“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
Friday, October 23, 2020
Zera Shimshon Parshat Noach
Summary of Last Night's Debate
The best Trump ever.
That’s what America saw in Thursday’s debate as the president finally found his stride. He was substantive, measured and relatively calm — a combination that enabled him to give the best debate performance I’ve ever seen from him.
His repeated focus on jobs and economic growth reflected the success of his first three years and why 56 percent of survey respondents recently told Gallup they were better off than four years ago.
The president neglected to mention that important survey, but, asked what he would say to those who didn’t vote for him if he won, his answer captured the same optimism: “Success is going to bring us together.”
Where’s that guy been hiding?
He learned from his mistakes and was consistently disciplined throughout the 95 minutes.
Yet because most polls show him trailing Joe Biden, Trump was also eager to open another contrast, so he frequently brought up the e-mail evidence that the former vice president was directly implicated in son Hunter’s shady business dealings around the globe.
Again, the president was aggressive without being overbearing, yet had to repeat the details because of the outrageous blackouts by Big Media and Big Tech of the stories. But the new charges from Tony Bobulinski, the insider-turned-whistleblower, that he met with Joe Biden personally to discuss a suspect deal with a Chinese energy company will likely force the issue more into the open.
Biden’s answer, that “I’ve never taken a penny from a foreign source in my life,” sounds a lot like his earlier claim that he’d never even discussed his son’s businesses with him. We know now that wasn’t true.
Notably, however, Biden still did not dispute the specifics of Bobulinski’s charges or claim that the e-mails were not authentic.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Ultra-Orthodox leadership has failed its own followers ....
by Esty Shushan
Over the past few months, being an ultra-Orthodox individual in the public sphere in Israel has not been a pleasant experience. The coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a new reality with respect to the way the general public perceives Haredi society and the change – especially when people are already on edge – has not been for the better.
While no one could have predicted that the closed Haredi sector would be dealing with a global pandemic or the scope of the outbreak that has gripped it, recent events make it impossible for me to defend the ultra-Orthodox leadership.
There has been much talk recently about the secular and ultra-Orthodox sectors going their separate ways. Let the Haredim keep to their overcrowded cities – cordon them off during the pandemic and the rest of Israel could breathe easy, many argue.
But the problem does not lie within the Haredi cities. The problem lies with a broken, degenerate, political system, and that is the makings of the leadership chosen by the majority of the Israel public.
Many have always made it a point to remind the Haredim that they are a minority and therefore that it is more important to act wisely and pragmatically; to indulge the forces of mainstream lobbying with economic and political incentives so as to foster a "healthy evolutionary change."
But modern viruses do not spend millions of years evolving. They become biological and social mutations in a heartbeat, exposing the degenerate system for what it is.
This political system has produced relative quiet for Israeli leaders, as well as near-complete independence and absolute control for the ultra-Orthodox leaders.
Under the auspices of the existing system, initiatives promoting reforms in the ultra-Orthodox education system have been blocked, and the same fate befalls any attempt to improve the situation of Haredi women. The victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse are silenced and abuses in the workplace are allowed – and the list continued.
Power corrupts, and the ultra-Orthodox leadership has received unlimited power. True, most Haredi voters elected it, but under the auspices of state laws, Haredi cities were "red zones" long before the coronavirus pandemic made it all the rage.
This absolute power, however, was not used by community leaders to bring order into the chaos of the coronavirus outbreak. Yes, Haredi leaders are skilled in mobilizing voters to the ballots come Election Day, but they failed to use their power to stop the catastrophe that is slowly but surely killing off these voters.
The outcome of the Haredi leadership's decision-making process during the first coronavirus outbreak was terrible, but they could be chalked up to the uncertainty of dealing with something never before seen. But what happened during the second outbreak is nothing short of gross negligence.
Ultra-Orthodox leaders abandoned their constituents to the mercy of a deadly virus, as well as to the hatred of other sectors in Israeli society, regardless of how closely they observe the Health Ministry's guidelines. For Haredi society, this was a lose-lose situation.
Many may say this is a time for reconciliation – not criticism. I adamantly disagree. It is time for Haredi leaders to come to their senses, unpleasant as it may be.
Trump Pulls the Rug under Leslie Stahl and Releases Video Of ’60 Minutes’ Interview That he Walked Out Of
The "white witch" Leslie Stahl thought she would cut and paste her video to make Trump look bad... well she met her match ... he released the video before they can air it on Sunday,,,,
her questions were crazy asking him about the economy knowing that the country is in a lockdown because of the virus ....and the economy is actually rebounding despite the lockdown .....
President Donald Trump followed through on his threat, or promise, to release video of his interview with CBS News journalist Leslie Stahl before it is set to air on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.
Trump was interviewed by Stahl at the White House on Tuesday, but abruptly ended the interview after 45 minutes, declining to participate in a scheduled walk-and-talk that would have included vice president Mike Pence as well. Later that day, he said on Twitter said that he was “considering” posting the White House’s copy of the video interview, “so that everybody can get a glimpse of what a FAKE and BIASED interview is all about.”
