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"Our Leaders, Askanim & Moisdos Failed Us!

A Plea To My Brothers and Sisters

Joel Ehrenfeld MD

Oct 9 · 9 min read

 As a medical student, the first day on clinical rotations is known to be fraught with nerves and excitement. As students finally start interacting with real patients, they get to put into practice everything they had been studying over the preceding two years, but their actions also start having real-world consequences. When I started my rotations on the surgical service, I was completely overwhelmed. There are so many rules in the operating room, and so many people watching the newbies to make sure we don’t mess up. I got yelled at for walking down the hall without the right hat. I got chastised for not wearing a mask when I was supposed to, and I had to be physically moved (and nearly slapped!) when I came close to breaking the sterile field.

When I started residency training as an anesthesiologist, it was a similar situation. I had to wear my mask ALL the time once the sterile equipment was open in the operating room. I had to learn how to maintain perfect sterility when placing epidurals or needles into spaces that cannot be exposed to germs.

 

Often it felt really horrible when people were quick to spot my lapses. I thought some of the people were mean in how they pointed out my mistakes. And I resented them for it. But my attitude changed over time, and I have come to appreciate the intricacies and importance of infection prevention.

 

I have seen the horrible consequences that laxity in these areas can bring. And I’ve gotten better at my job over time. Now if someone alerts me if my sterile glove grazes a non-sterile surface, I am grateful to them as I go change my glove. When I walk into a patient room and a nurse points out that I’m not wearing my hat, I thank them. I realize that everyone is/was looking out for the safety of those in our care, and we all must do our parts.

 

That is why I’m making this plea. I am calling out my community, not because I want to get anyone in trouble. Not because I want to feel superior. But because we can and need to do a better job at protecting the vulnerable members of society.

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To my fellow New York Jews, I beg: Wear the damn mask!

Few face masks are to be seen Sept. 28 outside Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar synagogue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, despite a local increase in cases of COVID-19 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

by Amy Klein

Driving to a friend’s house in Prospect Park the other day, I witnessed an amazing sight: The minute I crossed over the Williamsburg Bridge, the streets were filled with people not wearing masks. Mothers with gaggles of kids, young couples strolling, men rushing furiously to their next appointments.

And then boom: The minute I exited South Williamsburg into Bushwick, the masks reappeared on people’s faces.

I know it’s not politically correct, but as a traditional Jew, I’m going to tell you who was wearing masks and who wasn’t. In Bushwick, people of all colors were wearing masks. In South Williamsburg, most of the ultra-Orthodox Jews were not.

By the time I crossed over into Clinton Hill and Prospect Park, I was back among the masked Brooklyn gentrifiers.

After I parked my car, I noticed a young Hasid standing on the corner, holding a lulav and etrog, the ritual objects for Sukkot, the current holiday. He was trying to stop passersby with the question, “Are you Jewish?” so he could help bless the citron and the palm fronds. But it was more of a gesture than an audible ask, since this bearded young man in a long black coat was wearing a mask.

One passerby stopped, not to make a blessing, but to shout: “You should get your people to wear a mask!”

“That’s racist,” my sister said when I recounted the story.

“Is it racist to call out the ultra-Orthodox Jews if they’re the ones in this city not wearing masks?” I asked her. “How is it anti-Semitic if they’re the ones giving Jews a bad name?”

Up until recently, politicians have been too afraid to single out our community.

Mayor de Blasio refused to shut down synagogues before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, where we gather to pray for atonement — sometimes in mask-free, cramped synagogues and basements. Later, he proposed a lockdown on certain ZIP codes where COVID has surged.

Like many people in New York City who suffered lockdown this spring so we would flatten the coronavirus curve, I don’t want the city to go into a complete lockdown. And as a fellow Jew (formerly Orthodox, never ultra) I feel personally responsible. Like our sages say, “Every Jew is responsible for one another.” That’s why I want to drive through Brooklyn, shouting out my car window in Yiddish, “Gey trog a farsholtene maske!” Wear. A. Damn. Mask.

Like many working moms, I have a lot at stake: I am privileged that our daughter is being taught in person at a private Jewish day school. Not ultra-Orthodox, but a socially distant, HVAC-ventilated, outdoor-lunching, overly cautious school that requires coronavirus testing to return after the holidays end on Sunday night. (As opposed to some ultra-Orthodox schools that passed out flyers advising not to test for COVID-19 so their schools wouldn’t be shut.)

If, like other schools in hot spots, our daughter’s school is shut down primarily because of the behavior of other Jews, I will want to take her to them, hold her up and shake her like a lulav and say, “Who will watch her now? Oy, what has happened to us?!”

On Tuesday, Gov. Cuomo took the necessary action of going one step further, restricting capacities at houses of worship — including synagogues — to 10 people or 25 percent, starting on Friday. As a result, Orthodox Jews in Borough Park set fire to garbage as they demonstrated against his edict on two nights this week.

