Israeli Truckers Are Next

 

Song of Moed Katan

 

Ger now kidnapping Children from the Opposition ... as 2 Girls are now missing

 

 Two sisters, ages 17 and 14, have been missing from their homes for the past week.

According to the girls’ family, the disappearance occurred after the parents, Tzvi Arie and Leah Sandik, decided to move out of the Gerrer community in Ashdod. They say community leaders suspected that they were planning to join the community of Rav Shaul Alter.

The parents say that Gerrer authorities were in close contact with the girls, persuaded them to oppose their parents’ decision and flee from home, and arranged special living accommodations. They say the girls, 17-year-old Esti and 14-year-old Ricky underwent brainwashing for months by mentors with senior positions in Ger, including women from their educational staff at their seminary, who instructed them to flee the home as soon as their parents tried to leave the community.

According to Israeli media reports, the family recently has felt disconnected from Chassidus, and they apparently considered the possibility of joining the “breakaway” community led by Rav Shaul Alter, however they did not take any real steps to join.

The family reportedly decreased contact and involvement with the Gerrer community in general, and decided to move from Ashdod to Bnei Brak and send their children to Chassidishe yeshivos there.

The parents say that community leaders and yeshiva faculty urged the children to defy their parents. The family’s 12-year-old boy said that one of his teachers told him: “You have no father or mother, you have to do what the Vaad says.” In addition, the girls’ older married siblings who remain connected with the Gerrer Chassidus helped persuade them to abscond from home.

According to the report, the parents even assured the 17 year old that she could continue to study in the Gerrer seminary in Ashdod, and offered to arrange transportation.

About two weeks ago, both daughters did not return home one evening. Late that night the younger one called from a blocked number, said “I am fine”, and hung up.

The next day the two girls returned home.

Then to their horror, a week ago the parents woke up and saw that the two girls were gone, and they saw a ladder placed near the girls’ bedroom window.

The parents have gone to court, and the court is involved in the matter, however the details have not been disclosed.

One follower of the Gerrer Chassidus denied any involvement in the disappearance, and claimed that it is an internal family matter.

The police confirmed that an investigation is ongoing, and that the parties accused have denied any involvement.

A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to assist the family.

Andy Levin the Jewish congressman wants Israel to be narrower than his district

 

A Michigan congressman is complaining that he is being subjected to “ad hominem attacks” because his pro-Palestinian positions have been criticized. But there’s nothing ad hominem about pointing out that this congressman wants to reduce Israel to a size that will be barely one-third the width of his own congressional district.

The congressman in question is Democrat Andy Levin of Michigan, who is closely associated with J Street and advocates forcing Israel back to the nine-miles-wide pre-1967 armistice lines.

In fact, Levin is so deeply devoted to making Israel just nine miles wide, that he is the lead sponsor on a bill called the “Two-State Solution Act.” The bill demands the creation of a Palestinian Arab state next to Israel, in what he calls “the occupied Palestinian Territories.”

Sec.5 (a) of the Levin bill defines those territories as “the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza.”

Those are the areas that Israel captured in the 1967 war. Which means that if the state of “Palestine” is established, Israel will return to being nine miles wide at a point a few miles above Tel Aviv, as it was prior to 1967.

The centrality of marital intimacy In the Jewish home ... Rabbi Eliezer Melamed Answers His Critics.

 

Before you read the article, I would like to point out that R' Yaakov Yaavetz Me'Emden in his siddur is far more explicit than Rav Melamed. I don't recall anyone criticizing his work.

Q: Rabbi, with your permission and out of great respect for you, I wanted to write about something that perplexed me after studying the book ‘Simḥat Ha-bayit U-virkhato‘. I have found instructions that seem to me to be suitable for chozrim b’teshuva (returnees to Orthodox Judaism), or for specific cases, but not for the vast majority of observant couples who want to build their homes in holiness and purity, and without all the various damaging notions that the corrupt Western culture introduces into other societies. Rabbi, why did you write them as a general guide?

