“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

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Iran Is Already Saying No to Joe Biden


 

Well, that didn’t take long. 

With Joe Biden set to be the next American president, Iran is already refusing to renegotiate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, which President Donald Trump abandoned in 2018 in favor of tougher sanctions.

Trump’s “maximum pressure” approach has severely hurt Iran, both economically and militarily. One would think, then, that Iran would jump at the chance to get back in the deal, especially since Biden has already expressed his desire to do so.

But there’s a hitch:

 Biden has his own demands. As Tom O’Connor reports in Newsweek, “Biden has pledged to return, but only if Iran restored some of the commitments it has since walked away from due to other participants’ failure to normalize trade ties with the Islamic Republic in the wake of the U.S. exit.”

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WATCH: Antifa & BLM Accost Women, Children, Elderly, and Restaurant-Goers After MAGA March

Watch as this unfolds after the break on page 2 ... watch how BLM thinking they are still in the jungles of Africa attack innocent people coming from a rally .....  

Antifa and BLM wasted no time in accosting women, children, families, and the elderly as they walked down Washington, DC, streets after the Million MAGA March on Saturday. Protesters threw large fireworks and projectiles at restaurant-goers eating outside and flashed laser lights into hotel rooms.

DC Metropolitan Police blocked off BLM Plaza so Million MAGA March attendees could not go through. Trump supporters had to walk through a gauntlet of BLM, Antifa, and black bloc assailants in order to leave the area.

A black woman hauled off and sucker-punched a man carrying a Trump flag.

Rioters walked down the street and harassed an elderly couple while trying to rip a Trump flag out of their hands.

They threatened and harassed an elderly man walking down the street with a scooter. They pushed the scooter down and threw unidentified liquids at him.

They yelled, “Get the f**k out of here! You better run motherf**ker! You better run motherf**ker!”

Protesters attacked a middle-aged woman walking with other women and some Trump supporters. A black woman hit the woman in the back of the head.

A black mother with her young children wearing a Blue Lives matter hat and a Trump jacket frantically told police officers she wanted to press charges against her assailants. The assailants cornered her and asked her why she had her children there. She was pushing a child in a stroller and shielding her pre-teen daughter when she was attacked, reported Breitbart News.

Children walking down the street with their family were frightened by the mob and were crying.

BLM and Antifa assaulted, threw eggs and liquids at a young couple trying to walk through the BLM Plaza.  The female cried out in fear.

Breitbart News reported that protestors stomped on an older man’s head after the rally. A black man ran up behind the Trump supporter and bushwacked him making him fall to the ground.

As restaurant-goers were dining outside, Antifa and BLM threw large fireworks and projectiles at them.

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Georgis Dem Candidate for Sen Rev Raphael Warnock ......: 'Israel shooting innocent Palestinians'

 Lifelong Democrat, Dov Hikind, posted footage of Rev. Raphael Warnock, Dem candidate for Georgia Sen seat, spreading anti-Semitic libel.

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New stats reveal massive NYC exodus amid coronavirus, crime

 

More than 300,000 New Yorkers have bailed from the Big Apple in the last eight months, new stats show.

City residents filed 295,103 change of address requests from March 1 through Oct. 31, according to data The Post obtained from the US Postal Service under a Freedom of Information Act request.

Since the data details only when 11 or more forwarding requests were made to a particular county outside NYC, the number of moves is actually higher. And a single address change could represent an entire household, which means far more than 300,000 New Yorkers fled the five boroughs.

Whatever the exact number, the exodus — which began when COVID-19 hit the city in early spring — is much greater than in prior years. From just March through July, there were 244,895 change of address requests to destinations outside of the city, more than double the 101,342 during the same period in 2019.

The escape from New York is fueled not only by coronavirus concerns, but economic worries, school chaos and rising crime, experts say.

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Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, Zero on Research

 


A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show.

The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 by the former vice president and his wife Jill Biden to “develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, research and care and to reduce disparities in cancer outcomes,” according to its IRS mission statement. But it gave out no grants in its first two years, and spent millions on the salaries of former Washington DC aides it hired.

