British "Goy" Photographer Describes Ordeal At Chareidi Mask-Free Weddings

 

 A British gentile photographer spoke to the London-based Jewish Chronicle about her ordeal in covering illicit Covid weddings for Chareidim, stating that she had stopped working after attending a 300-person Chareidi reception where most people were not wearing masks.

Marisa D’Alessandro, 55, a freelance photographer at events, was hired to take photos of around a dozen Charedi weddings in June, July and October of last year.

“I assumed that they were abiding by the rules, that everyone would be wearing masks and be socially distanced because that was what the advice was at the time.

“I got to these venues utterly shocked to see no one was wearing a mask, except me, and they’re all looking at me like I’m mad,” D’Allessandro said.

Despite the lack of adherence to rules, the receptions got bigger and bigger as time went by. The last one she attended was a 300-person affair in Stamford Hill in October. Police arrived to break up the gathering, but guests simply grabbed masks and relocated to another venue which had been prepared for such an event.

“The caterer was whipping the tablecloth up, folding the tables up to make it look like there were fewer people at the wedding. It was like watching a comedy show,” D’Allessandro said, adding that she realized what she was doing was wrong.

“I should not have attended wedding.From June, I should have said ‘no’, but I didn’t.

“I just saw the weddings getting bigger and bigger and worse and worse with regards to respecting the regulations. Now if this virus is to be under control then these weddings have to stop.”

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Pregnant Chareidie Women Getting Very Sick with Virus .. Israeli Mother Of 15 In Critical Condition

The condition of a mother of 15 from Beitar Illit who contracted the coronavirus during her eighth month of pregnancy has taken a turn for the worse, Kikar H’Shabbos reported on Monday evening.

She has been attached to an ECMO machine and doctors are fighting to save her life. Earlier on Monday, the doctors performed an emergency C-section in order to save her baby.

The woman’s daughter was scheduled to get married in several days but the wedding has been pushed off.

The public is asked is asked to daven for the refuah of Chava Feiga Baila bas Chaya Malka b’toch shaar cholei Yisrael.

Another Kikar report on Tuesday afternoon said that a 45-year-old mother of eight from Bnei Brak suffered a deterioration in her condition and was attached to an ECMO machine. Her name for tefillah is Devorah Gittel bas Sheva Mattel.

Other women in need of tefillos, according to an updated Kikar list:

• Chaya Rivka bas Leah and Tinok ben Chaya Rivka. She recently also suffered a deterioration in her condition.
• Yehudis Miriam bas Chana Gittel – a 37-year-old mother of six from Bnei Brak. She also recently suffered a deterioration in her condition.
• Batsheva bas Simcha Jacqueline – a 28-year-old mother of three from Modiin Illit.
• Sima bas Baila Henna
• Tehilla bas Zehava Zohara – a 30-year-old woman from Jerusalem who recently gave birth.
• Leah bas Feigel Gittel – She underwent an emergency C-section. Sadly, her sister is in a similar condition.
• Nechama Rikel bas Feiga Gittel – She underwent an emergency C-section. Sadly, her sister is in a similar condition.
• Rochel bas Malka – A Bnei Brak woman in her seventh month of pregnancy.
• Chana bas Bella Hadassah – 38-year-old mother of five from Modiin Illit. Her parents are also both in serious condition due to the coronavirus.
• Rochel Naomi bas Esther Chana and Tinok ben Rochel Naomi.
• Chedva bas Rochel
• Tamar bas Esther Rivka
• Sasha Bracha bas Leah Rivka.
• Ahuva Liba bas Gittel Devorah.
• Rochel bas Chana Leah.
• Esther bas Pesya Leah.
• Yiska Rus bas Miriam
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As Chareidim Keep Denying that There is a Virus a Woman Dies In Ambulance As All J-m Hospitals Are Full And Couldn't Accept New Patients!

 

A day after a coronavirus patient died in an ambulance after all the hospitals in Jerusalem refused to accept her due to lack of room, a Channel 12 News report on Monday said that over 200 ambulances with virus patients had to wait for several hours outside hospitals while staff scrambled to free up beds.

When patients were finally admitted, some found themselves in beds in the emergency room rather than the coronavirus ward – simply because the emergency room was the only place empty beds could be found, the report said.

On Sunday, MDA commissioner Eli Bin told Army Radio that an elderly nursing home resident suffering severe respiratory difficulties passed away on Sunday after no hospital in Jerusalem agreed to accept her due to lack of room. Although the ambulance medical crew did their best to treat her in the ambulance, she sadly passed away before she could be admitted anywhere.

An ambulance driver told Arutz Sheva that Jerusalem hospitals have no room for more virus patients and drivers are being requested to bring patients to hospitals in central Israel. “This leads to a situation in which many ambulances are tied up in transport as opposed to response,” he said.