In addition, there is an overemphasis in the book on the importance of the mitzvah of ona (marital intimacy). In contrast, however, I learned from my rabbis that it is better for marital intimacy to be limited (Torah scholars should have marital relations on Shabbat evening, and that Torah scholars should not be intimate with their wives like roosters) and not joyfully, as explained in a number of sections in the book (Chapter 1, Halakhot 1-2, Chapter 2, Halakhot 1 and 3). Perhaps this guidance is suitable for baalei teshuva, but not for yeshiva students, and why is it not explicitly written that these are bedi’avad (ex post facto) instructions for situations where it is necessary to be maykel (rule leniently), and not for a normal situation?

The Background for Writing the Book

You think this beating by a student in Public School was bad? Wait till you read this!

 

Violent classroom attack prompts calls for accountability in Public Schools across the country! Begs the question why some in NYC even have the #Chutspah to even say that Orthodox Jewish Yeshivas should be “equivalent to Public Schools??? Don’t they see the difference In values? https://t.co/aVogz1nK68

— UJCARE (@UJCARE) February 7, 2022

Gather round and pull up a chair, it’s time for a story on violence & silent bystanders inside a Yeshiva.

It’s a story of cruelty, and of compliance, and of indoctrination.

🧵/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Getting slapped in the face for the most minor infraction went without saying. (One of his favorite ways to hurt those he hated most was to hold us up on our tippy-toes by the soft skin under our chins until we got used to it & then WHACK us in the face w/o warning)

3/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

A classmate that year who was left back (possibly 2 grades) into our class due to severe learning disabilities, happened to have been the grandson of the Bobover himself. He very much seen as a ‘failson’.

Well Nuta won’t let the Ruv’s grandson fail HIS class, no way Jose!

4/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Nuta Landau, scary as he was, was particularly hard on this kid. He really tortured him on a regular basis. Gave him zero breaks and rode him hard. The boy had no chance to succeed, thus acted out in disruptive ways in response to the pressure. I mean, he was 9, 10 MAX.

5/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Finally the day came that he did something which REALLY annoyed Nuta. Nuta plotzed. He took that boy out of the class and around to the hallway beside our class wall.

But before they left he gave us all an icy stare and said “palms on desks. Nobody move or make a sound”

6/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

We sat there stalk-still. Nobody moved.

The aforementioned hallway was an annex we called ‘The Subway’ which had a sealed-off door into our class, making it less soundproof than a typical wall.

We heard him throw the kid on the floor and whip him with a belt.

7/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

Inside the class we were frozen in place.

You could hear a pin-drop.

The only sounds were Nuta grunting, the ‘whoosh’ of the belt swinging, the ‘WHACK’ of it connecting to body, and the boy shrieking at the top of his lungs after each lash.

I mean bloodcurdling yells.

8/x https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

I don’t know who else heard what, but inside that classroom we heard each & every sound.

Not one boy moved or made a peep.

Nobody from another class went and rescued the kid.

It was a perfectly normal scene to have a rebbe whip a disabled boy with a belt in the hallway. 9/9 https://t.co/tuMvxDTHSV

— Shulim Leifer (@ShulimLeifer) February 7, 2022

On Auction the 1920 Letter of "Hate and Jealousy" of The Eida Hachreidis Against Harav Kook and R' Chaim Ozer's Response

נצחונו הגדול של הראי"ה קוק על שונאיו - קנאי ירושלים

מכתב שיטנה שנכתב נגדו ב-1920 ונחשף עכשיו, מבטא את עומק התיעוב שרחשו הקנאים לראי"ה

 "The Great Triumph of Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook  Over His Enemies. The Yerushalyim Extremists"

"Hate letter that they sent to Harav Chaim Ozer in 1920 reveals the deep hatred the Extremists had against Harav Kook z"l"

The Mishna in Pirkei Avos states:

רבי אלעזר הקפר אומר הקנאה והתאוה והכבוד מוציאין את האדם מן העולם 

"Rabbi Elazar Ha'Kapar says, Envy, Lust and desire for honor, drive a man out of the world"

Chazal say that the reason Korach rebelled against Moshe Rabeinu was only because of envy, and jealousy!

