Flight attendants helpless in face of mask-refusing passengers

 

Flight attendants from all the Israeli airlines have expressed frustration at their lack of authority to enforce the coronavirus rules on the flight, Israel Hayom reported.

The site also noted the attendants' complaints regarding the lengthy process required to report passengers who refuse to wear masks.

This issue does not affect only Israeli airlines: Foreign airlines are also not allowed to issue fines, but some of them allow attendants to write down the names of the passengers, refuse to allow them to board connection flights, mark them as problematic for future flights, and so on.

G., a flight attendant for an Israeli airlines, told Israel Hayom: "There are more than a few passengers who think they are smarter than everyone else. They say they were vaccinated, that they're not afraid, and that they're not willing to wear a mask."

"If I want to deal with it, I need to fill out a report that's four pages long. This is a report in which I need to interview witnesses who testify that the passenger did not wear a mask, take his details, fill out long forms for at least fifteen minutes and sometimes even more, and only then do we submit it to the Civil Aviation Authority, and they decide whether to submit the report."

Unsurprisingly, G. said he has "not yet heard of someone who received a fine afterwards. More than that, I don't know flight attendants who filled out this form until the end, because it's very complicated and exhausting. I also gave up after I tried, and just stopped in the middle.

Israel Hayom emphasized that the flight attendants they spoke to noted somewhat of an improvement on the matter, saying that the vast majority of passengers do wear masks. However, they said, there is a certain population in which the percentage of mask-refusers is very prominent: young people flying for vacations, abroad and to Eilat.

A., a flight attendant with another Israeli company, said: "If it's a violent or dangerous situation, then the pilot can land the plane, call the police, and deal with the matter harshly. But here? For a mask? No one is going to do that. If it were like that, then police would be waiting for a lot of flights that land in Israel."

US authorities seize Judaica from Kestenbaum auction house in probe of Holocaust loot

 

Federal authorities in New York seized 17 items from a Brooklyn auction house that they suspect were looted from their rightful owners during the Holocaust.

The scrolls and manuscripts include community ledgers, memorial books and records from Jewish communities in Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Slovakia. Among the items is a valuable record of Jewish burials from the community of Cluj in Romania.

The Justice Department began investigating Kestenbaum and Company, the auction house selling the artifacts, in February after allegations that 21 items were being sold without permission or documentation from their rightful owners. Four have already been sold.

“The Scrolls and Manuscripts that were illegally confiscated during the Holocaust contain priceless historical information that belongs to the descendants of families that lived and flourished in Jewish communities before the Holocaust. This Office hopes that today’s seizure will contribute to the restoration of pre-Holocaust history in Eastern Europe,” Acting U.S. Attorney Jacquelyn Kasulis said in a statement.

At least one of those items was sold after the auction house was contacted by law enforcement officials.

No one has been criminally charged in the case, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York told The Washington Post. The Department of Justice statement does not say who confiscated the scrolls nor name the seller.

Daniel Kestenbaum, chairman of the auction house which specializes in Judaica, said the seller “rescued” the artifacts after they were “tragically” abandoned in Soviet-bloc countries. He said in a statement that the auction house supports federal authorities’ efforts to resolve “this meta-historical problem.”

Goy ''kinueh'' sets deadly fire because relatives didn’t follow Bible

 

A Texas man allegedly set a fire that killed his brother and badly burned his mother because the pair did not follow the Bible, a report said.

Philip Mills, 40, has been charged with capital murder and arson over the Thursday night blaze that left his 54-year-old Paul Mills dead in the family’s El Paso home, KTSM reported.

Police said the suspect copped to the vicious crime and told police he used gasoline from a weed whacker, which was poured onto a living room couch, to ignite the deadly inferno, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the outlet.

After allegedly setting the home on fire, Philip waited outside “with large rocks in his hands” in case his relatives made it out alive, according to the affidavit.

Philip’s 82-year-old mother, Annette Mills, managed to walk out of the home and was rescued by first responders. She was hospitalized in critical condition.

Investigators questioning Mills informed him of his mother’s condition.

“The defendant then laughed and advised the investigators that he was shocked that both his mother and brother did not perish and called it a ‘failed attempt,’” the affidavit said.

