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Thursday, March 18, 2021

The Germans Are Back ....16 Jews Rounded Up and Detained For Over 10 Hours In Germany Without Charge

 


Sixteen Chassidim, including a group of five from New York en route to Vienna, were detained in the airport in Frankfurt on their way to Vienna last week for no apparent reason and were held for over 10 hours.

The incident was publicized by the Jewish rights group Americans Against Antisemitism (AAA), founded by former state Assemblyman Dov Hikind.

“As soon as I gave my papers over to the officer, he looks at me, he says to me, ‘Are you all five together?’” one of the detained men said. “And I said, ‘Yes.’ And he said, ‘You need to step aside.’”

“Two more people who are on our flight arrive there,” he said. “They went over with their papers and immediately were told to stand next to us as well. So, we immediately saw that this is a Jewish thing.

“Nobody [else] was stopped for more than a minute,” he said. “Looked at the document, ‘Next.’ Seven Jews, Chasidic Jews, were told to stand aside.”

The Chassidim were offered no explanation on why they were detained. Their passports were confiscated and they were subjected to interrogation.

One of the men eventually called the U.S. Embassy and was told that the German authorities were investigating their paperwork as it may be fraudulent.

Calling the embassy seems to have done the trick and after over ten hours of harassment, the Chassidim were allowed to continue on their travels without any explanation for their detention. However, they were first forced to first sign disclaimers clearing the German authorities of any wrongdoing. Some of the Chassidim refused to do but were nevertheless eventually let go.

“Some of the Chassidim were pulled aside and harshly interrogated,” Hikind said in a statement.

“It’s unconscionable for something like this to happen to innocent people anywhere, but even more so to identifiable Jews in Germany, of all places.”

“They reached out to share their story with me,” he continued. “I can tell you the trauma and pain they suffered is scarring and traumatic, so we are calling on the German government to investigate this appalling treatment of [these] innocent people immediately.”

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Chareidie From Kiryat Gat Stabs his 14 year-old Son to Death

 


According to neighbours, the father seemed like a normal guy and had no previous history of violence.

A man was arrested late Wednesday on suspicion of stabbing and killing his 14-year-old son in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, police said.

Magen David Adom medics who arrived at the family home found the boy in a critical condition and took him to the Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon, while trying to resuscitate him. However, he later died of his wounds.

The boy’s mother told police that the father, 37, had stabbed him and fled the home. After a brief manhunt, officers found and arrested the man in a nearby wooded area, police said.

According to the Ynet website, the mother told police that the father “had a psychotic attack,” picked up a knife and stabbed the boy without any reason.

Local social services workers were at the scene trying to assist the mother and several other children.

Magen David Adom medics called the incident “very difficult,” and said they found the boy lying unconscious, without a pulse and with several wounds to the body.

 

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R’ Meir Fein, 23, Who Collapsed After Purim, Passes Away

 A terrible tragedy occurred in Israel on Wednesday with the news of the passing of Reb Meir Fein, z’l, at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem at the age of 23, less than a year after his wedding.

The niftar is the great-grandson of Rosh Yeshivas Torah V’Daas in New York, HaRav Reuven Fein, z’t, and HaRav Shlomo Zalman Sonnenfeld, z’tl.

The niftar was hospitalized in critical condition after being found unconscious on Friday night hours after drinking alcohol earlier in the day on Purim and a few weeks after recovering from the coronavirus.

 However, according to a B’Chadrei Chareidim report, Meir drank only a moderate amount of alcohol on Purim 12 hours before he collapsed.

According to doctors, he may have suffered a post-coronavirus heart attack, exacerbated by his drinking. He had celebrated Purim on Friday in Bnei Brak, where he resided, and then traveled to his parents’ home in Ramot before Shabbos, where the incident occurred.

R’ Meir, z’l, was born and grew up in Ramot. His father, Rav Mordechai Fein, is a Mashgiach in Yeshivas Ziv Yisrael in Nachlaot, and his grandfather, Rav Shabtai Fein is a Rosh Mesivta in Yeshivas Tiferes HaTalmud.

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Eight Charedim Injured In Jerusalem Minibus Accident

 


On Wednesday evening, a serious accident took place on Golda Meir Boulevard, where a minibus carrying a number of Charedim was involved in an accident with a private car.

First responders from United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom responded to the accident and provided medical care for eight people who were injured in the incident. A spokesperson from United Hatzalah said that a number of the injured people were children and infants.

Miraculously, all eight people who were injured are in light condition.

The police spokesperson’s department issued a statement about the accident: “Following the accident that took place on Highway 9 and Golda Meir Boulevard, Highway 9 has been closed and all traffic is being directed to enter and exit Jerusalem via Highway 1.”


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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Zaks Family.. Grandchildren of the Chofetz Chaim Fighting Like Cats & Dogs in Secular Courts




Before you know it, the Jewish people will be celebrating "kabolas ha'Torah" on Shevuois...
and we learned that every single Jew born or that was yet to be born was standing at Mount Sinai to accept the Torah ... 

It is interesting to note that the very next Parsha after "kabolas ha"torah" is Parshas Mishpatim..which deals with laws that pertain to "Bein Adom Le'chaveiro" laws between people, laws between family members.

The very first Rashi asks: 
Why does it state "ואלה" with a vov "ו"? It should have been written "אלה"?
Rashi answers: "מה הראשונים מסיני אף אלו מסיני"
the extra letter "vov" comes to connect the two Parshas... 
"just like we all know that the laws of the previous parsha, parshes Yisro was given at Sinai, so too these laws in Parshas Mishpatim were given at Sinai"

So far so good? Understood?

