"Kids Speak" Author Chaim Walder Has "Women Speak" Alleging that He raped them

 Ultra-Orthodox Israeli author Chaim Walder allegedly engaged in sex with minors, two girls aged 12 and 15, according to an investigation published in Haaretz on Friday morning.

Additionally, a third testimony alleged that Walder regularly raped a 20-year-old woman, his therapy patient, on a regular basis.

Walder is a well-known author publishing literature for children and young adults in the Ultra-Orthodox world, with his series Kids Speak (in Hebrew - Yeladim Mesaprim Al Atzmam) selling over two million copies of his books in ultra-Orthodox communities across Israel and the Diaspora. The first book in the series became one of the top five best-selling books in Israel of all time.

In the testimony shared with Haaretz, Talia (not her real name) recounted the first time she met Walder, at the age of 12, more than 20 years ago. 

"There's No Place in the World Where a Person Can Get a Yeshuah like Sighet" says Satmar Rebbe

 

In this week's Ami Magazine, Issue 542, Yitzchok Frankfurter interviews Rabbi Usher Horowitz, the one who was instrumental in arranging both the building of the new Sighter Bais Medresh in Sighet and the Satmarerer Rebbe's trip to Romania to inaugurate the new Bais Medrish.

R' Usher Horowitz describes in this interview how he managed to buy the properties in Sighet and the difficulties getting to Sighet:

"The thing is that Sighet is very out of the way from anywhere else important to frum Yidden, and the journey isn't easy either. It happens to be quite close geographically to Munkatch, but it's in a different country, which means a very inconvenient border crossing.

But the Rebbe didn't want just want to build something anywhere in town. He said it's only worth it if we can build in the place where the Kedusha always was."

" The closest airport that's currently open for commercial travel is in Cluj (Klausenburg) which is a three-and-a-half hour ride away by car and requires a stopover in Frankfort from New York. "

Did you read this? 

He wanted to build "in the place where the Kedusha always was."

If this place is the only place where "kedusha always was", why is it that R' Yoel Teitelbaum left Sighet to go to Krula eventually settling in Sata-Mara? 

R' Usher Horowitz continues:

"All of the Sigheter sefarim say that when one goes to a place where ancestors davened, even if they're no longer alive, the tefillos ascend immediately to shamayim. This was the strongest point for him (the Satmarer Rebbe) we have to be able to daven in that place. The Rebbe believes that there's no place in the world where a person can get a yeshuah like Sighet." 

Notice that he says that the premise that one should go to a place "where ancestors davened, even if they're no longer alive, the tefillos ascend immediately to shamayim" is written in "all of the Sigheter sefarim" ... 

Why is this idea found only in "Sigheter sefarim?" Why wouldn't this great secret be found in any other Chassidishe sefer?

So let's understand this ..."The Rebbe believes  that there's no place in the world where a person can get a yeshuah like Sighet." 

How about a Chabad guy? Will he only get a Yeshuah if he travels to Maramorsh Sighet? Is this Chabad guy wasting his time at the Ohel in Queens?

What about the tens of thousands that make the annual pilgrimage to Uman? Should they start making the treacherous journey to Sighet?

" no place in the world where a person can get a yeshuah like Sighet." 

I think based on this idea, Kalev ben Yefuna , one of the meraglim made a huge mistake travelling to the Mearas Ha'Machpeilah, to be mispallel, he should have gone to Sighet, he would have been successful!

All the Jews that were chased out of Israel and stopped at Kever Rachel to cry and daven,  "Rachel mevakah al ba'neighu" should have gone to Marmerosh.

"the tefillos ascend immediately to shamayim" this statement is actually blasphemous, this statement is a takeoff from last week's parsha where Yaakov said when he woke up at the place where the Bais Hamikdash would stand

"מה נורא המקום הזה אין זה כי אם בית אלוקים וזה שער השמים"

Listen R' Usher ....

Hashem doesn't want any Jews to go to Sighet and daven. Eli Weisel was a native "Sigheter" open his book  read his description of how the Sigheter goyim helped Nazis lead the Sigheter Jews out to their slaughter, and burnt down the Sigheter shul, read how the "friendly" Sigheter neighbors  (words straight out of R' Usher's naive lips) couldn't wait to  pave over the area to build a soccer field.

In this 4 page interview, Eretz Yisrael, is not mentioned once. Not once.

Poiskim question whether making a blessing, a bracha, is a Biblical obligation or a Rabbinic obligation. The one bracha that comes the closest to be a Biblical obligation is "birchas ha'Torah" the bracha that one makes before davening or learning. But that isn't so simple as there are Rishonim that argue and say that this bracha is Rabbinic" 

There is one solitary bracha where there is not any dispute and all agree that it is Biblical.

The blessing of Birchas Ha'mozon 

הזן את הכל , which thanks Hasem for the miraculous Manna in the desert

and the second bracha

ואכלת ושבעת, וברכת את ה' אלוקך על הארץ הטובה אשר נתן לך ברוך אתה ה' על הארץ ועל המזון

this blessing goes for food in general and for giving us Eretz Yisrael

So What does food have to do with Eretz Yisrael?

Meforshim point out that in the bracha, הארץ is mentioned before המזון, and that is because any substance that you get is only in the merit  of Eretz Yisrael

In fact Chazal say if someone bentched and left out the words 

ארץ חמדה טובה ורחבה

he must repeat the entire bentching.