The charity took in $4,809,619 in contributions in fiscal years 2017 and 2018, and spent $3,070,301 on payroll in those two years. The group’s president, Gregory Simon, raked in $429,850 in fiscal 2018 (July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019), according to the charity’s most recent federal tax filings.

Simon, a former Pfizer executive and longtime health care lobbyist who headed up the White House’s cancer task force in the Obama administration, saw his salary nearly double from the $224,539 he made in fiscal 2017, tax filings show.

Danielle Carnival, former chief of staff for Obama’s cancer initiative, the Cancer Moonshot Task Force, who took home $258,207 in 2018.

The charity spent $56,738 on conferences and $59,356 on travel that year. The following year, the travel expenditure swelled to $97,149, and the non-profit spent $742,953 on conferences, tax filings show.

But under grants distributed, it listed zero.

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Saturday, November 14, 2020

Borders On Holocaust Denial’: CNN Blasted Over Shocking Segment Comparing Trump To Nazis Purging Jews

 CNN faced intense backlash on Friday over a segment that the leftist news organization aired this week that compared President Donald Trump’s administration to the Nazis purging Jews in Germany in the late 1930s.

“Commemorations of Kristallnacht took place earlier this week, remembering the 1938 two-day pogrom during which the Nazis burned more than 1,400 synagogues and Jewish institutions in Germany and Austria,” The Jerusalem Post reported

“While recalling the story of the infamous antisemitic slaughter, CNN Chief International Anchor and host of CNN International’s nightly interview program Christiane Amanpour, compared President Donald Trump’s presidency to that tragic event, explaining there has similarly been a ‘modern day assault’ attacking ‘those same values.'”

CNN faced intense backlash over the segment, yet the network did not issue any sort of statement and neither did Amanpour.

After the break are a small sample of some of the responses that the network received:

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German apologizes for his Nazi grandfather by tracking down descendants of Jewish shopkeeper whose hardware store he seized

 

German businessman Thomas Edelmann (left), 49, reached out to Hanna Ehrenreich, 83, to apologize for his grandfather Wilhelm (inset right) buying her grandfather Benjamin Heidelberger's (inset left) hardware store (right) in Bad Mergentheim, southern Germany, under Nuremburg laws in 1938. The laws allowed Germans to confiscate Jewish property. He wrote to the retired teacher in Israel asking if she wanted to speak and they talked about their families over the phone for 90 minutes.


The grandson of a Nazi who took over a Jewish man's store tracked down his descendants in Israel to apologise.

German businessman Thomas Edelmann, 49, received a marketing call last year that allowed him to reach out and apologise for the actions of the grandfather he never met.

The father-of-two came across Nazi tax records confirming that Jewish owner Benjamin Heidelberger sold his hardware store in Bad Mergentheim, southern Germany, to Wilhelm Edelmann.

Anti-semitic Nuremburg laws, which allowed Germans to confiscate Jewish property, forced Mr Heidelberger to sell in 1938.

Mr Edelmann mentioned the tax records in a call to a MyHeritage salesperson, who was able to track down Mr Heidelberger 83-year-old granddaughter Hanna Ehrenreich, a retired teacher living in Israel.

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Old Video of R' Aaron Kotler Talking to R' Moshe Feinstein


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Israel eliminated senior Iranian al-Qaeda figure in Iran

 


The New York Times reported that three months ago, Israel eliminated al-Qaeda's No. 2 in Iran, Abdullah Ahmad Abdullah, at the request of the United States.

According to intelligence sources, the senior was shot dead on the streets of Tehran on the anniversary of the 1998 attack on the United States embassies, of which he was one of the perpetrators. Along with Abdullah, his daughter, the widow of Osama bin Laden's son, was also killed.

Neither Israel, the United States, nor even al Qaeda commented on the assassination. On the other hand, Iran denied the report and the Foreign Ministry in Tehran said that "there are no al Qaeda terrorists in Iran; Washington and Tel Aviv are trying to abdicate responsibility for al Qaeda's activities and terror organizations."

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Friday, November 13, 2020

Chabad , Avraham Aveenu and Blasphemy


In my hometown, Beit Shemesh, they distribute free newspapers and newsletters... and some are exclusively dedicated to the parsha of the week.

