Leading the @iTunes billboard charts for best song of 2022, presenting to you הבן יקר לי by Moreinu Harav Schachter and his Rebbetzin. @YeshivaLink pic.twitter.com/iQF3eNeoqI
— Akiva Ackerman (@AkivaAckerman) January 18, 2022
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Watch Rav Herschel Shachter Sing "Habein Yakir" with the accompaniment of his Rebbetzin Playing the Piano
The new Florida? Record number of US retirees relocate to Israel in 2021
A few weeks ago, Joel Tenenbaum, 81, and Marilyn Berkowitz, 84, arrived in Tel Aviv on an El Al flight from New York ready to start their new lives in Israel.
They had met through JDate five years earlier. Each was widowed; Tenebaum had been married for 47 years, Berkowitz, known as Lyn, for 49.
A retired New York trial lawyer raised in Brooklyn, Tenenbaum always had felt an affinity for Israel — fueled since childhood by Hebrew school and the movie “Exodus.” Berkowitz, a former university dean’s assistant in New Jersey, had been a frequent visitor to Israel ever since her son moved here in 1991.
Both are longtime volunteers for the Israeli nonprofit organization Sar-El. They now share a rental apartment in Tel Aviv’s trendy Florentin neighborhood, close to the ulpan where they will soon enroll in an intensive Hebrew language program.
“A lot of our contemporaries have gone to Florida,” Berkowitz said. “But I think they should become sandbirds, not snowbirds.”
In fact, more and more older American Jews are opting to spend their golden years in the Jewish state.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
In Wake of Texas Synagogue Hostage Situation , the Meshigina ADL Warns Against ‘Islamophobia’
As the late Bob Grant would say:
it's sick out there and getting sicker"
So you might think that after an Islamic jihadi stormed a Texas synagogue and took hostages, the ADL would be drawing attention to Islamic anti-Semitism, as well as to the targeting of synagogues by Islamic jihadis in the past.
Instead, it once again proves that it is more interested in preserving the Leftist narrative than in combating anti-Semitism: the ADL is very concerned that some of the reactions to the hostage-taking incident have been, in its view, “Islamophobic.”
Viznitzer Rebbe R' Mendel Doesn't Want Chassidim to Caption on Wedding Invitations " With the Holy Rabbi's Strength" anymore
"With the help of Hashem with the Holy Rebbe's Strength"
Isn't this blasphemy ? Outright apikorses, this suggests that Hashem, G-d forbid, needs the Viznitzer Rebbe to run the world! OMG
I'm glad he put an end to this Christian statement!
I'm always amused when these chareidim who worship their rebbe as a deity, mock Chabadniks who claim their late rebbe is Moshiach!
So it's ok for Viznitzers for years to believe that their rebbe is a deity, but not ok for Chabadnikers to believe their rebbe is Moshiach which is not actually apikorses!
Dudi Shwamenfeld a Chareidie Newscaster Accused of Sexual Molestation
Dudi Shwamenfeld has been named as the Haredi radio host accused by multiple women of sexual abuse.
News of the story broke earlier this month, when it emerged that at least six women had accused the then-unnamed radio host of sexual assault. Now, according to the Ynet news site, at least one of the complainants has filed an official police complaint against Shwamenfeld, a longtime host on the popular Kol Berama radio station that serves the ultra-Orthodox community.
The woman, now 31, told Ynet that she was 19 when she first heard Shwamenfeld’s radio show and decided to reach out to him via Facebook. “We started to correspond. At a certain point he suggested we meet, but I didn’t want to,” she said. But she said Shwamenfeld convinced her to meet and “promised it would be interesting.”
Lady Rabbi Sara Zober says that the Texas terrorist's "life matters too"
This "rabbi" is one very sick puppy" The word "Zober" in Yiddish means clean but she is the opposite, she is a filthy stooge for the Arab terrorists
Dopey Biden: "Dr. Kings Assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd's death did!"
Biden: “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did.” pic.twitter.com/sth2bArDDI
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 17, 2022
IDF to allow married soldiers to return home for day of mikva immersion
The IDF has decided that every conscript who is married will now be entitled to a day off on the day a female soldier herself or a male soldier's wife immerses in the mikvah.
According to the new policy, the details of which have been distributed to all units in the past week, the policy will allow soldiers to take off for 24 hours which will not be counted towards the soldier's vacation days.
In the document that was distributed, it was emphasized that "the commander of the soldier is obligated to allow departure for the arranged day set forth in the policy, he can influence the date of departure." It was further emphasized that "this policy will be reviewed by the Personnel Division."
Under the new policy, soldiers in training will be entitled to return home one day each month, while soldiers who have completed their training and are performing their regular service will be entitled to return home one day every two months.
Major Eddie Schwartz, Assistant Chief Military Rabbi, welcomed the new directive in an internal WhatsApp group of the military rabbinate. "The issue of release on the night of immersion for married soldiers has been a complex issue for years," he wrote. "At the end of hard work, which began at the initiative of the rabbi of the Nahal Brigade, and continued with the work of the IDF training staff, a directive was issued last week that every married soldier would be entitled to a monthly 'arrangement day'."
"This will not solve all the cases, and it is important to remember that there are certainly operational constraints, but the new directive will solve many of the cases."
Under Jewish law (halakha), a woman who discerns menstrual blood cannot have relations with her husband for seven days after her menstrual flow has ended (a period of at least five days) and until at the end of the seven days she immerses in a ritual bath (mikvah). The new regulations will benefit religious soldiers who follow the halakha.
Texas hostage: We weren't rescued, we escaped
Our interview with Jeff Cohen, one of the hostages in Beth Israel Texas synagogue. He tells us the terrorist made antisemitic remarks saying Jews control the world and the media. He describes the terrifying moments he and how eventually they escaped: @N12News pic.twitter.com/X6p6Mqvo3S
— יונה לייבזון yuna leibzon (@YunaLeibzon) January 17, 2022
Jeff Cohen, one of four people held hostage by a gunman at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, this past Shabbat, recalled the harrowing experience in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News on Monday.
In the interview with journalist Yuna Leibzon, Cohen said the terrorist made antisemitic remarks, saying Jews control the world and the media. He also stated that the hostages eventually escaped and were not rescued by security forces as reported.
“It’s been reported that we were released or that we were rescued. That is not the truth. The truth is that we escaped. We escaped because we were preparing all along to take the initiative when we could have it,” said Cohen.
“I strategically and tactfully made sure that I was sitting near an exit,” he recalled. “I helped my friends and my rabbi. We got us all to be sitting in the right spot.”
“At one point,” continued Cohen, “our attacker was not paying attention. He sat down. I think what he did was he put his gun down and poured some soda. Much to Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s credit, he picked up a chair, threw it at him and yelled ‘run!’ and we were out.”
“In the first five to 30 minutes, when you don’t know who this guy is, we had no clue, and he’s spouting all these truly crazy things, at that point I got myself into the place where it was likely that I was not going home,” he replied when asked by Leibzon whether he thought he would come out of this ordeal alive.
“However, throughout the whole ordeal, it was very important to me, and to all of us, that we all got out."
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