The suspect allegedly told investigators he started the fire because his brother and mother did not follow the Bible.

Hamas Ammunitian Storage Near Gaza Residence Blows Up Kill One Injures 14 Including 6 Kids

 

Palestinian factions and human rights organizations have called on Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups to stop  storing weapons in residential areas following another explosion, which killed one person and injured 14 others on Thursday.

They also demanded a thorough investigation into the explosion in order to hold those responsible accountable.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said that the explosion took place in a warehouse used by Hamas for storing weapons.

Hamas said it has launched an investigation, but has not provided any details.

Thursday’s explosion occurred shortly after 8 a.m. in a house located in the Al-Zawiya market area in the center of Gaza City. Palestinian sources said that 69-year-old Atta Ahmed Saqallah died and 14 civilians were injured, including six children.

Medical sources at Shifa Hospital described the wounds of one of them as critical, according to the Palestinian Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights. The three-story house was partially destroyed, while neighboring houses and shops were partially damaged, the center said in a statement. According to eyewitnesses, a fire had broken out in the house before the explosion.

“Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza views the explosion incident with grave seriousness, as there have been repeated incidents of internal explosions in houses in overcrowded residential neighborhoods for various reasons in the past, which resulted in the killing of a number of civilians and the destruction of homes and public and private properties,” the statement read.

“Accordingly, Al-Mezan reiterates its call for a comprehensive and serious investigation into this incident and other similar events, to publish the results of the investigation publicly, and to take the necessary measures to ensure that it does not recur in order to preserve the lives and property of citizens.”

The Palestinian NGO Network, an umbrella organization comprising 133 member organizations, also called for a “serious and transparent” investigation into the explosion. “The Network stresses the need to expedite the provision of all forms of assistance and support to those affected,” the group said. “It also stresses the need to announce the results of the investigation and to take serious measures to prevent such explosions from happening again.”

Palestinian writer Fadel Al-Manasfeh said it was clear that Hamas chooses popular markets as a safe place for its ammunition warehouses because it knows that Israel does not target such places. He said that Hamas was “confused” by the explosion because one of its weapons warehouses had been discovered. He also pointed out that a similar explosion took place in an open market in the Nuseirat refugee camp last year, killing more than 10 Palestinians and injuring dozens others.

The Top 10 Richest Rabbanim in Israel

 

Gerer put out Fake News photos of Lizman learning with Gerer Rebbe

Notice the above photo of a young Litzman reading the Hamodia newspapers, but this of course doesn't fit in the Gerer agenda, that the Gerer Rebbe would read a newspaper... 

So they photoshopped the photo and added gemmaras instead.See photo below...

However the gemmarah is the "Oiz Ve'hadar" edition, and the Oiz Ve'hadar edition didn't exist back then ..

Minor detail 

 

Three Brooklyn Savages Charged for Assaulting Jews, Forcing Them to Say ‘Free Palestine’

 Three men in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been charged in relation to two hate-crime incidents that targeted religious Jews.

District Attorney for Kings Country Eric Gonzalez identified the defendants as Daniel Shaukat, 20, of Bensonhurst; Haider Anjam, 21, of Midwood; and Ashan Azad 19, also of Midwood.

According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the men faced a 68-count indictment that included third-degree assault as a hate crime; second-degree menacing as a hate crime; third-degree assault; criminal mischief; and criminal obstruction of breathing and related charges.

Jackie Mason Dies at 93

 

Jackie Mason, the former rabbi from a family of rabbis whose Borscht Belt style and issue-oriented comedy made him a popular and at times controversial performer, has died. He was 93.

Mason died Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, his longtime friend, lawyer Raoul Felder, told The Hollywood Reporter. Mason had trouble breathing and passed away in his sleep, he said.

Mason’s first of his many one-man shows, The World According to Me!, was a hit on Broadway in the late 1980s — selling every seat at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre for more than a year — and he was given a special Tony Award for his efforts. He also received an Emmy and a Grammy nomination after the show was adapted as Jackie Mason on Broadway.

On the big screen, Mason starred in the disappointing Caddyshack II (1988) after Rodney Dangerfield decided not to do the sequel and appeared in Steve Martin’s The Jerk (1979) and Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part I(1981).

