RABBIS SLAM RAPHAEL WARNOCK for ANTI-ISRAEL COMMENTS

 Orthodox rabbis are speaking out against Rev. Raphael Warnock just days before his Georgia Senate runoff, saying they have concerns with some of his past remarks about Israel.

“We are concerned and hurt by the manner in which the Reverend brushed aside his past rhetoric against Israel and the Jewish community, and even blamed his opponents for ‘trying to use Israel as yet another wedge issue,’” wrote Rabbi Ilan Feldman from Atlanta and Rabbi Avigdor Slatus from Savannah in a letter to Warnock’s campaign this week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The letter was also signed by two out of state rabbis from Coalition for Jewish Values.

The Democratic Warnock is facing off against GOP incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Polls show an incredibly tight race.

For months Warnock has been dogged by allegations of being anti-Israel — an issue a growing number of Democrats have faced as their left flank has grown more ascendent.

Rabbi Feldman cited a letter Warnock signed, along with other clergy in 2018, that compared Israel’s presence in the West Bank to “military occupation of Namibia by apartheid South Africa” and another sermon the same year in which he accused Israelis of shooting down “unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey.”

Warnock has denied any allegation of anti-Semitism and had said his remarks were taken out of context. In another letter, nearly 200 rabbis have expressed support for Warnock. The clergyman is also backed by Jon Ossoff, the Democrat running for the other Georgia Senate seat.

It’s not the first time the reverend has taken heat from his ecclesiastical peers. Earlier this month a coalition of conservative Georgia ministers took him to task over his pro-abortion views, which was also first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“You have publicly expressed your views that abortion is an exercise of ‘human agency and freedom’ that is fully consistent with your role as a shepherd of God’s people,” the letter read. “We believe these statements represent grave errors of judgment and a lapse in pastoral responsibility, and we entreat you to reconsider them.”

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'I’m a Breslover - I go out to the fields and talk to Hashem'

 

Nissim Black is passionately, assuredly, confidently in love with God.

Not in love with Judaism, though he’s fastidious in prayer and observance. Not in love with spirituality, though most mornings, you can find him meditating in the Israeli hills after sunrise. Not in love with ritual, though he’s a devoted Hasidic Jew.

No, Nissim Black is in love with the creator of the universe, with whom he has an intimate and fierce connection. He’s faced no shortage of adversity, experienced myriad modes of connection with the divine. Yet he’s unapologetically who he is, doing what he loves — rapping — with the undeniable gifts — perceiving and conveying clear-eyed truth — he’s been endowed with.

Days after his 34th birthday, on which he released “The Hava Song,” the Jewish Telegraphic Agency spoke to Black at length about his music, his faith and his communities.

TA: You just released a totally transformative version of “Hava Nagila.” Walk me through how that happened.

Black: It was really a story of divine providence. Thank God, I have been out there enough that producers send me beats all the time [musicians frequently utilize sample tracks to layer under their own lyrics]. My brother-in-law is my producer. He’s really a tzaddik [righteous person], so I let all of the beats go to him. Because if it’s good, he’s gonna tell me.

I went home — I have a studio now in my house because of COVID — and I think within a few days, I had the song.

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Obama trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes — lefty media didn’t notice

The words leap out and grab you. Former President Barack Obama characterizes no other world leader in anything like the terms he reserves for former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

In his recent memoir, Obama tells us that Sarkozy is a “quarter Greek Jew.” Little wonder, then, that Sarkozy has “dark, expressive, Mediterranean features,” which resemble the exaggerated, often distorted figures “of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.”

Little wonder, too, that he is “all emotional outbursts and overblown rhetoric,” while his conversation, which reflects unbridled ambition and incessant pushiness, “swoops from flattery to bluster to genuine insight.”

