Monsey "almanah" accuses Monsey Broker Samuel Ehrenthal of Using Religious Organizations to Hide Assets

 A creditor claims that a bankrupt Monsey insurance broker is concealing millions of dollars in assets in religious organizations and businesses to avoid paying his debts.

Judith Gluck, also of Monsey, sued Samuel Ehrenthal in federal bankruptcy court on March 27.

Ehrenthal “failed to accurately disclose, and therefore concealed, his property,” the complaint states, “with the intent to hinder, delay or defraud a creditor … and the court.”

Ehrenthal and his bankruptcy attorney, Kevin J. Nash, did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages asking for his side of the story.

Ehrenthal filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in December, declaring $1.8 million in assets and nearly $14.6 million in liabilities.

His assets are composed mostly of his house on Highview Road in Monsey that is valued at $1.2 million. He listed $543,631 in retirement funds, four parcels of land in New York and Pennsylvania worth $37,200, $200 in a checking account and $200 in a brokerage account.

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Ivanka Trump Prays at Lubavitcher Ohel in Late Night Visit

 

Ivanka Trump, the daughter and Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump, has paid a late-night visit to the Old Montefiore Cemetery in the Cambria Heights section of Queens in New York, Thursday night.

She came to pray at the Ohel, the holy gravesite of the Rebbe which is frequented year-round by Jews and non Jews from around the world.

She was accompanied by Rabbi Zalman and Toba Grossbaum, directors of Chabad of Livingston in New Jersey, who are close to her husband Jared Kushner, a Senior Advisor to President Trump.

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Chassidishe Wedding Held in Arab town in Effort to Avoid Detection

 Police on Wednesday dispersed an ultra-Orthodox wedding held at an unexpected location — the Arab village of Kafr Qasim.

The reason for the choice in locale was because the bride and groom wanted to avoid detection while holding a wedding that violated coronavirus restrictions on mass gatherings, according to a Channel 12 news report Thursday.

Under the partial lockdown in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, weddings, like other outdoor events, are capped at 20 people.

An eyewitness quoted by the network said the revelers played Arabic music over the loudspeaker in an effort to blend into the surroundings.

The wedding was reportedly held at a venue owned by a Kfar Qasim resident and video of the event showed dozens of guests not wearing masks or practicing social distancing.

The police announced in a statement that they broke up the wedding and fined the owner of the venue NIS 5,000 ($1,480) after accidentally coming across the gathering while in the area on an unrelated operation.

“The Israel Police calls on all business owners and the public to obey the Health Ministry guidelines in order to prevent the spread of the virus,” the statement said.

The wedding is reportedly not the first ultra-Orthodox event held in an  Arab village in an effort to avoid detection, according to Channel 12.

While Kafr Qasim was largely spared by the first wave of coronavirus, months later the city was facing 170 coronavirus infections per 10,000 residents, the second-highest rate in the country. It has since seen a marked drop in new cases.

Large weddings, traditionally held in summer, were often blamed as the source of the outbreak in Israel’s Arab community.

Wednesday night also saw a row between officers and revelers at a wedding held at a Dead Sea beach, as guests expressed outrage over cops trying to shut down the event, and the groom appeared to become ill over the ruckus.

The confrontation with police was filmed on a video that was shared on social media.

Last week, a bloody brawl erupted as police broke up a wedding held in a private home in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze’ev.

Video shared on social media showed police scuffling with guests and family amid tables arranged for a celebration as people screamed and cried, with one man punched after being knocked to the floor. The bride’s brother was then led out of the house with blood streaming down his face.

Weddings are generally not allowed to take place at this time, and officials have refused to reopen wedding venues due to the fear of coronavirus infections at tightly packed events in which it is difficult to maintain social distancing.

Aaron Boxerman contributed to this report.

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Watch Leslie Stahl ...Lie .... in front of the world ...

 

Leslie Stahl humiliates herself in front of all of humanity. 👇🏻👇🏻 https://t.co/2T90uv41o8

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) October 22, 2020

 

President Trump says on 60 Minutes that "they spied on my campaign and they got caught."

