The Kiddush Club

 

"This is why Jews need their own country"

 

Yesterday an antisemitic mob led by Ali Dawah surrounded and attacked me.

We refuse to be intimidated by such thuggery.

Am Yisrael Chai. pic.twitter.com/z05LNgB7nw

— Israel Advocacy Movement (@israel_advocacy) May 23, 2022

Dayan Peretz Rottenberg Chased by Gerer Pogromists Shouting "Sheygatz ..Tinoifas" Taken right out of Satmar Handbook

 

'שייגעץ, 'טינופת': עשרות חסידי גור רודפים אחרי הדיין הרב פרץ רוטנברג, מאנשי הגר"ש אלתר שיצא מהמקווה. pic.twitter.com/z58obqMqJy

— שימי שפר (@Shimishafer) May 21, 2022

Son of the Gerer Rebbe R' Avraham Mordchai Alter Visits Skverer Rebbe to Get Support for the Gerer Pogroms

 

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

— יעקב מלמד (@yaakov_melamed) May 24, 2022

What's behind the Ger Pogrom against R' Shaul Alter

 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. 

Rabbi Boylan's Lame Excuse Why The FJJ (Flatbush Jewish Journal) Chose Not to write about the 3 most Important Events that took place In Eretz Yisrael

I don't always read the FJJ, the Flatbush Jewish Journal, but it must have been Seyata De'Shmaya that I perused last week's issue.

I lived in Flatbush for many years and I found the shaven and "Flatbush bearded" community, a hotbed of anti-Israel sentiment. 

BTW, this is the only place on earth where you can still see clean shaven guys with bekeshes,. What's up with that?

I digress.

 These guys are by-in-large children of Holocaust survivors who became very successful financially and comfortable in their million dollar homes, but learned nothing from their own history, so Israel is the furthest thing on their minds. 

Yes, they will come to Israel once in a while to visit their daughters attending seminaries that have $30,000 tuitions, but this is for shidduch reasons. Their married children they send for two or three years to Mir Yerushalyim to start them off, but the children know they will come back to the USA back to the materialistic world of the Goldene Medina. 

I have met many of them when they come for Shabbos and I can tell you first hand that the majority of them are spoiled who lack nothing, B"H. I am frightened for them if their fortunes should G-d forbid change. The kids I meet, both the guys and their wives have absolutely no connection to Israel and when they speak I can hear their anti-Israel biases that they inevitably picked up in their affluent Flatbush homes. Their parents learned in the best yeshivos in the USA that never offered them any love for the Land and in fact discouraged any connection to not only the State of Israel but offered them no understanding of the importance and the holiness of Eretz Yisrael. Except for the dying Young Israels, no shuls in Flatbush make a mi-shebeirach for the State or even for the chayalim.

It is this environment that the FJJ flourishes and it is this type of community that produces the Rabbi Boyans of the world!

The State of Israel, yes the Zionist State of Israel is the home of close to 7 million Jews, bli eyin hara. For this reason alone a Jewish Newspaper in a Jewish Community should have the decency to acknowledge a holiday that is being celebrated by millions of Israeli Jews. We are not asking for 20 page spreads, we are asking for an Honorable Mention. 

I have read many of R' Boylans letters to the editors previously, but this one piqued my interests because it reflects the deep divide between the "yeshivish" world and reality! 

To excuse the FJJ's disgusting omittance of three meaningful consecutive events that were taking place in Eretz Yisrael with the supposedly "Daas Torah" dictum hits a new low for even the FJJ. I showed Rabbi Boyan's letter to three different Holocaust survivors here in Beit Shemesh to see and read  their reactions just to make sure that I am on target. They were outraged! 

Below and after the break is Rabbi Boylan's letter to the editor and my remarks in red.

David Reichman, was the runner who died in Brooklyn Half Marathon

 The 32-year-old runner who collapsed and died after finishing the Brooklyn Half Marathon was identified Sunday as a behavioral therapist who got his master’s degree in social work from New York University.

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. 

Israeli Judge Rules That Jews Can Say Shema, Prayers On Har Habyit

 

First a note To All Amoratzim: 

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

R' Shmuel Schorr son of Monsey Rav Avraham Schorr Beaten during the Gerer Pogrom

 Rav Shmuel Yosef Schorr, son of Hagaon Rav Avraham Schorr, renowned Flatbush Rabbi and son of Rav Gedalia Schorr, suffered serious injuries after he was attacked by chasidim during the clashes which broke out over the weekend. Rabbi Schorr collapsed on Motzaei Shabbos and was rushed to hospital suffering from apparent intracranial bleeding.

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.

Eida Ha'Chareidis Orders Editors of "Peshutoi Shel Mikra" to Reprint to accommodate Their Censorship

 

I am a big fan of this beautiful commentary of the Torah and Rashi. I find it far superior than the Artscroll Translation of  The Chumash and Rashi. Of course Peshutoi Shel Mikra is in Loshon Ha'Koidesh.

The set had an "haskama" of the Rachmestrivka Rebbe of Yerushlayim, had the haskama R' Dovid Cohen the Chevroiner Rosh Yeshiva, had the haskama of the Tolner Rebbe, the haskama R' Azriel Auerbach,and it had the haskama of the ida Ha'chardies itself.

So what happened? 

Some shmeggegie didn't like one of the commentaries, probably because it have had too much love for Eretz Yisrael and approached the Eida and asked them to rescind their haskama.

The Eida called the editor, Harav Zalman Leib Gottleib in for a meeting and told him to recall the sets. R' Zalman Leib tried to reason with them and told them that this would be an impossible task since thousands of these sets were already sold. The Eida  acquiesced and they agreed that all future editions will have the "damaging material" left out and a new more "Chareidie political correct" commentary inserted in its place. They also agreed not to reveal which commentary was the problem.

So I'm waiting with bated breath to get the new set and compare the commentaries. 

Stay tuned!