One might have thought Obama was deliberately directing at Sarkozy the insults notoriously hurled at Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), the first person of Jewish birth to become Britain’s prime minister. The colonial administrator Lord Cromer said of Disraeli that he was driven by “a tenacity of purpose” that was “a Jewish characteristic.” With his swarthy, “Oriental features,” Disraeli was consumed by an “addiction” to the “passionate outbursts” and “excesses of flattery” that were the hallmarks of his “nimble-witted” race.

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Chareidi Suspects From Bnei Brak Arrested For Rishon LeZion Shooting Incident

Following an in-depth investigation, the prosecutor has filed their statement with regard to a shooting that took place in Rishon Letzion two months ago. The shooting was perpetrated in the direction of a woman and two Chareidi suspects from Bnei Brak were arrested. The suspects have been remanded into custody until Monday.

The incident took place on October 29th, when a masked individual approached a woman who was walking on HaNevi’im Street in the city and attempted to shoot towards her with a pistol from close range.

For some unknown reason, the gun jammed and would not shoot. The suspect, seeing this, fled the scene and ran into a waiting car that was being driven also by a masked individual. The pair of assailants fled the scene.

Following the incident, the police opened an investigation and began gathering evidence to determine the identities of the masked individuals. One suspect, a 16-year-old teenage male from Bnei Brak, was arrested at the end of November. One week later, a second suspect, a 21-year-old man also from Bnei Brak, was arrested as well. Their reprimands have been extended until this coming Monday as evidence was being gathered against them. The district attorney is supposed to file an indictment against the two suspects on Monday in court.

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Police Stop wedding of 14 year-old girl to a 24- Year- old in Meah Shearim

 

Police prevented a Charedi wedding of a 14-year-old girl to a 24-year-old man in Jerusalem, at the last minute.

The ceremony had been slated to take place last week, Channel 12 said Thursday, reporting that police were tipped off shortly beforehand and arrested the girl’s parents.

They have since been released to house arrest, but the child has been placed in the custody of welfare services.

In a recorded phone conversation with Channel 12, the girl’s mother insisted that she was not aware Israeli law bars marriages of children under the age of 18, and insisted there was nothing wrong with the arrangement.

“I didn’t know this was like a person stealing or murdering or that it is something that harms anyone,” the woman claimed. “I know a lot of girls who get married at the age of 15. It happens a lot [in our community]. There are a lot of girls who are ready for it.”

She lamented that relationships between teenagers in the “secular world” are deemed legitimate, while the marriage of children in Haredi communities are not. The mother went on to demand that authorities return her daughter home.

The mother’s defense attorney Hila Yehezkel told Channel 12 that “now that the parents have been told the minor’s marriage would have been illegal, they have understood this.”

Meanwhile, police were probing whether the planned marriage was part of a widespread phenomenon or an isolated incident.

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Video of Crash that killed Chareidie couple

Warning: Very Disturbing 

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Meshiginer Benny Gantz: 'There's room for Palestinian capital in Jerusalem'

 

A "farikter tzedreiter meshiginar" it's no wonder he is finished 

Defense Minister Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz gave an interview to Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat which is distributed in the Arab world, and presented his doctrine for resolving the PA-Israel conflict.

Gantz said that in his view, "Jerusalem will remain united - but there is also room for a Palestinian capital."

He called on Abbas to join the recent peace process between Israel and Arab countries and not to be left behind. Gantz emphasized that Israel would not return to the 1967 borders, but that there could be an exchange of territories with the "Palestinians".

"I live in Rosh HaAyin on the border with the West Bank, I have friends in Taibeh and Araba and I visit them and they visit me and I want it to happen with Nablus and Hebron and Ramallah," Gantz said in an interview translated by Kan journalist Nurit Yohanan.

As for Jerusalem, the Defense Minister said "Jerusalem should remain united - but there is room for a Palestinian capital."

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'What hassidic women have to say (eye-opening experience!)'

Peter Santenello: 'An eye-opening experience full of surprises and golden nuggets of wisdom.'

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Mi Sheberach Lakahal .... We all need it now!

 

Mi Sheberach Lekahal Shalom Kinori Cantor Simon Cohen accompanied by the Hallelu Choir

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