One of the newsletters which is basically dedicated to whats happening in Beit Shemesh is called "Temurah" and even though chareidim is not their target audience, they do add a "dvar Torah."  

This week's "dvar Torah" was submitted by a Chabadniker by the name of Harav Eliezer Veiner. 

He starts off very nice explaining how Avraham Aveenu bought the Mearas Ha'machpeilah with good money for a steep price, so that Sarah, his late wife, would never be part of the "Bnei Cheis" even after her death ..and so he made sure to own the property ... and then  to ultimately give this as a heritage to his descendants ...

All nice and good..... right?

Not so fast.... in his very last paragraph he goes off on a tangent to embed Chabad theology into this sacred story .. 
which would be ok ..except this last paragraph is blasphemous ...

He tells a story of the third Lubavitcher Rebbe (1789-1866), R' Dovber who was known by the title the "Tzemach Tzedek."

It seems that a Jew went to the Rebbe for his blessings as he wanted to make Aliyah ... the Rebbe instead of giving him his blessings told him..
"Make Eretz Yisrael here." 

Rabbi Veiner explains that "when a Jew takes a material object or anything and in turn makes it holy, and performs a mitzvah with that object or place ... he turns that place into holiness.. into Eretz Yisrael"

So I know you are wondering....you are scratching your itchy head trying to understand why this is "blasphemous?"

It's "blasphemous" on so many levels that I don't even know where to begin ...
I'll just scratch the surface..

First ... 
Know that just like the Catholic Church pre 1993, Chabad does not recognise the State of Israel....... nope.... they absolutely do not recognise it ... even though you may argue that the previous rebbe did meet with the President and Prime Ministers of Israel... he met them as Jews and as leaders of Jews ... not as representatives of the State of Israel.... 

So Rabbi Viner knowing the above story of the Tzemach Tzedik, couldn't reconcile this story with the parsha and was wondering why Avraham Aveenu would buy land in Chevron, part of Eretz Yisrael, and pay top dollar ..if he could just buy a cheap piece of  land in nearby Iraq and "make this land into Eretz Yisrael"and bury his wife Sarah with her parents and grandparents in Chutz Le'aaretz ....as the Tzemach Tzedik suggested to that poor Jew "make Eretz Yisrael here" ... a Jew who because of this advice probably lost all his descendants in the Holocaust or were most likely assimilated into the Russian secular society ......never to be heard of again..

So instead of saying to himself ... "hey... this story does not square with the parsha... he tries taking a shoehorn to the "Avraham Aveenu story" so that it fit with this irrelevant theology... that one doesn't have to live in Eretz Yisrael and one can live in Timbuktu and make that holy..

I don't know really what transpired by the Tzemach Tzedik and why the Rebbe would give this advice.... to this Jew ..who knows...?
But what's sure is sure...
The Ribono Shel Olam gave Avraham Aveenu and his descendants  Eretz Yisrael.... he didn't give them Lubavitch, Russia where the Tzemach Tzedik and that poor Jew lived ...

Hashem could have easily told Avraham Aveenu to remain in Iraq and "make that holy" 
Hashem wants all Jews to come home... not wait for Moshiach to come home... but to come home now...
The Baal Shem Tov who lived just a generation before the Tzemach Tzedik tried making Aliyah ..and his students actually did go..
The Grah, the Chafetz Chayim all didn't say "lets make Radin, or Vilna holy" but made plans to emigrate from the blood soaked earth to Eretz Yisrael ... 

Rabbi Viner actually lives in Israel... but to remain true to his ideals he tries to embed Chabad theology into his divrei Torah ... it's ok .. I have no problem with that ... but don't talk "narishkeitin"

Secondly, Rabbi Viner wrote this article in a newsletter that is read primarily by chilonim ....
Can you imagine ....? A guy wants to read a Dvar Torah ...something that he can repeat at his shabbos table and he reads to his family that you can live in San Frans'sicko and "make that holy ..." that it's not important to remain in Israel....
Bad message ... and false..
Shabbat Shalom
DIN 

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