Lesley Stahl says "There's no real evidence of that." pic.twitter.com/oLJoXr5apo

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 22, 2020

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Parshat Noach .... By DIN

 

In this week's parsha, Parshas Noach ... we find an interesting verse....

ויחל נח איש האדמה ויטע כרם 

"Noach, the man of the earth, planted a vineyard"

This happened right after the flood, when Noach and his family left the ark.

Rashi struggles with the word ויחל.....Rashi says that this word comes from the word חולין.... "profane" 

שהיה לו לעסוק תחילה בנטיעה אחרת ..... "for he should first have engaged in a different sort of planting"

Unkelis understands the word ויחל to mean "and he began" so according to Unkelis the verse translated in English would read:

"Noach began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard"

Rashi could not go along with Unkelis's understanding of ויחל since if this would be the meaning of that word, it would be superfluous, since it's obvious from how the Torah relates the story that this is what Noach "began" to do.

Either way, all agree that the first thing Noach did was to plant a vineyard and subsequently got drunk.

Chazal say that Noach from the word  ויחל debased himself because he planted a vineyard before planting something more practical like wheat etc..

Question: 

Notice that in the verse I quoted above, the Torah calls Noach איש האדמה..... a man of the earth.....

But in the very first verse in this week's parsha, the Torah calls Noach 

איש צדיק תמים .... "a righteous man, perfect"

How does a guy go from being a איש צדיק תמים  to a איש האדמה

in less than two months? What happened?

Answer:

Much ink has been spilled trying to figure out what precisely happened in such a short time ... and the Baalei Mussar have different explanations.....everyone seems to agree that Noach changed, and it wasn't for the better.

My understanding is the following:

There are two different type of people that survive destruction...

There are those who having witnessed and survived a catastrophe  literally lose it .... they lose their faith, their courage, their ambition and cannot move on, always looking back on how the world seemed before the destruction. .... 

should they even decide to somehow continue, they no longer have the enthusiasm and ambition they once had, and the memories of the destruction is always on their mind....they become a shell of themselves,

Many of those who survived the Holocaust were from this group, they lost their faith in humanity and in their G-D. 

But they lost more than faith.... they lost all trust in humanity...

If civilized people can become animals in a matter of weeks....if people who were in the arts, who were educated, who were doctors and nurses could take their neighbors to torture them, to rape and murder them, for no reason .... if good civilized neighbors who they trusted with their very lives can take innocent babies and toddlers and shoot them to death.... 

then what hope is there to carry on? Who can they trust?

and so they basically gave up....

I am not judging them ...

There is another group of people that survive and witness atrocities, this group become stronger for it ....they move forward and even though it never leaves their conscience, they ride above it and decide based on their faith and values, that they have an obligation to rebuild their lives, they continue to believe that not all humans are capable of murder....they continue to trust .... and based on that trust, they move forward .....

My father, z"l whose yurzeit is today was from this group. He lost a wife and children and yet he chose to rebuild his life from those very ashes, and didn't wait too long to marry in the DP camps of Germany ...

If you should look back in Jewish History, you will find that the majority of Jews were from this second group .... 

Unfortunately, Noach couldn't handle it ... he must have missed his family, his friends and even though the generation was a bad one, this was all he knew ..and even though, unlike the Holocaust victims, he had been told that this would happen 120 years before it actually occurred ...but when it actually happened he went into shock and when he emerged from the ark to see total annihilation, complete destruction and devastation, he needed to drown his troubles in liquor..

וישאר אך נח ... "and he became just Noach" no longer the איש צדיק

Noach lived 350 years after the flood, yet there is no mention of him again ... he seems to have disappeared ..

Avraham Aveenu actually knew Noach; Avraham was 58 years old when Noach died ... and yet nowhere is it mentioned that they had any relationship ...

I am sure that Avraham who was a "people person" would have sought him out if there was any hope that he could learn anything from him ...

Noach just disappeared and became a hermit ...

We live now in a different sort of destruction ... a plague .. a virus that doesn't seem to go away ...

We need to choose which category we want to belong to...

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Zera Shimshon Parshat Noach

 

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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.

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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. 

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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.”

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Kamala’s husband: ‘I'm married to next President of the United States'

 

Thisviral video proves Biden is mere decoy in US presidential election.

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