Korach managed to get support from the greatest tzaddikim of that generation. The Torah describes those tzadikim:

נשיאי עדה קראי מועד אנשי שם

"Princes of the assembly, representatives of the Jewish people, and famous"

In other words Korach was able to convince the Moetzes Hagdolah, the Eida Hachreidis of that generation.

A letter of hate and filth was written and signed by the then "Gedoileo Hador" against the Chief Rabbi of Yerushalyim, Harav Avraham Yitzchok Kook z"l. 

The letter written in 1920 was addressed and delivered to the Leader of European Jewry, Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski z"l, who was the pre-eminent Av Bais Din, Posek, and Talmudic scholar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The purpose of that letter was to get Rav Chaim Ozer on board to condemn Rav Kook z"l. Rav Chaim Ozer as well as other Gedoilim of that generation who read the letter refused to comment and refused to have anything to do with the signatories.

The signatories of that hateful letter were in no particular order: 

R' Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld  who also stamped it with his official stamp, R' Yitzchak Yeruchim Diskin also with his stamp, The Badatz of Yerushlayim, R' Moshe Nachum Wallenstein, R' Mordchai Leib Rubin, And R' Yitzchok Frenkel with the Badatz stamp.

What makes this news is that the letter is now on auction. The historian Moshe Nachmeinu, who is now in the midst of writing a book after doing extensive research of the extremists sefarim and hateful campaign of a Gadol brought this letter to light, and sets this as an example of how the greatest tzaddikim were consumed by envy, jealousy and pure evilness, rishis!

What prompted this letter? 

Rav Shmuel Salant who served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Of Yerushalayim for almost 70 years was niftar, and the extremists were looking to fill that position with either Rav Yosef Chayim Sonnenfeld or with R' yitzchak Yeruchim Diskin. In 1919, Rav Kook was appointed the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Yerushalyim and soon after appointed the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine in 1921. It was Rav Kook's appointment in 1919 that drove the extremists crazy and they began a campaign of harassment and hate against the Gadol Hador. Rav Sonnenfeld having lost the coveted position as Chief Rabbi Yerushalyim promptly founded the Eida Ha'chreidis which he headed in the same year that the letter was sent. 

It's important to note that prior to Rav Kook's appointment to Chief Rabbi of Yerushalyim, in 1919, Rav Sonnenfeld said not a bad word about him and there wasn't any tension and in fact in 1913, the two travelled together to the Galilee to try to return secular Jewish pioneers to Torah Judaism.

His crime? Believing and preaching that that the fact that Jews were returning to Eretz Yisrael was the "Aschata DeGeulah" the "beginning of the redemption," Loving every Jew, be he a frum Jew or a secular Jew and advocating working with Zionists to establish the return of all Jews to our homeland. Though Rav Sonnenfeld also believed that all Jews must live in Eretz Yisrael, he hated the Zionists with a passion as did all pre WW2 Hungarian and Roumanian Frum Jews. Rav Sonnenfeld was originally from Hungary!

Rav Kook established the Yeshiva Mercaz Ha'Rav in 1924 and despite Chareidie opposition, parents of the Yishuv ignored the Badatz and sent their precious children to the Yeshiva to get a proper Torah Education. That Yeshiva exists today and many well known Rabbanim graduated that Moisad.

It's interesting to note that today in 2022, every single city in Israel has classes on the works of Harav Kook. His sefarim are learned by Chassidim, Sfradim, Litvaks Dati Leumis'. His Torah is being spread all over Israel, but it's hard to find a Jew who knows or learns the sefarim of the haters. 

Read on next page an article that appeared in Matzav Huruach and my loose translation

Bennett Talks to Biden on the Phone and Halts Jerusalem E1 Corridor Plan

 

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday evening spoke with President Joe Biden for the first time since the PM’s visit to the White House on August 28.

Also on Sunday: Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz ordered the Judea and Samaria Supreme Planning Committee to suspend discussions on approving the E-1 construction plan to connect Ma’ale Adumim and Jerusalem. The plan covers an area of about 3,000 acres, most of it is state land, with the construction of about 3,500 housing units at its center.

