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“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
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Women from Borough Park and other Orthodox neighborhoods in the New York area described nightmare scenarios in which their husbands coerced them into having sex by invoking the authority of God, withheld money for household necessities and used GPS to track their movements. They told of being thrown to the ground while in late stages of pregnancy — or of watching their partners beat their children.
After having shared stories of seeking help from rabbinic and civil authorities, they found themselves subjected to surveillance, harassment or the loss of their children in custody proceedings. This cycle has had profound consequences, intimidating victims into not reporting crimes, and shielding abusers from consequences.
Henny Kupferstein, a former Borough Park resident who grew up in the Belz Hasidic sect, said in a series of interviews that she faced stigma, community hostility and the loss of her children when she finally left her husband and accused him of domestic abuse.
“Literally gang warfare — mafia tactics,” Kupferstein said. “Ganging up, harassment that comes in a way that is presented as a holy task.”
It was an overcast and unseasonably warm November day in 2009 when Kupferstein, the woman who described “mafia-like tactics,” finally decided she had suffered enough.
The cries of her young child through an apartment window after her husband, Victor, allegedly locked Kupferstein out of the family home. The slurs, delivered in Yiddish — “witch,” “dog,” and worse. And the weight of her husband as Kupferstein lay underneath him, weeping through desperately unwanted but religiously obligatory sex.
“I was just crying the whole time,” Kupferstein, now 43, said in an interview. “Think of this from the perspective of someone who believes, quite strongly, that this act is something that God wants you to do.”
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Well, it is happening again. My grandfather told me about it. My father told me about it. Every other Jew who came over from Europe told me about it. Even the New York Times told me about it. You got it, antisemitism and the persecution of Jews.
When I was a young man sometime in the early part of last century, whenever I looked into the NY Times classified section for a job that I really needed, the jobs available would say “White Christian only”.
The NY Times wasn’t always as woke as it is now. I’m not even as woke as I am now, because I just fell asleep while writing this sentence.
I’ve always said there are three constants in life death, taxes, and antisemitism, a subject I’m an expert on unfortunately. All these people here in America and around the world commenting on the atrocities of the Israelis. Killing women and children! Ethnic cleansing! Apartheid!
Thousands of journalists sitting on their good for nothing tuchses yelling into the internet. All you hear is oy what a terrible thing the Israelis are doing. Evicting people from houses! Stopping people from praying! Terrible!
And, my friends, if you would go to any young Israeli man asking him what would he prefer to do, sit by an anti-missile battery or in a fighter jet, or would he rather go with his girlfriend to sit on the beach?
It seems to me that the answer is obvious, and the absurdity of the question says everything about what’s going on in the Middle East. Yet we hear so many people who have given very little thought to the topic yelling and screaming like they have lived in the region for 100 years and know every nuance of this terrible conflict.
They have decided that this is what they are going to spend their time screaming about. They don’t scream about the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have died in the last decade by their own co-religionists’ hands, more people killed than all sides combined in the entire history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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London’s Metropolitan Police are searching for “four black males” in connection to the shooting of radical Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson.
The shooting of the self-described “Black Panther of Oxford” Sasha Johnson has sparked widespread speculation over the motives of her attack. While some in Britain, including leftist Labour Party MP Diane Abbott, have attempted to link the shooting to Johnson’s political activism, the police have said there is no evidence to suggest the shooting was a targeted attack.
In a statement provided to Breitbart London, Met Commander Alison Heydari said: “From our enquiries so far, we have established that Sasha had been at a party at a house on Consort Road in Peckham early on Sunday morning.
“Around 3 am a group of four black males dressed in dark coloured clothing entered the garden of the property and discharged a firearm. They had left the scene before officers arrived.”
Commander Heydari went on to say that the police are “aware of Sasha’s involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK and I understand the concern this will cause to some communities – however, I wish to stress that at this time there is nothing to suggest Sasha was the victim of a targeted attack.”
Despite claims from Sasha Johnson’s political party, the Taking The Initiative Party (TTIP), that she had received “numerous death threats”, Heydari said that the Metropolitan Police are not aware of any threats made against her prior to the shooting.
“I want to take this opportunity to reassure you that we are doing everything possible to identify those responsible and to bring them to justice,” the police commander said.
Oh ok ... I get it ... 4 blacks shot another black for no reason...
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As the news of the tragedy at Meron unfolded, many Rabbanim rushed to give chizuk and some even gave their reasons on why they think it happened. And I can see why they would be searching to come up with some reason that makes somewhat sense since it is beyond our understanding that 45 of our finest souls were killed in such a horrible fashion and by other Jews!
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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