The Chaim Walder Scandal Is Another Failure for the 'Infallible' Rabbis

 

Letter from Litvishe Gedoilim Praising Walder when rumors began six months ago

The fall of Chaim Walder, children's book author, newspaper columnist and rock star across all strands of Orthodoxy, after allegations of serial sexual assault, is setting off tremors throughout the Haredi world – because it threatens one of its most foundational claims

Anshel Pfeffer

Nov. 18, 2021 6:40 PM Israel Time 

It will be the most eagerly anticipated edition in the newspaper’s history. As Friday's Yated Ne'eman drops on the doorsteps of the faithful in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, subscribers will scan its pages with the same eagle-eyed vigilance that kremlinologists once read Pravda, for discreet signs of change in the upper Soviet echelons.

They are unlikely to find any signs of the storm which for the past week has roiled the mouthpiece of the Haredi-Lithuanian community, and the homes of the senior rabbis who dictate its every word. But there will be one glaring absence:

 

The weekly column of Yated’s most celebrated writer, Chaim Walder [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/chaim-walder-acclaimed-israeli-author-accused-of-sexually-abusing-ultra-orthodox-girls-1.10383509], which won't be in its usual space on the editorial page. There will be no official explanation from the paper.

Yated Ne'eman (which translates as 'faithful (or reliable) tent-peg') was founded in 1985 by Rabbi Elazar Shach to express the hashkafa (perspective) – the pure and never-changing ultra-Orthodox [https://www.haaretz.com/misc/tags/TAG-ultra-orthodox-1.5598962] ideology, and it never reports any matter of a sexual nature. Certainly not the allegations of sexual harassment against its columnist who, on Wednesday, announced he was leaving [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-ultra-orthodox-author-haim-walder-quits-public-life-amid-sexual-abuse-allegations-1.10395783 -  see below] all his public posts.

Walder was left with very little choice but to jump, at the last moment, before he was pushed. Since the publication in Haaretz last week of Aaron Rabinowitz and Shira Elk’s investigation [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/chaim-walder-acclaimed-israeli-author-accused-of-sexually-abusing-ultra-orthodox-girls-1.10383509] into the multiple accusations against him, the biggest question looming over his future would be whether he would get to keep his column in Yated.

He assumed that he was too big, too popular and influential to fall. But on Wednesday the paper’s management told him to resign or be fired. He had lost the rabbis’ backing. 

:Boo Hoo" Followers of Gerer Rebbe Run to TV 13 To Cry That their children Ran to R' Shaul Alter... Very Sick indeed

 You don't have to understand one word of Hebrew to see what's going on. 

Nooooooo their children didn't convert to Islam, noooooooo they didn't go off the derech, they follow Rav Shaul Alter!

I'm telling that this is crazy and is a reflection of what is going on to all Chareidie groups, if a child leaves one side to go to another, then that is catastrophic ...

Something terrible is going on in the Frum world of chunuch!

Kyle Rittenhouse verdict should teach us all not to trust instant analysis and agenda-driven reporting

Not guilty on all counts: That verdict comes as no surprise to anyone who’d paid close attention to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial but may shock those who relied on horrifically biased media accounts.

Nearly all the early media tropes proved false: He didn’t bring the gun across state lines; he had major roots in Kenosha including his day job and much of his family. He wasn’t a militia-wannabe but an aspiring cop/firefighter/EMT.

Absolutely nothing suggests he was a “white supremacist,” as no less than Joe Biden claimed right before last year’s election.

And the men he shot were all attacking him when he pulled the trigger; all were white, and at least two had histories of violence.

None of this makes him a “patriot,” as ideologues on the other side insist. But the evidence for self-defense was rock-solid.

Some refuse to admit that. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D.) released a bizarre statement that “no verdict will be able to bring back the lives” of the two men Rittenhouse killed, nor “heal the wounds” of the Jacob Blake shooting that triggered the riots nor remove the state’s need to work toward “equity.” Translation: I’m on your side, rioters: Please don’t riot again.

New York pols also treated the verdict as some kind of injustice, including Mayor de Blasio, who wants to free every criminal in Rikers but called the Rittenhouse decision “disgusting and it sends a horrible message to this country.”  

Maybe that’s because the haters stuck to their narrative for months, even as the trial exposed the core facts.

The worst — MSNBC’s Joy Reid, for one — will never let it go. You can see them practically begging for there to be riots, an incredibly irresponsible position for Kenosha and the nation. Let’s hope no one listens to them.