But Cuomo, you should not be deterred. As a Jew who has much appreciation for my more religious brothers and sisters (and who has no clue why they or anyone else flouts the medical recommendations), I urge you to stay strong and enforce the synagogue restrictions.

This weekend brings the holiday of Simchat Torah, one of the most joyous in our religion. Jews of all denominations celebrate en masse by dancing with the Torah, crowding the synagogues and streets like a Jewish mosh pit.

The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, knows this, and he shut down the entire country before the High Holidays, so there would be no crowds on Yom Kippur through Sukkot and Simchat Torah.

Cuomo should also make sure these celebrations are prohibited this year. Dancing with the Torah and other mass gatherings like it should not be allowed to happen — until we have something to rejoice about.

Amy Klein is the former managing editor of The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, and writes about religion, parenting, health and infertility.

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Jewish "Al Sharpton" Heshy Tischler Will Finally Be Arrested on Monday

Heshy Tischler announced on social media that he has been informed that he will be arrested on Monday morning after Simchas Torah.

“I just got a call from the precinct,” Tischler rambles in the video below.

“They will be arresting me Monday morning. I’ll be taken in for inciting riot. Jacob Kornbluh, who harassed me the night before, that they don’t want to file charges for as of yet, he harassed me. They are telling everyone that I incited a riot, and Mr Kornbluh, the D.A., is going to be arresting me, on Monday morning to the 66 Precinct….”

“Mr Kornbluh is a very terrible bad man”, Tischler continued.

Tischler also apologized to Mrs DebLasio for calling her a “very bad name”.

Earlier today NYC Mayor DeBlasio said that he expected the NYPD to make an arrest in the assault of a Hasidic journalist Jacob Kornbluh.

Kornbluh, who writes for The Jewish Insider, claims he was punched and kicked by an angry crowd who screamed at him, calling him “Nazi” and “Hitler.”

Video footage from two nights ago shows Tischler cornering Kornbluh, calling him a “Rat” and a “Moiser” and encouraging the crowd to do the same – exclaiming, “Everyone say moiser!”

People can be heard yelling “min darf eim hargenen” (We need to kill him).

Tischler has frequently disgraced the names of the 6 million Kedoshim who were murdered in cold blood, by calling NY Governor Cuomo and NYC mayor DeBlasio “Nazis” and “Pigs”.

To respectfully disagree or protest against an elected official is perfectly permitted as this is the United States of America. But Tischler clearly has no clue what took place in the hell of Treblinka, Auschwitz and other Nazi killing factories. 

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Guess Which Women "Time Magazine" Says Are Changing the World?

 

Hillary? That washed up "klavtah?"  

Ellen DeGenerate? She is changing the world? How? 

Ilhan Omar? the Somalian adulteress and thief ... she is changing the world?

Oh ... Serena Williams and Oprah Winfrey they are changing the world .....How?

 Did the climate change? Did people in the USA stop hating each other because of them?

Truth be told this cover was the 2018 edition.... so the reason I posted this is to show how crazy the media is .... 

so now that we have the hindsight ....... did any of the yentas make any mark on the world?

Any? 

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Ulster County "Herbalist" Arrested For Choking A Woman Because of How She "Incorrectly Stored Her Lettuce"

Ok guys ... now that the holy Yom Tov is over, we are getting down to post serious news ... 

I'm so glad that my wife doesn't care how I store the veggies ...and she doesn't mind that I "ask her questions." I certainly wouldn't invite Ms Weed to my Seder... 

A 74-year-old Ulster County herbalist who taught women to identify plants and initiated them as "Green Goddesses" and was arrested for choking a woman for incorrectly storing lettuce in 2018 allegedly threatened her apprentice with death for asking too many questions, said police. 

According to the Saugerties Police Department, Susun S. Weed of Saugerties repeatedly threatened her victim, who was a student in her two-week herbal medicine course, called a "Green Goddess Workshop," on several occasions between Saturday, Sept. 12 and Thursday, Sept. 17.

 She used several threatening phrases, according to police, including "I'm going to kill you" and "If you ask more questions I'm going to (expletive deleted) flatten you," which led the victim to fear for her safety. 

She was charged with the misdemeanor of second-degree harassment.

The course, which costs 75 dollars per night, includes lessons in making medicinal remedies, talking stick ceremonies, a visit to a moon lodge and guidance in "connecting with your green ally."

On July 2, 2018, Weed turned herself in to police after her alleged victim reported that Weed had told her she was "choking the lettuce" when she didn't leave enough air in the bag before resealing it, then choked her. 

At that time, she was charged with the misdemeanor of criminal obstruction of breathing and blood circulation. 

Weed was released after the most recent incident on an appearance ticket for the town of Saugerties court later in October.

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Inspiring Video ............Chag Samaich

 

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Lady Sings "Don't You Come Back No'more" in The Sukka on Simchas Bais Ha'Shoeivah

I sure hope she isn't telling the Ushpizin to "hit the road"  .....notice the "Ushpizin" poster behind her ....

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Frum Jews Causing Hate and Antisemitism With Their Riots ...

 

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