“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

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

China sends lunar rover to investigate strange ‘hut’ on far-side of moon Could it be a "Chabad House?"

 

A Chinese lunar rover has been sent on a mission to investigate a mysterious cube-shaped object spotted on the dark side of the moon.

The strange white object appears oddly geometric against the stark black horizon in images and prompted scientists from China’s Change 4 mission to send its Yutu 2 rover on a 2-3 month journey to check out, according to Our Space.

China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) describes the object as a “mysterious hut.”

The organization also joked that the object could be a home built by aliens following a crash landing in the Von Kármán crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin where the rover has been navigating since January 2019.

There appears to be a small “baby” impact crater right beside the object.

Upon its discovery, scientists could not wait to send the rover to investigate further, a months-long endeavor besides only being about 262 feet away.

In July  2019, Yutu 2 made another unique discovery when it found a bizarre, colorful  “gel-like” substance ”with a mysterious luster.” The substance has not been explained.



Secrets behind Israel’s latest triple attack on Iran’s nuclear ambitions

 

Israel has carried out three major operations over the last 18 months against Iran’s nuclear sites. These attacks involved as many as a thousand Mossad personnel and were executed with ruthless precision using high-tech weaponry, including drones and a quadcopter — and spies within Tehran’s holy of holies, its nuclear program.

While President Biden’s nuclear negotiators try to snatch catastrophe from the jaws of defeat in Vienna, Israel is taking things more seriously.

Last week, Naftali Bennett, the Israeli prime minister, pivoted to a new policy on Tehran: retaliating against aggression from militias backed by Tehran with covert strikes on Iranian soil.

This builds on the extensive capabilities that the Mossad has built up in the Islamic Republic in recent years. In February — seven months before The New York Times “broke” the same story — I exposed in the Jewish Chronicle of London how Israeli spies killed nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh using a remote-controlled machine gun. I can now reveal the secrets behind Israel’s latest triple attack on Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Rabbis pile on Chaim Walder

 


I guess I will need to subscribe to "NetFlix" now!

The Bnei Brak Bais Din founded by Hagaon Rav Nissim Karelitz ZT”L, has issued a ruling regarding whether one is allowed to read the books of a popular author who has been found to be committing serious aveiros and immoral acts. AlthIn short, the psak says that one must avoid reading his books, even if the allegations have not been proven.

Here is the translated text of the teshuva:

Question:

A Charedi author who writes books for chinuch and teaching purposes, in which stories are told that teach lessons in mussar for children and teenagers. However, recently it has come to light that the author committed very grave aveiros which have been ongoing for a long time. Is one permitted to continue reading his books?

Teshuva:

If the allegations are true, it is certainly forbidden to read the books, just as Chazal warned us not to read books written by authors who are not Yirei Shamayim. Especially if there are concerns that the author is a disgusting person, in which case reading his books are tantamount to supporting his behavior.

Obviously, that would be the case if the allegations are confirmed. However that is not the case. Despite that, since the author has not yet undergone an investigation in accordance with halacha, even though it’s only in doubt, it is still appropriate to not read his books until there is final confirmation as to what took place.ough his name is not mentioned in the teshuva, they are presumably referring to noted author Chaim Walder.





Israeli Father Vaccinates His Kids, Wife Files For Divorce

 

Anyone out there want to marry a women like that?

An Israeli resident of Holon recently took his two children, 12-year-old twins, to get vaccinated against COVID despite the fact that his wife is an adamant anti-vaxxer.

The wife, who is active in various anti-vax groups and describes her husband as an “anxious hypochondriac,” was furious when she found out what her husband did.

At the advice of her lawyer, she filed a police complaint against her husband for violating her children’s autonomy and harming their health.

She then took her children to her parent’s house and initiated divorce proceedings against her husband.

The woman’s attorney, Inbar Lev, said: “I personally am in favor of vaccinating against COVID and I’m also convinced of the need to vaccinate children, but my personal opinion doesn’t prevent me from representing a woman whose parental rights were violated when her husband unilaterally decided to vaccinate their children. This is an act of violence.”

Monday, December 6, 2021

Frum Women are now fighting against Frum Magazines that "Erase women"

Miriam Marizan

 When Miriam Marizan spent four hours on a recent chilly morning being photographed smiling and laughing at flowers, she was sending a message: Orthodox Jewish women belong in the picture.

Yet, as important as participating in the photoshoot was to her, she felt it was even more important for her two young daughters.

“I don’t want them to grow up in a world where they have to disappear,” Marizan said. “I want them to be able to see photographs of Orthodox women and not wonder why [there are no girls and women] older than six or seven in photographs.”