Unfortunately, hospitals in central Israel are also beginning to fill up beyond capacity. Wolfson Medical Center in Holon announced at the beginning of the week that it can no longer accept new coronavirus patients.

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“Student K.” Alive and Healthy at 97 May be the One Who Murdered Jewish Children by Smashing Their Heads Together in Lithuania

 by  Efraim Zuroff

This is a story about a Nazi war crimes investigation that began in 1945 and continued intermittently until 2021. It concerns the brutal murder of Jewish infants in Raseiniai (Rasein in Yiddish and Hebrew), Lithuania, and is a good example of why, even today, it is still important to try and achieve justice. This week we observe the International Holocaust Remembrance Day mandated by the United Nations in 2005, and therefore it is an especially appropriate time to share this episode in the ongoing efforts to hold the perpetrators of Holocaust crimes accountable.

In 1945, Leib Kunichowsky, a Lithuanian Jewish survivor of the Kovno (Kaunas) Ghetto, began to record the testimonies of the few Holocaust survivors from the local provincial communities. This was a particularly important mission in view of the extremely high murder rate in those towns and villages. Of the 220,000 Jews who lived in Lithuania under the Nazi occupation, 96.4% (212,000) had been murdered, but most of the survivors were from the large ghettos of Vilna (Vilnius), Kovno (Kaunas), and Shavli (Siauliai). Approximately 100,000 Jews lived in the provincial communities, which had been so terribly decimated at an even higher rate. For the next four years, initially in Lithuania and later in the Displaced Persons camps in Allied-occupied Germany, Kunichowsky sought out the few survivors and recorded their testimonies in Yiddish in longhand, making sure that both he and the survivors personally signed each and every page. The result of this mission was a collection of 1,684 pages of testimony in Yiddish that contained much priceless information about the fate of the provincial Jews.

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Biden "The Lunatic" Considering Diverting COVID-19 Funds To Climate Change Programs

 

The Biden administration is considering authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to allocate COVID-19 funding for climate change projects, The New York Times reported Monday.

The plan would reallocate part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) overall disaster budget to projects designed to preemptively address damage from climate disasters, The Times reported. The agency wants to build seawalls and elevate or relocate homes in flood planes with the reallocated funds.

FEMA plans to include funding allocated for COVID-19 response in its restructuring of the budget, according to The Times. FEMA Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for Disaster Mitigation Michael M. Grimm said that an initial estimate found $3.7 billion that could go to the program to address climate change with the potential for more later on.

The total amount of funding could reach $10 million if COVID-19 resources are directed towards the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, though Grimm said the decision to include pandemic relief funds has not yet been made, The Times reported. The proposal would give FEMA access to draw from the government’s dedicated disaster fund and would not necessarily mean reducing available funding for COVID-19 response.

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Why do I have to be scared to publish this?

I am taking a risk in writing what I want to write. I don’t know who I’m writing for. Charedim who read this might get upset at me. Non-Charedim can’t do anything about it anyways.

The past few days in Israel have seen cases of extremist violence on the part of the Charedi community.  Most of it has been in response to police enforcement of Covid restrictions, although there have also been other causes.

Today, several Charedi MKs gave speeches at the Knesset condemning the violence, and also emphasizing that the violence is coming from the fringes of the community. There is a movement to get a letter signed by prominent rabbis condemning the violence and instructing people to keep away from the demonstrations.

And I ask, who are we fooling? Yes, of course, the average Charedi on the street probably isn’t participating in the demonstrations. I would imagine that many of them aren’t the greatest supporters of them. But is it really a fringe phenomenon?

Is Vizhnitz-Merkaz, where undercover officers and an unmarked police car were attacked, a fringe group? 

When it comes to elections, will UTJ care less about campaigning there than any other Chassidus? 

Are the rabbis who signed against taking the Covid vaccine fringe rabbis? 

Was the responsa pamphlet full of conspiracy theories that we all found distributed last week in our shuls written by a fringe Halachic authority? 

Does the average person in our community really believe that there is such a thing as Covid, as much as they believe that it’s a secret government plot to close the Charedi school system and cause our children to stray? Or that the vaccine might be a population-control device being pushed by Bill Gates?

How many people have been convinced that the Light Rail train down Bar-Ilan is a secret government plan to secularize Charedim by forcing them to be exposed to secular Jews every day with a train going down their street? Enough to gather just the fringe to violent protests on Bar-Ilan, complete with destroying tractors and other equipment.

When so many of us live in a siege mentality, as much as our Palestinian neighbors, of course the only way to respond to our tormentors is with violence. Not all of us, but too many of us have been told day after day how the Zionists are trying to destroy us and our way of life, that everything they do is only for the purpose of destroying Torah, and that we can’t trust anything that the Zionists say or do. It’s not uncommon to hear the sentiment that the Zionists never mean our good, and that they all hate us and are plotting against us. And the only way to fight back is with violence.

