'שייגעץ, 'טינופת': עשרות חסידי גור רודפים אחרי הדיין הרב פרץ רוטנברג, מאנשי הגר"ש אלתר שיצא מהמקווה. pic.twitter.com/z58obqMqJy
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“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
'שייגעץ, 'טינופת': עשרות חסידי גור רודפים אחרי הדיין הרב פרץ רוטנברג, מאנשי הגר"ש אלתר שיצא מהמקווה. pic.twitter.com/z58obqMqJy
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הרה"צ רבי אברהם מרדכי אלתר בנו של האדמו"ר מגור הגיע לביקור מיוחד במעונו של האדמו"ר מסקווירא ושוחח עמו ממושכות בנושא חג השבועות הקרב ובא. pic.twitter.com/pUYd0tSG7u
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Clashes between rival factions of the Ger Hasidic sect spread across the country over the weekend, exposing a growing and increasingly violent rift in Israel’s largest and most powerful ultra-Orthodox dynasty.
Street fighting erupted Friday in three separate places – the southern city of Ashdod, the predominantly Haredi city of Bnei Brak and Jerusalem. Tensions spiked after followers of Rabbi Shaul Alter – the former dean of the movement’s flagship yeshiva in Jerusalem – reportedly hurled insults at Grand Rebbe Yaakov Alter, the movement’s leader and Shaul Alter’s cousin, as the grand rabbi was visiting his mother-in-law’s grave in north Tel Aviv the previous evening.
The fighting, which continued through Saturday evening, comes after years of acrimony between the cousins, who both descend from previous grand rabbis and have competing power bases within the movement.
While Shaul Alter’s followers have not officially set themselves up as a new movement, they have largely been independent since 2019 when a small group of dissatisfied Ger Hasidim declared him their leader, joining him at his Simhat Torah services in defiance of their nominal rebbe.
David Reichman, of Manhattan, collapsed on the boardwalk after finishing the 13-mile race at Ocean Parkway at Brighton Beach on Saturday amid sweltering heat. He was pronounced dead at Coney Island Hospital.
Reichman (inset) was a founder of Field Trip Health, a mental health and psychotherapy company in Kips Bay, according to his LinkedIn profile.
“I approach psychotherapy with seriousness and humor,” Reichman wrote on his profile on Psychology Today. “I’ll listen, offer direction, and challenge you to be the best version of yourself.”
A graduate of Concordia University, according to his LinkedIn, Reichman later attended the NYU Silver School of Social Work.
He worked for two years as a substance use specialist for NYC Health + Hospitals, before launching Field Trip Health in October 2020, the profile states.
The company says that it is “redefining mental health and well-being through ground-breaking work in psychedelics and psychedelic-enhanced psychotherapy,” according to the firm’s LinkedIn page.
“For those who this may be appropriate, I offer Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy,” Reichman added on his Psychology Today profile.
The therapist lived in Flatbush with his girlfriend until moving to Manhattan in March, the super at his Brooklyn building, who would only identify himself as Ozzie, told The Post on Sunday.
Reichman’s death at Saturday’s 22,000-runner race has raised questions about why the event was allowed to take place on an unseasonably hot and humid day.
There are different areas of Har Habais, some of which can be entered even betuma, according to Halacha. Obviously, ascending Har Habais requires perfect knowledge of what’s mutar and what’s osur, but there are many other areas in Halacha, such as hilchos Shabos and taharas hamishpocha for example, where isur koreis is at stake. The proper approach is to actually learn the sugya and become knowledgeable of the actual dinim. If you are too lazy or too stupid to learn the real halachos, at least don’t be proud of your amoratzus by saying that everything is prohibited.
