some "frum" articles I did find that they admitted that the Zionist organizations saved thousands of Jews... but they write that the Zionists  saved only Zionists.... 

Well... of course.... ,,,first of all, the "frummies' didn't believe that Hitler would come to Hungary and they also refused to cooperate with any Zionist organizations... which is well documented; second of all... people tend to first try to save those they know and are close to ... it's not that they refused on principle to save those that weren't Zionist but they did what all organizations do ...

I remember when Chabad did everything to get Chabad Chassidim out of Communist Russia, it's not that they wouldn't save any Jew but their priority, understandably was to Chabad Chassidim. In Williamsburg and Crown Heights I remember Satmar collecting money to send packages to Jews in Rumania.. so who got those packages? Of course Satmar sent packages to people that they knew who were followers.. and I have no doubt that they meant well .... but do you think that a Zionist Jew living in Communist Roumania got a Satmar package? I don't think so ....

Also I remember well when the Heimishe Rabbanim and All Roshei Yeshivos were against the Communist Russia protests in Manhattan ...

They never sent anyone to the protests but were there early to protest the Israeli Consulate ..

Turns out that all those who escaped Communist Russia praised the protests and said they were comforted to know that they were not forgotten .

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by Alex Sternberg

My Hungarian parents were both survivors of Auschwitz. I heard their stories often while growing up. I never asked, but always wondered why there was no resistance. Why did 600,000 Hungarian Jews go “like sheep to their slaughter?”

As we reflect 75 years after the end of World War II, we have much documentation about great resistance to the Nazis in many countries: Poland, France, Belgium, Greece, Albania and more. From Britannica to Wikipedia, there are long lists. But Hungary is missing. 

In fact, there was resistance in Hungary, as I discovered in my research for Recipes from Auschwitz, a book I wrote. I came across Brothers for Resistance and Rescue, by David Gur, a Hungarian Jew who was part of the Resistance. Rafi Benshalom, another leader, also described the resistance movement in We Struggled for Life.

I met with Gur in Israel and was inspired to learn more.

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Covid is Spreading in Frum Communities. Why are people still not wearing masks? ... "if it’s meant to be, I’ll get sick.”

 

A sign on a shoe store said customers would be required to wear masks. Inside, however, two women shopped with their faces uncovered.

At an electronics store nearby, a sign posted on the window instructed customers to wear masks “due to local mandates.” Still, a man was served, unmasked, at the counter.

The scene repeated itself Wednesday all over Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn where it’s common to see few people on the street wearing masks that are considered among the strongest lines of defense against transmitting the coronavirus.

In the New York borough’s Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, cases of COVID-19 are on the rise. New cases from six Orthodox neighborhoods, including Williamsburg, make up 20% of the city’s total, according to data released this week by the city’s Department of Health. Three more in Brooklyn — Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst — as well as Kew Gardens and Edgemere-Far Rockaway in Queens are the others.

While those neighborhoods encompass a wide range of Orthodox practice, including yeshivish Orthodox, Syrian and Hasidic communities, they have one noticeable attribute in common: Mask wearing is not consistent.

In Williamsburg, home to the Satmar Hasidic community, mask wearing on the street is rare.

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Watch Donald Trump's Perfect Debate Response To His Tax Forms

 

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Last year in Jerusalem

by Penny Cagan 

Last year I spent Yom Kippur in Israel. It was my first time in Israel, and I had neglected to check the calendar. When I booked my Jerusalem hotel and flight, I had failed to realize that coming at a time when everything was shut down for two days was not optimal.

I have never considered myself a religious person and was raised essentially as a “Yom Kippur Jew.” My family went to synagogue only on the High Holidays to mostly appease my grandparents who came to the United States from Lithuania. My paternal grandfather was deeply religious, and I never remember seeing him without a prayer book by his side. He terrified me because he had a deep stillness within him that was unknowable.

What does a non-religious Jew do on Yom Kippur in Jerusalem when there are no tours, or open restaurants or shops? I walked through the Old City of Jerusalem until I reached the Western Wall and I spent Yom Kippur afternoon there just sitting with all the women dressed in white. There was the same stillness in the air that I remember emanating from grandfather. It was one the quietest and most moving experiences of my life.

