Kidnapper Snatches Boy off the Street in Broad Daylight in "Criminal" NYC

 

The apparently deranged stranger who snatched a boy off a Queens sidewalk and threw him into a car — only to have the child’s quick-thinking and faster-moving mom grab him back — handled the kid “like he was a bag of garbage,” the victim’s big brother told The Post.

Dolores Diaz Lopez, 45, was walking along Hillside Avenue in Richmond Hill Thursday night, taking her three kids to see their mechanic dad, Benjamin Diaz, at work, when a man she didn’t know leapt from a nearby maroon sedan.

Jacob had just let go of her hand, running a little bit in front of her on the wide and fairly empty sidewalk. She said she was watching him.

The next thing she knew a man sprinted out of a car, grabbed Jacob and ran back to the vehicle with him.

“Then I saw the man coming out of the car. He ran towards Jacob,” Lopez told The Post. “I was scared. I screamed, ‘Oh my God, he is taking my kid!”

“He picked him up like he was a bag of garbage,” said Jacob’s 9-year-old brother, Benny. “The car was close by. He opened the passenger door in the back and threw my brother in the car. He shut the door and locked it.”

James McGonagle, 24, has been charged with attempted kidnapping in the bizarre, shocking incident. 

Diaz Lopez, Benny and 8-year-old daughter Zuriely sprang into action like a trio from an action movie — and rescued a stunned Jacob.

“I ran around the other side of the car and tried to open the door,” Zuriley told The Post. “I pulled it but it didn’t open. The man locked the door with my brother inside the car.”

Benny recalled McGonagle’s passenger in the sedan ask the apparently crazed kidnapper, “What are you doing?”

“He was sitting in the passenger seat in the front,” Benny said of the man who police sourced identified Saturday as McGonagle’s father. “The man who took Jacob said, ‘We are kidnapping the kid.’”

It was up to Mom to finally save the day.

“Jacob stood up in the back seat and I pulled him out through the front passenger window,” she said as she gestured out both arms, made fists and pulled her arms in, showing how she grabbed her son out of the car.

She grabbed Jacob through the front window because the windows in the back were locked.

“Give me that stupid kid back!” McGonagle yelled. But by then a crowd had gathered and the men took off.

“He didn’t want to get caught,” said Benny. 

Lopez said she was beyond relieved when Jacob was back in her arms.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Devarim

 

Eda Chareidis Lunatics Holds Tikkun Chatzos With Sackcloth At Disputed Site Of New Light Rail Route

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During the course of the past few months there have been weekly and almost daily protests on Bar Ilan street in northern Jerusalem against the building of a new line of the Jerusalem light rail which will be traversing the street in a short while. The demonstrators claim that the planned route of the new line -from the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus to the Givat Ram university campus – will bring hundreds of secular students and staff through the predominantly chareidi neighborhood, changing the atmosphere and negatively influencing local children.

At present the street – a vital thoroughfare which connects the northern entrance to Jerusalem with its main western entrance – is clogged with numerous buses with both internal and intercity routes passing through and creating significant congestion. The planned train would reduce local public transport and ease the congestion but at the same time change the character of the neighborhood. Trains are more frequent than the buses and this would lead to more people getting off trains to make purchases in the area, leading to a drop in modesty standards.

Eda Chareidis leaders say that just as another planned line crossing Meah Shearim is to be placed under the streets of Strauss and Yehezkel, the Bar Ilan line should also be placed underground in order to “prevent spiritual harm to residents of the neighborhood.”

The demonstrations have also turned violent on some occasions, with extreme elements destroying equipment and setting fires in an attempt to halt the ongoing construction. Police have used water cannon, arrests and other measures in attempts to disperse the demonstrations but protesters continue the daily vigils, which have also disrupted traffic in the area on numerous occasions.

During the nine days the Eda Chareidis decided not to initiate demonstrations but rather to make a prayer vigil near the site, where Tikkun Chatzos was recited by the elders of the community, according to a report by B’Chadrei Chareidim and Kikar Hashabbos

No machlokes

 10 hours ago

“demonstrations have also turned violent on some occasions, with extreme elements destroying equipment and setting fires in an attempt to halt the ongoing construction.” Children aren’t negatively influenced by this behavior? Destroying equipment is stealing, an issue d’oraiysa.

Judith

 5 hours ago

Arrogant souls think they own the whole country . Secular people don’t fret when Haredim walk through their neighborhoods, buy homes and move in , usually because of housing shortages in orthodox neighborhoods .

