by Tzvi Fishman
ASK THE RABBI
“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
ASK THE RABBI
A West Ham fan has been arrested on suspicion of a hate crime after landing in Stansted Airport following reports that a orthodox Jewish man was subjected to offensive chanting yesterday.
Video footage onboard the Ryanair flight showed several fans signing a highly offensive song at the man as he attempted to take his seat on board the flight from Stansted to Genk on Thursday.
Essex Police confirmed the 55-year-old football fan was arrested as he stepped off the return flight from Belgium shortly before 4pm.
He has been taken to an Essex Police station for questioning.
Standing in her blue and white striped prison uniform, the snapshot of Helena Citronova could pass for one of many tragic mementos of Auschwitz. Except for one glaring difference — she's smiling.
And it's not the nervous grin of an inmate terrified of offending the Nazi holding the camera in the Third Reich's most notorious death camp.
She appears genuinely happy, her wide smile animating a beautiful, apple-cheeked face that shows little evidence of the starvation and brutality that ravaged her fellow prisoners.
In fact that's because Helena wasn't performing for the camera as the man holding it, SS Unterscharfuhrer Franz Wunsch, was her lover.
'Yes, she was the love of his life,' says the Nazi's daughter Magda nearly 80 years later.
He treasured that photo, I know. He would take reproductions. He copied the picture and I know he even took the head off and put it on different clothes, on a different background.'
It's not surprising Wunsch might want to forget where and when the photo was taken. His romance with Helena is surely one of the most astonishing and unlikely stories to emerge from World War II.
Doocy: "Why give taxpayer money to people who broke federal law to get here?"
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 5, 2021
Jean-Pierre: "One of the things that we have to remember why we're in this place that we are today is because we had an administration that had an inhumane, immoral policy." pic.twitter.com/EcqycUI9Lt
Peter Doocy drops the mic:
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) November 5, 2021
"Is there discussion about giving people who came here the right way money?"
WH Deputy Press Sec: "Why would we be giving people who came here the right way money?"
"Why are you giving people who came here the wrong way money?" pic.twitter.com/ILgwq6Fx0J
Glasgow. COP26. Marching for action on climate change. Biggest flags on display? Take a wild guess… pic.twitter.com/zYkAk3xqiQ
— James Vaughan (@EquusontheBuses) November 5, 2021
Americans aren’t laughing when they go to fill up and see gas prices at the highest level since 2014. https://t.co/U3P2PrRRIO
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 5, 2021
If you were a police officer, and a driver you had stopped were talking like this, how likely is it you would order a sobriety test? pic.twitter.com/2py40M7JGL
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 6, 2021
She takes off her mask as she approaches people. pic.twitter.com/aau7NcbReD
— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) November 4, 2021
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Wednesday, alleging she failed to remove more than 25,000 potentially deceased registrants from voter rolls after being notified of the issue several times.
The law firm, which is solely dedicated to election integrity, first reportedly notified Benson about the potentially deceased voters in September 2o2o after extensively reviewing and cross referencing state records. According to the lawsuit, PILF was repeatedly met with resistance by the Secretary of State’s office and was even allegedly denied a records request. As a result of Benson’s refusal to change or comply, the firm had to repurchase voter data reports several times over the course of a year to make sure its investigation was up to date. PILF said in the lawsuit:
The Foundation has spent many thousands of dollars reviewing Michigan’s election procedures and documented failures to maintain an accurate and correct voter roll as required by the NVRA [National Voter Registration Act of 1993]. Defendant’s unlawful list maintenance program has forced the Foundation to incur substantial costs comparing Michigan’s voter rolls to the Social Security Death Index, various commercial databases, and other sources in order to identify deceased registrants.