On Thursday, Trump tweeted a link to about 37 minutes of the interview after CBS earlier Thursday released segments that it said occurred right before the president abruptly ended the discussion.
“You’re so negative,” Trump said. “You just come in here with this negative attitude.”
Kamala’s husband: ‘I'm married to next President of the United States'
Thisviral video proves Biden is mere decoy in US presidential election.
Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Discuss Jeffrey Toobin....
For those readers that were living in a cave in the last few days....
Jeffrey Toobin is the CNN reporter that was caught masturbating on a zoom conference..... he was the one that calls Trump "sleaze"
G-d does have a sense of humor..
Watch Sleazy Hunter Biden's Ridiculous Excuses For Getting Millions
Keep in mind that this interview took place when Biden was still running against other democrats ... so when you hear from the reporter that there is "no evidence" .... know that in the last few days evidence has been recovered that he did in fact receive money ....
Naftuli Moster Boasts That He Is the "Muser" That Blew the Whistle on the Planned 10,000 Person Satmar Wedding
by Naftuli Moster (The Belzer)
On Saturday night, shortly after observant Jews went back online after Shabbat, Orthodox media outlets, Twitter accounts, and WhatsApp groups were ablaze about news that had broken several hours earlier.
At his afternoon press conference, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that his office would shut down a planned wedding for the grandson of Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, the Williamsburg Satmar rabbi, which organizers said would attract as many as 10,000 followers. In the days leading up to the governor’s statement, I was the sole voice warning, both on social media and via private channels, about this upcoming potential “super spreader” event.
But here’s how the popular Orthodox news site Yeshiva World News reported on it: “YWN notes that the rabid self-hating Jew Naftali [sic] Moster of the YAFFED Organization who has been working for years b’mesiras nefesh [with relentless zeal] to destroy our Mosdos Hatorah [Torah institutions and schools], has the past few days been alerting the media and the authorities about this wedding.”
YWN is keenly aware of the dangers of whipping up the crowd against individuals with such language. Just in the last two weeks they reported on the brutal attacks against Berish Getz and Jacob Kornbluh, a former YWN journalist now with Jewish Insider, who were both accused of being “mosers” (snitches). Following the incidents, YWN was widely praised for publishing an op-ed by Yehuda Rechnitz, an influential Orthodox millionaire, in which he denounced the main inciter of those attacks, Heshy Tischler.
As expected, a torrent of hateful messages toward me followed the YWN article. I was called a “Nazi,” a member of the “Judenrat,” and a moser. One commenter on Vos iz Neias, another Orthodox news site, wrote that I “must be taken out.”
My motivation for reporting such irresponsible behavior outweighs the unpleasantness of the online harassment, although I am unfortunately well aware that it could escalate to physical violence.
A week ago on Monday, I received the first tip about the planned wedding from a Hasidic friend whom I had gotten to know through my work at Yaffed, the organization I founded, that aims to increase secular education standards in Hasidic and other ultra-Orthodox schools. In recent months, the tipster’s greatest frustration has been the Haredi Orthodox leadership’s failure to serve as role models to the community members who take their cues from them, as well as the media and government’s failure to see through the blatant deceit and doublespeak of community leaders.
He sent me a picture of the wedding announcement featured in a Hasidic newspaper.
The announcement read, in part, “Friends near and far, dear students, please participate in my celebration.” It provided the address of the big Satmar shul of Williamsburg, and it was signed by Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, the grand rabbi of Satmar of Williamsburg.
Hunter Biden's Partner Details Joe Biden’s Push to Make Millions from China.... Breaking
Wait until Scranton hears about this.
One of Joe Biden’s ways of contrasting himself with President Trump has been to declare the election a battle of Park Avenue values vs. Scranton, Pa., values.
Now we learn that Biden has secretly been playing footsie with China.
The statement Wednesday night asserting that the former vice president was a willing and eager participant in a family scheme to make millions of dollars by partnering with a shady Chinese Communist firm is a singular event in a presidential race already overflowing with drama and intrigue.
The dynamite assertion, believable because it aligns with earlier information we know to be true, came in a statement by Tony Bobulinski, who describes himself as a former partner of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and Joe’s brother Jim in the China scheme. Bobulinski unloads his bill of accusations in blunt but precise language and detail.
He confirms that he was one of the recipients of the May 13, 2017, e-mail published by The Post eight days ago. That e-mail, from another partner in the group, laid out cash and equity positions and mysteriously included a 10 percent set-aside for “the big guy.”
Sources have said the “big guy” was Joe Biden. In a matter-of-fact manner, Bobulinski states that the “e-mail is genuine” and that the former vice president and the man leading in the 2020 race is indeed “the big guy.”
That claim alone rips out the heart of nearly everything Joe Biden has ever said about Hunter’s many businesses and Joe’s knowledge of them. His repeated insistence that the two never spoke of the son’s global sources of money didn’t pass the laugh test.
After all, they traveled together to China on Air Force Two, where Hunter landed a $1.5 billion commitment from a government-controlled Chinese bank. Then there was Hunter’s $83,000-a-month gig on the board of a Ukrainian energy company — despite his lack of experience in Ukraine or knowledge of energy.
Rabbis Finally Discover Cause of Covid-19