To all the “masters” of political science:
you cannot “provoke” the islamonazis any more than your very existence as a Jew already “provokes” these savages. No, controlling our holy places will not make the rabid dogs hate us more, as they already hate us at the maximum level, and they will try to attack us no matter what we do or don’t do. However, don’t forget that it is only H’ that controls the world, as opposed to the political “cheshbonos”, and it definitely brings kitrug in shamaim when fools such as you are perfectly fine with the Chilul H’ of the islamonazi savages trampling mekom kodesh hakedoshim, in an ostensibly Jewish state with an ostensibly Jewish army nonetheless! If the medina was a truly Jewish state, they would have actually accepted the gift that H’ presented to us in 1967, demolished the islamonazi structures on Har Habais, had rabanut fence off no-go areas and control the proper behavior and dress code for the visitors. Arabs themselves were preparing for the demolition in 1967, and even had each stone of their structures numbered in order to facilitate putting it up elsewhere, but the evil Judenrat elites immediately gave away Har Habais to the islamonazis, which paradoxically not only failed in making the islamonazis like us, but actually made them hate us even more.
Here is a letter from the Rambam detailing his going up to the Har Habyis
Rabbi Schorr is a disciple of Rabbi Shaul Alter. His name is Shmuel Yosef Ben Feiga.
Reports say that more than 70 of Rabbi Shaul’s chasidim were injured during the fights which broke out in Jerusalem, Ashdod, Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh. Huge piles of garbage were thrown opposite the house of Rav Shaul in Elkana Street, Jerusalem by his opponents. Rav Shaul apologized to his neighbors for “the situation which has arisen.”
In Bnei Brak, some chasidim attacked the principal of the Beis Yaakov “Yashan” girls seminar in Jerusalem, Rabbi Yisrael Levin, and Rabbi Mordechai David Abramowitz as they were returning from Shabbos prayers. Eyewitnesses said that Rabbi Levin was dragged by his peyos on the road and his spodik (chasidic hat) was thrown in the garbage.
In Ashdod’s Rova Zayin, chasidim came to the shul of Rav Shaul’s chasidim armed with batons and started wrecking the shul, causing significant damage.
A senior member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard was killed outside his home in Tehran on Sunday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike, state TV reported, giving only scant details about the attack.
The two assailants shot Col. Hassan Sayad Khodayari five times in his car in the heart of the capital, state media said.
Reports identified Khodayari only as a “defender of the shrine,” a reference to Iranians who fight against the extremist Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq within the Guard’s elite Quds force that oversees operations abroad.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Security forces were pursuing the suspected assailants, state TV reported, without offering further details or giving a motive for the killing.
I hope that a pop-pop [pf gunfire] is the last noise that some Zionists hear in their lifetime,” Nerdeen Kiswani said.
By World Israel News Staff
An anti-Israel activist whose commencement speech at City University of New York sparked controversy said during her remarks that she is the victim of a Zionist conspiracy to silence her.
Nerdeen Kiswani was selected as the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony for CUNY’s School of Law, a choice that drew backlash from Jewish groups concerned about her history of anti-Israel statements and past comments calling for the murder of Zionists.
Kiswani, the founder of pro-Palestine advocacy group Within Our Lifetime, has repeatedly called for the state of Israel to be destroyed, and recently liked an Instagram post praising the Palestinian terrorists who brutally murdered three Israelis with an axe in Elad.
Rather than acknowledging her critics’ concern over her membership in a group that calls for a “globalized intifada” and that her demonization of Israel has created an environment on campus that is not safe for Jewish students, Kiswani complained that she was being silenced for political reasons.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported that during Kiswani’s speech, which was focused on the Palestinian cause rather than the students, university, or field of law, she asserted that she was “facing a campaign of Zionist harassment by well-funded organizations with ties to the Israeli government and military on the basis of my Palestinian identity and organizing.”
Kiswani also took time during her speech to slam CUNY for an organized trip to Israel, which she said was “an affront to everyone fighting for liberation” at the school.
In July 2021, Kiswani advocated for the murder of people who support Israel. “I hope that a pop-pop [pf gunfire] is the last noise that some Zionists hear in their lifetime,” she said.
“It’s one thing to have a political person who you don’t agree with,” a CUNY student told JTA. “But she calls for the actual murder of Jews. It’s really setting a precedent that CUNY is OK with having people in their school who are out to hurt us.”