Let's move on to the third Rashi that discusses going to a Jewish Bais Din for any grievances between Jews and see what he says.

" ..... לפניהם:
....ולא לפני גויים
"שהמביא דיני ישראל לפני גוים מחלל את השם ומייקר שם ע"ז להחשיבה" 
"Before them..... but not before non-Jews, for one who brings legal matters of Israel before non-Jews, desecrates the Name of God, and accords esteem to the name of the idols, by attributing importance to it ...

I am not going to go into the case itself ( choc -full of lying testimony and outright thievery, having their minor sons do their dirty work, this Judge no one's fool saw thru their shenanigans ) ...
you can read the Judge's decision on my next page and judge for yourself ...The Judge is a gentile... You don't have to wonder what he is thinking, just read the decision..but before you do bring a barf bag!

Question: What is it with children and grandchildren of our most respected and revered rabbis that they  have no compunction of taking their grievances against their very own brothers and sisters to secular court? Have they missed this Rashi? Did they take a nap when the Torah was given?
How do these people still have a following? How does anyone have any respect for these guys? How does anyone go to these guys for Torah advice, when they themselves are openly desecrating the Torah? 
Why would any "pushitir yid" your regular "Joe Shmo" want to go to Bais Din when the leaders themselves go to secular court? When the leaders themselves don't trust Bais Din to come up with a fair decision. When the leaders themselves believe that Bais Din is corrupt?And what does this say about how the Bais Din system works?
Go to the next page .. read and weep!

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Rabbi Yaakov Spivak Passes Away

 




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In Memory of Yoily Kish

 

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Portland cut police funding and Now There Is a 2,000% surge in murders

 Last June, the city of Portland, Oregon, hopped on the “defund the police” bandwagon. Now, it is flooded with gun violence, and the mayor is already backtracking from his support for the cuts.

Mayor Ted Wheeler has requested $2 million in emergency funding for the police department, pointing directly to the surge in gun violence. At this point last year, Portland had seen just one homicide. This year, that number is 20, with 208 shootings in the city so far.

Wheeler backed the Portland City Council’s decision to cut $15 million from the police budget last June, which included disbanding police units that investigate gun violence. Predictably, that move backfired in a city that saw 100 consecutive days of violent rioting last year.

Riots are back once again in the city, thanks to Wheeler’s spinelessness. Rioters have once again targeted a federal courthouse in the city, a reprise of the violent storming of the courthouse last July. In June, it was reported that the city lost around $24 million due to the riots. Damage to federal buildings totals roughly $2.3 million.

Portland, like Minneapolis, doesn’t have and never did have an overpolicing problem. The city has an underpolicing problem, compounded by cowardly city leaders who pander to anti-police activists. Portland city leaders, just liketheir Minneapolis counterparts, humored these leftist ideologues while turning a blind eye to riots. Now, they reap the whirlwind in the form of a surge in violent crime.

And this is Portland, so there is no Republican to blame for this issue. Wheeler is a Democrat. So are the city council members, with one independent who was endorsed by the council’s Democratic members. Gov. Kate Brown, who said that former President Donald Trump was “provoking confrontation for political purposes” by protecting the courthouse, is a Democrat. So is President Biden, who currently has federal agents trying to protect the courthouse.

Nor is there any plausible way to blame the availability of guns in Oregon or in neighboring states. Guns are exactly as available today as they were before this 2,000% surge in murders. 

This is what happens when people who are tasked with actually running a city embrace ridiculous ideologies to please activists. I would say that Portland residents deserve better, but this is the leadership they chose for their city. Given the failures of Wheeler and the city council to this point, the voters are the only ones who can change course. 

If the 2020 election is any indication, it won’t be happening any time soon.

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New invasive mosquito species known for carrying viruses found in Florida

 

A new invasive species of mosquito known to carry viruses, including yellow fever, has been discovered in Florida, scientists have warned.

The Aedes scapularis mosquitoes have been confirmed in two South Florida counties — Miami-Dade and Broward — but are now at risk of spreading along Florida’s gulf and Atlantic coasts, according to a study co-authored by Lawrence Reeves, an entomologist and research scientist with the University of Florida.

Until now, the insects have primarily been found in the Caribbean and Latin America, NPR reported.

In Brazil, they’ve been found infected with “a range of diseases” such as Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus and yellow fever virus, Reeves told the outlet.

It’s unclear whether the disease-ridden species actually spread the viruses they carry, but as outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases — most recently, dengue fever — have emerged in Florida, researchers say the discovery is important.

Lindsay Campbell, who co-authored the study with Reeves, said it is known that Aedes scapularis mosquitoes like to go indoors — and they feed on both wildlife and people.

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Why Did the Grammys Give a Platform to a Known Anti-Semite?


 With the “awards” season in the entertainment industry in full swing, maybe we should all get honest and call these shows what they really are: Anti-Semitic and Anti-American propaganda.

Nowhere is this clearer than the recent Grammy awards, whose viewership was down over 50% from last year’s ratings. The “song of the year” was “I Can’t Breathe” by H.E.R., a song about George Floyd, the convicted felon whose tragic death sparked so many riots. 

A song that includes the lyrics about bringing a “gun to a peaceful fight for civil rights,” and an American pride in “justifying a homicide,” it is an anthem not for the equality that all Americans (black, white, and everyone) should have, but an attack on our nation while propping up a felon as if he were a saint. 

It is true that music has always been a voice for political change. And it should always remain so. Even though this piece of propaganda is over the top, it carries an important voice into the national stream of consciousness.

But the inclusion and promotion of hate-monger Tamika Mallory in the Grammy awards is a great reason to never support the industry again.

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