Rare Clip of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Early On When He Became Rebbe

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Skverer Rebbe Burning His Chaukah Wicks in "Burning Ceremony "

 

The Chassidim need these ceremonies because they don't use Facebook, Instagram and Twitter...so they come up with these odd, bizarre  minhagim to keep them entertained and busy ..

Maybe they have it right .... who knows?

Does anyone out there know if the Kohain Gadol in the Bais Hamikdash had a lavish ceremony like this to burn the wicks?

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Mrs Zev Wolfson Gets a Bracha From Reb Dovid Solovitchik

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Gerer Bais Medrash in Tel Aviv Turns Into a Women's Gym

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Arab MK Ahmad Tibi Asks If the "cheirim" of the Vilna Gaon Against the Chassidim is Still In Effect

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Trump Pardons 20

President Trump on Tuesday granted clemency to 20 convicted felons — including pardons for two men who lied to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators, the White House said.

The pre-Christmas blitz of forgiveness also included pardons for two former members of Congress and a commuted sentence for a third.

Pardons also went to four military contractors convicted in the massacre of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 and two former Border Patrol agents who covered up the shooting of an unarmed illegal immigrant.

Several people convicted of non-violent drug crimes, including some serving lengthy sentences, received pardons or commutations.

In all, Trump handed out 15 pardons and five commutations, the White House said.

The Mueller-related pardons of George Papadopoulos, a 2016 Trump campaign aide, and Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch lawyer, brought to four the number of people the president has granted clemency in connection with the Russia probe, which he repeatedly labeled a political “witch hunt.”

Last month, Trump pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI and he earlier commuted the sentence of former 2016 campaign adviser Roger Stone, just days before the start of his prison sentence.

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23rd Knesset dissolved, Israel going to elections

 Less than 24 hours after the compromise between the Likud and Blue and White failed to pass in the Knesset, the 23rd Knesset officially dissolved on Tuesday at midnight after a short tenure.

The 23rd Knesset was sworn in on March 16, 2020 and served a little less than a year and a month, after the budget law for 2020 was not approved even following an extension decided upon as part of the so-called "Hauser compromise".

Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin said shortly before the Knesset officially dissolved, "At midnight, the mandate ends, and since the state budget for 2020 has not been approved, I announce the dissolution of the 23rd Knesset. We are in a complex and challenging period, yet one of many controversies. The controversy that exists in the public was naturally expressed here in this building as well."

"We are embarking on a difficult election campaign. I call on each and every one of us, and each and every one of the citizens of Israel, to refrain from escalating tensions and to do everything possible so that the election campaign is conducted and ended in an orderly manner and without violence," he continued.

"I thank all the members of the Knesset, the Knesset management and the Knesset staff for the great effort to maintain a parliamentary routine under the complicated conditions of this challenging period," Levin concluded.

The outgoing Knesset saw the continuation of the political crisis that caused each of the two Knessets that preceded it to serve for less than six months, and the election campaign that ends its tenure is the fourth election in less than two years in Israel.

During the current Knesset, a new government was formed, the 35th government and the fifth government headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, but since its inception, the government has not been able to function properly.

The current government was formed as a rotating government headed by Netanyahu and Benny Gantz in a special procedure, in accordance with an amendment to the Basic Law of the Government that was enacted specifically for its establishment, and was supposed to prevent a situation where one party tries to violate the agreement.

However, the law is worded in such a way that it has one loophole left, which concerns a situation in which the state budget is not approved, and it is this loophole that allowed Netanyahu to bring about a situation in which the Knesset dissolves and, despite this, the premiership does not pass to Gantz.

The elections to the 24th Knesset will take place, unless it is decided otherwise in the coming days, on March 23, 2021.

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Beit Shemesh Celebrates 70 Years

 

Beit Shemesh is of course over 3,000 years old ... in fact Yehoshua conquered it .. in Yehoshua the city is called "Yarmut"... 

In fact in my neighborhood we have a "Yarmut Park" 

Shimshon Hagibor and his father are buried here right above the IKEA Shopping Center... 

According to the Rabbeinu Tam ...Dan ben Yaakov is also buried here and it's on the same road (44) of the  Kever of Shimshon...they have a shul on the premises of Kever Dan.... 

This celebration is the 70th anniversary of modern Beit Shemesh ....

This display was over the skies last night .....

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The Battle for the Court of Sadiger

 

 BY PINI DUNNER

In the often sheltered and inaccessible Hasidic communities, sordid political intrigue lives cheek-by-jowl with spiritual loftiness and religious devoutness. Fascinating tensions in this throwback world are frequently bound up in the succession of leadership among the Hasidic groups, or courts, which can coalesce, fracture, and reform around the expansive family tree of prominent Hasidic dynasties.

“The death of a Rebbe is a wrenching experience for the [Hasidic] court and for each of the Rebbe’s followers. To prevent the dissolution of the court a new leader must be named. The Rebbe’s sons are the first to be considered in the line of succession to become Rebbe,” wrote Jerome Mintz, anthropology professor and author of a groundbreaking 1992 study on the Hasidic world called Hasidic People. And while one son customarily takes over the mantle left behind by his father, as Mintz notes, the other sons are likely to disperse to lead entirely new courts set up for a rival group of devotees. In this passing of the court from one generation to the next, there is ample room for dynastic drama.

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Stunning unseen footage reveals The Beatles as never before

 

Peter Jackson got it back.

The “Lord of the Rings” director has been sifting through 56 hours of previously unseen footage of The Beatles rehearsing and horsing around from their final months playing together. Those moments led up to their infamous concert on the rooftop of Apple Corps headquarters on Savile Row in January 1969.

On the heels of the 40th anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination, Jackson is giving fans a “sneaky preview,” as he called it, of the film “The Beatles: Get Back.”

The unearthed footage was salvaged from Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s long-lost “Let It Be,” a 1970 television documentary charting the squabbles and tension in the lead-up to the band’s final album and concert, to lukewarm reception.

Rumor has it band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr blocked the release of the doc, complaining that it featured frontman John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, too prominently. 

But Jackson’s installment in the band’s final chapter is expected to be less contentious. The 59-year-old is in the process of editing in New Zealand.

“This film was due to be finished ’round about now,” said Jackson, who was forced to push back production due to COVID-19. He calls the footage “great stuff” and presents fans with a montage to get a “sense of the spirit” and the “vibe and the energy that the film’s going to have.” 

Fans are treated to about four minutes of good-natured footage of the band.

“And now, your host for this evening, the Bottles,” jokes a long-haired John Lennon in one cut. In another, the British bandmates read aloud from a newspaper column about George Harrison facing jail time in France. McCartney’s wife Linda Eastman and daughter Mary, plus Ono, and fashionable sets of groupies, producers and executives feature as the rock stars play. 

The fast-paced supercut serves as prelude to the film that Jackson promises sometime in 2021. Official trailers will be out next year too. For now, fans will have to be content with Jackson’s “montage of moments.” 

“Hopefully it will put a smile on your face in these rather bleak times that we’re in.” 

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