The Baltimore resident is one of hundreds of Orthodox women taking part in the compilation of the Jewish Life Photo Bank. The brainchild of Chochmat Nashim, an organization advocating for Orthodox women’s rights, the project aims to build a vast digital library of stock photos depicting Orthodox women doing everyday things. Beyond the practical nature of the project, it speaks to something larger — ending the erasure of women from much of ultra-Orthodox public life.

Ezra Friedlander Tells Bobov 45 Rebbe that "few Rebbes understand his son's pshetel "


Ezra Friedlander is basically telling Bobover Rebbe 45 that other rebbes are a bunch of "ama ratzim" ..
He would know!
I wonder how the Bobover Rebbe, R' Ben-Zion is going to react when he hears this!

Another Berland "Tzaddik" Arrested for Murder

 

Benjamin Ze'evi, arrested on suspicion of the murder case of Avraham Edri and Nissim Shitrit 30 years ago, is brought for a court hearing, outside the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on October 19, 2021.

New details have emerged involving last week’s indictments of two members of the Shuvu Banim Chasidic sect in the disappearance of Nissim Shitrit.

The identity of the second suspect has been released–the son of former minister Rechavam Ze’evi. Binyamin Ze’evi was indicted Friday along with Baruch Sharvit over the alleged murder of the 17-year-old in 1986. Both were members of Rabbi Eliezer Berland’s “Shuvu Bonim” sect.

These charges are the first made in connection with the alleged kidnapping and murder. Due to the severity of the charges, prosecutors are requesting that the suspects be kept behind bars while proceedings play out. However this is the first time in Israel’s history that murder charges have been submitted without a dead body.

A statement on behalf of Ze’evi said, “I did not murder anyone and the truth will eventually be revealed.”

It added that the “suspicions against Mr. Ze’evi are based on a single testimony of one of the community members (Baruch Sharvit) on the basis of instructions he received from a rabbi at a meeting while detained.”

Sharvit also denied ever having touched Shitrit, stating that he had been present at the scene but did not have any physical contact with Shitrit. Sharvit implicated three other people in the abduction, including Zeevi, but did not accuse them of murdering the youth.

The indictment provided new details about the case, claiming that Rabbi Berland’s son-in-law, Tzvika Tzuker, organized “tznius squads,” and ordered them to threaten Mr. Shitrit. Mr. Shitrit was abducted from his school in Ashdod four months before he disappeared, taken to a secluded location on the Ashdod beach, and beaten.

Mr. Shitrit then filed a complaint, and one of his suspected killers was temporarily detained by police. According to Channel 12, that person escaped the country after the murder to create an alibi.

Four months later, Mr. Shitrit was allegedly lured to an address by someone connected with the sect, and was beaten to death by the same group of abductors. In a documentary in 2020, a former student claimed that the sect buried his body near Beit Shemesh, although his remains were never found.

Rechavam Ze’evi was a member of the right-wing Moledet party, known by the nickname “Gandhi.” He was shot and killed in 2001 by Palestinian terrorists at Jerusalem’s Hyatt Hotel..

Police decided last week not to press charges against Rabbi Berland or against his son-in-law, Tzvi Tzucker, and another suspect — an Charedi mayor whose name has not been disclosed — who were freed with restrictions.

Rabbi Berland himself remains in jail over a scheme to extort money from dying people in return for promises of recovery.

Rechavam Ze’evi


Laughs have run out for these vile Cuomo bros

 

The karma train comes for us all in the end, and it has mowed down the Cuomo brothers with a delicious savagery.

As the Babylon Bee put it: “Unemployment Rate Among Cuomo Brothers Rises to 100%.”

The schadenfreude is irresistible.

Like President Biden and his medical adviser Anthony Fauci, the Cuomo brothers are just two more public figures deified by the media in a quest to destroy Donald Trump who have fallen from grace with a thud.

More will follow as the ancient adage that we all would be wise to heed is fulfilled: “Character is destiny.”

Sunday, December 5, 2021

Frum Rabbanim "Tuchis Leck" "Doggie Emhoff" Camala Harris's Husband

 

Hannukah is the festival of miracles, not intermarriage.

Let me be clear- I am nobody’s rabbi and although I am a proud Republican, this article is based on my take of Halakha, not the executive actions coming from the Biden administration.

The past few days among all the fried food and community candle lighting ceremonies, the media has been flooded with pictures and stories of Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, lighting the candles as the Jewish representative of the administration.

He is being praised by Orthodox rabbis as a “Jew.”