The rank, politicized distortions of fact here — and in so many other recent incidents — should teach everyone once and for all not to trust instant analysis or agenda-driven reporting. When the facts played out via the proper judicial process, common sense and truth prevailed.

May that lesson sink in widely, not least with the man in charge of upholding America’s institutions and leading the nation to unity.

Zera Shimshon Parshas VaYishlach

 

Fang Fang

 

Boebert: "My colleague and three-month presidential candidate from California, who is on the Intelligence Committee, slept with Fang Fang, a Chinese spy. Let me say that again. A member of Congress who receives classified briefings was sleeping with the enemy." pic.twitter.com/HNMCUYG0wv

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 17, 2021

Covid took a lady's rent

 

A Whole New Definition of Shabbos Goy.. “Jewish Voice for Peace” Invites Anti-Semite Ilhan Omar for Shabbat

 

Louis Farrakhan, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler must have called in sick.

Jewish Voice for Peace, a far-left organization that claims to promote peace through grassroots organizing, education, advocacy and media, but in reality just embraces whatever radical-left flavor of the month it is, has invited Ilhan Omar for a “virtual Shabbat.”

Perhaps the virtual Shabbat will have virtual cholent, virtual divrei torah, and virtual zemiros. One can hope.

Putting aside the oxymoronic “virtual Shabbat” aspect of this, the utter insanity of inviting a Somali Muslim who has time and again aligned herself with anti-Semites, dictators and murderers, is mind blowing, even for a radical left organization.

Sometimes when you think you’ve seen everything, something or someone comes along and says, “hold my beer.” And that’s what this Shabbat with a terrorist sympathizer is all about.

Rabbi of Ateras Kohanim Kills Terrorist in Old City of Jerusalem,

 

The incident took place on Hagai Street in the Old City of Jerusalem.

A 20-year-old male and a 20-year-old female were wounded in the attack. One of the victims sustained significant wounds and is in fair condition. The other was lightly wounded and is reported to be in good condition.

The terrorist was killed by Rabbi Aviv Tzobari, the Rosh Yeshiva of Ateret Cohanim, according to Arutz 20. The rabbi was taken to the police station. His family said they are very proud of him.

Paramedics from United Hatzolah and the Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical response service treated the two victims at the scene before they were both taken to nearby Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center in the city.

Hundreds Of Grown Men Protest 8 year old Child in Bet Shemesh

 

Bet Shemesh is a very large community and has many sections or neighborhoods. One of the areas Bet Shemesh "bet" is the area that the extremists live. 

A couple of years ago, Mr. Gulgovnitz, a chassidishe developer decided to build a few buildings in that area.

He knew that the "Asra Kadishe" are a bunch of Mafia gangsters, who would not allow him to build unless he paid them first, and so he bypassed them and brought Rav Moshe Shternbuch, the Raavad of the  Eida Hachreidis to examine the area and see if that area was clean of Jewish bones. Rav Shternbuch spent many days there and gave the ok.

The Asra Kadishe went bonkers and began a massive campaign against their very own leader, a hate campaign that even reached Monsey and Williamsburg. and they claimed falsely that the area where the Gulgovnitz Projects were being built was right on top of an ancient Jewish cemetery, with absolutely nothing to back up their claims. 

Gulgovnitz ignored the savages and continued to build and completed the entire project in a matter of months, hiring Arab Guards to haul away the extremists when they chose to disrupt the construction.

In other words the extremists met their match in Gulgovnitz.

Gulgovnitz had the entire buildings occupied with eager buyers within weeks after completion.

The extremists would from to time protest in front of the buildings and harass their own people that decided to live there.

Seeing that they couldn't accomplish anything, the extremists decided on a new tactic .... harassing the grandchildren and great grandchildren that live in Bet Shemesh.

They found out that a great grandchild of Rav Shternbuch was studying in a shul in Bet Shemesh, so they went last night and surrounded the building and shouted like a bunch of poisoned monkeys to try to extract the 8 year old child that had no idea what was going on.

The extremists didn't send children to the building, but sent grown adults, fathers of children themselves, to scare and intimidate a child.

Where are the wives of these savages? Why aren't they telling their husbands who do nothing all day, to get a life..?

UPDATED

More adult protests against another grandchild of Rav Shternbuch this morning, and police had to be called 

So who is stealing from who?