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Our teenagers, our children are asking why this happened on such a holy place and on a holy day! Rabbanim are desperate to answer these theological questions to contain the inevitable fallout in religion that this will effect our precious youth.
I personally think that children should be told that this was a dangerous situation waiting for a tragedy to happen... this answers their questions very simply and it's something they can digest... (I was actually invited to give Dvar Torah on Parshas Emor in Beit Shemesh and that's what I said... parents couldn't stop thanking me) but of course we adults know that everything is from Hashem and therefore we as adults have to look deeper and ask... why after a year of Covid when many of our great people succumbed to this dreadful disease, Hashem took another 45 souls in one fell swoop.
The latest reason some Rabbis put forth was because women are wearing the "Lace Caps Shaitels..." They are not saying it outright, but reading their "Kol Korahs" you know exactly what they are hinting at.
Now I don't know what a "Lace Cap Shaitel" is and I don't believe I have ever seen one, but what I did notice was that the rabbanim that signed this latest prohibition are not in tune with the Jewish people or even their own communities. I know most of them.
What no one asked them is if it's true that Hashem is so upset with women wearing "Lace Cap Shaitels" then why did Hashem take 45 men? There were tens of thousands of women there, not one was even injured.
The truth is that no one really knows, but still, we try to read and digest all the reasons given by mekubalim and tzaddikim so that maybe we can make some sense of this horrible tragedy.
I found an interesting take on why this tragedy happened in an article widely distributed in the Dati Leumi circles and it was printed even in at least two Chareidie weekly publications in Israel written by an Israeli rabbi, Harav Yair Frenk the rabbi of Amona-Amechi.
I want to preface this by saying ...we don't really know.. but nevertheless Rabbi Frenk was bold and not afraid to write the following in Hebrew, which I will attempt to loosely translate paragraph by paragraph...I did this piece by piece so that you can digest this .... also read the Hebrew itself if you can ..it gives you a better insight to what he is trying to say and gives it the justice it deserves:
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Federal Judge Sides With Biden, Rules Christian College Must Allow Biological Men To Share Showers With Women https://t.co/Tq8ZGBIcMW
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 20, 2021
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Good Samaritan! Elderly Asian man being viciously attacked is rescued.
— Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) May 22, 2021
The media is ignoring these frequent attacks on Asian unless of course it involves a white person they can use to demonize America as white Supremacist country pic.twitter.com/ioSvWOR2ZK
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פרי פאליסטיין pic.twitter.com/ZMZHjLY3wy
— Hasidic2 (@hasidic_1) May 23, 2021
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Policemen who rushed to the scene engaged the assailant and shot him. It was later confirmed that the terrorist was killed. The wounded men, both in their 20s, were rushed to a nearby hospital in moderate and serious conditions.
The incident took place near the Border Police headquarters in east Jerusalem. The area has seen several terrorist attacks over the years.
"Around 1:30 p.m., an assailant arrived at the light rail station, pulled out a knife and used it to injure two people there. Officers who were on the scene responded quickly, shooting the assailant and neutralizing him," a statement by the Israel Police said.
The Shin Bet security service was called in to assist in the investigation.
Police Commissioner Yaakiv Shabtai and Public Security Minister Amir Ohana visited the scene later on Monday and were briefed on the available details by officers at the scene.
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A journalist for the BBC in 2014 tweeted “#HitlerWasRight” about Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
Honest Reporting, an Israeli organization whose mission statement is “promoting fairness and accuracy in media coverage of Israel,” offered a screen capture on Sunday of a tweet by Tala Halawa, whose account on the LinkedIn social network lists her as a “Digital Journalist at BBC Monitoring,” a position she began in 2017.
Last week, Halawa was credited on the BBCwebsite for participating in the writing of an article titled “Israel-Gaza violence: The children who have died in the conflict” between Hamas and Israel, which reached a ceasefire on Friday following 11 days of fighting.
In 2014, she was working for 24FM, a Palestinian radio station.
Reacting to earlier hostilities between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, she wrote on Twitter: “#Israel is more #Nazi than #Hitler! Oh, #HitlerWasRight #IDF go to hell. #prayForGaza.”
“These tweets predate the individual’s employment with the BBC, but we are nevertheless taking this very seriously and are investigating,” a BBC spokesperson said Sunday in response to a query by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Halawa had worked for six months as a researcher for The New Yorker, according to her LinkedIn account, before taking up a position with the BBC.
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A handful of Americans, thousands of miles away from the Middle East -- who may not exist – are desperate to become policy makers.
How? By creating fake headlines they simply do not deserve.
Why? Because they are said to be Google employees, and because they are said to be Jewish, and because they claim to be numerous.
Many news websites published a rant, this past week, which shrilly demanded that Google’s CEO punish Israel and support the Palestinian attacker. These "news items" claimed that 250 Jewish Google employees (out of 100,000 employees), support this.
”Jewish employees urge Google to support Palestinians, cancel contracts”, the Jerusalem Post shouted. “Jewish Google Employees Ask Company to End Its Ties With Israeli Military”, enthused leftist Haaretz. “Jewish Google employees to CEO: end contracts with Israelis who support infringement of Palestinian rights”, blared the allegedly high-brow Calcalist.
Hmm. First of all, if 250 Jewish Google employees hold one personal opinion or another, with all due respect, this is not a large enough number to be news at all. Political parties, for example, routinely have over a million supporters.
But it’s not clear how many if any were actually behind this miniscule rant. Because none of the “news sites” seems to have checked and confirmed, that the "250" employees of Google really existed in reality. None of the articles identified even one employee by name – not a single name in the article in The Marker, nor in Calcalist, nor in Globes. Could it be that the "leading journalists" who wrote these "articles" did not locate, and certainly did not interview, even one alleged signatory? In today’s world of sloppy journalism – that can certainly be.
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