Yes, he was born Jewish. Yes, there have been photo opportunities using Emhoff as the “token” Jew in the White House eating our foods, sharing our traditions and attending events.

Any person in his position would do it.

But, praising his “Jewishness” is another story.

He is an example of one of the worst kinds of Jews. With Jews like Doug Emhoff, we don’t need antisemites like the “Squad” or Black Lives Matter to call for the destruction of Israel and attacks on Jews internationally.

His two intermarriages and his lack of bringing up Jewish children make his choices and actions far worse.

While the fashion press fawns over his daughter Ella Emhoff, Ella enjoys the attention of the media for a very public statement she made on Inauguration Day, 2021.

Emhoff made statements that she was not brought up Jewish, does not consider herself Jewish and doesn’t want to discuss her personal feelings about why with the public.

Little is discussed about Cole, her brother.

Funny, I recall the campaigning in 2020 how Kamala Harris fooled potential Jewish voters and donors by using her stepchildren in a campaign strategy addressing her pro-Israel stand by her speaking about her nichname, “Momala.”

Her professional history or public statements didn’t matter, her “Jewish” stepchildren did.

Even respected Jewish media outlets included in headlines the historic Jewish second family. We now know, it was a campaign game plan and nothing more.

But even worse, religious leadership is still pushing this Jewishness and it sends a dangerous message: If you are an important person who intermarries and raises your children to be goyim, it’s okay and acceptable.

Have these rabbis and leaders heard that there is a “shidduch crisis?”

Have these leaders addressed the problems that assimilation from intermarriages like this have caused?

We must be honest, few intermarriages produce few Jewish children that totally identify themselves as Jewish. These children have less of a connection with Israel. And, Israel has its own issues regarding Halakha and intermarriage.

Hypocrites?

These same Jews had issues when observant Ivanka was “First Daughter.” Remember the controversial discussions about her Orthodox conversion? How about the anti-Semitic hate every time she and Jared Kushner were involved in a pro-Jewish and/or Zionist policy?

Her toddler children were the targets of hate for wearing yarmulkes and tzitzit while attending Jewish day schools.

Ilhan Omar the Congresswoman who married her brother 'repeatedly dishes it out, but she can’t take it'

 


Remarking that Rep. Olhan Omar “repeatedly dishes it out, but she can’t take it,” the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) reiterated its call on Friday for the Minnesota congresswoman to be removed from all her committee assignments.

“It’s the height of irony and hypocrisy that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who routinely spews the most vicious, incendiary, dangerous, anti-Semitic and anti-American hate and blood libels, is now demanding that Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) should be removed from Boebert’s committee assignments due to Boebert’s intemperate remarks related to Ilhan Omar’s support for terrorists,” said ZOA President Morton Klein and ZOA Director of Special Projects Lize Berney.

ZOA was responding to Omar’s call last week for House leaders to take “appropriate action" against Boebert (R-CO) who she accused of using anti-Muslim language in describing a recent encounter she had with Omar at the US Capitol.

Klein and Berney noted that “in fact, among many other things, Omar wrote to a Minnesota judge demanding reduced sentences for convicted Somali ISIS terrorists” and that “Omar also hypocritically claimed: ‘We cannot pretend that this hate speech from leading politicians doesn’t have real consequences.’ In fact, it is Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic hate speech that has had real consequences, including the increase in anti-Semitism and violent attacks in the US.”

“Ironically, after Congresswoman Boebert said she was fine with getting on an elevator with Ilhan Omar because Omar was not wearing a backpack, Omar tweeted ‘Saying I am a suicide bomber is no laughing matter.’ Yet, Ilhan Omar is infamous for laughing and joking about Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Al-Shabaab terrorists in a video interview,” they said. “Omar complained that Americans say the names ‘Al-Qaeda,’ ‘Al-Shabaab,’ and ‘Hezbollah’ as if those names were a bad thing, and blamed US ‘involvement in other people’s affairs’ for terrorism.”

Moreover, “When Boebert graciously called Omar to try to apologize and make peace, Omar rudely hanged up the phone and turned down Boebert’s offer to meet.”

They also denounced Omar for levelling “false accusations against the entire Republican party: For instance, on Nov. 30, 2021, Omar tweeted: ‘Trying to come up with the most bigoted ways to traffic Islamophobic tropes is the brand of the Republican party.’”

“As ZOA has long demanded, Ilhan Omar needs to be removed from all her committee assignments,” Klein and Berney said.

“To quote Omar’s own words, Omar’s bigotry has no place in Congress. Rep. Omar is a danger to America and its ally Israel; not Rep. Boebert.”