E1 is located at the narrowest point of Judea and Samaria, where the illegal Khan al Ahmar squatters’ settlement has been festering since 2018, with both the Netanyahu and Bennett governments preferring to ignore a Supreme Court decision to remove it. That’s because E1 is the key to whether or not there will be a Palestinian State someday in Judea and Samaria. If E1 remains desolate, with only the illegal shantytown dotting the area from Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem, there’s a good chance a contiguous Palestinian State will someday stretch through there. On the other hand, should the plan for urban sprawl from Jerusalem to Ma’ale Adumim be carried out, then any future Arab political entity would be forever split in its middle.

The E1 plan had been frozen for years, and the Supreme Committee renewed deliberations on it during PM Netanyahu’s last government. The committee proceeded through the first eight months of the Lapid-Bennett coalition but now put it aside again. According to Israel Hayom, one reason for the halt was an outcry from Meretz who declared that E1 constituted a red line that cannot be crossed. The other objection to the E1 plan has been coming from the Americans, who are well aware of the consequences to the two-state plan should a solid wall of Israeli suburban homes be allowed to stretch across the PA’s narrowest waist.

Agudah Protests Antisemitic Cartoon in Monsey Newspaper

 An antisemitic ad has been published in one of the largest newspapers in Rockland County, the Journal News (aka Lohud).

The Agudath Israel has released a statement against the disgraceful ad, and is demanding an apology. The ad cartoon depicts an image of a puppet-master representing a Rabbi, who is manipulating what appear to be children on top of a pile of cash. The headline next to the ad says: 

Rabbi holds the strings on $76M for East Ramapo School District

Here is the statement in response:

Agudath Israel of America viewed with alarm an incendiary promotional advertisement published today for an upcoming article in Journal News (Lohud), a popular newspaper in Rockland County.

The caption, “Rabbi holds the strings on $76M for East Ramapo School District… Coming Feb. 9,” appears above a puppet master using pencils and string to manipulate what appears to be children atop a pile of cash.

While the article, or even the identity of the “rabbi” (as though his “rabbihood” is somehow germane) are unknown, the caricature evokes the worst antisemitic tropes, and is categorically unacceptable. The concept of the Jew as a conspiratorial puppet master, covertly manipulating the world economy and events, harks back to at least the 1700’s, as further amplified upon in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Its imagery and underlying implications have stoked pogroms for hundreds of years, and was employed as recently as by the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, who killed 11 worshippers in the largest modern mass shooting against Jews in America, at Tree of Life in 2018. We wonder how any article which emerges from an editorial board that approved such a hateful cartoon can pretend to be free from bias.

Agudath Israel calls for a full apology, and actionable commitment by Lohud to avoid bigoted imagery and coverage of the Jewish community in Rockland County in the future.

Dovi Soiefer Was Attacked By Two Rottweilers -This Was His Unusual Request From Their Jewish Owner

 

🇺🇸✡️ — JEWISH NEWS: While out in Florida for the ECAP show this morning, Dov Soiefer from Culinary Depot got attacked by two dogs. The owner apologized and revealed he is Jewish too. Dovi asked him if he would like to put on Tefillin, which he did for the first time in his life. pic.twitter.com/1H2i0GvONi

— Belaaz News (@TheBelaaz) February 6, 2022

Dovi Soiefer, a Jewish businessman, arrived in Miami for a business conference – “the ECAP Health Conference” this week, looking forward to productive business meetings.

On his way to the conference, Soiefer was attacked by two rottweiler dogs, who knocked him to the ground and scratched and bit him on the arm. After the owner of the dogs succeeded in controlling them, he gave Soiefer his number and told him to be in touch and receive restitution from him.

A woman from the hotel who saw the attack called police, who said that if Soiefer pressed charges, the dogs would be put down.

The embarrassed owner of the dogs pleaded with Soiefer not to press charges and promised him compensation for his injuries. The man said that he had already recently lost a dog to sickness and did not want to lose his other dogs. However after Soiefer heard that the owner of the dogs was Jewish, he had a different request from him.