The moment I came home to New York, I started planning to return to Israel the following year. Unfortunately, with the pandemic, that will not happen this year. But I also started seeking a place in the Jewish community that I felt so disconnected from. I spent last Autumn visiting synagogues in the city each Friday night. New York City is blessed with so many diverse and inclusive synagogues. I visited the large, grand synagogues that are deeply established in the city’s Jewish roots and the small upstarts that hold services in church community rooms.  I finally found my place in the Romemu synagogue on the Upper West Side and became a member a week before the coronavirus shut down.

In early January I read about the Daf Yomi cycle where people from around the world read one portion of the Talmud each day. I jumped into the cycle with the hope I would discover the secrets of my religion and heritage, and everything that I found unknowable in my grandfather’s quietness. The journey has been difficult and at times I have been convinced that I cannot carry on and am not sure how much more of eruv concentric circles of 2,000 cubit feet I can bear. But I have come to connect with wonderful, dedicated, kind-hearted friends from around the world who are on the same journey. We have found each other in our common struggle to decipher the text and live our lives during the time of a pandemic. And through this all, I have found my Jewish center. I have traveled very far to come home.

Best wishes for an easy fast on Yom Kippur and your own coming home this year, wherever that will take you.

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Rabbanit Miriam Levinger passes away

 Rabbanit Miriam Levinger, the wife of the late Rabbi Moshe Levinger, passed away overnight Monday, at 83.

She had been evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Yom Kippur night in serious condition.

A spokesman for the Jewish community in Hebron, Noam Arnon, said, "The Jewish community in Hebron and all lovers of Hebron and the Land of Israel mourn the passing of Rabbanit Miriam Levinger, who passed away on the night of Yom Kippur. She was a symbol and role model of devotion and pioneering, and with her own hands brought about the redemption of the city.”

“Rabbanit Levinger's leadership and power led the settlement in the heart of Hebron and the historical return of the Jewish people to their first hometown. Her pioneering deeds will be written forever in the history of the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. Our condolences to her entire family.”Rabbanit Levinger led the return to the historic Beit Hadassah building in Hebron and the reestablishment of the Jewish community of Hebron in 1979. Residents of Hebron are currently praying for her recovery at the Cave of the Patriarchs while adhering to Health Ministry guidelines.

Rabbanit Levinger and her husband Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who passed away in 2015, have 11 children and dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In 2019, Miriam won the Jerusalem Prize "for her blessed work over the decades with great dedication for the Jewish settlement in the city of Hebron."

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R’ Moshe Harari 46, Niftar From COVID-19, Twenty Others Hospitalized in Lakewood

 R’ Moshe Harari Z”L of Lakewood. He was 46.

Sourcess ay that he was Niftar from complications from COVID-19. He was taken to the hospital on Erev Yom Tov, and was Niftar on Yom Kippur.

R’ Moshe Z”L is the son of Chacham Eliezer, a prominent Rav in Flatbush.

He leaves behind his wife and two children.

Meanwhile, there were around twenty Lakewood residents hospitalized in the past few days, it what is clearly a “second wave”.

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Biden Predicted that He would be "Dead and Gone in 2020"

 

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Nadler "Craps" On Live TV

 

 I’m not kidding. I mean, look at the footage. 

It sure looks like something bad happened and he tried to scurry off as quickly as possible. 

There’s no way no one noticed obviously. First, he’s right there next to Nancy Pelosi. Second, he’s a top Democrat, chair of the House Judiciary Committee. And third, he’s front and center at the speaker's presser. That shuffle is not going to fool anyone. There’s no covert slide away from the Speaker of the House in any situation. Also, we all know that’s not how you walk, sir.

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Police pull infected worshiper from Jerusalem synagogue

 

Police removed a man who was infected with the coronavirus from a Jerusalem synagogue on Sunday, shortly before the start of the Yom Kippur holiday.

The man was apparently aware that he had the virus and was supposed to be in quarantine.

“A short time ago, police received a report of the presence of a diagnosed coronavirus carrier in one of the synagogues in the Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood in Jerusalem,” police said in a statement.

“Police officers arrived on the scene, located him, wrote him a fine of NIS 5,000 and escorted him back to his home where he is required to stay in isolation,” police said in a statement.

Prayer services have become a bone of contention in Israel’s coronavirus policy, as cases surge during the Jewish High Holiday season.

Authorities fear group prayer services during the holidays could further spread the virus, but lawmakers were unable to agree on prayer and protest restrictions in lockdown measures approved by the cabinet last week.

Officials are reportedly worried about students in ultra-Orthodox yeshivas returning home to their families and infecting them with the virus after Yom Kippur, which ends on Monday evening.

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