CudahyKid

 8 hours ago

Unfortunately for the Jews that live in these neighborhoods, Israel a democracy, where citizens have the right to wear what they choose to wear.
The Orthodox just have to deal with that. The Orthodox do not have the right to impose their rules on everyone.

The sea is a mirror

 7 hours ago

>>> Trains are more frequent than the buses and this would lead to more people getting off trains to make purchases in the area, leading to a drop in modesty standards.

This is the entire issue? Residents don’t want more transit riders getting off the trains and making local purchases?

The solution is simple. Run an advertising campaign:

“Buy dati, not chareidi.”

Everyone should shop in their own neighborhoods, and support their own institutions.

Neutrogena & Aveeno Sunscreens Recalled Due To Cancer-Causing Chemical

 

Johnson & Johnson said Wednesday that it is recalling five of its sunscreen products after some samples were found to contain low levels of benzene, a chemical that can cause cancer with repeated exposure.

The affected products, packaged in aerosol cans, are Aveeno Protect + Refresh aerosol sunscreen, and four Neutrogena sunscreen versions: Beach Defense aerosol sunscreen, CoolDry Sport aerosol sunscreen, Invisible Daily Defense aerosol sunscreen and UltraSheer aerosol sunscreen.

The recall includes all can sizes and all levels of sun protection factor, or SPF. The products were distributed nationwide through retailers.

The health care giant said the benzene was found after testing by the company and an independent laboratory. It is investigating how the chemical got into the products.

J&J said it’s working to get all lots of the five products removed from store shelves. It urged consumers to stop using the sunscreens immediately and said customers can get a refund by calling J&J’s Consumer Care Center at 1-800-458-1673. More information is available at the websites for Neutrogena and Aveeno.

J&J said in a statement that “use of these products would not be expected to cause adverse health consequences” and that it voluntarily decided to recall them “out of an abundance of caution.” The statement added that people should use an alternate sunscreen to protect themselves from the skin cancer melanoma.

Benzene is a highly flammable, widely used chemical that’s present throughout the environment. It can cause cancer with repeated exposure at high enough levels. It also can damage the immune system and prevent cells from functioning properly, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The chemical’s effects vary by whether a person accidentally inhales or ingests it or gets it on skin and clothing. Symptoms range from dizziness and irregular heartbeat to convulsions and, at very high levels, death.

J&J, which is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, said it has notified the Food and Drug Administration of the recall.

HaRav Yoel Kahan ZT”L, Chief “Choizer” Of The Lubavitcher Rebbe

 

We regret to  inform you of the Petira of Hagaon HaRav Yoel Kahan ZT”L, who served at the chief choizer (reviewer and teacher) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZT”L’s teachings and the Head Mashpia of the Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch. He was Niftar after suffering a massive heart attack on Thursday. He was 91.

Known as “Reb Yoel,” he was revered by generations of Chabad students and scholars for his brilliance and his ability to distill and communicate subtle, complex concepts of Chabad philosophy to a wide and diverse audience. He was also the editor-in-chief of the highly acclaimed encyclopedia of Chabad Chasidic thought, Sefer Ha-arachim.

Born in the Soviet Union in 1930, he emigrated with his family to Israel at the tender age of five, where he studied in Yeshiva Achei Temimim in Tel Aviv. He spent his teenage years studying with several prominent Chabad Chasidic scholars. In 1950 he boarded a ship to New York where he quickly became attached to the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZT”L, devoting all his energy to interpret and disseminate the Rebbe’s teachings.

Reb Yoel’s unique talent for memorization, along with his intellectual abilities, made him the official “reviewer” and the authoritative exponent of the oral discourses of the Rebbe. Often held on Shabbos, when writing was not possible, Reb Yoel led the effort to reconstruct the Rebbe’s talks, with a team of scholars under his tutelage.

In his role as the head mashpia of the Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva at 770, Reb Yoel guided thousands of students in the teachings of Chassidus. He also traveled far and wide to give shiurim in Chassidus and to farbreng. His audio recordings, and books, are used by many more around the world.

He is survived by his wife, Rebbetzin Leah Kahan.

The Levaya will be leaving Shomrei Hadas Chapels – 3803 14th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11218 on Friday 9:45 AM.

The procession will be passing Lubavitch World Headquarters – 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11213 on Friday 10:45 AM.

The Kevura will be at the Lubavitch section of Old Montefiore Cemetery – 226-20 Francis Lewis Blvd, Cambria Heights, NY 11411.