Earlier, Mason produced and starred as a New Jersey snitch who steals money from the cops and hightails it to Miami in The Stoolie (1971), firing young director John G. Avildsen during production.

He also provided the voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky on eight episodes of The Simpsons, the first time in 1991 and the last in 2016 (he won his second career Emmy for one such turn in 1992).

More recently, Mason did a series of video commentaries for Breitbart News in which he regularly roasted Hollywood.

Former White House doc, predicts Biden will be forced to resign

 

Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician-turned-congressman, says he’s “terrified for our country” in the wake of President Joe Biden’s disastrous town hall this week — and that he doubts whether the commander in chief has the cognitive ability to make it through a full term. 

“He’s completely LOST it!” Jackson (R-Tex.) tweeted Saturday, along with a video clip — recorded this week — in which Biden bizarrely answered a reporter’s question about defunding the police by claiming that Republicans accuse him of “sucking the blood out of kids.”

“Needs a cognitive exam NOW!” Jackson posted.

In Biden’s haywire performance on CNN Wednesday night, widely mocked on social media, he made false assertions about the efficacy of COVID vaccines, talked about helping children “find out whether there’s a man on the moon or whether those aliens are here or not” and confused the audience with references to obscure conspiracy theories.

“I mean, Qanon, the idea that the Democrats or that Biden is hiding people and sucking the blood of children and — no, I’m serious,” he said, drawing dubious looks from the crowd.

At one point in the town hall, the president rambled incoherently as he attempted to discuss the vaccine approval process.

The Lesson That Moshe Rabbeinu Taught us on his very last days

 

This past Shabbos, the Baal Korah read Parshas Ve’eschanan.where Moshe Rabbeinu begins with the words:

‘’ןאתחנן אל ה’ בעת ההיא לאמר’’ ‘’I pleaded to G-d at that time’’

Commentaries discuss why Moshe specifically used the word ואתחנן a word that corresponds numerically to 515. They say this comes to teach us that Moshe pleaded to G-d that he enter Eretz Yisrael with 515 different individual prayers.

But what was missing in Moshe’s resume? After all, he dedicated his entire life to the Jewish people and in addition he was the greatest prophet that ever lived, the entire Torah is named after him as it says: ‘’זכרו תורת משה עבדי’’ ’’remember my servant’s  Moshe’s Torah’’ 

So why did he need to plead so much to enter Eretz Yisrael? What was he missing?

After all, Moshe was instrumental into bringing  the ten plaques on the Egyptians, split the Yam Suf, brought down the Luchos, made sure that the Jewish would have what to eat in the desert, was victorious in the war against the Amalekites, and was able to speak to Hashem פה אל פה face to face, so to speak, and Hashem Himself  testifies that ‘’בכל ביתי נאמן הוא’’ ‘’in My entire house he is the trusted one’’

So what else was missing?

With all his accomplishments and his righteousness, he still had to plead to Hashem with 515 different individual prayers... all by himself with no other Jew pleading on his behalf …. 

Why all those prayers? Let’s remember that all these prayers were for only one reason to be able to enter Eretz Yisrael, but why?

One of the great commentaries says that Moshe  wanted to pass on to us a great lesson. 

Moshe Rabbeinu wanted us to know the worth of Eretz Yisrael. 

Moshe is saying to us:

‘’My dear children, not being able to enter Eretz Yisrael, I will never be complete, I will forever have a part of me missing’’

This is the lesson the greatest teacher of the Jewish people, wanted to impart upon us, Eretz Yisrael isn’t a real-estate transaction, and it’s not settlements. Eretz Yisrael is a Land that is very Holy; the Torah itself bears witness to this:

,,עיני ה’ אלוקיך בה מראשית השנה ועד אחרית שנה’’

"The eyes of Hashen your G-d is upon her (Eretz Yisrael) from the beginning to the end of the year"

We all can enter where Moshe couldn't. Hashem made it possible for every single Jew to come and live in Eretz Yisrael; you are never complete if you never make that move, or at least instil the love of this Land of "milk and honey"  to your children and grandchildren.

From this parsha we learn, how much we have to thank and praise our Creator for those of us who have the merit to live and grow in a country that ‘’עיני ה’ אלוקיך בה’’