Can it be that when Sigheters bentch they have in mind soil of the cursed Sighet, the soil soaked in Jewish blood? Do you really think after reading this interview that Satmar Chassidim really thank Hashem for Eretz Yisrael? Or are they thanking the "Samach Mem" that made it possible for them to buy the cursed Sigheter properties to build a shul where goyim hate them and can't stand looking at a Jew? After all they think that Sighet "is their homeland."

500 National Guard troops will be on stand-by in Wisconsin for Rittenhouse verdict as police forces across America brace for acquittal

 

500 National Guard troops have been put on standby in Wisconsin in anticipation of a verdict in the case of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. 

Governor Tony Evers announced that the guardsmen will be stationed outside Kenosha, ready to support local police in the event of unrest over the weekend and next week. 

'We continue to be in close contact with our partners at the local level to ensure the state provides support and resources to help keep the Kenosha community and greater area safe. 

'The Kenosha community has been strong, resilient, and has come together through incredibly difficult times these past two years, and that healing is still ongoing.

'I urge folks who are otherwise not from the area to please respect the community by reconsidering any plans to travel there and encourage those who might choose to assemble and exercise their First Amendment rights to do so safely and peacefully,' he said. 

Closing arguments begin on Monday and the likelihood of an acquittal or mistrial is growing by the day.  

Danny Fenster from Detroit Sentenced by Myanmar Military Court to 11 years in prison

 

A military court in Myanmar has sentenced Jewish American journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison, CNN reported.

Fenster, 37, has been detained in the country since the end of May when the Detroit, Michigan native, on his way home to see family and friends, was taken into custody at the Yangon International Airport shortly before boarding a flight to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

At the hearing on Friday, Fenster’s lawyer Than Zaw Aung said the journalist was found guilty of visa breaches, associating with an illegal group and incitement under section 505a of the Myanmar penal code – publishing comments that “cause fear” or spread “false news.”

He was also fined the equivalent of $50 USD.

Turkey Charging Israeli couple with espionage

 A Turkish court on Friday decided to extend by 20 days the remand of Mordy and Natali Oknin, the Israeli couple detained for photographing the palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, until the start of their trial.

This is contradictory to earlier reports that a deportation order would be issued, and that the couple will be flown to Israel immediately afterwards.

According to reports in Israel, the couple is suspected of espionage. Channel 12 News reported that during Friday’s hearing, a representative of the Turkish prosecutor's office claimed that the couple photographed not only Erdogan's palace and private home, but also the security positions and cameras.

The prosecution claimed that the two marked the photos, highlighted them and sent them to a third party, and as such they intend to file an indictment against them for espionage.

A local lawyer representing the Israelis claimed that the couple took pictures for their family because they did not know that it was forbidden to take pictures.

The Turkish lawyer is expected to appeal the decision to keep the Oknins in custody. He told Kan 11 News that the couple is in good condition and added that the Israeli Foreign Ministry and diplomats stationed in Turkey must intervene because this is an issue that is also related to relations between the two countries.

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke on Friday evening with the families of the Oknins and informed them that the Foreign Ministry had requested an urgent consular visit to the couple, and is working to release them at all levels.

The Foreign Minister stressed that the couple "do not work for any Israeli agency."

Zera Shimshon Parshas Vayeitzei

 

Pervert who offered to buy chocolate to little girl if she touched him arrested

Song of Rosh Hashana

 

The Anti-Defamation League allies with haters of Israel, Hamas apologists and blood libelers

 

The Arab Stooge, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of ADL

When three Jewish teens were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas, Israel fought back, Jews mourned, and Sheera Frenkel rushed to claim that Hamas wasn’t responsible.

“There is a Hamas official in the story saying they are not Hamas,” she insisted on Twitter.

It was a low point in her career of smearing Israel with lies and hate, but not unusual.

Frenkel had accused Israel of using white phosphorus, falsely claimed that there had been a blast at an Iranian nuclear facility, wrongly described an Israeli ban on construction materials, and concluded her coverage of the brutal murder of a Rabbi and his family in Mumbai, India with a quote suggesting that “the attitudes of the Chabad, which gives the sense of an elite club for Jews alone, is part of what provoked the terrorists to target them for the attack.”

This is the sort of ugly hateful behavior the ADL should be condemning, not celebrating.

‘Yalla Brandon!’: How the Jewish Vote May (Finally) Be Changing

“Yalla Brandon,” as former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer explained during a press gaggle at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership conference in Las Vegas (the former White House press secretary is on the board of the organization), meant “Let’s go, Brandon” in Hebrew.

We had all been hearing a lot of “Let’s go Brandon’s,” mostly in English, during the conference speeches from a group of around one hundred Southern California college students (UCLA, Cal State Long Beach and so forth) bussed in from Los Angeles for the event and seated near the back at tables labeled “Young Adults.”

Their jubilant cries were soon taken up by the other six hundred or more older attendees during a barn burner speech by Sen. Ted Cruz, filling the mammoth ballroom at The Palazzo with a literal cacophony of chandelier-shaking “Let’s go Brandons” with most of the audience jumping to their feet. It was like a football game in a Vegas hotel.

From his sour expression, the New York Times reporter sitting next to me in the press section was not amused.

As for the “Kosher Cattle Call” that was a phrase used by Fleischer and RJC executive director Matt Brooks during that same gaggle. For many years, this event has been used as an early try-out for aspiring Republican presidential candidates. It was again, this time with possibly more import, since the Jewish Republican group has grown, seemingly exponentially, since the days I covered some of their events for PJMedia around 2008.