From Bais Yaakov to Becoming an Anaesthesiologist

 

A Post-Charedi Bais Yaakov Graduate Speaks Out 

Guest post by Dr. Efrat Bruck

I surreptitiously angled my test paper so that light would filter through and I would be able to see the question. I was in the 9th grade, and we were taking the NYS regents biology exam. A giant white sticker covered question #19. Luckily, it was a sunny day and faint rays of sunlight filtered through. I could just make out a diagram of male anatomy with an arrow pointing to the vas deferens. Funny how the topics our school avoided teaching us ended up seared into our minds. “The arrow is pointing to which structure?” I filled in the correct answer knowing it wouldn’t help. We would all automatically get that question “wrong”. That was my high school’s policy. 

It wasn’t surprising to us. After all, they tore out of our textbooks all the chapters covering evolution and reproduction. The former, perhaps is understandable, but the latter still baffles me; some of the students were literally 3 years away from getting married and starting families. I recall feeling anxious and angry. Somewhere, is some recess of my mind, I wanted to become a doctor. Would there be another five questions on reproduction or evolution causing my baseline score to tank? Would it affect my chances of going to college? My older sister had started the exam off with a 90% and I had even heard of one class that sunk to the 80’s. 

But I shouldn’t have been so worried. There were only two “bad” questions on our exam and we started off with a 99%. In addition, it would be a while till I would actually pursue medicine and by then, this particular score wouldn’t matter that much. What should have worried me more was how the philosophical underpinnings of my environment would affect me in the coming decade. For example, the time a seminary teacher spent an entire lesson telling us a story of a graduate from our school who went to Touro College in Brooklyn (a college that is set up to serve the frum community, with separate classes for men and women and professors staying clear of topics that would be considered inappropriate) and then went on to marry her non-Jewish professor and become irreligious. The teacher then paused, closed her eyes dramatically, and said: “Then she got cancer. May it be a kaparah for her.”

I’m writing this essay in a format addressing those who are part of the charedi leadership. I’ll be using “you” when referring to the charedi world/leadership and “we” collectively to address myself, as if I am part of the charedi world, simply because this makes for easier writing. If you are curious to know why an otherwise successful product of charedi chinuch chose not to continue in this path, read on. If you are a charedi leader, you probably care to know why people are “leaving”, and rest assured, they are. Some make a lot of noise or go OTD. Some just want to live their life peacefully and make a quiet, graceful (I hope!) exit, finding other branches of Orthodoxy. 

Rivka Morgenshtein 36 from Geula Section Missing

 

The last time she was reported seen was on  on June 6 in Tel Aviv. Police ask that you call them if you see her!

רבקה מורגנשטיין מירושלים, נעדרת כבר למעלה מחודש, והיום (חמישי) המשטרה מבקשת שוב את עזרת הציבור, לסייע לה בחיפושים אחריה.

רבקה מורגנשטיין היא בת 36, ומתגוררת בשכונת גאולה בירושלים - ברחוב נחום.

לדברי המשטרה, היא נוהגת להסתובב בתל אביב, שם היא נראתה בפעם האחרונה בתאריך 11.6.21.

תיאורה: גוון עורה בהיר ושיער כהה, מבנה גוף בינוני. לבשה חולצה שחורה עם פסים אפורים, חצאית שחורה ארוכה, כפכפי קרוקס ומטפחת ראש שחורה.

"כל היודע דבר על מקום הימצאה מתבקש לדווח למוקד 100 של המשטרה או לתחנת לב הבירה טל׳ 02-5391550", נמסר מהמשטרה.

Cuban Refugees Will Not be Allowed in the USA because they will Vote Republican

 

The new rule is that only refugees the Democrats presume will vote Republican will be turned away https://t.co/XzTA7L6QSm

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 14, 2021

Now listen to this interview! 

Peter Doocy asks why the U.S. is rejecting refugees from Cuba

"Do you think that people are leaving Cuba because they don't like communism?"@PressSec: "I think we've been pretty clear... they are opposed to the oppression to the mismanagement of the government in the country." pic.twitter.com/Tce23ykuDn

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 14, 2021

Lightning Now Considered "racist" because it destroyed a memorial of the criminal George Floyd

 

A George Floyd memorial was taken out by lightning... you know what that means... pic.twitter.com/2arGM5zTSb

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) July 14, 2021

Someone Please Explain this.... Please please

 

The absolute state of our FBI pic.twitter.com/t0nx4x78rZ

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 14, 2021