Even if you claim that all of those teens don’t really believe all of that nonsense, that they’re just bored fringe, why do we have so many bored teens that find an outlet in violence? Why are the teens in Ramat Gan who don’t have secret schools operating, why are they not so bored as our teens?

Why do our kids think that they are modern-day Maccabees, learning Torah under the noses of the Zionist Hellenists out to destroy the Torah, ready to take to arms to defend the Torah with violence if necessary? 

Why do so many adults who don’t participate directly in the demonstrations still identify with the cause?

Why do I have to be scared to publish this? Why do I have to be scared to say the truth that all of us know anyways?

Ephraim Portnoy is a Social Worker, Rabbi, and Lecturer on the topics of interpersonal relationships and personal development. He can be reached at ephraim@ephraimportnoy.com
 

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Schumer Tells the Senate that Trump Incited an "erection"

Could it be? That for once, Schumer is telling the truth?

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Should a Guy That Committed a Crime Sit and Rot in Prison?

 In Hebrew

        

הפרשה השלישית של חומש שמות, בא, סוקרת את שלוש המכות האחרונות שה׳ מביא על המצרים - ארבה, חושך ובכורות.

לאחר מכת בכורות מסכים סוף סוף פרעה לשלח את עם ישראל לחופשי.

ה׳ מצווה על ישראל לציין את יציאת מצרים מדי שנה בשנה בחג הפסח. מאסטרטגיה לפעולה, מעשר מכות ליציאה ממצרים, מחזון וחלומות לגאולה שלמה, התכנון חשוב, אבל ברור שחייבים קודם כל להיפטר מהפחד, מפרעה קשה העורף ולדעת שאנחנו אף פעם לא לבד במערכה. הקב"ה תמיד איתנו עבור המטרות הגדולות – יש לנו גב חזק, בטוח ומבטיח ואת זה חשוב לזכור, בתוך כל ההכנות מצידנו. ה' רוצה שדווקא בעולם הגשמי והתחתון, יתגלה אורו הגדול בעולם. זוהי גם מטרת הגלות ויציאת מצרים.

הפרשה המספרת על הגאולה נפתחת בציווי "בא אל פרעה". שם הפרשה מצביע לכאורה על כך שמשה רבנו היה זקוק לפרעה ולא להפך, עד שה' מצווה אותו לבוא אל פרעה. למה מזמין ה׳ את משה לבוא איתו והרי משה נפגש עם פרעה לבד כבר כמה פעמים? משה מפחד להיכנס לביתו של פרעה, כפי שהוא, בשיא תוקפו, כי השורש של האיש הפרוע הזה הוא שורש קדוש באור אינסופי של הבורא וזו גם הסיבה שה׳ אומר לו: "בא" –בא איתי!

המשימה היא לפזר אור, להוסיף בלימוד התורה, בקיום המצוות ובהפצת המעיינות לנשים ולילדים, כי לנשים יש יכולת התחברות לאין סוף העוצמתי וכך לא ליפול במצבים של גזירות ולצאת מהן, כך יוצא שההשפעה שלהן גדולה יותר. כל שבוע הן מפיצות את אור הקדושה בעולם בהדלקת נר שבת ומכיוון שכוחן של נשים בדיבור, המשימה המוטלת עלינו היא הפצת האור בעולם הדיבור והמעשה

מינדי בוקשפן, יו"ר עמותת דרור למשפחה - עמותה שמסייעת לילדי ומשפחות של אסירים באה להתארח אצלנו באולפן וסיפרה על הסיבה האישית להקמת העמותה, האתגרים של המשפחה הנותרת מאחור, איך באים עם זה לסביבה, מה אומרים לילדים, מה אומרים לסביבה, אופי הקשר עם בני המשפחה של האסירים (למה שלסביבה יהיה אכפת ממישהו שפשע).

היא שיתפה באיחולים אישיים שלה לנשים שהבעל שלהן במצב קשה כמו כלא או מחלה ובכלל, לנשות ישראל.

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Did Biden Just Place a Hamas Sympathiser- Anti-Israel BDS Activist in Charge of Intelligence?

 "Why Is Georgetown Providing a Platform for This Dangerous Group?" an op-ed in the Washington Post had asked. 

The group was the Palestine Solidarity Movement, a BDS anti-Israel hate group whose conferences had a history of antisemitism, supporting Hamas and the murder of Jews.

Maher Bitar, one of the executive board members of Students for Justice in Palestine, was one of the principal organizers of the 2006 conference which was being hosted by Georgetown University's SJP hate group. A photo appears to show him dancing in a keffiyah in front of a banner reading, “Divest from Israel Apartheid”. 

Despite protests from Jewish groups, the Georgetown BDS conference went ahead 

Now, Biden has picked Maher Bitar as the Senior Director for Intelligence on the NSC.

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